BIO:  Simon P. Kinard, 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 Windsor Township, Pg 129

SIMON P. KINARD, assistant postmaster, is the son of Simon and Catharine Kinard, 
and was born November 28, 1859.  He was reared to farming and was educated at the 
common schools and at the York County Normal School at Wrightsville, and was 
afterward a teacher for three terms in Lower Windsor and one term in Spring 
Garden Township.  April 10, 1882 he embarked in the mercantile business at 
Craleyville, which he still conducts in conjunction with the manufacture of 
cigars, having added the latter in 1883, and now turning out 120,000 per year; he 
also owns one acre of ground and his house and store.  December 31, 1883, he 
married Mary, daughter of George and Elizabeth Silar, of Lower Windsor.