History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Vol. III, Part 105

Author: Davis, W. W. H. (William Watts Hart), 1820-1910; Ely, Warren S. (Warren Smedley), b. 1855; Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: New York ; Chicago : The Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1040

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Mr. Lehman is a son of Joseph and Mar- garet (Diemer) Lehman, and grandson of John and Elizabeth (Schaffer) Lehman, who were farmers in Germany. Joseph was ·one of six children : Michael. Peter, Jacob. .Joseph, Elizabeth and Catharine. Joseph

and Margaret (Diemer) Lehman had three children : Adam, Michael and Elizabeth. Adam also came to America, settling in Philadelphia in 1830, and removing later to the neighborhood of Doylestown, owning and occupying the farm lately occupied by the Doylestown Country Club, south of the town, and also owning a small farm at Pebble Hill. He married a Miss Schreiner, and had seven children: John, Joseph, Henry, Adam, Charles and two others who are deceased. Michael Lehman married Hester Deemer, daughter of Bernard Deemer, of Rockhill township, Bucks coun- ty, Pennsylvania, where she was born, Oc- tober 25, 1825. She was of German descent, but her ancestors had been residents of Bucks county for several generations. (See Deemer Family, in this work). Mrs. Leh- man died in Doylestown in 1896. Michael and Hester (Deemer) Lehman were the parents of two children-Harry C., and Arthur C., the two junior members of the firm of Lehman & Sons.

ARTHUR C. LEHMAN, eldest son of Michael and Hester ( Deemer) Lehman, was born at Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, November 22, 1855. He received his preliminary education at the public schools of Doylestown, and finished the course at the Doylestown English and Classical Seminary. From 1869 to the fall of 1876 he filled a clerical position in Philadelphia. He then returned to his native town and entered into business there with his father and brother Harry C., and has since been an active mem- ber of the firm of Lehman & Sons, having special charge of the wholesale department, and attending to the trade in Philadelphia. He married. November 1, 1877, Elvina Kemble, daughter of Charles and Eliza- beth ( Thompson) Kemble, of Philadelphia. and took up his residence on State street, Doylestown, where he still resides. Mrs. Lehman died June 30, 1900. They are tl.e parents of three children, viz. : George W., born November 26, 1879; Addie L., born November 16, 1881; and Harry L., born April 14, 1886. George W. received his primary education at Doylestown and then took a four years course at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and later graduated from a medical university in Tennessee. Addie L., is possessed of re- markable musical talent; she is a graduate of the Sternburg Musical Conservatory at Philadelphia, and is considered one of the ablest performers on the piano in Bucks county. She has conducted a number of musicales in Bucks county, Philadelphia and elsewhere, and has officiated at many high class musical . entertainments. Harry L., the youngest son, is at present a student at a preparatory academy in Franklin county, Pennsylvania.

HARRY C. LEHMAN, second son of Mi- chael and Hester (Deemer) Lehman, was born at Doylestown. Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, February 26, 1858. He acquired his education at the Doylestown public school and Doylestown English and Classical Sem-

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inary. On leaving school he entered his fa- ther's butchering establishment and meat store, and in the spring of 1876 became a partner in the business, and is still a member of the firm of Lehman & Sons. He mar- ried, November 21, 1888, Mary C. McAnall, adopted daughter of William McAnall. She was born in Philadelphia, June 14. 1866. They are the parents of two children : Charles F., born September 21, 1889, now a student at a preparatory school in Frank- lin county, Pennsylvania ; and Bertha, born January II, 1893, a student in the Doyles- town high school.

HARVEY S. BRUNNER, of Bucking- ham township, Bucks county, is a worthy representative of one of the oldest Penn- sylvania German families in . Bucks county, and of that sturdy race who by industry, frugality and rectitude have added much to the wealth, prosperity and moral standing of the county. Many of his name have found homes in Bucks .county, the first Brunner arriving in Pennsylvania in 1728. The subject of this sketch is a son of Solomon and Bar- bara (Shelly) Brunner, both natives of Springfield township, Bucks county, and was born in Bedminster township, March 1, 1857.

