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FRANK G. BASEHORE, a prosperous farmer of Silver Spring township, Cumberland county, was born in Hampden township, this county, one mile north of Sporting Hill, Oct. 30, 1862.

The earliest ancestor of Mr. Basehore of whom there is any definite record is George Basehore, his great-great-great-great-grandfather. (I) George Basehore was a resident of Berks (then Lancaster) county, prior to the formation of the latter county in 1729. We only know of one son, Michael, belonging to George.

(II) Michael Basehore was the father of Daniel Basehore, and as far as there is any record he was also an only son.

(III) Daniel Basehore settled in Hampden township, Cumberland county, in 1791. He had three sons: John, Michael, and one other, name not known, who was killed by the Indians. Michael settled in Juniata county.

(IV) John Basehore was born in 1776, and in Hampden township, followed the occupation of farming, dying in 1856. He was the father of three sons, John, Peter and Samuel, all of whom were residents of Cumberland county until death.

(V) Samuel Basehore, grandfather of Frank G., was born in 1805, and died in 1876. His children were seven in number, three of them being sons: John L., Jacob A. and Samuel A. The last named was the father of our subject.

John L. Basehore was a captain during the Civil war, and was killed Oct. 1, 1864, in Iowa, while on a hunt for drafted men, who were seeking to evade service. Having dined at a farmhouse, the Captain’s party started away, met some of the men for whom they were searching, traveling in a wagon, and halted them. While he was turning to speak to the commanding officer, Col. Woodruff, he was shot in the back. Col. Woodruff was also shot, and died instantly. Becoming weak, Capt. Basehore fell to the ground and was clubbed into insensibility and left for dead by the four men, who drove away. Regaining consciousness, he managed to attract the attention of a wood-chopper, and induced the man to carry him back to the farm where he had eaten his midday meal. There he died about four o’clock that afternoon. Jacob A. Basehore also served in the army, but was spared so harrowing an experience and pitiful a death.

(VI) Samuel A. Basehore, father of Frank G., was born in Hampden township March 21, 1839, and married Ella B. Gleim, daughter of John and Anna (Stambaugh) Gleim, residents of Monroe township, near Williams Grove. Five children were born to them: Frank G. is mentioned below; Anna B. married John B. Musser, of Mechanicsburg, and has had three children, Almeda (who died in infancy), Mary and Lena (at home); Wilmer A., died Sept. 9, 1900, unmarried; Edgar E. married Fanny Hurst, daughter of Amos Hurst, of Hampden township (they have had no children); John G., on the old homestead, married Margaret Eshenbaugh, daughter of Levi Eshenbaugh, of Shiremanstown, and has two sons, Samuel A. and John L., both at home. On April 24, 1872, Mrs. Basehore passed away, and on Jan. 15, 1874, Samuel A. Basehore married Emma L. Gleim, her youngest sister. Three children have been born to them: Samuel E., an attorney in Mechanicsburg; Bessie I., attending school at Frederick, Md.; and an infant who died soon after birth.

(VII) Frank G. Basehore attended the common schools of Hampden township until he was eighteen years of age, and after leaving school worked upon the old homestead for his father until he was twenty-nine years of age. On Jan. 28, 1892, he married Miss Rebecca E. Dietz, daughter of Christian and Elizabeth (Wilt) Dietz, of the same township, and four children have been born to them: Samuel Dietz, Mary Elizabeth, George Milton and Mabel Catherine. The two eldest are at school, while the others are at home.

In religious matters Mr. Basehore is a member of the German Reformed Church of Mechanicsburg. He is a consistent Republican, taking an active part in political campaigns, and although living in a township which is strongly Democratic he is strong politically, and a power in the management of township affairs. Mr. Basehore resides on a fine farm of fifty acres, all of which is under cultivation, and his buildings and premises are kept in excellent order, demonstrating conclusively that good management rules in this establishment. In habits he is sober, temperate and industrious, is a hard worker, and thrifty in his investments. The success which has attended his work is well merited, and with it he has won unlimited confidence and warm personal friendship from the people of his community.