Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Hiteman, Henry & John ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 October 18, 2008, 5:30 pm Author: Hardin & Willard Hiteman brothers, Henry and John Hiteman, Winfield, are natives of Germany. Henry came to this country in 1863, and John came in 1870. They landed in New York in debt for their passage. Henry was fifteen years of age and John about sixteen years. Both worked at farming for a few years. Henry began the tannery business in 1869, and John in 1874, and then commenced the tanning business for themselves in 1884, and are still in business in West Winfield. They are sons of Conrad and Elizabeth Hiteman. Henry Hiteman married Louisa Mehner, of Ohio, and they have two children: William E., and Gertrude M. John Hiteman married Mary Huber who died in 1884, aged 27 years. He afterward married Mary Gula,by whom he has had two children: George J., and Edna P. Both families are residents of West Winfield. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/hiteman501gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb