BIO:  A. F. Geesey, 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 20

A. F. GEESEY, ex-treasurer of York County, was born in York Township, this 
county, November 21, 1841, son of Jonathan and Sarah (Flinchbaugh) Geesey.  He 
is one of a family of ten children and is of Swiss extraction.  His parents were 
also born in York County, Penn.  The father was born in 1809 and died in 1877, 
and the mother was born in 1807.  The paternal grandfather of our subject was 
born in this county.  The Geesey family came to York County in 1732 and made 
settlement about eight miles southeast of York.  A. F. Geesey worked on the farm 
until seventeen years of age, and then in a store for two years, after which he 
began teaching school.  In 1864 he enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Third 
Pennsylvania Veterans, and served one year.  Upon returning home he taught 
school one year and then engaged in general merchandising at Dallastown, York 
Co., Penn., which he continued nine years.  In 1876 he came to York, Penn., 
where he has since resided.  Mr. Geesey has always been a Democrat, and for 
several years has been one of the leaders of that party in York County.  In 1878 
he was elected treasurer of York County.  In 1866 he married B. Ellen Howis, a 
native of this county, and they have one child, Clarence A.  Mr. Geesey is a 
Mason.  He and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church.
B.