BIO:  David GARBER, York County, PA

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Kathy Francis

Copyright 2005.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/york/
_______________________________________________ 

History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
_______________________________________________ 

Part II, Biographical Sketches, Hanover Borough and Penn Township, Pg 63

DAVID GARBER, a prominent horse dealer of Hanover, Penn., was born in Lancaster 
County, Penn., November 14, 1826, and is a son of Samuel and Rebecca (Davis) 
Garber.  In the year 1846 he had already engaged in the stock business and 
followed it eight years.  He then removed to Hanover, Penn., where he engaged in 
the livery business, and in connection with this in buying and selling horses.  
In 1870 he purchased the Central Hotel at Hanover, which he owns and lives in at 
the present.  In 1856 he was married to Anna Elizabeth Bair, daughter of John 
and Lydia (Young) Bair, of Hanover.  They have two children:  Ida Alice and 
Annie May.  Mr. Garber is a Knight Templar in the Masonic fraternity.