Historical and biographical annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania, embracing a concise history of the county and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families, Volume I, Part 71

Author: Montgomery, Morton L. (Morton Luther), b. 1846; J.H. Beers & Co
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: Chicago : J. H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1018

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"In memory of David Heinly, Born October 17, 1728. Died October 12, 1784. Emigrated from Germany in 1749."

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"Erected by his descendants, to their First American Ancestor, August 15, 1903, at the Fifth Annual Heinly Family Reunion."

The Family Reunion was first held along the banks of the Maiden creek on the original home- stead, but latterly at Kutztown Park, Kutztown, Pa. It is held annually in August, and attended by from 400 to 500 descendants. The Association was organized mainly through the efforts of David Heinly, formerly of Albany township, lat- terly of Kutztown, who was its treasurer until his death in 1907. A complete Family Record has been compiled. .

The present officers of the Association are as fol- lows :

President, David L. Heinly, Reading, Pa.

First Vice-President, G. Henry Heinly, Blandon, Pa. Second Vice-President, Chas. H. Heinley, East Texas, Pa. Third Vice-President, Henry Heinly, Schnecksville, Pa. Secretary, Harvey F. Heinly, Reading, Pa.

Assistant Secretaries, Calvin H. Adam, Fleetwood, Pa., Charles H. Heinly, Klinesville, Pa., Titus Heinly, Reading Pa.,

Phares S. Heller, Allentown, Pa. Treasurer, Prof. Charles B. Heinly, York, Pa.

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Executive Committee, William Heinly, Manatawny, Pa., Enoch Heinly, Virginville, Pa., Samuel D. Heinly, Reading, Pa., John W. Adam, Fleetwood, Pa., Jarius Heffner, Kutztown, Pa. Historian, Samuel G. Heinly, Reading, Pa.

Elder Georg Klein was born at Zweibrücken, Director of Amusements, William O. Heinly, Ham- South Germany, Oct. 9,1715, immigrated to America burg, Pa.

called Jörg or Hanjörg (that is, Hans Jörg)-John George Kistler. He was from the Palatinate. In 1737 he came to the New World, and located in the Falkner Swamp, or Goshenhoppen, Montgomery Co., Pa. No doubt he brought his wife, Anna Dorothy, and his oldest children with him from Germany. In 1747 he settled in Albany township, Berks county. He died in 1767 and is buried at the New Jerusalem Church, in Albany township,

George, Philip, Michael, Barbara, Dorotha and Eliz- abeth. Nearly all of these moved to Lynn township, Lehigh county. Like the seed of Abraham of old, they multiplied, and soon populated the fine valley extending from Kempton, in Berks, to Lynnville, in Lehigh county, a distance of six miles. This valley is called Kistlers Valley.

John Kistler, son of the pioneer, in 1768, lived in Albany, and it appears remained on the homestead. He had sons, John William, born 1757, and Abra- ham, born 1761. The Kistlers have intermarried with the Dietrichs, Fetherolfs, Brobsts, and other old families of that section.

The family has been holding successful reunions since 1899. It held the fifth annual meeting at Neffsville, Pa., in 1904. The officers of the associa- tion, besides an executive committee of eleven mem- bers, are:

President, Henry D. Kistler. L'icc-President, Edwin D. Kistler. Corresponding Secretary, Dr. W. P. Kistler. Recording Secretory, Elmer C. Kistler. Assistant Secretary, P. W. Kistler. Treasurer, C. K. Kistler.

KLINE .- The Elder Georg Klein Association was formed at Reading, Pa., in 1904, for the pur- pose of raising funds to erect a fitting memorial in honor of the ancestor after whom the association was named, and to properly care for a much neg- lected private graveyard where Elder Georg Klein, with others, is buried. The second meeting was held in 1906, at West Hamburg. The officers of the association are :

President, David R. Kline, Allentown, Pa. Secretary, William B. Kline. Berks, Pa.

Assistant Secretary, A. S. Kline, Upper Bern, Pa. Treasurer, Newton Kline, Pottstown, Pa. Executive Committee. C. K. Whitner, Reading, Pa., F. F. Kline, Reading, Pa., A. K. Kline. Reading, Pa., Dr. John K. Seaman, Rdg., Pa. Dr. Warren Kline, Lebanon, Pa.

