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 55

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


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Peter Godshalk (grandfather) married La- vinia Haldman. They are both deceased. Their children were: Catharine, Charles H. (father),


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Oler, Frank, Solomon, Louisa, Reiff, Peter, and two who died in infancy.


Jonothan Schall (maternal grandfather ) and has wife Sarah (Nice) Schall had the following children: Mary (mother), Defro, Eliza, Cath- arine, Sarah, Jesse, Jacob, Philbert, Henry and Leander. Frank S. Godshalk is a Republican in politics, and is serving his second term as super- visor of his township. He belongs to Trinity Re- formed church, at Skippack.


JOHN BEAN ALDERFER was born in Lower Salford township, December 9, 1852, and attended the public schools of his native county until he was seventeen years of age. He has been engaged in farming ever since that time. He lived on the H. H. Heebner farm for five years and in 1895 purchased the H. M. Anders farm, where he still lives.


On September 11, 1886, John B. Alderfer married Elizabeth, daughter of Peter J. Bean and Barbara (Keyser) Bean. Mrs. Alderfer was born August 17, 1859. Their children are: Emaline, born August 1, 1887, and Vincent, born August 28, 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Alderfer were married in Camden, New Jersey, the ceremony being performed by Rev. J. K. Beverly. Mr. Alderfer is a Republican in politics. He has a good dairy in connection with his farm. He is highly esteemed and trusted by all who know him.


Jacob F. Alderfer (father) was born in Mont- gomery county, March 14, 1824, and spent his life in farming. He married Susanna Bean, who was born May 1, 1828, and died at the age of seventy-two years. Their children are: John B .; David, who was born March 9, 1854, and resides in Lower Salford township; Mary Ann, who was born February 1, 1856, and married Isaac O. Kratz, of Hatfield township, they having nine children ; and Caroline, who married Jacob S. Alderfer, of Upper Salford township, and they have eight children.


Jacob Alderfer (grandfather) was born about 1786, and was the son of Frederick Alderfer. Hc died about 1846. He married Margaret Van Fos- sen who survived him some years. Her mother


was a daughter of Henry Gotshalk. The Al- derfers are very prominent residents of Lower Salford township. The children of Jacob and Margaret Alderfer are: Jacob F. (father) ; Ben- jamin and Annie (deceased) ; Mary ; and Eliza- beth, deceased, wife of Abraham Bechtel,


Mrs. Jacob Alderfer (mother) had the fol- lowing brothers and sisters: Abraham Bean, de- ceased; Mary, widow of John Wismer; John Bean, deceased; and Kate, wife of Rudolph Al- derfer.


Mrs. Elizabeth Alderfer, wife of John B. Alderfer, is the daughter of Peter J. and Barbara (Keyser) Bean. Peter J. Bean was born Au- gust 6, 1832, and died May 9, 1891, while his wife was born August 26, 1838, and is still living. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Bean: Elizabeth (Mrs. Alderfer); Catharine, born March 17, 1861, who married John Rason; Jacob, born Oc- tober 25, 1862, who lives in Norriton township; Henry, born March 9, 1865, and died February 18, 1877; Lavinia, born August 8, 1867, who married Frank Smith; Amos, born August 19, 1869; Amanda, born August 7, 1872; Joseph, born November. 28, 1874; Morris, born June I, 1878; Emma, born December 13, 1880.


STEPHEN SNYDER was born in New Hanover, Montgomery county, December 26, 1830, and attended the public schools until he was seventeen years of age. He was then apprenticed to learn the trade of cabinet-making to Mr. Ros- enbarger, of Hatfield. He worked at his trade until about 1863, when he settled on the farm where he has lived ever since. The place was formerly known as the Cassel farm and contains seventy-three acres. He is independent in poli- tics, voting for the man rather than party.


Stephen Snyder married, November 8, 1856, Mary Ann Kline, daughter of Jonathan Kline, of Gwynedd township, Montgomery county. They had no children. Mrs. Mary Ann Snyder was born February 19, 1835, and died May 17, 1865. She is buried in the cemetery of Towamencin church.


