History of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania and a genealogical and biographical record of its families, Vol. III, Part 57

Author: Roberts, Charles Rhoads; Stoudt, John Baer, 1878- joint comp; Krick, Thomas H., 1868- joint comp; Dietrich, William Joseph, 1875- joint comp; Lehigh County Historical Society
Publication date: 1914
Publisher: Allentown, Pa. : Lehigh Valley Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 854

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Joel Ritter, born in 1832, in Salisbury town- ship, in his youth was a farmer then engaged in cabinet making and undertaking business at Vera Cruz; then took up house painting at Emaus. He later removed to Coopersburg, 'where he conducted a furniture and undertaking busi- ness until his death in 1902. 1

In politics he was a Republican ; a member of the Lutheran Church, later 'connecting himself with the Moravian Church, of which he became an elder.

He married Mary Gehring, daughter of John Gehring, of Emaus. Issue : Richard ; Maria, Mrs. Shaw, deceased; Robert, at Macungie; Rebecca, married William Steininger ; Milton D., cabinet maker, Newton, Bucks county; Morris, of Leba- non, photographer ; John, of Coopersburg, a mil- ler; and Henry A., of whom below.

HENRY ALFRED RITTER, son of Joel and Mary (Gehring) Ritter, was born Oct. 18, 1872, near Emaus, Lehigh county. He attended the public schools of Coopersburg, and when his education was completed, took a course of instruction in em- balming, and upon his father's death, he pur- chased the business founded by his father, and has since then successfully carried on the business. He also operates a large farm in Coopersburg borough; is a member of the P. O. S. of A .; Knights of the Golden Eagles; is a member of the Moravian Church; also has been trustee, elder deacon and sexton of the same.

.He married, Nov. 11, 1893, Dora Bitting, daughter of Charles and Elmina (Saussaman) Bitting. Issue : Florence May, and Arthur Henry.

Martin Ritter, son of Martin, was born Nov. 7, 1781, and died on his farm, which he cultivated in Salisbury township, Feb. 10, 1863, aged eighty- one years, three months and three days. His wife, Anna Margaret Bogert, was born Jan. 5, 1786, and died Sept. 25, 1861, aged seventy-five years, eight months and twenty days. They had twelve children, namely: Reuben B. ( 1815-1892) ; Gideon B. (1817-1891) ; Solomon B .; Edwin B. (1823-1864) ; John B; Martin B .; Charles B .; Mary Ann; Elizabeth ; Sallie ; and Annie B. (1827-1890).

John B. Ritter, son of Martin, was born in Salisbury township, where he was a farmer. His

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homestead is now owned by Samuel Heilman. He was a deacon, elder and trustee of the Jordan Lutheran church, where he is also buried.

His wife was Mary Kemmerer. Their children were: Samuel ; Mervin M., deceased ; and Eme- line, widow of Willoughby Guth.

SAMUEL RITTER, son of John B., of Allen- town, was born in Salisbury township, Feb. 2, 1842. He followed farming until 1900, when he came to Allentown, and purchased a home at 1132 Linden street. He owns a ninety-seven acre farm near the Iron Bridge in South White- hall township. This farm he cultivated many years, but now has rented it.

He served Jordan Lutheran church as deacon and elder a number of years. He married, in 1865, Hannah E. Koch, daughter of Thomas K. and Elizabeth (Snyder) Koch. They have these children : Annie E .; John T .; Minnie V .; Ella J .; Irene, wife of Rev. C. W. Eberwine, of Port Carbon, Pa .; Samuel ; Charles; and Mima L. K.

JOHN T. RITTER, of Catasauqua, who has charge of the tailoring department of Koch Brothers, Allentown, was born at Guth Station, Lehigh county, Jan. 7, 1869. He was educated in the public schools, the preparatory depart- ment of Muhlenberg College, and Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York, where he graduated in 1887. In the same year he became connected with Koch & Shankweiler, now Koch Brothers. His promotions came in quick succession. On Jan. 1, 1907, he was placed in charge of the tailoring department. He is a member of the Catasauqua Club.

He married Miss Margaret Evans, daughter of William J. Evans, of Catasauqua, whose his- tory appears in this volume. They have two children, namely: Margaret and Robert Evans Ritter.

