BIO: ROBERT W. ZEARING, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 367-368
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    ROBERT W. ZEARING, a market gardener of Middlesex township, was born in
  Mechanicsburg, Cumberland county, Jan. 4, 1874, son of J. S. and Catherine
  (Witmer) Zearing.
    
    When Robert Zearing was a year and a half old, his parents moved to
  Middlesex township, and there he grew up on a farm, attending the country
  schools till he was seventeen years 0f age. He entered upon his present
  occupation of market gardening about 1897, and has found it a profitable
  employment. That same year, April 29th, Mr. Zearing was married to Miss
  Sallie A. Keiser, but their married life was cut short by her untimely death
  the following December; she left a child that died in infancy.
    
    Mr. Zearing is much interested in the work of fraternal orders, and is a
  member
    
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  of the I. O. O. F., belonging to Carlisle Lodge, No. 91, and he is a member
  of several others. Politically he is a Republican. Mr. Zearing is an
  enterprising and progressive young farmer, and has the promise before him of
  a successful career.