This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jE1.2ACEB/3600 Message Board Post: David H. Kister was born in Newberrytown, York County, Penn., September 2, 1830, and is a son of Jacob E. and Catherine (Hart) Kister, of York County. At the age of nineteen years he began to learn the cigar maker’s trade, which he has continued to the present day. He manufactures from 100,000 to 800,000 cigars per annum. He enlisted, in Harrisburgh, Penn., February 20, 1865n in Company K, One Hundred and Ninety-second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, to serve one year, or during the war, and was honorably discharged at the end of his term. On his return home he purchased several tracts of land, which he also cultivates. July 16, 1854, he was married to Mary J. Mills, of the same county, and daughter of James and Elizabeth (Miller) Mills, who was born July 2, 1835. To this union have been born eleven children: Elizabeth M., born July 1, 1855; Jane M., born March 7, 1857; Inza M., born March 11, 1859; Ellsworth M., born May 4, 1861; Catherine M., born June 2! 9, 1863; John M., born October 6, 1865; Mary M., born March 1, 1868; Annetta M., born September 8, 1870; Charles M., born January 11, 1873; Gertrude M., born March 20, 1875; Lulu M., born March 21, 1878; all living. Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical Editor