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November 26, 1882, William W. Davidheiser married Miss Melinda Moyer, daughter of John and Maria (Moser) Moyer. Mr. Davidheiser and wife belong to the Lutheran church at Boyertown.
John Davidheiser, son of William W. and Melinda (Moyer) Davidheiser, married Miss Katie A. Turner, of Boyertown, Pennsylvania. They have one child, William Warren. John is a clerk for the Manatawny Knitting Company. The wife of John Davidheiser is the daughter of William and Kate (Arman) Turner. William Turner was a hotel-keeper and now lives on a small farm.
Mr. Davidheiser is a Democrat in politics and was a school director in Douglass township, Berks county. He is a stockholder in the Read- ing National Bank, and also in the Security Com- pany at Reading, and in a canning factory at Boyerstown. He is also interested in the stone- crushing business in Douglas township, Berks county.
Mrs. Davidheiser's parents were born in Berks county. John Moyer was a farmer and died in 1863, at about thirty-six years of age ..
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His wife died in 1890 at the age of fifty-six. They had six children, as follows: Amanda, wife of Henry Romich of Boyertown; Melinda, wife of Mr. Davidheiser; William, of Reading; Katie, wife of Henry Trout, of Pottstown; Au- gustus, of Boyertown; and Ellen, wife of Jacob Davidheiser.
John Moyer, grandfather of Mrs. Melinda (Moyer) Davidheiser, was born in Pennsylvania and was a farmer. His wife was Catherine Dierolf, who lived to be ninety-three years of age. He died well advanced in years. They had three children.
The maternal grandfather of Mrs. David- heiser, Frederick Moser, was a native of Penn- sylvania. His wife was Dena Weand. He was more than seventy years of age at the time of his death. She died before him. They had six children. The father of Frederick Moser was Franz Moser, who emigrated from Germany and settled in Berks county.
CHARLES SIMPSON, although a native of Solebury township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, has been for a number of years a resident of Nor- ristown. He was born Sixth-month 17, 1872, at the homestead purchased by his grandfather, John Simpson, about 1832. It is located about one and a half miles from New Hope, and was oc- cupied by Joseph B. Simpson (father) until Twelfth-month, 1903, when it was purchased by Joseph Rounsaville. He attended the public schools of the vicinity, and the New Hope high school for three years. On leaving school, he came to Norristown to learn the woolen manufacturing business with J. Morton Brown & Co. He re- mained with the firm six years in that capacity, and was then promoted into the office of the Woodstock Mills, and soon became assistant man- ager of the establishment, which position he still holds. He is a Republican in politics, and like all his family a member of the Society of Friends, taking an active interest in everything relating to its interests.
The Simpson family have long been domiciled in Pennsylvania, their ancestor, John Simpson, having come to America from Ireland about the
year 1730. He was at that time in his eighteenth year, and settled in Abington, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. He afterward married Hannah de la Plaine, who was of French birth. The couple were married in 1736. Hannah was born Third-month 14, 1714, and he in 1712. John Simpson died in 1746, in the thirty-fourth year of his age. His widow, who afterward married Robert Thomson, died Sixth-month 16, 1803, in the ninetieth year of her age. Their children : Mary, born Eleventh-month 7, 1737, married James McMasters. John (great-great-grand- father), born Tenth-month 23, 1739, married Ruth Whitson. Hannah, born Third-month 22, 1741, married David Canthorn. James, born Third-month 19, 1743, married Martha Shoe- maker. Sarah, born Third-month 31, 1746, died young.
By the second marriage, Hannah, widow of John Simpson, had one child, Elizabeth, born Eleventh-month 29, 1748, married William Neely. Robert Thomson died Eleventh-month 8, 1804, aged eighty-two years.
