AREA HISTORY:  Stores of Lewisberry, 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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STORES OF LEWISBERRY, Pages 632

Stores.—Eli Lewis, in the mercantile business, was succeeded by Robert Hammersly 
who kept store for many years.  For a period of half a century Lewisberry became 
a great center of trade and several stores prospered; among the names of many 
persons who engaged in the mercantile business down to date are Lewis & Harlan, 
Hugh Foster, William Nichols, Elijah Garretson, Lewis Meridith, William P. 
Nebinger, Joseph Updegraff, M. G. Einstine, George Blymire, Herman Kirk, R. T. 
Starr and John Meisenhelter.