SAMUEL
L. HENDRICKSON, miller, post-office, Orangeville, Ohio. The
subject of this sketch is a son of Richard and Martha (Long)
Hendrickson, she being a daughter of Samuel Long, of Mercer County,
PA. The father of our subject was born in New Jersey, and removed
to Mercer County, PA in 1835, and settled in Hempfield Township, where
he died in 1847. His widow survives him, and lives with our
subject, who was born in Hempfield Township April 6, 1839. He was
reared in Hempfield Township by his grandfather, who had settled in
that township previous to the settlement there of the father of our
subject. Mr. Hendrickson received his early education in the
common schools of that township, and at the age of fourteen was
employed by T.G. Van Lew as a clerk in his store in
Sheakleyville, where he remained until 1860, when he formed a
copartnership with Dr. Packard, and engaged in the crockery and
glassware business in Greenville, which they conducted until 1873, when
the death of Dr. Packard occurred, and he was appointed his
executor and had charge of his estate until 1879. He then removed
to his farm in Hempfield Township, and engaged in farming, where he
remained until early in 1885, when he removed to Orangeville, and
commenced operating his flour and grist-mill, which he had purchased in
1876. Mr. Hendrickson was married May 12, 1864, to Teressa,
daughter of Harvey Stephenson, of Gustavus, Ohio, and they have had
born to them eight children: George, Harvey, Richard, Katie,
Clara, Samuel, Annie and Birt. Our subject is a member of
F. & A.M., Lodge No. 290, of Greenville.
History of Mercer County, 1888 page 907-908
Transcribed and Submitted by Janet Stanko
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