BIO: George Wilt, 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 XLVII.

                             HAMPDEN TOWNSHIP.

484  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  GEORGE WILT, farmer, P. O. Good Hope, is a native of East 
Pennsborough Township, this county, as was also his father, John Wilt.  
His grandfather came from Germany many years ago.  Our subject was born 
in 1822, and ten years later his father died on the farm where our 
subject now resides, to which he had removed two years previously (it 
belonged at that time to the estate of George Mann).  At his death he 
left four children:  George; Catherine, wife of Samuel Newcomer, of 
Mechanicsburg; Mary, who died a few years after the death of her 
father; and Elizabeth, wife of Christian Dietz.  After the death of his 
father George continued to live on the farm, which was rented to 
Frederick Muma, who farmed it for seen years.  About four years after 
her husband's death, Mrs. Wilt bought the farm at an appraised 
valuation, and at the time specified took charge of it herself, and 
with the aid of her son conducted it for twenty-nine years; she then 
rented the farm until her death in 1874.  George bought his sister's 
interest in the farm, and became sole owner.  He has never married, is 
no politician, and has never held any office, except that of school 
director, his farm of 156 acres demanding his whole time and attention.  
He is spoken of by all who know him as a man of the highest character.