BIO:  Samuel F. HOLLINGER, 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, Wrightsville Borough and Hellam Township, Pg 78

SAMUEL F. HOLLINGER was born in York Township, near Dallastown, May 16, 1844.  
His parents were Daniel and Elizabeth (Flinchbaugh) Hollinger.  He was reared on 
the home farm and educated at the district schools.  In the spring of 1865 he 
went to Lancaster County and farmed about one year, when he returned to York 
Township, and assisted his father on the farm for two years.  In the fall of 
1868 he began learning the trade of mill-wright with Jonathan Geesey, of 
Dallastown; remained with him for two years, and then worked at his trade for 
four years.  In 1874 he began milling at Henry’s Mill, in Hopewell Township, 
where he remained two years, going from there to Yost’s Mill in York Township 
for two years, then to the Ness Mill in Springfield Township for two years; then 
to the Tunnel Mill in the same township for one year; then to Diehl’s Mill near 
York for three years, and in April, 1884, came to Strickler’s Mill near Hellam, 
where he is at present engaged.  He was married February 23, 1878, to Emeline 
Lehman, daughter of J. W. Lehman of York County, and has had three children born 
to him:  Lizzie (deceased), Millie and Annie (deceased).