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were : Catharine, Samuel K., mentioned 

 at length hereinafter, and Reulxn. The 

 mother of these children died in 1843, and 

 the father expired January 13, 1885, in the 

 home of the oldest son. 



Samuel K. Althouse, son of Tobias and 

 Elizabeth (Kramer) Althouse, was born 

 June II, 1837, in Nockamixon township, 

 and was about six years of age when his 

 parents moved to Bedminster. From 1855 

 to i860 he was engaged in teaching, and in 

 1865 purchased the farm on which he lived 

 for the remainder of his life. Three years 

 ago he retired from active labor. He has 

 held the township offices of assessor, 

 auditor and clerk, and has also served one 

 term as county auditor. He is a member 

 of the Tohicicon Reformed church. He 

 married, November 25, i860, Sarah Ann, 

 born July 26, 1837, daughter of Enos 

 Crouthamel, and they were the parents of 

 the following children : Sarah, who died in 

 childhood; Albert C, mentioned at length 

 hereinafter ; Mary, who is the wife of Ed- 

 win J. Rumer, of Bedminster township ; 

 Emma, who resides at home ; Edwin, who 

 lives in Bedminster township : and Reuben, 

 who is a resident of Washington, District 

 of Columbia. 



Albert C. Althouse, son of Samuel K. 

 and Sarah Ann (Crouthamel) Althouse, 

 was born April 7, 1863, in Bedminster town- 

 ship, and received his primary education in 

 the common schools, afterward attending 

 the Sellersville high school and the West 

 Chester State Normal School. At nine- 

 teen years of age he took up the profession 

 of teaching, which he practiced for six 

 years, and during this time began reading 

 medicine under Dr. Daniel P. Mover, of 

 Dublin. In the autumn of 1889 he entered 

 Jefiferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 

 from which institution he received in the 

 spring of 1892 the degree of Doctor of 

 Medicine. He immediately opened an office 

 in Pineville, where he practiced for eight 

 years, and in 1900 moved to Dublin, where 

 he has built up a large practice. He is a 

 member of the Bucks County Medical So- 

 ciety and the State Medical Association. 

 He also belongs to the Knights of the 

 Golden Eagle. He is a member of the 

 Reformed church at Dublin. Dr. Althouse 

 married, October 10, 1894, Ida, daughter 

 •of Jonas H. Lear, of Tinicum township, 

 and they have three children; Harold Lear, 

 Georgie Neta and Jessie Beulah. 



BURROUGHS MICHENER. Among 

 the active and successful business men of 

 Buckingham is Borroughs Michener, of 

 Mechanicsville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. 

 He was born in Buckingham. May 7 1855. 

 and is a son of Samuel and Beulah T. 

 (White) Michener. The ancestor of the 

 Michener family of Bucks county was John 

 Michener. who with his wife Sarah came 

 from England to Pennsylvania, and settled 

 in Philadelphia about 1685. He later re- 



moved to Moreland township, where he 

 died. He had several daughters and two 

 sons: John and William. The latter, born 

 10 mo. 14, 1696, married at Abington Meet- 

 ing of Friends in 1720, Mary Kuster, grand- 

 daughter of Paulus Kuster, who came to 

 Germantown from Crefeldt, on the Rhine, 

 in 1687. William Michener settled in Plum- 

 stead township, Bucks county, in 1722, and 

 became an extensive landowner there and 

 a prominent citizen. He was for many 

 years an elder of Friends Meeting. He 

 died in 1782, leaving six sons and four 

 daughters, whose descendants are now 

 widely scattered over the United States, 

 many of them achieving distinction in the 

 various walks of life. 



Meschach, fifth son of William and Mary 

 (Kuster) Michener, was born in Plum- 

 stead township, Bucks county, 4 mo. 22, 

 1737, and died i mo. 9, 1826. He was a 

 farmer in Plumstead and Buckingham 

 townships and a considerable landowner in 

 both townships. He married, 11 mo. 24, 

 1761, Mary Trego, of Wrightstown, Bucks 

 county, and they were the parents of eleven 

 children. 



Marmaduke Michener, tenth child of 

 Meschach and Mary (Trego) Michener, 

 was born 12 mo. 28, 1780, and died 3 mo. 

 25, 1864. He was a farmer and lived the 

 greater part of his life in Plumstead town- 

 ship. He married Hannah Stradling, of 

 Plumstead, born 1784, died December 26, 

 1866. 



Samuel Michener, son of Marmaduke 

 and Hannah (Stradling) Michener, was 

 born in Plumstead township December 15, 

 1805, and died March 24, 1885. He was a 

 miller by trade, and in early life worked 

 at that trade at Spring Valley and else- 

 where, but later turned his attention to 

 farming. He married Beulah T. White, 

 born in Buckingham. July 26, 1815, died 

 September 25, 1899, and their children were : 

 Preston J., born August 18, 1839, now liv- 

 ing at Oak Lane. Philadelphia county ; 

 James S., born October 22, 1842, now living 

 at Lahaska, Bucks county ; Eli C, born Oc- 

 tober 13, 184s ; Hannah A., born Oc- 

 tober I, 1849, now the wife of Henry 

 Livezey, of Hatboro, Pennsylvania ; and 

 Burroughs, the subject of this sketch. 



Burroughs Michener, was reared in 

 Buckingham and Solebury townships, Bucks 

 county. He was thrown upon his own re- 

 sources at an early age. His .first employ- 

 ment was at the age of eight years when he 

 engaged with a blind man, to lead him 

 about, and he continued with him for eight 

 years. At the close of his engagement with 

 the blind man he found employment on a 

 farm in Solebury, where he remained for 

 one year. On April i, 1871, he apprenticed 

 himself to John B. Davis, at Lahaska. to 

 learn the blacksmith trade. After finishing 

 his apprenticeship, he worked as a journey- 

 man blacksmith for Patrick Barrett, at Me- 

 chanics Valley, for one year, one at Pine- 

 ville, and then removed to Jenkintown, 

 where he remained for one year. In Au- 



