BIO:  Christian Gore, 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 174

CHRISTIAN GORE, born in Baltimore County, Md., October 23, 1818, and died at New Freedom, June 
5, 1878, was the eldest of three sons of Charles and Mary (Price) Gore, of German and English 
descent, respectively.  He was educated at Middletown, Md., and up to about thirty years of 
age, he taught school.  He was married, April 4, 1850, at Baltimore, to Hester Ann Shamberger, 
daughter of Jacob and Hester (Souder) Shamberger, natives of Pennsylvania and of German 
descent.  They had eight children, Millard S. (deceased), Mary, Jane, Edwin (deceased), Upton 
H., Harvey (deceased), George W. and Alverta.  Mr. Gore has held the positions of commissioner, 
treasurer and assessor of Baltimore County.  In the spring of 1871, he removed to York county, 
where he located in York Borough, but after a year removed to Glen Rock Borough, where, in 
company with Hashour & Fallen, he engaged in the planning-mill and lumber business, which was 
burned in 1876, causing a great loss.  The mill was rebuilt, and Mr. Gore retired from business 
in 1878, and removed to New Freedom, where he died soon after.  In 1850 he was engaged for six 
years at Hoffmansville, in the mercantile business and the manufacture of paper one year, and 
farmed about twelve years in Baltimore County.  The family are leading members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Gore was a class leader.  Since the death of Mr. G., Mrs. Gore 
and her two sons have successfully conducted a mercantile establishment at New Freedom.