BIO: Amanda (FRY) ESHLEMAN, Lancaster County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Alice Warner Brosey http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00015.html#0003503 April 15, 2010, 12:59 pm Copyright 2010. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/lancaster/ _______________________________________________ Source: History of Western Iowa, 1882 Author: Western Publishing Company Eli Eshleman, county treasurer of Cherokee county, was born in Pa. in 1829; came west in 1856, and settled in Ills., where he lived seventeen years; in 1872 he came to Cherokee and engaged in farming; was elected to his present position in 1879 and reelected in the autumn of 1881. He married Amanda Fry, of Lancaster county, Pa. They have ten children - five sons and five daughters.