Improvement Committee, Jerome I. Kline, Reading, Pa., C. K. Whitner, Reading, Pa., A. K. Kline, Reading, Pa., A. S. Kline, Upper Bern, Pa.

in 1738, and located at Amwell, N. J. Becoming Church, in 1739 he was baptized in that faith at

KISTLER .- The Kistler family is numerous in acquainted with the Brethren of the Dunkard

Albany and Greenwich townships, Berks county, and especially in the upper end of Lehigh county. Amwell, and soon after was chosen an assistant in The family traces its ancestry to George Kistler, the ministry. In 1750 he moved to North-kill on the Tulpehocken, in Berks county, and there took charge of "North-kill Meeting House." He is buried in upper Berks. He left a number of children, whose descendants are very numerous.

KRICK .- The descendants of Frantz Krick and his wife Catharine were organized into a reunion by Rev. Thomas H. Krick, in 1907, when the first meet- ing was held at Sinking Spring; the second was where many of his descendants are buried. He also held there, in August, 1908. This is one of left nine children, as follows: Jacob, John, Samuel, the earliest and largest families of the Tulpehocken

Valley, Berks county. Rev. Thomas H. Krick, a minister of the Reformed Church, now sta- tioned at Coplay, Pa., spent considerable time and money in ascertaining the true history of the progenitor, Frantz Krick, who came to America from Germany in 1731, and about that time located in Spring, then a part of Cumru township. He reared a large family, thirteen children, and his descendants are numerous in Berks county. The ancestral homestead has remained in the family name to this date. Tradition states that Frantz Krick obtained his land from the Indians.

The Krick family is exceedingly patriotic and it has had members serving in every war fought in this country. John, Frantz, Adam, Peter and Jacob Krick, sons of the pioneer, fought in the Revolutionary war. In the War of 1812 were Fran- cis and Peter Krick. In the Civil war seventeen members of the family participated. In the Spanish war there were four members of the family.

The officers of the Krick Family Association are :

President, Daniel Krick, Robesonia, Pa.

Ficc-Presidents, William F. Krick, Sinking Spring, Pa., Daniel B. Krick, Sinking Spring, Pa., Benjamin K. Hunsicker, Wernersville, Pa., Isaac Krick, Sinking Spring, Pa., Daniel H. Krick, Ephrata, Pa., George Krick, Hamburg, Pa.

Secretary, Rev. Thomas H. Krick, Coplay, Pa. Treasurer, William F. High, Reading, Pa.

Historian, Rev. Thomas H. Krick, Coplay, Pa.

LEVENGOOD (LIVENGOOD, LIVINGOOD). The first reunion of the Levengood family was held in the fall of 1906 to celebrate the ninety-third birthday anniversary of its oldest living member, Adam Levengood, and the gathering took place at the home of his son, Jacob S. Levengood, in Oley, near Friedensburg. The second and third meetings were held at the same place, the third on September 7, 1908, and the fourth is to be held in Friedensburg Park on Labor Day. 1909. The venerable man in

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whose honor the first meeting was held was present porate body since 1908. The historian of the family, at the second and third meetings also, well preserved the late Isaac W. Guldin (1834-1907), traced the and hearty. The organization was decided upon at the first gathering. . In 1908 the following officers were elected : family to Bohemia, in 1526. The forerunners of the Oley township branch in 1700 were seated at Dres- den, Germany. Mr. Guldin worked faithfully for years to establish the ancestral history. He was eminently successful. In 1905 he collected his rec- ords, in type-written form, in a book. The officers of the organization are:

President, David D. Livingood, Pottstown, Pa. Vice-Presidents, William Livingood, Pottstown, Pa., John Stitzer, Reading, Pa., Casper Livingood, Birdsboro, Pa., James Eck, Reading, Pa., Abner Livingood, Millersville, Pa., Jacob Livingood, Elverson, Pa.

Secretary, Howard M. Livengood, Birdsboro, Pa.

Assistant Secretary, Oscar Levengood, Gilbertsville, Pa. Treasurer, Jacob S. Levengood, Oley, Pa.

Historian, Howard M. Livengood, Birdsboro, Pa. Assistant Historians, John Stitzer, Reading, Pa.,

Irwin Livingood, Pottstown, Pa.

