BIO:  D. H. G. Beecher, 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, Spring Garden Township, Pg 187

D. H. G. BEECHER, son of Samuel and Sarah A. M. (Wagner) Beecher, was born September 16, 1848, 
in Beecherville, Adams County, where, after attending the public schools, he began his first 
work in his father’s paper-mill, remaining until his twenty-second year, when he came to Spring 
Garden Township, and for three years worked in the Erhart paper-mill; he then learned cigar-
making and carried on the manufacture in York Township six years, when he returned to Green 
Hill, this township, his present home.  December 8, 1872, Mr. Beecher married Miss Catherine, 
daughter of George and Catherine (Shell) Druck, and has had born to him six children:  George 
H. (deceased), Samuel A. (deceased), Annie L., Charles E. (deceased), Willie C. (deceased) and 
Harry D.  Our subject comes from a good German family and is the third of nine as follows:  
Annie May, George C., D. H. G., Charles F. (deceased), Samuel (deceased), Clara J., Emma 
(deceased) Sally A. M. and Annie.  The great-grandmother of our subject was Elizabeth, wife of 
John Beecher, died August 14, 1845, aged ninety years.  His grandparents were David Beecher, 
born September 8, 1798, died April 18, 1880, aged eighty-six years, seven months and five days.  
Anna Mary Gilbert Beecher, born April 26, 1797; and their children were:  Elizabeth, born 
December 25, 1815; died November 8, 1827, aged eleven years, ten months and thirteen days; Ann 
Margaretta, born November 16, 1817, died June 21, 1822, aged four years, seven months and five 
days; Samuel, born March 5, 1820; Sophia Susanna, born September 27, 1822; Bernhard John, born 
August 23, 1824, died June 5, 1831, aged six years, nine months and twelve days; Catharine, 
born December 13, 1826; Lucy Ann, born December 17, 1828; David Henry Gilbert, born July 1, 
1831, died November 16, 1839, aged eight years, three months and fifteen days; George, born 
September 11, 1833, died October 24, 1846, aged thirteen years, one month and thirteen days.