BIO:  Henry WILDESIN, Franklin 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, Pages 414-415

HENRY WILDESIN, farmer, P.O. Arendtsville, was born in Franklin Township, this 
county, October 20, 1823.  Samuel Wildesin emigrated from Germany, and settled 
first in York.  Jacob, his son, afterward came to Adams County, and settled in 
Franklin Township, on the South Mountain.  He was thrice married; first to Miss 
Becker, who bore him four children:  John, Susanna, Jacob and Eve.  The second 
wife was Betsy Carbaugh, who also became the mother of four children:  Samuel, 
Peter, Mary and Lydia.  The third wife was a Miss Tressler, who had one son 
(George) and two daughters, and who survived her husband several years.  John, 
the eldest son by the first wife, was the father of our subject, and was born in 
York County February 2, 1794.  He married Susannah Potter, and by her had two 
children:  Henry (our subject) and Eliza E. (married Jacob Schlosser and bore 
him five children, three now living).  Henry was reared on a farm and, October 
31, 1848, married Julia E. Fisher, whose parents, Abram and Elizabeth (Benner) 
Fisher, were also old residents of Adams County, and some of their name are men 
of note.  They reared a family of seven children:  Susannah M., Julia E., 
Catharine J., Sarah H., Samuel, and Abram and Isaac (twins).  Sarah Walter was 
the second wife of Abram Fisher, and bore him seven children:  Delilah, Thomas, 
George, Elias, Henry, Hannah and Lydia A.  Of the fourteen direct descendants 
nine are yet living.  Mr. Wildesin has served as school director, and was for 
many years an elder in the German Reformed Church, of which both he and his wife 
are members.  Four children have blessed their union:  George and an infant son 
(both deceased), John A. and Susannah E. (living and both married).  John 
married Margaret Pitzer, and they reside near his father.  Susannah E. is the 
wife of Aaron M. Heiges, one of the prominent families of this county.  Her 
father, Abram Fisher, died in 1885, at the advanced age of ninety-one years, the 
last of a noble name.