Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Heinsling, Henry T. January 30, 1851 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

HENRY T. HEINSLING,
a resident of Altoona, and a member of the bar of Blair county in active
service, is a son of Tobias and Ann (Hammond) Heinsling, and was born at St.
Clairsville, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1851. Tobias Heinsling
was born three years before the close of the last century, and grew to manhood
in his native province of Hesse Darmstadt, which is now a part of the great
German empire ushered into existence by King William and Count Bismarck, who
both believed in the unification of Germany. Tobias Heinsling was variously
engaged in Germany until he was thirty-five years of age, when in 1846, he
left the Fatherland to cross the dark Atlantic and settle at St. Clairsville,
in Bedford county. When he was once settled in his new home he opened a shoe
store, which he conducted until his death, which occurred in 1854, when he
was in the sixty-seventh year of his age. He was reared and trained in the
Lutheran faith, and at an early age became a member of the Evangelical
Lutheran church, in which he was an active and zealous worker. He became a
democrat after he came to the United States, and married Ann Hammond, a
native of the city of Philadelphia, who died in Altoona in 1889, at the
advanced age of eighty-four years. She was reared a Presbyterian, but
afterward united with the Evangelical Lutheran church, of which she was a
consistent member until her death.
      Henry T. Heinsling spent his boyhood days at St. Clairsville, and
received his education in the common schools and Missionary institute of
Selinsgrove, Snyder county. In 1875 he resolved upon a professional life, and
made choice of jurisprudence. He then left St. Clairsville, and in the same
year came to Altoona, where he read law with Neff & Riley. He was admitted to
the bar of Blair county in August, 1877, and has been engaged ever since in
the practice of his profession in the city of Altoona. He is a conservative
democrat in politics, and has served the last ten years as city clerk. Mr.
Heinsling gives careful attention to his cases, and spares no time or pains
to advance his clients' interest. He has familiarized himself with the
different branches of law in which cases are likely to arise in the courts of
Blair and adjoining counties, and has grown into a good and desirable
practice.  
      On February 20, 1885, Henry T. Heinsling united in marriage with Sarah
C. Loudon, daughter of John Loudon, of Altoona, whose sketch appears
elsewhere in this volume. To Mr. and Mrs. Heinsling have been born three
children: Juniata, Ruth and Elizabeth.

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