BIO:  William K. Kilgore, 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 K. KILGORE, son of Joshua and Ellen (Boones) Kilgore of Peach Bottom 
Township, was born July 3, 1831.  He remained with his parents until twenty years 
of age, when he began learning the trade of wheelwright with John S. Kilgore, one 
of his cousins, in Lower Chanceford Township, with whom he remained two years and 
then went West, where he stayed a few years.  In 1877 he purchased the farm of 
Alexander Snodgrass, containing about 145 acres, and followed farming since.  
September 25, 1857, he was married to Elizabeth E. Snyder, of Peach Bottom, and 
had nine children:  Amanda A., Clarkson B., Eva J., Harvey E., William H., James 
W., Emily R., Harriet A. and Charles V.; two died in infancy.  Mrs. Kilgore is a 
daughter of Jacob and Mary A. (Wales) Snyder, and like her husband belongs to the 
Salem Methodist Episcopal Church.