BIO:  David H. Good, 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, Newberry Township, Pg 152

DAVID H. GOOD was born September 21, 1839, in Dauphin County, Penn., and is the 
fifth son and seventh child of a family of nineteen children born to Peter and 
Catharine (Zorger) Good, natives of York County, Penn.  He was brought up a 
farmer and remained with his parents until his twenty-second year, when he 
enlisted in Company A, Second District of Columbia Volunteer Infantry, January 
17, 1862, and participated in the battles of Antietam, Fort Washington and second 
Bull Run.  At the expiration of his term of service, three years, he was 
discharged, January 18, 1865, when he came home and resumed farming, and after 
two years engaged in the mercantile business, which he has followed since.  He 
began business at Eberly Mills, Cumberland Co., Penn., but came to his present 
place in 1870.  In 1871 he was commissioned postmaster of Yocumtown.  In 1868 he 
married Mrs. Carrie (King) Tate, widow of Martin Tate, and daughter of Henry and 
Susan (Raffensberger) King, of York County, and of English and German descent.  
They have two children:  Maggie and Catherine.