BIO:  GEORGE LEWIS SCHUCHMAN, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 628-629
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    GEORGE LEWIS SCHUCHMAN, vice-president of the Lindner Shoe Company, of
  Carlisle, has been a lifelong resident of that city. He was born there May
  11, 1843, son of George N. and Mary (Wonderlich) Schuchman, and is of German
  ancestry.
    
    George N. Schuchman was born in 180i in Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, and
  there attended school until he reached the age of fourteen years. Later he
  learned shoemaking, and he was still a young man when he emigrated to the
  United States. He landed at New York, and thence came to Carlisle. Cumberland
  county, Pa., where he opened a shoe shop, and where he soon enjoyed what was
  then considered a flourishing business. The remainder of his days was passed
  in, that city, and he reached an advanced age, dying Jan. 29, 1888. In
  Carlisle he married Mary Wonderlich, who was born in Cumberland county in
  1803, daughter of John D. Wonderlich, and they became the parents of a family
  of six children: William, who married Annie Johnson and died in Lincoln, Neb.;
  John, a resident of Carlisle, who married Elizabeth Pilkay; Annie, who died
  unmarried; George Lewis; Fred, who married Ellen Nelson, and died in
  Springfield, Ohio; and Kate, Mrs. T. U. Smith, of Carlisle. The mother of
  this family passed away Dec. 30, 1889.
    
    George Lewis Schuchman attended the public schools of Carlisle during his
  boyhood, and early began to learn shoemaking with his father, with whom he
  worked for ten years. He then obtained employment in the shoe factory of
  Neidich, Green & Co.
    
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  (now the Carlisle Shoe Company), with whom he remained twenty-three years,
  and when the Lindner Shoe Company was formed, in January, 1892, he was one of
  the organizers, and was made vice-president of the new concern. With the
  exception of one year he has held that office continuously since. Mr.
  Schuchman is one of the influential business men of Carlisle, and has won a
  high place by steady work and honest methods, so that he commands the respect
  of his associates wherever he is known.
    
    Mr. Schuchman was married in Carlisle, on Jan. 27, 1876, to Miss Ella Ege,
  and they have had two children, Mary Ege and George W., both of whom are
  still at home. The family are members of the First Lutheran Church of
  Carlisle, toward the support of which Mr. Schuchman is a regular contributor.
  In political faith, he is a Democrat.
    
    The EGE family, of which Mrs. Schuchman is a member, is one of the oldest
  in Cumberland county, and likewise one of the most respected. Her
  grandfather, Michael Ege, succeeded his father in the furnace business at
  Boiling Springs, and lived there until his death. He married Mary Galbraith.
  Their son, Peter F. Ege, Mrs. Schuchman's father, was born at Boiling Springs
  Nov. 23, 1818, and was reared at that place and at Carlisle, attending school
  at both places. Later he was a student at Washington and Jefferson College,
  Washington, Pa., from which he graduated, and he then took up the study of
  law at that institution, also graduating from that department. He was
  admitted to the Bar and practiced in Carlisle until after his father's death,
  when he returned to Boiling Springs to take charge of the furnace. He remained
  there, continuing the furnace business, until 1858, when he returned to
  Carlisle, and there he passed theremainder of his life, dying Jan. 3, 1881.
  He was an able man, and an upright citizen, and worthily upheld the
  reputation of the honored family to which he belonged. Mr. Ege married Miss
  Eliza Johns, presumably of Adams county, Pa., who died in Carlisle shortly
  before her husband, in September, 1879. They had a family of eight children,
  namely: Mary, Mrs. H. C. Crarg, of Washington, D. C.; Porter F., of
  Washington, D. C.; Ella, Mrs. Schuchman; Annie, Mrs. F. J. Papst, of Kansas
  City, Mo.; Ada, deceased, Mrs. J. P. Neibert, of Kansas City, Mo.; Laura,
  Mrs. Thomas McGuire, of Baltimore, Md.; Edward S., who resides in Chicago,
  Ill.; and Charles N., who died near Dayton, Ohio. The parents of this family
  were Presbyterians in religious connection. Mr. Ege supported the principles
  of the Democratic party, but was liberal in his views on politics as well as
  on other subjects.