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Daniel Drawbaugh

Daniel Drawbaugh, born July 14^th, 1827 in the town of Eberly’s Mills, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, is perhaps equally known for his brilliance and his greatest defeat.

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Robbery and Fire at Inventor Daniel Drawbaugh's House

"Daring Robbers Visit Daniel Drawbaugh's Residence at Eberly's Mills" ran the headline in the newspaper. Daniel Drawbaugh, known as "The Edison of Cumberland County," for his invention of the electrical telephone in the 1860s, was 76 years-old at the time of this incident.

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George N. Wade: Consummate Politician

There are two different types of success in the world of politics. Some men succeed as statesmen, and others as politicians. Statesmen usually adopt innovative and sometimes unpopular methods in order to promote what they see as the public good. Politicians, on the other hand, feel that their duty is to further the interests of those whom they represent, and to work to satisfy their constituents.

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History In the Making: A Few 20th & 21st Century Inventors and Academicians Associated with the Intellectually Fertile Cumberland Valley

Cumberland County has a long, well known, and valued history as home, whether by birth, descent, or relocation, to inventors, researchers and academicians.