BIO:  Amos Hengst, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Windsor Township, Pg 202

AMOS HENGST was born in Windsor Township, October 12, 1841, and is the son of Samuel and 
Barbara (Anstine) Hengst, also natives of Windsor Township, as were Michael Hengst and Simon 
Anstine, subject’s grandfathers.  Samuel Hengst was born, reared and lived all his life on the 
same farm.  He held the office of school director, and was a lieutenant of militia.  He was the 
father of nine children, of whom eight are living, viz.:  Henry, Benjamin, a member of the 
Evangelical Church for thirty-eight years; Samuel, a merchant; Reuben, in the grocery and 
commission business at Baltimore, Md.; Amos, Catherine, Julia and Magdalena.  Leah died in 
infancy.  The father died January 28, 1884, and his wife, November 25, 1871.  Amos Hengst was 
reared a farmer, taught school thirteen terms, was engaged in mercantile business sixteen 
years, and then purchased one of his father’s farms of about fifty acres, with improvements, 
and is still engaged in farming.  He has served one term of five years as justice of the peace.  
November 24, 1874, he married Debbie S., daughter of George and Mary (Schnell) Fox, of Windsor 
Township.  F. B. Fox, a brother of Mrs. Hengst, has been a professor in Knapp’s Institute, 
Baltimore, for twenty-five years, and A. F. Fox, another brother, has for twenty-five years 
been in the real estate business at Washington.