Executive Committee, Adam Livingood, Birdsboro, Pa., Jacob S. Levengood, Oley, Pa., Elsworth Spohn, Oley, Pa., Monroe Shive, Reading, Pa.

After the business meeting the assembly, which included about two hundred and fifty representatives of the family, was addressed by ex-Representative Jacob R. Herzog and by Mr. Howard M. Liven- good.

The Levengood family traces its ancestry back to Ulrich and Susanna Liebenguth, who came to America from the Palatinate about 1733, in the ship "Charming Betsy," landing at Philadelphia, Oct. 12, 1733. At that time he was forty-five years old, his wife thirty-six. He was a man of sterling quali- ties, and his descendants belong to the best of the sturdy Pennsylvania German element in their sec- tion. Many of those who bear the name have made a reputation in the learned professions, and they are generally known for the substantial qualities that distinguished the early representatives of the family.

Ulrich and Susanna Liebenguth brought five chil- dren with them: Peter, aged sixteen; Adam, aged thirteen; Jacob, aged ten; Maria, aged eight; and Anna, aged five. From Philadelphia the family proceeded to New Hanover township, where they settled.

Jacob, third son of the emigrant ancestors, was born in Alsace, Germany, and was the progenitor of the Levengood family of which this article treats. He died April 1, 1804, and his remains are interred in the cemetery adjoining the Swamp Reformed Church. He had one son, Matthias, who married Catharine Shuster, and they had five children.

Adam Levengood is the father of four sons: Jacob S., at whose home the first three reunions were held; James, of Elverson, Pa .; Solomon, of Joanna Heights, Pa .; and Adam, of Friedensburg.

LUDWIG .- The Ludwig family traces its origin to Michael Ludwig, who came from the Rhenish Palatinate to Oley township in 1733. He was a eastern Pennsylvania. Pietist. The early generations in St. Gaul, Switzer- ministers.

President, David V. R. Ludwig. Vice-Presidents, Jacob D. Ludwig,

Wilson P. Ludwig.

Secretary, Dr. J. Harry Ludwig.

Treasurer, Eli V. R. Ludwig.

Board of Directors, Jerome Ludwig,

George S. Ludwig, Mrs. Edwin Rhoads, Mrs. Alex. B. Earhart, Cyrus D. Moser.

LUTZ .- In Albany township is an old family by the name of Lutz whose ancestors were Frederick and Jacob Lutz. The latter, was a resident in the district as early as 1754. His descendants, who are quite numerous about Kempton and Steinsville, hold annual gatherings. The elaborate dinners and suppers are a feature at these reunions. The last reunion was held at Kempton in 1908. The officers are :

President, John C. Lutz. Vice-President, James S. Lutz. Secretary, Frank E. Lutz.

Treasurer, Allen Lutz.

REEDY .- The first reunion of the Reedy family of Berks and Lebanon counties was held in 1908, near Millbach, Lebanon Co., Pa. Jonathan B. Reedy, aged seventy-three years, is one of the leading spir- its in the movement to have regular annual gather- ings. No regular officers have been elected thus far.

William Reedy, father of Jonathan B., married Maria Bensing and they had five children, namely : George, Annie (m. Henry Engelhart), Catharine (m. Jonathan Strauss), Samuel and Jonathan B., the last named only surviving.

RITTER .- The Ritter family, which is numerous in Berks county and also in the adjoining county of Lehigh, where the town Rittersville perpetuates the name, dates back to the middle of the eighteenth century. This family has been holding annual re- unions since 1898. The last was held in Dorney's Park, Allentown, in 1908. The meetings are well attended. A history of the family is expected in book form for distribution at the eleventh reunion, in 1909. The ancestry is traced to Casper, Martin and Philip Ritter, who were German Palatinates. 'Their descendants are numerous and scattered over

Exeter township, in Berks county, was the home land, were profound scholars and a number were of the Ritters of this section. There, in 1754, lived

George Ritter, and in 1759 Francis (also mentioned in documents as Ferdinand) Ritter was one of the largest taxpayers in the township. He owned

The Ludwigs in Berks county are numerous. They held their first reunion in 1902, and the seventh in 1908, at Friedensburg. They have been a cor- much land below Jacksonwald, where the old Rit-

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ter graveyard is located along the Oley Valley trol- county. He was a rake-maker. He and his wife ley line.

