BIO:  Henry H. Kochenour, 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, Conewago Township, Pg 95

HENRY H. KOCHENOUR, was born in Manchester Township January 18, 1829, and is a 
son of Henry and Catherine (Hoffman) Kochenour, natives of York County.  Martin 
Kochenour, grandfather of subject, was also a native of York County, was a 
distiller, and afterward a school teacher and musician.  Subject’s father was 
born in 1803, and was for many years proprietor of a grist-mill and fifty-six 
acres of land in Manchester Township, and two farms in Conewago, in which latter 
township he now resides.  His wife died in 1882.  Henry H. Kochenour was reared 
to farming and milling under his father.  He received a liberal education, and 
for twelve winters taught school and music in Conewago Township.  In 1864 he 
enlisted in Company D, Two Hundredth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, took part 
in the engagement at Fort Steadman and the siege of Petersburg, and at the close 
of the war returned to Conewago and engaged in milling, which he followed ten 
years.  In 1866 he married Susan Machlin, who died in 1867 at the age of twenty-
two, leaving one child – Susan L.  In 1868 Mr. K. married Catherine Stough, a 
daughter of John Stough and a native of Dover Township.  To this union has been 
born one child – Henry A.  Mr. and Mrs. Kochenour are members of the Lutheran 
Church.