BIO:  Milton W. Bahn, 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, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 169

MILTON W. BAHN was born June 26, 1839, in Hellam Township.  His parents, David and Rachel 
(Witman) Bahn, natives of York county, had six children, two died in childhood, and Milton W. 
is the only son and the youngest of the family living.  He was brought up on a farm and 
educated at the York County Academy, and State Normal School, at Millersville, Penn.  From the 
age of eighteen to twenty-four, he taught in York County public schools.  In January, 1865, he 
engaged in the mercantile business in partnership with W. H. Emig, at New Freedom, which he has 
since followed.  Mr. Emig retired from the firm in 1880.  Mr. Bahn was married November 4, 
1864, at Emigsville, to Miss Ella S. Emig, of that place, daughter of John Emig (deceased), and 
has had four children – two have died:  Lillie Alice, aged eleven years, and Corrinne Ella, 
aged eight years.  The living are Arthur W. and Walter D.  Mr. Bahn was appointed postmaster of 
New Freedom, in 1865, and with the exception of one year (1881-82) has held the office since.  
He is also agent of the Northern Central Railroad company, and of the Adams Express Company.  
He is interested in a new railroad enterprise between Stewartstown and New Freedom; was one of 
the organizers and president ten years out of twelve of the “New Freedom Building and Loan 
Association,” and was a member of the borough school board, three years, ending in 1879, and a 
member of the borough council one year (1880).  He is an active Republican; also an elder in 
the Reformed Church, in which he and wife have been brought up.  His father died in 1863, aged 
sixty years.