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Born 17 November 1808, Strasburg, France · settled in the county 1837
The tie, exactly: settler of the second wave — born at Strasburg, France, on 17 November 1808, a son of John and Barbara Hassig; came to America in 1832 and to Stark County, Ohio; came to this county in 1837, went back to Ohio in 1839 and returned the same year, an honest round trip Chapman prints without explanation and this entry prints the same way.
The course: he married Mary Keiffer in 1840; of their seven children five were living when Chapman wrote (Napoleon, Franklin, Emanuel, Israel and Mary). His farm was 212 acres on Section 16 — the school section — where he farmed and raised stock, with his post office at Edwardsburg, Michigan: a Harris Prairie farmer whose mail, like much of the township's, faced north across the state line. The 1875 atlas directory carries him (its optical text mangling the surname) on the same section with the same 1837 settlement year, and the two records agree.
Sources:
- Chapman (1880), Harris Township biographical sketches, pp. 715–717 — the Hassig sketch.
- Illustrated Historical Atlas (1875), Harris patrons' directory, p. 103 — Section 16, France, settled 1837.