BIO:  Aaron B. KAUFFMAN, Reading 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 504

AARON B. KAUFFMAN, farmer, P. O. Bermudian, was born in Reading Township, this 
county, December 12, 1838, and is a son of Christian and Margaret (Binder) 
Kauffman, natives of Pennsylvania.  His father followed farming nearly all his 
life and came from Lancaster to Adams County when quite small.  He died October 
1, 1881; his widow is still living at the age of seventy-seven years.  Aaron B. 
was reared on a farm, and remained with his parents until twenty-three years of 
age, when he married and settled on the old homestead, where he remained about 
two years.  He then moved to another farm, which his father owned, where he 
lived eight years.  In 1874 he moved to where he now resides, and owns 200 acres 
of land with very good improvements.  He married, September 20, 1860, Anna M. 
Bushey, who bore him seven children, six of whom are living:  Elias L., 
Christian B., Ida N., Ellen J., Mary E. and Minnie M.  Elmira J., is deceased.  
Mr. Kauffman is now engaged in the poultry business.  He gets from eighty to 
ninety dozen eggs a week, has a flock of 200 hens and a fine poultry yard.  He 
also raises cattle to some extent.