Timothy Hess, Redstone Twp.

Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County by Gresham and
Wiley, 1889, p503
	Timothy Hess, a prominent republican and well situated farmer of
Redstone township, was born on a farm in Menallen township, Fayette
county, Penna, February 6, 1840, and is a son of John Hess and Eliza
Dutson Hess.
	His grandfather, Martin Hess, resided in Redstone township on property
now owned by Richard Randolph and married a Miss Wallace.
	His father, John Hess, was born on a farm now owned by Lewis Hess, in
about 1812. He was married to Eliza Dutson of Washington county who was
born in 1819. They had ten children of whom Timothy Hess was the second.
	Timothy Hess received his education in the common schools of Menallen
township, and turned his attention to farming until twenty five years of
age, when he went to Oil City, Venango county, Penna, and there engaged
as an "oil driller." He remained two years when he returned to Redstone,
and has since been successfully engaged in farming and stock dealing. 
	On November 30, 1865,  he was married by Rev W W Hickman to Miss Mary E
Crumrine, born April 26, 1847, and a daughter of Solomon Crumrine and
Hannah Colley Crumrine, the former was born July 18, 1824, in Greene
county, Penna, served one term as commissioner of the National Road; the
latter was born October 14, 1823, on the Colley homestead four miles east
of Brownsville and died there February 13, 1871.
	Timothy Hess is unswerving in his allegiance to the republican party and
its fundamental principles, and is recognized as a prominent and leading
member of his party. 
	He and wife are members of the Disciple church. He owns thirty one acres
of the Colley farm, which is productive and underlaid with limestone and
coal of the best quality. He has been very successful in stock dealing as
well as in farming.