BIO:  John 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

JOHN SHENK, boatman and farmer, son of David and Magdalena (Brown) Shenk, was 
born March 16, 1846, and lived at home with his parents until the age of sixteen, 
when he engaged in boating on the Susquehanna and Tide Water Canal.  He continued 
this occupation until 1880, when he settled on a farm of ninety-three and one-
half acres, which he had some time before purchasing in Lower Chanceford, and 
engaging in cultivating it.  He was married, February 13, 1878, to Mary C. 
Poteet, daughter of Jesse Poteet.  Their children are Jesse and Beatrice Myrtle.