BIO: HENRY D. HIPPENSTEEL, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 380-381
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    HENRY D. HIPPENSTEEL, the owner of a fine peach orchard containing 4500
  peach trees, which yields him a handsome income in a peach year, is also the
  popular groceryman of Cleversburg, where he has been located for some years.
  The Hippensteel family is of German origin. John Hippensteel, the grandfather
  of Henry D., was born in Germany, and on emigrating to America he settled in
  Southampton township, Cumberland county, where he became quite prosperous. He
  married Susannah Hippensteel.

    CUMBERLAND COUNTY.	381
    
    John Hippensteel, father of Henry D., was born in Southampton township, in
  1796. He learned the carpenter's trade, and became one of the most skillful
  workmen in the county, building many of the best dwellings and barns. He died
  in 1870. His politics were Republican, and his views on religious subjects
  were quite liberal. He had an abiding faith in the brotherhood of man, and
  was quite charitable to the faults and misfortunes of others. He married
  Susan Quarterman, who was born in Southampton township in 1806, daughter of
  Valentine Quarterman, one of the pioneers, whose father emigrated from
  Ireland. She died in 1882, the mother of eleven children: Henry D.,
  Elizabeth, Nancy, John (deceased), Barbara, Isabella (who died in her tenth
  year), Caroline (deceased), Susan, William, Sarah, and one that died in
  infancy.
    
    Henry D. Hippensteel, the youngest in the family of children born to John
  and Susan Hippensteel, was born near Franklin Furnace, in Franklin county,
  June 3, 1849. He attended a select school in Washington county, Md., and
  then, at the age of fourteen, he returned home, and assisted his father on
  the home farm, continuing under the parental roof until he was twenty-one
  years of age. After his marriage he located in Cleversburg, and there gave
  his attention to farming, and also to milling. He was determined to enter the
  business world, and to equip himself to that end he engaged for a time as a
  clerk for George Clever, of Cleversburg. He carefully studied the methods of
  that successful business man, and thoroughly mastered all he could learn
  there. Then, embarking in the grocery business on his own account, he was
  prepared to meet all the exigencies of the business, and today is one of the
  prosperous merchants of his county. Having been brought up on a farm, he
  hasnot entirely abandoned agricultural pursuits, but has a choice farm of
  thirty-four acres, a portion of which is devoted to his very fine peach
  orchard in which he takes a pardonable pride. He was for nine years the
  assistant postmaster at Cleversburg, but the establishment of the rural free
  delivery system caused that office to be abandoned.
    
    On Nov. 3, 1871, Mr. Hippensteel married Anna Mixell, daughter of Squire
  John Mixell, of Franklin county. Both Mr. Hippensteel and his wife are
  members of the United Evangelical Church and active in its work. For the past
  twenty-five years he has served as class leader, and for twenty years has been
  superintendent of the Sunday School, the length of his service being a mute
  testimony not only of his ability, but of his Christian character and general
  manliness.