HISTORY: Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia, Chapter 7, 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, page 128.
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                           THE LANDIS FAMILY. 

  I.  BENJAMIN LANDIS, a native of Switzerland, and a Mennonite 
preacher, came to America in 1718, and took up a tract of two hundred 
and forty acres of land in now East Lampeter township, Lancaster 
county, Pa., where he lived and died.  Of his children, we have record 
of only one:
    2.   i.  Benjamin, b. 1700.

  II.  BENJAMIN LANDIS (Benjamin), b. in 1700, in Switzerland; came 
with his father to America in 1718; m., and left issue:
    3.   i.  Benjamin, b. 1728.
    4.  ii.  Abraham, b. 1730. 
    5. iii.  Jacob, b. 1732.
    6.  iv.  Henry, b. 1734. 

  III.  BENJAMIN LANDIS (Benjamin, Benjamin), b. 1728; removed to a 
farm near Lancaster in 1753; m., and had issue:
         i.  Benjamin, m., and had John, Benjamin, and Jacob. 
        ii.  Henry, m., and had Benjamin, Henry, John, Isaac, and 
Jacob. 
       iii.  John, m., and had John, Benjamin, and Henry. 

  IV.  ABRAHAM LANDIS (Benjamin, Benjamin) m., and had issue:
         i.  Benjamin, m., and had John, Abraham, Benjamin, and David.
        ii.  John, m., and had John, Abraham, and Emanuel.

  V.  JACOB LANDIS (Benjamin, Benjamin), m., and had issue:
         i.  John, m., and had Jacob, John, Abraham, Benjamin, 
Christian, Martin, David, and Daniel.
        ii.  Abraham, m., and had Jacob, Abraham, Benjamin, John, and 
Adam. 

  VI.  HENRY LANDIS (Benjamin, Benjamin), m., and had issue:
         i.  Benjamin, m., and had Daniel, Henry, Benjamin, and John.
        ii.  John, m., and had Benjamin and John.
       iii.  Henry, m., and had Daniel, Jacob, Henry, and Isaac.
        iv.  Peter, m., and had David. 
         v.  Abraham, b. 1780; d. 1861; m., and had Henry-N., Abraham, 
Jacob, John, and Benjamin.