BIO: GEORGE FRANKLIN WALTERS, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 492-493
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      GEORGE FRANKLIN WALTERS, senior member of the firm. of G. F. Walters &
  Son, dealers in hardware, stoves and tinware and house furnishing goods,
  Shippensburg, is a native of Pennsylvania, born on the Walters' homestead,
  four miles east of Shippensburg, June 11, 1853, son of George and Susan
  (Zeigler) Walters.
      
      George Walters was born in Cumberland county in 1817, son of John
  Walters, a native of Pennsylvania,. and his wife, who was a member of the
  Clever family. He became a surveyor and teacher, and so continued for a
  period of forty years, or the greater portion of his business life. He
  married Susan Zeigler, who was born in Cumberland county Feb. 18, 1818,
  daughter of Michael and Susan (Miller) Zeigler. They were the parents of six
  sons and one daughter, of whom four children lived to maturity; Edgar,
  deceased; William Walters, who resides in the west; Mary Belle, at home;
  George F.; John H., a Methodist minister at Lima, Ind.; Samuel M., who died
  in 1879; and Charles, deceased. Both Mr. Walters and his wife were consistent
      
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  members of the Methodist Church. He died Dec. 24, 1896, and she passed away
  March 21, 1891.
      
      George F. Walters received the advantages offered by a common school
  education at the Pine school house. When he was sixteen, he left school,
  and was apprenticed with Edgar A. Walters to learn the tinner's trade. In
  1878, he embarked in the tinning business for himself at North Manchester,
  Ind., and there remained two years, when he moved to Shippensburg, and in
  1880 formed a partnership with his brother Edgar A., in a hardware and stove
  business, the firm thus continuing until 1901, when Mr. Walters purchased the
  interests of his brother, and took his son Blaine E. as his partner, changing
  the style to G. F. Walters & Son. They carry a full line of hardware, stoves
  and tinware. The store which the firm owns was originally 20 x 125 feet, to
  which another 40 feet have been added. Mr. Walters has had a long experience
  in this line of business, and he has an extensive acquaintance with the
  trade. Through his energy and pleasant, courteous manner, he has built up a
  large and flourishing business, and is one of the prosperous men of the city.
      
      In 1876, Mr. Walters married Miss Emmza A. Rock, daughter of Daniel Rock,
  and she was born in Franklin county, and died in 1893, leaving three sons and
  two daughters: Blaine E.; Arthur W., manager of a branch store in
  Shippensburg, which is called the "Annex;" Brady R., a salesman; Mary G., who
  married Edgar Warren, of Heidelburg, Pa.; and Bertha D., who married Bruce
  Hargleroad.
      
      Fraternally, Mr. Walters is a member of the I. O. O. F., also of the
  Encampment, and has passed all the chairs. He is also a member of Golden
  Eagle lodge. In politics, he is a Republican. Mr. Walters is a member of the
  Methodist Church, of which his wife was also a member, and he is one of its
  trustees, a liberal contributor to all its good work, and popular
  Sunday-school teacher and superintendent.