BIO:  Abraham TROSTEL, 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, Page 465

ABRAHAM TROSTEL (deceased) was a native of Germany, and came to York County, 
Penn., where he settled in the early part of the eighteenth century.  He lived 
near York, was a farmer, and reared a family of eight sons and three daughters.  
His son, Abraham, married Catharine Brough, and came with his family to this 
county in 1809 or 1810, and settled in Huntington Township.  He was a miller 
there for many years, and also owned 250 acres of land.  He was drafted in the 
war of 1812, but procured a substitute.  He was a Lutheran, and his wife, when 
forty or fifty years of age, joined the Dunkards.  They had four sons and two 
daughters.  The parents died in Huntington Township, he at the age of seventy-
three, and she aged about seventy-six, and were buried at Upper Bermudian 
Church.  Their son, Abraham, of York Springs, was a twin, born August 15, 1814, 
in Huntington Township, this county.  He learned the miller’s trade with his 
father, and, after finishing his apprenticeship, carried on the business for 
sixteen years at his father’s old stand, and followed farming and burning lime 
for about six years during the war period.  He owned at one time three farms, 
containing 275 acres, but has now sold all his land except one farm of 100 acres 
in Butler Township, which he rents, and lives in retirement at York Springs.  
January 12, 1837, he married Eliza Pensyl, who bore him seven children:  Henry 
J., George H., Sarah Ann, Hiram W., Lovina, Mary Ann and Catharine E. (twins).  
The mother died when the twins were born in 1852, and in 1861 Mr. Trostel 
married his second wife, Caroline Arendt, by whom he had two children, who died 
in infancy.  Mrs. Trostel died in 1865, and Mr. Trostel married his third wife, 
Mrs. Lydia Yount, nee Kohn, who still lives.  Mr. Trostel is a Republican, and 
has served his township in various local offices; is now collector of taxes for 
the borough.  He is a member of the Bermudian Lutheran Church, has served four 
years as deacon, and has always been a generous contributor to the support of 
religious and educational interests in the community.  He now owns four fine 
properties in town, including where he now resides, valued in all at about 
$8,000.