BIO:  Samuel EAHOLTZ, Gettysburg, 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, Pages 353-354

SAMUEL EAHOLTZ, sheriff of Adams County, P.O. Gettysburg, was born in Cumberland 
Township, Adams Co., Penn., August 20, 1821, a son of Jacob and Catharine 
(Beiff) Eaholtz, natives of Pennsylvania, and of German origin, the father 
having been a farmer through life.  Samuel is the seventh child of nine sons and 
daughters, and was reared on the farm.  He acquired a fair common school 
education in the schools of Adams County, studied surveying in 1840, and early 
in life learned the blacksmith’s trade, which occupation he followed for twenty 
years, working in Butler and Franklin Townships.  He was for a period of three 
years engaged in the hotel business at McKnightstown.  Subsequently he bought a 
farm, and for several years, in connection with farming, engaged in the coal 
business.  While a resident of Butler and Franklin Townships he held, at 
different times, most all of the township offices.  Mr. Eaholtz is a man of 
great popularity and strict integrity.  He was elected sheriff of Adams County 
in 1885, having been nominated by the Democratic party and endorsed by the 
Republican.  In 1845 he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Rex, of 
German origin, and a farmer by occupation.  To this union was born Martha S., 
wife of George C. Beecher, of York County.  Mrs. Eaholtz died in 1855, and Mr. 
Eacholtz, in 1856, was married to Catharine, daughter of Ferdman Meals, of 
German origin, and to this marriage were born Anna S., wife of Robert C. Jingle, 
a miller of Adams County; Susan K., wife of George Hartman; S. M., deputy 
sheriff; Sadie C., wife of Charles Cashman; Bertha W., Robert W. and Charles M.  
The second wife died in 1875.  The family is identified with the Lutheran 
Church.