BIO:  Herman Hoke, 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, West Manchester Township, Pg 200

HERMAN HOKE was born October 9, 1811, and is the son of John and Catherine 
(Harman) Hoke, natives respectively of Adams County and West Manchester 
Township, York County.  Subject’s paternal grandfather, Conrad Hoke, was a 
native of York County, was a farmer and the father of three children:  Jacob, 
Conrad and John.  The grandfather of Mrs. Hoke was a native of Germany.  Herman 
Hoke, our subject is the eldest of three children born to his parents, viz.:  
Herman, Emanuel and John.  September 19, 1832, our subject married Elizabeth 
Free, daughter of Peter and Mary Free, of Hopewell Township, and has had born to 
him seven children, viz.:  Leah E., wife of Henry S. Tyson; Adam H., married to 
Sarah Smyser; Sarah A., wife of Noah Ness; Catherine A.; Rebecca L.; Emma J., 
wife of Samuel Rutter, and Mary A., deceased.