BIO:  JOHN RADABAUGH, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 623-624
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    JOHN RADABAUGH, one of the well-known, substantial and representative
  citizens of East Pennsboro township, Cumberland county, was born July 2,
  1836, in this township, son of John Radabaugh, whowas born in 1808 in
  Cumberland county. The early family records fail to tell the name of the
  grandfather, although it is recorded of him that he served his country in the
  war of 1812, and John Radabaugh has the old flint-lock musket that he carried
  during that war. His wife, Barbara, appears to have been a woman of strength
  of character and good business ability, as she kept a hotel for years in
  Wormleysburg, where her last years were spent.
    
    John Radabaugh, father of our subject, followed the coopering trade and was
  interested in lumber transactions. It is recorded of him that he was so expert
  in his trade that he could go to the mountains for his lumber and there
  complete a barrel without the aid of any shop machinery. He married Rebecca
  Welch, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Boyer) Welch, and she passed away
  aged sixty-eight years, and is buried at Camp Hill. His death took place in
  1841, and he was buried in Poplar cemetery, East Pennsboro township.
  Politically, he was a Democrat. Religiously, he was a Methodist. His two
  children were: Susanna, who died at the age of twenty-two years and was
  buried in the Poplar cemetery; and John, of this sketch.
    
    John Radabaugh (2), the immediate subject of these lines, was educated in
  the schools at Wormleysburg, attending until he was nine years of age, and
  then went into the nail factory to earn his own living. He continued to work
  there until he was twenty-three years of age and then engaged in a butchering
  business, attending the Harrisburg markets for seven years. In 1865 he started
  farming, on March 16th buying the old Adam Eslinger farm in East Pennsboro
  township, a well located tract along the Susquehanna river. This he sold in
  1872, removing to Marysville, where he began
    
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  railroading and was connected with the P. R. R. & N. C. Co. for ten years. In
  1889 he returned to farming, buying back his former farm of seventy-nine acres
  and an adjacent tract, making 116 acres in all. In 1901 he settled on the farm
  for the second time and is prospering. He has leased thirteen acres of his
  land, which has been found to contain the best kind of clay deposits used in
  brickmaking.
    
    On June 24, 1857, Mr. Radabaugh married Sarah Jane Eichelberger, the
  ceremony being performed in Harrisburg by Rev. Mr. Bartine. She is a daughter
  of Jacob Eichelberger, who was born in 1809 in Cumberland county and had the
  following children: Adam, who died at Camp Hill; Jacob, a resident of
  Riverton; Martin, living at Sunbury; Joseph, of East Pennsboro township;
  Sarah Jane, wife of Mr. Radabaugh; Mrs. Mary Ann Bixler, of Wormleysburg, and
  Mrs. Catherine E. Gilmore, of this township. Mr. Eichelberger died in 1888,
  aged seventy-nine years. He and his wife are buried at St. John's cemetery.
    
    Mr. and Mrs. Radabaugh have had children as follows: Elmer E. died aged
  eighteen months; Ida is the wife of Franklin S. Strausbaugh, and lives in
  Baltimore; Harry died aged eleven months; John A. married Margaret Siterly,
  and they live in East Pennsboro and have children - John E., Albert B., Ida
  Jane and Elmer W.; Jacob E. married Annie Herrold, and they have eight
  children, John W., Jacob, Mary Catherine, Ira F., William, Sarah, Norman C.
  and Nora A. Ira F. married Edith Hunter, of Huntingdon county, is a telegraph
  operator with the Pennsylvania railroad and has one son, Rupert.
    
    Politically, Mr. Radabaugh has always been a Republican, as are his sons,
  and at various times he has been called on to filloffices. While a resident
  of Marysville he served as judge of elections, and has been supervisor in
  East Pennsboro township one term and school director two terms. He is a man
  of upright character and a good and worthy citizen.