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was born December 23, 1836, and they were mar- ried July 7, 1865. They had two children : Amanda, born July 5, 1867, married Franklin Bower, of Towamencin ; and Elizabeth, born De- cember 10, 1868, resides with her parents.


Isaac Schneider (father) was born in New Hanover township, Montgomery county. He re- ceived a common-school education and learned the trade of tanning under his father. He fol- lowed this occupation all his life. In politics he was an active Democrat and served in the po- sition of register of wills of Montgomery county for one term. He was a member of the Reformed church, in which he was deacon, elder and trustee. Isaac Schneider was born May 16, 1793, and died April 7, 1877. He married Elizabeth Reigner, who was born June 4, 1798, and died October I, 1851. Their children : Solomon, born July 19, 1817, married, December 26, 1841, Dorothea, daughter of Emmanuel Swartz, they having two children; Lewis, born May 29, 1819, married Mary Corn, and died July 31, 1881 ; Sophia, born February 2, 1821, died May 3, 1892, was the wife of Jacob Hendricks; Jacob and John (twins), born March 25, 1823, Jacob dying September 21, 1851, and John October 2, 1859; Susan, born Oc- tober 13, 1825, married, November 6, 1843, Jacob Schwartz (deceased) ; Mary Ann married, Oc- tober 17, 1847, Henry Cassel, both he and she be- ing now deceased; Rebecca married, November 23, 1853, John Keil; Hermina, married, March 24, 1856, William Hortzog (deceased) ; and Au- gustus and Isaac died young.


Jacob Schneider (grandfather) was a tanner by trade and also a farmer. He was a Democrat and served as justice of the peace. He belonged to the Reformed church. He and his wife had three children. As is indicated by the name, the family is of German origin, but its members have been residents of Montgomery county for many generations.


Solomon Snyder, brother of Stephen Snyder, was a school teacher, justice of the peace of Main- land, and register of wills of Montgomery county, and was very active in politics. He left a wide circle of friends. He was educated in the com-


mon schools at Trappe and at Lexington Acad- emy. He learned the profession of a civil en- gineer but soon abandoned it.


FREAS STYER was born June 7, 1859, in Whitpain township, Montgomery county, Penn- sylvania. He is the son of Wm. Augustus and Elizabeth Keeley (Freas) Styer and kindred to the numerous Whitpain township families of that name, his ancestors having located in Whit- pain township prior to the Revolution. Wm. Augustus Styer, like most of the family and their forefathers, was a farmer and was the father of a family of eight children, of whom six, Henry C., Hannah, Freas, Martha C. (Naylor), Horace E. and Ellis K. are living. The son Freas is unmarried and has always maintained his home with his parents, who are still living. Their resi- dence until 1898 was the farm of 100 acres in Whitpain and since then in the borough of Nor- ristown.


Freas Styer spent his childhood and youth on the farm and participated in all the labor thereof, attending the public schools in the winter months and afterwards attended Treemount Seminary, Norristown and Centre Square Academy, several terms. During 1879-1880 and 1880-1881, he taught in the public schools of Plymouth town- ship, at the same time continuing his studies and preparing himself both intellectually and finan- cially for college. He entered the freshman class, Classical Course, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, in September, 1880, and was grad- uated therefrom in June, 1885, receiving the de- gree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1888 the same institution conferred on him the degree Master of Arts. In June, 1885, Freas Styer registered as a law student in the office of N. H. Larzelere, Esq., and was admitted to the bar of Montgom- ery county in October, 1887. Since that time, he has devoted himself to the practice of his profession, and has obtained a large clientage and has become widely known as a skillful and suc- cessful practitioner. At the beginning of the pres- ent year (1904) he associated with himself, Her- bert U. Moore, Esq., an active and talented young


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barrister, and since then they have been prac- ticing law under the firm nanie of Styer & Moore.