Martin B., son of Martin and Anna Margaret (Bogert) Ritter, was born about 1816, and died in Allentown, April 10, 1894. He was a farmer in South Whitehall township, and is buried in the family plot in Union cemetery. He held various offices in the Lutheran Church. He married Sarah, born in 1832, died in June, 1902, a daugh- ter of Peter Mohr, of Upper Macungie town- ship. Children: Adelaide, born in 1853, died in 1876; Robert R., of further mention.

farming in his native township until 1902, when he came to Allentown. He retains the homestead farm, and supervises the work on this and his other farms. He married, Feb. 22, 1877, Jos- ephine, a daughter of Dr. and Elizabeth ( Hess)

Thomas, of Lower Saucon township. Children : Dr. Hope T. M. and Robert C., of further men- tion; Martin Luther, a graduate of the State College, Pa., is now a chemist at Palmerton Zinc Works.

DR. HOPE T. M. RITTER, son of Robert R. and Josephine (Thomas) Ritter, was born at Eck- ert's, Lehigh county, Dec. 1I, 1878. He was. graduated from Allentown high school in 1898, and the Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadel- phia, in 1902. By selection through competitive examination he was appointed physician to the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital, and served in this. office one year, after which he established him- self as a physician in Allentown, where he has built up a large and lucrative practice. He resides at the northeast corner of Linden and Eleventh streets. He is a member of the Lehigh County and Lehigh Valley Medical Societies, the State Medical Society and American Medical Associa- tion, and the Masonic Fraternity. Dr. Ritter married, Feb. 25, 1903, Lyda A. Malin, of Philadelphia, and has an only daughter: Flavilla J. T.

Robert C., son of Robert R. and Josephine (Thomas) Ritter, was born Jan. 22, 1882. He acquired his early education in the public schools, then became a student at the Pennington Semi- nary, New Jersey. He learned the machinist's trade at Stroudsburg, Pa., and was a journey- man in the gun department of the Bethlehem Steel Works for seven years. In 1909 he organ- ized the Allentown automobile works, of which he is the proprietor, these being located at No. 14II Chew street. The garage is a two-story structure, fifty by one hundred and twenty feet. He has the agency for the Overland car, and em- ploys four men. Fraternally he is connected with the Masonic Fraternity; the Junior Order of American Mechanics, of Allentown, and the Be- nevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Stroudsburg. He and his family are members of the Cetronia Lutheran church. Mr. Ritter mar- ried, in 1908, Annie, a daughter of Horace and Alice (Rupp) Beisel. Children: Arlene, Mar- tin H., and Robert, Jr.

Jacob Ritter, the fifth son of Martin, Sr., was brought up in Salisbury, and there carried on farming until he died. He married Anna Bogert and had four children: Martin, who married Rebecca Marticks; Sarah, wife of Joseph Weaver ;

Robert R., son of Martin B. and Sarah (Mohr) Ritter, was born in South Whitehall township, July 27, 1855, and was engaged in . Nathan and Jacob, who died unmarried at the

age of twenty-one years.

Nathan Ritter, the second son of Jacob, was born in Salisbury, July 4, 1823. He was reared upon the farm and after his marriage removed to Lower Macungie, where he bought a forty-

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acre farm, which he operated until his death, Sept. 21, 1896. He married Hannah, daughter of Henry Schantz, of Schantz's Mills, and had two sons: Peter H., and Alfred, who married Elizabeth Yoder.

Peter H. Ritter, son of Nathan, was born in Lower Macungie, Dec. 29, 1848. He was reared upon a farm until seventeen years of age, when he learned the trade of wheelwright, under Wil- lian Breneiser, of Centreville, and followed this occupation continually for the past seventeen years at Macungie, in the carriage works of Jonas W. Gerhart, in which borough he was for six years a member of council. Mr. Ritter married Miss Caroline, daughter of Henry Shankweiler, and has three children: Franklin, who married Ella Bloss; Katie, who married Harvey Lauden- slager, and has three children; Minnie, wife of Arthur Hartzell, Carrie, wife of Joseph Hall- man; and Marie; and Milton H. N.

