Overholser Family Association bulletin
(Periodical)

Semi-Annual

Semiannual, published in February and August.

Vol. 1 no. 1 (Feb 1979) -

Editor: J. Spencer Overholser (1979-80); Robert M. Overholser (1981); Jim Kehew (1982-88); Barbara B. Ford (1988- ).

Published: Oley, Pennsylvania; Freehold, New Jersey; Camp Hill, Pennsylvania; Wallingford, Pennsylvania.

Some pages are torn or otherwise hard to read. Best copy available.

Not yet available in PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) at this time. (12 Dec. 2005).

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Overholser (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Germany and Switzerland. One immigrant ancestor was Samuel Oberholtzer (d. 1748), who left Switzerland in 1727, and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Some Overholsers were Loyalists who immigrated to Ontario, Quebec, and Upper Canada; others moved to California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio, and Pennsylvania in the 1700-1800's. Later descendants and relatives also lived in British Columbia (Canada), England, and in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and elsewhere.

Also available on microfiche.

The Overholser Family Association was formed in 1906 by Martin Landis Oberholtzer and Charles Elmore Oberholtzer. Except for during the World War II years, the Overholser family has held reunions since 1906.