When Elias P. Hershberger was born on 13 December 1851, in Charm, Holmes, Ohio, United States, his father, Peter Hershberger, was 34 and his mother, Leah Hochstetler, was 30. He married Sarah Rebecca Stahl on 21 November 1875, in Holmes, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in Suffield, Portage, Ohio, United States in 1910 and Hartville, Stark, Ohio, United States in 1923. He died on 15 April 1923, in Lake Township, Stark, Ohio, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in East Nimishillen Church Of The Brethren Cemetery, Hartville, Stark, Ohio, United States.
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Americanized form of German Herschberger 1, a surname of ultimate Swiss German origin (see Hersberger ).
Americanized form of German Herschberger 2, and a variant of the same Jewish surname.
History: This (see 1 above) is the most common American variant of the name of a Swiss Mennonite and Amish family, originally spelled Hersberger , but in Germany altered to Herschberger and Hirschberger . Other Americanized forms established among the Mennonites and Amish in the US are Harshberger and Harshbarger .
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