BIO:  JESSE RICHWINE, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 737-738
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    JESSE RICHWINE, one of the well known and, highly esteemed farmers and
  stockraisers of North Middleton township, Cumberland county, was born April
  12, 1859, on a farm in the vicinity of Boiling Springs, son of William and
  Mary Catherine (Bolden) Richwine.
    
    William Richwine was of German extraction and he was born in 1816, and
  lived on a farm below Boiling Springs. He married Mary Catherine Bolden, born
  in Penn township, Cumberland county, and she still survives, aged more than
  eighty years. Mr. and Mrs. Richwine were early members of the U. B. Church in
  this locality. The grandfather of our subject was born in Germany about 1775,
  and came to America and settled in the neighborhood of Boiling Springs about
  1800.
    
    Jesse Richwine obtained his education in the local district schools and
  through boyhood and early youth, made himself useful on his father's farm.
  His business has always been agriculture, and he is one of the practical and
  successful farmers of this section of the county. He has not been too deeply
  interested in his own pursuits, however, to, forget his duties as a citizen.
  A stanch Democrat, he has been an active party worker, and has belonged to
  its standing committee for years. He has served for years as school director
  and in the fall of 1899 was elected director for the poor, an office for
  which he is eminently qualified, being a man of reliability and excellent
  judgment.
    
    Mr. Richwine married Sarah A. Kennedy, born in Frankford township, one of a
  family of children born to Andrew and Susan (Minnich) Kennedy, her brothers
  and sisters being: William K., Eliza Jane, Amanda, Rosanna, Alice, Ida,
  Andrew Jefferson, Elmer Newton and Eber James.
    
    William Kennedy, the grandfather of Mrs. Richwine, was born in Ireland and
  emigrated to America, settling in Perry
    
    738  CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
    
  county, Pa. He is recalled by the oldest residents as a man of such unusual
  strength that upon one occasion when, as he was crossing the mountains, he
  was attacked by an angry bear, he after a struggle rolled the bear down the
  mountain side into the river, where it drowned.
    
    The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Richwine include: A. Florence, born Nov.
  1, 1881, wife of Frank Frey; Myrtle May, born March 6, 1885; Milton
  Cleveland, born Oct. 18, 1888; Alice Amelia; born Feb. 6, 1892; Jessie
  Stuart, born July 18, 1893; Millie Grace, born July 9, 1895; May Ellen, born
  Sept. 12, 1897; and Mabel Eva, born Oct. 15, 1899. Mr. Richwine and family
  enjoy the acquaintance and respect of the best social circles of the
  township. They are leading members of the U. B. Church.