BIO: DeLANCE Y. LENHART, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 388-389
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    DeLANCE Y. LENHART, a prominent hardware merchant at New Cumberland,
  Cumberland county, was born Aug. 1, 1878, in Hanover, York county, Pa., son
  of George H. Lenhart.
    
    George H. Lenhart was born at Harrisburg and for many years was agent for
  the Adams Express Company at Middletown, Dauphin county. He removed his
  family at a later date to Hanover where he was agent for Chase's nursery
  stock, of Philadelphia. He died in 1886, aged sixty-one years. During the
  Civil war he served three months as sergeant of Company K, 4th P. V. I. In
  politics he was a Republican, and in religious faith he was a Methodist. He
  married a daughter of Peter Sanders, the patentee of Sanders' crimping
  machine, used in the manufacture of shoes, who was a man well known in the
  vicinity of Harrisburg. At the time of his death he was the oldest member of
  Capital City Lodge, I. O. O. F. He was a native of Lancaster county. His
  nephew, Hon. Dalvin Sanders, was chairman of the Lancaster county Democracy
  and was elected to the Legislature. He now resides at Landisville, Lancaster
  county. Mrs.
    
    CUMBERLAND COUNTY.	389
    
  Lenhart died at Freeland, Md., while on a visit to a daughter, Mrs. Robert F.
  Swartz, March 28, 1901. The children of George H. Lenhart and his wife were:
  George S., a newspaper man, correspondent for six of the leading New York and
  Philadelphia journals at Atlantic City, married (first) Helen McLaughlin and
  (second) Lillie Powell; Harry S., of York, city editor of the York Dispatch,
  married Vira Cherry, of Springfield, Ohio; Horace A., a merchant at
  Middletown, married Carrie Daugherty; Bessie F. is Mrs. Robert F. Swartz, of
  Emigsville, Pa.; Carrie S. is Mrs. George M. Mathias, of Marysville, Pa.;
  DeLance Y. is mentioned below; Walter H. is in the Pennsylvania Steel Works.
    
    DeLance Y. Lenhart first attended the public schools at Hanover, but after
  his father's death his mother removed to New Cumberland, where he completed
  his education at the age of fourteen years, or rather his youthful attendance
  at school ended. Dependent largely upon his own resources, he then learned the
  tinning and slating trade, serving three years. His active mind, however, led
  him into literary work, and he became a reporter for the Harrisburg News and
  the Commonwealth, remaining in this connection three years. He then bought
  the tinning business and hardware store of his brother, in 1899, in New
  Cumberland, and has since carried on the business.
    
    In New Cumberland, in 1898, Mr. Lenhart married Clara W. Ross, of New
  Cumberland, daughter of the late George and Maria Hall (Neff) Ross. They have
  two children, Marian and Dorothy. In politics he is a Republican. In religious
  belief he is a Methodist. His fraternal connections are with the Knights of
  Malta and the Jr. O. U. A. M., and he is also a member of the Daughters of
  Liberty.