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HISTORY or BUCKS COUNTY 



beth, who married Nicholas Oblingcr; 

 Anna, who married Henry Funck, and 

 Barbara, who married Abraham Reiff. 

 The descendants of the two latter are 

 now quite numerous in Bucks county. 



II. Christian Meyer, Jr., son of the 

 above, born in 1705, died 1787, was a 

 farmer in Franconia, Montgomery 

 count}', and left sons. Christian, Jacob 

 and Samuel, and daughters, Esther, wife 

 of Christian Gehman; Anna, wife of 

 John Kratz; Maria, wife of Martin Det- 

 weiler; and Barbara, wife of Abraham 

 Kratz. 



III. Rev. Jacob ]\Ie3'er, second son of 

 Christian and Magdalena, of Fran- 

 conia, born January 28, 1730, married 

 (second) Barbara Derstein, of Rockhill, 

 and settled in Hilltown township, where 

 he owned over three hundred acres of 

 land. He was for many years a preacher 

 of the ]\Iennonite faith in Hilltown, and 

 died there in 17S2, leaving a family of 

 nine children. 



IV. Joseph Moyer (as the name then 

 came to be spelled), second son of the 

 Rev. Jacob and Barbara (Durstein) 

 Meyer, was born in Hilltown, June 19, 

 1774, and died there June 21, 1815. He 

 was a farmer and lived near Yost's, now 

 Schwenk's mill, north of the present 

 village of Blooming Glen. Joseph Moyer 

 was quite a noted penman and more or 

 less of an artist, several specimens of 

 his artistic work with the pen being still 

 extant. He married, April 7, 1795. Bar- 

 bara Angeny, who was born in Bucks 

 county, April 8, 1770, and died about the 

 year 1857, and they were the parents of 

 eight children, of whom seven lived to 

 maturity, viz.: Jacob, who migrated to 

 Canada; Samuel, who lived and died on 

 the homestead; Joseph, Avho died in 

 1842: William A., who died in 1885; 

 Henry A., see forward; Elizabeth who 

 married Abraham Gerhart; and Mary, 

 who married Abraham Hunsberger. 



V. Henry A. Moj'er. youngest son of 

 Joseph and Barbara (Angeny) Moyer, 

 was born in Hilltown. October 26, 1807, 

 and died there August 4, 1875. He re- 

 ceived a good education, and during his 

 younger days taught school for a num- 

 ber of years, but on his marriage. De- 

 cember 8, 1833, to Sarah Gerhart, aban- 

 doned the life of a pedagogue and settled 

 down as a farmer in Hilltown. He took 

 a prominent part in local afifairs, and 

 filled a number of township offices, 

 among others holding the office of as- 

 sessor for many years. His wife, Sarah 

 Gerhart, was born August 20, 1814, and 

 died February 20. 1800. Their children 

 were: Lydia, wife of Samuel M. Ger- 

 hart; Abraham G.. deceased; Joseph G., 

 a prominent business man of Perkasie; 

 Barbara, wife of Samuel G. Kramer; 

 Sarah Jane, wife of Henry O. Moyer. of 

 Perkasie; Jacob G.. of Pprkasie; Isaiah 

 G., deceased; and Henry G., the subject 

 of this sketch. 



VI. Henry G. Moyer, born and reared 

 on his father's farm in Hilltown, at- 

 tended the public schools, and later 

 other institutions of learning, and closed 

 his education with a course at Quaker 

 City Business College, Philadelphia, 

 from which he graduated with high 

 honors in 1868, at the age of twenty. In 

 1879 he was elected justice of the peace, 

 and since that time has done a large 

 amount of public business, officiating as 

 executor, administrator and agent in the 

 settlement of estates, attending to the 

 survey and transfer of real estate and 

 other business of a public character. In 

 1882 he purchased a one-half interest in 

 "The Central News," a paper published 

 at Perkasie, with Mahlon Sellers, and 

 conducted it under the firm name of 

 Mahlon Sellers & Co., becoming one of 

 its editors. Mr. Sellers dying soon after, 

 his interest in the paper was purchased 

 by Samuel R. Kramer, and the firm 

 name became Moyer & Kramer, and that 

 firm conducted the paper and a job 

 printing oflice in connection therewitTT 

 imtil 1904. Under their management 

 "The Central News" became a success- 

 ful weekly paper, and enjoys a 9ircu- 

 lation equal to that of any weekly paper 

 published in upper Bucks. Mr. Moj^er 

 is an ardent Republican in politics, and 

 has been for many years prominently 

 identified with the local organization of 

 the party in Bucks county, serving as 

 delegate to a number of state and other 

 conventions. In 1882 he was the party 

 nominee for representative in the as- 

 sembly, but was defeated though receiv- 

 ing much more than his party vote in 

 his own locality, the county being then 

 Democratic. In 1894 lie was elected to 

 the state senate by a majority of 1577 

 votes, and in the sessions of 1895 and 

 1897 served upon many of the important 

 committees of the upper house. Mr. 

 Moyer still does a large amount of pub- 

 lic business. On the organization of 

 Perkasie National Bank, he was elected 

 president and still fills that position, giv- 

 ing much of his time to the afifairs of the 

 bank. On January 31, 1905, he was ap- 

 pointed postmaster at Perkasie, Penn- 

 sylvania, by President Roosevelt, which 

 office he fills with satisfaction, and has 

 established four rural free delivery 

 routes from said office. He is a member 

 nf the United Evangelical Church, and 

 has been for many years superintendent 

 of the Sabbath School and class leader 

 of tho ocal church at Perkasie, render- 

 ing eminent and efficient services in that 

 capacitv. He is a member of the l\Ta- 

 sonic fraternity and affiliated with the 

 Odd Fellows and O. U. A. M. He mar- 

 ried Emclinc Sciple, of Allentown, 

 Pennsylvania, and tlioy have been the 

 parents of seven children, of whom but 

 two survive Mabel Rebecca, born Oc- 

 tober TO. 18*^?. and Henry Clayton, born 

 iMarch c;. 188S. 



