HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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•of his eyesight he has largely left the man- 

 agement of his farm to his son, who is 

 <:arrying forward the work along progres- 

 sive lines that his father inaugurated. 

 Charles Cadwallader concentrated his ener- 

 gies and efforts exclusively upon his agri- 

 cultural labors and a splendidly improved 

 property is now the visible evidence of his 

 life of thrift and industry. Charles M. 

 Cadwallader endorses Republican pnn- 

 ■ciples by his ballot, and manifests in the 

 questions of the day the interest which 

 every American citizen should display in 

 the measure which effect the general wel- 

 fare of county, state and nation. His In- 

 fluence is ever on the side of progress, re- 

 form and improvement, and he is a faith- 

 ful member of the Friends meeting, to 

 which his wife also belonged. 



On the i6th of February, 1855, ]\Ir. Cad- 

 wallader married Miss Anna Conard, who 

 was born in Warwick township, Bucks 

 •county, Pennsylvania, in 1830, a daughter 

 of Charles and JNlary (Patterson) Conard, 

 also natives" of this county and representa- 

 tives of early pioneer families. She was 

 one of four children, the others being : 

 John, a farmer; Robert, a carpenter and 

 engineer ; and James, a farmer and funeral 

 director. In September, 1890, after more 

 than thirty-five years of happy wedded life, 

 Mrs. Cadwallader died. She is survived by 

 her husband and two children, while their 

 second daughter, Julia Elma, died in 1865 

 at the age of three and a half years. The 

 eldest daughter, Elizabeth D., became the 

 wife of George Corson, of Plymouth, Penn- 

 sylvania, and died July 21, 1903, leaving 

 two sons. The living children are Martha 

 A. and Howard, both on the old homestead, 

 the son continuing the conduct of the farm 

 since his father's practical retirement from 

 its active management. 



FREDERICK F. BUEHRLE. The 

 Buehrle family of which Frederick F. 

 Buehrle is a representative had its or- 

 igin in Germany. His grandfather, Jo- 

 seph Buehrle, was a native of Baden, 

 and entertained strong Republican prin- 

 ciples as opposed to monarchical ideas. 

 He served as revenue and tax collector 

 for the duchy of Baden for a long period, 

 but on account of his connection with 

 the Republican movement which cul- 

 minated in the rebellion begun at Baden 

 in 1848 he was deprived of his office and 

 of most of his property, and in 1846 he 

 sought a home beyond the Atlantic in 

 the "land of the free." Bucks county was 

 his destination and he established his 

 home near Easton, where he began boat- 

 ing on the Lehigh and Delaware canal. 

 Later he purchased a farm in Tinicum 

 township, Bucks county, where he spent 

 his remaining days, devoting his atten- 

 tion to agricultural pursuits. The con- 

 ditions of his life were very greatly 

 changed from those of his German 



home, but he made the best of the cir- 

 cumstances and became a loyal and val- 

 ued citizen of the Keystone state. His 

 children were: Robert, who is now su- 

 perintendent of schools in Lancaster 

 city ; Wilemine, who married Jacob Stee- 

 ley, a resident of Nockamixon township; 

 Emma, who married Titus Applebach, of 

 Bethlehem; Josephine of Bethlehem, 

 who was married twice; first to Jacob 

 Krouse, and two years after his death to 

 James Williams, both of Tinicum. 



William Buehrle, son of Joseph 

 Buehrle, was born in Germany in 1834, 

 and when a lad of twelve years left his 

 native province of Baden in company 

 with his mother and crossed the water to 

 the new world. His educational privi- 

 leges were somewhat limited, for it was 

 necessary that he earn his own living at 

 an early age, his father's property having 

 been confiscated in Germany, so that it 

 forced him to begin business life anew 

 in the United States. When quite a 

 young boy William Buehrle crossed the 

 mountain with a pack on his back and he 

 was still quite young when he secured a 

 position on the Delaware canal, follow- 

 ing that business continuously for twen- • 

 ty-one years. The careful husbanding 

 of his resources enabled him in that time 

 to save enough money to purchase a 

 small farm in Tinicum first and later he 

 bought one belonging to Dietrich Knop- 

 pel in Bedminster township. He resided 

 thereon for five years, devoting his en- 

 ergies to general agricultural pursuits 

 and to dealing in cattle. He then sold 

 the property to its former owner and 

 bought another farm, where he contin- 

 ued to engage in the tilling of the soil 

 until twenty years of his life had been 

 given to agricultural pursuits. At that 

 time he turned his attention to mer- 

 chandising at Quakertown, but when 

 two years had passed sold out to his son 

 William. Since that time he has been 

 engaged in canvassing for books of vari- 

 ous kinds. A Republican in his political 

 views, he has ever been deeply inter- 

 ested in the issues and questions of the 

 day, keeping well informed on political 

 conditions of the country. He served 

 as school director in Tinicum township 

 for two years and in Bedminster town- 

 ship for six years. William Buehrle was 

 married on the i6th of September, 1856. 

 to Miss Mary Ann Fryling. a daughter 

 of Samuel Fryling, a resident of War- 

 rington township. She was born in 1842 

 and by her marriage became the mother 

 of nineteen children: William; Hannah, 

 wife of Nathan Beer, of Perkasie, Rnck- 

 hill township; Charlotta, who married A. 

 O. Myers, of' Portland; Frederick F. ; 

 William F. : Rosanna, who became the 

 wife of John Edwin Scheetz, and after 

 his death married Joseph Hager; Samuel, 

 Joseph, Robert. Lawrence, Harry, de- 

 ceased; John Edward, deceased; Benja- 

 min Franklin; Annie, the wife of Charles 