Mr. Styer, in addition to his law practice, has always been actively interested in business and financial matters. He was one of the or- ganizers and a director and vice-president of the Consumers Ice Company from its organization ; one of the organizers and a director in the Cedar Hollow Lime Company, a director in the Penn Trust Company, solicitor and director for the several Building and Loan Associations and other corporations.


Mr. Styer has always been an active Re- publican in politics but has never been an office seeker, unless a desire for the District Attorney- ship nomination, in the early years of his pro- fessional career, can be considered such. He has, however, for a number of years represented his ward in town council and occupied the posi- tion of solicitor and clerk to the board of directors of the poor.


Freas Styer, like his father and grandfather before him, is a member of the Society of Friends, and is a regular attendant of its religious meetings.


WILLIAM B. RICHARDS, one of the most successful farmers and fruit growers in his sec- tion of Montgomery county, was born on the farm which he now occupies, May 16, 1854. He is the son of Samuel S. and Elizabeth W. (Jus- tice) Richards.


Samuel S. Richards (father), was born De- cember 10, 1822, at the old homestead in Plymouth township near Norristown. He was the son of Caleb and Jane W. (Walker) Richards. Samuel S. Richards received a common-school education and learned the trade of carpentering, which he followed until the time of his marriage. In 1853 he removed to Plymouth township and purchased the property known as the Letitia Gallinger farm, and occupied it to the time of his death. He was a member of the Society of Friends and attended worship at Plymouth Meeting. In politics he was a Republican, and gave effective support to its principles. He was a delinquent internal revenue collector under David Newport for three


years during the progress of the Rebellion. On February 10, 1853, he married Elizabeth W. Justice, of Haverford, Delaware county, who was a daughter of John M. and Betsy P. Justice. John M. Justice was a great-great-grandson of John Morton, one of the signers of the Declara- tion of Independence. The children of Samuel S. and Elizabeth W. Richards were: William B., born May 16, 1854; Mira L., born October I, 1856, and died August 22, 1857 ; J. Justice, born October 25, 1858, and died June 20, 1861 ; Mary J., born February 18, 1860, and died April 18, 1869; Carroll B., born February 12, 1866, now living on a farm in Whitpain township near Blue Bell. He married, February 21, 1894, Esther L. Taggart, daughter of Austin L. and Hannah Taggart. Austin L. Taggart was a well-known farmer in Upper Merion township, and repre- sented Montgomery county in the house of repre- sentatives for several years.


Caleb Richards (grandfather ), of Schuylkill township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, married Jane Walker, a descendant in the fifth genera- tion of Lewis Walker, of Chester Valley, who left Wales in 1686, arriving in Pennsylvania in 1687 after a tedious passage of thirteen months. Lewis Walker settled in Radnor, and Second-month (April) 22, 1693, he was married at Haverford Meeting-house, to Mary Morris. Lewis was not satisfied, however, with his Radnor home, and he became the first settler of Tredyffrin township in Chester county, in 1705. Tredyffrin township lies in the great valley in the most easterly part of Chester county, adjoining Upper Merion town- ship in Montgomery county. Lewis Walker's children were : Daniel, Elizabeth, Joseph, Hannah, Enoch, Abel and Isaac. Isaac Walker married Sarah, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Jerman. Their children were eleven, as follows: Joseph. Mary, Lewis, Mary, Hannah, Benjamin, Azael. Rachel, Abel, Isaac and Leah. Joseph, eldest son, married Sarah Thomas. Their children, thir- teen in all, were : Zillah, Isaac, Priscilla, Thomas, Joseph, Sarah, Mary, Naomi, Lewis, Joseph, Enoch, William and Jesse. Of these, Isaac married first Marp Pugh, and their chil- dren were: Sarah, Ann, Joseph, Hananiah,