John Simpson (great-great-grandfather) and Ruth (Whitson) Simpson had five children, as follows : David (great-grandfather), born Fourth-month 4. 1765, married Agnes Wiggins. Hannah, born Fourth-month 20, 1767, married Samuel Shinn. John, born Eighth-montlı 5, 1769, married Elizabeth Blackfan. Ruth, born Twelfth-month 21, 1772, married Amos Hill- born. James, born Sixth-month 17, 1775, married (first wife) Susannah Satterthwaite, and (second wife) Ann Balderson. Mary, born Seventh-month 14, 1780, died young.
John Simpson (great-great-grandfather) died Eighth-month 30, 1811, aged seventy-one years, ten months. Ruth Simpson, wife of John Simp- son, died Third-month 21, 1805. John Simpson married (second wife) Anna Ingham, they being married in 1807. John Simpson was a minister of the Society of Friends, and travelled exten- sively in the states of the northeast, and also in some of the southern states.
David Simpson (great-grandfather) married Agnes Wiggins, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Warner) Wiggins, who was born Fourth-month
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16, 1767. They were married Fifth-month 14, 1794, and had six children: Ruth, born Fourth- month 3, 1795, married William Betts. Sarah, born Tenth-month 13, 1797, married Merrick Reeder. John (grandfather), born Fourth- month 19, 1799, married Letitia Buckman. Rachel born Seventh-month 20, 1802, died un- married. Hannah, born Second-month 8, 1804, died unmarried. Agnes, born Eighth-month 6, 1808, died unmarried. Ruth died Third-month 16, 1857. Saralı died Fourth-month 7, 1856. Rachel died Second-month 23, 1828, aged twenty- five years. Hannah died Twelfth-month 30, 1868, aged sixty-four years. Agnes died Eighth-month 6, 1868, aged sixty years. David Simpson (great- grandfather) died Sixth-month 5, 1831, aged sixty-six years, two months. His wife, Agnes Simpson, died Third-month 23, 1831, aged sixty- three years, eleven months.
John Simpson (grandfather) married, Elev- enth-month 15, 1827, Letitia Buckman, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Linton) Buckman, who was born Third-month 22, 1804. Their children : Joseph B. Simpson (father), born Twelfth- month 4, 1828, married Macre Ann Flowers (first wife) and Sarah Pickering Eyre (second wife). Benjamin Wiggins, born Second-month 23, 1830, married Rebecca Satterthwaite. David, born Seventh-month 25, 1833. married Tacie Satter- thwaite. Elizabeth, born Eleventh-month 20,1837, married Amos Satterthwaite. Agnes, born First- month 5, 1842, married David Palmer. John Simpson (grandfather) died First-month 31, 1878, aged nearly seventy-nine. His wife, Leti- tia Simpson, died First-month 15, 1882, aged nearly seventy-eight.
Joseph B. Simpson (father) married, Elev- enth-month 14. 1861, Macre Ann Flowers, daugh- ter of Joseph and Sarah (Pickering) Flowers, and they had no children. She died Sixth-month 13, 1865, aged thirty-two years. Joseph B. Simp- son (father) married (second wife), Tenth- month 29, 1868, Sarah P. Eyre, daughter of Pres- ton and Macre (Pickering) Eyre. They had three children: Edward, born First-month 8, 1870. Charles, born Sixth-month 17, 1872. (Sub-
ject of this sketch). Martha, born Third-month 16, 1875.
Charles Simpson married, Tenth-month 24, 1901, Annie Brooke Hughes, of King of Prussia, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, daughter of William and S. Emma ( Marshall) Hughes. To them a son, Charles Edward, was born, Sixth- month 25, 1904.
Annie B. (Hughes) Simpson, wife of Charles Simpson, belongs to an old family of Upper Merion township. She is of Welsh descent, her ancestors all being members of the Society of Friends for several generations. They are de- scended from William Hughes (great-great- grandfather) who had four children: Phoebe, Hannah, married Hance Supplee ; Elizabeth, mar- ried William Carver; and Abner (great-grand- father ) married Katherine Lehman. Abner Sup- plee had four children, as follows : Sara, married John Owen; Phebe, married Thomas Brown; Mary, married Peter Gamble; William (grand- father).
