BIO:  William Eppley, 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, Newberry Township, Pg 151

WILLIAM EPPLEY was born February 3, 1852, in Newberry Township, York Co., Penn., 
and is the youngest of a family of three sons and three daughters of William and 
Sidney (Hays) Eppley, natives of York County, and of English and Welsh descent, 
respectively.  The father kept hotel in Newberrytown for thirty-five years, but a 
few years before his death retired from business.  The grandfather, Mills Hays, 
was once associate judge of York County.  William Eppley was brought up in the 
village of Newberrytown, where he received a good public school education.  At 
the age of twenty-one he went to Harrisburg, Penn., where he engaged as salesman 
in a cigar store; remaining about one year.  He then returned to his native town 
and engaged in the hotel business and the manufacture of cigars, which he has 
since followed with great success.  He manufactures about 200,000 cigars a year.  
He was married, October 7, 1875, to Maggie Bower, a daughter of Henry and Mary J. 
(Kister) Bower, of York County, Penn., and of Dutch and English descent, 
respectively.  By this union they have two children:  William B. and Maude B. 
Eppley.