BIO:  Edward K. Seitz, 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

EDWARD K. SEITZ, born at Hametown, January 20, 1836, is the eldest son of a family of thirteen 
children of Samuel and Christiana (Klinefelter) Seitz.  He lived on a farm, attended the common 
schools and Shrewsbury Academy.  Beginning at the age of twenty-one, he taught school eight 
terms in the public schools of York County; has practiced surveying since 1865; has been keeper 
of the toll-gate at York & Maryland Line Turnpike since 1867; has manufactured hames since 
1869, besides managing his farm where he lives, about one mile and a half north of Shrewsbury.  
He was elected justice of the peace in 1883, by a large majority, although an active Republican 
in a Democratic township; was a candidate for recorder on the reform ticket in 1872, and was 
defeated by a small majority; is a member of the Republican county committee, and has been a 
delegate to the county convention at different times.  He was married, in 1864, at Glen Rock, 
to Miranda Miller, daughter of Samuel Miller, and they have eight children:  James Elmer, 
Lizzie Mary, Allen Harvey, Samuel Clayton, Henry Clinton, Charles Edward, Carrie Christiana and 
Alverta Miranda.  He is a member of the Evangelical Association; is superintendent of the Union 
Sunday-school at Hametown, and has been Sunday-school superintendent or assistant for thirteen 
years.