Levi Chronister had 3 children from his first wife and none from his second; lived Reading Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania and Franklin Twp, York County, Pennsylvania. [1]
"Levi Chronister was born in Adams County, Penn., in 1831, a son of Jonas and Margaret (Sowers) Chronister, of Adams and Cumberland Counties, Penn., respectively. His grandfather was a native of Adams County and a farmer, which occupation he followed until his death in 1836. His farm contained about 400 acres, and was situated in Reading Township, Adams County. He was drafted for the army in 1812. Jonas Chronister was a farmer and teamster. He owned several town lots in Hampton. Adams County, and a farm of thirty acres on which he lived. He died from an apoplectic stroke April 3, 1881, aged seventy-seven years. A brother of subject's grandfather was killed in the Revolutionary war. Levi Chronister remained on the farm until his seventeenth year. When the common school system was adopted in Pennsylvania he was one of the first teachers in Reading Township, Adams County, where he taught twenty-one terms. In 1853 he entered Dickinson Preparatory School at Carlisle, Penn., where he attended two sessions, about 300 students being then there. Before going to Carlisle he worked at blacksmithing, but being disabled by a kick from a horse, he in 1851 learned the trade of a wheelwright, at which he worked eleven summers, teaching school in the winter. He was elected justice of the peace in Reading Township, and held that office for fourteen years. In 1868 he moved to Franklin Township, where he engaged in teaching school, settling up estates, fire insurance, and served as justice of the peace. He was married, in 1856, to Amanda Picking, daughter of William S. Picking, of Dover Township. They have had two children: Albert W. (deceased) and William P. Mrs. Chronister died in 1864. In 1868 Mr. C. married Susannah Mumper, daughter of George Bollinger, of York County. Mr. Chronister has taught school for thirty-seven winter terms." [2]
[1] Gary Chronister, Notes on the Family of Johannes Chronister 1708-1782 (1983), 19.
[2] John Gibson, ed., History of York County Pennsylvania, Part II Biographical Sketches (Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing, 1886), 105, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].