HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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Kindy; Joseph, father of Mrs. Clymer; 

 and JNIagdalena, wife ' of J. Knise. At 

 the time of his marriage Joseph Det- 

 weiler purchased a farm in New Britain 

 township, where he spent his remaining 

 days, living a quiet and uneventful life, 

 yet commanding the good will and con- 

 fidence of all by reason of his fidelity 

 to honorable, manly principles. He mar- 

 ried Hannah Burdy, and died in 1849 at 

 the age of forty-seven years, while his 

 wife, long surviving him, passed away 

 in 1890. He had left but a small estate, 

 and in her later years she made her 

 home with her older children. Both 

 Mr. and Mrs. Detweiler were members 

 of the Mennonite church. Their chil- 

 dren arc: Isaac, a practicing physician 

 of Lancaster, ■. Pennsylvania; Mary, the 

 wife of M. Rosenberger; Sarah, who 

 married Eli Yoder; Jesse, a farmer; 

 Elizabeth, whomarried E. Rosenberger; 

 Magdalene, wife of Eli L. Clymer; Jo- 

 seph, a farmer and tailor to the trade; 

 and Hannah, who died at the age . of 

 forty years. 



Mr. and Mrs. Clymer have become 

 the parents of eight children: Ellen, wife 

 of William Swartley, a farmer; Adda, 

 wife of L. McCune, a farmer; Hannah, 

 who married William Worth; Frank, 

 who died at the age of thirteen years; 

 Elmer, a farmer; Flora, the wife of 

 Frank McNare; Oliver, at home; and 

 Emma, a school teacher. All were given 

 good educational privileges, and the 

 daughters have becoine successful teach- 

 ers. The parents and children are mem- 

 bers of the Mennonite church, and Mr. 

 Clymer is a Republican, who has filled 

 the office of school director for ten 

 years, and takes an active interest in 

 public affairs. He is a typical Ameri- 

 can, alert and enterprising in business, 

 loyal in citizenship, and interested in 

 everything pertaining to the welfare and 

 progress of his county, state and nation. 



LEVI CASSEL, deceased, was born 

 on the old Cassel homestead farm in 

 Hilltown township, Bucks county, Feb- 

 ruary 24. 1816, and died in Richland 

 township, September i, iS/O- The pater- 

 nal grandfatehr, Hoopert Cassel, was a 

 joiner by trade, and lived in Franconia 

 township, Philadelphia county, Penn- 

 sylvania. In 1758 he purchased a tract 

 of land, one hundred and six acres, ad- 

 joining Perkasie ]\Ianor. He married 

 Susan Swartz, a daughter of Abram 

 Swartz, a minister of the Mennonite 

 church and a man of considerable influ- 

 ence and ability in his day. 



Isaac Cassel, son of Hoopert Cassel, 

 was born April 20. 1776, in Hilltown 

 township, on the farm purchased by 

 his father. Throughout his entire life 

 he carried on agricultural pursuits, and 

 was one of the leading citizens of his 



neighborhood, active in business affairs, 

 reliable and energetic in business, and 

 highly esteemed in social circles because 

 of his hospitality and of his genuine 

 worth. He succeeded his father in the 

 ownership of the old home farm, and 

 there lived for many years. He was 

 married to Catherine Trumbore, who 

 was born February 8, 1776. - His death 

 occurred July 3, 1856, while his wife 

 passed away several years earlier. Their 

 children were: Susan B., born March 2, 

 1804, died May ii„ 1889; Polly, married 

 Michael Kulp; Kate, married Jacob Fill- 

 man; Elizabeth, married Philip Hood; 

 Sallie, married Joseph Schull; Joseph, 

 deceased ; Enos, married Marie Gerhart ; 

 Samuel, married Susan Mann; and Levi, 

 married Sarah Ann Biehn. 



Levi Cassel was born on the old home- 

 stead farm in Hilltown township, where 

 two generations- of the family had prev- 

 iously lived, and there he was reared in 

 the usual manner of farmer lads of that 

 period. He attended the subscription 

 schools of his district, although his ad- 

 vantages ~for an education were some- 

 what limited owing to the primitive con- 

 ditions of the schools of that period. He 

 worked with his father on the old home 

 farm until his m.arriage, and later be- 

 came proprietor of a hotel at Sellers- 

 ville, where he remained for two years. 

 He then removed to Hagersville, and 

 later to Dublin, while subsequently he 

 lived at Richlandtown, where he con- 

 ducted a hotel for fourteen years, and 

 it was while thus engaged that his death 

 occurred. He was energetic in his bus- 

 iness affairs, carefully watching every 

 indication that pointed to success, and 

 by his keen discernment and strong pur- 

 pose he won a comfortable competence. 

 September 17, 1848, Mr. Cassel was 

 united in marriage to Mrs. Sara Ann 

 Beihn, a daughter of Abraham and 

 Hanna (Fluck) Beihn, who were farm- 

 ing people living at Ridgehill, in Rock- 

 hill township, Bucks county. Her father 

 was born August 5, 1800, and died De- 

 cember 5, 1875. He was descended from 

 one of the old families of this country, 

 long connected with the material up- 

 building of eastern Pennsylvania. He 

 was married July 18, 1823, to Hanna Ott 

 Fluck, born May 29, 1801, died April 12, 

 1891, at the advanced age of ninety 

 vears. Her parents were Jacob and 

 Elizabeth Ott Fluck. The children of 

 iNIr. and Mrs. Beihn were as follows: 

 Sara, born September 17, 1826, became 

 the wife of Levi Cassel; Maria, born 

 July 8, 1829, married John Louright, of 

 Richlandtown; Elizabeth, born July 9, 

 1837, married Leno Kile, a veterinary 

 surgeon of Perkasie; Hanna, born Au- 

 gust 28, 1839, married John C. Hille- 

 goss, who was born February 19, 1839, 

 and died May 2,=;, 1893. his parents bein^ 

 William and Eliza (Carver) Hillegoss, 

 farming people of Milford township; 



