BIO:  George A. TRIMMER, Huntington 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, Pages 464-465

GEORGE A. TRIMMER, hardware merchant, York Springs, was born in Huntington 
Township, this county, August 17, 1856, a son of Joseph and Julia Ann (Spangler) 
Trimmer, both natives of this county.  He was reared on the farm until twenty-
one, and received his early education in the schools of his native township, 
finishing his studies at Millersville State Normal School.  June 15, 1882, he 
opened a hardware store at York Springs, it being the first store established in 
the borough for carrying on an exclusive hardware business.  Several general 
stores had carried more or less goods in that line, but their proprietors agreed 
to cease doing so, provided Mr. Trimmer would buy their stocks.  This he agreed 
to, and accordingly purchased the stock of A. S. Hartman for $381.29 and that of 
E. C. Stock for $718.24, and immediately began business, which has since 
steadily increased.  He carries a full line of hardware, paints, oils, guns, 
powder shot, Hercules dynamite, and other goods generally found in first-class 
hardware stores.  He keeps a well assorted stock, averaging the year round 
$5,000, with sales per annum of $10,000.  He is special agent and has control of 
Adams County, and the territory surrounding York Springs, for the sale of Dupont 
powder, Hercules dynamite, the “Genuine Royal Mixed Paints,” manufactured by A. 
Wilhelm & Co., Reading, and of the well and favorably known “Champion Force 
Pump.”  He is also special agent agent for the “National Harness Oil Company,” 
of Detroit, Mich., keeping a full line of their manufactures, and devotes part 
of each year in the employment of the above named company, as its commercial 
traveler, introducing its goods throughout the country.  Mr. Trimmer is a 
thorough business man, an enterprising citizen, favorably known in this and 
adjoining counties.  He was married, May 14, 1886, to Miss M. Minerva Trostle, 
and they are both members of the Lutheran Church.