Biographical annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, containing genealogical records of representative families, including many of the early settlers and biographical sketches of prominent citizens, Vol. I, Part 30

Author: Roberts, Ellwood, 1846- ed
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : T. S. Benham
Number of Pages: 826


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On June 3, 1862, Mr. Van Horn married Re- becca A. Cowell, and the issue of this marriage was four children : Sarah, born March 27, 1865, died in infancy; Ella, born November 11, 1866, is the widow of Professor W. H. Detwiler ; Edgar, born November 8, 1870, died in childhood ; and Arthur, born December 21, 1874, died in infancy.


WILLIAM WEST, a retired farmer of King-of-Prussia, Upper Merion township, Mont- gomery county, Pennsylvania, belongs to a fam- ily who were among the early settlers of Pennsyl- vania. Thomas, his great-great-great-grandfa- ther, came from England in 1713, and located in Delaware county. He was a farmer, and in his religious views a member of the Society of Friends. By diligence and the exercise of good judgment, he became the possessor of a consid- erable landed estate.


Among the children of Thomas West, the im- migrant, was Thomas, Jr., born' on the home- stead, and reared as a farmer. He married Susanna Powell, of the same county. They had a number of children, among them being a third Thomas, great-grandfather of William West. The third Thomas West married Sarah, daugh- ter of Job Yarnall, of Delaware county. One of the children of Thomas and Sarah West was another Thomas (grandfather). He was a na- tive of Delaware county, also, born on the home- stead, and was a farmer. He married Elizabeth Maris. One of their children was Caleb West, father of William. He was born in Springfield township. Delaware county, Pennsylvania, in 1801. He learned the tanning trade with Jo- seph Rhoads, of Springfield township, Delaware county, and followed that occupation for some years, but was a farmer later in life. He removed to Radnor township. also in Delaware county, in 1842, and in 1852 to Tredyffrin township, Chester county, and died there. In politics he was a Whig. He was a man who was interested in county affairs and might have held office, but preferred to attend strictly to his business. Like all the family, he was a member of the Society of Friends. He married Sarah, daughter of


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Enos Williamson, a farmer of Newtown township, in Delaware county, who is also deceased. Their children were T. Ellwood, Sarah E., and William is the oldest.


William West was born in Middletown town- ship, Delaware county, Second-mo. 14, 1830. He was educated in the public schools of Dela- ware county, and in Treemount Seminary at Nor- ristown, conducted at that time by Rev. Samuel Aaron. On leaving school he was apprenticed to his uncle, Thomas H. West, to learn the trade of tanner and currier, which was for several gener- ations a sort of inheritance in the West family. He remained there for several years until he had acquired a knowledge of the business, and then remained two years longer. He then returned to the home place, where he farmed until 1857, when he removed to Upper Merion township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and farmed the Roberts farm for sixteen years. In 1873 he purchased the Rebecca Elliott home at King-of- Prussia. He has an elegant home, in which he is surrounded by all the comforts of life. He at- tended the Philadelphia market forty-nine years.


William West married, January 21, 1858, Re- becca K., daughter of Charles Thomas, of an old family of Friends of Tredyffrin township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, of Welsh descent. The couple have three children, as follows : Ruth A., married David Wilson, son of Winfield S. Wilson, of Tredyffrin township, and resides in Bridgeport, where he is a member of town coun- cil ; they have five children-William West. Em- ma J., Winfield S., Rebecca T., and Elizabeth W. 2. Sarah W., married Charles Evans, a son of Morris J. Evans, deceased, of Philadelphia ; their children are William West, Athalia W .. and Charles Morris. 3. Elizabeth W., married William V., son of Edwin Conrad, and they have one child, William West.


William West is a man of business, being frequently called upon to act in the settlement of estates and other positions of trust requiring good judgment in the performance of their du- ties. He is a member of the board of directors of the Wayne Trust Company, of Delaware county and of that of the Berwyn (Chester


county ) National Bank. In politics he is a Re- publican. He has often been solicited to become a candidate for office, but has uniformly declined such honors, preferring to attend strictly to busi- ness interests of one kind or another. He is, like his forefathers, an active member of the Society of Friends, and a man who enjoys the respect and confidence of the community.


