BIO:  Henry S. KLEIN, Germany 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 425

HENRY S. KLEIN, lumber dealer, Littlestown, was born at New Cumberland, 
Cumberland Co., Penn., July 29, 1835; a son of John B. Klein, who died in 1843.  
The widow moved to Harrisburg, where Henry S. lived until he was twenty-three 
years old.  Our subject learned the trade of a brick-layer, at which he worked 
six years.  He married, December 3, 1857, Mary Ellen Horner, a native of 
Mechanicsburg, Cumberland Co., Penn., and a daughter of James Horner.  Henry S. 
Klein and family settled at Littlestown, March 3, 1859, and he at once 
established himself in the lumber and coal trade and has successfully conducted 
that business up to date.  He is a Republican, and, though not an office-seeker, 
he has been elected and served Littlestown in the offices of burgess, 
councilman, school director, etc.  He has twice built substantial residences in 
town and has done much in various ways toward improving its interests, and is 
one of the substantial and respected business men.  Mr. and Mrs. Klein have the 
following children:  Eliza Dora (now the wife of Capt. J. C. Delany, librarian 
of the Senate at Harrisburg), Mary Sidney (living at home), John Henry (a 
druggist in Baltimore), Charles Benard (a jeweler in Littlestown), and Jessie 
Berghaus (attending school and living at home); Anna Bertie died at two and one-
half years, and Paul St. Clair when but sixteen months old.