BIO:  Lewis N. Schriver, 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 182

LEWIS N. SCHRIVER, liveryman, was born in Hanover, Penn., December 22, 1848.  His parents, 
Henry C. and Maria (Felty) Schriver, were of German descent, and reared four children, of whom 
Lewis N., is the youngest.  Up to his fifteenth year he remained in Hanover attending the 
public schools.  At fifteen years of age he left home without the consent of his parents, and 
enlisted at Baltimore, in Company K, First Maryland Cavalry, and served sixteen months, and at 
the close of the war was corporal of the company.  Nearly all the time he was in the Shenandoah 
Valley.  Returning to Hanover he began learning the cigar-making trade.  He then went to Pine 
Grove, where he clerked in his brother’s store for a year and a half.  In 1868 he came to Glen 
Rock, and engaged in manufacturing cigars, but after two years engaged in the livery business, 
which he has followed since, also dealing in horses and mules.  January 17, 1871, he married, 
in Glen Rock, Sarah J. Miller, daughter of E. R. Miller, of Goldsboro, Penn.  They had two 
children, one of whom died, aged seven or eight years.  The other is Bertha.  Mr. Schriver was 
constable for three years, is a member of the K. of P., and was an original stockholder in the 
Glen Rock Manufacturing Company.