BIO:  Henry YINGLING, Gettysburg, 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 377-378

HENRY YINGLING, proprietor of the “Eagle House,” Gettysburg, was born in 
Uniontown, Carroll Co., Md., November 24, 1831, a son of David and Elizabeth 
(Hiteshew) Yingling.  His ancestors were among the early immigrants to America.  
David Yingling, an early settler of Maryland, was a builder and contractor, and 
of his ten children Henry is the third.  Our subject grew to manhood in his 
native county, where he received an academic education.  At the age of nineteen 
years he entered a store in Baltimore City, as a clerk, and as such served eight 
years, a part of which time he was employed at Hagerstown, Md.  In the year 
1855, at the latter place, he embarked in the dry goods business, which he 
continued until 1858, and from 1858 to 1863, was proprietor of the Washington 
Hotel in the same city.  In 1866 he bought a farm of 230 acres in Franklin 
County, Penn., known as the “Monterey Summer Resort,” which he successfully 
managed until 1876, from which time until 1878 he successfully carried on a 
summer resort hotel.  In 1878 he came to Gettysburg and took charge of the 
“Eagle House.”  In 1863, Mr. Yingling was married to Mrs. Pitt, nee Mary Adams.  
Mrs. Yingling had one child by her first husband, Anna Pitt, who is now the wife 
of Edgar Hoover, of Baltimore.  In politics Mr. Yingling is a Democrat.