BIO: GEORGE P. KLUGH, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 466-467
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    PROF. GEORGE P. KLUGH, principal of the New Cumberland public schools, and
  one of the well known educators of the Keystone State, was born March 30,
  1867, at Franklintown, York Co., Pa., a son of Henry and Eliza (Knisely)
  Klugh.
    
    Henry Klugh was born April 30, 1826, in York county, a son of George Klugh,
  who was a native of Lancaster county, Pa., was of German extraction, and died
  at the home of his son in the fall of 1876, aged eighty-seven years. He
  married Hannah Arnold. The Knisely family also came from Germany and is well
  known in Lancaster county. Henry Klugh taught school for some fourteen years
  and then followed carpentering and contracting, so arranging his work that
  his winters could be given to teaching and his summers to this work. He also
  taught music, and was far better educated than the average man of his day,
  and much beyond the average in mental ability. In 1856 he married, at
  Franklintown, Miss Eliza Knisely, who was born in Franklin township,
    
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  York county, daughter of Samuel Knisely, a farmer of that locality. The
  children of this union were: Mary Catherine, Mrs. Ephraim Brame, of
  Heidlersburg, Adams county; Samuel H., an undertaker and justice of the peace
  at Dillsburg, who married Lizzie Sollenberger; George P.; Jerre J., a teacher
  in Dillsburg; Hannah Jane, who died aged seven years; and William K., agent
  for the Cumberland Valley Railroad at Shiremanstown, who married Lillie
  Leathery.
    
    In 1876 Henry Klugh removed to the old home farm, which he had purchased,
  and lived there until his death, May 25, 1895. His widow still survives and
  resides at Dillsburg, aged sixty-eight years. She is a valued member of the
  Lutheran Church, as was her husband. In his early political life he was a
  Republican, but later he became identified with the Prohibition party.
    
    Prof. Klugh was nine years of age when his father moved to the farm in
  Franklin township. He always enjoyed the best educational advantages of the
  localities in which the family lived, completing his course at the age of
  eighteen years. Since then his record has been that of a successful educator
  almost continuously. His first school was at Gochenour, Washington township,
  York county; one year later he went to the Northern school, in Franklin
  township, where he continued four years; then to Fruitville school, Manheim
  township, Lancaster county. Two years later he was called to the Beavertown
  schools, York county, teaching seven winters and six summers,, and he taught
  one season in the Hamme's school, Carroll township, York county. On the day
  his labors closed at this school Prof. Klugh came to New Cumberland and
  closed the term at the intermediate school. After serving two more terms in
  the same department he was elected principal, was re-elected in 1903, and
  also in 1904,
    
    In 1895 Prof. Klugh was married, at Boiling Springs, Cumberland county, to
  Miss Julia Spangler, a daughter of Porter P. and Mary (Kunkle) Spangler, both
  of Boiling Springs. Four children came to this union: Claud, born Sept. 15,
  1896; Beatrice, Nov. 30, 1898; May, May 10, 1901 (died May 28, 1901); and
  Ada, Sept. 29, 1903.
    
    Prof. and Mrs. Klugh are prominent members of the New Cumberland U. B.
  Church, in which he is a member of the official board, and he is secretary of
  the Quarterly Conference. He is the superintendent of the adult department of
  the Sabbath-school, and is also a member of the choir. In politics he is
  identified with the Republican party. Fraternally, he belongs to the Jr. O.
  U. A. M.