BIO:  George Lehmer, 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, Franklin Township, Pg 107

GEORGE LEHMER is a native of York County, and was born October 1, 1844, a son of 
Cornelius and Eve (Koch) Lehmer, of York County.  His grandfather, Philip Lehmer, 
also of York County, was a farmer, owning about 500 acres of land in Washington, 
Franklin and Carroll Townships.  Cornelius Lehmer was also engaged farming, and 
is still living in Carroll Township.  He had seven children:  Mary, George, Leah 
(deceased), James (deceased), Philip H. and Andrew J.  George Lehmer was brought 
up on the farm, assisting his father until the age of sixteen years, when he 
enlisted, October 1, 1862, in Company D, Eighty-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, and with his regiment engaged in the battles of Fredericksburg and 
Chancellorsville, where he was wounded in the right arm; he was in the 
engagements of Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, North Ann River, 
Petersburg, Mine Explosion and Richmond.  At the close of the war he returned 
home, and in 1868 went to Michigan, where he served two years as an apprentice at 
carpentering; returning to York County, he followed painting and carpentering 
four years.  In 1872 he married Mary Klugh, daughter of Capt. John Klugh, one of 
the most prominent men of this township.  Mr. Lehmer became a partner with his 
father-in-law in the mercantile business himself, at which he has since been very 
prosperous.  In the spring of 1864 he and J. S. Bentz, of Carroll Township, went 
into business in Washington Township, thus making him one of the four leading 
business men of this section of the county.  In 1880 he was licensed enumerator 
of Franklin and Washington Townships, and in 1863 was appointed mercantile 
appraiser of York County.  He has had six children, five living:  Ralph F., 
Viola, Walter S., Hattie, Georgia (deceased), and Morris.