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Asahel, Mary, Priscilla, Zillah. Jane and Rachel. The Richards family are old resi- dents of Chester county, their ancestor hav- ing come from Wales and settled near Valley Forge on the Schuylkill river. They and the Walkers and other families of that vicinity have intermarried very frequently. The children of Caleb and Jane (Walker) Richards were as fol- lows: John Richards, died 1875, married Mary Ann Thomas and Eliza Eastburn, their children dying young; Isaac W. Richards married Sus- anna W. Sands; Samuel S. Richards married Elizabeth Justice. After the death of Caleb Richards his widow married William Hallowell and had three other children, as follows : Kate Hallowell, who married William H. Jenkins ; Caleb E. Hallowell, who married Hettie Yerkes ; and Benjamin Hallowell. Caleb (grand- father) died Second month 2, 1824.


William B. Richards attended the neighbor- hood schools until he attained the age of fifteen years and then went to Treemount Seminary at Norristown for two years. He has been en- gaged in the occupation of farming very suc- cessfully, as has been said, ever since. He is a member of the Patrons of Husbandry, and was school director in Plymouth township for a period of five years. He is a Republican in politics, and in religious faith a member of the Society of Friends, attending Plymouth Meeting. In ad- dition to ordinary farming he give much at- tention to fruits and choice vegetables, grain and hay. He also attends market in Philadelphia. He produces strawberries and other small fruits of large size and fine quality.


On November 23, 1876, he married Jane L. Cleaver, daughter of Josiah and Martha Cleaver, of Montgomery township, Montgomery coun- ty. Josiah Cleaver was born April 17, 1848, and is a farmer. The children of William B. and Jane L. (Cleaver) Richards are : J. Randolph, born December 31, 1877, married on March 31, 1902, Katie Coughlin, and is liv- ing in Philadelphia; J. Cleaver, born January 5, 1880, is at home with his father; Samuel S., born January 10, 1882, is at home with his father ; Lizzie J., born October 17, 1885, and


Jennie C., born September 26, 1889, are at home ; and Helen, born March 30, 1893, died April 8, 1893.


JESSE M. DAVIS was born November 9, 1849, on the homestead in Plymouth township. He is the son of Francis and Catherine ( Hellings) Davis. Francis Davis (father) was born De- cember 18, 1810, being the son of Samuel and Mary (Diehl) Davis. He received a common- school education at Sandy Hill and spent his life on the McAillough farm in Plymouth township, which farm he owned. In politics he was a Re- publican. On December 3, 1835, he married Catherine Hellings and they had five children. Catherine Hellings was born July 14, 1817. The mother died May 24, 1883. Francis Davis died October, 1886. His children were: Mary Ann, born October 11, 1836, and died in 1876; Samuel, born July 17, 1839; Susanna, born July 16, 1842; Margaret, born April 29, 1847; and Jesse M. Mary Ann married, on January 21, 1858, David Zell, they having three children, Meredith, Howard (deceased) and Frank. Sam- uel married, on February 11, 1864, Lidie Mitchell, they having two children, Edward and William. Susanna, deceased, married on January 31, 1868, Henry Hentz, they having two children, Kate and Mary (married Arthur Hile). Margaret mar- ried Charles Alvin Cox, they having the following children : Charles, who married Kate Schofield; Frank, who married Annie Donnehower ; Bertha ; Wilson, who married Miss Jackson.


Samuel Davis (grandfather) was born Au- gust 13, 1783, and died May 19, 1822. He was a soldier in the war of 1812 and for that was turned out of the Friends church. He married Mary Diehl and had four children: Thomas, Mary Ann, Susanna and Francis. His sister, Mary Ann, married David Harry.


Thomas Davis (great-grandfather) was born August 9, 1756, and married Lydia White. His brother William was born March 25, 1854.


Samuel Davis (great-great-grandfather ) was born in 1710 in Wales, England. He married Jane Reese, May 24, 1736, and later Susanna Hughes, in 1753, in Plymouth township. The


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children of his second wife were Thomas and William.


