BIO: Levi H. Lenher, 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 XXXIX. 

                        BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

422  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  LEVI H. LENHER, physician, Mechanicsburg, is a native of 
Pennsylvania, born near Ephratah, Lancaster County, October 19, 1822, 
son of John and Mary (Hauck) Lenher, natives of Lancaster County, 
Penn., who had four sons and two daughters, who lived to be men and 
women.  John Lenher, a machinist, was a member of the firm of Lenher & 
Pennel, Lancaster Locomotive and Machine Works, and built the first 
locomotive west of Philadelphia, called the "Hugh Keys."  Levi H., the 
second child and eldest son, when fourteen years of age, entered the 
Franklin and Marshall Academy, at Lancaster.  At sixteen he began to 
read medicine with Dr. John L. Atlee, and graduated at the Pennsylvania 
College, Philadelphia, in 1843.  He then located at Ephratah, Lancaster 
Co., Penn., where he remained until October 1847, when he moved to 
Churchtown, this county, where he resided until 1872, when he came to 
Mechanicsburg; went thence to Belmont, Wright Co., Iowa, where he 
remained three years; then to Harrisburg, Penn., for three and a half 
years; when he returned to Mechanicsburg and has here since resided.  
The Doctor was married September 25, 1845, to Miss Mary A. Martin, born 
in Lancaster County, Penn., daughter of William and Jane Martin.  Mrs. 
Lenher died April 23, 1867, the mother of two children:  J. W. 
Clarence, a clerk in the Pennsylvania Railway recorder's office at 
Philadelphia, and Mary, who resides at home with her father.  January 
28, 1869, the Doctor married Mrs. Susan Burnette, born near Lititz, 
Lancaster Co., Penn., and to this union have been born two children:  
Elsie Hortense and Victor.  Dr. Lenher is a member of the K. P. Lodge, 
Churchtown, the I. O. O. F. and F. & A. M.  He and his wife are members 
of the Presbyterian Church.  The Lenher family is of German origin, and 
early settlers of Lancaster County, Penn.  Dr. Lenher stands high in 
the estimation of all who know him as a physician and Christian 
gentleman.  He is a member of the State Medical Society of Pennsylvania 
and the Cumberland County Medical Society.