Henry Jr., son of Henry Sr., son of Christian, the Pioneer, was born December 27th, 1793, and his wife Anna Marie Gress was born September 3rd, 1795. They were married in September, 1814. His wife died April 24, 1870, aged 75 years, 2 months, 21 days. He died April 18, 1873, aged 79 years, 3 months, 22 days. His family bible is in the hands of his son, Isaac Lauffer, of Greensburg, and the records are in perfect form.
He resided with his father, Henry Sr, on the old homestead until the death of the latter in 1821, after which he lived on a farm just west of Greensburg. He later moved into the Manor Valley. He conducted a large business and acquired considerable property. For many years he operated a Fulling Mill in the Manor Valley, on the present James McKeever farm in Penn township. Home-made cloth, flannels and blankets were brought for many miles to his mill to be fulled. Fulling shrunk the cloth and made it thicker, closer and softer. He built the first brick house in the Manor Valley.
He began wagoning, driving a big conestoga wagon, with four or six horses, between Pittsburg and Baltimore, when only sixteen years old.
His family consisted of twelve...
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