BIO: Samuel LANDIS, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, pages 235-236. 
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  LANDIS, SAMUEL, the son of Abraham Landis and Susannah Reinoehl, was 
born at Halifax, Dauphin county, Pa., June 22, 1813.  His father was a 
native of Berks county, and came to Dauphin county shortly after his 
marriage.  His father dying while the son was only eleven years old, he 
was taken from school and put to merchandising, first at Halifax and 
afterwards at Harrisburg.  With a limited education he applied himself 
to study, and when about twenty he taught school during the winter.  
About 1835 he purchased a store at Halifax, and was in continued 
mercantile business thirty years.  In 1851 he removed to his farm near 
Halifax, but commissioned justice of the peace April 10, 1855, he 
returned to the town.  In 1861 he was elected associate judge of the 
county.  From February, 1874, until his death, March 8, 1876, he was 
cashier of the Real Estate Bank at Harrisburg.  Judge Landis married, 
June 22, 1836, Margaret Kinter, daughter of Isaac Kinter and Elizabeth 
Henry, of Rockville, who survived him.  In church matters he took a 
prominent part, held the position of recording steward of the Methodist 
Episcopal church thirty years, was a member of the first Sunday-school 
organized at Halifax, of which for many years he was the 
superintendent.  By his will he donated $500 for the benefit of the 
library.  Judge Landis was a faithful and zealous Christian gentleman.  
He was a vice-president of the Dauphin County Historical Society at the 
time of his death.