BIO: Lewis Goodhart, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                               CHAPTER LV.

                              PENN TOWNSHIP.

528  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  LEWIS GOODHART, farmer, P. O. Dickinson, was born April 15, 1822, in 
Penn (then Dickinson) Township, this county.  His father, Isaac, was a 
son of Jacob Goodhart, who married Mary W. Shafner and settled in this 
county with his young family in very early times.  The valley was then 
new and wild, and they cleared up their own farm.  Our subject's 
father, Isaac Goodhart, married Miss Mary Magdalene Palm, daughter of 
Jacob and Mary (Bishop) Palm, who came from Lancaster County, Penn.  
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Goodhart reared a family of ten children:  Mrs. 
Eliza Gibbler (deceased), William, Beckie, Lewis, Mrs. Mary Piper, Mrs. 
Ann Bishop, Martin Alex P., Cyrus A., (deceased), Marion Anson, and 
Mrs. Agnes Druzilla Hess.  Lewis Goodhart was educated in the schools 
of the early times.  April 11, 1844, he married Miss Charlotte Farner, 
who was born in Franklin County, Penn., and came to West Pennsborough 
Township, this county, in girlhood, with her widowed mother, Mrs. 
Elizabeth Farner, her father, David Farner, having died in Franklin 
County, Penn.  Mr. Goodhart has resided in Penn Township, this county, 
since his marriage.  He owns a fine farm of 143 acres of fertile and 
well improved land in the valley, and a fine tract of timber on South 
Mountain.  To Mr. and Mrs. Goodhart have been born ten children:  Two 
died in infancy, and one, Frances Emma, died at the age of thirteen 
years; those now living are Marion Anson, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Mitten, 
Mrs. Agnes B. Brandt, Calvin, Theodore, David G. McClellan and Clarence 
Eugene.  Two of the sons, Marion Anson and David G. McClellan and 
Clarence Eugene.  Two of the sons, Marion Anson and David G. McClellan, 
have prepared themselves for the profession of teaching, and are now 
successfully engaged in that 

529  PENN TOWNSHIP.

noble work.  Our subject and wife and four of their children are 
members of the Presbyterian Church.  He is a Democrat in politics, and 
has served his township in various official capacities.  Mr. Goodhart 
is one of the self-made men of Penn Township.  Unaided, and under 
adverse circumstances, step by step, he has built himself up to his 
present position in life, and is known and recognized as an upright 
man, enjoying the respect and esteem of all who know him.