BIO:  Henry B. Pfaltzgraff, 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, Manchester Township, Pg 142

HENRY B. PFALTZGRAFF was born in Manchester Township May 10, 1854.  His parents 
were George B. and Eleanora (Braumer) Pfaltzgraff, of Germany, who came to 
America soon after being married.  They lived in Baltimore one year, and then 
removed to Conewago Township, where they remained only a few years, and then 
removed to York Borough, where they lived several years, and then removed to 
Manchester Township, about three miles west of York, where the father died in 
1873.  They had a family of six sons and five daughters, Henry B. was the next to 
the youngest.  As he grew old enough he began the pottery trade with his father, 
but in 1869 he commenced to manufacture pottery on his own account.  For six 
years he manufactured red ware, and then removed his works to where they are now 
located, near the old homestead of his father.  He employs four hands in 
manufacturing stone ware, to the amount of from 50,000 to 100,000 gallons 
annually.  He receives the clay for his wares from New Jersey, and makes none but 
the best of goods.  He also runs a small farm of forty acres.  In 1878 he was 
married, at York, to Elizabeth Bentzel, who died September 25, 1881, leaving two 
children:  Lucy and Elizabeth.  October 2, 1882, he married, at Mount Wolf, 
Arabella Kohr, from which union two children issued:  Henry and Isaac.  Mr. 
Pfaltzgraff belongs to the Dunkard Church, is a Democrat in politics, and was a 
delegate to the county convention in 1883.