BIO:  John L. Day, 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 171

JOHN L. DAY, born in Shrewsbury Township, August 4, 1817, was the eldest of a family of three 
sons and two daughters of David and Rebecca (Lew) Day, natives of York and of English descent.  
His grandfather, Matthew Day, was born in Chester County, Penn., and came to York County in the 
latter part of the eighteenth century.  John L. grew to manhood on the farm, was educated in 
the schools of his neighborhood, and has never followed anything else but farming.  At the age 
of eighteen he began farming on his own account.  He married, in September, 1847, in Shrewsbury 
Township, to Susan L. Taylor, daughter of John Taylor.  He has had six children:  John Millard, 
died, aged two and a half years; Sherman E., died, aged eight months; Rebecca C., wife of Henry 
Nonemaker; Otis C., Emma A. and Wilbert S.  He went to Ohio before marriage, remained one year, 
returned to Pennsylvania, and after marriage removed to Maryland, where he farmed twelve years; 
removed to where he now lives in 1864, and owns forty acres of land.  He is a trustee of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at New Freedom, of which church himself and wife are members, and he 
also is a member of the I. O. O. F., at Shrewsbury.  He has one brother in Maryland and one in 
Ohio, and two sisters in York County.  His father died January 7, 1871, aged eighty years; his 
mother in 1839, aged fifty years.  His wife’s father, John Taylor, died November 27, 1861, aged 
seventy-three years, and her mother, January 24, 1873, aged seventy-eight years.  Mrs. Day is a 
sister of Dr. John A. Taylor, of Shrewsbury Township.