BIO: Henry NEATER, 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, York Borough, Pg 37

HENRY NEATER, treasurer of York County, Penn., was born in 1836, son of J. 
Frederick and Willemina Neater.  His parents, natives of Germany, first came to 
Maryland, but in a very short time left Maryland and came to York County, Penn., 
where they lived until they died at an advanced age – nearly eighty years.  They 
had four children (one son and three daughters); they are all living in York.  
The son at an early age, fourteen years, went at his trade of blacksmithing at 
Mr. William Shetter’s, where he worked a few years, when he was employed by Mr. 
Palmer, where he finished his trade of coachsmith, and worked for Mr. Palmer up 
to the time he took his present office as treasurer of York County.  Mr. Neater 
is a straight-out Democrat, and has been from boyhood on.  He became a voter in 
1857, and has never missed a single election.  He cast his first presidential 
ballot for Stephen A. Douglas.  He has held the office of assessor and 
councilman, and in 1884 was elected treasurer of York County.  In 1857 he 
married Miss Annie Fahs, a native of York County, and eight children have been 
born them; two are dead.  The surviving ones are William H., Edward C., George 
B., Franklin, Frederick and Bertha.  Mr. Neater is a member of the I. O. O. F., 
and he and family are members of the United Brethren Church.