BIO:  Abraham HESSON, Mountjoy 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 484

ABRAHAM HESSON, P. O. Harney, Md., was born October 20, 1828, in Frederick 
County, Md.  The family is of German descent, and the grandfather, who came to 
America when a young man, settled in Carroll County, Md., where he farmed, and 
there died on the old homestead, aged ninety-five years.  Of his family of eight 
children Daniel, who was born in Carroll County, Md., became a farmer; was 
married to Magdalena, daughter of Michael Harner, who bore him seven children:  
Caroline, Barney, Catharine, Abraham, Daniel, James and Margaret.  Daniel 
Hesson, Sr., died in Frederick County, Md., aged eighty-two, and his wife in 
Adams County, aged seventy-four years.  Of their children Abraham was educated 
near home and spent his early years on the homestead.  At the age of nineteen he 
learned the carpenter’s trade, which he followed for seven years, when he 
returned to farming, which he still continues.  He owns, altogether, 140 acres 
of land, located in Adams County and Maryland.  Abraham Hesson was married to 
Miss Ann M., daughter of Abraham and Margaret (Mehring) Waybright, natives of 
Adams County, Penn. (the latter of whom is yet living).  Mr. and Mrs. Abraham 
Hesson have seven children:  Abraham W., John P., Mary C., Caroline C., Jennie, 
Jacob and Harriet.  They are both members of the Mountjoy Lutheran Church.  Mr. 
Hesson has ever been identified with the Democratic party and has filled 
different township offices of trust.