BIO: JOHN R. ROUSH, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 319-320
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    JOHN R. ROUSH, now a prosperous farmer on the old Roush homestead in
  Dickinson township, Cumberland county, where he was born, is a son of George
  and Leah (Peffer) Roush, in their day well-to-do farming people.
 
    George Roush was born in Cumberland county, near Newville, and in the
  district schools of that vicinity obtained his education. In early manhood he
  came to Dickinson township, and purchased the old Peffer homestead of 117
  acres, on which he made many improvements, and where he died in March, 1900,
  at the advanced age of ninetyseven years. He married Leah Peffer, who bore
  him the following children: Jane M., T. Jefferson, Catherine, Martha, Sarah
  E. and John R.
 
    John R. Roush was born April 7, 1844, and makes his home on his birthplace.
  He attended the schools of the neighborhood, and under his father's tuition
  mastered all the duties appertaining to farm work. At the death of the latter
  he purchased the farm, and has since been engaged in its cultivation, meeting
  with great success in his undertaking. His land is fertile, and being cared
  for in a practical manner yields excellent returns for the work expended upon
  it.
 
    In 1866 John R. Roush was married to Miss Maria C. Peffer, daughter of
  Lafayete and Jane Ann Peffer, and to their union have come children as
  follows: Gertrude B. married Calvin Hefflefinger, of Huntsdale, Penn
  township, Cumberland county; Minnie C. married Edward Swarner, who died
  within a few years, a good Christian man, and she now lives in Carlisle;
  George P. married
 
    320  CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
 
  Clara Stambaugh, and lives in Dickinson township; Effie J. married Edward
  Rice, and lives in Cumberland county; John W. is at home; Annie L. married
  Wilber P. Roctey, and resides in South Middleton township; William A. and
  Jessie M. are at at home. Mr. Roush has been active in local affairs, and for
  fourteen years has served most acceptably as school director in his district.
  He is a believer in purity in politics, and has endeavored to cast his vote
  for men whose lives have been clean. His political belief is that of the
  Democratic party.