BIO:  John B. FIRESTONE, 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, Carroll Township, Pg 85

JOHN B. FIRESTONE, son of Aaron Firestone, of this township, was born October 20, 
1851, and passed his boyhood on the farm and in attending school.  In his twenty-
second year he began attending the York County Normal School, which he attended 
two terms.  He also taught school the winter of 1875-76 in Dover Township, and 
the following year he taught in this township.  In 1881 he took charge of the 
primary school at Dillsburg, and the following year was promoted to the charge of 
the grammar school, which he taught two terms, and was then re-elected, but 
declined to accept the position of teller in the Dillsburg National Bank.  Prof. 
Firestone has been a member of the United Brethren Church at Beavertown since 
1877.