BIO:  Adam Kohr, 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, Manchester Township, Pg 140

ADAM KOHR, born in Emigsville, November 14, 1834, is the eldest son of Lewis and 
Rebecca (Westhafer) Kohr, natives of York and Dauphin Counties, and of German 
descent.  His father was a miller, farmer, distiller, tavern-keeper, etc., in his 
time, and died in 1861, aged sixty-four years.  Adam Kohr was educated in the 
public schools of Emigsville, and has always followed farming.  He was married at 
York, January 18, 1859, to Mary Fink, a native of York County, and the daughter 
of John Fink, of German descent.  They have had two children:  Eli, died in 1875, 
aged sixteen years; and Llyman F., a school teacher and student at Newark, N. J., 
Commercial School.  Mr. Kohr is a member of the church of the United Brethren in 
Christ, and has been trustee of Bethany Chapel, Emigsville, since 1871.  He was 
director of the poor of York County from 1877 to 1880, and is an active Democrat.  
He removed to his present place of abode, an eighteen-acre farm, from an 118-acre 
farm, which he still owns near Emigsville.  He also owns a small farm in Newberry 
Township.  He has one brother in Illinois, and one in Michigan.