Henry Bittinger

Brief Life History of Henry

When Henry Bittinger was born on 5 August 1847, in Bittinger, Garrett, Maryland, United States, his father, Solomon H Bittinger, was 33 and his mother, Hannah Foust, was 20. He married Susannah Fuller on 4 December 1887, in Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Grantsville, Garrett, Maryland, United States in 1880. He died on 23 April 1931, in Springs, Elk Lick Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Upper Springs Cemetery, Springs, Elk Lick Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Henry Bittinger
1847–1931
Susannah Fuller
1856–1948
Marriage: 4 December 1887
Elmer Ellsworth Bittinger
1888–1969
Florence May Bittinger
1891–1989
Bittinger
1897–1897
Mabel Grace Bittinger
1899–1971

Sources (15)

  • Henry Bittinger, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Henry Bittinger, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
  • Henry Bittinger, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Deaths and Burials, 1627-1972"

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1863 · Battle of Gettysburg

The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

German: variant of Pittinger .

Altered form of German Büdinger (see Budinger ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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