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RAYMOND H. BLOSS, M.D., a practicing physician at Bethlehem, Pa., was born at Beth- lehem, September 7, 1883. He was educated in the public schools of his native city and graduated from the Moravian Parochial school at Bethle- hem in 1900, and from the Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia, in 1906. During 1906- 1907 he was the chief resident physician of the hospital at Pottsville, Pa., and on July 17, 1907, he settled at Bethlehem, where he enjoys a large and lucrative practice. He has membership in the Lehigh Valley Medical Society, the North- ampton County Medical Society, the Pennsyl- vania State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. Socially he is a member of Stichter Lodge, No. 254, F. & A. M., of Potts- town, Pa. He is a member of the Moravian Church.
BLUMER FAMILY.
The Blumer family is descended from Othmar Blumer, who lived at Luchsingen, on the river Linth, in the canton of Glarus, Switzerland, and who was church steward at Schwanden in the six- teenth century. Schwanden was a town which had many converts in the time of the Reformation and in 1528 the images were taken out of the church and the mass was abolished in 1543. Oth- mar Blumer had two sons: Wolfgang, governor of the province of Werdenberg in 1580, and Esaias. Othmar Blumer, son of Esaias, had a son, Peter Blumer, who was born in 1581 and died in 1669. In 1654 he was governor of the free cities. His son, John Jacob Blumer, was governor of the county of Baden in 1661. He married Agatha Zeiflin, and had five sons. His fourth son, John Henry Blumer, was born in 1663, and became pastor of the church at Grabs, in the canton of St. Gallen. Grabs is included in the province of Werdenberg, and is situated in the valley of the Rhine, among beautiful moun- tain scenery, not far from Wildhaus, the birth- place of Zwingli, and is mentioned in history as early as the year 948. John Henry Blumer had a son, Peter, who died an officer in the army of France, and John Jacob.
John Jacob Blumer became the pastor at Bet- schwanden and Grabs, and married, May 3, 1726, Salome Shindler, of Mollis. He died in 1746.
He had five sons: Conrad, born April 6, 1727, who became an officer in the Swiss regiment in the service of the King of Sardinia and died at Alexandria; John Henry, born 1728, who be- came a surgeon and major in a Swiss regiment and died at Breslau ; John Jacob, born Sept. 28, 1729, who died a cadet in the Meyer regiment at Taggis; Fridolin, born Feb. 17, 1732, who died on the voyage to America; and Abraham.
Rev. Abraham Blumer was born in Grabs, in the province of Werdenberg, then in the canton of Glarus, now a part of the canton of St. Gal- len, on Dec. 14, 1736, according to the old style calendar, or December 25th, new style. He at- tended the German school until his tenth year, when his father died, and his relatives having de- termined that he should enter the ministry, he was sent to the Latin school, where he remained seven years. He then entered the University of Basel, Aug. 1, 1754, and was ordained a minister of the Reformed Church on June 8, 1756. He became chaplain of the Swiss regiment Meyer, in the service of the King of Sardinia, on July II, 1757, and served until September, 1766, when he left the service and became vicar to a sickly min- ister and tutor in languages and sciences to sev- eral young people until the beginning of 1770. At this time the desire to go to America, which he had felt in his younger years, again awakened and he determined to go on a voyage to Holland and England.
Rev. M. Planta, pastor of the German Re- formed church in London, strongly urged his ap- pointment to a charge in America in a letter dated June 26, 1770. Rev. Blumer appeared before the deputies of the North and South Holland Synods at the Hague, on Aug. 23, 1770, and was chosen a minister to be sent to Pennsylvania. He left Amsterdam, Sept. 6, 1770, and after a long and hard voyage arrived in New York in the latter part of January, 1771. In February, he appeared before the Cœtus in Philadelphia, and was placed in the Whitehall charge. On Feb. 17, 1771, he became pastor of Allentown, Egypt, Jordan and Schlosser's (now Union) congregations, in this charge, and served until May 17, 1801, a period of thirty years and three months. During his pastorate the number of his baptisms was 2,517, and he confirmed 1,137 persons. He was clerk of the Reformed church Cotus in 1773 and 1784, and president in 1774 and 1785. He was a finely educated man, versed in the English, Ger- man, French and Dutch languages, and a master of Latin, Greek and Hebrew. He received a call from the French Reformed church of New York city in 1774, which he declined in a letter written in the French language. In 1785, he purchased 195 acres of land along the Jordan
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creek, north of the present "Iron Bridge," on which a house built by him still stands.
