BIO:  Charles L. TRONE, 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, Hanover Borough and Penn Township, Pg 70

CHARLES L. TRONE was born in what is now Penn Township, York County, October 24, 
1848; is a son of Charles and Mary (Reed) Trone, and is of German-English 
descent.  He is one of six children living in a family of fifteen.  The father 
of Mr. Trone was also born in York County, and his mother in Baltimore City, Md.  
His father was a machinist, and lived and died in York County.  Our subject was 
brought to Hanover Township by his parents when one year old, and was here 
educated at the public schools.  He remained at home until twenty-one years of 
age, and then began for himself.  For a number of years he was in the lumbering 
business, and then learned the upholsterer’s trade and carried on that business 
nine years.  In 1863 he was su??r of the Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers.  
Coming home he resumed his former business, and at that continued until 1880, 
when he began the grocery business, and this he still continues.  In 1869 he 
married Miss Mary Swartz, a native of York, and daughter of Peter and Elizabeth 
Swartz.  To this union have been born four children, three of whom are living:  
Curtis J., William S. and Lizzie M.  Charles S. is deceased.  Mr. Trone is a 
Democrat, a member of the school board, a Mason, and with his wife a member of 
St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church.