My Genealogy Hound

PHILLIP HASSINGER left Germany in 1819 and came to America with his wife and six children. They were the parents of twelve children, only six of whom, four sons and two daughters, grew to maturity. Phillip came to Pittsburgh, and rented a farm where the town of Etna now is (which was formerly Indiana township), where he remained one year; then rented a farm from John Miller, Esq., of the same township, where he remained for six years. He next purchased from James Ross, at a dollar an acre, 240 acres of land situated in Indiana township. Phillip was a wagon-maker by trade. Phillip, the oldest son, never married; he inherited one hundred acres of his father’s land, which, at his death, Sept. 20, 1870, reverted to his brothers and sister. Jacob, the second son, born in 1804, was a blacksmith by trade, and married Mary Richard, by whom he had ten children, six of whom are yet living. Jacob died in 1884, aged eighty years. George, the third son, a wagon-maker by trade, also a farmer, married Elizabeth Patton, who bore him six children, four of whom are living. Henry, the youngest son, married Eliza Marshal, who became the mother of ten children, three of whom are living. Henry died in 1886. He was by trade a blacksmith, and later a farmer. He owned forty-five acres of land, and resided on the old homestead; his widow survives him. Henry Hassinger is the oldest one of the name in the township. This family were members of the G. L. Church, and the men have all been democrats.