BIO: Henry H. SHARER, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 371.
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  HENRY H. SHARER, Mount Union, Pa., was born March 2, 1846, son of 
Samuel and Caroline (Copenhaver) Sharer. Jacob Sharer, grandfather of 
Henry H., was a native of Hagerstown, Md., and a farmer. Of his ten 
children, three died in infancy; the others deceased are: Amelia; 
Isaac; Samuel; Percival; Ann; and Margaret. One survives, Susan, wife 
of David Mansbarger. Mr. Sharer's maternal grandparents, Henry and 
Elizabeth (Etnier) Copenhaver, were born in Huntingdon county. Mr. 
Copenhaver was a farmer; it was his life-long occupation. His wife was 
a daughter of Martin and Elizabeth Etnier. One of their children, 
Abraham, died in 1851, aged twenty-three years; the others are: 
Caroline; Susan; and Peter. Mr. Copenhaver died in 1871, aged eighty-
three, and Mrs. Copenhaver in 1868, at the age of seventy-nine. She 
belonged to the Methodist church. Both of Mr. Sharer's parents were 
natives of Huntingdon county; his father, Samuel Sharer, was a farmer 
and miller, and was still engaged in the former calling at the time of 
his death. His marriage to Miss Caroline Copenhaver took place in 1841. 
Three of their children are deceased: Caroline; Adolphus; and Jacob H. 
Those who survive are: Jennie, widow of Samuel Huling; Francis M.; 
Henry H.; Mary E. (Mrs. Samuel Mosser); Ann Savilla (Mrs. James Koons); 
Peter F.; Winfield S.; and Ida B. The father died April 12, 1878, aged 
sixty-eight; the mother resides with her son Henry H., and is in 
excellent health, at the age of seventy-six. Mr. Sharer was a life-long 
Republican, and held various township offices.
  Henry H. Sharer received his scholastic training and his education as 
a farmer at the same time, attending the common school a few months at 
a time during the winter, when his assistance was not required in the 
fields. After he had attained his majority, and no longer sat among 
schoolboys, he still continued to be his father's aid on the farm for 
about four years. In 1870 he went to Petroleum, Venango county, Pa., 
where he was for two years employed in pumping oil. A similar 
engagement occupied him for a few years more, in Clarion county, Pa.; 
he also attended for one year to the dressing of drilling tools. Then, 
after a nine months' engagement in Lawrence county, he returned to the 
county of Huntingdon, and to the business of agriculture, to which he 
still devotes his time. He has served his township as judge and 
inspector of elections; was elected supervisor of Shirley township in 
1888, and served one year; auditor in 1890, and served five years. He 
is a Republican, and an active member of the Mount Union Grange, No. 
368, P. of H. Mr. Sharer is not married.