RUBEN HENNINGER
Page 190

Among the early settlers the gentleman named above was conspicuous, and the Henninger family have held no second position in their influence in the community from then to the present time. Ruben Henninger was born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, in 1801, and is seventy-five years old this centennial year. He married in 1823 to Susan Boyer; had ten children, eight of whom are living and residents of Mason county. They are, Angeline, wife of S. Frankinfield, of Havana; Frank and John, wealthy farmers, east of Havana; Amanda, wife of B. F. Howell (see biography); Ruben A. and Daniel, also able farmers; Cyrus, now deceased; Susan, wife of C. C. Fager, of Havana; Jane, deceased; Sarah, wife of George Shaneberg, an able farmer; and all substantial and prosperous. He removed to Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1832, and to Illinois in 1842, to Mason county, where he has since resided, engaged in farming practically, and, consequently, successfully in all his undertakings and investments. He was married a second time to Mrs. Fager, in 1848. She is the mother, by a former marriage, of Messrs. John F., Harry A. and C. C. Fager, substantial citizens of Havana. These children and their numerous grand-children and several great-grand-children, all in this county, form one of the most interesting families it has been our fortune to record, and comprise an amount of health, vigor, enterprise, wealth and prosperity that falls to the lot of few. The old gentleman has spent three-fourths of the century our government has existed as a citizen thereof, and his numerous descendants are the substantial representatives of the greatest industry pertaining to our country, to-wit: the agricultural.

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