BIO: John Gochnauer, York County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Kathy Francis Copyright 2006. 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, Washington Township, Pg 197 JOHN GOCHNAUER, native of Washington Township, was born July 13, 1825, and is a son of Joseph and Sarah (Leathery) Gochnauer, natives of Dover Township. His paternal grandfather was a native of Germany, and died in Washington Township about 1839, aged about eighty years, the owner of five farms, two in Dover and three in Washington Township. He had served in the war of the Revolution. Subject’s maternal grandfather was a farmer of Dover Township. Subject’s father was a farmer and owner of 150 acres in Washington Township, and thirty-one acres in Adams County. He died in 1877, at seventy-five years of age, the father of five children. At the age of twenty-seven, subject left the home farm, and for three years managed a farm for his father. He then bought the homestead of 147 acres, and in 1867 bought his present homestead of 230 acres. He now owns three farms in this township, aggregating 527 acres, beside two tracts – ninety-six and thirty-one acres – in Adams County. In 1852 he married Elvina, daughter of John Spangler, of Warrington Township, and has had born to him seven children, viz.: Susan (Bosseman), Daniel, Elmira, Sarah J., Joseph, Charles and Jesse. Mr. and Mrs. Gochnauer are members of the Evangelical Church.