BIO: Daniel SHEESLEY, 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, page 237.
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  SHEESLEY, Daniel, son of Daniel Sheesley and Mary Elizabeth Reigle, 
was born September 16, 1815, in Lykens township, Dauphin county, Pa.  
His education was quite limited.  He came to Harrisburg at the age of 
twelve, and in its vicinity his life was passed.  For many years he was 
engaged in the milling business, was an auctioneer and trucker.  He 
served one term as director of the poor, and was one of the directors 
of schools for Swatara township for a long period.  He died at 
Harrisburg on the 21st of June, 1880, in his sixty-fifth year.  He was 
a very pleasant and agreeable companion, extremely sociable and kind.  
Mr. Sheesley married, in 1837, Sarah Rissing, daughter of Lewis and 
Mary Rissing, and their children are William, former sheriff of the 
county of Dauphin, Mary, married Peter Reel, Sarah, Elizabeth, married 
John H. Tattnall, Daniel, Louisa, married Joseph E. Rhoads, Samuel, 
John, George, Lewis, Catharine L., and Margaret J.