BIO: J. D. North, 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 XLIII.

                             COOK TOWNSHIP.

459  COOK TOWNSHIP.

  COL. J. D. NORTH, merchant, P. O. Pine Grove Furnace, is a native of 
Ontario County, N. Y.  In early manhood he engaged in the wholesale dry 
goods business in New York City, and, after spending two years in 
California, re-engaged in the same enterprise.  He located at Hastings, 
Minn., in 1855, in merchandising and in the grain and commission 
business, and while there he built the largest grain elevator, at that 
time, in the State.  In 1863 he sold out, and embarked with his brother 
in the wholesale glove and mitten trade.  In 1869 he became largely 
interested in farming lands in North Carolina, where he resided, as a 
planter and fruit culturist, until 1878.  In that year he accepted an 
invitation from the South Mountain Iron Company to locate with them.  
He has entire charge of their extensive farms and mill, and also 
carries on the store in their building.  He also holds the appointment 
of postmaster of Pine Grove Furnace.  Col. North first married Miss 
Henrietta E. Claflin, of Buffalo, N. Y., and, she dying a short time 
thereafter, he subsequently married Miss Elizabeth B. Mulford, of New 
York City, who died at Pine Grove Furnace January 9, 1881, leaving one 
daughter, Henrietta E., now attending school at Canandaigua, Ontario 
Co., N. Y.