The Drawbaugh family is another accomplished Dover-area family .
Well, its most prominent member, Daniel Drawbaugh, actually lived in Cumberland County's Eberly's Mills, which isn't exactly Dover.
But give me a little geographical license and look in the phone book at all the Drawbaughs in the Dover area, and you'll see why "The Edison of the Cumberland Valley," can be claimed by Dover and the entire northwest sector of York County.
Inventor Daniel was engaged in legal fisticuffs with Alexander Graham Bell over rights to the telephone, as this story in "Never to be Forgotten" attests:
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