BIO:  William H. Manifold, 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, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 178

WILLIAM H. MANIFOLD, M. D., was born in Hopewell Township, September 5, 1830.  His parents, 
John and Marenda (Meads) Manifold, were natives of Pennsylvania and Maryland, and of English 
and French descent.  They had eleven children, of whom William H. was the eldest.  His early 
life was spent on the farm, and he received his education at the public schools, and at the 
Tuscarora Academy.  For six years he taught school.  From Tuscarora Academy he entered the 
Allegheny College at Meadville, in the junior class, but abandoned it on account of ill-health.  
In 1858 he entered Dr. Gerry’s office at Shrewsbury, and read medicine for six months.  He then 
went to the University of Maryland at Baltimore, and graduated as M. D., in the spring of 1861.  
He first located in New Market, Md.  In the summer of 1864 he went with the army as assistant 
army surgeon, and remained until the close of the war.  At one time he was ordered to take 
charge of the field hospital of the Thirteenth New York and Ninth New Jersey Cavalry, who were 
then fighting Mosby.  In May, 1865, he returned to Washington, and remained at the United 
States General Hospital.  He then returned to New Market, where he remained till 1866.  From 
there he removed to Loganville, where he practiced six years, and in 1872, he came to New 
Freedom, where he has since resided.  In 1859 he was married in Baltimore, to Margaret Ann 
Sheffer, a native of Shrewsbury, York County.  They had eight children:  John H. C. (now a 
student of Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg), Sarah E., Aaron B. N., Luther C., William J., 
Mary M., Joseph (deceased) and LeRoy W.  Mr. and Mrs. Manifold are members of the Lutheran 
Church, and Dr. M. is now serving his third term as school director.