BIO:  Christopher C. BURG, 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, Wrightsville Borough and Hellam Township, Pg 75

CHRISTOPHER C. BURG was born in Lower Windsor Township, March 15, 1829.  His 
parents were P. W. and Eliza (Dosch) Burg, natives of Amsterdam, Holland, and 
York County, respectively.  The former died in 1856, and the latter in 1848.  
They had four sons and two daughters.  Christopher is the second son.  He was 
brought up on the farm, and educated at the public schools.  His father owned a 
mill, where Christopher spent five years of his early life.  From his twenty-
fourth to his thirty-fourth year he was engaged in canal boating.  Since 1872 he 
has been engaged in farming, four years in Spring Garden Township, and since in 
Hellam Township, two miles west of Wrightsville, on his fine farm of 106 acres.  
In March, 1854, he was married to Mary Hauser, daughter of John Hauser, 
deceased; and has had born to him five children:  P. W.; Sarah, John L., Mary E. 
and Alfred W.  Mr. Burg and family belong to the Lutheran Church; he is an 
active Republican, and from 1854 to 1872 he held the office of justice of the 
peace of Wrightsville.  His first presidential vote was cast for John C. 
Fremont.