BIO:  Z. B. Toomey, 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

Z. B. TOOMEY is a native of Conewago Township, was born February, 1847, and is a 
son of John and Henrietta (Core) Loomey, being the third in a family of eleven 
children.  He was reared until eighteen years of age on the home farm in Newberry 
Township when he enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Ninety-second 
Pennsylvania Volunteers.  He was engaged in the battles of Winchester, Culpepper 
Court House, Cedar Creek, Woodstock and various minor engagements, and at the end 
of eleven months returned to the farm.  He next engaged in the cigar business at 
Newberry, where he enjoyed a very lucrative trade.  In 1883 he took charge of a 
hotel at Dover, which he conducted in connection with the cigar business for two 
years.  In 1872 he married Catherine Nailor, a native of West Manchester 
Township, and a daughter of Daniel Nailor.  To this union were born four 
children:  William L., Amanda E., Anna L., and Louisa (deceased).  Mrs. Toomey 
died in 1881, at the age of twenty-nine, and in 1882, Mr. T. married Miss Emma 
Leathery, a native of Dover Township.