BIO:  Isaac K. Folckemmer, 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, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 173

ISAAC K. FOLCKEMMER, stone-cutter, was born in Shrewsbury, February 9, 1847.  His father, 
Jacob, died in 1871, and his mother, Susan (Boyer), in 1864.  Both were of German descent.  
They had a family of nine children, four sons and five daughters.  Isaac K. was educated at the 
public schools, and from fourteen to seventeen years of age carried the United States mail 
between Shrewsbury and Rail Road.  When seventeen years of age he began to learn the trade of 
stone-cutter at London, Ohio, where he remained three years, and then returned to Pennsylvania.  
He then worked one year at Philadelphia, and about three months at York.  In 1869 he went to 
Harrisburg, where he worked five years at his trade.  He then came back to Shrewsbury, and in 
1875 bought out his employer, and has since then managed the business for himself.  In 1872 he 
was married, at Shrewsbury, to Mary S. Klinefelter, daughter of Joseph Klinefelter, and has two 
children:  Joseph and Clarence.  Mr. Folckemmer is a member of the lodge of I. O. O. F. and 
Encampment; was in the council, and is a school director.