BIO: Lemuel H. BEERS, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 64.
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  LEMUEL H. BEERS, attorney-at-law, Huntingdon, Pa., was born in Cromwell 
township, Huntingdon county, August 25, 1854, and a son of Bergmann and 
Nancy (Roberts) Beers.  His parents spent the greater part of their lives in 
Huntingdon county, Mr. Beers being a farmer.  They had eight children, of 
whom three are deceased; the survivors, besides Lemuel H., are Henry, 
residing in Cromwell township; Joseph and John J., residents of Coalmont, 
Huntingdon county; and Rebecca, wife of Joseph Heck, of Mississippi.
  Lemuel H. Beers passed his earliest years at home, acquiring the rudiments 
of his education in the common schools; he afterwards studied at Millwood 
Academy, Shade Gap, Pa., at Allegheny Seminary, Bedford county, Pa., and at 
Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport, Pa.  He began the study of law in the 
office of Brown & Bailey, Huntingdon, Pa., and was admitted to practice in 
the courts of Huntingdon county.  He has been ever since in continuous 
practice.  Mr. Beer is a Republican.  He is not married.