Solomon Brunner was born in the year 1822, and his wife Barbara two years earlier. On their marriage they settled in Bedminster township, where he followed his trade, that of a car- penter, later locating at Danboro, in Plumstead township, where he resided for three years. A few years prior to his death, which occurred on March 14, 1896, he removed to Telford, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. His widow is a resident of Hatfield, Montgomery county. They were the parents of eight children, five of whom survive: Cath- arine, wife of Abraham Rohr, of Bed- minster; Isaiah, residing in Indiana; Charles, of Hatfield; Harvey S. and Thomas, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The family were members of the Ger- man Reformed church.

Harvey S. Brunner was reared in Bed- minster township and received his edu- cation in the public schools, and at the age of eighteen years began teaching in his native township, which he followed for two years. After two years devoted to painting, he took up the carpenter trade under Louis High, of Bedminster, and followed that trade for nine years. In 1886 he married Hannah Overholt, daughter of Abraham and Hannah Over- holt, of Bedminster, and for three years conducted the farm of his father-in-law. In the spring of 1800 he purchased his present farm in Buckingham and moved thereon. He and his family are mem- bers of the Mennonite meeting. In pol- itics he is a Republican, but has never

filled other than local offices. He is a practical and successful farmer. To Mr. and Mrs. Brunner have been born three children : Wallace, deceased; Benjamin Franklin, and Harvey Leroy.

HENRY CLAY LARGE. Among the most successful, enterprising and scien- tific farmers of Bucks county is Henry Clay Large, of Buckingham township. He was born in Buckingham on Febru- ary 2, 1846, and is a son of William M. and Anne (Watson) Large. The Large family is one of the oldest in Bucks county, though the lineal ancestors of the subject of this sketch were residents of New Jersey for three generations. Joseph Large and Elizabeth his wife came to Bucks county from Long Island about 1690, and settled in Falls town- ship, where he died about 1706, leaving four sons: John, who settled in Bristol, Joseph, the ancestor of the Larges of middle Buckingham; Samuel and Eben- ezer. Samuel Large settled in early life in Kingwood, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, where he purchased a large tract of land. He was one of the original members of Kingwood Friends' Meeting in 1744, and was an elder until his death, 6 mo. 9, 1765, and travelled ex- tensively in this and other provinces in the "service of truth." Jacob Large was born in Kingwood and became an ex- tensive farmer there. He married 8 mio., 1746, Mary Bunting, and raised a fam- ily of nine children: Aaron; Elizabeth; Samuel; Anne, married Isaac Lundy; Mary, married John Allen; Ebenezer; Rebecca ; William: Sarah. William, · born 7 mo. 14, 1765, married Susanna Palmer.

William M. Large, father of the sub- ject of this sketch, was born in King- wood township, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, June 17, 1812, being a son of Will- iam and Susanna (Palmer) Large. His father died when he was a babe, and at the age of twelve years he came to Doylestown and was apprenticed to James Kelly, then editor and proprietor of the "Bucks County Intelligencer." to learn the printing trade. He served his term, and, arriving of age, remained in the office a few weeks. and then went to Philadelphia in search of a job. Here he encountered Seneca W. Ely, a native of Buckingham, just returned from Rochester, New York, where he, too, had learned the printing trade, and the two young printers formed a partnership, purchased a press, and removed to Chil- licothe, Ohio, where they started a print- ing office. At the end of a year. Mr. Large having been solicited by his pre- ceptor to return and take an interest in . the business. came back to Doylestown and entered into partnership with Mr. Kelly. They ran the "Intelligencer" for

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two years, 1835-36, when Mr. Large re- tired from the firm, but one year later bought the entire interest of Mr. Kelly and conducted the paper with good suc- cess until March 14. 1841, when he sold out to Samuel S. Fretz. He then pur- chased a farm in Upper Buckingham, and followed farming for the next fif- teen years. In 1857 he became one of the banking firm of J. Hart & Co., of Doylestown, and retained his interest therein until about 1864. During the fif- ties he purchased the farm whereon the subject of this sketch now resides, on the Buckingham and Doylestown turn- pike, known as Chestnut Grove Farm, and erected the present handsome and commodious buildings, and took up his residence there, where he died, May 20, 1893, in his eighty-first year. William M. Large was a man of more than or- dinary intellectual ability, and a prom- inent and successful man in the com- munity. He was a model farmer and successful business man. He married, 2 mo. 17, 1841, Anne, daughter of Joseph and Mary (White) Watson, of Bucking- ham, of one of the oldest families in Buckingham. She died in 1889, aged seventy-six years. The children of Will- iam M. and Anne (Watson) Large were: Mary L., deceased, who was the wife of Louis Buckman, of Doylestown; Henry Clay; and Watson, deceased. Mr. Large and his family were members of Buckingham Monthly Meeting of Friends.

