Yingling, Henry

"HENRY YINGLING, proprietor of the “Eagle House,” Gettysburg, was born in Uniontown, Carroll Co., Md., November 24, 1831, a son of David and Elizabeth (Hiteshew) Yingling. His ancestors were among the early immigrants to America. David Yingling, an early settler of Maryland, was a builder and contractor, and of his ten children Henry is the third. Our subject grew to manhood in his native county, where he received an academic education. At the age of nineteen years he entered a store in Baltimore City, as a clerk, and as such served eight years, a part of which time he was employed at Hagerstown, Md. In the year 1855, at the latter place, he embarked in the dry goods business, which he continued until 1858, and from 1858 to 1863, was proprietor of the Washington Hotel in the same city. In 1866 he bought a farm of 230 acres in Franklin County, Penn., known as the “Monterey Summer Resort,” which he successfully managed until 1876, from which time until 1878 he successfully carried on a summer resort hotel. In 1878 he came to Gettysburg and took charge of the “Eagle House.” In 1863, Mr. Yingling was married to Mrs. Pitt, nee Mary Adams. Mrs. Yingling had one child by her first husband, Anna Pitt, who is now the wife of Edgar Hoover, of Baltimore. In politics Mr. Yingling is a Democrat. "