BIO:  Hugh W. Ramsay, 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 167

HUGH W. RAMSAY, third son of Robert and Jane (Whiteford) Ramsay, was born in Harford 
County, Md., February 11, 1827, his parents were of Irish and English extraction, 
and their children were reared on a farm, now a part of the borough of Delta.  The 
subject of this sketch was educated at the common schools and at the age of twenty-
three began the trade of a carpenter, at which he worked four years.  He then 
embarked in the mercantile business at West Bangor, and with the exception of two 
years on a farm, has remained in business at Delta, Philadelphia and (since 1876) at 
Delta Station, of the York & Peach Bottom Railway.  At about twenty-eight years of 
age he married Priscilla Hatton, a native of Lancaster County, and has two children 
living:  Edgar L. and Eliza P.  He is an Odd Fellow, and has held several offices in 
the township and borough, as judge of elections, councilman and supervisor.  He is 
not connected with any church.  His father is still living and is one of the few 
surviving “Old Defenders.”