BIO: A. GRANT RICHWINE, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 455
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    A. GRANT RICHWINE, one of the representative and leading business men of
  Cumberland county, and a leader in the line of insurance and real estate at
  Mechanicsburg, was born July 30, 1872, at Boiling Springs, South Middleton
  township, son of Emanuel and Irene (Miller) Richwine.
    
    Emanuel Richwine belonged to an old and honored German family of the name,
  and was long a resident of Boiling Springs. For many years he was engaged
  there in a blacksmith business. Mr. and Mrs. Richwine had six children, as
  follows: Nora E.; W. H., of Riverton, Pa.; Ellsworth, of Harrisburg; Charles,
  of Harrisburg; Jacob, of Boiling Springs; and A. Grant. In politics Emanuel
  Richwine was always a strong supporter of Republican principles. He was a
  member of the Lutheran Church, as is his wife, and was among the most highly
  regarded residents of that community.
    
    A. Grant Richwine was born and reared at Boiling Springs and attended the
  local schools. When about eighteen years old he went to Carlisle, where he
  was engaged as bookkeeper for a real estate and insurance firm, and there
  became thoroughly acquainted with all the details of this business, being
  thus very well equipped when he embarked in a like business of his own, in
  1896, at Mechanicsburg. In addition to handling the major part of the
  insurance risks in this vicinity and dealing in some of the most valuable
  real estate in the city and county, Mr. Richwine is interested in large
  business enterprises. He is secretary and treasurer of the Mechanicsburg Gas
  and Water Company, and is secretary and treasurer for, and a director in, the
  New Windsor Knitting Mills Company, of Mechanicsburg.
    
    Mr. Richwine belongs to the various Masonic bodies, is a 32nd degree Mason
  and a Shriner; and he belongs also to the I. O. O. F., No. 215, of
  Mechanicsburg; the K. of P., and to the Junior order of the Mechanicsburg
  Hook and Ladder Company.
    
    Mr. Richwine married Dora Kindig, a member of one of the old county
  families. He is a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church, and
  politically, is a Republican, and is serving as a member of the borough
  council. He is recognized as a useful man in public and business life, and is
  held in the highest esteem in social circles, where he is known to be a
  generous, warm-hearted Christian man.