BIOS: David LICHTY, Salisbury, Somerset County, PA

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History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania; Bedford County by E. 
Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; v.3, Pub. The Lewis 
Publishing Company, New York/Chicago 1906, ppg. 221/2

David LICHTY.

David Lichty, of Salisbury, is a son of John C. Lichty, who was born in 1798 in 
Somerset county, and all his life devoted himself to agricultural pursuits, 
ending his days amid the scenes of his boyhood.  He married, in 1819, Elizabeth, 
daughter of Christian Fike, of Elk Lick township, and their children were: 
Solomon, born December 30, 1821; Michael, November 10, 1823; Nancy, May 28, 
1826; Samuel J., August 8, 1827; Sallie 1830; David, April 26, 1832, see 
forward; Mary, August 16, 1833; and Elizabeth, October 17, 1835. 
David Lichty, son of John C. and Elizabeth (Fike) Lichty, was born April 26, 
1832, in Elk Lick township, and received his education at the public schools.  
At the age of twenty-one, his school days being over, he engaged in farming and 
for ten years thereafter was exclusively a tiller of the soil.  In 1878 he 
retired and moved to Salisbury, where he has since lived a strictly retired 
life.  For one term he served as school director in Salisbury.  His political 
affiliations are with the Republicans.  He is a member of the Brethren church. 
Mr. Lichty married, January 29, 1860, Elizabeth, born April 13, 1838, daughter 
of Nicholas Keim, of Addison township, and their children are: Ross, born 
November 6, 1861, married Ida, daughter of Elias Bauermaster, of Germany; Bruce, 
born August 4, 1865, a practicing physician of Meyersdale, married Fannie, 
daughter of William R. Getty, senator from Garrett county, Maryland; Stewart, 
born February 16, 1867, married Susan A. Fischer, of Wellington, Kansas; Ann, 
born December 19, 1868, wife of Franklin Beachy, hardware merchant of Carleton, 
Nebraska; Mary, born January 15, 1870, wife of Dr. H. S. Hickock, of Wichita, 
Kansas; Missouri, born January 2, 1873, wife of Franklin Petrie, carpenter of 
Salisbury; and Harvey, born April 7, 1874, married Caroline Snyder, of Kansas.  
Now in his seventy-fifth year, Mr. Lichty is in remarkably good health.  He is 
moderate and abstemious in all his habits and it is worthy of remark that he has 
never used tobacco in any form.