Columbia County PA Archives Biographies.....HASSERT, Magdalena (Mrs. George) unknown - living in 1899
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  MRS. GEORGE HASSERT. The subject of this sketch, a highly respected lady,
  resides at her home on the corner of Catherine and Fourth streets, Bloomsburg,
  Columbia County, Pa. She is the widow of George Hassert, who was born in
  Reichensachsen, Hesse-Cassel, Germany, November 5, 1824, and was a son of George
  and Elizabeth (Wagner) Hassert.
  
    George Hassert, Sr., was a native of Germany and made his native country his
  home all his life.
  
    George Hassert, Jr., was well educated in the schools of his native town and
  his youth was spent working in a mill and learning the trade of millwright which
  he followed some time. At the age of twenty years he enlisted as a soldier in
  the German army and served six years, during which time he participated in the
  war between Denmark and Germany in 1848; during the storming of Dabbelar Fort,
  in Denmark, he received a wound by a saber in the forehead and chin. He was also
  in the regular army at Baden, engaged in suppressing the rebellion, and was
  stationed at Carlsruhe. In 1851 he left the army and came to the United States,
  locating in Philadelphia, where he again took up his trade, which he followed
  until 1856. In that year he moved to Bloomsburg and followed his former
  occupation as millwright until 1875, when he entered into partnership with Peter
  S. Harman, a born mechanic, and began operating a foundry and machine shop. They
  purchased the Barton farm upon which they erected a building 50 by 60 feet and
  began the making of Eclipse cooking stoves and heaters, and the Montrose plough.
  Their trade increased so rapidly that they were obliged to enlarge their
  establishment and, accordingly, in 1880 they built a large addition and began
  the manufacture of mining cars and castings, and machinery for constructing and
  operating mines, also a repair shop. The shop is equipped with the latest and
  most improved machinery; faces East street and is three hundred feet square; it
  gives employment upward to sixty men whose work is of the highest order. George
  Hassert was one of the energetic and industrious business men of Bloomsburg and
  amassed a fortune.
  
    George Hassert on February 12, 1854, was married to Magdalena Decker, who was
  born July 15, 1829. Her parents were Joseph and Christina (Pensal) Decker, both
  natives of Germany, where her father operated a farm and saw-mill until his
  death which occurred at the age of fifty-three years. Her mother died aged
  eighty-three years. They were the parents of seven children, Jacob, deceased;
  Joseph; Florein, deceased; Phillipena; Charles; Christina; and Magdalena, our
  subject, who came to the United States in 1852. To Mr. and Mrs. Hassert were
  born the following children: Charles W., a machinist in the shops of Harman &
  Hassert, who wedded Martha Hartman. They are the parents of two children, Annie
  and Pearl; Henry, of Bloomsburg, was first united in marriage to Mary Echard,
  who died leaving two children, Ira and Ray,—his second marriage was with Alice
  Earl and one child, Magdalena, blessed the union; Annie; Lizzie, wife of Edward
  Sleppy of Kingston, Pa., and they had two children, Grace and Madeline, Grace
  died in 1889, aged fifteen years; Emma, the wife of Charles Erath of
  Wilkesbarre, Pa.,— to this union two children have been born. Bertha and
  Stanley; Ella, wife of William Armstrong of Bloomsburg, and they have one child,
  Martha; George, a bookkeeper of the firm of Harman & Hassert, wedded Carrie
  Wilson who bore him three children,—Lee, Eunice, who died aged three years, and
  Martha, who died aged three years and eight months.
  
    The demise of George Hassert occurred at Bloomsburg, October 26, 1889, the
  result of neuralgia of the heart. He was greatly mourned because he was loved
  and respected by all who knew him and he was a man widely known and esteemed for
  his integrity, honesty and uprightness, both in social and public life. He ever
  strove for the suppression of evil and the doing of good. He was a kind father
  and husband, and the esteemed lady whose name heads this sketch lost a dear
  companion at his death.
  
  
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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
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