Hegeman Family Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1398-1399 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	THE HEGEMAN FAMILY.—The interesting pages of American history 
would not be complete if the biographer failed to mention John, Adrian 
and Peter Hegeman, the three brothers who. in an early day, came to 
Dutchess county, New York, from Holland, being direct lineal descendants 
from William, Prince of Orange. This notable and interesting family were 
of that staunch and hardy pioneer class who were known well in every 
community with which they came into touch, for their integrity and 
simplicity of truthful uprightness. After a limited residence in 
Dutchess county, they moved into Saratoga and Albany, New York. 

	Adrian Hegeman, the second brother of this interesting family, was 
the great-grandfather of the branch of this family now located in South 
Dakota and was married to Bashaba Palmer, in New York. His life was 
spent in canal building, boating and shipping, and he was the father of 
eight children, whose names are given in order of their birth: 
Cornelius, Micah, Peter. John, Esther Sallie, Peba and Jane four boys 
and four girls. The old Dutch burial ground of Clifton Park New York, 
contains the remains of both Adrian and Bashaba Hegeman, who died at 
Half Moon, Saratoga county. 

	John Hegeman is the grandfather of the Dakota branch, and was 
married to Ere John~on in 1818. By hard labor and careful management 
they, in time, became known as among the most thrifty of the local 
families where they then resided, having also come from Holland and 
settled in Saratoga, New York, where the father, John Hegeman. was 
actively engaged in farming, milling and lumbering for a number of 
years. His wife departed this life in the year 1854, and he in the year 
1860, in the county of Fulton, New York. The names of the children of 
John Hegeman are as follows: Peter J., John A. (died in infancy), 
Margaret (also died in infancy), Caroline, Hezekiah, Bethsheba, Martha 
A., Micha and Hannah, nine children in all. 

	Peter J. was also father of nine children, Adrian (died in 
infancy), Magdaline (died in infancy), Eva A., Peter J., Daniel (died in 
infancy, Eva Ann, John A., Jennie, and Sarah C., who is the wife of John 
H. Hendrecks. 

	Hezekiah Hegeman was the father of George and Hezekiah, Jr., both 
of whom reside in the city of Schenectady, New York. 

	Martha Hegeman was married to James H. Roberts, of Fulton county, 
New York, and to this union were born the following children: Netta, 
Minnie, John and Ella. Micah Hegeman is the father of two children, 
Julia and Roy, now deceased while Hannah, the youngest sister, married 
Darius Baker, and to them were born five children namely: Nellie, 
Carrie, Bennie, Alice and Hannah. 

	Peter J. Hegeman is the father of the South Dakota lineage of the 
Hegeman family, and grew to manhood in the state of New York, where he 
married Miss Catharine Allen, who was a daughter of Daniel Allen, a 
native of Scotland. Catharine Allen's mother Magadaline Houghtaling, was 
what was known as Mowhawk Dutch, of New York, and her mother was a 
daughter of Lord Etherington.  

	The Allens came as early settlers into the state of New York and 
were of Scotch descent. Daniel Allen was one of seven sons and the 
Houghtalings are still residents of New York state, and are a thrifty 
and well-to-do people. 

	Peter J. Hegeman was married in Perth, New York and afterwards 
settled in Gloversville, the same state, engaging actively in the 
occupations of farming and manufacturing, in which city he lived until 
1864, when he moved to Sparta, Wisconsin, and there again engaged in 
manufacturing until the year 1878 when he moved to Brookings county, 
South Dakota, and settled eight miles east of where the town of White is 
now located, taking up one hundred and sixty acres of land as a 
homestead, and also a tree claim, remaining upon said land and 
cultivating it for eight and one-half years, after which time he moved 
to White and there lived a retired life until the year 1892, in which 
year his wife Catharine passed away upon the 27th day of May. His home 
having been broken by the hand of death, he then removed to the town of 
Brookings and made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Eva A. Wright, where 
he died, October 16, 1900.  

	Peter J. Hegeman was a man who lived an upright, honorable life, 
and was wel1 spoken of by his fellow citizens, thus going down to his 
grave in peace, and showing that the ancestral teaching of the Hegeman 
family, which tenaciously clung to the religion of the Methodist 
Episcopal church, had not been taught to him in early childhood in vain. 
The above statements will however, only appear too modest when we state 
that under urgent and peculiar circumstances Peter Hegeman walked to 
Brookings, twenty-three miles, in order to be present and to aid in the 
organization of a Masonic lodge in that place, he having previously 
became a member of the above order in Gloversville, New York, in the 
year 1860.