He lived retired on his farm but was frequent- ly called upon to officiate at weddings, baptisms and funerals among his former parishioners, who greatly admired him. It was during his pastor- ate of Zion church, Allentown, and probably with his knowledge, that the Liberty Bell was con- cealed in the church. During his pastorate, also, new stone churches were built by the Allentown, Egypt, and Union congregations. Rev. Blumer, in his report in 1785, stated that his yearly salary was £100, with £20 perquisites, and £95 ex- penses. He married, Feb. 25, 1772, Susanna Maria Frary, who was born in 1743 and died Jan. 1, 1825. Rev. Blumer died April 23, 1822, aged 85 years. He and his wife are buried in the old churchyard at Jordan Reformed church. They had five children, the eldest of which died soon after birth in December, 1772. The four who grew to maturity were Jacob, Salome, Henry and Susanna Maria.
Salome Blumer, the eldest daughter, was born May 24, 1776, and died April 24, 1844. She married, Dec. 20, 1807, Michael Heller, and had two sons and four daughters: Michael, Salome, Philip, Maria, Julia, and two who died in in- fancy.
Susanna Maria Blumer, the youngest daughter, was born June 30, 1782, and died Aug. 22, 1843. She married, Jan. 11, 1807, Anthony Musick, who was born Sept. 16, 1775, and died Jan. 2 1837, in Philadelphia. He was the son of Sam- uel Musick, of Whitehall, who died in 1780, and his wife, Dorothea Musgening. Anthony Musick was sheriff of Lehigh county from 1817 to 1820. Their children were: Aaron, Josiah, Reuben W., and Henrietta.
Jacob Blumer, the eldest son, was born in Whitehall township, April 13, 1774. He was well educated by his talented father and being of a mechanical turn of mind became a clockmaker, and made many of the tall clocks now so highly prized. In the War of 1812 he was First Lieu- tenant of Capt. John F. Ruhe's company, called the "Northampton Blues." He was town clerk of Allentown from 1812 to 1829. He died Sept. 5, 1830, and was buried on the old Allentown cemetery with military honors. He married, June 20, 1802, Catharine Rhoads, only daughter of Judge Peter Rhoads. She was born April 26, 1780, and died Dec. 25, 1817. She was a talented and accomplished woman, the idol of her father, who gave her everything she desired. About 1795, he purchased a pianoforte for her, the first in the town, and she also had a maid, who dressed her hair in the elaborate fashion of the day and starched and ironed the large ruffles worn at that
time. Her silhouette is reproduced at the end of the nineteenth chapter in the first volume of this work. Mrs. Blumer died while several of her children were still small.
Jacob Blumer married, the second time, Mrs. Mary M. Hoffman, nee Scheirer. She was born Jan. 18, 1787, and died Dec. 29, 1858. After his death she married Abraham Newhard. Jacob Blumer had in the second marriage, two chil- dren: Franklin F., of Leavittsburg, Ohio; and Caroline, who married Silas Newhard, and had two children, Frank J., and George B. Newhard. In the first marriage he had six children :
Lucy A., who died unmarried, Nov. 12, 1879, aged 77 years.
Camilla, who married John Mohr, and had children : Edmund J., an attorney of Allentown, who married Eliza R. Romig, and had one daugh- ter, Matilda; Mrs. Ann Sterner ; William; Maria E., who married Charles Howell, and had one son, William J. Howell ; Allen A .; Henry J .; Kate; Caroline B .; Lucy, who married Otto Kessler; Mrs. Emily Thigen; and Charles C. Mohr, formerly editor of the Friedensbote.
