BIO:  John N. SLIFER, 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 433

JOHN N. SLIFER, dealer in coal and phosphates, Littlestown, was born in Union 
Township in December, 1843, and is a son of William and Mary A. (Hornberger) 
Slifer.  At the age of seventeen he learned the blacksmith’s trade, which he 
followed five years, then leased a lime kiln in Union Township.  In 1870 he came 
to Littlestown and began dealing in coal, also continuing the lime business up 
to 1882; since then he has been exclusively engaged in dealing in coal and 
phosphates.  In 1883 he was elected, on the Democratic ticket, director of the 
poor for Adams County, which office he at present fills.  He is also a member of 
the school board of Littlestown, has served as member of the council for several 
terms, and is a substantial, representative citizen.  He and his family are 
members of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, of which he has, on various occasions, 
served as an official.  He was married, December 15, 1867, to Miss Elizabeth 
Howard, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Bushman) Howard.  They have but one 
child, Mary, born October, 29, 1868.