A Short Biography
source: Hastings' Family Scrapbook
partially written by Harry
Harry Hastings was united in marriage to Miss Susanna Raily in Quincy IL
on August
22, 1917. From this union one son was born on April 6, 1922 at 10171/2
Jersey St. also in
Quincy IL, a city located in Adams County. The son was named Harry
Amos Hastings Jr.
Harry Sr. held his first job at Electric Wheel for 2 and 1/2 years.
Next he moved on to
the Air Sweep Company at 14th and Ohio in the afore mentioned town.
The Paper Mill at
Front and Jefferson streets was his next employer for a total of five months.
His longest
professional venture was at Dayton Dowd CO and Peerless Pump Co located
at Second and
York. He worked there for 28 years, 4 months, and 17 days until the
company relocated to
Indiana. Finally, in 1950, he went to work for Gardner-Denver where
he labored 10 and 1/2
years, and then retired in 1961.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Hastings Sr. moved from Barry IL to Quincy IL in
October of
1919 and lived at 303 Jersey for 32 years. In 1956 they bought property
at 621-623 Ohio in
Quincy.
Harry A. Hastings Sr., the great-grandfather of Betsy Lee Dobbs-Smith,
was inducted into
World War I on May 30, 1918 where he served as a machine gunner in the
45th infantry
division. He was discharged on February 24, 1919. He died on
July 9, 1972 at the age of
76, six days short of his 77th birthday. Arrangements were held in
the Duker Funeral Home
by the Rev. Lee Anthony. He was buried at the Greenmount Cemetery.