William Hughes, born 6th mo. 10, 1816, died 4tl mo. 6, 1899, married, 12th mo. 1841, Hannah Maris. Their children: Annie Elizabeth, born 5th mo. 4, 1843, married Cadwallader H. Brooke, 2d mo. 17, 1865, and had three children, Hannah Hughes, born 12th mo. 11, 1865, died 10th mo. 22, 1898, Elizabeth Adams, born 4th mno. 12, 1872, Athalia W., born 12th mo. 24, 1876, died 4th mo. 17, 1877; Sarah Maris, born IIth mo. 23, 1845, died 8th mo. 19, 1893, unmarried ; William, Jr. (father) ; Rebecca Maris, born Ist mo. 13, 1855, married, 12th mo. 29, 1881, Fran- cis E. Corson, and had one child, Helen Rebecca, born 10th mo. 12, 1882, died 4th mo. 5, 1901, the parents also being both deceased, she dying Ist mo. 16, 1892, aged thirty-seven years, and he 8th mo. 19. 1894; Frank, born Ist mo. 30, 1857, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work.
William Hughes (father of Mrs. Charles Simpson) was born 4th mo. 2, 1848, on the fam- ily homestead at King-of-Prussia, and was edu- cated in the schools of the vicinity, becoming a farmer, which occupation he still follows. He married, 12th mo. 3, 1877, S. Emma Marshall, of
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Chester county, Pennsylvania. They have only one child, Annie Brooke, who married Charles Simpson. They reside in Norristown, and have one child.
The home now occupied by Frank Hughes was a portion of the land purchased by Abner Hughes, who lived there from early manhood until his death. The property then went by in- heritance to his son William, who in turn be- queathed it to his son, Frank Hughes. The land owned by Abner Hughes was partly lo- cated in Chester county. He bequeathed to each child a share of his estate. Thomas Brown now owns that of his mother, Phoebe, and also his aunt Mary's share, she having left no children. Sarah's share has been recently sold by the Owen heirs to Dr. Downing, who now occupies it. The old saw mill, which has been enlarged and im- proved, stands where it did in Abner Hughes's time, a hundred years ago.
Christian Maris was the first of the family in this country, they being of German origin. He emigrated to America, and located on a tract of land near the present site of Phoenixville. One of his sons, David, married and had several chil- dren, one of whom was Hannah Maris, born 7th mo. 30, 1819, wife of William Hughes. She died Ioth mo. 27, 1902, at her home near King-of- Prussia.
THE MORTON FARM is a large property of 106 acres, situated near the south corner of Montgomery township. It fronts the township line road midway between Steever's mill and the Horsham road. The buildings are at a consider- able distance from the latter highway, with which a lane connects. The farm lands surrounding are only moderately undulating, and a rivulet flows eastward to join the Neshaminy. The crossroad on the northwest is the boundary on that side. The property is now held by an heir of the Morton family, a non-resident owner, who is Mrs. Matilda Morton Ayars. She has lately been a Philadelphia school teacher. A tenant has for years been the farmer.
This is an old homestead where there has been a human habitation since colonial times.
Buildings were erected as early as 1761, and prob- ably by Jonathan West. The prior history of this territory may be told in a few words. It is the central part of a grant made to Thomas Potter in 1688, and sold to Mary Channelhouse in 1692. She married Jolin Starkey, who died poor in 1746. Sheriff Nicholas Scull seized his property in that year and sold to Joseph Kenderdine this and the later Wilson farm comprising 216 acres. The boundary of this tract in 1761 was: Beginning at post of land of Rev. Joshua Jones northeast 204 perches ; by John Griffith southeast 170 perches ; by land in tenure of William Ston on southwest 204 perches ; by Isaac Jones and the Horsham road northwest 180 perches to begin- ning. Their deed was witnessed by Joseph Ken- derdine, Jr., and Ezekiel Shoemaker, before Arch- ibald McClean. In 1761 Joseph Kenderdine di- vided the tract and sold the latter Morton place to John Hickman, a blacksmith, for 225 pounds. The same year Hickman sold 104 acres to Jonathan West. This deed was also signed by his wife Margaret before Samuel Esy and witnessed by Samuel Murray.
