Husband Christian Bitner Hege 1
Born: 17 Jul 1841 1
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Father: Henry Hege (1811-1881) 2
Mother: Margaret Bitner (1813- ) 3
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Wife Annie Grossman 1
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Father: Samuel Grossman ( - ) 1
Mother: Catharine [Unk] ( - ) 1
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1 F Alice K. Hege 4
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Spouse: J. Frank Hoover (1864- ) 4
Marr: 21 Dec 1889 5
2 M Edward B. Hege 1
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Spouse: Margaret Grove ( - ) 1
3 M Samuel E. Hege 1
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Spouse: Mabel Leacock ( - ) 1
4 F R. Grace Hege 6
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Spouse: E. K. Raff ( - ) 1
General Notes: Husband - Christian Bitner Hege
He was a prominent farmer of Guilford township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He was educated in the public schools, and was a man of unusual intelligence. As a practical and progressive farmer he had few equals. He became the owner of a fine farm on the Chambersburg & Greencastle Road, north of Marion, known as the old Grossman farm. When this farm had been in his possession only three years, he grew twelve hundred bushels of wheat and sixty tons of hay on a cultivated plat of ninety-five acres. While on the farm he at one time had the finest dairy herd of Jersey cows in Franklin County, and also fine hogs and poultry. From 1865 until the spring of 1870 he was engaged in general merchandising in Marion, but closed out and returned to farming.
He represented Franklin County on the State Board of Agriculture beginning in 1895, and he served several terms of three years. When he first became a member of the Board he had difficulty in securing money enough to meet the expenses of the association in the county, but by good management he has secured for it a large membership with a surplus in the treasury. At first little interest was manifested in the work, but under his leadership agriculture in Franklin county greatly improved. He was also largely instrumental in improving and increasing the fruit growing industries of the county.
In May, 1903, he was appointed by the United States Government as weather observer of the Meteorological Bureau for Marion and Franklin county.
In politics he was a Republican, and served on the election board of his district in Guilford township for many years. He was always an active Republican worker, but steered clear of crooked politics. He was a director in the Centennial Fire Insurance Company, of Cumberland and Franklin counties, and was president of the Maplewood Cemetery Association. He was a member of the Lutheran Church and a deacon in the church at Marion.