BIO:  Barthabas E. Hines, 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

BARTHABAS E. HINES, born in Hanover, October 20, 1842, is the only son of John and Sarah (Bart) 
Hines, natives of Maryland and Pennsylvania, and of French and German descent.  He attended the 
public schools of Hanover, and at the age of sixteen began cigar-making, which he has since 
followed, with the exception of about one year as clerk in a store in Cincinnati, and one year 
at Westminster, Md.; went to Glen Rock in 1867; was married in May, 1868, to Agnes A. Decker, 
of Shrewsbury Township, and of German descent; has been deputy postmaster at Glen Rock since 
1869; was borough councilman three terms, and chief burgess one term; was one of the original 
stockholders of the Glen Rock Manufacturing Company, and since 1877 has been engaged in the 
manufacture and sale, at wholesale and retail, of cigars; enlisted at Hanover in Company I, 
Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania Militia, for the emergency during Lee’s invasion, his regiment really 
opening the battle of Gettysburg (see Batcheldor’s History).