BIO:  Isaac Kister, 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, Newberry Township, Pg 155

ISAAC KISTER was born in December, 1823, in Newberry Township, York County, and 
is the fourth of nine children of Henry E. and Tacey (Hart) Kister, natives of 
York County, and of German descent, both deceased.  The father was a farmer, and 
acted as justice of the peace several times during his life.  Isaac Kister was 
brought up as a farmer, and remained with his mother until he was sixteen years 
of age, when he hired out to work on a farm, performing any kind of labor until 
he was thirty-three years of age, when he purchased some land, where he finally 
made his home.  He built large and commodious buildings, adding acre after acre 
to his farm, and has now a fine farm of seventy acres, as the result of his 
industry.  In 1856 he married Letitia H. Shelley, who died in 1874.  They had 
nine children, four now living:  Crull S., Ulysses G., Annie E. and Harry.  Those 
who died were Viola, Flore E., Ida and two infants.  In 1876 he married Mrs. 
Sarah Gross, widow of Daniel Gross; they have one child:  Charley.  Mr. Kister 
enlisted in February, 1865, in Company K, One Hundred and Ninety-second Regiment 
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war.  Although 
in no engagement, he received a severe injury in the right knee in crossing a 
fence, the top rail giving way and throwing him to the ground.  In politics he is 
very liberal, always voting for the man rather than the party.