BIO:  William Venus, 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, Hopewell Township, Pg 117

WILLIAM VENUS, son of Henry and Anna (Sykes) Venus, natives of York County and 
the north of England, respectively, was born in Shrewsbury Township, September 3, 
1843.  He was educated at the public schools of the township, and at the age of 
twenty-three years engaged as a clerk in a store, and one year later he removed 
to Carroll County, Md., where he engaged in the milling business with is father.  
In 1868 he returned to Shrewsbury and engaged in the carpenter business.  In 1870 
he again engaged in the mercantile business in Hopewell Township, and in 1875 he 
moved to Winterstown, where he opened a general store.  In 1877 he sold out and 
removed to Shrewsbury Township, where he engaged in his old business – store 
keeping.  In March, 1877, he removed to Hopewell Township, where he is at present 
engaged in keeping a store.  He was married, in 1870, to Elizabeth Gladfelter, of 
Shrewsbury Borough, and has six children:  James A., Charles H., Sadie B., Annie 
C., Daniel E. and an infant.