My Genealogy Hound

PHILIP HANGEN, retired farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Center, Montgomery Co., Ohio. The subject of this memoir was born in Brissin, Germany, Nov. 3, 1817, and is a son of John and Margaret Hangen, natives of the same place. His father died at the age of 75 years and 11 months; his mother at the age of 45 years. Our subject assisted his father in the blacksmith-shop until he was 28 years of age, when he celebrated his marriage with Miss Catherine, daughter of P. and Mary (Yost) Herman, Aug. 26, 1845. He then began life for himself, and followed his trade for nine years in Germany, when he emigrated to this country, and landed in New York on the 9th or 10th of April in 1854; came to Ohio and settled in Miamisburg, where he lived one year, and then removed to near Gordon, in Darke County, and worked at his trade for a few years, and then moved to the place where he now resides in 1860. He now owns 170 acres of as fine land as is to be found in Darke County, all in a good state of cultivation. His improvements are No. 1 in every particular. When our subject left Gordon, in 1860, his worldly wealth consisted of $40 in money and a span of horses. Buying his farm entirely on time, he succeeded in paying the whole amount in about two or three years, an example of what can be accomplished when energy and good management are brought to bear on points of issue. He and his good wife are now in the possession of a good home, surrounded by all the comforts of life, and are resting from their labors, for their day’s work is done, and in the shades of retirement are enjoying their declining years. They are the parents of ten children, viz.: Phillip H., born Oct. 4, 1846; Christian, born March 15, 1850; John, born Sept. 2, 1853; Jacob, born June 26, 1855; William and Henry (twins), born July 4, 1857; Harmon, born Oct. 4, 1859. The deceased are Mary, born Aug. 17, 1848, nee Mrs. Henry Bridenbaugh, died Dec. 25, 1871; Catherine, born Nov. 26, 1851, died Jan. 18, 1855; Henry, died April 12, 1860. Mr. Hangen has filled the office of Trustee for four years. He and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church, and are good, Christian people. Their children are also members of the same church.