BIO:  William 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, Lower Windsor Township, Pg 128

WILLIAM BURG, son of Henry and Catharine Burg, of Lower Windsor, was born April 
8, 1836, and grew to manhood on the homestead.  In 1857 he began for himself on 
the Ruby farm, on which he resided four years, and then returned to the 
homestead, where he remained eleven years.  In 1870 he bought a farm of 200 
acres near East Prospect, put up a fine dwelling, bank-barn and out-buildings, 
all modern in their plan, and a tenement house, and then went to Marion County, 
Kas., where he remained eight months, when he returned and resumed farming.  He 
first married Catharine Ruby, who died within a year; his next marriage was to 
Leah, daughter of Samuel and Rebecca Gilbert.  This lady also died; the mother 
of eleven children.  Mr. Burg’s third marriage was to Mary, daughter of Henry 
and Rebecca Gilbert, of East Prospect, and to this union have been born five 
children.  Mr. and Mrs. Burg are members of the Evangelical Church at East 
Prospect.