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ADAM WAGENER, farmer and dairyman, post office Sharpsburg, is a native of Prussia Germany, born in 1833. His father, Lawrence Wagener who was a farmer in Germany, married Eliza Ludwick, of the same country, and they became the parents of two sons of whom Adam is the elder. The latter remained with his father until 1850, at which time he immigrated to America, landing in Baltimore, Md., and later coming to Pittsburgh. He has been engaged in farming and the dairy business ever since coming to this county, and has lived in Shaler, Collins, Baldwin and O’Hara townships. In 1884 he purchased his present farm of 117 ½ acres in O’Hara township, where he is now living. He also owns fifty-six acres in Baldwin township, two miles from Pittsburgh, on the Brownsville pike. He married, in Collins township, in 1855, Eliza Wilhelm, and nine children bless their union, viz.: Annie Margret, Mary Elizabeth, Frederick Henry, Elizabeth, Katie, Emma Lousia, Minnie Dortha Elizabeth, Louisa Matilda and Adam John, of whom three daughters and one son are married and one daughter is deceased. Mr. Wagener and family are members of St. John’s G. L. Church of Sharpsburg; he is a republican.