BIO: John HILDRUP, 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, page 290.
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  HILDRUP, THOMAS, a native of England, came to America and settled at 
Hartford, Conn., in 1766, where he learned the trade of a jeweler, and 
carried on that business there during the remainder of his active life.  
He was an influential citizen of the place, and was appointed and 
served as postmaster of Hartford for several years.  He had five sons:  
John, Joslin, Thomas, William and Jesse, and two daughters.  Jesse 
Hildrup spent his life as a tanner and shoemaker in Middletown, and a 
farmer in Danbury, Conn., and died in Belvidere, Ill.  His wife was 
Sophia Turner, of Middlefield, and their children were:  William T., a 
sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume; Mary, who married Rev. 
S. C. Howe, a Methodist clergyman; Jesse, a lawyer of Chicago, Ill.; 
Martha and John, a machinist in the car works at Harrisburg.