Alexander A. Blumer, born Aug. 1, 1806, died May 4, 1842. He was one of the proprietors of the Friedensbote from Jan. 1, 1831, until his death.
Matilda, born March 9, 1808, died Jan. 21, 1854. She married, Sept. 30, 1838, Edmund D. Leisenring, who was a prominent editor and was one of the proprietors of the Friedensbote from 1850 until his death in 1882, during which time he was also the editor. They had four children : Anna C., married John S. Kessler, and had two children : Lucius, deceased; and Matilda B .; Olivia A., married George H. Gerhart, and had two children: Anna M., wife of Prof. John E. Sandt, of Reading, and William; Mary J., mar- ried Aaron Amich and had one child, Edna, and Mrs. Martha Eidel.
Victor T. Blumer, born Sept. 29, 1809, son of Jacob, became a druggist with Ludwig Schmidt, but on Jan. 1, 1840, became one of the proprietors of the Friedensbote, with his brother, and con- tinued as such for twenty years until his death Aug. 24, 1860. He married Eliza Rupp, who was born Nov. 18, 1820, and died July 21, 1860. They had ten children: Alexander A., born 1843, died 1873; John, of California; Mary C., born 1847, died 1848; Rosina B., wife of James F. Kerschner, of Coplay; Victor T., who died, unmarried, Dec. 29, 1904; William J., born 1852, died 1853; Eliza R .; Charles, of Newark, N. J. ; George G .; and Sallie C.
GEORGE G. BLUMER, youngest son of Victor T., was born in Allentown, July 24, 1856. He was educated in the city schools and graduate 1
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from the Allentown high school in 1874. He was then employed by Aschbach & Jacoby in the con- struction of the Coopersburg turnpike, after which he taught school for four years in Whitehall, Lower Macungie and Heidelberg townships. He then became superintendent of the Allentown Passenger Railway Company until the road was sold to a New York syndicate. He was salesman for the C. H. Stiles bookstore at various times, altogether a period of twenty-five years. In 1905, he was elected prothonotary of the county.
Mr. Blumer was a member of the Republican county committee from 1877 to 1907, and county chairman from 1878 to 1885 and 1906 to 1912, as well as frequently chairman of the Republican city committee. He was elected a member of city council in 1880 and served three terms. In 1888, he was elected a school director and served until 1895. He was a member of the Board of Control from 1890 to 1895, and subsequently was school director in the Eighth ward. He is a mem- ber of the St. Leger Club, Livingston Castle, Knights of the Golden Eagle, Lecha Wonk Tribe, Order of Red Men; Liberty Fire Com- pany; and of Zion Reformed church. He mar- ried, Aug. 29, 1894, Miss Katie F. Crader, and has one son, George, born June 21, 1895.
William Henry Blumer, youngest son of Jacob Blumer, was born in Allentown, Sept. 11, 1811. On Jan. 1, 1834, he became one of the proprietors of the Friedensbote, with his brother, Alex. A., and the firm name, which had been Grater & Blumer, became A. A. and W. H. Blumer. In 1840, his brother, Victor, became a partner, and after Alexander A. Blumer's death in 1842, the paper was carried on by V. and W. H. Blumer until Jan. 1, 1844, when Charles S. Bush pur- chased the interest of W. H. Blumer, who re- tired from the firm, having been elected county treasurer. He subsequently engaged in the bank- ing business and was president of the First Na- tional Bank from 1864 to 1877. He died in 1881. He married, March 16, 1834, Susanna Biery, daughter of David and Susanna ( Mickley) Biery, who was born April 3, 1817, and died Dec. 1, 1835. She had one child, who died in infancy. He married, second, Maria Biery, and had six- teen children, of whom five died in infancy. The eleven children who reached mature age were: Henry A., born 1838, died 1862, in the Civil War; Jacob A .; Otto; Sarah C., wife of Abra- ham M. Springer ; Alice, married Rev. Richard Apple; Ellen A., married Jacob S. Renninger ; Mary L., born 1847, died 1865; Edgar; Emily, married Solomon Gore; Elizabeth, married Peter Albright ; and Thomas P. Blumer.
