BIO:  Andrew F. Clinch, 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, York Borough, Pg 12

ANDREW F. CLINCH, foreman of the boiler department at A. B. Farquhar's, is a 
native of Jersey City, N.J., was born in 1856, and is a son of Michael and 
Margaret (Ingersol) Clinch, and is of Irish extraction.  His father was born in 
Ireland in 1811, and came to America in 1847, and settled in Jersey City, and 
there remained eleven years, and then removed to Wilmington, Del., where the 
early portion of the life of our subject was spent.  After receiving a common 
school education he learned the steam-fitter and boiler-maker trades.  For nine 
years he was in the employ of Pusey Jones & Co., of Wilmington, Del.  In 1879 he 
came to York, and has since been employed at his present occupation, and is one 
of the leading mechanics of York.  In his department he has charge of fifty men.  
The marriage of Mr. Clinch was solemnized in 1878 to Miss Cora Litsinger, of 
Westminster, Md.  To this union have been born three children, viz.:  Florence 
May, George and Alice.  He is a Democrat in politics.