1132. Henry Hershey HERSHEY
(1649) was born on 4 Jan 1829.
He died on 18 Feb 1904.
Henry Hershey engaged in numerous businesses. He worked in the oil fields
of Pennsylvania, the gold fields of Colorado, and as a merchant in Chicago, New
Orleans and New York. Henry designed vending machines, fruit canners and an
almost perpetual motion machine based on the design by Wohlgast.
He was married
to Veronica Buckwalter "Fanny" SNAVELY (daughter of
Abraham SNAVELY) on 15 Jan 1856.(69)
Henry Hershey and Veronica Sanvely were married at the parsonage of the Holy
Lutheran Church in Lancaster, Pennslyvania. It was selected as a neutral site.
Veronica was Mennonite, but Henry was not. Henry was not permitted to be married
in the Mennonite meeting house because he was "a free thinker."
Veronica Buckwalter "Fanny" SNAVELY
(1650)(1651) was born on 4
Sep 1835. She died on 11 Mar 1920.
Fanny Snavely was a member of the Reformed Mennonite Church. Henry Hershey
HERSHEY and Veronica Buckwalter "Fanny" SNAVELY had the following children:
+3017 i.
Milton Snavely HERSHEY.
3018 ii.
Sarena HERSHEY(1652) was born
on 12 Apr 1862. She died on 31 Mar 1867.
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