. A history of the Juniata Valley and its people; . honorable qualities embodied in are rarely coupled with executive ability such as he pos-sesses, and that in his renunciation of public office they lose a most ca-pable, upright and high-minded official. He belongs to the Lutheranchurch. He married, December 31, 1854, Sarah Hendershot. Children: 2. John T., a farmer; married Emma Detwiler. 3. Sarah, mar-ried H. J. Boyer, a farmer. 4. Isabel, married David Fredericks, afarmer. 5. [Mary, married L. B. Garner, a passenger conductor on theHuntingdon & Broad Top Railroad. 6.
. A history of the Juniata Valley and its people; . honorable qualities embodied in are rarely coupled with executive ability such as he pos-sesses, and that in his renunciation of public office they lose a most ca-pable, upright and high-minded official. He belongs to the Lutheranchurch. He married, December 31, 1854, Sarah Hendershot. Children: 2. John T., a farmer; married Emma Detwiler. 3. Sarah, mar-ried H. J. Boyer, a farmer. 4. Isabel, married David Fredericks, afarmer. 5. [Mary, married L. B. Garner, a passenger conductor on theHuntingdon & Broad Top Railroad. 6. Isaiah, a farmer, owning afarm of one hundred and fifty acres; married Sadie Shultz. 7. Martha,married Elsworth Dell, an employee of the Huntingdon & Broad TopRailroad; lives at Grantsville. 8. Margaret, married George Emeigh,a car inspector at Altoona. 9. Ida, married Thomas Gosnell, an em-ployee of the Huntingdon & Broad Top Railroad. The home of is upon a farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres atJames Creek ^c^y^ ^ c^/W^^^?^^ ^3^^/i^^ HISTORY OF THE JUNIATA VALLEY 1067 The Schirni family of Pennsylvania is descended fromSCHIRAI the Schirm family of Stuttgart, Germany, where it has heen located for untold generations. A member of it isHerman Schirm. the writer on political economy: and Gustav Schirm,the popular poet of the Fatherland, belongs to it. The immediate an-cestor of the American branch lived and died in Germany, as did thedistafif progenitor. They were members of the Lutheran church, andwere prominent people in their native city. (I) George Schirm was born in Germany, and there received acareful education. At the age of eighteen he emigrated to the UnitedStates and finally located at Huntingdon Furnace, Huntingdon county,Pennsylvania, where he was employed at the furnace for many gave this up and took charge of the hack horses for Mr. Hamilton,and through his care and knowledge the stock increased its earningcapacity wonderfully. H
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