BIO: Samuel Hess, 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 LVI.

                        SILVER SPRING TOWNSHIP.

540  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  SAMUEL HESS, farmer, P. O. Mechanicsburg.  The Hess family, who 
originally came from Germany, settled in this country at a very early 
date.  The Christian name of the grandfather is not known, but he was a 
substantial farmer in Lancaster County, Penn.  He had two sons, Michael 
and Christian, and he went to York County and bought each of these sons 
a fine farm.  Michael (father of our subject) was born in Lancaster 
County, Penn.; married Barbara Leib, of the same county, and after 
marriage moved to the farm in York County, which had been the gift of 
his father.  To this couple were born five children:  Abraham, John, 
Samuel, Michael and Annie.  Mr. Hess was a careful farmer, and owned 
one of the finest farms in the whole county; he was accidentally 
killed.  Samuel Hess, his son, was born in York County, Penn., August 
11, 1818.  He was very young when his father died, and lived with his 
mother until his marriage, March 20, 1845, with Miss Catharine Bitner, 
of York County, daughter of Samuel and Annie (Mish) Bitner.  This union 
was blessed with three children:  Annie, Henry and Barbara.  Mr. Hess 
bought his present homestead about the year 1858.  In 1876 Henry Hess, 
his son, married Miss Annie M., daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth 
(Morrett) Bobb, and to this union have been born three children:  Amos 
E., Berttie M. and Lizzie R.  The entire family have won the respect of 
their friends and neighbors for sterling worth, industry and honesty.