BIO: A. R. May, 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 LVIII.

    SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF MOUNT HOLLY SPRINGS.

556  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  A. R. MAY, veterinary surgeon, P. O. Boiling Springs, born in York 
County, Penn., December 27, 1838, son of Daniel and Barbara (Rider) 
May; the former of whom was born in York County, Penn., in 1795, and 
lived to be seventy-eight years old; the latter, born in York County, 
Penn., in 1801, still residing with our subject at Boiling Springs.  
Daniel May was a miller in early life, but in later years a farmer.  He 
was a very strong man, and during the time he was milling for Mr. Frick 
at the Big Conowago, in York County, Penn., he carried nine bushels of 
wheat up two flights of stairs at one time.  A. R. May, the sixth born 
in the family, was reared on the farm, and received his education in 
the common school.  He subsequently studied medicine, commenced to 
practice as veterinary surgeon

557  SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP.

in York County, Penn., and, in 1873, came to Boiling Springs, where he 
has been very successful, and is as well known as any veterinary 
surgeon in the county.  The Doctor usually passes for a "Dutchman," and 
though his parents and grandparents were Americans, raised in York 
County among the Pennsylvania Dutch, he now speaks the English language 
with difficulty.  He is a Republican in politics.  For several years 
Mr. May has served as constable, and he has been mentioned as a 
candidate for sheriff of Cumberland County.