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Bridging The Centuries
Nebraska People Who Days Have Been Long in the Land
Men and Women Who Are Ahead of the Bibilical
Allotment of Life to Mankind
Patriarchs and Their Porsperity
Springfield, Nebraska, March 10 — [Special Correspondence of the
World-Herald] --Mr. Peter Shipier was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania,
February 20, 1815.
He comes from a long lived family, as his
father's father lived to be, 98 years old and his mother's mother attained the
great age of 104 years
His
father and grandfather both took an active part in the war of 1812, and he
himself belonged to the mounted militia in Pennsylvania, and his regiment was
ordered to the front during the Mexican War, but the order was recalled before
they got started.
Omaha World Herald – March 22, 1891
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