BIO:  William J. McCurdy, 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, Peach Bottom Township, Pg 165

WILLIAM J. MCCURDY, son of James and Martha (Hepburn) McCurdy, both 
natives of County Derry, Ireland, who immigrated to America in 1808, was 
born March 16, 1813, in Lancaster County, Penn.  His parents soon 
afterward removed to Peach Bottom Township, in York County.  February 
25, 1840, he married Alice J. Fulton, daughter of John Fulton, and has 
five children living:  James C., in Philadelphia; John F., in Chicago, 
Ill., William H., a physician of Delta, and two daughters, Alice and 
Guianna, residing with their parents.  He purchased the farm, on which 
he lives, in 1844, and by a judicious system of tillage has brought it 
into a high state of cultivation.  In 1880 he became engaged in the 
business of canning fruit and vegetables, which he has since then 
successfully carried on in connection with farming.  Mr. McCurdy has 
held the offices of supervisor, auditor and school director, is a Mason, 
and Odd Fellow, and a deacon in the Baptist Church.