BIO:  William H. Lansinger, 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 426

WILLIAM H. LANSINGER, merchant, Littlestown, was born January 27, 1827, in York, 
Penn., son of John Lansinger and grandson of Jacob Lansinger.  His great 
grandfather, of French lineage, came to America when quite young and settled in 
Philadelphia, where he died.  He had two sons:  Nicholas and Jacob.  The latter, 
a shoe-maker by trade, married a Miss Strunk, and lived most of his life in 
Philadelphia, but the year before he died moved to Littlestown, this county, 
where he departed this life at the age of eighty-four.  He was the parent of 
five children:  Jacob, John, William, Joseph and Elizabeth, who attained 
maturity.  Of these John, a native of Philadelphia, also a shoemaker, lived many 
years in York County, Penn., but finally moved to Littlestown, this county, 
where he died aged seventy-three.  He had been twice married, first to Rebecca, 
daughter of Henry Neff, and who died near York, Penn., aged thirty-three, the 
mother of three children, who attained maturity:  William H., Jacob and Barbara.  
William H. attended the common schools at Littlestown, and here has followed his 
father’s trade nearly all his life (he was three years in Clarke County, Va., 
where he also engaged in shoemaking).  Our subject was married in this township 
to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Cump, and by this union has three children 
living:  Henry N., Seward and Rebecca B.  Mr. Lansinger and family are members 
of the church.  He has been a Republican all his life, and has held different 
offices of trust, among which was that of chief burgess of Littlestown for two 
terms.