BIO: GEORGE W. REIGHTER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 412-413
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    GEORGE W. REIGHTER, for four or five years a popular school teacher, and
  now a prosperous young farmer of South Middleton township, was born upon his
  father's homestead, in Dickinson township, Feb. 22, 1873, son of W. R.
  Reighter.
    
    W. R. Reighter was born in the same township as his son, April 12, 1845,
  and until he was eighteen years of age he attended school in his native
  township, but at that age, he went to his uncle in Indiana, and worked on a
  farm until 1869. He then came back to the homestead, and Dec. 14, 1871,
  married Sadie A. Widder, daughter of David and Catherine Widder. For the
  following five years, he and his wife lived on the homestead, and then moved
  to the McLaughlin farm, where they spent eleven years, in 1890, purchasing
  the old Sheaffer farm, two and one-half miles southwest of Carlisle. There
  Mr. Reighter died, Aug. 20, 1901. He came of a family as follows: Philip
  married Lizzie Bushman of Boiling Springs; Katie married John Sheaffer of
  Dickinson township: W. R., deceased; George W. died at the age of three
  years. The children born to W. R. Reighter and wife were: George W.; John M.,
  born Sept. 19, 1874, graduated from the Shippensburg academy in 1894, and
  taught school for four terms, and is now at Harrisburg in the employ of the
  Pennsylvania railroad; he married Estella Carpenter. Katie M., born Feb. 22,
  1881, is at home with her mother in Carlisle. D. Harry was born June 26,
  1885, and is now clerking in Horn's drug store at Carlisle. W. R. Reighter
  was a stanch Democrat and always active in party work. He served efficiently
  in a number of township offices.
    
    George W. Reighter was educated, like his father, in his native township,
  but unlike him had the advantage of a course at the Maytown High School, and
  later in the Shippensburg Normal School, from which institution he was
  graduated in 1895. He then engaged in teaching in South Middleton township.
  In 1897, he began farming
    
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  on the Scoby farm, and in 1898, he purchased the farm, consisting of
  fifty-three acres, located two miles southwest from Carlisle. This property
  has been in possession of some member of the Scoby family since 1819. On Dec.
  9, 1896, Mr. Reighter was married to Maude S. Scoby, daughter of John and
  Margaret Scoby. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Reighter:
  Esther M., born Oct. 21, 1897; William E., born Aug. 5, 1899; and Lulu, born
  Sept. 15, 1901. Mr. Reighter is a very enterprising, ambitious and
  public-spirited young man, a power in his community, and already successful
  in his work. He is well and very favorably known throughout Cumberland
  county, and with his charming wife has many friends. Like his honored father
  he is a loyal Democrat, and is much interested in his party's welfare. He is
  a member of the Royal Arcanum. Both he and his wife are members of the
  Presbyterian Church, and are active in all good work.