The subject of this sketch was reared on the farm and was a student in the common schools and at the Hughesian Free School, and later attended a priv- ate school at Doylestown. He has al- ways been a farmer, and takes great pride in the home farm, which he ac- quired at his father's death. In politics he is a Republican, but has never sought or held public office. He is a member of Buckingham Friends Meeting. H. Clay Large was married, February 12, 18So, to Lavinia, daughter of Frederick and Rachel (Dubree) Pearson, of Sole- bury, Bucks county, who has borne him five children, all of whom are living at home, viz .: Mary B., Josephine C., Will- iam M., Rachel and Anna W.

EDWIN HEMMERLY. Among the enterprising and prosperous farmers of Buckingham is the subject of this sketch. He was born in Springfield township, Bucks county, son of John and Catharine (Wimmer) Hemmerly, both of German extraction, descendants of early German settlers in Upper Bucks or Lehigh county.

John Hemmerly was born in either Lehigh county or near the line of that county, in Springfield township. Bucks county, about the year 1807. He was a

blacksmith and followed that vocation in Springfield township for many years and up to within a few years of his death. He was one of the first in that section to manufacture the old "Bull" plow, and did a large and profitable business. He married (first) Catharine Wimmer, who died in 1849. The marriage resulted in the birth of eight children, of whom four survive: Levi, of South Bethlehem; Edwin H., the subject of this sketch; John, of Luzerne county; and Amanda, widow of Levi Overholt, living at Hel- lertown, Northampton county. The father married (second) Barbara Hottle, and had by her four sons and one daugh- ter, of whom only one survives, Jacob Hemmerly, an upholsterer of Philadel- phia. A few years prior to his death John Hemmerly retired from business and removed to Bethlehem, and two years later took up his residence with his daughter Matilda, now deceased, in South Bethlehem, where he died at the age of eighty-three years. In early life Mr. Hemmerly was a Democrat in poli- tics, but at the organization of the Re- publican party in 1856 he became a mem- ber of that party, and voted the ticket for the remainder of his life. In re- ligion he was a Mennonite.

The subject of this sketch spent his boyhood days among the farmers of Springfield township, after his mother's death, and received a limited education at the public schools. On December 22, 1860. he married Eliza Landis, daughter of David and Lydia (Jacoby) Landis, of New Britain township, but raised in Springfield township, and began life as a farmer. In 1862 he enlisted in Com- pany F. One Hundred and Seventy- Fourth Regiment, . Pennsylvania Volun- teers, and served nine months. the term of his enlistment. In 1864 he enlisted in the Second New Jersey Cavalry Reg- iment, and served to the close of the war. Returning home he again engaged in farming. In 1875 he purchased his present farm of fifty acres, and has re- sided thereon ever since. In politics Mr. Hemmerly is a Republican, has served his township as supervisor tor four years, and in 1902 was the candi- date for county commissioner. but was defeated. He is a member of the Lu- theran church. and belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic, being a member of General Robert L. Bodine Post, No. 306, at Doylestown.

To Mr. and Mrs. Hemmerly have been born eight children, five of whom sur- vive: Emma. wife of David Cyrus Boyer, of Durham, Bucks county; Lydia, wife of Linford Raike, of Doylestown: Clinton, a carpenter and builder at Oak Lane, Pennsylvania; David, superintendent of a large mercantile establishment in Pliil- adelphia: and Cora E., residing at home. A daughter, Amanda, who was a teacher, died at the age of twenty-one years.

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JOHN M. STAPLER, for over forty years one of the prominent merchants of Newtown, Bucks county, was born in Buckingham township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania 5 mo. 6, 1828, and is a son of John and Susanna (Betts) Stapler, both of whom were of English Quaker parentage, whose ancestors were among the earliest settlers in Penn's colony.