WILLIAM G. FREED, a well-known retired farmer of Worcester township, was born in Franconia township. September 8, 1835. a son of Abraham and .Mary (Godshalk) Freed. The father, who was born Feb- ruary 13, 1806, and was one of a family of seven children, followed farming in early life and afterward abandoned that pursuit to engage in the lumber business. On May 17, 1829. he married Mary Godshalk, who was born August 15, 1807, and died February 11, 1844. They had eight children : Enos, Eliza, Isaac, William, Abra- ham, John, Jacob and Mary. On the 23d of No- vember, 1846, Abraham Freed married Anna Sigler, widow of William Sigler. Abraham Freed died June 11, 1862.


William G. Freed attended the public schools of the vicinity until he was ten years of age, leav- ing home and going to reside with William Moyer on a farm in Franconia township, with whom he remained two years in that township, and two more after Mr. Moyer's removal to an adjoining township. At the age of fourteen years he re- turned to the home of his parents, where he was engaged in assisting his father in building houses for another year. Deciding to learn the wheel- wright's trade, he took up his residence with his brother Enos, serving an apprenticeship of two and a half years. He then took charge of the shop, which he managed for his father, being thus employed until he reached the age of twenty-one years. He then took entire charge of the shop and conducted the business for himself, doing this very successfully.


At the age of thirty-one years he sold out his interest in the wheelwright shop and engaged in farming in Worcester township, remaining there two years. He then bought his present farm in


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Worcester, consisting of eighty-eight acres. Mr. Freed has been a very successful farmer. He is a Republican in politics, and a Mennonite in re- ligious faith.


On March 15, 1862, William G. Freed mar- ried Lydia K. Moyer, who was born December 2, 1839. She is one of a family of nine children, and is the daughter of John O. Moyer, of Wor- cester township. William G. and Lydia Freed had seven children, two of whom died in infancy. Elizabeth, born December 24, 1865, married Har- man Delp, a farmer, and they have two children : Annie, born September 17, 1867, married Abra- ham Kulp, a farmer, and they have four children ; Martha, born September 29, 1870, married Henry Nice, of Norristown, and have three chil- dren ; Lydia was born August 8, 1872 ; and Will- iam, born October 7, 1874, is at home with his father.


EDWIN M. SHELLENBERGER, of West Point, was born in Towamencin township, Mont- gomery county, January 25, 1844. His paternal grandfather was Philip Shellenberger, who was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and died at an advanced age, his remains being interred at Hill Town Church. For many years he conducted a tavern. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Appel, was born in Bucks county, also lived to a ripe old age and was laid to rest in Hill Town Church cemetery. Their children were Henry, George, Jesse, Michael and John, all of whom are now deceased.


George Shellenberger, father of Edwin M. Shellenberger, was a native of Bucks county, born in 1792, and he lived to be about seventy years of age, his remains being then interred in Christ Church cemetery at Kulpsville, Pennsyl- vania. He married Catherine Zearfoss, who was born in Whitman township, Montgomery county, and died September 1, 1887, at the age of eighty- seven years. Her remains were then placed by the side of her husband's in Christ Church cem- etery. Her father. Benjamin Zearfoss, was a farmer and shoemaker and was buried at St. John's church near Belfry, Montgomery county. His wife, who was also laid to rest there, bore the


maiden name of Matilda Weaver. Their children were Catherine, Fred, Jacob, Benjamin and Lydia, the wife of Henry Bideman. They, too, are all deceased. The children born unto George and Catherine (Zearfoss) Shellenberger were : Edwin M., Hillery, George, Jesse, Aaron, Ma- tilda, Lydia, Catherine and Elizabeth.


