BIO: Andrew C. Knoderer, 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 LIX.

                         UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP.

568  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  ANDREW C. KNODERER, farmer, P. O. Shepherdstown, was born September 
22, 1833, in Hellam Township, York Co., Penn.  His grandparents, Andrew 
C. Knoderer and wife, came with their three children, Harriet, Emma and 
Charles A., from France, and settled in York County, Penn., and there 
one daughter, Sophia, was born.  By trade the grandfather of our 
subject was a weaver, an occupation he followed in the village of York 
until his death.  Charles A., the only son, was married to Magdalena 
Scherrer, in 1825; and by her had ten children:  David, Leah, Sophia, 
Henrietta, Maria, Andreas and Abraham (twins), Daniel Charles and Lucy 
A.  Of these, six are yet living, and five are residents of Cumberland 
County.  Andrew C. Knoderer is by trade a carpenter, which he worked at 
for some time before coming to this county.  In 1857 he married 
Elizabeth Phillips, of Adams County, Penn., who bore him the following 
children:  John, Jacob and Maggie.  The mother died in 1861, and on 
August 4, 1864, Mr. Knoderer was married to Susan Landis of this 
county.  Her father was a man widely known and highly respected for his 
many virtues, and his children are now received among the first 
families in the land.  The first purchase of land made by Mr. Knoderer, 
in this county, was in 1867, when he bought his present farm, and which 
was enlarged from the York County farm, as Mrs. Knoderer received from 
her 

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father's estate a nice sum of money, which has been judiciously 
invested with that of her husband, and their lands have become very 
valuable.  To Mr. and Mrs. Knoderer have been born four children:  I. 
Romaine, D. Frank, Milton A. and Annie L.  Frank is a carpenter, and 
works with his father, who is still an active business man.  During Mr. 
Knoderer's business career he has built thirty-two bank barns in this 
and York Counties, which will, no doubt, remain as landmarks years 
after his sphere of usefulness has passed.