Limber, Thomas

THOMAS LIMBER, proprietor of tannery, Linesville, was born in Mercer County, Penn., August 20, 1840; son of Christopher and Elizabeth (Armor) Limber, former a native of Mercer County, latter of Crawford County, Penn., both now living in Mercer County. They are parents of seven children. Mrs. Limber is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Christopher Limber, who is a farmer, was a private, and his father an officer in the Revolutionary war. Our subject and his brother, William W., enlisted October 1, 1861, in the Fifty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, serving with the Army of the Potomac, and were present at the siege of Yorktown and the engagements at Williamsburg and Fair Oaks, at which latter, May 30, 1862, Thomas was wounded in his left shoulder by a minie rifle ball, and was consequently honorably discharged in October, 1862, and returned home. William W. remained in the service, and was in all the engagements his regiment participated in. He received a severe wound in the left leg, and had a thumb injured. He veteranized, and at the close of the war was honorably discharged. Our subject enlisted, for the second time, for three months, when Gen. Lee made his raid into Pennsylvania, and was present at the battle of Parkersburg. Mr. Limber learned the trade of tanner and currier before the war, a business he has worked at most of his life. He moved to Linesville in the spring of 1874, and purchased the tannery at that place in 1876, since which time he has conducted the business alone. He also owns a handsome residence in Linesville, and fifteen acres of improved land just outside the corporation limits. Our subject was twice married, on first occasion, in 1866, to Miss Elizabeth Donaldson, a native of Mercer County, Penn., who bore him two children: Emma J. and William J. Mrs. Limber dying May 19, 1871, our subject then married, August 4, 1873, Miss Sarah J. Rodgers, a native of Mercer County, Penn., and to this union were born three children: Katie G., Charles C. and Thomas C. Mrs. Limber died November 28, 1883. Our subject is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, also the R.T. of T., and is a Commissioner of the S.N. Warner Post, No. 352, G.A.R.