Francis or Ferdinand Ritter, born in 1741, died in 1825. His children were Daniel, John, Jacob and Samuel. John was a representative in Congress from Berks county, refusing a third nomination to that office.

Tradition says the pioneer Ritter obtained his land originally from the Indians. Some of this tract is still is the family. The ancestor Ritter, the father of George and Ferdinand, tradition says was mar- ried to an Indian woman, who was buried on the farm owned by Daniel Ritter, later by Benjamin Ritter and now by Charles Breneiser, of Read- ing. The officers in 1908 of the Ritter Family were :

President, H. S. Ritter, Allentown, Pa.

Vice-President, J. R. Ritter, Reading, Pa.

Recording Secretary, I. J. Ritter, Allentown, Pa.

Secretary, M. T. Ritter. Northampton, Pa.

Treasurer, Mrs. Edw. Diefenderfer, Catasauqua, Pa. Committees, Historical, Program, Ways and Means, Executive.

eighteenth century, and settled in Berks county, in the territory now embraced in District township, held a reunion at Hancock Park in 1908. A committee of arrangements, a history committee, and a committee on program were appointed and the following officers were elected :

President, D. R. Rohrbach. Williamstown, N. J. I'ice-President, Frederick Rohrbach, Allentown, Pa. Secretary, W. B. Rohrbach, Macungie, Pa.

The ancestor had sons Lawrence and John, Jr. The family is quite numerous in the eastern end of the county, where the first of the name settled. The ancestral homestead is still in the family.

had these six children : Salome, Samuel, John, Jacob, Hannah and Esther. Nicholas Saul died in 1823, aged fifty-six years. His wife, Rosina, died in 1843, aged eighty years. After their death their son, Jacob, built a house, in 1844, upon the home- stead where he lived and died, his death occurring in 1890, when he was aged eighty-eight years. His children were: Mary, Nicholas, Daniel, Catharine, Jacob, Franklin, Sarah, Lydia, Theresa and Thomas. John Saul, son of Nicholas, died on the homestead in 1867, aged sixty-eight years. He had: William, Daniel, John, Jacob, Elizabeth, Si- mon, Elias, Sarah Ann and Ephraim.

Salome, daughter of Nicholas, married Jacob Rothermel and had ten children. Hannah, daughter of Nicholas, married John Rubright; no issue. Esther, daughter of Nicholas, married Peter Roth- ermel and had eight children. Samuel, the eldest child of Nicholas, was in the United States navy, and was never married.

The Saul family held its first reunion in 1902 and the sixth in 1908, at Pendora Park, Reading. ROHRBACH .- The descendants of John Rohrbach, It has successful reunions, and has collected who emigrated to America about the middle of the considerable data, to be published in a private his-

tory. The officers of this reunion are :

President, Rev. J. Elmer Saul, Norristown, Pa.

Vice-Presidents, Samuel H. Fegley, Reading, Pa., Dr. Charles K. Saul, Steelton, Pa., F. K. Miller, Reading, Pa. Secretary, Jacob I. Saul, Pottsville, Pa. Treasurer, Elias G. Saul.

SCHAEFFER .- George Schaeffer, the pioneer of the Schaeffers, came to this country from the Ger- man Palatinate, in August, 1750, and settled in Richmond township, this county, soon after his landing. His wife was Catharine Reib. They had the following five children: Elizabeth, the eldest, married John Bieber; Margaret, the next eldest, married Dewald Bieber: Maria married Michael Christman ; Peter was the next and Philip, who

SAUL .- Samuel Saul,, who came to this country in 1716, was a native of Alsace-Lorraine. After some years in America he returned to his native married Elizabeth Fetherolf, was the youngest of land and remained about one year with his family. the family and remained upon the homestead near He came to America a second time, expecting to Fleetwood. He had eight sons and four daughters, prepare a home for the family, who were to follow. all of whom were well-formed, large and strong. He died, and his wife, not hearing from him, de- Father Schaeffer died in 1792 and is buried in a cided to follow him to the New World, making the private burial-ground on the farm where he lived journey with her three children, Johann Nicholas, and died. Leonard and Christian, in 1753. They located at or near Pottstown. Pa., and Johann Nicholas Saul there made his permanent home. Leonard moved to Maxatawny township, Berks county ; and Chris-

