BIO:  Albert C. Lightner, 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

ALBERT C. LIGHTNER was born in Manchester Township, January 24, 1855.  His 
parents, George and Anna Mary (Ebert) Lightner, were natives of York County, and 
of German descent, and had two sons and one daughter.  Albert C. is the second 
and only one of the three now living.  He grew to manhood on the farm, was 
educated in the common schools of West Manchester Township, supplemented by a 
thorough course in York Academy.  He was married in West Manchester Township, 
December 24, 1878, to Isabel E. Sprenkle, a native of that township, and daughter 
of George W. Sprenkle, farmer, and of German descent.  February 28, 1879, he 
removed from West Manchester to his farm where he now resides.  His farm is 
situated in Manchester Township, about one mile north of York, and was bought 
from Penn by one of Mr. Lightner’s great ancestors, and has remained in the 
Lightner family ever since.  He was brought up in the Lutheran Church, and 
belongs to that denomination in York, Penn.  He is a Republican in politics, 
devotes his entire time to the farming interest, and is one of the educated 
farmers of York County.