Reesor

The subject of this biographical notice is of German desent, his great-grandfather, Christian. Reesor, a Mennonite minister, going from Menheim to Pennsylvania, as the leader of a small colony, and settling in Lancaster County, where some of the family yet reside, the original homestead, a splendid farm of three hundred acres, being still in their hands. In 1801, the grandfather of our subject, Christian Reesor, junior, his father, Abraham Reesor, and three uncles, settled in Markham, county of York, where David Reesor was born on the 18th of January 1823. His mother was Anna Dettwiler, who was also from Lancaster … Read more