BIO:  James H. COLEHOUSE, Littlestown, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 418

JAMES H. COLEHOUSE, retired, P.O. Littlestown, was born October 18, 1823, a son 
of Henry and Mary (Knouff) Colehouse, the former a native of Germany and the 
latter of this county.  Henry was a shoe-maker by trade, but during the many 
years he lived in Adams County he followed farming, owning eighty acres 
adjoining Littlestown, where he lived.  He died in 1878, aged eighty-two years; 
his wife died some years before, aged eighty years.  They were parents of five 
children.  Our subject learned the trade of a shoe-maker with his father, with 
whom he remained until his twenty-fourth year.  He was married, October 22, 
1846, to Susan Bittinger, who was born June 18, 1826, a daughter of Frederick 
Bittinger.  In 1847, in company with William Yount, he engaged in the boot and 
shoe business, and continued it until 1860.  He then opened a general store, 
which he conducted four years, when he sold out and became interested in the 
grain and produce trade for three years; then engaged in buying and shipping 
hay, and finally returned to the general store, and in the spring of 1885 sold 
his interest to his partner and son-in-law, George S. Kump, and retired.  He is 
now principally employed in building on and improving his real estate in the 
borough.  He is a Republican, and has held the offices of burgess, councilman, 
etc.  Mr. Colehouse was a charter member and stockholder in the Littlestown 
Savings Institution, and a director several years; also an original stockholder 
and director in the Littlestown Railroad.  To this enterprise he contributed 
$400, and on the erection of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church building he donated 
$500.  He and his wife are members of the above named church.  They have a 
family of three children:  Rufus A., born September 2, 1847 (married to Margaret 
C. Young); William H., born January 8, 1855 (married to Rebecca Mehring); and 
Mary C., born February 28, 1858 (married to George S. Kump).