BIO:  Henry STOCK, New Oxford, 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 438

HENRY STOCK, farmer, P.O. New Oxford.  John, the grandfather of this gentleman, 
came from Germany, and settled in Earl Township, Lancaster Co., Penn., November 
14, 1787.  He purchased of Leonard Mumma 155 acres and allowances, paying for 
the same œ600.  This warrant is yet in possession of our subject.  John Stock 
was married to A. Mumma, and had fourteen children: Henry, Daniel, John, Peter, 
William, Nancy, Susanna, Mary, Elizabeth, Barbara, Lydia, Rebecca, Christena and 
Julyan.  Of these, Henry, the father of our subject, was born in Earl Township,         
Lancaster Co., Penn.  He was married to Elizabeth Haines, who was born in 
Carroll County, Md., and their children, Leah, Elizabeth, Sarah, Lydia, 
Christina, Mary, John, Jacob and Henry, were born on the farm near New Oxford.  
By trade he was a weaver, and for many years carried on that business in 
connection with his farm, and was a prosperous man.  He purchased and removed to 
a small farm on the Oxford and Berlin road, where he resided only about two 
years, when his death occurred in 1862, aged seventy years.  His wife died some 
years prior, in 1856, aged sixty-five years.  Henry Stock, our subject, was born 
February 17, 1834, and has from choice been a farmer.  He married Mary Duttera 
in 1857, and commenced housekeeping on the old mansion farm of his father.  Emma 
L., Charles D. and John H. were their children born on the old homestead, and 
Samuel W., George W. and Mary J. were born on the present farm, which Mr. Stock 
purchased in 1879 from John Bupp, on the Carlisle Pike.  In 1882 Mr. Stock was 
appointed overseer of the poor by Lite R. Mackley and James Reaver, to fill a 
vacancy, and at the expiration of his term was then elected to the same position 
for a term of three years.  He has also filled other positions of trust with 
satisfaction to the people.  His farm is finely improved, and his children are 
receiving such an education as becomes those of his means and sentiment.