BIO: Henry F. Waggoner, 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 LIV.

                        NORTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP.

526  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  HENRY F. WAGGONER, carpenter, P. O. Carlisle, was born in Perry 
County, Penn., January 8, 1841, son of Henry W. and Elizabeth (Wagner) 
Waggoner, natives of Pennsylvania and of German lineage.  His father in 
early life was a carpenter, but in later years followed farming.  Henry 
F., the sixth in a family of twelve children (eleven of whom attained 
maturity), was reared on the farm, attending the common school.  He 
worked with his father on the farm until he was eighteen, when he 
learned the carpenter's trade, and followed this occupation until 1872, 
when he bought the farm of 97 acres, all improved land, in this 
township, from which he lately retired to follow his trade, his sons 
carrying on the farm.  The Waggoner family is prominently identified 
with the history of this county, the grandfather, Abram Waggoner, being 
an early settler and widely known; he served as a soldier in the war of 
1812.  During the late Rebellion, Henry F. Waggoner entered the army, 
in 1862, as a teamster in Col. Hunt's reserve heavy artillery, and 
served all through the Peninsular campaign, and until after the Pope 
campaign; then returned home to assist on his father's farm, while his 
brothers were serving as volunteers in the Army of the Potomac; then, 
in 1863, his brother B. F.'s term having expired, the latter took the 
place, at home, of our subject, who enlisted in the army and served to 
the close of the war.  He was in the Two Hundred and Ninth Regiment 
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the battles of 
Fort Steadman and Petersburg.  In politics Mr. Waggoner is a Democrat.  
He has been inspector and constable of this township four years.  He 
was married, in 1868, to Rebecca, daughter of Phelix and Margaret 
(Minich) Swigart, and this union has been blessed with eight children:  
Angeline C., Elmer K., Estella J., Ida M., Loris F., Alvin B., Cora 
Ellen (deceased), and Althea Idene.