BIO: WILLIAM H. SHERIFF, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 321
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    WILLIAM H. SHERIFF, wagonmaker and farmer of Silver Spring township,
  Cumberland county, and a man widely respected, is a native of this community,
  having been born in the vicinity of his present home Sept. 29, 1854. We have
  but little record of his ancestry. The family came originally from Germany,
  and his father, Conrad Sheriff, was born in Perry county, Pa., where he was
  reared. Attaining his majority, he learned the trade of a mason, and followed
  it for about thirty years. He married Mary Comp, and to them were born
  children as follows: William H. is mentioned again; Catherine married D. A.
  Stoner, a carpenter and miller of Cumberland county, and had children - Mary
  (married John Campbell, of Perry county, and who had Lee, at home, and
  Emelia, who died recently), and George Stoner (who married Miss Elizabeth 
  Cap, of Silver Spring township, and had children  - Muryl Adams, Catherine,
  Frances and Cletus).

    William H. Sheriff received his education in the common schools of Silver
  Spring attending until he was fifteen, at which time he was employed as a
  laborer, continuing thus for six years. He then began learning the trade of
  wagonmaking. and has followed it up to the present time: he and his family
  reside upon a well-cultivated farm of sixteen acres.

    On May 20, 1876, Mr. Sheriff married Mrs. Mary Ann (Hartman) Williams,
  daughter of John and Mary (Burns) Hartman, of York county. Two children have
  blessed this marriage: Florence, wife of Herman Smith, of Perry county, has
  had two children, Elsie (at home) and Jessie Belle (who died in infancy);
  Mary, wife of John Stoner, of Cumberland county, has one child, Alma, at
  home. Mrs. Sheriff was born in York county Feb. 11, 1854, and obtained her
  education in the schools of that county. After leaving school she was
  employed for several years, and then married Josiah Williams, also of York
  county. One child was born to them, John, who married Bessie Stevens, of
  Cumberland county, and has four children, Zelma, Mary, Gladys and Ruby, all
  at home.

    While not affiliated with any religious denomination Mr. Sheriff has a
  leaning toward the United Brethren, supporting that church and attending its
  services. Mrs. Sheriff is a member of the Bethel Church of God. Mr. Sheriff
  has been a lifelong Democrat, but has never aspired to any political office.
  He is a man widely respected for his many excellent traits of character, and
  is hardworking and industrious, while his wife is a model housekeeper and a
  tender and loving wife and mother.