BIO:  Chester C. Richey, 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, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 180

CHESTER C. RICHEY, born in Shrewsbury, April 12, 1848, is the youngest of the family 
of five sons and two daughters of Robert and Margaret S. (Dinkle) Richey.  At the 
age of eight he began cigar-making, and since 1865, when he began business for 
himself, he has been engaged in the manufacture of cigars, either on his own account 
or as a journeyman.  In 1880 he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked a year, 
then returned to his native borough, and in 1881 started a factory, which he has 
since conducted, manufacturing 350,000 cigars annually.  He was married in 1870, at 
Shrewsbury, to Elizabeth Hofacker, who died in October, 1879, leaving two children:  
Claudie and Harry.  He was next married at Hametown, October 23, 1881, to Millie 
Anstine, daughter of Emanuel Anstine, and they have had two children; Elsie E. and 
Beulah Jane.  Mr. Richey was educated in his native town.  He is a Mason.