BIO:  Henry H. Spahr, 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, Dover Township, Pg 96

HENRY H. SPAHR was born in Warrington Township, August 28, 1834, and is the sixth 
of the nine children of George and Rebecca (Myley) Spahr, both natives of York 
County.  The father was a miller and farmer, owned 142 acres of land in 
Warrington Township, and died in 1873, at the age of seventy-seven.  Our subject 
was reared on the farm until nineteen, when he went to Chicago and clerked a year 
and a half; on his return he taught school seven terms in Warrington, Dover and 
Paradise Townships; in 1876 he was elected justice of the peace for Dover, and 
still holds the office; in 1859 he married Miss Rosa M., daughter of Dr. F. E. 
Melsheimer, of Dover Township.  Mr. Spahr is owner of twenty-five acres of 
improved land in Dover, on which he resides.  He is an active Democrat, and with 
his wife is a member of the Lutheran Church.