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FRANZ ANTON HINDERBERGER, a well-known citizen of Plymouth township, was born August 31, 1850 in Waschbeiren, Wurtemberg, Germany. He is the son of Joseph and Anna Mary Hinderberger. Mr. Hinderberger came to America in 1867 and settled in Brownsburg, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and later located in West Philadelphia, where he engaged in butchering, and in 1875 removed to Newtown, and later to Richboro, both in Bucks county, and in 1882 to Blue Bell, in Whitpain township, and followed farming. In 1884 he purchased the farm on which he now resides (the Charles Roberts place) and has lived there ever since. He is a member of the St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran church of Centre Square, and is a Democrat in politics.

Mr. Hinderberger married in 1875 Carolina Beisswanger of Philadelphia, daughter of John J. and Catherine (Holzworth) Beisswanger. Their children: Anna Catharine, married Alexander Vogel, they having one son, Anton Alexander; Henrietta Danfield, married Robert C. Snyder, the couple residing in Philadelphia and having one son, Ellwood Anton Snyder; Maggie Elizabeth (deceased); Sadie Fredericka and Lillian Carolina

The father of Mrs. Carolina, wife of Franz A. Hinderberger, was John J. Beisswanger, who was born in Germany in 1814. He died in Philadelphia in 1899. He was a carpet weaver, and followed that trade in Philadelphia. Catherine Holtzworth, his wife, was of German parentage, her father, a blacksmith, having died on the passage to this country. Mrs. Hinderberger’s paternal grandfather came to this country with six children, four sons and two daughters, all of whom are dead but one, Christian Beisswanger, now living in Philadelphia.