BIO:  John Shepp, 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, Manchester Township, Pg 144

JOHN SHEPP, son of John and Elizabeth (Slagle) Shepp, of German descent, was born 
in West Manchester Township, Christmas day, 1834, and is the eighth child of a 
family of sixteen children – eight sons and eight daughters – six of whom are yet 
living.  He remained at home until eighteen years of age, when he began to learn 
the trade of a miller with G. W. Lightner, at Brillinger’s Mill, continuing three 
years as an apprentice and afterward worked there for a period of nine years as 
chief miller.  For a number of years he worked in the Codorus Mills and in 1871 
took charge of Myers’ Mill on the Codorus Creek for P. A. & S. Small, and has 
shown great skill and ability in managing its interests ever since.  He was 
married at the age of twenty-one, in Manchester Township, to Leah, daughter of 
Anthony Dessenberg.  Their children are as follows:  Henry C., cigar-maker; 
Susanna, wife of Franklin Dillinger, a miller; Mary Ellen, wife of Henry 
Strickler; Elizabeth Jane; John Wesley, a miller; Henry C., a teacher in the 
public schools.  Mr. Shepp and family are members of the United Brethren Church, 
of which he has been a class leader for twenty years, and served one term as a 
school director of his township.  He was one of the organizers and is a director 
of the Pleasureville Building and Loan Association and owns a fine property in 
that village.  John Shepp, father of our subject, was born in West Manchester 
Township in 1798; was a farmer, and died in 1856; subject’s mother was born in 
1801 and died in 1872.