BIO:  Carroll J. SNEERINGER, Mountpleasant 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 491

CARROLL J. SNEERINGER, farmer, P. O. Centennial, was born June 3, 1833, in 
Mountpleasant Township, this county, son of John Sneeringer, a native of 
Conowago Township, Adams Co., Penn., and a descendant of the old Sneeringer 
family.  John Sneeringer was a farmer all his life; a Whig politically.  He 
married Lydia House, by whom he had six children:  Carrie, Carroll J., Joseph, 
William, Thomas and Mary.  Mr. and Mrs. John Sneeringer died in this township, 
the latter at the age of seventy-five.  Carroll J. Sneeringer was educated in 
the town schools; was a carpenter in early life, and then was a successful 
merchant at Hanover, York Co. Penn., fourteen years.  He first worked at 
carpentering there, and then embarked in the coal and lumber business.  In 
April, 1880, he returned to agricultural pursuits, and purchased the old Reily 
farm, and has now 100 acres of land.  Our subject was married in this township 
to Miss Sarah E., daughter of George Thomas, and by this union there are two 
children:  Edgar and William, both of whom were educated at home and are now on 
the farm.  Mr. Sneeringer and family are members of Conowago Chapel.  
Politically he has been a Democrat all his life.  He has been as successful as a 
farmer as he was as a merchant.