Edwin M. Shellenberger pursued his educa- tion in the public schools until about twenty years of age and then began farming on his father's land, where he remained for about three years. He next purchased his present property at West Point, Montgomery county, where he has resided for twenty years. Here he was largely engaged in the production of vegetables and each week at- tends the Philadelphia market where he places his products on sale. He is a Democrat. He and his wife attend the Schwenkfelder church.


Mr. Shellenberger was married to Miss Mary Bookheimer, a daughter of Frederick Bookheimer. Both her paternal and ma- ternal grandparents were early residents of Montgomery county. Her father was a farmer in Gwynedd township, Montgomery county, and died in April, 1885. Her mother is still living in Gwynedd township, at the age of seventy- eight years. Mrs. Shellenberger was born March 27, 1848, and was one of a family of eight chil- dren, the others being: Amanda, Addison, Eliza- beth, Lydia, Samuel, John and Hannah. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Shellenberger have been born the following children: Howard, the eldest, born March 18, 1868, married Annie Bruner, a daugh- ter of Mrs. Hannah Bruner, and they have one child, Elmer E. Howard Shellenberger is now acting as driver for Benjamin Frederick of West Point. Ida Jane, born October 28, 1869, is the wife of Irwin Quinn, a son of Mrs. Emma Quinn, and they reside at West Point, he being employed in the North Wales planing mill. They have four living children: Robert, Lawrence, Edwin and Hazel, and they also lost two. Jesse Shellen- berger, born May 19, 1872, is an engineer in the employ of Henry Moyer, of West Point. He mar- ried Laura Allebach, a daughter of Joseph Alle- bach. Allen Shellenberger, born March 30, 1874, is employed by Harry Moyer at North Wales. He


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wedded Mary Booc, a daughter of Jacob Booc and they have a daughter, Grace. Lydia L. Shell- enberger, born May 5, 1877, is the wife of Fred Galbraith, a son of Fred Galbraith, Sr. He is em- ployed by the Fairview Creamery and they have one child, Mildred. George Shellenberger, born November 27, 1878, is a farmer of Worcester township, Montgomery county. Samuel, born December 17, 1884, is employed in a sash fac- tory at Lansdale, Pennsylvania. Gurness, born September 5, 1886, is on a farm in Worcester township. Clarence, born August 20, 1889, is at home with his father.


SAMUEL SCHULTZ YEAGER, a prom- inent farmer of Worcester township, was born September 23, 1869, in the township where he now lives. He attended the district schools until he was fifteen years of age, when he went to work on his father's farm. After five years spent in this way he obtained employment with Joseph K. Schultz, another farmer, with whom he remained four years. He then assisted Jacob Fisher on his farm for two years. He married and removed to Lansdale, working in the flour mills of A. C. Got- shall & Company for two years. During the first year he lived in a house which he rented, but the next year he built a house for himself. In the spring of 1898 he sold his home in Lansdale and bought the farm on which he lives. It consists of thirty-six acres, and has a good dairy. Mr. Yea- ger attends the Schwenkfelder church, of which he is a member. He is a Democrat, as was his father before him.


In 1894 Samuel Schultz Yeager married Flora M. Cassel, who was born March 26, 1870, a daughter of Mahlon H. and Lydia K. ( Meschter) Cassel. Samuel S. and Flora Yeager have one child, Elmer, born July 23, 1901.


Mahlon H. Cassel married Lydia K., daughter of Rev. George Meschter, January 25, 1868. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Cassel : Minnie M., born November 27, 1868; Flora ; Alice, born July 12, 1871; Martha, born May 8, 1873. Minnie M. Cassel married Milton Benner, who lives in Wor- cester township. Mattie is deceased. Alice mar- ried Melvin Allebach, and is also deceased. Joseph


Cassel, the grandfather of Mrs. Yeager, born April 28, 1805, married, November 9, 1826, Re- becca, daughter of Abraham Heebner. Their children : Mary, born September 7, 1827 ; Amos, who was born June 23, 1830, and died March 2, 1858; Sarah, January 31, 1832; Henry, May 30, 1834; Edith, October 28, 1836; Susanna, April 4, 1839; Mahlon, April 10, 1840; Hannah, July 29, 1845; Christian, November 19, 1846; and Leah, April 21, 1850.


