Surnames: Long, Stephens, Garard, Eicher, McClelland, Weaver
R S Long, stock dealer, farmer and stock grower. The subject of this sketch was born in Greene County, Penna, October 24, 1835. He is a son of Jerry (Jeremiah) Long and Lucretia Stephens Long, who were natives of this county and of English origin. His father was reared on a farm where he spent the early part of his life. He afterwards made a specialty of stock growing, in which he dealt quite extensively in the West, and succeeded in accumulating a handsome fortune, being at the time of his death in 1863, the owner of 1300 acres of well improved land in Greene
County, and extensive stock interest in the West.He was married in his native county and all of his six children were born in Cumberland Township. They are as follows: Milton Long; Elizabeth Long, wife of Corbly Garard; Mary Long; R S Long; W S Long, Sarah A Long, wife of James Stephens; and Nancy V Long, wife of Wallace Eicher.
Richard Long was reared on the farm and attended the common school. In business he has very closely followed the example of his father, and has met with about the same success. At the age of twenty two, he went West and engaged in buying stock, of which he made heavy shipments from Iowa to Chicago. He deals principally in sheep and cattle, and of the latter owns at present 900 head in company with others in the West.
His home farm consists of 261 acres of land, well stocked and improved. He was married December 4, 1861, to Miss Phoebe C Bailey, daughter of J K Bailey, and they are the parents of three children: J C Long; D Annie Laurie Long; and Lucretia V Nellie Long. In politics Mr Long is a
Republican, and he and his wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in which he is one of the leading officers.
Milton Long, farmer and stock grower, P O Khedive, was born in Cumberland Township, January 29, 1838. He is a son of Jerry Long and Lucretia Stephens Long, also natives of this county. He comes of a long line of farmers of whom his father was one of the most prominent and also eminently successful as a cattle dealer in the West. Mr Long is the third in a family of six children; he attended the common school of his district, remaining on the farm until 1861, when he enlisted in Company F, First Pennsylvania Cavalry and served his country three years. He passed through the engagements of Gettysburg and Fredericksburg and was also in the Battle of the Wilderness. When he came home from the army, he went to Page County, Iowa, and engaged in buying and shipping stock to Chicago, Illinois. After remaining there for a period of eight years, he returned to Cumberland Township where he has since been engaged in his present occupation and owns 330 acres of well improved land.
In 1872 he married Mary E McClelland, daughter of Robert McClelland who died in 1859. Her mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Weaver; she was of German and English descent. Mr and Mrs Long have one child: Mabel Long. In politics Mr Long is a Republican, he is a member of the G A R, and he and his wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.