BIOGRAPHY: Henry N. PETERS, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, page 699.

  HENRY N. PETERS, Reedsville, Mifflin county, Pa., was born in Snyder county, 
Pa., July 4, 1837, son of George and Elizabeth (Wagner) Peters.  His maternal 
grandfather was Adam Wagner, of German descent, who married Mary Knepp, and 
reared a family of eleven children.  George Peters learned tailoring at 
Selinsgrove with Mr. Beichtel.  He then worked by the day or week among the 
families of the different localities where he lived, until he came to 
Reedsville.  He was sexton of the East Kishacoquillas Presbyterian church for 
nine years.  George Peters was first married to Miss Deemer, and had children:  
Isaac, of Zanesville, O.;  and Betsy, widow of Isaac Whitman, of Belleville.  
Mr. Peters afterwards married Elizabeth Wagner.  Their children are:  Mary, 
deceased;  Louisa, deceased;  Levi, served under Captain Irwin, through the 
whole of the Mexican war, where he contracted a disease of which he died two 
months after his return, aged twenty-five years;  Aaron, married Sophia Beaver, 
deceased, had one child, he married again to Lavina Hassinger, has fourteen 
children, all living;  Harriet, married first William Hockenberry, who died, 
leaving one child, afterwards Edward Treaster, and they have two children;  
Jacob, died of small-pox in his seventeenth year;  Henry T.;  William, died soon 
after his marriage to Mary Fultz;  Polly Ann, married William Hulbrook, 
deceased, of Massachusetts, has four children;  George, married Sarah Camp, has 
one child, resides at Cold Water, Mich.;  Catherine, widow of Joseph Purcell, 
had three children, married again to John Wagner, and had four children, of whom 
two died in infancy.  The father, George Peters, died in 1875, aged eighty-four 
years.  His wife died in 1880, aged seventy-eight.  The Peters family is of 
Scotch lineage.
  Henry T. Peters acquired his education in the district schools of Brown 
township, and worked among the farmers.  When he was nineteen years old, he 
entered the employ of the William Mann Axe Company, where he worked for twenty-
seven years as polisher and wheel dresser.  In 1886 he retired from this 
business and is at present a mason and builder.  He is a Democrat.
  Henry T. Peters was married October 1, 1859, to Sarah M., daughter of Henry 
and Barbara (Houser) Wagner.  Their children are:  Barbara (Mrs. Joseph Kelley), 
of Reedsville, had seven children, one deceased;  John C., of Mill Hall, Pa., an 
axe-maker; Emma (Mrs. Harry Boyer), of Denver, Col., has one child;  Charles W., 
married Carrie Berger, of Catlettsburg, Ky., where he is in the hardware 
business, had five children, two who were twins are deceased;  Harry, of 
Reedsville;  Clark, married Mary Conley, and resides in Reedsville, axe-maker;  
Theodore Wilbur and Calvin Oscar, both died within a week in February, 1878;  
Robert, printer, of Reedsville;  and Clay, still attending school.  Mrs. Henry 
T. Peters died on Christmas Day, 1896.  Mr. Peters and family attend the 
Methodist Episcopal church.
  The children of Mr. And Mrs. Henry Wagner are:  Matilda (Mrs. Joel Price);  
Mary (Mrs. William Nieman);  Catharine (Mrs. Frank Price);  Adam, married, and 
resides in Michigan;  Mrs. Peters;  William, married Mary Leiter, had three 
children, and resides in Lewistown;  Jacob, died in infancy;  Elias, married and 
resides in Michigan;  Absalom, married Nettie Bell;  John, married Annie Shoop, 
died in 1897;  Joseph, married Mattie McGary, has three children, and resides in 
Lewistown, where he is engaged in the brick business.  The father died in 
February, 1878, aged sixty-nine years.  The mother died in 1889, aged seventy-
eight years.
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:  the author of the above biography has the heading as Henry 
"N" Peters, yet throughout the biography, he is referred to as Henry "T" Peters.  
In the 1870 & 1880 Brown twp, Mifflin county censuses, he is also listed as 
Henry "T" Peters.