BIO:  Daniel Shenk, 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, Lower Chanceford Township, Pg 126

DANIEL SHENK was born in Codorus Township, January 1, 1838, and is the son of 
David Shenk, who was born in 1816, at Spring Forge, Codorus Township, and who, 
March 22, 1837, married Magdalena Brown, subject’s mother, who was born in 
Codorus Township in December, 1813, and became the mother of six children:  
Daniel, Henry, Mary Jane, Sarah Elizabeth, John and William.  David Shenk was a 
forge-man by trade and died in 1879.  At the age of seventeen, Daniel Shenk began 
learning carpentering with Jarrett Borton, of Peach Bottom, and at the age of 
twenty-six, engaged in business on his own account in Lower Chanceford, as 
builder, and still continues in that occupation.  April 17, 1862, he married 
Elizabeth J., daughter of Harman Snyder, of Lower Chanceford.  To this union have 
been born seven children:  Eleanor Ann, John, David Herman, Sarah Alice, Emma 
Florence, Henry Francis and Lydia Louisa.  Mr. and Mrs. Shenk are members of the 
Pine Grove Presbyterian Church.