JACOR A. BLUMER was born in Allentown,
Oct. 21, 1840. He was educated in the public schools and the Allentown Seminary, after which he was a printer for three years. He served in the Civil War as corporal in Company E, Fifth Penna. Militia Regiment, and in 1875 was treas- urer of the city.
He later became connected with the Chronicle and News, and remained with this paper for twenty-seven years, latterly as business manager. He married, May 14, 1868, Susan R., daughter of Edward Wieder. They have two children : Lucy M., and Emily M. The family are mem- bers of St. John's Reformed church.
Franklin F. Blumer, son of Jacob Blumer, in his second marriage, was born in Allentown in November, 1826. He learned the printer's trade in the Friedensbote office, and later became a tobacconist with John F. Ruhe & Sons. He served in the Civil War in the Sixth Ohio Cav- alry. As a young man he emigrated to Ohio and engaged in farming. He died at Leavittsburg, Ohio, Feb. 1, 1905, and left one son. Frank Blumer.
EDWARD C. BLUMER.
Edward C. Blumer was born March 28, 1853, at Preuss, Germany, and came to America with his mother and two uncles in 1865, landing at Philadelphia. They located at once in Salisbury township, where he attended school and worked on his uncle Frederick's farm. He then was em- ployed with his uncle Charles, for over ten years, who had a large vineyard and was a wine mer- chant. After the death of his uncle he conducted the business for several years, but now lives re- tired at Mountainville. He was at one time a trainer of dogs and did considerable hunting. In politics he is an independent Democrat and is unmarried. His mother, Rosina H., was born March 2, 1826, and died June 27, 1883. His uncle and mother's brother, Charles Rachel, was born April 2, 1824, and died Dec. 17, 1900. His uncle, Frederick J. Rachel, a stone mason and lumber dealer, was born March 25, 1825, and died Feb. 28, 1873. They are buried at Western Salisbury church.
BOAS FAMILY.
The pioneer of this family was the Rev. Wil- liam Boas, who emigrated from Wurtemberg, Germany, and settled at Reading, Pa., where he became one of the first pastors of the Reformed Church. He continued to officiate as a pastor until old age compelled him to retire from active service.
He was married to Barbara Epler, of Bern township, Berks county, and they had eight chil-
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dren: John, Jacob, Frederick, William, Daniel, Barbara (married to Jacob Levan), Catharine (married to Abraham Wanner), and Elizabeth (married to Frederick Rapp). He died Nov. 28, 1814, aged 75 years.
His son, John Boas, was born March 17, 1774 at Reading, and died August 8, 1860, hav- ing followed during his early life the trade of hatter. He was married to Susanna Herbein, of Bern township, and their children were: John, Daniel H., and Catharine (married to Sallada).
Daniel H. Boas was born in 1800, at Reading. He married Elizabeth Sherer, of Reading, also born in 1800. He died in 1852 and she in 1858. Their children were: Mary Ann, Catharine, Elizabeth E., Susan A., Frederick S., Albert D., and Clara E. (married to Mr. Austin).
Captain Frederick S. Boas, was born at Read- ing, Nov. 10, 1834. He was a hat manufac- turer earlier in his life, but in 1852 succeeded his father in the lumber business at Reading. In 1858 he was married to Rosa Keeley and their children were John K., (who was active in the lumber business in Reading) ; Mary M., and Caddie S. He was much interested in the state militia, having in 1855 become captain of the "Reading Rifles," which had attained a high rep- utation as a military organization. During the Civil War he organized a volunteer company, numbering 110 men, which became Company I, in the Twelfth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun- teers. He was a councilman from 1858 to 1861, a prominent Free Mason, and a foremost citizen of Reading.
