ORIGINS, MIGRATIONS, AND SETTLEMENTS THE BITTINGER STORY OF THE BITTINGER AND ALLIED FAMILIES IN EUROPE AND AMERICA FROM THEIR OBSCURE BEGINNINGS IN THE FOURTH CENTURY INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY BY EMMERT FOSTER BITTINGER 2018 ii DEDICATION This book is dedicated to The Grandparents of the writer, Jonas Henry Bittinger and Etta Mary Fike Bittinger And their Descendants iii iv TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION ....................................................................................................................................................... iii TABLE OF CONTENTS .......................................................................................................................................... v TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS ................................................................................................................................. vii FOREWORD ........................................................................................................................................................ ix ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...................................................................................................................................... xi CHAPTER I EUROPEAN ORIGINS OF THE BITTINGER AND ALLIED FAMILIES .......................................................1 CHAPTER II BITTINGER FAMILY PEREGRINATIONS: BULGARIA, GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, ALSACE, PENNSYLVANIA, AND BEYOND ...........................................................................................................................7 FIRST AMERICAN BITTINGER GENERATION .................................................................................................. 23 BITTINGER GENERATIONAL SEQUENCE ........................................................................................................ 56 CHAPTER III JONAS HARVEY AND ETTA MARY FIKE BITTINGER FAMILY ......................................................... 59 THE JONAS H. AND ETTA MARY FIKE BITTINGER FAMILY ............................................................................. 60 AND DESCENDANTS ...................................................................................................................................... 60 THE OLD BITTINGER FARM ........................................................................................................................... 86 CHILDREN OF MOSES AND SOPHIA (RUDOLPH) FIKE ................................................................................... 91 A FIKE FAMILY HISTORICAL ESSAY ................................................................................................................ 93 CHAPTER IV BITTINGER ALLIED FAMILIES ....................................................................................................... 97 ALLIED FAMILIES LISTED CHRONOLOGICALLY .............................................................................................. 97 ALLIED FAMILIES LISTED ALPHBETICALLY ..................................................................................................... 98 ARNOLD ...................................................................................................................................................... 100 BITTINGER/BUTTNER .................................................................................................................................. 109 BÖM/BEAHM .............................................................................................................................................. 118 BOGER/BOUGHER/BAUGHER ..................................................................................................................... 121 BOUSER/BAUSER/BOWSER/BUSER/BEWSER ............................................................................................. 122 BÜDINGER ................................................................................................................................................... 125 ENGLEHART ................................................................................................................................................ 127 FIKE/FEIG/FIECK .......................................................................................................................................... 130 FRANTZ ....................................................................................................................................................... 134 v KEIM ........................................................................................................................................................... 136 LANDIS ........................................................................................................................................................ 139 LIVENGOOD/LIEIBENGUT ........................................................................................................................... 145 ARNOLD-LUDWICK ..................................................................................................................................... 149 MÜLLER/MILLER ......................................................................................................................................... 151 PHILLIPPI ..................................................................................................................................................... 153 SCHAEFER ................................................................................................................................................... 158 SCHNEIDER/SNYDER ................................................................................................................................... 162 SELLERS, SALR, SAILER, SAHLLER ................................................................................................................ 166 BEAVER DAM CHURCHES AND FAMILIES ................................................................................................... 175 BIBLIOGRAPHY ................................................................................................................................................ 181 vi TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS A Twentieth Century View of Bern, Switzerland ............................................................................................. 11 Finding a New Home........................................................................................................................................ 12 Sailing for Penn’s Land ..................................................................................................................................... 14 Keim-Livengood Cemetery Salisbury, PA ......................................................................................................... 18 Pine Grove Sunday School ............................................................................................................................... 20 Summit Mills Church ........................................................................................................................................ 20 Moving to a Wilderness Home ........................................................................................................................ 21 Alpine Mountain Valley ................................................................................................................................... 28 Engleberg ......................................................................................................................................................... 28 Great Great Grand Parents, Jonathan and Elizabeth Foust ............................................................................. 44 To Somerset in the Conestoga Wagon ............................................................................................................ 46 Stones of David and Ida Bittinger, Accident, MD ............................................................................................ 47 Aunt Salome Slabaugh (Etta’s Sister) at her quilting frame ........................................................................... 48 A Pioneer Woman’s Endless Task .................................................................................................................... 48 The Jonas H. Bittinger Family Homestead at Eglon, WV ................................................................................ 59 Home of David Bittinger, birthplace of Jonas. ................................................................................................. 61 Moses and Rebecca Beeghly Fike .................................................................................................................... 61 David and 3rd wife Ida Custer ......................................................................................................................... 61 Jonathan and Elizabeth (Foust) Bittinger......................................................................................................... 61 Jonas and Etta Bittinger, with children, ........................................................................................................... 62 Jonas and Etta Bittinger, with children, ........................................................................................................... 62 Bittinger residence in Browntown, VA ............................................................................................................ 65 Browntown School where Foster Bittinger was principal ..............................................................................