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A. D. and A. C. Pittenger, two prominent men of Barton County, Mo., were born in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1835 and 1845, respectively. Their father, Peter Pittenger, was of German descent, and was born in 1801. He was married to Miss Elizabeth McMillen, who was born in 1802, and their deaths occurred in Ohio, in 1850 and 1882, respectively. The grandfather, Henry Pittenger, was born in Prussia. A. D. Pittenger is the sixth in his father’s family. He received his education in the common schools of Ohio. In 1855 he went to Northern Illinois, and, at the end of two years, removed to Pike County, Ill., and remained there until the spring of 1859, when he went to Pike’s Peak, in search of gold. When the war broke out he enlisted in Company I, Eighth Illinois Infantry, and, after remaining in the service three months, was discharged, and returned to Pike County, Ill. In November, 1861, he enlisted in Company G, Fifth Illinois Cavalry, and was in active service three years and eleven months. He was mustered out as first lieutenant. He came to Barton County, Mo., in 1870, and engaged in school teaching, which occupation he followed six years, and then opened a drug store in Nashville, Mo. In 1885 he was married to Mary E. Ennis, who died in 1886. Three years later he wedded Miss Emma Sensney, a native of Illinois, born in 1860. He has always been a Republican in politics, and was elected on that ticket in 1872 to the office of county superintendent of schools. He cast his first presidential vote for John C. Fremont. He was appointed postmaster at Nashville, in June, 1889. He is a member of the Masonic lodge at Lamar, and, in his relations with the public, has commanded the respect and esteem of all with whom he has come in contact. A. C. Pittenger, his brother, is the youngest of his father’s family, and when the war broke out, like his brother he espoused the Union cause, and enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for the term of three years, and was discharged after serving ten months, on account of disability contracted in the service. He returned to Ohio, where he remained until February, 1870, when he came to Barton County, Mo., and taught the first school ever taught in the village of Nashville. In July, 1872, on account of poor health, he returned to Ohio, where he was married in October, 1874, to Miss S. A. Forster, who was born in Erie County, Ohio, in 1850. In 1882 he returned to Barton County, Mo., and was appointed notary public during the administration of Gov. T. T. Crittenden, and, in the spring of 1883, he was elected to the office of justice of the peace, and has served in both these capacities ever since. He is also a Republican in his political views, and cast his first presidential vote for U. S. Grant.