BIO:  Joseph Menges, 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, Franklin Township, Pg 107

JOSEPH MENGES was born in 1830 in Jackson Township, York Co., Penn., son of 
Daniel and Elizabeth (Bullinger) Menges, of York County, Penn., and owned three 
fine farms in the county, but retired from active life several years before his 
death, in 1839, at the age of seventy-four years.  The father, Daniel, was 
brought up on the farm, and in 1841 he removed to Adams County, and purchased 170 
acres of improved land, and forty acres of woodland.  He had a family of five 
children:  Joseph, Henry, Susannah, Emanuel and Franklin.  Joseph Menges went to 
Adams County with his parents in 1841, when only eleven years old, and worked on 
the farm until he was twenty-five years old.  In 1855 he removed to York County, 
where he now resides, and possesses about 105 acres of finely cultivated land, 
and twenty acres of woodland, the greater part of which he made by his own 
industry and economical habits.  Like all of the Menges family, he belongs to the 
Lutheran Church.  In 1855 he was married to Elizabeth Coulson, daughter of 
William Coulson, of Adams County.  They have five children:  Sadie, Mary, Alice, 
Marshie and Josie.  Mr. Menges takes an active part in school and township 
affairs.