There is little known concerning West save that the first name of his wife was Ruth, which was a name common among Quaker women. West held possession for thirteen years, or until 1774, the eve of the revolution. The improve- ments that he made were of moderate value, for he sold the farm that year for 350 pounds to John Harry, comprising 104 acres with these boundaries : By land of the widow Griffith south- east 172 perches ; by land in tenure of William Stenson southwest; by same and land of John Hickman northwest 172 perches ; by land of Rev. Jones northeast 99 perches to beginning. The latter named preacher was the pastor of the New Britain Baptist church for many years.
John Harry, who was a Welshman, lived here during the Revolution and until his death long afterwards, a period of twenty-five years. Dur- ing his ownership he put up better buildings. In the assessment of 1776 he was rated for 100 acres, two horses and three cows. The will of John Harry was made in 1799, and his executors were Thomas Wilson and John Harris. The name
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Harry is synonymous with Harris. This will directed that the place be sold, but it was seven years before this was done. He had a son Isaac then living in North Carolina. Mention is made of grandchildren, Elizabeth, daughter of John Harris, and Samuel, Benjamin, John and Jacob Harris, sons of Isaac Harris. His executor, John Harris, lived in New Britain, and the will was written by Amos Griffith of the same township. In 1806 Jacob Maderia bought the farm, but only held it four years, when in 1810 he sold to Michael Hartman for 478 pounds, besides paying off a mortgage. Hartman was only a temporary owner, as in 18II he conveyed to Michael Stoever. The latter bought to keep, and it re- mained a Stoever property for a generation. In 1844 Elizabeth Stoever bought it from her hus- band's estate, but the next year sold to Reuben McLaughlin, a Philadelphian, for $4556. Mc- Laughlin was the owner for a long while. He died in August, 1864, leaving his wife, Mary Ann, his administrator. In 1867 she sold to Charlotte Morton, wife of Thomas Morton, of Philadelphia, for $9000, and the property later came into pos- session of her daughter, Mrs. Matilda Ayars.
JOHN D. STOUT. Charles Stout (grand- father) was born near Jarrettown, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and was educated there in the schools of his day. He was a farmer by occupation, and continued in that busi- ness all his life. He was a man of importance in his day, doing much to promote the welfare of the community in which he lived. He married Mary Coar, of the same township, and reared a large family of children. One of them was Seth.
Seth Stout (father) was born on the home- stead in January, 1823, and died in 1898. He was educated in the common schools of that day, and on leaving school engaged in work at the lime kilns at Fort Washington, which he continued for forty years. He conducted his farming in connection with this employment in burning lime. He married Mary Derr, who is also now de- ceased, and was a daughter of John Derr, a farmer of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania. Mr.
Stout was an active Republican in politics, and held the position of township supervisor for many years. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was a member and a deacon of the Baptist church for a great many years. The children of Seth and Mary Stout : Charles, one who died in infancy, and John D. John D. Stout was born on the homestead in Upper Dublin township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, September 29, 1849. He was educated in the public schools of the vicinity, and on leaving school engaged in farming and truck- ing, which he has continued ever since, having at the present time a farm in Hatfield township which he purchased in 1893. He is an active and earnest Republican in politics, and has held the office of township assessor. He is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men. He and his family attend the Methodist church. Mr. Stout is a popular man in his community, and has. the respect and confidence of all who know him. He married Miss Margaret Lenhart, who was. born in Cheltenham township, March 22, 1855. Their marriage took place in 1873. Mrs. Stout is a daughter of John F. Lenhart, deceased, and his wife, Mrs. Ruth (Addis) Lenhart, who is. living at the age of eighty-three years. The children of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Stout : Mary V., married Harry E. Curry ; John F., married Leila Bessinger, and has one child; Seth, died young ; Lynford, Charles W., Joseph L., Will- iam F., Seth R., Ralpn M., Ruth M.
