BIO: JOSEPH SHARP QUIGLEY, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Joe Patterson OCRed by Judy Banja Copyright 2004. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/ _____________________________________________________________ >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 800-802 _____________________________________________________________ NOTE: Use this web address to access other bios: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/zeamer/ JOSEPH SHARP QUIGLEY was born April 17, 1854, on the old Quigley homestead in Hopewell township. James Quigley, his great-great-grandfather, was born in Ireland, and came to America in 1730, the first of the family to settle on these shores. Coming to Pennsylvania and to Cumberland county, he took up a tract of 400 acres of land, lying along the creek, building a log house for residence. The bridge, which later was built across the stream, was named the Quigley bridge. Beyond the fact that his wife was named Janet, and hence was probably of Scotland, nothing is known except her death at this old homestead, where he died in 1782. The children of James Quigley and wife were: Samuel, who died May 28, 1753; John; Martha, June 12, 1753; Agnes, Aug. 26, 1783; Mary, born Aug. 16, 1735, died Oct. 20, 1783, wife of Capt. John Sharp; Brady Robert, born 1744, died Sept. 1, 1815, married Elinor Jacobs. John Quigley, of the above family, grew to manhood and took part in the Colonial service, March 25, 1756, in Robert Steel's company of Cumberland County Rangers. He was also a private in the Revolutionary war, in Col. Robert Adams' company, Sixth Pennsylvania Battalion. Brady Robert Quigley, of the above fam- CUMBERLAND COUNTY. 801 ily was born in 1744, at the old homestead, and followed farming as an occupation. He built there a fine brick house, in which he died Sept. 1, 1815. He married Elinor Jacobs, born in 1745, and died July 9, 1821. They had children: James B., born in November, 1770, died Nov. 6, 1822; Eleanor, born June 12, 1772, died Sept. 16, 1825; Janet, born May 6, 1774, died Oct. 14, 1823; Dinah, born Feb. 6, 1776, died Sept. 29, 1823; Agnes, born Aug. 8, 1780; Joseph, born April 1, 1783, died in June, 1857; and John, born Feb. 18, 1785, died in 1848. Joseph Quigley, grandfather of our subject, was born on the old homestead in Hopewell township and followed farming there all his life. He married, June 9, 1808, Mary Sterrett Sharp, daughter of James and Mary Jane Sharp, who was born in 1786, and died March 12, 1853. Both died at the old homestead. Their children were: Mary B., born March 5, 1809, died Sept. 5, 1864; James A., born Oct. 19, 1810, died young; Robert, born Jan. 24, 1812, died June 6, 1864; John, born Oct. 10, 1813, died Sept. 15, 1891; Margaret J., born Feb. 6, 1815, died Sept. 1, 1854; Joseph, born May 30, 1816, died in July, 1833; Eleanor, born Feb. 5, 1818, died May 27, 1858; James Sharp, born Jan. 20, 1820, died Aug. 9, 1892; William B., born Oct. 6, 1824, died young; Agnes B. was born Aug. 14, 1825; Isaac, born Feb. 3, 1829, died March 29, 1888; David G., born Nov. 13, 1830, died July 14, 1882; and one child died in infancy. James Sharp Quigley was reared on the old homestead as his forefathers had been, and he obtained his education in the schools of that neighborhood. His occupation was farming and he lived out a long and uneventful agricultural life, passing away in the home where he was born. He was a man of exemplary life and character, and was esteemed by all who knew him. On Jan. 2, 1852, he married Elizabeth Clark Hemphill, born Aug. 15, 1817, daughter of Moses and Margery Clark Hemphill, early settlers in Cumberland county. To this union were born the following children: Joseph Sharp; Anna Margary, born May 11, 1856; Caroline H., born March 20, 1860; Mary Belle, born Feb. 26, 1858, resides in Newville; Maggie Ellen and Bridella, twins, born Dec. 15, 1862, of whom the latter is deceased, and the former is the wife of William E. McCune, a farmer of Middlespring, Southampton township; and Jane McFarland, born Sept. 16, 1864, is the wife of William S. Means, a farmer at Middlespring. Joseph Sharp Quigley was born April 17, 1854, and attended school until about eighteen years old, in his own locality. He then remained at home, assisting his father on the farm, until the latter's death. The succeeding two years he operated the farm for his mother, and then married and moved to his father-in-law's farm in Hopewell township, which was located about three-quarters of a mile west of Newburg, along the State road, later buying twenty-five acres. When his father-in-law died, Mrs. Quigley inherited this farm of 147 acres. Since coming into possession of this property, Mr. Quigley has spent a large amount of money in making fine improvements of all kinds and has made it one of the most valuable as well as attractive farms of the county. In 1893 Mr. Quigley was united in marriage with Ella Amanda Gross, daughter of Andrew Gross, Sr. Mrs. Quigley was educated at the Shippensburg Normal School, and is a lady of much culture and refinement, and was a teacher some years prior to her marriage. Their daughter, Helen Blythe, born Jan. 15, 1895, is a student at Mt. Airy Seminary, at Newburg. 802 CUMBERLAND COUNTY The Quigley family have all been noted for adherence to the Presbyterian Church, and to affiliation with the Republican party. The family attend church at Middlespring, and all their dead are buried in Southampton township, Cumberland county. The past generation supported the church with much liberality and the family has been noted for the zeal with which they have always performed religious duties. Andrew Gross, Sr., was born July 27, 1807, in Dover township, York county, a son of Henry Gross, who died in York county. Andrew Gross came to Cumberland county when a young man, and located near Carlisle, where he married Sallie Paul, born in 1811, daughter of Henry Paul, of Middlesex township. For a long time he followed his trade of weaving, and then went to teaming and wagoned for two years to Baltimore. In 1850 he located in Hopewell township, and settled on the old Laughlin farm, which our subject now owns, buying it in 1853. Here he farmed for fifty-three years. In 1882 he bought a home in Newburg, where he lived retired for eight years prior to his death, in August, 1890. His wife died in 1860, and both were buried at Newburg. Their children were: Mary, who died young in York county, and was buried there; Henry, who married Angeline Kuhn, who died in Mifflin township and was buried at Prospect Hill, West Pennsboro township; Jacob, who died young; Angeline, who married James Graham, and died near Newburg; John, who died aged nine years; Daniel, who died young, and was buried at Newburg; Andrew, who married Agnes Gochenour, and resides in Lurgan township, Franklin county; and Christian Paul, who married (first) Maria Holby, who died in 1892, and was buried at Zion Church, and (second) Mrs. Catherine Miller, and theylive in the borough of Newburg. In 1864 Mr. Gross married (second) Amanda C. Blythe, daughter of Robert and Maria Blythe, residents of Franklin county. Mrs. Gross died June 21, 1894, leaving but one child, who is Mrs. Quigley. The Blythe family comes also of Revolutionary stock, and is one of importance in Franklin county.