BIO:  Andrew Leib, 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, Hopewell Township, Pg 114

ANDREW LEIB, son of John and Mary (Perkey) Leib, of Hopewell Township, York Co., 
Penn., was born April 8, 1821.  His grandfather, Christian Leib, a native of York 
County, was in the Revolutionary war, and came to Hopewell Township after the 
war.  He settled three miles from where his grandson now lives, and took up and 
purchased about 1,500 acres of land.  He left four children.  Andrew Leib, our 
subject, was born on the homestead, and is the second son in a family of twelve 
children.  He was married, in 1852, to Rachel Wilson, daughter of William and 
Margaret Wilson, of Hopewell Township, and settled near Stewartstown, where he 
purchased a farm.  Subsequently he removed to his present farm of thirty-four 
acres.  They have three children:  Mary, Margaret J. and Sarah E.  Mr. Leib was 
school director for ten years.  He and his wife are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church.