BIO:  Henry HILBISH, 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, Hanover Borough and Penn Township, Pg 64

REV. HENRY HILBISH, pastor of the Second Reformed Church of Hanover, is a native 
of Freeburgh, Snyder Co., Penn., was born September 13, 1836, and is the sixth 
in a family of seven children born to Henry and Elizabeth (Keller) Hilbish, and 
is of German descent.  His parents were born in Montgomery County, Penn., the 
father in 1790, and the mother in 1801.  The former died in 1858, and the latter 
two years prior.  His great-grandfather was one of three brothers who were born 
in Germany and came to America in 1749, and settled in Montgomery County, Penn., 
and there the grand-father of Rev. H. was born.  Rev. H. was educated at 
Freeburgh, Snyder Co., Penn.  He studied theology under a private tutor, and at 
the age of twenty-one entered the ministry.  He preached one year in his native 
county, and then went to Dauphin County; he there preached some time and then 
went to Berks County, and thence to Ohio, where he remained until 1880, when he 
came to Hanover and here has since been, and is a most efficient and successful 
clergyman, and was the leading spirit in the erection of the Second Reformed 
Church of Hanover.  He was married, May 10, 1858, to Miss Mary Whitmer, a native 
of Juniata County, Penn., and has had born to him eight children.