BIO: JOHN L. GOOD, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 369
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    JOHN L. GOOD (deceased) was one of the representative citizens of Monroe
  township, Cumberland county, where he engaged in farming with much success
  for a number of years. Mr. Good was born in Lancaster county, son of John
  Good. The Good family has many members throughout Lancaster county, where
  they are noted for sterling traits of character and large farming interests.
    
    John Good, father of the late John L. Good, married Barbara Lehman, whose
  parents came from Dauphin county. Both Mr. and Mrs. Good died in Lancaster
  county. They had these children: John L.; Jacob, who resides in Monroe
  township, with his sister-in-law; Moses, who died in Dauphin county; Levi,
  who lives in Lancaster county; and Henry; and Abraham.
    
    The late John L. Good obtained a good, common school education, and was
  reared on his father's farm, where he was taught all the principles of
  practical farming. These he tested with great success on his own land, first
  in Lancaster county, and later, in Cumberland county, where he moved in 1879.
  In 1881 he bought the old Jacob Hertzler farm in Monroe township, which
  consists of loo acres of fine arable land. There Mr. Good made many substantial 
  improvements, and increased the value of the property. His death occurred at 
  his home in 1896, and his remains were taken back to Lancaster county, and 
  interred at Elizabethtown, with other members of the Good family.
    
    Mr. Good was united in marriage with Catherine Ebersole, a daughter of John
  and Sarah (Gebhart) Ebersole, who still survives, and is one of the most
  highly esteemed ladies of this locality. Their children were: Simon, who died
  in 1902, in Monroe township; Ellen, wife of Wing Myers, and residing at Clear
  Springs, Adams County; Ida, wife of William Smith, of Dillsburg, York county;
  Grant, who married Nettie Harman, and resides near Bendersville, Pa.; and
  Sadie, wife of Philip Brechbill, a resident of Boiling Springs, Cumberland
  county.
    
    The late Mr. Good was a strong supporter of the Republican party. Both he
  and wife were leading members of the Mennonite Church. He was a man who
  commanded the respect of all who knew him, and was entitled to the wide
  esteem in which he was universally held. He was honest and upright in
  business life, was careful to set, a good example to his family, was a kind
  and considerate husband and father, and an accommodating neighbor.