Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Joshua Wilson Sharpe and Sara Fleming




Husband Joshua Wilson Sharpe 1

           Born: 8 Feb 1851 1
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         Father: Samuel Wilson Sharpe (1822-1877) 2
         Mother: Ann Eliza McKeehan (      -1858) 1


       Marriage: 5 Jun 1889 3



Wife Sara Fleming 3

            AKA: Sarah Fleming 4
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         Father: David Fleming, Esq. (1812-      ) 3 5
         Mother: Susan Mowry (      -      ) 4




Children

General Notes: Husband - Joshua Wilson Sharpe


He was educated at Tuscarora Academy, Academia, Pennsylvania, and at the Chambersburg Academy, and was graduated at Princeton College in 1873. He studied law with the Hon. J. McDowell Sharpe in Chambersburg, and was admitted to the Franklin County Bar, Sept. 7, 1875. He began the practice of his profession at Washington, D. C., but his health failing in 1876, the next ten years of his life were spent in the South, on a ranch in Montana and in travel abroad. In 1887 he resumed the practice of law in Chambersburg. He became Chief Burgess of the borough, having been appointed to fill the unexpired term of Howard Noble. He was for a number of years a director of the National Bank of Chambersburg, and attorney for the Bank. He was a trustee of Wilson College for Women, the Chambersburg Academy and the Falling Spring Presbyterian Church.

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Sources


1 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 71.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 67.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 72.

4 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 574.

5 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 573.


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