BIO:  Joseph K. Hart, 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, Warrington Township, Pg 196

JOSEPH K. HART was born in Fairview Township, October 11, 1824, the third of seven 
children born to Isaac and Elizabeth (Moore) Hart, as follows:  Sarah J. Ross 
(deceased), John M., Joseph K., Jacob, Andrew, Robert (deceased) and Elizabeth 
Strominger.  Subject’s paternal grandfather was a native of York County, was a 
farmer of German descent, and died in 1848, at the age of eighty-six; his maternal 
grandfather, Moore, a native of Chester County, died in 1851, at the age of seventy-
five years.  Isaac Hart, subject’s father, was born in 1788, and died in 1839, aged 
fifty-one years.  Joseph K. Hart assisted on the home farm until 1848, when he 
started for himself, marrying the same year, Sarah A., daughter of Michael Wallet, 
of Warrington Township, and to this union have been born four children:  Elwyn, 
Michael E., Mary E. (deceased) and Robert.  In 1851, Mr. Hart came to Warrington 
Township and took possession of his present farm of 146 acres, all under good 
cultivation and well improved.