BIO:  Harvey Wheeler Haines, 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, Windsor Township, Pg 202

HARVEY WHEELER HAINES was born October 11, 1838, in Stark County, Ohio.  His father, Charles H. 
was born in 1814, in Windsor, York Co., Penn.; and in Lancaster City.  In 1834, he married 
Barbara Funk; she was born in Lancaster County in 1816.  They had nine children – three boys 
and four girls now living:  Charles H. was a carpenter by trade, but for many years engaged in 
farming.  Harvey W. Haines taught school for many years in the city of Baltimore, but is now 
engaged in farming near Freysville Church, in this township.  February 16, 1871, he married 
Mary E., daughter of David Leber; Florence Leber and Horace Becker are their children.  Mr. 
Haines’ grandfather came to Windsor Township, from Frankford, Philadelphia, after the war of 
1812.  When Harvey W. was a child his father and neighbors, owning large farms, would take 
sickle or cradle and go to the valley or Lancaster County to work six or eight weeks at 
harvesting to earn money to buy bread for the year; now the grain in Windsor is as good as in 
the limestone lands, and farmers can hardly get laborers to put away their crops.  Land that 
was then $5 or $10 per acre is now worth $100 per acre.  Mr. Haines is a F. & A. M., and is the 
present auditor of the township.