BIO:  William Ilgenfritz, 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, Lower Chanceford Township, Pg 124

WILLIAM ILGENFRITZ (deceased) was born in 1812, in York Borough, where he 
received his early education.  His parents were Daniel and Elizabeth (Deitch) 
Ilgenfritz.  At the age of fifteen he was employed as a clerk in the 
prothonotary’s office of York County.  He was afterward elected to fill that 
office himself for two terms.  In 1864 he removed to Lower Chanceford, and 
purchased a farm of 500 acres at the present site of Woodbine, on the Peach 
Bottom Railroad.  He was joined in marriage to Elizabeth B. Donalson, of 
Baltimore, on November 28, 1839.  Their children are Alice C., William J. and 
James E.  He was a member of the I. O. O. F.  William J. Ilgenfritz, the eldest 
son, was married, January 11, 1883, to Miss Annie J. Boyd.  They have one child – 
William Boyd.