BIO:  Alfred D. ALTLAND, 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, Carroll Township, Pg 83

ALFRED D. ALTLAND, first of the three children of Daniel A. and Elizabeth 
Altland, of Mechanicsburg, was born October 16, 1857, and is of German and 
English descent.  From 1872 until 1875 he clerked for J. A. Kauffmann, of 
Mechanicsburg, and then embarked in business with his father, under the firm name 
of D. A. Altland & Son.  In 1880 he started trade at Lisburn, Cumberland County, 
but in 1882 removed to Dillsburg, where he now has a large dry goods and grocery 
store, doing a business of $16,000 per annum.  January 8, 1880, he married Mary 
E., daughter of George and Mary Wilson, of Shepherdstown, Cumberland County, and 
to this union has been born one child – Lettie – now four years of age.