. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . burg, and their children were Edward Kurtz, d. a. p.;Helen Elizabeth, married William H. Lyter; andAnnie Maria. BENJAMIN F. ETTER. Benjamin F. Etter, lawyer of Harrisburg, and ex-deputy attorney-general of Pennsylvania, was bornat Middletown, Dauphin Co., Sept. 29, 1824. He ob-tained his earlyeducation at the Middletown Acad-emy. At the age of twenty-two began reading lawwith James Fox, a lawyer of Harrisburg, and was ad- A. and Barbara A. (Keller) Snyder, of Lancaster,
. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . burg, and their children were Edward Kurtz, d. a. p.;Helen Elizabeth, married William H. Lyter; andAnnie Maria. BENJAMIN F. ETTER. Benjamin F. Etter, lawyer of Harrisburg, and ex-deputy attorney-general of Pennsylvania, was bornat Middletown, Dauphin Co., Sept. 29, 1824. He ob-tained his earlyeducation at the Middletown Acad-emy. At the age of twenty-two began reading lawwith James Fox, a lawyer of Harrisburg, and was ad- A. and Barbara A. (Keller) Snyder, of Lancaster, father was a relative of Governor Snyder. Theirsurviving children are Charles F., clerk in the FirstNational Bank of Harrisburg; Nannie E.; and GeorgeE. Etter, a student in Princeton College. His parents,George and Nancy (Shelly) Etter, died at Middletown,the former in 1850, aged sixty-seven ; the latter in1826, aged thirty. His grandfather, Abraham Etter,settled in Dauphin County, from Lancaster, about1800, where he died, and was of German origin. Hismaternal grandfather was Abraham Shelly, of YorkCounty, Pa. *. mitted to practice on Nov. 24, 1851. He opened aJaw-office in Harrisburg the same year, and has beenengaged in general practice in the civil courts of thecounty and State since, a period of thirty-one Etter was appointed and served for six years asdeputy attorney-general under Attorney-GeneralWilliam M. Meredith, and for a short time under At-torney-General Benjamin H. Brewster. His safe andjudicious opinions as a counselor, his integrity andfidelity to his clients, and his uncompromising desireto defend the wrong and encourage the right havegiven him a high reputation in the profession. Hemarried, in 1857, Catharine A., daughter of Charles A. K. K. Fahnestock, son of Obed Fahnestock(1770-1840) and Anna Maria Gessel (died 1842), wasborn July 12, 1806, at Harrisburg, Pa. He was de-scended from Diedrich Fahnestock, one of the earliestsettlers
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