BIO:  Daniel Landis, 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, Monaghan Township, Pg 148

DANIEL LANDIS, son of Jacob Landis, of Upper Allen Township, Cumberland County, 
was born January 4, 1829.  He was married, October 14, 1851, to Barbara Ann, 
daughter of Joseph Solenberger, of Dickinson Township, Cumberland County.  This 
lady died March 22, 1853, the mother of one son, who died at the age of twenty-
one years and nineteen days.  Our subject began for himself by doing days’ work 
for about six years, and then farmed on shares for Jacob D. Mohler, near 
Mechanicsburg, for twelve years, then moved to that village and worked in the 
warehouse of T. B. Bryson; from the spring on 1872 until the fall of 1873 he 
farmed for C. B. Hertzler, near Shepherdstown, Cumberland County, and then 
bought, from the executors of Mrs. Mary Kinsley, a farm that had been deeded, in 
1746, to Roger Cook by Thomas and Richard Penn.  April 10, 1874, he took 
possession of and still resides on this farm.  He also leases to H. O. Shelly a 
magnetic ore mine of about eight acres.  Mr. Landis’ second marriage took place 
February 6, 1855, to Mary Ann, daughter of Henry Miller, of Mechanicsburgh, and 
to this union have been born one son (who died at the age of five years five 
months and seven days, and two daughters:  Ellen and Nora.  Mr. and Mrs. Landis 
are members of the German Baptist Church, of which Mr. Landis is a deacon, and 
which he joined at the age of fifty years.  The maternal great-grandfather of Mr. 
Landis came from Switzerland; he landed in America August 29, 1730, from the ship 
Thistle, which sailed from Glasgow, Scotland.  His paternal ancestors came from 
Holland.