MILTON H. N. RITTER, son of Peter H., the head miller in the large Fritch roller-process mill at Macungie, was born in Lower Macungie township, Jan. 17, 1881. He was brought up on a farm and attended the township schools and the Emaus high school until the age of fifteen years, when he became a teacher in the schools in Lower Macungie for one term and of Upper Macungie for two terms. He subsequently at- tended Perkiomen Seminary, Shippensburg State Normal School, Muhlenberg Preparatory School, and Muhlenberg College, graduating from the last-named institution in 1906. During this time he taught school in the borough of Macungie three terms and in Allentown one term. From the spring of 1907 to the fall, he managed the farm- ing operations on the large farm of Dr. D. D. Fritch, adjoining the borough, after which he entered the Fritch mill as head miller in the man- ufacture of flour, where he still continues. The average daily production of the mill is 400 bar- rels, and this large output shows the responsibility of his position.

Mr. Ritter married, in 1902, Lillie A., daugh- ter of Nathan D. Fritch, one of the owners of the mill, and they had one child, Carl Fritch Rit- ter. Mrs. Ritter was born Oct. 24, 1881, and died April 26, 1912.

Henry Shankweiler, grandfather of Milton H. N. Ritter, was born in Schuylkill county, and married Matilda, daughter of Jacob Bitting, of Lower Macungie. They had three children : Caroline, wife of Peter H. Ritter; Walter, who married Rosa Schaeffer; and Morgan, single.

Henry Schantz, great-grandfather of Milton H. N. Ritter, on his paternal grandmother's side, was a miller in Whitehall. He married Elizabeth Dorney and had seven children: Tilghman ;

Henry; Edward; Rebecca, who died single, aged 70 years; Mary, wife of Gideon Andreas; Caro- line, wife of Peter Bortz; and Hannah, wife of Nathan Ritter.

Nathan Dry Fritch, the father of Mrs. Lillie A. Ritter, was born Sept. 2, 1850, in Long- swamp, Berks county, and was reared on a farm and learned the trade of a miller. He accom- panied his older brother, Dr. David D. Fritch, to Macungie in 1878, where they have since been extensively engaged in manufacturing flour. Mr. Fritch married Miss Joanna, daughter of Joseph Warmkessel, of Longswamp. Mrs. Fritch was born March 23, 1853, and died Jan. 2, 1910. They had five children, the first three of whom died young, leaving two who grew to maturity: Lillie A., since deceased, who married Milton W. N. Ritter; and Alma, wife of Charles Appel, of Allentown.

Henry Ritter, grandson of Martin, was a veterinary surgeon in Allentown, where he died about 1850, aged 55 years. He married Anna, daughter of John and Elizabeth Kelly, who was born March 13, 1812, and died Nov. 22, 1838, and is buried on the old Allentown cemetery. Their son, William G. Ritter, was born in Al- lentown, Sept. 28, 1833. He was educated in the local schools and learned the trade of a tin- smith with Amos Ettinger. In 1858 he started in the tinware and stove business on the south side of Hamilton, between Eighth and Ninth streets, where he sold the first self-feeding stove, called the "Morning Glory." In 1867 he lo- cated at 831 Hamilton street. After a very suc- cessful business career, he retired in 1884. He served in Company H, Fifth Regiment, emer- gency troops of 1862, in the Civil War. He was active in securing new industries and assisted in securing the Adelaide Silk Mill and the Iowa Barb Wire Works. He was a member of the M. E. Church and a Republican in politics, but never held office. He resided, first, at Turner and Church, then at Eighth and Hickory streets, later at 831 Hamilton, and in 1869, bought from Stephen Rhoads the property at 113 North Sev- enth street, where he lived until his death, Feb. 6, 1885. He married Susan, daughter of Daniel and Hetty (Rohrbach) Pauley, and had seven children : Emma, married Dr. Jerome Lochman ; Ida, died, aged 6 months; Agnes, married Eugene O. Lawall; Thos. E .; Jennie, married Wilbur A. Langdon ; Katie, married Robert A. Rothen- berger ; and Wm. G., married Clara M. Darrohn.

THOMAS E. RITTER, son of Wm. G., was born in Allentown, Feb. 19, 1863. He was edu- cated in the city schools and in the Allentown Business College, where he took a course in short- hand and graduated in 1881. He then became

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bookkeeper in his father's store, where he re- mained until the retirement of his father, in 1884, when he engaged in the real estate business. In 1889 he became a member of the firm of Mager, Miller & Co. until 1897, when he again handled real estate. He became a director of the Second National Bank in 1897, and in 1907 became as- sistant cashier, becoming vice-president in 1908. On Sept. 16, 1913, he was elected president of the bank, succeeding the late Hon. Edward Har- vey, of whose estate he is one of the executors.