JOSEPH S. GARBER, of the firm of Garber- & Rhoads, brick manufacturers, Pottstown, is a native of that borough, where he was born Janu- ary 24, 1853. He is the son of Francis and Sophie (Sellers) Garber. The parents were also na- tives of the vicinity. They had a family of ten children, seven sons and three daughters, three of whom are now living, as follows : Phoebe, wife of Henry Yohn; Joseph S. Garber, and George WV. Garber, of Los Angeles, California.
Francis Garber (father) was a carpenter and car builder, and was engaged in those occupa- tions the greater portion of his life. He resided in Pottstown for many years, and was employed
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for nineteen years by the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company. He died in 1866, in Phila- delphia, in his fiftieth year. Mrs. Garber survived her husband many years, dying in 1888, at the age of sixty-seven years. She, as well as her hus- band, was a member of the Reformed church. He was called into the United States military service in the Mexican war in 1847. He was a Whig and Republican in politics, although taking no very active share in party contests.
Joseph Garber (grandfather) was a native of that section of Montgomery county, and resided near Mingo. He was a farmer by occupation. He had four sons and a daughter, and died some- what past middle life. The family are of German descent but have been long residents in eastern Pennsylvania. Ephraim Sellers (maternal grandfather) lived in Sunneytown. He died young. His children were four in number. Joseph Garber was reared in Pottstown, and attended the public schools until he was twelve years of age. His father dying, Joseph began life on his own account, but assisted his mother in caring for his younger brothers and sisters. His first occupation was work as a gilder of pic- ture frames in Philadelphia. Returning to Potts- town he secured employment in the nail factory in 1866, and was engaged in that occupation for a period of thirty years. In 1890 he embarked in the brick manufacturing business, which he still continues, and makes as many as a million bricks in a year, his firm doing a large business in that line.
On February 5. 1872, he married Miss Mary A. Semling, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Mowerer) Semling. Mr. and Mrs. Garber have six children as follows : Ella, Ida, Annie, Jennie, Harry and Raymond. Ella married Frank Gra- ham, of Pottstown, and they have two children, Harold and Marie. Ida married William New- ton, of Easton, Pennsylvania. Annie married Lester Fisher, of Pottstown. Jennie married Charles Fisher, and they reside now in Harris- burg. Harry is a moulder, and Raymond died at the age of seven years and nine months. Mr. and Mrs. Garber are members of the Trinity Re- formed church of Pottstown. Mr. Garber is a
Republican in politics. He built his present home, No. 422 Lincoln avenue, in 1875. He also owns other business and residence properties in Pottstown, and is an influential and highly re- spected member of the community.
ABRAHAM KRIEBEL, son of Abra- ham Heydrick and Susanna (Kriebel) Kriebel, was born November 29, 1867, on his father's farm, in Towamencin township, Montgom- ery county, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools of his district in the in- tervals of farm labor until he reached his twen- ty-first year, after which he studied for three months at the Pierce Business College in the city of Philadelphia. He married, January 12, 1895, Annie, born February 26, 1870, daughter of Samuel Heydrick and his wife, Mary Kriebel Heydrick. Their children: Susanna, born Sep- tember 27, 1896; Elizabeth, born August 9, 1898; Herbert, born November 9, 1900; Miriam, born October 17, 1903.
For two years after his marriage Mr. Kriebel engaged in farming for Elias Snyder, of Towa- mencin township, after which he rented from his father in Gwynedd township the farm on which he now lives, containing seventy-six acres of land, of which seventy acres is highly im- proved farm land, the balance being heavily tim- bered, principally with oak, the land mostly high and rolling, well-watered and drained, and in a high state of cultivation. On account of the numerous springs found upon the place, the name "Springfield", has been given to the farm by its present owners. Mr. Kriebel also operates the farm for dairying purposes, having at present over twenty head of cows of mixed stock, and employing four or five horses in the cultivation of the land. The property is an ideal farm and Mr. and Mrs. Kriebel, she having also been reared on a farm, are among the best farmers in Mont- gomery county. In politics Mr. Kriebel is a Republican, but has never sought or held office, although always taking care to go to the polls on election day. His father was among the first voters in the Republican party in Montgomery county, and cast his ballot for Colonel John C.
