BIO:  Jacob Aldinger, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, West Manchester Township, Pg 199

JACOB ALDINGER was born February 22, 1833, and is a son of Frederick and Elizabeth (Myers) late 
of Springfield Township, formerly of Heidelberg Township.  Subject’s great-grandfather, 
Matthias Aldinger, who died in Germany, was of royal descent.  On account of the persecutions 
of the family be Napoleon, the grandfather of our subject, after being driven up and down the 
Rhine from 1814 to 1817, succeeded in making his escape to America.  He was the father of seven 
children:  Margaret, Barbara, Frederick, Frederica, Elizabeth, Christiana and Louisa, all 
natives of Germany.  The father of our subject had born to him eight children:  John, Emanuel, 
Jacob, William, Daniel (deceased), Barbara, Matthias and Abraham.  Our subject, a minister of 
the Old German Baptist Church, commonly called the Dunkard, was married, October 29, 1854, to 
Elizabeth, daughter of John and Lydia Sprenkle, of West Manchester Township, and to this union 
have been born three children:  Samuel, Annie and Lydia.  Mr. Aldinger is the owner of a fine 
farm of 217 acres in West Manchester, improved with two fine dwellings, a large bank barn and 
other out-buildings, also a tract of thirty-one acres in North Codorus Township, and also five 
acres in building lots at Brillhart’s Station, in York Township.  Mr. Aldinger has served York 
Township several years as school director.