BIO:  Henry Kilmore, 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, Fairview Township, Pg 98

HENRY KILMORE was born in Fairview Township, York Co., Penn., February 6, 1834, 
son of Joseph and Eve (Peterman) Kilmore.  Subject’s grandfather, Henry Peterman, 
was a farmer, and was born in Carroll Township, this county.  Joseph Kilmore, 
subject’s father, was born in 1797, and at fifteen years of age moved with his 
parents to this township, where he followed farming, and owned 135 acres of land.  
He died in 1871, and his wife in 1862, aged forty-nine years.  They were members 
of the Winebrennerian Church.  They had ten children, of whom Henry, David, Mary 
J., Susan, Joseph and William are living, and John A., Adeline, Catharine and 
Dora are deceased.  Our subject at the age of twenty-two years, began learning 
the carpenter’s trade, which he followed for fifteen years, and in 1864 began 
coach-making in Fairview Township, and has since been doing a prosperous business 
in building buggies, wagons, sleighs, etc.  He has a two-thirds interest in the 
homestead farm, and has a fine home near the farm.  In 1856 he married Sarah 
Fink, daughter of John Fink, of Newberry Township.  They have had fifteen 
children, ten living:  Charles, Anna M., George O., Harry, John A., Joseph, 
Jennie, Lerne, Himen and Minnie, and five deceased:  Cora M., Bertha, Ella, 
Florence and Walter.  Mr. and Mrs. Kilmore are members of the Lutheran Church.