BIO:  S. T. BASTIAN, 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, Hanover Borough and Penn Township, Pg 60

S. T. BASTIAN, real estate, insurance, collection and general agent of Hanover, 
Penn., was born in Allentown, Penn., in 1858, and is the son of Jonas and Eliza 
(Smith) Bastian, one of the oldest families in Lehigh County.  He was educated 
at the public schools, spent a few years at a collegiate institute at 
Hackettstown, N. J., and then at the Allentown Business College, from which he 
graduated.  He then engaged with the Allentown Daily Bulletin as a reporter for 
one year; then he clerked a few months in a dry goods store, and in 1878 he came 
to Hanover and engaged as clerk for Grove & Carver, dealers in dry goods, etc., 
with whom he remained about three years and a half.  In 1882 he formed a 
partnership with J. H. Flickinger, in the real estate and fire insurance 
business, from which Mr. Flickinger, retired in the spring of 1883, since when 
Mr. Bastian has successfully conducted the business and built up a good 
reputation.  He is also advertising agent for the Northern Pacific Railroad 
Company for southern Pennsylvania; is correspondent for several daily papers, 
and is generally considered a very enterprising young man, who will meet with 
success in everything he undertakes.