BIO: Henry Hertzler, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                              CHAPTER LIX.

                         UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP.

568  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  HENRY HERTZLER, farmer, P. O. Shepherdstown.  In 1850 Rudolph and 
Mary (Shupp) Hertzler came from Lancaster County, Penn., and settled 
one mile north of Givler's mill, in Monroe Township, this county.  They 
had five children:  Henry, Mary and Elizabeth (twins), Esther and Levi.  
Rudolph Hertzler died September 4, 1855, and in 1861 his widow married 
Jacob Mumma.  Our subject spent his boyhood days on a farm, and when 
twenty-one years of age began clerking in a grocery store in 
Indianapolis, Ind., where he had gone on a pleasure trip.  When he 
returned to Cumberland County he accepted a position with J. A. 
Kauffman, in Mechanicsburg, continuing in that position until his 
marriage, January 7, 1873, with Naomi J, daughter of Jacob and Sarah 
(Zane) Emminger, of this county.  Mr. and Mrs. Hertzler the next year 
commenced housekeeping on her father's farm, remaining there nine 
years.  In 1882 Mr. Hertzler made his first purchase of and, buying 
what was then known as the Milton Stayman tract, and which was finely 
improved and located near schools and churches.  Although a young man 
our subject has for a number of years been officially connected with 
the schools in his township.  Mr. and Mrs. Hertzler have four children:  
Hugh L., born October 9, 1876; Frank Revere, born July 16, 1878; Paul 
Mervin, born November 2, 1882, and Mary E., born July 10, 1884.  Coming 
from such an honored ancestry on both sides of the parents of these 
children have reason to feel proud of their lineage, and the 
completeness of their family history equals, perhaps, that of any in 
the land.