Stephen Stapler, the first paternal an- cestor of the subject of this sketch of whom we have any definite knowledge, was a resident of Philadelphia, where he purchased a lot at the corner of Front and High (now Market) streets, in 1701. He was a butcher by trade, and a men- ber of the Society of Friends. He be- came a considerable landowner in Phil- adelphia, but the date of his birth or death have not been ascertained. He was probably a native of Surrey, Eng- land, as he and John Sotcher, Penn's steward at Pennsbury, were made joint executors of the will of a resident of Surrey, executed when the testator was about to start for America. The chil- dren of Stephen Stapler so far as known were: Martha, who married Richard Radcliffe, of Bucks county, at Falls Meeting, 8 mo. 31, 1709; William, who married a widow Catharine Clifton, and died in Philadelphia in 1730, leaving chil- dren, Stephen, William and Joseph; and John Stapler.

John Stapler, son of Stephen, was a member of Abington Friends' Meeting in 1719, when he obtained a certificate to Falls Meeting to marry Esther Canby, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Jarvis) Canby, who was born in 2 mo., 1700. Her father, Thomas Canby, was a son of Benjamin Canby, of Thorn, Yorkshire, and was one of the most prominent men of Bucks county during a long life; he was a preacher among Friends, a justice of the county courts, and for many years a member of the colonial assembly. He was for many years a resident of Buck- ingham, and removed to Solebury a few years prior to his death in 1749. He was thrice married, and left nineteen chil- dren, who intermarried with many of the old families of Bucks and have left numerous descendants. John and Esther (Canby) Stapler settled in Bensalem township, where the latter died in 1734. Their children were four in number, as follows: 1. John, born 3 mo. 27, 1721, married Io mno. 22, 1745, Rachel West. 2. Thomas, born II mo. 18, 1723-4, see forward. 3. Stephen, born 10 mo. 24, 1725, married 2 mo. 21, 1748, Mary Giffin. 4. Sarah, born II mo. 7, 1727.

Thomas Stapler, second son of John and Esther (Camby) Stapler, was born, according to our present calendar, on the last day of February, 1724. He was reared in Middletown township, in the family of his stepfather, John White, whom his mother married 8 mo. 16, 1735. His mother died 12 mo. 5, 1777. Her chil-

dren by the second marriage were Lydia and Mary White.

Thomas Stapler was apprenticed early in life to the blacksmith trade, and fol- lowed that vocation for several years in Middletown township. About 1760 he removed to Bensalem township, where- lie resided until 1800, when he removed to Lower Makefield township, and pur- chased over two hundred acres of land, upon which he resided until his death in March, 1810. He was a prominent mem- ber of the Society of Friends, and a trus- tee for many years of a fund devised by John Harker to Bristol and Byberry Meetings. He married, 10 mo. 18, 1750, Rachel Atkinson, daughter of William and Margaret (Baker) Atkinson, of Bris- tol, Bucks county, and a granddaughter of Henry Baker by his second wife, Mary Radcliffe. Henry Baker, the ma- ternal grandfather of Rachel (Atkinson) Stapler, came to Bucks county from. Darby, Lancashire, England, in 1684, with wife Margaret, and seven children -- two sons, Samuel and Nathan; and five daughters: Rachel, who married Job Bunting; Sarah, who married (first) Stephen Wilson and (second) Isaac Milnor: Phebe, who married (first) Ed- ward Radcliffe, and (second) William Stockdale; and Esther, who married Thomas Yardley. Henry Baker was one of the most prominent men of Bucks county in his day. He was an active member of the Society of Friends, and the early meetings of the society were held at his house prior to the erection of Falls Meeting House. He was one of the committee to lay out Bucks county into townships in 1690; was one of the early justices of the courts of the county, and a member of the colonial as- sembly from 1685 to 1698. His second wife, Mary Radcliffe, whom he married 8 mo., 13, 1692, was the widow of James Radcliffe, whom she accompanied to. America, from Chapel Hill, Rosendale, Lancashire, in 1685: it was their son Richard who married Martha Stapler in 1709, and their son Edward married Phebe Baker, as above shown. James Radcliffe was a noted minister among Friends, and died in 1690. Mary died in 1715.

