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Joseph Rothrock
History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania...
Edited by F. Ellis and A. N. Hungerford.
Published in Philadelphia by Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886
Pages 821-823
CHAPTER XV.
FERMANAGH TOWNSHIP.
Joseph Rothrock is of Holland descent. On the 29th of September, 1733, Philip and Jacob Rothrock arrived in Philadelphia in the ship “Pink Mary,” of Dublin, which sailed from Rotterdam, then from Cowes, England. On the 1st of September, 1736, Johannes Rothrock arrived in Philadelphia in the ship “Hart,” of London, which sailed, as did the former, from Rotterdam and later from Cowes. From one of these emigrants is descended Joseph Rothrock, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, who was born December 26, 1776, and resided in Mifflin County, Pa., where he was a farmer. His wife, Anna Rothrock, was born November 27, 1772. Their children were John, born August 25, 1794; Abram, November 6, 1796; Isaac, June 22, 1798; Mary, December 31, 1800; Asenath, November 15, 1802; Anna, 1805; Sarah, March 16, 1807; Susannah, January 25, 1809; Elizabeth, April 26, 1811; and Joseph, August 31, 1813. The birth of John, of this number, occurred in Mifflin County on the 25th of August, 1794. He married Sarah, daughter of George and Elizabeth Sigler, of the same county. Their children are Joseph, born March 3, 1824, and George, born November 16, 1827, who resides with his brother. The death of Mr. Rothrock occurred July 27, 1846, and that of his wife January 6, 1881. Joseph Rothrock was born in Decatur township, Mifflin county, and at the age of three years removed, with his parents, to his present home in Fermanagh township, where the residue of his life has been spent. After the usual period of boyhood spent at school he acquired a knowledge of farming, and on the death of his father assumed the management of the property, which he has continued until the present time. He was, on the 15th of February, 1848, married to Eliza, daughter of Samuel Sieber, of Walker township, Juniata County. Their children are Sarah Minerva, born May 5, 1849, and married to John T. L. Sahn, of Wilkes-barrre, Pa.; Nancy Jane, born August 22, 1850, deceased; Florence, born November 14, 1852; Josephine, born October 1, 1854, wife of Rev. L. L. Sieber, of Connellsville, Fayette County, Pa.; Sibella, born August 29, 1858; Johna Lincoln, born July 12, 1863; and Samuel Sieber, born July 15, 1866. Mr. Rothrock has never been diverted from the legitimate business of an agriculturist, nor induced to embark in uncertain and hazardous commercial enterprises. His political sentiments have been strongly Republican, though he has never craved office. He has, however, served as jury commissioner, and his earnest sympathy with the cause of education has induced his acceptance, for three terms, of the office of school director. He is a director of the Juniata Valley Bank and member of the County Agricultural Society, of which he has been twice president, and is not chairman of the executive committee. He is also a member of Fermanagh Grange, No. 787. His integrity and superior business qualifications have caused his services to be much in demand as guardian, trustee of estates and executor, which offices have invariably been filled with the strictest fidelity. He is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mifflintown, and president of its board of trustees. John Lincoln, the eldest son of Joseph Rothrock, was graduated at the Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, Pa., and deciding upon medicine as a profession entered the office of Dr. D. M. Crawford, of Mifflintown, preparatory to graduating from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. Samuel C., the youngest son, took a preparatory course at the Mifflin Academy, and has succeeded his father in the management of the farm.
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