William Boas, the fourth son of the Rev. Wil- liam Boas, was born at Reading, October 7, 1778. He married on Sept. 30, 1810, Ann Eliz- abeth Deshler. She was born March 23, 1791, and died Jan. 15, 1857. She was the youngest child of Charles and Catharine Deshler, the lat- ter having been born in Philadelphia in 1754 and he married in 1778. He died Feb. 17, 1840. He had a lumber yard and a grocery store at Allen- town, where the Second National Bank now stands. His lumber yard extended down to Zion's Reformed church, and his house occupied the site of the present bank. His granddaugh- ters, Jennie and Ella Boas, still have a large "punch bowl" in which their maternal ancestor, David Deshler, served punch to Revolutionary War officers. Charles Deshler and wife died in the house which occupied the site of the aforesaid bank building. They had six children:
Charles William, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, William H.,
born on Oct. 3, 1811.
" Feb. 21, 1813.
May 12, 1815.
Aug. 19, 1817.
Twin Boys,
" Dec. 7, 1820.
Henry D.,
" Dec. 24, 1823.
Henry D. Boas, the youngest son, was born
on Wednesday morning, Dec. 24, 1823, and de- parted this life Jan. 17, 1858, aged 34 years. He is buried in the Union cemetery at Allentown. He was a tobacco dealer and had his place of business upon the site now occupied by the Sec- ond National Bank. He and his family were members of the Zion's Reformed church. Maria Leh, his wife, was a daughter of Henry Leh, Sr. She died July 5, 1865, aged 46 years and 8 months. Their four children are: Alfred H., Alice M., (who is unmarried and makes her home with her brother), Jennie C., and Ella M., who are both unmarried and occupy the parental homestead at 834 Walnut street, Allentown.
ALFRED H. BOAS, of Allentown, was born March 13, 1855, at Allentown. He began to work in the shoe factory for his uncle, Henry Leh, at the age of 12 years, and later for a period of sixteen years filled the position of travelling salesman for him. Afterward, in 1883, he be- came connected with the firm of Batcheler & Lincoln, of Boston, Mass., who at that time were the largest shoe dealers in the world. Mr. Boas continued in the employment of this company for more than a quarter century, having been re- garded as one of the best and most successful shoe salesmen upon the road. In the year 1906 he became a member of the shoe manufacturing firm of Roney & Berger Company, one of the successful business houses of Allentown, whose history appears under the industries of Allen- town.
Mr. Boas, like his forebears, is a member of the Democratic party. He was elected a mem- ber of common council from the "Bloody Third" ward, by a majority of 51 over his Republican opponent, thus becoming the first Democrat to be elected to this office from that stalwart Repub- lican stronghold.
He and his family are members of the St. John's Reformed church. They reside at No. 30 South Fulton street. Socially he is a high degree Free Mason. He has memberships in the following bodies: Greenleaf Lodge No. 561, F. and A. M .; Allen Chapter No. 203, Royal Arch Mason; Allen Commandery No. 20, K. T., all of Allentown, and the Lu Lu Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. at Philadelphia.
He was first married to Jennie, a daughter of Charles H. Ziegenfus, of West Bethlehem, Pa. After her death he married Alice Snyder, a daughter of Geo. Snyder. To the second union was born an only son, Chas. A. Boas, who is the manager of the Roney & Berger Co.
QUINTUS BODDER.
Quintus Bodder, section foreman of L. V. R. R. at Slatington for thirty-five years, was born
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near Freemansburg, in Northampton county, Oct. 16, 1850. He was educated in the public school at Shimersville and brought up on a farm until he became twenty-one years old; then he entered the employ of the L. V. R. R. Co. and he has continued in its service until the present time. Since 1878 he has been foreman of Section 46, embracing the branches of the company be- tween Slatington and Slatedale, and during this time resident at Slatington. He identified him- self with the St. John's Reformed Church, which he has served as deacon and elder; and he has taken great interest in its Sunday school, having served as treasurer since 1910.
