BIO: ADAM FISHBURN, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 426-428
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    ADAM FISHBURN, who is now living retired from active work on his farm in
  Dickinson township, Cumberland county, is a native of Dauphin county, Pa.,
  as were his parents, John and Catherine (Carmana) Fishburn.
    
    The Fishburn family was founded in America by Philip Fischborn (as the name
  was then spelled), who was born in Plannich der Churfatz, Hessen-Darmstadt,
  Germany, May 7, 1722, and who emigrated to America in 1749, settling in Derry
  township, Dauphin Co., Pa. He married Catherine E. Bretz, who was born Sept.
  27, 1724, and their nine children were: Margaretta, John Philip, Ludwig,
  Peter, Magdalena,
    
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  Anthony, Dietrich, Catherine and Anna Maria.
    
    John Philip Fishburn, son of the emigrant, was born in Derry township Nov.
  15, 1754. On Aug. 14, 1780, he married (first) Barbara Greiner, and of their
  six children - Catherine E., Magdalena, John, Anthony, Margaret and Anthony (2)
  two only, John and Anthony (2), lived to maturity. The mother died June 19,
  1790. John Philip Fishburn married (second) Dec. 25, 1792 Anna M. Hack (born
  June 9, 1771), and they reared ten of the twelve children born to them, viz.:
  Eve, Barbara, Jacob, Michael, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Jones, Sophia, Thomas and
  Joshua.
    
    John Fishburn, son of John Philip, was born in Derry township, Dec. 12,
  1784, and was married Nov. 26, 1809, to Catherine Carmana (born April 9,
  1791, died March 15, 1874), who bore him ten children, one dying young. The
  others were: Philip, born in 1811, married, and died in 1842; John, born in
  1813, married Susanna Reaber, had three children, A. Frances, John H. and
  Harvey M., and died at Beaver Falls, Pa., in 1882; Anthony, born in 1815,
  married Salome Ann LeFevre, had three children, Philip H., Anna Maria and
  Louisa Elbe, and died in 1889; Barbara, born in 1817, died in 1903, married
  James Myers, had children George, John, James, Albert, Charlie, Edward,
  Catherine, S. Ellen, Elizabeth, Annie and Edwin, and resided in Carlisle;
  Helena, born in March, 1822, married Abraham Myers, and had
  children-Theodore, Albert (who died when three years old), Emma and Mervin;
  Rudolph, born April 5, 1824, married Mary Layman, and lives in St. Louis;
  Adam is mentioned below; Abraham, born in July, 1828, married Sarah E.
  Peffer, had two children, Annie and Edna P., and died in 1890; Marie, born in
  June, 1832, married Henry Lee, of Iowa, and died in December, 1902. When John
  Fishburn, the father of this family, moved from Dauphin county to Cumberland
  he purchased the Jacob Myers farm, of 175 acres, five miles west of Carlisle.
    
    Adam Fishburn, son of John, was born March 6, 1826. When the family moved
  to Cumberland county in 1832 they located on the farm now owned by Adam. He
  grew to manhood on this place, attended the district schools in the winter
  seasons, and always assisted his father until the latter's death, when the
  farm came into his possession. In 1883 he purchased property in Carlisle,
  and, building a house, moved there, but his love for the home of his youth
  proved too strong, and in 1891 he returned to the farm, where he now resides
  with his son, Samuel K.
    
    Mr. Fishburn has been twice married. On Jan. 26, 1854, he wedded Ellen J.
  Kenyon, of Dickinson township, a daughter of Samuel M. and Sarah Jane
  (Kinkaid) Kenyon. She died Dec. 28, 1854 leaving a son, Samuel K. On Dec. 8,
  1859, Mr. Fishburn married for his second wife Catherine E. Hefflebower, who
  was born in Newton township, and reared in West Pennsboro township, a
  daughter of George and Catherine (Au) Hefflebower. The two children born of
  this union died in infancy. Mr. Fishburn was an industrious farmer, and
  looked well after his business interests. He and his wife are both members of
  the Lutheran Church.
    
    
    SAMUEL K. FISHBURN, only son of Adam, was born Dec. 19, 1854. He attended
  the public schools, and at the age of eighteen entered the Academy at
  Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Pa. He is now living on the old homestead,
  engaged in farming. On April 15, 1879, he married Annie M. Lee, daughter of
  Thomas and Elizabeth
    
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  (Myers) Lee, of Dickinson township, and they have two children, Mary Lee, a
  teacher in Dickinson township, and Fred C., who is assisting his father on
  the farm. Mrs. Fishburn is a member of the Episcopal Church, while Mr.
  Fishburn clings to the faith of his father, the Lutheran.