BIO:  John L. Boyer, 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 170

JOHN L. BOYER was born in York County, Penn., November 7, 1829.  His parents, Samuel S. and 
Sarah (Le Fevre) Boyer, were natives of Pennsylvania.  Samuel Boyer, the great-grandfather, 
came from Switzerland.  John L. spent the first twenty-one years of his life on the farm, in 
York County, getting his education at the local schools.  At the age of twenty-one, his parents 
removed to Carroll County, Md., where they lived twenty years and then removed to Frederick 
County, where they died.  John L. was married in Carroll County, to Nancy La Mott, daughter of 
Joshua and Elizabeth (Hershey) La Mott, Maryland and Pennsylvania, and of French and German 
descent.  Joshua La Mott, was a general in the war of 1812.  To this union were born four 
children:  Sarah Jane, deceased; Elizabeth W.; Joshua H. La Mott; and Belinda W., deceased.  In 
1870 Mr. Boyer removed to New Freedom, where the family has since resided.  Mr. Boyer is a 
member of the German Reformed Church and his wife a member of the Mennonites.  Joshua Henry La 
Mott Boyer was born in Carroll County, Md., November 22, 1857, was educated at the common 
schools, and taught singing when but sixteen years of age.  He is organist and choir leader and 
quite a speaker.