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Note: There is no birth certificate. He told me he was born on a farm in Newbe rry Twsp.., York, Co., Pa. In the 1900 census (E.D. 13, sheet 3, line 6 4) he is enumerated in the family of Annie M. Seiders and his birth date g iven. Names of his parents are given in his marriage records. He said that he grew up on a farm in Newberry Twsp., northern York Co., P A. He told me he went to a one room school and never went to high schoo l. The 1900 census says that at age 12 he had attended school for eight m onths but this may be an error. He then lived with his mother in a rent ed house in New Cumberland. He married in 1910 and in 1911 lived on Nor th George Street in York. The marriage is recorded in the Clerk of the Or phans' Court of York Co., No. 22953. Recorded at York Co. Court House, ma rriage license docket, book 2D, p. 248. In 1917 they lived on South Geor ge Street and the York Directory shows him as a car salesman. For a bri ef period they lived in Chicago where he worked for Firestone Tires a nd I was born there. His uncle Horace A. Kline was in Chicago in 1930 a nd it may have been him who drew my father there. They came back to Yo rk and lived with my grandmother Mann at 728 South Pershing Avenue. My gr andmother died soon after. We remained in the house, where I grew up a nd my parents lived the rest of their lives. My father sold automobiles m ost of his life. At times he owned used car lots, some coupled with gas s tations, where I worked as a boy. He was a Protestant. He used to sing quietly and rather poorly, mainly gospel s ongs. One song I remember well: "I know a fairy land, far, far away, whe re they serve ham and eggs, three times a day. And OH how those eggs do s mell. And OH how those farmers yell, three times a day." He died of heart failure during an attack of appendicitis.
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