BIO: Samuel Hay, 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, York Borough, Pg 21

SAMUEL HAY, ex-deputy sheriff, son of George and Susan (Schall) Hay, of York, 
Penn., was born September 16, 1810, in York Borough.  He attended the borough 
school, and also the York County Academy, and afterward learned the trade of 
cigar making.  January 31, 1833, he married Susan Wilt, daughter of Peter and 
Catherine (Ernst) Wilt, of York, Penn.  Two children were born to them, Sarah 
(deceased wife of George Gardner), and Catherine (deceased wife of Hamilton 
Bletcher).  Our subject's grandfather came from Germany, and was one of the 
early settlers of York.  He owned all the land on which several hundred houses 
are now built on Queen, King, Princess Streets, and the surrounding 
neighborhood.  Few men are better or more favorably known throughout York County 
than our subject, he having been deputy sheriff over twenty years, and a better 
or more efficient officer never held that position.