BIO:  Henry E. Stein, 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 Windsor Township, Pg 130

HENRY E. STEIN, son of Henry and Julia A. (Slenker) Stein, was born September 23, 
1827, and is of German descent.  He lived upon the home farm until he was 
eighteen years of age, when he began the carpenter’s trade with Jacob Streavig, 
with whom he remained two and a half years, working one year as a journeyman.  In 
1849 he began business on his own account, and since that time has erected about 
175 churches, dwellings, barns, etc.  In 1849, also, he married Elizabeth, 
daughter of Elizabeth and Jacob Gohn, of Lower Windsor.  To this union have been 
born four daughters and one son, viz.:  Julia A., wife of J. W. Deringer, of 
Yorkana; Mary, wife of Henry May, same place; Eliza Jane, William H. and Amanda.  
Mr. Stein owns about ten acres of land, on which he has erected a fine dwelling 
and other buildings.  He has served as township auditor and also as trustee of 
the Evangelical Church, of which, with his wife, he is still a member.