BIO:  William O. 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, Lower Windsor Township, Pg 129

WILLIAM O. HAINES is the son of William and Mary Haines, of York Township; was 
born February 26, 1833, and was reared to manhood on the farm, commencing for 
himself at the age of thirty-two, near Wrightsville, where he remained nine 
years, when he removed on Daniel Leber’s place, near the mill, and there resided 
three years.  He then rested a year, after which he bought a farm containing 
sixty-four acres, remodeled the buildings and made other improvements.  In 1863 
he married Catharine, daughter of John and Eliza Anstine, of Lower Windsor, and 
to this marriage children have been born as follows:  Flora E., January 23, 1865; 
Lorenzo D., April 22, 1868, and Charles W., July 7, 1870.  Mr. and Mrs. Haines 
are members of the Evangelical Church at East Prospect.