In 1873, Mr. Bodder was married to Sarah C. Cassell, of Freemansburg, a daughter of Sam- uel, a native of Bucks county, and they have three children: Lizzie May (m. Joseph Caskie), Mary E. (m. Harry Moyer), and Willia (m. Oliver M. Stauffer, engaged as photographer at Slatington since 1900).
Samuel Bodder was Mr. Bodder's father. He was born in 1822 at the same place and learned the trade of shoemaker which he fol- lowed until his decease in 1900. He was mar- ried to Dianna Brown, daughter of Henry, of Saucon, and granddaughter of Henry Brown, an officer in the Revolution, enlisted from North- ampton county, who is buried in the graveyard attached to the Lower Saucon Church, and his grave is recognized on Decoration days as con- taining the remains of a Revolutionary soldier. They had nine children: Josiah, William, Quin- tus, Peter, Eli, Cyrus, Samuel, Ellen (m. Dr. Samuel C. Keim), and Amelia (who became the second wife of Dr. Keim).
His grandfather was also named Samuel. He resided at Bethlehem and died in 1865. He was married twice; by his first wife he had five chil- dren: Samuel, Levi, George, William and Eliz- abeth (m. - Bloom, and died in 1912), and by his second wife, three children : Edwin, Uriah, and Amanda.
The father of Mrs. Quintus Bodder was Samuel Cassell, who carried on farming and blacksmithing until some time before his death in 1898, at the age of 85 years. He was married to Susan Mann, of Bucks county, who died at Slatington in 1898, at the age of 85 years. They had four children: I. M., Abraham, Mary and Sarah C. And her grandfather was Abraham Cassell, who was a farmer in Bucks county.
REV. JOHN PHILIP BOEHM AND HIS DESCENDANTS.
Rev. John Philip Boehm, the ancestor of one of the earliest Pennsylvania famlies, was born in the Palatinate, Germany, in the year 1683, son
of Philip Lewis Boehm, a Reformed minister at Machenberchen, near Hauau. Rev. John Philip was a pioneer preacher and came to America as early as 1720. He brought with him "testimon- ials that he had been for about seven years a faithful parochial school-teacher, and precentor in the Reformed church of the city of Worms, and that he had been driven thence by the Roman Catholics for holding the Reformed faith." These testimonials, read in the light of the law and customs of those days bear eloquent witness to his talents and attainments. In the year 1725 through great pleading by the inhabitants of Montgomery county, he became the unordained pastor at Falkner Swamp, Skippack and White March.
Of Father Boehm's temporal circumstances and of his descendants another will give a sufficient account. We will simply add that he carried on an extensive correspondence and that it was his custom to preserve carefully all letters, docu- ments and records which pertained to the business of the church. For the preservation of these val- uable papers, he had made a large iron-bound chest. After his death, this chest passed from one to another of his descendants until at last it found its ways into the garret of a house on Third street, Philadelphia.
Its history was forgotten, and its contents, un- appreciated, were eventually destroyed. In the words of Harbaugh, "there is no use in either weeping or growing indignant. The folly has been perpetrated. It was a small trouble and re- quired little wit and wisdom, to burn those records of historical facts, but no amount of pains and research can ever restore them to the church." Whoso readeth, let him understand.
First: Father Boehm did not despair of small beginnings. He gathered the fragments that nothing be lost. He watched over them, minis- tered unto them and when God called him to come up higher, the work went on gathering strength and has continued unto the present day.
Second: Father Boehm had a high regard for sacred things.
Third: Father Boehm believed in law and order.
Fourth: Father Boehm was a noble character and stood for righteousness and the things not made of hands eternal in the heaven.
This ancestor was married to Anna Maria Sherer and they had six children: Anthony Wil- liam; Anna Marie; Sebina; Elizabeth; Maria Philippina and John Philip.
The records show that John Philip Boehm be- came a land owner on the Saucon Creek, at what is now Hellertown, in Lower Saucon town-
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