Abraham Heebner was the father of the wife of Joseph Cassel (Mrs. Yeager's grandfather ). He married, December 1, 1791, Catharine, daughter of Matthias Rittenhouse. Their chil- dren were: Sarah, Hannah, Christopher, John, Joseph, Susanna, Rebecca, (grandmother) ; Mary and Elizabeth. Both the Cassel and the Heeb- ner families were Schwenkfelders.


Rev. George Meschter (Mrs. Yerger's ma- ternal grandfather) was born March 28, 1808, and married, May 13, 1830, Sophia, daughter of Andrew Kriebel. Their children were: Cath- arine, born May 7, 1831 ; Abraham, August 31, 1833; Maria, who was born April 6, 1836, and died in infancy ; Jacob, born July 4, 1837 ; George, born May 2, 1840; Lydia (mother), born June 5, 1843; John, June 15, 1847 ; and Aaron, who was born April 17, 1852, and died in infancy. He was a minister of the Schwenkfelders and lived in Lower Salford, near Mainland. He died many years ago. His wife died in 1852. Rev. George Meschter's father was Christopher, born July 21, 1779, who was the son of Christopher Meschter, born December 17, 1746, who was the son of Melchior Meschter and his wife Regina, who came in 1734 to Pennsylvania with the other Schwenkfelders.


Jesse Yeager (father), born February 6, 1831, married, October 12, 1858, Mary, daughter of Frederick Schultz. Their children are as fol- lows : Selina, born May 23, 1859, married Alfred Baus, a farmer of East Greenville, and they have had three children, one being deceased. Isaiah, born July 13, 1861, is deceased. Mary Ann, born October 19, 1862, died at the age of eighteen years. Isabella, born October 18, 1864, married Frederick Rentschler, who came from Germany


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in infancy and is a farmer of Worcester. John, born August 27. 1866, married a western woman, and resides in Texas, where he is a farmer by occupation. They have had one child, now de- ceased. Samuel is the subject of this sketch. Irwin, born March 19, 1872, a motorman on the trolley line, living in Germantown, married Ella Henry, and they have four children. Morris, born September 28, 1874, killed on the railroad at Lan- caster, stepping out of the way of one train and being struck by another which was coming in the opposite direction.


Frederick Schultz (maternal grandfather). born June 28, 1795, was the son of Rev. Mel- choir Shultz. He married, May 31, 1827, Mary K., daughter of Abraham Kriebel. Their chil- dren : Dinah K., born February 23, 1828, died January 21, 1846; Adonia K., born March 25, 1830; Naomi K., born October 21, 1832; Mary K. (mother), born December 17, 1834; Lydia K., born January 4. 1839, died January 28, 1846; Joseph K., born April 9, 1841, married October 18. 1864. Sarah S., daughter of Isaac S. Kriebel, and they have eight children ; he was a farmer in Worcester township ; Sarah K., born April 12, 1845. Frederick W. Schultz died April 12, 1867, and his widow died July 20, 1875.


Rev. Melchoir Schultz (great-grandfather). born March 25, 1756, was the son of George Schultz. He married Salom, daughter of Chris- topher Wagner, November 29, 1781. Their chil- dren were Christina, Regina, Maria, Henry W., Sarah, Frederick 'and Susannah (twins), and Rosina. He lived in Worcester township.


George Schultz (great-great-grandfather) was the father of Melchoir Schultz, who came to Pennsylvania with the Schwenkfelders in 1734. George Schultz married Maria, daughter of Abraham Yeakle, January 31, 1744. He died October 30, 1776, aged sixty-five years, and she December 13, 1797, aged seventy-nine years. Their children were: Abraham, born March 23, 1747, and Rev. Melchoir.


