BIO:  Elias D. Breckinridge, 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, Newberry Township, Pg 150

ELIAS D. BRECKINRIDGE was born in Lancaster County, Penn., April 22, 1834. His 
parents were William and Elizabeth (Duck) Breckinridge, natives of Chester and 
Lancaster Counties, Penn., and of Scotch-Irish and German descent, respectively.  
They were married in Lancaster County, Penn., and reared a family of three sons 
and five daughters, one infant deceased.  Elias D. is the eldest son, and he 
remained on the farm until sixteen years of age, when he began learning the 
business of woolen manufacturing, which he followed for twenty-six years.  In 
1879 he was appointed storekeeper and gauger, and assigned to Reynold’s 
distillery, Ninth District, Penn., but was transferred at the end of a few months 
to Kauffman’s distillery, in the same district, where he remained a little over a 
year.  In July, 1880, he took charge at Free’s distillery, in York County, Penn., 
where he remained till June, 1882.  In January, 1883, he came to Goldsboro, where 
he has since been keeping the Railroad Hotel.  He was married, in Salisbury 
Township, Lancaster Co., Penn., May 21, 1857, to Susanna Nixon, of the same 
county, and of Irish descent.  They have had nine children:  Florence E., Cora 
A., U. S. G., Charles S., Oscar L. (deceased), Eugene O., Imogene M., William 
Robert and Roscoe G. (deceased).  Mr. Breckinridge is P. G. of the I. O. O. F., 
and also a member of the K. of P.  He is a Republican.