BIO:  E. C. Masemer, 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, Paradise Township, Pg 160

E. C. MASEMER, son of Jesse and Catharine (Joseph) Masemer, was born January 18, 1854, in 
Hellam Township, and for the past twenty-two years has been a resident of Paradise Township 
(his father having purchased the mill property, where out subject now resides, in 1876).  Our 
subject began to learn this trade with Peter Kimkel, 1873, in Warrington Township, York county, 
and began business for himself in the spring of 1884.  February 10, 1883, he married Ida Ramer, 
daughter of Henry and Annie (Myers) Ramer, of Paradise Township.  One child was born to them – 
Ira.