D. MELVIN ALLEBACH, a prominent farmer of Worcester township, was born in Skip- pack township, December 30, 1869. He attended


the common schools until he was seventeen years of age, when he became a clerk in the general merchandise store of J. F. Bean, at Creamery, remaining there for three years. He then was em- ployed as a clerk by A. F. Scheetz, of Doylestown, for two years, and by J. S. Geller, of Lansdale, for seven years. At the end of that time he bought his farm in Worcester township, which consists of nineteen and one-half acres, and where he now lives. He has a good dairy and is a suc- cessful farmer. He and his wife are members of the Schwenkfelder church.


In 1893 D. Melvin Allebach married Alice, daughter of Mahlon H. and Lydia K. ( Meschter) Cassel. She was born July 12, 1871, and had three sisters, as follows: Minnie M., born No- vember 27, 1868, married M. B. Benner ; Flora, born March 26, 1870, married S. S. Yeager ; and Martha, born May 8, 1873, is deceased. The chil- dren of D. Melvin and Alice (Cassel) Allebach are : Iva, born September 29, 1894, attending the Metz school; Claude, born August 22, 1896, at- tending school; and Harold, born November I, 1001. Mrs. Alice Allebach died April 7. 1902. D. Melvin Allebach married for his second wife Susan Kriebel, May 21, 1904. Mr. Allebach is a Republican but not an office seeker.


David H. Allebach (father) married Sarah S. Kulp, and they had five children : H. Wilson Allebach married Minerva, daughter of William Gerges, of Lansdale, and resides at North Wales, having previously been a clerk at Lederachsville. They have three chil- dren. Maggie Allebach is deceased. Esther mar- ried Sylvanus Clemens, a farmer in Hatfield, and they have three children. Phares is deceased. D. Melvin is the youngest.


Henry M. Kulp (maternal grandfather) had six children, two deceased : Mary Ann, who mar- ried Peter B. Clymer, a grocer at No. 532 Sus- quehanna avenue. Sarah S. (mother) ; Margaret Jane, wife of Benjamin W. Markley, of Towa- mencin, who is a farmer by occupation, and they have four children ; Sadie, wife of Professor H. G. Landis, principal of the Lansdale high school, and they have had three children, of whom two are deceased ; Ella May, wife of Frank Landis, of


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Worcester township, a farmer by occupation, and they have one child ; Verna, who married Howard Ruth, of Towamenein township, a farmer by oc- cupation and they have one child ; and Jennie, un- married, attending the West Chester school.


David G. Allebach (grandfather) was born in Montgomery county in 1801, and died in 1888. He was a farmer.


J. HOWARD WEBER, of Worcester town- ship, was born November 14, 1864, at North Wales, Montgomery county, being the son of John M. and Barbara (Custer) Weber. He at- tended the Ander's school in his native township until he was seventeen years of age, when he went to work on the farm for one year. He then started to learn his trade of blacksmithing, serving the the required term of three years with William Johnson, of Gwynedd Square. He went to Phil- adelphia and was employed by the Rapid Transit Company for one year, when he returned to Gwynedd and engaged in the blacksmith business for himself for eight years. After an absence of one year, he again returned to Gwynedd Square and remained there until 1900. In that year he removed to his farm in Worcester township where he farms and manages his blacksmith shop at the same time. He has twenty-seven aeres and nine perches of good land, and does a dairy busi- ness, selling milk to the Center Point Creamery. He is a Demoerat in politics and a member of the Wentz Reformed church.


John M. Weber (father) was born in Wor- cester township, February 5, 1835, and is the son of John H. and Elizabeth ( Markley) Weber. He was educated in the public schools and early in life learned the blacksmithing trade. He carried on this business in Worcester and North Wales for twenty-five years, being one of the old type of mechanies who are proficient either in country or city work. He was employed at the Cramp's ship- yard and by the Rapid Transit Company in Phil- adelphia for some time. He removed to Norris- town in March, 1882, and was employed at his trade by William M. Singerly, proprictor of the Philadelphia Record, for eight years. Since that time he has been engaged in the box department


of the William K. Gresh & Son Cigar Manufac- tory.


