BIO: David C. HENSAL, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 771 & 772.
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  DAVID C. HENSAL, who has been a lumberman all his mature life, for a number of 
years has been a resident of Bigler township, Clearfield county, where he owns 
forty acres of valuable coal land at Glen Hope, together with a half dozen 
houses and about thirty lots at Madera.  He was born March 20, 1833, seven miles 
west of Gettysburg, Adams county, Pa., and is a son of John and Anna (Coshun) 
Hensal, and grandson of Jacob Hensal.  Mrs. Anna Coshun Hensal's mother was a 
Conover, a sister to the wife of the old Commodore Vanderbilt.
  John Hensal was of French and German ancestry.  He followed tailoring as his 
occupation all through life.  He married Anna Coshun, who was born in 
Pennsylvania, and they had the following children:  David C.; Hannah Mary, who 
married Ephraim Bittinger; Jane, who married Reuben Kuhn; and James, Charles, 
Amos, Emory and John.  Mrs. John Hensal died about twenty-five years ago.
  David C. Hensal never had other than the rather meager educational 
opportunities offered by the district school.  He has been more than usually 
successful as a business man and owns a large amount of property in Pennsylvania 
and in association with others is interested in the development of other tracts.  
He is in partnership with Allison O. Smith and John R. Scott, in the ownership 
of 3,000 acres of coal land in Somerset county, Pa.; and with the latter in 
2,000 acres in the same county, under lease, and owns also 200 acres also in 
Somerset county and forty acres of coal and timber land in Clearfield county; 
also fifty acres in Bigler township, Clearfield county, together with his above 
mentioned residence properties at Madera, Pa., and two houses at Belsena, 
Clearfield county.
  Mr. Hensal was married in 1854 to Miss Margaret Mullin, a daughter of George 
and Sarah Mullin, who came from Ireland to Clearfield county and settled at Glen 
Hope.  Mrs. Hensal died at Madera, September 20, 1909, and her burial was in the 
Cross Roads cemetery.  To Mr. and Mrs. Hensal the following children were born:  
George, John, Thomas, Blanche, Cora, Mary (deceased), Sadie (deceased), Sherman, 
Amos and David (deceased).  Of the above family, Cora is the wife of John O. 
Stanley.  Mary, who is the wife of Charles Flynn, was a victim of that terrible 
catastrophe, the Johnstown flood.  Sadie was accidentally drowned at Madera.  
Mr. Hensal is a Republican in his political views.  He was reared in the 
Methodist Episcopal church.