BIO:  Levi W. Hershey, 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 176

LEVI W. HERSHEY, born in Shrewsbury Township August 31, 1845, is the eldest son of Christian 
and Margaret (Wehrley) Hershey, of German descent, being about the sixth generation in America.  
He has always lived on a farm, began teaching at the age of twenty-two, and has taught every 
winter except four up to 1884.  Has served as inspector of elections, township clerk, assessor 
and judge of elections; has been secretary of the new Freedom Building and Loan Association for 
two years, and secretary of the Codorus and Manheim Fire Insurance Company since January 1, 
1884; was Master of the P. of H. one year, and secretary five or six years, and is a member of 
Mt. Vernon Lodge No. 143, I. O. O. F., of Shrewsbury.  At the last election he was elected 
justice of the peace and school director, and is now secretary of the school board.  He is also 
chancellor commander of Freedom Lodge No. 85, K. of P., of New Freedom.  He was married, 
December 3, 1868, to Mary Jane Sheffer, and they have six children:  Allie Jane, Lillie 
Virginia, Bertie Agnes, Nettie May, Arthur Lee and Iva Grace.  He belongs to the Reformed, and 
his wife to the Lutheran Church.  He owns a farm of thirty-eight acres, and has been engaged in 
the dairy business since 1883.