BIOS: Jonathan CABLE, Shade Township, Somerset County, PA

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BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, Vol. XXXII, Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of 
Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania. Boston, Biographical Review 
Publishing Company: 1899, ppg 32-33.

  Jonathan Cable, one of the most extensive producers of hay and grain in 
Western Pennsylvania, was born on March 16, 1835, in Shade township, where he 
now resides.  His parents were Henry and Susan (Specht) Cable.  His paternal 
grandfather was Christian Cable, who moved from the eastern part of the State of 
Pennsylvania to Brother's Valley township about the year 1780, and followed 
farming there until his death, which occurred in 1830.
  Henry Cable, the father, was born in Brother's Valley township March 6, 1807.  
At the age of twenty-one he settled in Shade, where he engaged in farming, 
following the occupation industriously for the rest of his life.  He died in 
1868.  His wife, Susan, was born in Shade, May 1, 1811, daughter of Andrew and 
Rebecca (Pisel) Specht.  She became the mother of thirteen children, five of 
whom are living, namely: Jonathan, the subject of this sketch; Eliza, who was 
born January 14, 1839, and is the wife of John B. Knupp; Theresa, who was born 
November 3, 1843, and married Daniel P. Eversole; David, who was born September 
28, 1849, married Caroline Weigle, and has six children- Henry R., C. Foster,  
Emil Y., D. Lester, Homer W., and Byron W. K.; and Susan E., who was born 
November 18, 1852, and is the wife of Zachariah Lambert.
  Jonathan Cable received his schooling in his native township.  Learning the 
blacksmith's trade when a young man, he followed it for a number of years, and 
then turned his attention to farming.  Naturally active and capable, diligent 
and painstaking, being especially adapted to agricultural pursuits, he has met 
with good success.  In 1896 he took possession of his present farm, consisting 
of eight hundred and thirty-six acres.  At least one half of his land is under 
cultivation, yielding, besides the other farm products of this locality, 
unusually large crops of hay and grain.
  On November 16, 1860, Mr. Cable was united in marriage with Elizabeth Rodgers, 
daughter of David and Susan (Wolford) Rodgers.  Her father was a prosperous 
farmer of this township, and her mother was a daughter of Conrad Wolford, of 
Shade.  Mr. and Mrs. Cable have had ten children, namely: Mary J., James M., 
Franklin P. (deceased), Annie H., Norman E., David R., Jemima B., Elza N., Naomi 
M., and Joseph R.  Mary Jane married Lorenzo J. Miller, and has eight children- 
Bertha M., Sarah E., Joseph R., Pearl, Howard W., Ida B., Percy, and Gring J.  
James Monroe, who married Annie Miller, has seven children- John A., Regina M., 
Dessie M., Jennie P., Ethel, Russell, and Louie.  Annie H. is the wife of Joseph 
L. Wilson.  Norman E, who lives in Iowa, married Millie Lewis and has three 
children- Horace, Ethel, and one younger.  David R. married Agnes Cook, and has 
two children- William S. and Clarence C.  Elza married Louise Finley, and has 
two sons- Franklin L. and Glen E.  Naomi M. and Joseph Russell Cable are both at 
home.
  In politics Mr. Cable is a Republican.  He is a Seventh Day Baptist in his 
religious belief, and his parents belonged to that denomination.