Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Stiner, Henry 1823 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

HENRY STINER. This highly respected farmer of Columbia Township, Tuscola County,
who was born October 22, 1823, in Bloom Township, Columbia County, Pa., is a son
of John and Rebecca (Sharp) Stiner. The grandfather, Henry Stiner, was born in
Berks County, Pa., where he was a farmer, and his grandfather came from Germany.
He was three times married and the grandmother of our subject, whose maiden name
was Beaver, had two children. They were members of the German Reformed Church.
The father of our subject was born in Berks County, Pa., and there resided all
his life, carrying on farming. His children were five sons and four daughters.
His wife was born in the same county as her husband, and was a daughter of Peter
Sharp, also a native of Berks County, and a farmer, who had a family of one son
and two daughters. Henry Stiner was a life long Republican and an earnest
believer in the doctrines of that party.

  Our subject was brought up on a farm and having received a common-school
education began at the age of nineteen to learn the trade of a shoemaker which
business he followed for twenty-five years. Upon the 17th of February, 1864, he
enlisted in the Second Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery and took part in the battle
of the Wilderness and of Petersburg, losing eighty-one men out of his company in
the latter engagement. On the 6th of July he was wounded in the right leg by a
sharpshooter and this injury has made him lame from that day to this. He
received his honorable discharge from Turner's Lane Hospital at Philadelphia,
March 16, 1865, and for two years could not work at his trade on account of his
disability.

  In May, 1867, Mr. Stiner came to Michigan and bought forty acres of land on
section 29, later buying eighty acres where he now lives, and his property has
increased until he at present owns two hundred acres of line land, all but
twenty-five of which he has cleared and improved. He started out with no means
except his own native talents and persistence and has attained to a handsome
property.

  Upon the 10th of June, 1847, Henry Stiner was united in marriage to Hannah
Kline, daughter of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Lemon) Kline. Of their six children
two died in childhood and four have grown to mature years, namely: Francis A.,
James W., William E., and Parvin F. The mother of this family was a devoted
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and died December 4, 1883, of heart
disease. Mr. Stiner is an active Republican in his political views and has voted
the Republican ticket steadfastly ever since 1856.


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Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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