Jesse Davis has spent all his life on the home- stead. He went to school at Cold Point. When the Fifty-first Regiment of Norristown was home on a furlough during the Civil war he tried to join as a drummer boy but failed to be sworn in as did the rest of his companions bent on the same mission. He is a grain farmer and a fruit raiser, making truck-raising a specialty. He attends the Philadelphia market. He is an ardent Republican but has never sought or held office.


On March 31, 1880, he married Kate L. Klander of Roxborough, daughter of George and Kate Klander. They have three children: Jessic K., born July 19, 1884; Clara L., born July 16, 1883; and Georgetta L., born June 16, 1890.


LEWIS JUDSON STANNARD was born May 2, 1875, in Rutland, Vermont. He is the son of Edward J. and Mary Jane (Childs) Stan- nard.


Edward J. Stannard (father) was born De- cember 12, 1829, in Rutland, Vermont, being the son of Herman Stannard. He spent his early life at school, and on completing his education, went into the sheep and cattle raising business and followed that occupation successfully for thirty years. In 1876 he removed to Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and settled in Whitpain township, buying the William Zorns' farm at Broad avenue, where he devotes himself to general farming. He is a Republican in politics but never aspired to public office, preferring to at- tend strictly to his farm. He attends St. Thomas' Episcopal church of White Marsh. He married, May 3, 1869, Mary Jane Childs, born August 26, 1838, of Philadelphia. She is the daughter of Oliver and Edith (Shaw) Childs, of Jefferson county, New York. They have had six children, three of whom are now living, as follows : Ethelyn Minerva, born July 7, 1871 : Oliver Edward, born November 12, 1873, who married Emma Deprefontaine of Blue Bell and has two children, the family residing at that place ; and Lewis Judson, born May 2, 1875. The other children died in infancy.


Lewis J. Stannard attended school at Sandy Hill three years and at Norristown nine years. After leaving school he worked on the farm with his father until he reached his majority. He then rented a farm at Blue bell. From there he removed to Horsham and in 1899 removed to Plymouth township and bought the Brooks farm where he at present resides. He attends Phila- delphia market with a line of poultry, dairy pro- ducts and vegetables and also raises grain, hay, etc.


March 18, 1896, he married Bertha E. Rile, of Penllyn, in Lower Gwynedd township, a daughter of Albert G. and Mary (Craft) Rile. They have two children: Mary Elizabeth, born June 15, 1898, and Edith Rile, born May 18, 1900.


Albert G. Rile was born in Philadelphia, be- ing the son of Charles and Sophia (Kneedler) Rile. His parents removed to Blue Bell, where in his early days he attended school. After his school days were over he followed farming up to recent years and now resides at Mount Airy. He is a Democrat in politics and in religious faith a member of the Reformed church of Blue Bell. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married Mary Fleck of Springhouse and (second wife) Mary Craft, daughter of Jacob and Eliza Craft, of Gwynedd, who is also now deceased. There were two chil- dren by the first marriage: Ella, the elder, mar- ried Edward Preston, the couple living at Wissa- hickon. Their children are Alda H., Marion A., Edward and Ralph W. Anna, the second child of Albert Rile, lives in Philadelphia. By the second marriage there were three children, as fol- lows : Charles Henry married Elizabeth Shepard, daughter of Isaac Shepard, of Broodaker, having three children: Joseph Clarence, William Shep- ard and Josephine ; Ida Virginia married Charles Hansell, of Philadelphia, the couple now living at Chestnut Hill and having two children, John Rile and William Harold; Bertha is the wife of Lewis J. Stannard.


Heman Stannard (grandfather of Lewis) was the son of Samuel Stannard. Samuel Stan- nard was an officer in the Revolutionary Army,


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enlisting in the Seventh Regiment of Connecti- cut Militia under Colonel Charles Webb and Cap- tain Nathaniel Tuttle, July 14, 1775. He partici- pated in the siege of Boston and in the battles of Germantown and Monmouth. He was in winter quarters at Reading during the winter of 1778-1779 and at Morristown in 1779-1780. He became sergeant, August 18, 1780, and at the close of the war returned to Fairhaven, Vermont, and received an appointment as captain of the Vermont State Militia. Heman Stannard was a sheep and cattle raiser at Rutland, Vermont.


