Shawnee County KS Archives Biographies.....Hackenberger & Family, George W.  
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Author: Biographical Annals of Lancaster Co., Pa., 1903 by J. H. Beers & Co.

Source: Biographical Annals of Lancaster Co., Pa., 1903 by J. H. Beers & Co., 
page 633-634. 

GEORGE W. HACKENBERGER, a druggist and retired teacher in Bainbridge, Lancaster 
county, was born in that borough Dec. 9, 1835, son of Samuel and Mary (Custer) 
Hackenberger. 

Samuel Hackenberger was born in Conoy township, and his wife in East Donegal 
township; both died in Bainbridge, to which point they removed shortly after 
their marriage. They lived in Bainbridge the greater part of their lives, with 
the exception of six years spent at Maytown, and two years at Rowenna. Mr. 
Hackenberger began life as a farmer, and then became a manufacturer of cigars 
in Maytown. In 1847 he moved back to Bainbridge, and three years later entered 
the drug business, in which he continued until his death which occurred in 
1887, when he was aged seventy-nine years. Mrs. Mary Hackenberger died in 1881, 
at the age of seventy-one years. They were members of the Lutheran Church. He 
was a Democrat except during the war period, when he voted the Republican 
ticket. Of their children, John died at the age of fifty-four years; George W. 
is mentioned below; Mary A., who died in 1899, was twice married, first to John 
Groff, later to Philip Shaffer; Lavina became the wife of Lieut. Mullin, of 
Topeka, Kan.; Samuel, Jacob, Elizabeth and Catherine died young; Samuel (2) is 
a life insurance agent of Philadelphia. 

The paternal grandparents of George W. Hackenberger were George and Mary 
(Hollinger) Hackenberger, their grandfather born in Germany, and the 
grandmother in Lancaster county. They settled in that county, where they were 
farming people. When a very young man he took part in the Revolutionary war. 
The maternal grandparents of George W. Hackenberger were George and Elizabeth 
Custer, who came from Germany and settled in East Donegal township at an early 
day, engaging in farming. He died while still a young man, but his wife lived 
to be seventy-five years old. 

George W. Hackenberger was married, in Elizabethtown, in September, 1861, to 
Miss Mary A. Pence, and to this union came the following children: Walter, who 
died young; Iva N., who married N. R. Hoffman, lives with her father, and is a 
drug clerk; Lewis S., a coach builder and painter in Lancaster, married to 
Amanda Manning; George W., manager of two drug stores in New York City; Harry 
F., chief clerk in a drug house in New York City, who was with Gen. Miles in 
the Porto Rican campaign, as telegraph operator, 9th N. Y. Signal Corps. Mrs. 
Mary A. Hackenberger was born in Conoy township in 1842, daughter of William 
and Hettie (Snyder) Pence. Her father was born in Maytown, and her mother in 
Conoy township, and they were farming people all their lives. 

George W. Hackenberger spent the first eight years of his life in Bainbridge 
and Maytown, going to school, and then begin stripping tobacco and making 
cigars for four years at or near Rowenna. Then coming back to Bainbridge, he 
continued in the same work till he was twenty-six years old. At that age he 
began teaching school. In 1873 he received a teacher's permanent certificate 
from the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the late Hon. J. P. 
Wickersham. He followed this calling for thirty-four sessions, thirty sessions 
in one and the same school. He retired from teaching in 1897, to take entire 
charge of his drug store, in which his daughter Iva had been clerk, while he 
was teaching in the school room. Mr. Hackenberger became a druggist in 1878 and 
is now (1902) still engaged in that business. He was elected twelve times as 
auditor of Conoy township, for three years each. He is a man of ability, highly 
respected in the community, and holding to a marked degree the confidence of 
the general public. Mr. Hackenberger is a member of the G. A. R. and of the 0. 
U. A. M. In politics he is a staunch Republican, and in religious belief a 
devout member of the Lutheran Church. He is one of the solid and substantial 
men of his community and well deserves a prominent place among the leading men 
of Conoy township, Lancaster county. 

Mr. Hackenberger had a somewhat brief but valuable military experience, 
enlisting in Co. H, 195th P. V. I., in February, 1865; he was discharged in 
January, 1866. He was made clerk in a general court martial, Department of 
Washington, where he was on duty for six months. While on picket duty during 
the closing days of the war, he participated in the picket line firing against 
the noted Col., Mosby's forces. His regiment was in the 3rd Brigade, 3rd 
Division, Army of the Shenandoah, under Gen. Phil. H. Sheridan. 




Additional Comments:
Biographical sketch refers to Topeka, Kansas.

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