BIO:  John Flinchbaugh, 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 Township, Pg 203

JOHN FLINCHBAUGH (farmer), son of Adam and Catherine (Dohm) Flinchbaugh, was born July 3, 1819, 
in the old homestead on the farm where Mr. Flinchbaugh now lives and which he owns.  He was 
reared to farming, and has always followed that occupation.  January 5, 1843, he married Julia 
Ann Flinchbaugh, daughter of Jacob and Denah (Diehl) Flinchbaugh, of Windsor Township.  
Thirteen children were born of this marriage:  Charles, Adam, Amanda (deceased), Jacob, 
Ephraim, Eli, David (deceased), Samuel, John (deceased,) Liddie Ann, Julia Ann, Mary and Annie.  
Adam Flinchbaugh, the father of our subject, died in his sixty-first year.  Catherine 
Flinchbaugh, his mother, died in her sixty-eighth year.  The Flinchbaugh family has always been 
very numerous in this section of York Township.  The subject of this sketch has been for many 
years one of York Township’s leading, influential farmers, and no man in the township enjoys a 
better reputation for sterling honesty than John Flinchbaugh.