HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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DR. NOAH S. NONAMAKER, a 

 well-known physician of Bedminster, 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was there 

 born March 2t,, 1854. He is a descen- 

 dant of Adam Nonamaker, a native of 

 this county and of foreign parentage. 

 His parents came to this country about 

 1747. Adam Nonamaker was born April 

 21, 1759, lived in Hilltown township, and 

 was a farmer throughout the active years 

 of his life. He married IMiss Barbara 

 Kramer, born March 5, 1763, died April 

 27, 1821. They, had one child, Henry, 

 the grandfather of Noah S. Adam Non- 

 amaker died August 28, 1843, and is 

 buried at the Tohickon church burying 

 ground. 



Henry Nonamaker was born in Hill- 

 town township, July 31, 1786. He carried 

 on for many years the business of un- 

 dertaker and cabinetmaker very suc- 

 cessfully in Bedminster. He, with all 

 his family, was noted for skill as work- 

 ers in wood. He married Miss Eliza- 

 beth Rosenberger, born November 25, 

 1785, died in Bedminster township, April 

 7, 1845. There were seven children born 

 of this union, four sons and three 

 daughters: Charles, died at the age of 

 about seventy-two; Henry died at the 

 age of seventy-five; Maria died at the 

 age of seventy-five, was the widow of 

 Peter Stout; Elias, died at the age of 

 about seventy-two from injuries sus- 

 tained from a falling tree; Rebecca died 

 at the age of sixty-five; Elizabeth died 

 in early childhood; and Aaron, father of 

 Noah S., died March 17, 1885, in the 

 seventy-first year of his age. Henry 

 Nonamaker, father of these children, 

 died in Bedminster township, Septem- 

 tter 16, 1871. 



Aaron Nonamaker, the father of Noah 

 S., was born in Rockhill township, June 

 26, 1814. He was brought up to farm- 

 ing and for fourteen years after his 

 marriage farmed the home place in 

 •Bedminster township, and then pur- 

 chased a small place near Perkasie, 

 where he lived for nearly thirty years. 

 He was an honest and upright man and 

 though without education enjoyed the 

 confidence and respect of the entire 

 community. His wife was Anna Shutt, 

 of Horsham township, Montgomery 

 county. She was born March 5, 1815, 

 and died in 1894, in the seventy-ninth 

 year of her age. Their children are: 



1. Debaroh, widow of Charles Wise, re- 

 sides in Perkasie ; 2. Elizabeth, deceased ; 



2. Jacob, a resident of Perkasie ; 4. Noah 

 S. Aaron Nonamaker laid down the 

 burden of life at his home in Perkasie, 

 March 17, 1885, in the seventy-first year 

 of his age. 



Noah S. Nonamaker attended the dis- 

 trict school until he was thirteen years 

 old, then worked at farming and later 

 •engaged in mechanical pursuits for ten 

 years. He was a great reader and stu- 

 dent, and while working in the vicinity 



of Doylestown attracted the attention 

 of Dr. F. Swartzlaider, who enabled him 

 to satisfy his love for the study of med- 

 icine, and while continuing to work in- 

 dustriously he began reading for the 

 profession under the instruction of Dr. 

 Swartzlaider. He began his cqll&giate 

 course in 1877, graduating from the Jef- 

 ferson Medical School, Philadelphia, 

 Pennsylvania, in 1879. He at once came 

 to Bedminster, where he has built up 

 for himself a large and enviable prac- 

 tice. Dr. Nonamaker is identified with 

 the Doylestown lodge No. 245, F. and 

 A. M., the Bucks County Medical So- 

 ciety, and the State Medical Society. He 

 is emphatically a self-made man, start- 

 ing in life without advantages of any 

 kind, supporting himself by industrious 

 work in the daytime, and assiduous 

 study at night. With rare energy, per- 

 severance and indomitable courage he 

 has become a well read and successful 

 member of the honored profession. 

 March 15, 1883, Dr. Nonamaker married 

 Lizzie, a daughter of Abraham Beans, of 

 Sellersville. She was born September 

 8, 1857. Six children were born of this 

 union: Annie Lucretia, deceased; Edgar 

 Vasco, who graduated from Perkiomen 

 Seminary in 1905, and is going to pre- 

 pare for the ministry at Muhlenburg 

 College; Claudius Howard, deceased; 

 Bessie Gertrude, deceased; Mattie Pau- 

 line, deceased; and Celia Helen. The 

 mother of these children died June 26, 

 1895. 



ROBERT BROWN, late of Lower 

 Makefield, deceased, was born on the old 

 homestead where he spent most of his life 

 and where his widow and two daughters still 

 reside. This homestead is a part of a plan- 

 tation that has been in the family for two 

 hundred and twenty-five years, having been 

 originally taken up by George Brown, who 

 came from Leicestershire, England, and 

 landed at New Castle in 1679, proceed- 

 ing thence up the Delaware to Bucks 

 county. His wife Mercy came over on 

 the same ship with him and they were 

 married at New Castle on their arrival. 

 Tradition states that he had been court- 

 ing her sister in Leicestershire, but that 

 on her refusal to accompany him to 

 America, he proposed to Mercy to ac- 

 company him. They were members of 

 the Society of Friends, and among the 

 first members of Falls Meeting. They 

 were the parents of fifteen children, sev- 

 eral of whom died in infancy. Eight 

 sons and three daughters survived; of 

 the latter one married a Titus, another a 

 Stackhouse, and the third, Mercy, mar- 

 ried Robert Sotcher, son of William 

 Penn's trusted steward, John Sotcher, 

 many years a member of colonial as- 

 sembly. George Brown was born in 

 1644, and died in 1726. 



Samuel Brown, son of George and 