THOMAS J. MARCH, of the March- Brownback Stove Manufacturing Company, Pottstown, was born in Lawrenceville (now Parkerford) Chester county, Pennsylvania, Jann- ary 16, 1844. He is the son of Michael and Susanna (Christman) March.


Michael March (father) was born July 24, 1803, in East Vincent township, Chester county. In his younger days he was a carpenter, con- tractor and farmer. He became one of the founders of the March-Brownback Stove Com- pany, at Lawrenceville, Chester county, in 1848. He carried on the business for many years, be- ginning in a small way and employing, at the time of his death, one hundred and fifty persons. He died in his seventy-seventh year. He mar- ried Miss Susanna, daughter of Henry Christ- man, also of East Vincent township, she dying in her eighty-first year. Michael March was a member of the Reformed church, while his wife was a Lutheran. He was a man of influence in his community, was active in the interest of the Republican party, and was a firm, ardent adher- ent of its policy. He served as school director for many years, and was one of the political lead- ers of his day. Michael and Susanna (Christ- man) March had six children: B. Franklin ; Henry C., deceased; Ellen, who married James Brownback, of Linfield; Webster, deceased ; Thomas J. ; and Emma C., who married Rev. J. P. Miller.


Frederick J. March (grandfather) was born in Limerick township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. He was a carpenter, contractor


and a farmer, and removed to Chester county, where he died in East Vincent township. He died in his sixty-seventh year and left a large family.


Frederick March (great-grandfather) was the first representative of the family in Pennsyl- vania. He was of German descent and settled in Limerick township, Montgomery county.


Colonel Henry Christman (maternal grand- father) was the eldest of three brothers and was born March 14, 1779, and died August 12, 1864. On February 26, 1806, Colonel Henry Christ- man married Eleanor Root, daughter of Sebas- tian Root. She was born April 10, 1787, and died August 19, 1854, while on a visit to her daughter, Margaret Buckwalter, at Parker's Ford, Chester county. They lived on a farm ad- joining the old Christman homestead, and also adjoining the farm of his brother Jacob. Colonel Henry Christman and his brothers were all stout, able-bodied men of good height and build, and were successful farmers. Henry Christman was the owner of an oil mill, which he converted into a flour mili about 1835, and which he retained until his death. He was commissioned lieuten- ant-colonel in the First Brigade in the Militia of Delaware and Chester counties, by Governor Simon Snyder, and served in the war of 1812. Colonel Henry and Eleanor (Root) Christman had the following children : George, born Febru- ary 10, 1807; Sarah, born February 14, 1809; Susanna, born March 24, 1811; Henry, born August 13, 1813; Catharine, born September 22, 1816; Eliza, born October 1, 1818 ; Eleanor, born April 10, 1821 ; Maria, born February 10, 1823, and Margaret, born November 10, 1824. Of these children Sarah and Eliza died in childhood. Margaret married Isaac Buckwalter, and died January 16, 1885, leaving two daughters. Cath- arine married Isaac Shantz, and died July 28, 1866, leaving two chidlren, a son and a daugh- ter. Susanna married Michael March (father), and died April 19, 1891, leaving four children. Maria married Abraham Pennypacker (de- ceased) and has four sons living. Eleanor re- sides with her sister Maria Pennypacker. Henry died suddenly, July 24, 1865, unmarried. George


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married Miss Sarah Beerbower, December 23, 1827. In the autumn of 1843, after a prolonged illness, he died of fever, being in his thirty-seventh year. His widow afterwards mar- ried Henry Huzzard and died April 27, 1863, in her fifty-sixth year.




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