The family held its first reunion in 1903, and the second in 1906, both in Kutztown Park. They were well attended. At both meetings D. Nicholas Schaeffer, Esq., of Reading, delivered an historical tian settled in Lancaster county at what is now Lin- address on the pioneer Schaeffer. The second ad- glestown, Dauphin county. Each of the sons reared dress was published in the December, 1906, number a large family, and owned his own home.

of "The Pennsylvania German." At the first re- Johann Nicholas Saul, born Dec. 16, 1726, union Rev. Dr. N. C. Schaeffer. superintendent of died Aug. 14, 1795, and is buried at the Swamp public instruction of Pennsylvania, delivered an ad- Church. In 1766 a son, Nicholas, was born to him. dress, "Where Did the Pennsylvania Germans Come In 1792 the latter married Rosina Hartman, of Dis- From and Why Did They Leave Their Fatherland?" trict township, Berks county. Nicholas Saul was At the second reunion Harry D. Schaeffer, Esq., of first taxed in Douglass township, Berks county. Reading, delivered an address, "Some Character- In 1779 he moved to West District township. Berks istics of the Schaeffer Family," and Rev. William

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C. Schaeffer, a professor of the Theological Semin- not only the descendants of David Snyder, but all ary at Lancaster, delivered an address entitled, Snyders who trace their ancestry to Hans Schnei- "My Recent Trip Through Germany"; Rev. David der. I. Schaeffer delivered an address entitled, "Histori- cal Side Lights."

The Schaeffer family holds its reunions triennial- ly. It is one of the largest, most honored and intel- lectual families of the county. The officers of 1908 were :

President, George D. Schaeffer, Fleetwood, Pa.

Secretary and Historian, Rev. David I. Schaeffer. Executive Committee, Rev. C. E. Schaeffer,

James D. Schaeffer, Joel M. Schaeffer, Daniel B. Schaeffer, James Schaeffer.

Johan Ludwig Seaman, the progenitor, was a native of Alsace, France. At the age of twenty he enlisted in the service of Frederick the Great, of Prussia, as body-guard. After eight years he married, and in 1748 emigrated to Pennsylvania, locating in Bern township, in that part of the district now embraced in Tilden township. He was a large land owner and owned a considerable por- tion of the township, which his descendants colon- ized in large measure. His remains are interred at St. Michael's Church. His wife, Catharine, bore him three sons, namely: Eberhart, John and Lud- wig, each of whom reared families. John located in western Pennsylvania, where his descendants are very prosperous people, while Eberhart and Lud- wig remained on ancestral homesteads. The Sea- mans are very numerous in upper Berks county and are a very representative and enterprising fam- ily. The second reunion was held at West Ham- burg in 1904, and was largely attended. The family expects to publish a genealogical history. The per- manent officers of the Association are:

President, Maj. Charles F. Seaman, Hamburg, Pa. Secretary and Historian, A. S. Klein, Upper Bern, Pa. Treasurer, William Seaman, Fleetwood, Pa.

Executive Committee, Dr. J. K. Seaman, Reading, Pa., Levi B. Seaman, Berks, Pa., TREXLER .- The first reunion of the Trexler fam- A. S. Seaman, Frackville, Pa., Joseph S. Seaman, Pittsburg, Pa., ily was held at Kutztown Park, Berks county, Pa.,

A. S. Becker, Berks, Pa.

SCHNEIDER (SNYDER) .- Reunion of descendants of Hans (Johann) Schneider.

The Snyder family reunions were begun by the descendants of David Snyder, a great-grandson of the first settler of the Snyders, Hans (Johann) Schneider. The first reunion was held on the old David Snyder estate, now owned and occupied by Jackson Snyder, one mile northeast of Oley Line, in September, 1904. In 1906, at the annual reunion, a historian was elected, Rev. Elam J. Snyder being chosen. The first history of the Snyders was read in connection with the reunion in 1907. At the same time it was decided to embrace in the reunion

The old family burial plot near Oley Line, in which are buried the first generations of the Sny- ders, was recently improved. It is the purpose of the organization to keep it in excellent order.

The officers at present are :

President, Harrison Yoder.

Vice-President, D. S. Brumbach.

Secretary, Samuel Reiff.

Treasurer, George W. Brumbach.

Historian, Rev. Elam J. Snyder.

