BIO: JOSEPH L. YOTER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 474-475
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     JOSEPH L. YOTER, one of the well-known citizens of West Pennsboro township,
  Cumberland county, was born in that township in 1846, a son of Hezekiah and
  Catherine (Bear) Yoter, and a grandson of John Yoter.
    
    John Yoter came from Taneytown, Md., to Cumberland county, in 1802,
  settling on the Alexander farm in North Middleton township, very close to the
  noted cave which is a historical landmark. Later he bought a farm near
  Shippensburg, where he died, leaving three sons: Josiah, who died in the
  West; John G., who died at Shippensburg; and Hezekiah. The latter was born in
  Maryland and was twelve years of age when he came to this county. He finished
  his education in Cumberland county and then settled
    
    CUMBERLAND COUNTY.  475
    
  down to farming in the vicinity of Carlisle. He married Catherine Bear,
  daughter of Samuel and Lydia Bear, formerly of Lebanon county, but later of
  Cumberland county, and then bought a farm of 223 acres in North Middleton
  township which he operated from 1861 until his death, which occurred in
  February, 1870. His children were: Maria, a resident of West Pennsboro
  township; John C., who died in North Middleton township; Hezekiah, who died
  in Plainfield; Fannie, who died in South Middleton township; Samuel B., who
  died in North Middleton township; Joseph L., of this sketch; Charlotte C.,
  deceased in North Middleton township; David W., a resident of Chambersburg,
  Pa., and Benjamin, died in infancy.
    
    Joseph L. Yoter was reared and educated in West Pennsboro and North
  Middleton townships, and in young manhood learned the blacksmith's trade in
  North Middleton township, and then became interested in farming. In 1869 he
  married Caroline Waggoner, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Waggoner, of
  Frankford township. They lived on the old homestead farm for two years and
  then moved to Dickinson township, where they lived two years more, and where
  Mrs. Yoter died in December, 1873. Mr. Yoter, in 1874, came to Plainfield and
  lived with his mother until her death, in 1895. For twelve years he followed
  threshing and worked by the day, making a very good income.
    
    In 1896 Mr. Yoter married (second) Anna M. Finkenbinder, daughter of
  Jonathan and Nancy Finkenbinder, and removed to his ten-acre farm in
  Plainfield. The two children born to his first marriage were: Elizabeth C.,
  who married Joseph Barrick, died at Greason, this county, aged thirty years;
  John H., of Plainfield, married Mina Stickle.
    
    In politics Mr. Yoter has always been a Democrat, and he has served as
  supervisor and as a member of the election board in his township. He is a man
  very highly respected, at home, in his church, in business, and as a citizen.
  He and his family belong to the Plainfield Lutheran Church, where he is
  superintendent of the Sunday-school, and he is a liberal supporter of all its
  charities and missions.