BIO:  Nevin M. WANNER, 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, York Borough, Pg 53

NEVIN M. WANNER, attorney at law, was born at Washingtonville, Ohio, May 14, 
1850.  He entered Heidelberg College, at Tifflin, Ohio, in 1866, and after 
remaining there two years went to Franklin and Marshall College at Lancaster, 
Penn., from which institution he graduated in 1870.  In that year he entered the 
law department of the University of Pennsylvania, where he remained two years.  
He read law under Erastus H. Weiser, of York, Penn., and Gen. B. F. Fisher, of 
Philadelphia, Penn., and was admitted to the bar at York, August 28, 1872, since 
which time he has been in active practice, and is now one of the leading lawyers 
of York County.  He is a Democrat, and one of the leaders of that party in this 
county.  He was married, in 1882, to Amelia D. Croll, a native of York County, 
and daughter of John R. Croll, deceased.  Mr. Wanner is a member of the Reformed 
Church, and Mrs. Wanner of the Lutheran Church.