Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Hillegas, Effinger F.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Tinicum Township


   EFFINGER F. HILLEGAS merchant, P.O. Point Pleasant, is of 
German descent. His grandfather was a resident of Montgomery 
county, where his son, George W., was born in 1816. The 
latter was the senior member of the wholesale dry-goods firm 
of Hillegas, Drake, Bechtel & Co., of Philadelphia. Later he 
engaged in real estate operations, building blocks of houses 
in various parts of that city. He subsequently became 
proprietor of the St. Charles hotel, on Third street, 
retiring a few years before his death, which occurred May 
14, 1881. He had an inventive talent, and patented many 
useful articles. He married Sarah Ann Fisher, of Montgomery 
county, who is now living in Philadelphia. They had two 
children, Effinger F. and Leonore, wife of James Van 
Buskirk, M. D., of Philadelphia. Effinger F. was born in 
Philadelphia, January 6, 1850, and became a book-keeper, 
being for eighteen years in the employ of Michael Uhler, of 
Uhlertown. May 28, 1874, he married Emma Annie, daughter of 
M. Uhler. She was born in Uhlerville, Northampton county. 
They had one son, M. Uhler, who died in infancy. While with 
Mr. Uhler, he and his brother-in-law had a line of boats 
carrying coal between Mauch Chunk and New York, which he 
gave up in April, 1879. Since then he has been engaged in 
manufacturing lime, and dealing in flour, feed, hay, straw, 
coal, wood, plaster and fertilizers at Point Pleasant. Mr. 
Hillegas is a member of Tinicum Tribe, No. 168, I. O. R. M.  
He and his wife are members of the Baptist church, of which 
he has been trustee. He bears the repute of an honorable 
merchant and good citizen. In politics he is republican.