BIO: Henry Holler, 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 XLV.

        EAST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF CAMP HILL.

469  EAST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.

  HENRY HOLLER, farmer, P. O. Camp Hill, is a grandson of Francis 
Holler, who was born on the Atlantic Ocean in 1777.  His parents 
settled in Lancaster County, Penn., on a farm, where they lived for 
some time, afterward removing to Manchester Township, York Co., Penn., 
where Francis was married and lived until his death in 1861.  He had 
two sons and five daughters.  One of his sons, Philip, removed to 
Huntingdon County, and died there.  The other, Francis, lived at home 
until about 1855, when he removed to a farm in Fairview, York County, 
where he is still living, aged seventy-seven.  He, Francis, married 
Annie Cook, and had a family of thirteen children, of whom eleven are 
still living:  Sarah, wife of Jacob Bardhardt; Jacob, married to Susan 
Coleman; Samuel Manassas, married to Rebecca Rawhouser; Francis; Annie, 
wife of Henry Mesias; and William (all of whom live in York County); 
Catharine, wife of David Strine, of Williamsport, Penn.; Charles, and 
Leah, wife of John Yetter (both of whom live in Dauphin County); and 
Henry, the subject of our sketch, who was born on the homestead in 
Manchester Township, York Co., Penn., in October, 1832, and lived there 
until his marriage, in 1854, with Miss Mary, daughter of Daniel Dreyer, 
of Fairview, York County.  He then began housekeeping, but worked on 
his father's farm for another year.  For a year following he farmed for 
John Horn, and then rented a farm in Silver Spring Township, this 
county, where he stayed four years, and thence, in the spring of 1865, 
moved to the farm on which he now lives.  He has five children living 
(one died young), viz.:  William, married to Jennie, daughter of 
Stephen Simmons, of Hampden Township (he farms in East Pennsborough); 
Ellen, A. Lincoln, Charles and Daniel living at home.  Mr. Holler was 
drafted for nine months, in 1862, but sent a substitute for three 
years.  He has been a school director for six years, but never held any 
other office.  He and his wife are members of the United Brethren 
Church.  He has proved himself a good citizen and a man of uprightness 
and honor.