Area History: Chambersburg businesses and casualities, Civil War: Franklin Co

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HISTORY OF THE CUMBERLAND VALLEY COUNTIES OF FRANKLIN AND CUMBERLAND
Edited by Dr. George P. Donehoo
Published by the
SUSQUEHANNA HISTORY ASSOCIATION
HARRISBURG
1930

From
pg.294-295  Chambersburg by A. J. White Hutton

On the burning of Chambersburg during the Civil War---- Quoted from an
article in "*Public Opinion" written in 1886. The following lists people
in business at the time of the fire who suffered a loss.

Edward AUGHINBAUGH, James L. BLACK, Chrisitan BURKHART, Andrew BANKER,
Henry BISHOP, John F. CROFT, C.H. CRESSLER, now CRESSLER & GREENAWALT;
John DOEBLER, John H. DITTMAN, Benj. DUKE, Alex FAHNESTOCK,  Peter
FELDMAN,  N.P. GROVE, J. & H. E. HOKE; Ann HOOVER, Carrie HETRICK,
Milliners; J.A LEMASTER, W.H. HITESHAW, D.M. LEISHER, Mrs. Sadie LEVAN,
milliner; John MILLER, hotel; J.S. NIXON , George F. PLATT, dentist; P.H.
PEIFFER,  Benjamin RHODES, Augustus REINEMAN, Fred SPAHR, Issac STINE, H.
SIERER, S.M. SHILITO, N. SCHLOSSER, dentist; A.J. WHITE, Jos. W.
WOLFKILL, Capt. C.R. PISLE

 Dr. George F. Platt, last of this group to survive, died  age 93 in the
spring of  1929.

List of people who lived or owned businesses in Chambersburg and  died as
a result of the fire.

Josiah ALLEN, John ARMSTRONG, Samuel BRANT, Dr. W. H. BOYLE, Peter
BROUGH,  and wife, J.S. BROWN, Martin BROWN,  Mrs. R.M. BARD, Geo. W.
BITNER,  J.A.S. CRAMER, Geo. CHAMBERS, Sr., Dr. Edmund CULBERTSON Holmes
CRAWFORD, Susan B. CHAMBERS, W.H. CUNNINGHAM, A.D. CAUFMAN, Ellen C.
COOK, F.G. DITTMAN, Catherine R. DUNCAN, H. B. DAVISON, Joseph ECKERT,
Samuel  ETTER, Elizabeth SMITH, Jacob EBY, James G. ELDER, Anna C.
FINEFROCK, D.S. FAHNESTOCK, John FISHER,  Alonzo P. FRYE, Catherine
FOLTZ, S.F. GREENAWALT, W.B. GILMORE, D.O. GEHR, M. GREENAWALT, Mary
GILLAN, J.B. GILLAN, David HOOVER, Jacob HUTTON, H.H. HUTZ, Jacob
HENNINGER, Phillip HAMMAN,  John D. JACOBS, George KINDLINE, George
LEHNER,  Dr. John LAMBERT, Bruce LAMBERT, Martin LUDWIG, Thomas METCALF,
Wm. ,Nancy & L. McCLELLAN, Alexander MARTIN, Henry MONKS, P. MCGAFFIGAN,
A.J. & Daniel MILLER, John MULL, Mrs.  M. MONTGOMERY, Wm. MCLENEGAN, J.P.
MCLINTOCK,  Geo. R. MESSERSMITH,  Samuel OTT,  David OAKS, N.P. PIERCE,
John PICKLE, E.D.REID, DR. J.C. RICHARDS, Wilson REILLY, Samuel D.C.
REID, Dr. J.L. SUESSEROTT, Rev. Dr. B.S. SCHNECK, John & Josiah
SCHOFIELD,  Magdelena SWARTZ, P.W. SIEBERT, Susan F. NIXON, Allen SMITH,
Dr. A.H. SENSENY, Jacob SELLERS,  George W.  & Nicholas SNIDER, Robert E.
TOLBERT,John W. TAYLOR, Susie B. THOMPSON, Daniel TROSTLE, Barnard WOLFF,
Richard WOOD, Mrs. M. WHETSTONE, Upton WASHABAUGH, James WATSON, SR.,
George WATSON,  William WALLACE.

* pg. 321  --- "Public Opinion"  a newspaper founded  July 20, 1869, by
the Hon. M. A. Foltz.