COLUMBIANA COUNTY OHIO - BIO: HENNING, George Frederick (published 1925)
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History of Ohio, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume III, Page 443

        GEORGE FREDERICK HENNING.  Among the men who have been conspicuous
as leaders in agricultural enterprise, business and civic affairs in
Defiance County, one of the best known is George Frederick Henning, of
Hicksville, president of the Farmers State Bank.
        Mr. Henning has spent most of his life in Defiance County, but was
born in Columbiana County, Ohio, August 6, 1863, son of Frederick and Lena
(Hilderhoff) Henning. His father was born in Baden, Germany, March 17,
1831, and when sixteen years of age came with his brother to the United
States. He located in Portage County, Ohio, where he married Lena
Hilderhoff, also a native of Germany, who came to the United States at the
age of twenty. They were married in 1856. Frederick Henning was a cabinet
maker by trade, and followed that occupation for a number of years. In 1871
he settled on a farm in Portage County, and in the fall of 1877 moved to
Defiance County, where he lived until his death. He was an active member of
the Lutheran Church, was a past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and a democrat in politics. These parents had seven children:
Anna, wife of Frank Drulard, of Detroit; Maggie, wife of Buell Jacques, of
Hicksville; Carrie, wife of Benson Miller, of Kalamazoo, Michigan; Susie,
wife of Charles Banks; George F.; Henry, a resident of Oregon; and Hattie,
wife of O.H. Hanville, of Dekalb County, Indiana.
        George Frederick Henning was fourteen years of age when the family
moved to Defiance County. He grew to manhood on the home farm, attended the
district schools, and as a young man he married Miss Lizzie Brinck, of Mark
Township, Defiance County. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and was
brought to Ohio when a child.
        After his marriage Mr. Henning located on a farm along the
Hicksville and Defiance Pike. While living there he was elected a member of
the County Board of Commissioners, and served six years. In 1900 he bought
a farm southeast of Hicksville, and moved thereon in 1901. He gave his
attention to the management of this fine place of 175 acres in Hicksville
Township, a property he still owns, but since 1917 has lived in Hicksville.
His time and attention are now devoted to the Farmers State Bank.
        Mr. Henning has two sons, both highly educated and typical young
men. George F., Jr., graduated from Ohio State University and was county
agricultural agent of Mercer County, Ohio, located at Celina. He resigned
this office to reenter the Ohio State University, where he is now taking a
post-graduate course. William L., the younger son, is also a graduate of
the State University, and is now teaching in the University of
Pennsylvania. The family are members of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Henning is
a democrat, and belongs to all the York Rite Masonic bodies in Defiance
County, and is also affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks Lodge at Defiance.


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