Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Ettinger, A. W.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Middletown Township


   A.  W. ETTINGER retired farmer, P.O. Langhorne, was born 
in Falls township, Bucks county, July 13, 1807.  His 
parents, John and Hettie (Shaw) Ettinger, were natives of 
New Jersey and of German origin.  His father was a farmer 
and spent most of his life on a farm in Bucks county.  He 
had a family of fourteen children.  Our subject was reared 
on the farm and attended the district school.  At the age of 
16 he went to Hulmeville to learn the blacksmith's trade 
with John Phillips.  He worked at his trade until 1842, when 
he rented a farm and since then has devoted his time to 
farming.  He bought the farm he now owns in 1861.  He was 
married March 1, 1832, to Ann, daughter of Jonathan Randall, 
of English origin.  Mrs. Ettinger died in 1864.  Of their 
five children only one is now living, Jonathan R., who was 
born July 21, 1834, attended the common schools and has 
followed the business of farming all his life, with the 
exception of five years when he was engaged in merchandising 
in Doylestown.  He was married March 15, 1860, to Theresa, 
daughter of Amos and Eliza (Duckworth) Cape.  Her father was 
a farmer and of English descent.  They have three children:  
Hiel G., Emma and Lillian.  Hiel G. married Elizabeth Ely, 
daughter of Joseph Ely.