William Atkinson, the father of Rachel Stapler was a son of Thomas and Jane (Bond) Atkinson, both ministers among Friends, who were married at Knares borough Meeting, in Yorkshire, in 1678, and some years later migrated to Pennsylvania with their three sons, Isaac. William and Samuel, and settled in Bucks county.

William Atkinson, second son of Thomas and Jane, and the father of Rachel Stapler, was born in Lancashire, and died in Bristol in 1749. He was twice married, his first wife being a daughter of Richard and Margery Hough. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and'

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a prominent man in the community. Thomas and Rachel (Atkinson) Stap- ler were the parents of six children, viz .: William, who married II mo. 1, 1780,- Mary Mitchell; John, see forward; Stephen, Sarah and Esther, who died unmarried; and Thomas, who married 4 mo. 24, 1794, Acsah Yardley, daughter of William and Sarah (Kirkbride) Yardley.

John Stapler, son of Thomas and Rachel, was born in Middletown town- ship, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and was reared. in Bensalem township. On attaining manhood he married and set- tled in Lower Makefield township where he followed the life of a farmer, and was a considerable landholder. He and his family were members of Falls Meet- ing of Friends; both he and his brother Thomas were part owners of Morris- ville Island, and the industries thereon established, after the failure of Robert Morris. He died in October, 1823. He had married, 10 mo. 21, 1779, Hannah Yardley, born 10 mo. 3. 1758, died 8 mo. 8, 1830, daughter of William and Sarah (Kirkbride) Yardley, who bore him thir- teen children of whom eleven lived to maturity, viz .: Sarah, born 7 mo. 27, 1780, died 1868; Rachel, born 10 mo. 25, 1781, died 1854; Acsah, born 4 mo. 3, 1783. died 3 mo. 11, 1861, married Charles M. Reeder; Ann, born 10 mo. 16, 1785, died 1851; Esther, born 9 mio. 30, 1787, died 1844; Thomas, born 3 mo. 25, 1789, died 12 mo. 28, 1842, married Sarah Bunt- ing; Mary, born 5 mo. 30, 1792, died 1867; John, born Io mo. 19, 1793, died 9 mo, 23, 1834, see forward; Charles, born 5 mo. 8, 1795, died II mo. 13, 1865, mar- ried Sarah Jones; Hannah, born 7 mo. 19, 1797; and Christiana, born 9 mo. 23, 1803, died I mo. 15, 1876, about three years before Hannah.

William Yardley, the maternal grand- father of the above children, was born 3 mo. 25, 1716, and died 8 mo. 3, 1774. He was sheriff of Bucks county, 1752-55, and a justice of the courts of Bucks county 1764-70. His wife, Sarah Kirk- bride, was a daughter of Mahlon and Mary (Sotcher) Kirkbride: her father and both her maternal and paternal grandsires were members of the colonial assembly and justices of the courts of Bucks county at different periods.

John Stapler. third son and ninth child of John and Hannah (Yardley) Stapler, was the father of the subject of this sketch. He

was born near Yardley, Lower Makefield township, Bucks county, JO mo. 19, 1793. He learned the trade of a miller, and located at Lam- bertville, New Jersey, in 1820, where he operated a mill for several years as a member of the firm of Lukens and Stapler.

About 1827 he removed to Bucking- ham, where he operated the mill at Me- chanics Valley, now owned by Oliver J.

Rice, for four years. In December, 1830, he purchased a farm of two hundred acres in Upper Makefield, and removed there in April, 1831, and died 9 mo. 23, 1834. He married 4 mo. 18, 1822, St- sanna Betts, daughter of Zacariah and Mary Betts, of Upper Makefield, and granddaughter of Thomas and Susanna (Field) Betts. Thomas Betts, the grand- father, was born on Long Island, August 14, 1689, and died at Newtown, Bucks county, April, 1747. He was a son of Thomas and Mercy (Whitehead) Betts, and a grandson of Richard and Joanna Betts, who came from England in 1648 to Ipswich, Massachusetts, and removed soon after to Newtown, Long Island, where the former died November 18, 1713, at the age of one hundred years. He was a member of the colonial assem- bly in 1665, and filled the office of sheriff and many other important positions on Long Island. After the death of John Stapler his widow and family removed to the village of Dolington, where she died in February, 1847. The children of John and Susanna (Betts) Stapler were: Joseph Betts, born 7 mo. 28, 1823; John M., the subject of this sketch; and Mary Ann, born 6 mo. 8, 1830.

