BIO:  Hon. Daniel GEISELMAN, Union Township, 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 515

HON. DANIEL GEISELMAN, farmer, P. O. McSherrystown, was born February 19, 1819, 
in York County, Penn.  The family was originally of German descent, though the 
great-grandfather came to America from Switzerland (the family in the old 
country were of noble birth), first settling in Berks County, Penn.  Frederick 
Geiselman (grandfather of our subject), a farmer and blacksmith by occupation, 
went to York County, Penn., in an early day, and there died at the age of 
eighty-four.  His wife, Eva (Pheanus), also died in York County when nearly 
seventy years old.  The had nine children, all of whom married and reared 
families of their own.  Of these Michael, who followed farming and tanning in 
early life, married Catharine, daughter of Jacob Keller.  Michael Geiselman and 
wife died in Hanover, Penn., aged sixty-eight and seventy-four respectively.  
They were members of the Lutheran Church.  They reared a family of eight 
children:  Daniel, Samuel, Mary, Catharine, Jacob (deceased), Michael, Sarah and 
Louisa.  Daniel Geiselman attended the common schools of Adams and York 
Counties, but is principally self-educated.  He had been a successful farmer and 
is still owner of 144 acres of good land.  He was united in marriage, in this 
township, with Fannie, daughter of Abraham Rife, by whom he had eight children 
now living:  George R., M. Alexander, Daniel, Elder, Mary, Ellen, Clara and 
Sarah J.  Mr. and Mrs. Geiselman and family are members of the Lutheran Church, 
at Hanover.  Our subject is identified with the Democratic party, and has filled 
many township offices of trust; was elected assessor; then county commissioner, 
and from 1875 to 1876 was a member of the State Legislature.  He has always held 
to the true principles of his party, and has filled the offices, to which he was 
elected, with ability.