William Wible

"WILLIAM WIBLE, farmer, P.O. Gettysburg, was born in Straban Township, Adams Co., Penn., November 3, 1825, and is of German descent. He was reared in this county, where he received a common school education, and engaged in farming, which in the main has been his vocation. He started out in the world a poor boy, but by industry and economy has succeeded in accumulating a competency, his acres at one time numbering over 225, a portion of which he recently sold to the Battlefield Memorial Association, which leaves him a farm of 195 acres of well improved land. Much of the second day’s battle of July, 1863, was fought on his farm. Mr. Wible is a reading man, and is one of Adams County’s most enterprising and intelligent citizens. In 1849 he was married to Rosanna Elizabeth Boyer, of German origin, and to them have been born seven children who are now living: George, a farmer; Charles Philip; Kent Kane, a resident of California and a graduate of Pennsylvania College; Henry Baugher, a carpenter and farmer; David Buchler, William Frederick and Cora Boyer. The parents are members of the Lutheran Church, in which Mr. Wible has been a deacon and an elder for twenty-five years; he also acted in the capacity of superintendent of the Sunday-school. He has served as a school director. He is a Master Mason. In politics a Republican. "