John M. Stapler was born in Buck- ingham, 5 mo. 6, 1828, and was but six years of age at the death of his father. He was reared at Dolington, and was educated at the Claremont Academy, conducted by Yardley and Edward Buck- man, at Rising Sun. He taught school in Makefield for two years. In 1839 he went to Doylestown, where he and his brother Joseph B. conducted a store five years; his brother was then fifteen years old. In 1854 he removed to Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery county, where he was engaged in mercantile pursuits for a period of three years. He then re- moved to Norristown, where he con- ducted a store for several years. In 1864 he came to Newtown and entered into partnership with W. Kirk Carver, and the firm conducted the store now occupied by Evan T. Worthington for ten years. In 1874 he purchased the store now conducted by his son-in-law, William T. Wright, where he was ac- tively engaged in mercantile pursuits for upwards of twenty years. He married II mo. 18, 1852, Margaret Rich, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Pennington) Rich, of Doylestown, and they were the pa- rents of two children: Fanny, who died young; and Emma, born 10 mo. 14. 1860, who married in 1887, William T. Wright, son of Mark and Louisa Wright. Mr. Wright was reared in Falls township, and comes of an old family that have been associated with lower Bucks for many generations. He became asso- ciated with Mr. Stapler in the conduct of the Newtown store upon his marriage in April, 1887, and is now its proprietor. Mr. and Mrs. Wright are the parents

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of two children-John Stapler and Mar- garetta. Mrs. Stapler died July 7, 1897. Mr. Stapler is a worthy representative of a worthy ancestry that have in the past, as shown by the preceding sketch, held many positions of trust and honor, and been closely associated with the de- velopment and maintenance of our in- stitutions in the state and county for many generations. Like all his Ameri- can ancestors he is a member of the So- ciety of Friends. He has enjoyed a long and successful business career, and en- joys the reputation of a careful, conserv- ative and conscientious business man. For over sixty-five years engaged in mercantile pursuits, he has been brought in close contact with the people, and has always enjoyed their confidence and esteem.

HARRY B. SCHMITT. Among the enterprising and successful farmers of Buckingham' township, is Harry B. Schmitt, who was born in Hilltown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1865, a son of Leonard and Elizabeth (Baukert) Schmitt, both na- tives of Germany. Leonard Schmitt was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, in 1828. He learned the trade of a black- smith in his native country, and in 1852 emigrated to America. With him came his affianced wife. Elizabeth Baukert, who, failing to obtain the consent of her parents to marry the man of her choice, fled with him to America and was married to him at Philadelphia on their arrival. Mr. Schmitt worked at his trade in Philadelphia for about six months, and then removed to Hagers- ville. Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he worked as a journeyman blacksmith for two years, after which he removed to Line Lexington and 'worked one year. He then opened a shop of his own at Reiff's corner, Hilltown, where he did a prosperous business for twenty- four years. In 1876 he took up the tailor- ing business, and was successful finan- cially, but returned to the anvil after two years. In 1887 he purchased the farm in Buckingham where the subject of this sketch now resides, and con- ducted it until the marriage of his son, Harry B .. when he retired from its ac- tive management. He died in 1900, and his wife Elizabeth died in 1892. Mr. Schmitt was a Democrat in politics. He and his family were members of the Ro- man Catholic church. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Schmitt were the parents of nine children, only three of whom sur- vive: Harry B .; Philip, now living in Oklahoma; and Mary, a widow of James McColgan, of Philadelphia.

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History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Vol. III, Part 105

Author: Davis, W. W. H. (William Watts Hart), 1820-1910; Ely, Warren S. (Warren Smedley), b. 1855; Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921 Publication date: 1905 Publisher: New York ; Chicago : The Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1040

Author: Davis, W. W. H. (William Watts Hart), 1820-1910; Ely, Warren S. (Warren Smedley), b. 1855; Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: New York ; Chicago : The Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1040