Robert Hasting
Robert Hasting was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 1, 1846. He is a son of Robert and Ellen Hasting. When he had attained the age of fourteen years he moved to Ohio, and located in Cincinnati, where he made his home with his uncle, who resided in that place. On the 15th of January, 1862, he enlisted in Company E, 2d U. S. Artillery, and served his country faithfully until the expiration of his term of enlistment, which ended January 15, 1865, when he was honorably discharged from the service of the United States, at Washington, D. C. He was actively en gaged in the following named battles: the siege of Yorktown, Va., from April 19 to May 4,1862; Golden Farm, Va., June 27,1862; Turkey Bend, Va., June 30; Malvin Hill, Va., July 1; Bull Run, Va., August 29 and 30; Chantilley, September 1; South Mountain, Md., September 14; Antietam, Md., September 16 and 17; Fredericksburgh, Va., December 11, 12, 13, and 14; siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, from June 20 to July 4, 1863; siege of Jackson, Mississippi, from July 4 to the 20th; Campell Station, Tenn., November 16; Fort Sanders, at Knoxville, Tenn., November 29, 1863; battle of the Wilderness, in 1864; and several other minor engagements. In March, 1865, he came to Shelby County and located in Port Jefferson, remaining about one year, when he came to Dinsmore Township, and settled on a farm in section 11, on which he remained until in October, 1814, when he sold his farm and moved to Botkins, where he resided until in 1880, when he purchased and moved on the farm in section 5, one-fourth of a mile west of Botkins, where he is now living. He has made farming, stockdealing, buying notes, and dealing in real estate his avocation, and has accumulated for himself and family a goodly portion of this world’s goods. On the 27th of April, 1872, he married Miss Florence, daughter of Isaac and Nancy Gallimore. By this union he has five children, viz., Oscar W., Albert A., Walter W., Orvil O., and Arthur S.
History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883