STRAUSS .- The reunion of the descendants of Albrecht and Philip Strauss, who emigrated from Wurtemberg in 1732, was founded by B. Morris SEAMAN .- The Association of Descendants of Johan Ludwig Seaman was formed in 1903, and Strauss, Esq., of Reading. The organization com- mittee met on Thanksgiving Day, 1902, at the home held its first reunion on ancestral grounds in Tilden of Joseph Strause, near Bernville. In September, township.

1903, on the Albrecht Strauss homestead, now em- braced in Penn township, the first Strauss reunion was held on the one hundred and seventy-first an- niversary of the landing at Philadelphia of Albrecht and Philip Strauss, who located in Bern township, in Berks county, soon after their coming to Amer- ica. They were farmers, and reared large and honorable families, record of whose progeny is found in these volumes. The reunions of 1905, 1907 and 1909 were held at Strausstown, in Upper Tulpehocken township. This town perpetuates the family name in the county.

The historian has found practically complete re- cords of these two pioneers, which will finally be published in book form. The officers of the reunion are :

President, James W. S. Strause, Reading, Pa.

Secretary, Cameron E. Strauss, Reading, Pa.

Treasurer, Adam W. Strause, Bernville, Pa. Historian, B. Morris Strauss, Esq., Reading, Pa.

Executive Committee, Henry N. Haas, Bernville, Pa., Milton M. Strauss, Strauss- town, Pa., Frank B. Saul, Reading, Pa., J. Morris Strause, Auburn, Pa., Charles Ney, Schuylkill Haven, Pa., Josiah K. Strause, Strausstown, Pa.

on Aug. 28, 1907. It was largely attended. The officers of this reunion are:

President, James B. Trexler, Lewistown, Pa.

Vice-Presidents, Dr. Jacob Trexler, Lancaster, Pa., B. F. Trexler, Allentown, Pa., J. Allen Trexler, Allentown, Pa. Secretary, Claude Trexler Reno, Allentown, Pa. Treasurer, Morris D. Trexler, Topton, Pa.

Historian, Hon. Frank M. Trexler, Allentown, Pa.

This meeting was called to order by Claude Trex- ler Reno, Esq., and the history of the family was. then read by Judge Trexler, the historian. His paper showed considerable research and gives to posterity a true record of the Trexler family, which is an honored family of the State, a number of no-

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table personages being found among its members. of his children as they appear in the family Bible

Peter Trexler, the forebear, came to America prior to 1720, and located in Oley township, Berks county. His name, among others, appears upon the petition for the erection of Oley township in 1720. Shortly afterward he removed to what is now Upper Macungie township, Lehigh county. In 1729 he obtained, through Casper Wister, land agent, a patent for land upon which he lived. He died in 1758. His last will bears date 1744. He disposes of his estate to his widow, Catharine, and his three sons and three daughters, named, respec- tively: Jeremiah, John, Peter, Anna, Catharine and Margaret.

Jeremiah Trexler (son of Peter ) as early as 1732 had a public house at Trexlertown. He and wife, Catharine, had sons John and Peter.

Peter Trexler, the second son of the first Peter, occupied a tract near Breinigsville. He was justice of the peace from 1752 to 1776, and in the Colonial system sat at the courts at Easton. His son, Peter, the third Peter in line of descent from the first set- tler, was known as the Mertztown Peter. In 1783 he was lieutenant-colonel of the militia. He had eleven children, and his posterity is known as the Berks county branch of the family. The names ence Miller and Miss Evelyn Miller.

(in the possession of Edwin H. Trexler, of Mertz- town) are as follows: Maria, John Peter, Jacob, Reuben, Benjamin, Catharine, Jonas, Anna, Nathan, Daniel, Judith.

The minutes and proceedings of the first re- union of the Trexler family are published in pamph- let form. They were compiled by Claude Trexler Reno, of Allentown, Pa., and are valuable.

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Historical and biographical annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania, embracing a concise history of the county and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families, Volume I, Part 71

Author: Montgomery, Morton L. (Morton Luther), b. 1846; J.H. Beers & Co Publication date: 1909 Publisher: Chicago : J. H. Beers & Co. Number of Pages: 1018

Author: Montgomery, Morton L. (Morton Luther), b. 1846; J.H. Beers & Co
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: Chicago : J. H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1018