Mr. Ritter represented the Fifth ward in com- mon council in 1904 and 1905, and served on the finance committee. He has been active in secur- ing industries in the city, notably the National Silk Dyeing Company, and built several hundred houses, individually, and as a member of syn- dicates. He is affiliated with various corpora- tions, in which he occupies positions of trust and responsibility. He is a member of the Allentown Lodge of Elks, and the family are members of the Ebenezer Evangelical church. He married, in 1885, Mary L., daughter of Levi and Maria L. ( Haines) Giering, of Macungie. They have three children: Lloyd E., supervising principal of the Belvidere High School; Wilmer J., at home; and Jeanette H., married to Clark W. Heller, of Wapwallopen, Pa.

Caspar Ritter, son of Henry, of Salisbury, and brother of Martin, born 1749, lived in Salisbury until about 1780, when he removed to the north- ern part of Whitehall township, now North Whitehall, where he purchased a 160-acre farm. He died in 1822. He married Ottilia Herz, and had these children : Elizabeth, born Feb. 24, 1766; John, born Feb. 11, 1768; Catharine; Magdalena, born Oct. 1, 1772, married John Sae- ger; Margaret, born Oct. 13, 1774, married Henry Frantz; Jacob, born May 18, 1777, had children: Daniel, William, and Mrs. Jacob Hensinger ; Henry, born Feb. 22, 1780, and had children : Mrs. Reuben Saeger, Mrs. James Roth, Henry, Mrs. Tilghman Weber, Mrs. Joseph Mil- ler, Stephen, and Charles; Anna Barbara, born Nov. 19, 1782. Elizabeth married George Ringer and another daughter married John Frantz.

John Ritter, son of Caspar, born Feb. 11, 1768, and his wife Maria, had 13 children: Mrs. Molly Semmel; William; Mrs. Jonas Moyer ; Mrs. Chas. Seagreaves; Stephen, who had a son, John; Mrs. Maria Saeger, of Clinton county ; Mrs. Paul Frantz; Mrs. Jacob Frantz; Jonas ; Jeremiah ; John ; and Daniel.

Jonas Ritter, son of John, was born April 18, 1805. He was a farmer and a member of the Lutheran congregation at Egypt, where he was buried at his death in 1885. He married Cath- arine, daughter of Nicholas and Barbara

( Heintzelman) Wotring, who was a member of the Reformed Church. They had five children : Henry, died in 1905, who had children: Calvin, and Mrs. Wesley Woodring; Frank, whose daughter is Mrs. Wm. Reinhard; Israel; Cath- arine, died unmarried; and Sarah, married Wil- loughby Heintzelman.

ISRAEL J. RITTER, son of Jonas, a resident of Allentown, was born at Ballietsville, March 8, 1851. His early education was obtained in the common schools and his time was spent on the farm until he was nineteen years old, when he accepted a position as clerk in a general store in Carbon county, continuing in this position for one year. The ensuing year he was engaged in the business of house painting, continuing in that for six years, when he again became a clerk in a store at Ballietsville.

In 1877 he married Miss Lydia. E. Steckel, daughter of Reuben and Amelia (Leisenring) Steckel. Their children are: Martin, who mar- ried Ella Kistler, and has children: Charles and Ida; George, deceased, who married Lizzie Humphrey; Ida, who married Thomas Yates, and has children : Ethel, Ruth, and Russell; and Samuel, who married Edith Smith.

After his marriage he pursued farming and at the same time was employed in the ore mines dur- ing the panic. In 1879 he removed to Allentown, where he has since resided at 518 Liberty street. Since 1890 he fills a position as clerk in the em- ploy of the Hersh Hardware Company, and prior to this time followed painting for some years.

Mr. Ritter and his family are members of Dubbs Memorial Reformed church, where he has served in the capacity of deacon, elder and trustee, and is active in church interests. For nine years he was active as superintendent of the Sunday school of his native town, Sheidys.

Mr. Ritter is the organizer of the Ritter family reunion, which held its first reunion in 1898, at Laury's Island. He has performed valuable serv- ices in the preservation of the family genealogy that it may not be forgotten by the descendants.

