BIO: JEREMIAH GIVLER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 434
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    JEREMIAH GIVLER. Among the prosperous. coal and grain merchants of
  Cumberland county, Jeremiah Givler, of Greason, holds a prominent place. He
  was born in 1834, in West Pennsboro township, son of Henry and Rebecca (Line)
  Givler.
    
    Henry Givler was born in Lancaster county, Pa., but came to Cumberland
  county in his early manhood and here engaged in farming. He located near
  Newville, in West Pennsboro township. By his first wife, whose maiden name
  was Bricker, Mr. Givler had eight children: Samson, who died in South
  Middleton township; Jacob, who died in the West; Henry, who died in Kansas;
  Benjamin, who made his home in New Kingstown, and died there; Mrs. Stroh, who
  died in Illinois; Mrs. Mary High, who died at Boiling Springs, this county;
  Mrs. Nancy Ryan, who died in Illinois; and Mrs. Catharine Leyman, who died in
  Carlisle. After the death of the mother of these children Henry Givler
  married, for his second wife, Rebecca Line, daughter of William Line, of
  Dickinson township, and this marriage was blessed with five children;
  William, who died in Minnesota; David and Joshua, twins, the former living in
  Illinois, and the latter deceased; Daniel, who died at Greason; and Jeremiah,
  the youngest son of his father. The mother of these passed away in March,
  1872.
    
    Jeremiah Givler grew to manhood in West Pennsboro township, and attended
  the schools of the neighborhood until he was twenty years of age. He then
  engaged in farming until 1856, when he moved to Greason, and there for one
  year was engaged in the grain business. He then spent four years in Carlisle
  in the same line, finding it most congenial to his tastes. In 1868 he engaged
  in farming in Dickinson township, and at the end of three years he moved to
  Plainfield, where he remained until 1880. His natural tastes led him back
  into the business world and he returned to Greason, where he became manager
  for Woodward & Bobb, in the coal and grain business, at the end of four years
  buying out his employers' interest, and has continued the business alone,
  meeting with good success and working up a good trade. During his residence
  in Greason in 1857 he erected a fine home, and that has been and is still his
  home.
    
    In 1860 Mr. Givler was united in marriage with Eliza Diller, daughter of
  Francis and Nancy Diller, of Frankford township. No children have been born
  of this union. Mr. Givler has invariably cast his ballot in support of the
  men and measures of the Republican party. He has served as justice of the
  peace and as school director, and has given satisfaction in both offices,
  proving himself a man worthy of the confidence reposed in him. Both Mr. and
  Mrs. Givler are members of the Church of God in Plainfield, and Mr. Givler is
  now one of the elders of that church.