BIO: Harry Hance, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER XLIV.

                           DICKINSON TOWNSHIP.

  HARRY HANCE, miller, P. O. Huntsdale, was born in Frederick County, 
Md., February 26, 1849.  His parents, John and Sarah (Eicholtz) Hance, 
were natives of York County, Penn., and removed to Maryland, where they 
remained until their death; he died July 10, 1867, and his widow May 9, 
1872.  Of their ten children our subject is the third.  At the age of 
sixteen years Harry Hance came to this county, and began learning the 
milling business at Bridgeport, which he has since followed at various 
places on the Yellow Breeches Creek, with the exception of two years 
(from 1879 to 1881) spent at Wilson, Ellsworth County, Kas.  He located 
at Huntsdale, this county, in the spring of 1882, and here he is 
interested in the production of the Cumberland Mills (formerly known as 
Chambers' 

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Mill).  Harry Hance, who is sole manager and operator, is a skillful 
and scientific miller, and his products have a first-class reputation 
among his patrons.  He married, December 27, 1874, Jennie E. Swigert, 
of Mount Holly, this county, and to them have been born four children, 
Nora Edith, Theodore, Blanche and an infant (deceased).  Our subject is 
a lifelong Republican, and is now serving his township as school 
director.  He is an upright and worthy citizen and an enterprising and 
successful business man.