Henry Hostetler ¹⁶²⁴

  General Notes:

BIOGRAPHY

Henry Hostetler, son of Peter Hostetler, was born in 1840, and settled on the olf homestead on Johnstown pike, which he purchased of his father in 1865. He was a stockholder in Johnstown pike and also a director in the company. During the Civil war he was one of those included in the last drafting, but was able to furnish a substitute. He was a Republican. He was brought up in the Amish church, but later joined the German baptist. He Hostetler married, in 1865, Mary daughter of A. Weaver, and their children were: Abram, born in October, 1867, married to Mary Statler; Lizzie, born in 1868, wife of Uriah Weaver; Stephen, born in 1870, married Emma Weaver; Hiram, born in 1876, married Cevilla Baumgardner; Lewis; Emma, born in 1884; and Arthur, born in 1890.

Source: History of Bedford and Somerset Counties Pennsylvania with Genealogical and Personal History
Author: Somerset County by William H. Welfley, Volume III
Publication: The Lewis Publishing Company, New York: : Chicago, 1906
Note: Information collected at the Clarion County Historical Library, Clarion, Pennsylvania.
Page: Page 438 ¹⁶²⁴

Henry married Mary Weaver, daughter of Abraham A. "Abram" Weaver and Elizabeth Stutzman, on 7 Jan 1865 in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, USA.¹⁶²⁴ (Mary Weaver was born on 19 Mar 1845 in Windber, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA ¹⁶²⁴.)