BIO:  Robert F. Stabler, 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, Hopewell Township, Pg 116

ROBERT F. STABLER, son of Jared and Margaret J. (Koller) Stabler, of Shrewsbury 
Township, was born in Shrewsbury Township, York Co., Penn., September 26, 1851.  
His father was born in 1820, and carried on the lime business in York County for 
a number of years, subsequently removing to Railroad Borough, where he engaged in 
milling and dealing in grain, which occupation he still follows.  Robert F. 
received his education at the public schools of the township and at the academy 
of Shrewsbury and New Freedom.  In 1869 he began learning the milling trade in 
his father’s mill at Railroad Borough, where he remained until 1872, when he 
engaged in railroading and farming for three years.  In 1875 he came to Hopewell 
Township, and engaged in milling.  He remained there five years, after which he 
went to Stewartstown, and kept a feed store for three years, and then went back 
to Ebaugh’s Mills, where he has since resided, having charge of a grist and saw-
mill.  He was married, in 1871, to Artilda Kunkel, daughter of A. W. Kunkel, of 
Shrewsbury Township.  They have six children:  Charles W., Clara L., Addie E., 
Minnie S., Daniel A. and Mary Ann.  Mr. Stabler is a member of the Brotherhood of 
Stewartstown, and his wife is a member of the Lutheran Church.