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Henry M. Bitner was born in Fairview Township, York Co., Penn., April 24, 1823, son of
Samuel and Annie (Mish) Bitner, natives of Lebanon County, Penn., and parents of nine
children: Elizabeth (deceased), Margaret (deceased), Catharine, Anna, Samuel, John, Henry
M. Matthias and Sarah A. Subject’s father was born in 1786, and came to Fairview Township
in 1812, where he afterward owned a farm of 200 acres of land. He was a member of the
German Reformed Church, and died in 1857, aged seventy-one years. Henry M. was reared on
the farm, and after his father’s death, began farming for himself, and has since followed
that occupation, owning 126 acres of land in Fairview Township, and twenty-two acres of
timber land. His son now manages this property, which is the old homestead. In 1871, Mr.
Bitner moved to Cumberland County, Penn., where he now resides, and owns fifty-five acres
of finely improved land. In 1857 he married Rebecca Cassel, a native of Dauphin County, !
Penn., and by this union they have four children: William H., residing on his father’s
farm, in Fairview Township, and Samuel L., Joseph M. and Henry C., at home.
Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical
Editor