SENSINGER, EDWIN

Portrait and Biographical Record – Pages 118-119

Kindly submitted: Joanne Chubb

Edwin Sensinger is one of the School Directors of Franklin Township, Carbon County, and is the owner of a good farm within the limits of the same township.  He has also acted in the capacities of Road Supervisor and Township Overseer of the Poor.  Politically he votes for Democratic nominees, and is a man who lends his influence to all improvements which will benefit the community in which he dwells.

  A native of Lehigh County, Mr. Sensinger was born December 6, 1830, his parents being Daniel and Salome (Kraus) Sensinger, who were likewise born in that county.  The former, it is supposed, was a soldier in the War of 1812, though the information on that subject is not entirely satisfactory.  He came from a family who were early settlers of the Lehigh Valley and who were prominent in its development.  The early years of our subject were passed on his father’s farm, and his time was devoted to assisting in its cultivation.

  When seventeen years of age Mr. Sensinger began learning the carpenter’s trade, which he followed for the next seven years of his life.  Afterward he was for a short time employed in running a saw and grist mill.  Since that time he has been engaged in farming, and in the spring of 1857 removed to this county, settling on the farm which he still cultivates and owns.  This place comprises seventy-six acres of fertile and valuable land which is adapted to the raising of all kinds of grain and contains a good orchard, with many varieties of fruit.  The owner has succeeded well as an agriculturist and has made a good living for himself and family, besides laying away a sufficient sum with which to pass in comfort his declining years.

  In 1855 Mr. Sensinger was married in Lehigh County to Caroline, daughter of Henry Guyer, who is now deceased.  To our subject and his wife has been born a daughter, Laura A.  Two years after their marriage they removed to this township, where they have made their home and where they number hosts of friends, who hold them in high esteem.

  The early education of Mr. Sensinger was limited to that obtainable in the district schools of that early period.  Not content with the knowledge there gained, however, by reading and observation and by years of study he has become well informed on general topics.  Besides serving in the public capacities to which we have already referred, he was for three years one of the Commissioners of Carbon County and has been very influential in local affairs.  Religiously he is a member of the Lutheran Church, to which denomination his wife also belongs.