BIO: John FAGER, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, pages 194-195. 
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  FAGER, JOHN, son of John Jacob Fager and Rosanna Lutz, was born June 
10, 1768, in Oley township, Berks county, Pa.  His grandfather, John 
Henry Fager, born in 1714, in Germany, married Susanna M. Leuter and 
emigrated to America, settling in Oley township, Berks county, where he 
died in 1778.  His son, John Jacob, born 1738, in the Palatinate; died 
in 1815, at Harrisburg; married Rosanna Lutz, born 1739; died 1802.  
Their son John learned the trade of a hatter in Reading and came to 
Harrisburg about 1790, where for a number of years he carried on the 
business.  He was one of the founders of the Evangelical Lutheran 
church at Harrisburg in 1795; served as commissioner of the county of 
Dauphin, and for a number of years was a member of the town council.  
After retiring from active business, late in life, he was the collector 
of tolls at the east end of the Harrisburg bridge.  He died at 
Harrisburg on May 10, 1848, lacking one month of being eighty years of 
age.  Mr. Fager married Sarah Cleckner, born 1772; died 1844, at 
Harrisburg; daughter of Frederick Cleckner, Sr., one of the first 
settlers at Harrisburg.  They had ten children, of whom those reaching 
mature years were Sarah, married George Adams, of Harrisburg; 
Catharine, married Frederick Kelker, of Harrisburg; Samuel, George C., 
and Dr. John H.