BIO:  JOHN STUART SEARIGHT, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 795-796
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    JOHN STUART SEARIGHT, who is engaged in conducting a livery and boarding
  stable in Carlisle, is one of the successful

    796  CUMBERLAND COUNTY.

  business men of the city. He was born Jan. 21, 1864, near Carlisle, son of
  George Peter and Martha Ann Searight, and grandson of Gilbert and Sarah (Kew)
  Searight and John and Barbara Ann Stuart.

    Mr. Searight received his early education in the local public schools, and
  later attended Coleman's Business College, at Newark, N. J. He is a useful
  and public-spirited citizen, and has served acceptably as a member of the
  town council of Carlisle, to which position he was elected as the choice of
  the Democratic party. He is quite well known in fraternal circles,
  affiliating with the Knights of Pythias, the Jr. O. U. A. M., the Improved
  Order of Red Men, the Modern Woodmen and the Elks. His religious connection
  is with the Second Presbyterian Church.

    On Nov. 19, 1885, Mr. Searight was united in marriage with Elizabeth Coover
  Brandt, daughter of George W. and Susan Brandt, and they have three children,
  George Peter, Clarence Lee and John Walter.