BIO:  Henry S. Overmiller, 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, Hopewell Township, Pg 115

HENRY S. OVERMILLER, son of Frederick and Mary (Snyder) Overmiller, natives of 
Hopewell Township, but later residents of Loganville, was born in Loganville, 
Penn., August 2, 1844, and is the twelfth in a family of thirteen children.  He 
was reared and educated at Loganville, and remained with his parents until 1865, 
when he engaged in the mercantile business at Hartley Postoffice, where he 
remained two years, doing a thriving business.  In 1867 he engaged in farming in 
Windsor Township, but exchanged the farm in the fall of the same year, and moved 
to a farm near Dallastown, where he remained eight years, and in connection with 
farming followed the mercantile business and huckstering.  He then went to 
Dallastown Station, on the Peach Bottom Railroad, where he again engaged in the 
mercantile business, and was also postmaster and agent of the York & Peach Bottom 
Railroad.  He remained there two years, and in 1878 moved to Virginia, where he 
purchased a farm, which he cultivated for three years.  He then moved back to 
York County, Penn., and purchased a store at Mount Pleasant, Hopewell Township, 
where he has since resided, and has built up an extensive business.  He also 
works a farm of twenty-two acres.  He was married, in 1865, to Hannah M. 
Althouse, daughter of George Althouse (deceased), of Hopewell Township.  They had 
seven children:  George F., Oscar H. (deceased), Virginia L., Daniel W., Wilburt 
F., Tyburtus J. and Sivlanus.