BIO:  William Reeser, 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 143

WILLIAM REESER was born in Manchester Township September 2, 1814.  His parents 
were William and Elizabeth (Shelley) Reeser, of Pennsylvania, and of German 
descent.  They reared a family of six sons and one daughter, of whom William Jr. 
was the third child, and second son.  He grew to manhood on the farm, and engaged 
in distilling.  In Newberry Township he learned the milling trade, and worked at 
it about six years.  In 1840 he was married, in Manchester Township, to Elizabeth 
Good, daughter of Henry good, a German.  They had eleven children, one, Mary, the 
wife of Tobias Quickel, died at the age of twenty-eight years:  Louisa, Mary, 
Henry, John, Eli, Amanda, William, Benjamin, Amos, Augustus and Edward.  Mr. 
Reeser was county commissioner from 1864 to 1867; is a very active Democrat, a 
very industrious man, and has besides his farm of 134 acres, considerable 
property.