BIO:  H. T. SLAUGHENHAUPT, Germany 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 433

H. T. SLAUGHENHAUPT, photographer, Littlestown, was born April 17, 1846, in 
Taneytown District, Carroll Co., Md., and is of German extraction.  His 
grandfather, Jacob Slaughenhaupt, was a chair-maker near Taneytown, Md., and 
there died at a ripe old age; his wife, who was a Miss Newcomer, died there 
also.  They were parents of the following children:  Samuel, Catharine, Anna, 
Barbara, Susan and Margaret.  Of these Samuel, who was born near Taneytown, Md., 
died August 18, 1881, at Harney, Md., aged seventy-five; he was a shoe-maker in 
early life, but farmed the last thirty-five years.  He married Mary A. DeHoff, a 
daughter of Peter DeHoff, who was a captain in the war of 1812, and is the 
mother of ten children now living:  Ellen C., Emily J., James D., Maranda R., 
Sarah A., Samuel D., Mary E., Henry T., Albert L. and John William.  Of these 
Henry T. was educated in the common schools, and at the Eagleton Institute.  His 
early life was spent of the farm.  At the age of twenty-two he learned 
photographing, which he has since followed.  In February, 1875, he moved to 
Littlestown, this county, and has been here ever since.  Mr. Slaughenhaupt was 
united in marriage, October 12, 1875, with Miss Mary E., daughter of Rev. Louis 
A. Wickey, who was a son of Dr. Louis Wickey, a native of Switzerland, who 
gained considerable celebrity during the cholera epidemic in early years, having 
possessed the only remedy, which was effectually used against the disease in 
Washington County, Md., and York County, Penn.  This medicine is now made by H. 
T. Slaughenhaupt after the original formula.  To Mr. Slaughenhaupt were born two 
children:  Beulah E. and Louis Trueman.  Mr. and Mrs. Slaughenhaupt are members 
of the United Brethren Church.  He is a prohibitionist and an independent voter.  
For some years he has been a correspondent for a number of newspapers.