HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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ily, married Barbara Youngken, and af- 

 ter a residence of several years in 

 Springfield, removed with his family to 

 Carlisle, Cumberland covmty, Pennsyl- 

 vania, and later removed to what was 

 then Northumberland county and from 

 thence, in 1798. to Northwestern Terri- 

 tory, now the State of Ohio, where h? 

 died. His son Samuel, born in Spring- 

 field, Bucks county, August 16, 1769, 

 died in New Berlin, Union county, Penn- 

 sylvania, October 2, 1842. His other 

 eight children, most of whom lived and 

 died in Felicity, Ohio, were: Elizabeth, 

 wife of Peter Emery; Catharine, wife 

 of Benjamin Sells; Mary, wife of Peter 

 DeWitt; Susanna, wife of Thomas 

 Jones; Margaret, wife of Conrad Metz- 

 ger; Barbara, wife of Leonard Metz- 

 ger; Michael and Charles Baum. Mich- 

 ael, the third of the emigrant brothers, 

 also settled in Bucks county and reared 

 a family of ten children, as follows: 

 Samuel, who settled in Montgomery 

 county; Elizabeth, the wife of John 

 Trumbore, of Milford ; Mary, wife of John 

 Trumbore; Ann, wife of Johin Gregg; 

 Catharine, wife of Jacob Werhold, of 

 Rockhill; Susan, wife of Jacob Willauer; 

 Michael, of Milton, Pennsylvania; Hen- 

 ry, of Montgomery county; Hannah, 

 wife of William Grafley; and Sarah, Phil- 

 lip, the youngest of the emigrant broth- 

 ers, married Mary IVIoyer, settled in 

 New Britain township, where he died 

 at an advanced age, on March i, 1841, 

 without issue. Susanna, the sister, mar- 

 ried John Landis, of Milford township, 

 and had two sons: Samuel and Henry. 

 Another brother Samuel and a sister 

 lived and died in Wurtemberg. 



Heinrich Baum, the second of the emi- 

 grant brothers, as before stated, arrived 

 in this country in 1764, and almost im- 

 mediately after his arrival located in 

 Springfield township, where he took up 

 a tract of land on which he resided un- 

 til his death in 1803. His wife's name 

 was Elizabeth, but her maiden name is 

 vtnknown by her descendants. They 

 were the parents of eleven children, all 

 of whom were born and reared in 

 Springfield, viz: Abraham, Anna, who 

 married John Landis and removed to 

 Warren county. New Jersey ; Susanna, 

 who married Isaac Meyer, of Spring- 

 field; Elizabeth, who married Henry 

 Ackerman: Henry, the grandfather of 

 the subject of this sketch; Catharine, 

 who married Samuel Bleam; Hannah, 

 who married John Shelly; Margaret, 

 who married Henry Bleam; Barbara, 

 who married Michael Huddle; Philip, 

 who died in 1814. without issue; and 

 Mary, who married Joseph Moyer, and 

 died in 1815. 



Henry Baum. second son and fifth 

 child of Heinrich and Elizabeth Baum, 

 was born and reared in Springfield town- 

 ship. Bucks county, and spent his whole 

 life there, dying in 1823. He married 



Magdalene Moyer, daughter of William 

 Meyer, born in Springfield, June 17, 1767, 

 died there February 12, 1848, son of the 

 Reverend Peter Meyer, one of the early 

 Mennonite ministers of Bucks county, who 

 was born in Switzerland about 1723 and set- 

 tled in Springfield in 1752. The mother of 

 Magdalene (Moyer) Baum was Barbara 

 Overholt, who was born December 27, 1767, 

 and died September i, 1850. The children 

 of Henry and Magdalene (Moyer) 

 Baum were: William, Joseph, Henry, 

 Elizabeth, wife of Henry Focht, of Le- 

 high county; and Mary, who married 

 Samuel Detweiler. After the death of 

 Henry Baum. his widow married John 

 Shantz and had three children: Abra- 

 ham, Lydia and Sarah. 



Joseph Baum, second son of Henry 

 and Magdalene, was born in Springfield, 

 September 26, 1810. Left an orphan at 

 the age of thirteen years, he learned the 

 trade of a shoemaker with Christian 

 Moyer, of Hilltown township, and fol- 

 lowed that trade until his marriage, 

 when he settled in Springfield township. 

 After a few years spent in agricultural 

 pursuits in Springfield he removed to 

 Bedminster township, where he resided 

 for a few years ; returned again to- 

 Springfield, but later again removed to 

 Bedminster where he purchased the 

 farm on which his son W^illiam lately 

 resided and passed the remainder of his 

 life there, dying April 28, 1892. He was 

 an active and prominent man in the 

 community, filling the office of school 

 director in Springfield township, and 

 that of supervisor for eighteen years in 

 Springfield and ten years in Bedminster. 

 He also served as township auditor. He ■ 

 was a member of the New Mennonite 

 church. He married in 1828 Esther 

 Moyer. born August 3. 1808, daughter 

 of Christian and Barbara (Landis") 

 Moyer, and they were the parents of six 

 children: Hannah, widow of Jacob K. 

 Overholt, of Bedminster; Sarah, who- 

 married Christian F. Meyers; Henry, 

 who married Hannah Moyer and resides 

 in Philadelphia; Joseph, who died in the 

 army in 1863; William, the subject of 

 this sketch; and ^fagdalena, who died at 

 the age of seven years. 



William Baum, third son and fifth 

 child of Joseph and Esther (Moyer) 

 Baum. born in Springfield towmship, 

 March 30. 1841, received his education 

 at the public schools. Reared to the life 

 of a farmer he took charge of the home 

 farm at his marriage and cultivated it 

 for his father until 1873, when he pur- 

 chased the farm; his parents continuing 

 to reside with him imtil their death. He 

 was one of the directors of Souderton 

 National Bank at the time of his de- 

 cease, and had been for ten years a di- 

 rector of the Bucks County Fire Insur- 

 ance Company. He was also a director 

 of the Dublin Mutual Insurance and 

 Protective Company from its organi- 



