BIO:  Aaron B. Elicker, 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, Franklin Township, Pg 106

AARON B. ELICKER was born in 1841 in Warrington Township, York County, Penn., a 
son of Valentine and Jane (Blackford) Elicker, natives of Adams and York 
Counties, respectively.  His father was a native of Adams County, Penn.  
Subject’s father followed farming for about thirty years, although he was a 
carpenter by trade.  He owned 220 acres of well-improved land in Warrington and 
Washington Townships.  He was a member of the U. B. Church, and was a liberal 
supporter of the same.  He possessed more than ordinary musical talent.  He died 
in 1862 at the age of sixty-seven years, leaving a widow and six children to 
mourn his loss.  Aaron B. was brought up on the farm, attended the common schools 
and afterward an academy.  In 1862 he began farming in Warrington Township, and 
in 1864 taught school in Franklin Township, to which he removed in 1866 and 
commenced farming, which he followed for nine years.  He then moved to Dillsburgh 
where he remained four years; renting his property there, returned to 
Franklintown, now a borough (his building and part of his farm of forty acres are 
within the borough limits), where he resumed farming.  In 1866 he married Susan 
E. Miller, daughter of William B. Miller, of Carroll Township.  They have two 
children:  William M., eight years old, and Olive M., four years old.  Subject 
served the offices of town council, assessor, inspector, and was elected school 
director in 1884 for the term of three years.  The family attend the Presbyterian 
Church, of which Mrs. Elicker is a member.