John Ritter, born 1802, son of John, had chil- dren : Alfred, Eli, Aaron, and Mrs. Wm. Frantz. Jeremiah married twice and had children : Owen, John, Mrs. Wm. Roth, Mrs. Samuel Roth, Mrs. Tilghman, Roth, Mrs. John Bertsch, Mrs. Alfred Bertsch, Mrs. Franklin Frantz, Edwin, Man- tana, married Francis Wotring; and Catharine, married Rev. A. M. Masonheimer. William, son of John, married Hannah Rockel, and had a daughter, Alice, who married a Mr. Ludka.

Daniel Ritter, son of John and Maria, was born Sept. 5, 1795. He farmed a tract of land near Scheidy's, and was a member of the Lutheran congregation at Egypt, where he is buried. He

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married Maria Moyer and had eight children: Daniel, who lived near the Iron Bridge, married Abigail Ringer, and had two children: James, and Adaline, wife of James Stuber ; Charles, who married a Miss Laudenslager and had children, L. D., and Mrs. Adelina Rauch; William; Thomas; Elizabeth, married Joshua Laury; Mrs. Rebecca Semmel; Maria; and Mrs. Adelina Scheirer.

Thomas Ritter, son of Daniel, was born near Laurys in 1828. He was an engineer at ore mines for many years and later cultivated a farm near Ballietsville. He is a member of the Unionville Lutheran congregation, where he has been also an official of the church. He married Elizabeth Scheirer and had eight children, all sons: Charles A., a teacher, of Auburn, Pa .; Benjamin; Dr. Francis O .; Willoughby D .; Henry S., of Allen- town; Orville J .; Edwin E., of Laury's; and Milton T., of Palmerton.

DR. FRANCIS O. RITTER, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Scheirer) Ritter, was born in North Whitehall township, Sept. 10, 1858. He was educated in the local schools and at the age of fifteen became a school teacher. While teaching, he took a normal school course at Kutztown dur- the spring and fall months and in 1878 entered the University of Maryland, at Baltimore, as a student of medicine, where he graduated in 1881. He then began practice at New Tripoli, where he remained until 1884. In 1883, he married Ellen, daughter of Levi Hunsicker, of Saegers- ville. She died in 1887, leaving one daughter, Carrie M., the wife of Rev. A. T. Michler, of Philadelphia. In 1884, Dr. Ritter located at Schnecksville, where he remained until 1887, when he removed to Philadelphia, where he spe- cialized in diseases of the eye, ear and throat. On Sept. 9, 1889, he located at Slatington, where he remained seven years, with a large practice. He married, in 1890, at Slatington, Irene A., daughter of Henry Kuntz. In 1898, he retired from active practice and removed to Allentown, where he built a home at Franklin and Hamilton streets. He became a director of the Merchants' National Bank and on Sept. 6, 1911, was elected its cashier, which position he still holds and where he is recognized as a conservative official and one of sound judgment. Dr. Ritter was a charter member of Christ Lutheran church, in which he is active, and is a member of Slatington Lodge, No. 440, F. & A. M.

WILLOUGHBY D. RITTER, a merchant and slate operator at Slatington, Pa., was born April 8, 1861, at Ballietsville, Pa. Here, at an early age, he accepted a position as clerk in a general store. In the year 1895 he came to Slatington, where he entered the employ of the Slatington Slate

Company as a clerk, and was connected with this firm for about six years. In 1898, he became a member of Rice & Company, dealers in general merchandise and while a member of this firm he served as manager and purchasing agent.

In 1909, Mr. Ritter and others organized the Blue Vein Slate Company, of which organiza- tion he was elected vice-president and is still serving this office.

Mr. Ritter and his family are members of St. John's Lutheran church at Slatington, in which church he has served as a deacon.

He was married to Rosa A. Deibert, a daughter of Edwin and Sallie (Frantz) Deibert, of Bal- lietsville. Mr. and Mrs. Ritter have one son, Clarence E., who is a clerk in his father's store.

HENRY S. RITTER was born Oct. 30, 1864, near Ballietsville, the son of Thomas, and grand- son of Daniel Ritter. He was educated in the public schools, the Keystone State Normal School, from which he graduated in 1888; and Muhlen- berg College. After leaving school, he taught in Lehigh county eleven terms, in Northampton and Slatington, and also was principal of the Ce- menton schools for two terms.

