BIO:  John C. Sunday, 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, Manchester Township, Pg 144

JOHN C. SUNDAY was born in Dover Township, November 21, 1855.  His parents were 
Jacob and Louvina (Cochenauer) Sunday, who were natives of Dover and of German 
descent.  They had eight children, of whom two sons and two daughters are living, 
John C., being the eldest.  Until his seventeenth year he lived on the farm and 
enjoyed a common school education, and began learning the trade of carriage-
making and smithing with Mr. Gross, in Dover Borough.  He learned the trade and 
worked at it, together with dealing in merchandise, for about five years.  In the 
fall of 1877 he came to Manchester, and began manufacturing carriages, wagons, 
phaetons and buggies, and is doing good and solid work.  He employs six first 
class mechanics.  In February, 1877, he married in Berlin, Adams County, Alice E. 
Hantz, daughter of Joseph Hantz, and a native of York County.  Two children have 
been born to them:  Carlton P. and Harvey James.  Mrs. Sunday belongs to the 
Reformed Church.  Mr. S. has retired from farming.