BIO:  WILLIAM HIPPENSTEEL, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 806-807
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    WILLIAM HIPPENSTEEL, one of the highly respected citizens of Fairview, a
  deputy county constable, and the owner of a pleasant, comfortable home here,
  was born April 9, 1854, in Pine Grove, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania.

    John Hippensteel, his grandfather, was born in Germany, and his three
  children were: Barbara, who married and is living at Mount Alto, Pa.;
  William; and John (2), the father of our subject.

    John Hippensteel (2) attended the local schools in his boyhood, and as soon
  as able to work, began the business of charcoal burning, which he followed in
  Pennsylvania and Maryland for some seventeen years, understanding the whole
  management of the charcoal pits, a business with many details and which
  requires close and careful attention. He married Sophia Davis, daughter of
  James Davis, a native of Ireland, who later lived in the vicinity of Burnt
  Cabins, Fulton county. After his marriage John Hippensteel lived for a short
  time in Cumberland county, and then went to Maryland, where he followed his
  trade until the spring of 1872, at which time he returned to Cumberland
  county. He died at Fairview in December, 1894, and was buried at Zion
  Lutheran Church. His wife died in 1886, and was interred at the same place.
  They were members of the Methodist Church. In politics he was a Republican.
  Their children were: Samuel, who was employed by the government, died aged
  seventeen years; James, who married Jennie McCombs, lives in Harrisburg;
  William is mentioned below; Charles Theodore, who married Sallie McCombs,
  sister of his brother's wife, lives at Fairview (she died in 1894); Denton
  O., who married Sallie Glessy, lives in Harrisburg, and is in the iron
  business; Elmer lives at Steelton, where he is a member of the police force.
  Sherman, who married Catherine Staller, is a butcher at Steelton; Annie
  married Robert Irwin, an iron worker in Clearfield county; and Samuel, who
  married Annie Hoffman, is an iron worker at Clearfield.

    William Hippensteel attended the common schools until eleven years of age,
  and then went to work in an ore bank in Maryland, and continued working in
  iron ore until he was seventeen years old, when he came to Fairview, and
  learned heating and puddling in the furnaces here. This hard work Mr.
  Hippensteel followed industriously for twenty-nine years, accumulating a
  competency that enabled him to buy a comfortable home at Fairview in 1883.

    On June 4, 1876, Mr. Hippensteel married Margaret Seidle, who is a daughter
  of Gotleib Seidle, of Cumberland county, and they have had these children:
  Edward, born April 26, 1877, took a course at a business college, and now has
  a position as material man at Lenota; Mary died when seventeen months old;
  Clinton died when seven years

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  old; Annie, born Aug. 26, 1882, married John Koffman, a railroad man, and
  they live at Jersey City; George, who is learning the blacksmith trade, lives
  at home; Virgie, Nora, Laura, and William, Jr., complete a pleasant, united
  family.

    In politics Mr. Hippensteel is a Republican. In 1903 he was appointed to
  the office of deputy constable and he was reappointed at the expiration of
  his first term. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Eureka
  Lodge, No. 203, A. F. & A. M., of Mechanicsburg, and Harrisburg Consistory,
  thirty-second degree, of Harrisburg.