In 1894 he accepted the position of general foreman of a department of the Atlas Portland Cement Company, which he held for twelve years, following which he bacame traveling sales- man for the Lehigh Car Wheel & Axle Works. He was stationed as a special man in Kansas, and while there he had full charge of cement manu- facture for the Ashgrove Portland Cement Com- pany, at Chanute, Kansas, for one year, but before the expiration of which, he accepted the general superintendency of the Great Western Cement Plant, at Mildred, Kansas, and had charge of 250 men. Owing to sickness of a member of his family, he returned East, and located in Allen- town, in June, 1910, and again became connected with the Lehigh Car Wheel & Axle Works.

He was a member of the Lutheran Church, and also of Slatington Lodge, No. 440, F. & A. M.

He was married in 1889, to Miss Maggie J. Kuhns, daughter of Edwin Kuhns, of Balliets- ville, whose full record is found elsewhere in this volume. To them were born eight children, viz: Marcus, Titus, Thomas, Harold, Robert, Anna, Dorothy, and Ruth. Mr. Ritter died in November, 1913.

ORVILLE J. RITTER, of Allentown, was born at Ballietsville, Aug. 6, 1872. He attended the public schools, Muhlenberg College, and was graduated from the scientific department of the Northern Indiana Normal School (now Valpar- aiso University), Indiana, in 1892. He followed the profession of teaching in Lehigh county for

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ten years, and in 1898 he was appointed a railway mail clerk. He continued in that position for 18 months and then resigned to accept the position of teller of the Cementon National Bank, Siegfried, Pa. He resigned this office and was designated to the office of superintendent of the railway mail service. In 1902, he was transferred to road duty on the Philadelphia and Norfolk, and the Allentown and Philadelphia R. P. O. He is now a senior clerk on the Allentown and Philadelphia line. He is a member of the Lutheran Church and of the Mutual Benefit Association of Rail- way Mail Clerks.

In 1894 he was married to Ida E. Peters, daughter of Wilson and Mary ( Hensinger ) Peters. Mr. and Mrs. Ritter have these children : Florence M., Beatrice E., Paul O., and Russell W.

Martin Ritter, the third of the four brothers, with his wife, Anna Margaret, lived some time in Lower Milford, where he had children born, as follows: Caspar, born June 20, 1744, sponsor, Caspar, son of Paul Ritter ; Anna Barbara, born Nov. 10, 1749; and John Henry, born April 9, 1751. Martin Ritter appears to have removed to Berks county at an early date.

Caspar Ritter, the fourth of the brothers, lived some time in Lower Milford, but about 1758 removed to the "Drylands," in Bethlehem town- ship. He was constable of the township and a member of the church at Hecktown. He died in 1792. Caspar Ritter and his wife, Anna Maria, had eight children : Caspar, born July 24, 1747 ; Michael; Susanna, who married Jacob Beisel ; Elizabeth, born July 6, 1753, married a Mr. Gil- bert; Anna Catharine, born May 26, 1757, died Dec. 14, 1785, married, June 9, 1772, John Nich- olas Kloeckner; Daniel, born Aug. 1, 1758, died Aug. 29, 1836; Barbara, who married Jacob Bal- liet ; and John Ritter, born Dec. 27, 1764. Mi- chael Ritter, the founder of Rittersville, was a descendant of this branch of the family.

Caspar Ritter, Jr., born July 24, 1747, died May 2, 1824, married, first, Anna Margaret Ger- mantown, born July 20, 1746, died March 30, 1790, and second, Catharine Ihrich, born Oct. 12, 1752, died March 12, 1797:

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History of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania and a genealogical and biographical record of its families, Vol. III, Part 57

Author: Roberts, Charles Rhoads; Stoudt, John Baer, 1878- joint comp; Krick, Thomas H., 1868- joint comp; Dietrich, William Joseph, 1875- joint comp; Lehigh County Historical Society Publication date: 1914 Publisher: Allentown, Pa. : Lehigh Valley Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 854

Author: Roberts, Charles Rhoads; Stoudt, John Baer, 1878- joint comp; Krick, Thomas H., 1868- joint comp; Dietrich, William Joseph, 1875- joint comp; Lehigh County Historical Society
Publication date: 1914
Publisher: Allentown, Pa. : Lehigh Valley Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 854