BIO:  Milton SULTZBACH, 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, Wrightsville Borough and Hellam Township, Pg 82

MILTON SULTZBACH was born in Hellam Township, December 26, 1839.  His parents 
were Frederick and Lydia (Gibson) Sultzbach, of Hellam Township, and Cumberland 
County, and of German and Scotch descent, respectively.  They had eleven 
children of whom they reared eight.  Milton was the third child.  He was 
educated at the public school and has worked all his life at farming, and in a 
tan yard.  At the age of twenty-five he began business for himself.  His father 
died August 17, 1863, aged forty-nine years, but his mother is still living and 
is now sixty-three years old.  Mr. Sultzbach belongs to an old family of 
pioneers, and is now residing on the same homestead, which had been in the 
family for many years, and always was handed down from father to son, as was the 
present tannery, of which Milton took charge in 1864, and which was established 
by his grandfather.  Mr. Sultzbach is a prominent member of the Masonic order 
and is universally respected.