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Fremont for president in 1856. His grandfather was an old-line Whig. In religious faith the Kriebels are members of the Schwenkfelder church in Towamencin township.
Abraham H. Kriebel (father), born August 20, 1833, is the son of Samuel Kriebel, who mar- ried a Miss Heydrick. Their children : Nathaniel ; Salome, married Reuben Kriebel, of Lansdale ; Jeremiah, born February 19, 1865, married Johanna Heckler, daughter of Frank Heckler; Abraham, subject of this sketch; Susanna, born December 27, 1870, married Milton Oberholtzer Landis, son of Isaac Landis, of New Britain town- ship, Bucks county, Pennsylvania.
Samuel Heydrick (Mrs. Kriebel's father) was the son of George and Maria Heydrick. Maria was the daughter of Abraham and Annie Bergey (Kriebel). Samuel and Maria Heydrick were married November 11, 1862. Their children : Daniel, born November 15, 1863, died in 1890, married Sophia, daughter of Abraham and Christiana (Kriebel) Rittenhouse, of Gwynedd township, and had children; George, born Jan- uary 28, 1865, unmarried and lives in West Vir- ginia, where he is a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church; Susanna, married, November 17, 1888, Anthony Heebner, son of William and Edith (Anders) Heebner, of Gwynedd township, their children being: William H., born August 21, 1890, died July 11, 1895, Ivan, born May 12, 1898, Norman B., born May 10, 1902; Mary, born March 23, 1868, married, August 31, 1898. Howard, son of William and Hannah (Schubert) Schultz, and have one child, Robert, born Febru- ary 22, 1890; Annie, wife of Abraham Kriebel ; Regina, born January 12, 1872, died August 21, 1897; Sarah, born in 1874, married, in Novem- ber. 1893, Howard, son of William and Hannah (Schubert) Schultz, their children being Russell, born December 9, 1894, Annie, born September 16, 1897; Clarence, born December 31, 1898, Catharine, born August 31, 190I.
FURMAN KEPLER, son of Reuben and Catherine (Wildermuth) Kepler, was born in Lower Pottsgrove township, December 3. 1858. Reuben Kepler (father) was the son of John S.
Kepler, the latter being a cabinet maker in early life. He removed to Somerset county, where he died. He followed the occupation of a farmer, and lived in Lower Pottsgrove township.
Furman Kepler attended the schools of the neighborhood until he had arrived at the age of seventeen years. He then secured a teacher's certificate, and taught school for six years in Lower Pottsgrove township, and in New Han- over, the adjoining township. He then engaged in farming upon the homestead where he now resides. He married Annie J. Fegely, daughter of Solomon and Lydia (Bickel) Fegely, also of Lower Pottsgrove, where the parents were en- gaged in farming. Mr. Fegely was a Democrat in politics, and both he and his wife were members of the Lutheran denomination. Mr. and Mrs. Furman Kepler have one child, Walter Emerson, unmarried, and residing with his parents. He is a graduate of the Hill school at Pottstown and at present is a student at the University of Penn- sylvania.
Mr. Kepler purchased the farm on which he resides in the spring of 1894. He has made many improvements upon it, making additions to the buildings, and greatly increasing the fertility of the land by judicious fertilizing. Mr. Kepler is an influential man in his neighborhood, and has filled the position of school director for about eighteen years. He is a prominent member of the Patriotic Order of Sons of America, and also of the Junior Order of United American Me- chanics, of the Royal Arcanum, and of other or- ganizations of the kind. In religious faith he is a Lutheran.
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