Henry Blessing
Henry Blessing, farmer, is a son of Abram Blessing, and was born in Greene County, June 8, 1836. He came to this county with his parents, in 1847, and still lives on a part of the large tract of land his father bought on coming here. He was married, June 28, 1829, to Miss Mary Huffman, daughter of Samuel Huffman. Four children are the result of this union: Horace M., Abram G., Georgiana, and Samuel H. All are living, and none married.
Mr. Blessing has a farm of three hundred and sixty-five acres, well improved, on which he lives; also forty-seven acres in Ross Township, Greene County, and farms to grain and stock. He formerly made a specialty of hogs. He has been successful, regardless of losing a great many hogs by cholera, and the loss of seventeen thousand and ninety dollars by the failure of J. B. McVey & Co., bankers, in Philadelphia, in 1872.
The Blessing family is wholly Republican, with the exception of one member. When a young man, our subject, after attaining a common school education, taught two years, then went to Antioch College two years, and then returned to the farm.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County