BIO:  Samuel 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

SAMUEL ALTLAND, son of Philip Altland, of Warrington Township, was born October 
28, 1836, and assisted on the home farm until 1854, when he began brick-making, 
which he followed for nine years, and then for four years engaged in car-building 
at Hanover, this county.  In 1869 he began farming in West Manheim Township, but 
in 1870 came to near Williams Grove, in this township, and farmed until 1874, 
when he moved to one-half mile south of Dillsburg, bought from the heirs of John 
Pentz, and made brick and farmed until 1880, when he was elected sheriff, on 
which he removed to York County Prison, in order to discharge his official 
duties.  January 24, 1861, he married Lydia, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth 
Fickes, of Carroll; of the eight children born to this union, two died:  Philip 
Alvin, the eldest, was deputy sheriff under his father the last two years of his 
term; Jeremiah Henry was turnkey.  At the time of his election to the 
shrievealty, Mr. Altland had served four years as constable, and one term as 
assessor of Carroll Township.  On retiring from the office of sheriff, in which 
he had been ably assisted by Mrs. Altland as matron, Mr. A. retired to his farm 
near Dillsburg, but soon sold out and moved to the town and bought a dwelling and 
livery stable on York Street, and another dwelling and livery stable on 
Harrisburg Street; he also owns a tract of seventeen acres of woodland in 
Warrington Township, from which he is clearing the timber; also a tract of six 
acres in Carroll Township, and a five-acre lot in Dillsburg Borough, on which he 
has a brick-yard.