BIO:  E. H. Shirey, 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

E. H. SHIREY, born in Springfield Township, November 4, 1842, is the second son and third child 
in a family of seven children of Isaac and Sarah (Haines) Shirey.  At the age of eighteen he 
began to learn the trade of miller, at which he continued until the age of twenty-one, when he 
worked about a year at cigar-making.  At twenty-four he entered the employ of Jacob Winemiller, 
a merchant of Stewartstown, remaining one year, after which he drove a huckster wagon one year 
for Albert Miller, and about two years and a half for himself, and then engaged in farming two 
years.  He next moved to Lebanon, Penn., remained there four years, then engaged in a general 
merchandise business at Felton two years.  April 1, 1879, he came to Hametown, and embarked in 
the mercantile business, continuing until January 1, 1884.  He is at present engaged in the 
manufacture of cigars.  He was married, January 23, 1870, to Louisa, daughter of Ambrose 
McGuigan, of Hopewell Township, and has five children:  Bernard W., Oscar C., Annie V., Mabel 
A. and Helen B.