BIO:  Emanuel Detwiler, 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

EMANUEL DETWILER is a son of John and Susan Detwiler, of Lower Windsor Township, 
York Co., Penn., and is of German descent.  At the age of fifteen years he began 
driving a team and followed that occupation three years, after which he followed 
boating on the Tide Water Canal three years; then farmed three years, after which 
he engaged in mercantile business at the Five Mile Level for a few years and then 
returned to the farm.  He now owns two well-improved farms in East Prospect.  Mr. 
Detwiler also carried on lime-burning two years.  At twenty-one years of age he 
married Mary, daughter of John and Eliza Anstine, of Lower Windsor Township.  
This union has been blessed with seven children, of whom the following are 
living:  Alice, born July 3, 1862, married to Prof. M. H. Seitz, of Glen Rock; 
Elmer Ellsworth, teacher, born January 12, 1864; Charles Wesley, born November 
30, 1865; Albert Franklin, born March 6, 1867; John Irvin, born May 12, 1869, and 
Elle Octavia, born August 23, 1873.  Mr. and Mrs. Detwiler are members of the 
Evangelical Church at East Prospect, of which Mr. Detwiler was trustee.