BIO:  JOHN C. NESBIT, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 516-517
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    JOHN C. NESBIT, one of the oldest educators in Cumberland county, where he
  has risen to the front rank in the profession, comes from good old English
  stock, the first settlers appearing early in the eighteenth century in York
  county.
  
    John Nesbit, grandfather of John C. Nesbit, was a farmer by occupation. He
  died in York county at an advanced age.
  
    John Creighton Nesbit, son of John, was born in 1803, and died in York
  county, near Rossville, at the age of eighty years. He married Julia
  Klinedinst, and they became the parents of nine children: Elizabeth, who
  married A. P. Walker, a lawyer, and resides near Rossville; Lewis N., who
  married Kate Bushey, now deceased, and lives at Mt. Airy; George and Mary,
  deceased; John C., the fifth in the order of birth; Harrison, who married
  Mary Sutton, and lived in York county, and who was accidentally killed at the
  age of sixty-three; Joseph B., who married Mrs. Mary Brinton, and lives at
  Harrisburg, where he is foreman in the repairing department of the Harrisburg
  Traction Company; William, who married Tillie Wollett, and lives at Mount
  Airy; James W., who married Bessie Shaw, and lives at Mondovi, Wis., where he
  is superintendent of the public schools.
  
    John C. Nesbit was born in Warrington township, near Round Top. After
  receiving a thorough schooling, at the age of eighteen he started teaching
  school in his native township. At the age of twenty-seven he went to the
  United States College of Business and Finance at New Haven, Conn., and upon
  his graduation there he received a first degree diploma. Returning to York
  county he remained but a short time, and then removed to Cumberland county,
  where he resumed his old vocation of teaching. In 1871 he was called to West
  Virginia, where he taught school for one year, at the end of which time he
  returned to Cumberland county, and taught in the Whitehall Orphan School,
  continuing there for three years. He then returned to Lisburn, and at that
  place and his present home, in Upper Allen, has since taught, being at the
  present still actively employed.
  
    The only time that Mr. Nesbit allowed anything to interfere with his long
  service of teaching, some forty-five years, was in 1864, when on Feb. 22nd of
  that year, he enlisted at Harrisburg in Battery C, the 3d Penn.
  
    CUMBERLAND COUNTY.  517
  
  Heavy Artillery, Capt. King, afterward Capt. Bickley, commanding. He served
  his country faithfully, and was mustered out, Nov. 9, 1865, and needless to
  say at once resumed his old profession.
  
    Mr. Nesbit is held in high esteem by his fellow citizens, and is now
  serving his sixth term as a justice of the peace, a period, when his present
  term expires, of thirty years. He is an active worker and class leader in the
  Methodist Episcopal Church. Until a few years ago he was in politics a
  Republican, but of late years he has advocated Prohibition doctrines.
  
    In 1874 Mr. Nesbit was married to Sallie J. Sprenkle, and two boys blessed
  this union: Arthur E., who married Miss Lula Warner, daughter of Charles
  Warner, of Philadelphia, and who holds a responsible position as manager for
  Smith, Kline & French, wholesale druggists in Philadelphia; and Russell H.,
  who is taking up the profession of telegraphy at Lebanon, Pennsylvania.