BIO:  Zachariah 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

ZACHARIAH KOHR, born near Emigsville, August 18, 1851, is the youngest of ten 
children of Lewis and Rebecca (Westhafer) Kohr.  He was reared on a farm near 
Emigsville, and educated at the common schools, until twenty years of age, when 
he began work at the trade of shoe-making, which he has followed since in 
connection with the cultivation of a farm of seventy-seven acres.  His mother 
resides with him.  He was married in York County, November 14, 1876, to Dollie 
Smith, daughter of Jacob Smith.  They have two children:  Allen Jacob and Edward 
Lewis.  He is a member of the church of the United Brethren in Christ, and is 
treasurer of the church at Emigsville.  In politics he is a Democrat.