BIO:  D. M. Ettinger, 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 16

D. M. ETTINGER, civil engineer, and native of Hopewell Township, was born 
September 12, 1806, to Adam and Elizabeth (Miller) Ettinger.  He is one of 
fourteen children and is of old German stock.  The parents of Mr. Ettinger were 
both born in York County.  His father died in 1877 and his mother in 1855.  His 
maternal grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.  At an early age, 
D. M. Ettinger began teaching school and continued to teach for about thirty 
years, and was one of the most successful teachers of the day and one of the 
most popular York County ever had.  For fourteen years he was a teacher in the 
York County High School.  In 1853 he was employed by the Chicago & Northwestern 
Railway, as civil engineer.  For over forty years he has been acting in the 
capacity of surveyor and engineer, and is unquestionably one of the most 
accurate civil engineers of Pennsylvania.  Mr. Ettinger was married, in 1830, to 
Miss Lovinia Toomy, a native of York County.  To this marriage were born seven 
children, viz.:  Alvina, Martin L., Sarah, Josephine (deceased), Newton 
(deceased), Daniel (deceased), and Paul (deceased).  Mrs. Ettinger died October 
4, 1882.  Mr. Ettinger was formerly a Whig but is now a thorough Republican.  
Although he is passing into the "sere and yellow leaf," his years sit lightly 
upon him.