JACOB HASENPLUG,
farmer, post-office Greenville, was born in Centre County, Penn,
October 20, 1830. His grandfather, Henry Hasenplug, emigrated
from Germany to America during the Revolution, and after the war
married a Miss Siebold, of Union County, Penn. His father
Jacob Hasenplug, was born in Union County, July 16, 1796, there
grew up and married Annie Lichty, a native of the same county.
They afterward removed to Centre County where Jacob operated a tannery
and brewery. In the fall of 1834 they removed to West Salem Township,
Mercer County, and reared six children: George E., deceased;
Elizabeth, wife of Jonathan Showers; Jacob; Maria, widow of William
Dillon; John H, and Daniel. They settled in the forests of West
Salem in a hewed log house which Mr. Hasenplug erected after
coming. The mother died in 1871, and her venerable husband at the
ripe old age of ninety-three years, resided on the old homestead
peacefully awaiting the call to join her in that home beyond the grave,
until his death August 7, 1888. Both died in the faith of the
Evangelical Association, of which church they were members many
years. Politically he was a Republican. Our subject has
resided in West Salem since the fall of 1834. He learned the
shoemaker's trade which he followed at Maysville for twenty years, but
since the spring of 1882 he has been engaged in farming. In the
fall of 1862 he was drafted, and enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and
Sixty-ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, and served nine months. Mr.
Hasenplug was married April 1855 to May Ann, daughter of Jefrey and Ann
(Morford) Bentley, of West Salem Township. She was a native of
mercer County, and reared nine children: Elizabeth, wife of
Charles Buell; Emma, wife of Squire Jewell; Elmer E, Arminta, Ida,
Charles, Ella, Sadie, and Lorinda, all of whom are living. Mrs.
Hasenplug died in the Baptist faith, May 7, 1875. Our
subject is a Republican, and one of the well known citizens
of the township.
History of Mercer County, 1888, page 1180; Submitted by Susan McLaughlin
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