MONROE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: BITTENGER, Rev. M.H.
******************************************************************
Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
SSpradling@aol.com
September 20, 1999
******************************************************************

A History of Monroe County, West Virginia
Oren F. Morton, B. Lit.
Staunton, VA
The McClure Company, Inc.
1916
p. 312

Rev. M. H. BITTENGER

Rev. M. H. (1826-1913) (Martha R. Moffete, 1858) was born at Georgetown, D. 
C., and was a descendant of Adam, an immigrant from Alsace to Pa. His 
grandfather, a captain in the Revolution, was captured at Fort Washington and 
suffered great hardships. M. H. came to Greenville in 1855, after being a 
missionary in Giles two years. He was graduated from Nassau Hall, Princeton, 
N. J., 1849, was licensed as a Presbyterian minister, 1852, and became pastor 
emeritus 1902. He preached also at other points than Greenville, and was a 
teacher and county superintendent. "Few men in Monroe were more widely known 
and perhaps no one was more highly esteemed."