BIO:  George Lichtenberger, 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

GEORGE LICHTENBERGER, retired farmer, is the son of George and Mary (Laucks) 
Lichtenberger, and was born in Manchester Township September 8, 1829.  He was 
reared on the home farm and attended the public schools.  He married Phebe M., 
daughter of Samuel and Ann (McGary) Prowell, of Fairview Township, the result of 
the union being six children:  Carrie (deceased), Edward, William, Maggie, Annie 
and George (deceased).  Our subject’s paternal grandfather, Casper Lichtenberger, 
married Catherine Nieman, who bore him the following children:  George, Rudolph, 
Benjamin, Henry, Samuel and Eva.  Our subject’s mother is still living at the 
ripe age of eighty-five, and is the mother of the following children:  Henry, 
Sarah (deceased), Margaret (deceased), Elizabeth (deceased), Samuel, Mary 
(deceased), Leah, Jesse (deceased) and George.