BIO:  Henry J. STAHLE, Gettysburg, 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 372

HENRY J. STAHLE, editor, Gettysburg, is a native of York County, Penn., born at 
York in 1823.  His parents, John and Sarah (Small) Stahle (the latter a daughter 
of Maj. Jacob Small) were of German origin.  John Stahle served two terms as 
register of York County, and for many years as a justice of the peace.  Our 
subject is the fourth of twelve children.  He grew to manhood at York, where he 
attended the common schools and the York County Academy.  He learned the 
printer’s trade in the office of the York Gazette, serving three years.  He then 
served a year and a half as foreman of the office, and in 1845, at the age of 
twenty-one years, he bought the Gettysburg Compiler, and has since published 
that paper, a period of forty-one years, during which time he has successfully 
conducted the paper and managed the business of the office.  In politics Mr. 
Stahle is a Democrat and carries weight in his party, but has always declined 
public office.  He has been twice presidential elector, and was a delegate to 
the convention that nominated Gen. George B. McClellan for president.  He was 
one of the organizers of, and took an active interest in getting the railroads 
to Gettysburg, and has taken an active interest in everything that pertains to 
the advancement of Gettysburg and of Adams County for upward of forty-one years, 
and is now in the boards of the Water and Gas Companies, Evergreen Cemetery 
Association and the Adams County Agricultural Association.  In 1846 Mr. Stahle 
married Louisa B., daughter of Ezra Doll, of Frederick City, Md.  The children 
of Mr. and Mrs. Stahle are Thomas, who is engaged on the paper with his father; 
Mary L., Harry M.; Anna D. (wife of Thomas C. Linn, an attorney in North 
Carolina); Kittie H. and Charles E., a student in Pennsylvania College.  Mrs. 
Stahle died in 1879.  The family are all members of the Reformed Church.