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While on a visit to my father, John Bare, of Mount Union, Penna., in the Fall of 1894, I found a letter in his desk addressed to him from Mr. H. O. Lamason, Number 26 Broadway, New York, dated November i6th, 1887, in which he said: "I am engaged in compiling the history of the Baer family, or that part of it which we find in York County," and asked that he give him any information he could of his own and the other members of the family. In answer to my question, asking if he made a reply, he said he had not. I said this would be well to know. We talked it over and he wrote down for me what he remembered of his ancestors, where they lived in York County, the names of some of his relatives, and where they lived. I wrote Mr. Lamason and inquired how he succeeded. As this was about seven years after the date of his letter, no surprise was occasioned by no receipt of a reply...