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H. W. Ledebur
H. W. LEDEBUR, miller, East Hickory, was born in Hanover, Germany,
September 1,1838, and is a son of Conrad and Mary (Hawkes) Ledebur, former of
whom came to America in 1841, and located in Pittsburgh, Penn., removing his
family there in 1844. There the subject of these lines was reared from six
years of age, and was educated in the public schools and Duff’s Commercial
College. He first came to Forest county in 1859, and located in Green
township, where his father and several others had purchased 1,000 acres of
land on German hill, which they divided up into 100 acre tracts, on which they
placed settlers from Pittsburgh of German birth. Mr. Ledebur remained here two
years, and on the breaking out of the Civil war, enlisted, in April, 18th, in
Company G, Ninth Pennsylvania Reserves. He served three years and two months,
when he was honorably discharged, after participating in the battles of the
Potomac and Shenandoah Valley, including two battles of Fredericksburg, Bull
Run, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and the Wilderness. In 1864 he
returned to Forest county, and engaged in jobbing and cutting lumber in
Kingsley township for seven years; then located in Nebraska, Green township,
where he conducted a grist-mill for thirteen years; then removed to his farm
in Green township, where he remained two years, coming to East Hickory in
1886. In 1887, in company with T. J. Bowman, he built the large grist-mill at
East Hickory, which he has since conducted. Mr. Ledebur married, February 9,
1866, Sophia, daughter of William Thase, of Green township, by whom he had
eight children: Amos F., Emma, Mary, Richard, Bennie (deceased), Ida, Arthur
and Wilbur. Mr. Ledebur is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, of the
I. O. O. F., A. O. U. W. and G. A. R. He served as justice of the peace of
Green township two terms, and county commissioner also two terms. In politics
he is a Republican.Source: Page(s) 945-946, Chapter 15 Biographical Sketches – Tionesta Township
and Borough of Tionesta
Hickory and Harmony Townships
History of Counties of McKean, Elk and Forest, Pennsylvania.
Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co., 1890.
Transcribed December 2005 by Nathan Zipfel for the Forest County Genealogy
Project
Published 2005 by the Forest County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project
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