BIO:  Henry Anstine, 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, Hopewell Township, Pg 111

HENRY ANSTINE, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Miller) Anstine, of Hopewell Township, 
was born March 22, 1833, and is the tenth of thirteen children.  Until he was 
twenty-six years of age he remained on the home farm, attending the public 
schools of the township, after which he purchased a portion of the homestead 
farm, where he has since resided and gradually enlarged his farm until he now 
owns about eighty-eight acres, with fine farm buildings.  January 17, 1856, he 
married Catherine Grove, daughter of Henry Grove, Esq., of Hopewell Township.  
They have five children:  James R., Mary V. G., Ella E., Lottie E., George McC.  
In 1875 he was elected supervisor of his township, and re-elected the following 
year.  In the fall of 1884 he received the Democratic nomination for commissioner 
for three years, and was elected.  The family are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church at Stewartstown.