Rev. Jacob Hassler and Matilda Stenger

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Husband Rev. Jacob Hassler ¹

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           Born: 25 Aug 1824 - Mercersburg, Franklin Co, PA 2
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         Father: Jacob Hassler (1788-1848) 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Kieffer (1798-1856) 2

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       Marriage: 25 Dec 1855 3

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Wife Matilda Stenger ⁴

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         Father: Peter Stenger (1795-1885) 5 6
         Mother: Christina Shearer (Abt 1806-1875) 6

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Children

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1 M Rev. Edgar Schaff Hassler ³

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2 M William Stenger Hassler ³

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3 F Miriam Adelaide Hassler ³

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4 F Blanche L. Ault ³

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Jacob Hassler

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His boyhood was passed in his native village, and in its schools he obtained the rudiments of his education. In 1840 he entered Marshall College at Mercersburg, from which he graduated in 1845, after which he was tutor in a private family in Maryland for a year. He entered the Theological Seminary in 1846, from which he graduated in the autumn of 1849. For six months he traveled as agent for the church's publication board; in August, 1850, he became pastor of the St. Thomas and Loudon charge, and the following December was ordained a minister, and for eight years, until August, 1858, labored in this charge. He then accepted a call from the Reformed Church at Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, where he labored five years, and during that time St. John's Reformed Church was erected, together with Blair County Institute, a seminary of learning of which Mr. Hassler was for a time principal. In October, 1863, he removed to Shippensburg, where he labored in the ministry until 1868; thence went to Boonesboro, Maryland, where he remained until September 1, 1873. During his ministry there the church membership greatly increased, and a new church building was erected at a cost of $16,000. In 1873 he removed to Mercersburg and organized the Mercersburg Female Seminary, which was conducted successfully until April, 1881. During the same time he was pastor of the Loudon and Fannettsburg churches, his place of residence being at Mercersburg until November, 1884, at which time he removed to the old homestead of his father-in-law, P. Stenger, at Loudon. He was possessed of good literary ability, and contributed largely to magazines and church papers.

1 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 876, 885.

2 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 876.

3 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 877.

4 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 877, 885.

5 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 885.

6 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 132.