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Charles H Shipman
CHARLES H. SHIPMAN, general farmer, residing in Gilpin township, Armstrong
Co., Pa., near the Forks Church, was born on this farm July 21, 1856, son of
William and Elizabeth (Linhart) Shipman.William Shipman was born in New Jersey, in which State the Shipman family
has long been one of importance. Served in the was of 1812, and was married to
a girl by the name of Wray, by which union there were two sons: James, the
eldest, served in the Civil War; William went to the West in the fifties and
has never been heard from since. By his second marriage, to Elizabeth Linhart,
there were eight children: Margaret E. married James Dowling; Jacob, who
served in the Civil War, a member of Company K, with Pennsylvania Volunteer
Infantry, died of fever, May 4, 1865, and was buried at the Forks Church;
Theresa, who married William J. Stitt; John M. lived in Los Angeles, Cal.,
where he died Aug. 11, 1912; Abraham L. resides in Los Angeles, Cal., Alice
married A. G. Humm; Charles H. is still on the homestead. The father William
Shipman, came to Armstrong county, Pa., in 1852, and followed the shoemaking
trade until 1868, when he purchased the farm in Gilpin on which his son now
resides. His death occurred in the following year, April 8, 1869, and he was
buried at the Forks Church. He married Elizabeth Linhart, daughter of Jacob
Linhart, who came to America from Germany and settled in Allegheny county,
Pa., where he acquired 500 acres of valuable coal land, which he sold to the
firm of Briggs & Hayes, and they operated extensively there in coal. Mrs.
Shipman died Aug. 21, 1887, an was buried by the side of her husband.Charles H. Shipman attended school in Gilpin township during boyhood and
remained on the home farm giving assistance until he was twenty-nine years of
age, when he went to Kansas and from there with his brother Abraham, pushed on
to Seattle, Wash., driving a team all the way. He had previously learned the
carpenter�s trade and during his stay at Seattle engaged in building,
carpentry and contracting, his two years there being prosperous ones from a
business standpoint. In 1890 he returned to Armstrong county and purchased the
homestead farm of 120 acres in Gilpin township. This land is valuable, the
soil being well adapted to farming, while there is also a gas well on one
portion of the property, making it possible to use gas for his heating and
lighting and as motive power where needed.On June 25, 1890, Mr. Shipman was married to Sarah C. Klingensmith, a
daughter of Peter Klingensmith, who formerly was a man of considerable
prominence in Gilpin township. He was born March 14, 1914, and died Nov. 10,
1893. He was a farmer for many years and later a merchant at White Rock. His
wife, Sarah A. Klingensmith, was born Feb. 21, 1825, and died Jan. 20,1889.
They were buried at Forks Church. The following children were born to Peter
Klingensmith and wife: Ellen J., who married A. J. Allshouse; Lydia A., who
married J. L. George; Jefferson W., who is deceased; Alice, deceased, who was
the wife of Aaron Elenberger; Jackson, who lives at New Kensington, Pa.;
Barkley J., who lives at Verona, Pa., Sarah C., who is the wife of Charles H.
Shipman; and Chambers, who lives in Gilpin township.Mr. and Mrs. Shipman have two children, Abraham and Helen, both of whom
have been students in Grove City College, and are now finishing their
education at the University of Wooster, Ohio. The family belongs to the Forks
Lutheran Church. Politically Mr. Shipman is a Republican, and fraternally he
is identified with the Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World.Source: Page 896-897, Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and
Present, J.H. Beers & Co., 1914
Transcribed November 1998 by Nanci Michalkiewicz for the Armstrong County
Beers Project
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