BIO:  Daniel W. Leber, 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, Lower Windsor Township, Pg 130

DANIEL W. LEBER, Jr., son of Daniel and Anna Leber, of Lower Windsor Township, 
was born July 22, 1846, and until nineteen years of age passed his time in 
attending school, and assisting on the home farm.  In 1865 began milling at River 
View Mill and continued in the business about fourteen years.  In the spring of 
1879 he assumed charge of the old homestead, on which he still resides and which 
consists of forty-two acres, improved with a stone dwelling and bank-barn erected 
by himself and enriched with a mine of hematite, January 1, 1874, he married 
Mary, daughter of John Strickler, of Hellam Township, and by this union is the 
father of the following children:  John, Flora, Nettie, Charles Lester, Elsie, 
Daniel Wesley, Harry and Mary Ellen.  The parents are both members of the 
Evangelical Church at East Prospect, and are of German extraction.