John M. Weber (father) filled the office of mercantile appraiser in 1872. He was employed in the custom house at Philadeplhia under Gro- ver Cleveland's administration, when John R. Reed was collector of the port, serving for a period of four years. In politics the family have always been Democrats.


John M. Weber married Barbara Ann Custer, who was born in Worcester township, a daughter of Nathan and Catharine ( Umstead) Custer. Mr. Custer was a carpet weaver and farmer at Fair- view, and had eight children. The children of John M. and Barbara Weber are: Warren C., born October, 1859; Catharine, who died young ; Emma, who died at the age of ten years; John Howard; Ida May, who died at the age of four years ; and Clara Ella, who married Winfield Roseo Hartzell, principal of the Plymouth high school. Warren C. Weber was one of the first five to be appointed mail carrier in the borough of Norristown, and has held that position ever since. He married Martha Famous, daughter of Hiram and Catharine Famous. Mr. Famous is a carpenter in Conshohocken. Warren and Martha Weber have one son, Carbon Lester Weber.


John H. Weber (grandfather) was born in Worcester township, April 8, 1798. He mar- ried Elizabeth Markley, born in Bucks county, in 1799. She was the daughter ot George and Elizabeth Markley.


Abraham Weber (great-grandfather ) was born in Worcester on the same farm. He mar- ried Elizabeth Hoot, a native of Gwynedd town- ship. She was born on the old Hoot homestead.


Jacob Weber (great-great-grandfather) was born in Towamenein township. His wife was Elizabeth.


Christian Weber was the founder of the fam- ily in America. He emigrated from Germany, September 27. 1727, locating in Philadelphia for one year, and then removing to Towamencin township, at that time in Philadelphia county, and now Montgomery. The family have all been farmers from one generation to another.


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(grandparents) had six children, of whom four reached maturity : Abraham, deceased; George M., a school teacher in early life, who was born in Worcester township, and died in January, 1900; Emeline Margaret, born in Worcester township, wife of James W. Slough, now living retired at West Point: Jacob M., who died in 1888, in North Wales.


The Custer family, to whom the mother of J. Howard Weber belongs, emigrated from Hol- land among the early settlers of Pennsylvania. The grandfather of Mrs. John M. Weber, Har- mon Umstead, at one time owned a large portion of what is now Franklin Square, at Sixth and Vine streets, Philadelphia.


J. Howard Weber married (first wife) Livia Stohlberger, also of Gwynedd Square, April I, 1886. They were married by Rev. W. F. Burns. Mrs. Weber died October 26, 1894, and was buried in the Baptist cemetery in Upper Gwynedd. Their children : Philip S., born February 24, 1887, at Gwynedd Square, residing with his father ; and Linda, born October 21, 1891, attending school.


J. Howard Weber married (second wife) Kate F., daughter of Simon K. and Esther (Freyer) Cassel. She was born November 25, 1868, and the marriage took place September 26, 1896, Rev. W. S. Anders performing the cere- mony. Her mother was the daughter of Bernard B. and Catharine (Kriebel) Freyer. Simon and Esther (Freyer) Cassel were married September 5, 1865. Their children : Allen F., born Decem- ber 4, 1866; Jacob, a deaf mute, born November 6, 1870; Kate F., wife of Mr. Weber; Charles F., born October 3, 1872; Annie F. (deceased), born August 10, 1874 ; Edith F. (deceased), born July 20, 1876; Susanna, born July 20, 1878, wife of Wilson Keller; George, born December 13, 1879; Elizabeth, born October 14, 1881, wife of Irwin Underkiffler.


Daniel K. Cassel (grandfather of Mrs. Weber) was the well-known genealogist and his- torian, author of the "Kulp Family," "Cassel Family," etc. He was born April 22, 1820, and has been deceased several years. His wife was Elizabeth Kulp.


The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Weber,




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