BIO:  William A. MCSHERRY, 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

WILLIAM A. MCSHERRY, P.O. Littlestown, was born in Mountpleasant Township, March 
23, 1824, and is a son of Patrick and Mary (Fisher) McSherry, both of whom were 
natives of this county, but now deceased.  Patrick was a farmer, served a long 
time as public school director, and was a quiet unpretentious, good citizen.  
William A. remained on the farm until he was eighteen years of age.  He then 
learned the carpenter’s trade, which he followed for twenty years, though for 
ten years of that time he also taught school during the winter season.  In 1850 
he established himself in a general stone at White Hall, and remained there for 
thirty-one years, and in the meantime erected some ten buildings in that place, 
including a hotel.  In 1881, he came to Littlestown and opened a general store, 
which he still conducts, and also a clothing store in the borough, but intends 
to consolidate the two under one roof, in the spring.  He married, in 1851, Miss 
Amelia Hull, of Carroll County, Md., who has borne him three daughters and one 
son.