BIO:  David BAUMGARDNER, Highland Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 452

DAVID BAUMGARDNER, farmer, P. O. Fairfield, was born in Adams County, Penn., 
July 1, 1830, and is a son of John and Mary (Angel) Baumgardner, the former a 
native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Maryland.  David was three years of age 
when his parents moved to Carroll County, Md., where his father engaged in 
farming until his death.  He lived on the homestead in Maryland until 1863, when 
he returned to Pennsylvania and located in Fairfield.  Shortly after he move to 
Franklin County, where he resided three years and then moved to Hamiltonban 
Township, this county, where he bought property and resided three years.  He 
then bought a small farm in Franklin Township, on which he lived eighteen months 
and moved to his present place in 1872, where he owns thirty acres of land.  He 
was first married, in 1854, to Catherine Wolf, who bore him four children:  
Louisa Adelaide, married and living in the county; John S., married and moved to 
Ohio; Catherine E., married and moved to Florida, and William D., married and 
moved to Ohio.  Mrs. Baumgardner died in 1862, and our subject’s second marriage 
took place in 1863, with Hettie Musselman, to which union five children were 
born:  Amos M., Hettie V., Laura, Elmer J. and Samuel R.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Baumgardner are members of the Lutheran Church.  Politically he is a Republican.  
Our subject has one brother, named Samuel, and three sisters:  Maria, Elizabeth 
and Susann.  He was drafted into the Union Army in 1864, and August 6, of that 
year, he supplied a substitute at a cost of $830.