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MARTIN N. KAUFMAN, of New Cumberland, Cumberland county was born July 24, 1845, in York county, Pa., and attended the common schools there up to the age of twelve years, when he removed with his parents to a farm near New Cumberland. Here he attended the district school up to the age of twenty. After leaving school he taught for a short time, as supply, but continued to make his home with his parents and assisted in the farming until he was twenty-five years old. At this age he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, remaining with them for the long period of thirty-two years, leaving their employ in July, 1903. For twenty years he was in charge of the men about the furnaces in the rail mill and was an employe who possessed the entire confidence of the Company.

About 1876 Mr. Kaufman purchased a home, and. after making additions to it, was married, at New Market, to Sarah Long, of York county, a daughter of Herman and Mary Ann (Parthemore) Long. Mr. and Mrs. Kaufman have two children: Clyde H., of Harrisburg; and Edna, at home. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kaufman are members of the United Brethren Church. In politics be is a Republican. For several terms he served as school director, and he has always taken an interest in public matters.

Abrabam Kaufman, father of Martin N., was born and reared on a farm in York county and married Susan Neiman of the same place. He then moved to New Market and worked at the mason trade until 1857, when he settled on a farm in Cumberland county. Prior to his decease, he returned to New Market, where he died in 1888, aged sixty-nine years. His wife survived until 1896, dying at the age of seventy-five years. She was a member of the German Baptist Church. The children of Abraham Kaufman and his wife were: Martin N., whose name opens this sketch; Elmira, wife of Samuel Fisher, of York county; Mary, wife of George D. Mathias, of Harrisburg; Susan, wife of Jacob Gurtner, of York county; George, of New Market; and Abraham and Leah, of New Cumberland. The paternal grandfather, John B. Kaufman, was born in York county, and died in Fishing Creek Valley, where he was a farmer.