BIO:  Isaac LYNN, 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 427

ISAAC LYNN, farmer, P.O. Littlestown, was born August 12, 1808, in Middleburg, 
Md.  His grandfather, Henry Lynn, came from Germany and settled in Maryland, 
where he farmed, and there died.  He had married in Germany and was the parent 
of four sons and two daughters.  Of these, Jacob, a farmer, was born in Maryland 
(where he died, aged sixty-two years); he married Catharine Jacobs, by whom he 
had five children:  Isaac, Henry, Mary, David and Susan.  Of these Isaac went to 
school in his native place.  He has been a successful agriculturist, and farmed 
with his father till 1835, when he was married and went to Emmittsburg, Md., 
where he followed agricultural pursuits until the spring of 1878, when he sold 
his farm of 142 acres and moved to Littlestown, this county, and here he intends 
to remain the balance of his life.  He was married, in April, 1835, to Miss 
Catharine Troxel, a daughter of Adam Troxel.  She died June 13, 1882, aged 
seventy-five years.  Mr. Lynn is a member of the Reformed Church, and has been 
an exemplary citizen and good neighbor, esteemed by all with whom he comes in 
contact.  He has been a hard working man; starting in life with nothing, he has 
by his own exertions gained a comfortable competency.