BIO:  Hugh Whiteford Ramsay, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Peach Bottom Township, Pg 168

HUGH WHITEFORD RAMSAY, son of Robert S. and Isabella R. Ramsay, was born in Peach Bottom 
Township, March 5, 1850.  He remained on the farm until 1883, having, most of the time, been 
engaged in teaching in the common schools.  He began teaching school in the district in which 
he resided, in 1867.  From that time on until 1883 he spent much of his time teaching and in 
attending the State Normal School at Millersville, Lancaster Co., Penn.  During the period 
spent as teacher he was engaged three years at Lititz, Lancaster Co., Penn., and two years in 
the schools of Harford County, Md.  He has given some attention to the study of law, and has 
acted as an attorney in securing pensions for disabled soldiers; was a member of Company A, 
Pennsylvania National Guards, and was stationed with a part of the regiment at Shenandoah, 
Schuylkill Co., Penn., June 13, 1875, at which place he remained until the suspension of the 
trouble, ten days later.  Since 1883 he has been engaged with the Equitable Life Insurance 
Company, of New York.  He is unmarried.