BIO:  Henry M. Bitner, 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, Fairview Township, Pg 97

HENRY M. BITNER was born in Fairview Township, York Co., Penn., April 24, 1823, 
son of Samuel and Annie (Mish) Bitner, natives of Lebanon County, Penn., and 
parents of nine children:  Elizabeth, deceased; Margaret, deceased; Catharine, 
Anna, Samuel, John, Henry M., Matthias and Sarah A.  Subject’s father was born in 
1786, and came to Fairview Township in 1812, where he afterward owned a farm of 
200 acres of land.  He was a member of the German Reformed Church, and died in 
1857, aged seventy one years.  Henry M. was reared on the farm, and after his 
father’s death, began farming for himself, and has since followed that 
occupation, owning 126 acres of land in Fairview Township, and twenty-two acres 
of timber land.  His son now manages this property, which is the old homestead.  
In 1871, Mr. Bitner moved to Cumberland County, Penn., where he now resides, and 
owns fifty-five acres of finely improved land.  In 1857, he married Rebecca 
Cassel, a native of Dauphin County, Penn., and by this union they have four 
children:  William H., residing on his father’s farm, in Fairview Township, and 
Samuel L., Joseph M. and Henry C., at home.