OBIT: Orville EGE, 1889, Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/ __________________________________________ Rev. Orville Ege of Mechanicsburg died on the 8th, in his 90th year. He founded the Methodist Society in that town in 1825, and was in the active ministry until 1860, when he with his two sons founded the Cumberland Valley Institute. His widow and four children survive. One of his sons is Rev. T. P. Ege, of the Episcopal church, Gettysburg. New Oxford Item, New Oxford, Pa., August 16, 1889