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Born 1834, Fairfield County
From History of Pickaway County, Ohio and Representative Citizens (1906)
NRY R. HEFFNER, of the Heffner Milling Company, at Circleville, has been a resident of this city since 1868. He was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1834, and is a son of Henry
Heffner.
The father of Mr. Heffner was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, and came to
Fairfield County, Ohio, in young manhood. He operated a sawmill and became the possessor of a pioneer farm.
Henry R. Heffner was reared in Fairfield County and attended the little log schoolhouse in the neighborhood of his father’s farm and mill. In 1868 he came to what was then the village of Circleville and carried on a large grocery business here for some two years and then became interested in a grain and milling business. He purchased a corn and flour mill at Brooklyn, New York, and bought grain at Circleville and shipped it to Brooklyn for grinding. After operating the Brooklyn mill for some three years, partly as owner and partly as lessee, with his brother William he erected another mill, which was subsequently burned. In 1897 and 1898 Mr. Heffner, together with his brother William and Harvey S. Heffner and William F. Heffner, built the present substantial com mill, which has a capacity of 1,500 barrels of meal per day and 100 tons of feed. The company makes a great quantity of export meal, the main brands being “Sagamore” and “Dixie.”
In addition to his large mill interests, Mr. Heffner owns other property and considerable real estate, his fine residence at the comer of Pickaway and Watt streets having been erected at a cost of about $12,000.
In 1856 Mr. Heffner was married to Sarah A. Brobst, who was born in Pickaway County, Ohio,and is a daughter of Daniel Brobst, one of the early settlers of the county. The eight children of this marriage have all passed away. Mr. and Mrs. Heffner are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, in which Mr. Heffner has been an officer for a half century. Mr. Heffner is one of the most highly esteemed citizens of Circleville.
As printed in History of Pickaway County, Ohio and Representative Citizens (1906). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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