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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



can, and takes an active interest in the 

 councils of his parly. He was one of the 

 prominent caiuHdates for the nomination 

 for assembly in 1902. He is a member of 

 Perkasie Castle, No. 330, Knighls of the 

 Golden Eagle, and has been its representa- 

 tive in the grand castle for the past ten 

 years, serving on many important com- 

 mittees of the grand body, and has been 

 district grand chief of his local district for 

 five years. He is also a member of Mc- 

 Calla Lodge, No, 596, F, and A. JNI., of 

 Sellersville, and of Mont Alto Lodge, No. 

 246, Knights of Pythias. He has been a 

 member and president of the Perkasie 

 board of health for five years. He is a 

 member of St. Stephen's Reformed church, 

 and superintendent of the Sabbath school 

 connected therewith. He is also secretary 

 of the Seventh district of the Sabbath 

 School Association of Bucks county, and 

 recording secretary of the county associa- 

 tion. He has promoted and helped to build 

 eighty-one homes in Perkasie and vicinity 

 during the past few years, and also assisted 

 in locating a number of industries in that 

 town, being an active member of the Board 

 of Trade, and for a number of years the 

 secretary. He is a member of the Bucks 

 County Druggist's Association. Mr. Nea- 

 mand married, June 16, 1898, Miss Han- 

 nah Freed, daughter of William Freed, of 

 Richlandtown. They have no children, and 

 reside in a handsome residence at Sixth and 

 Chestnut streets, Perkasie, Pennsylvania. 



ABRAHAM H. WAMBOLD, deceased, 

 of Sellersville, was born in that town, then 

 a part of Rockhill township, June 21, 1844, 

 a son of Noah and Hannah (Haertzell) 

 Wfimbold, both natives of Rockhill and de- 

 scendants of the earliest German settlers 

 in that locality. George Wambold, the pi- 

 oneer ancestor of the family, came to 

 America from Germany, arriving at Phila- 

 delphia, September 24, 1737, in the ship "St. 

 Andrew's Galley," and located in Salforcl 

 township, ^lontgomery county, removing 

 soon after to Franconia township. In 1742 

 he purchased a tract' of land near the site 

 of Sellersville, which he later conveyed to 

 his son John, who died there in 1793. Abra- 

 ham Wambold, another son, settled on ad- 

 joining land about the time of the revolu- 

 tionary war, and erected a tannery, and, 

 purchasing considerable other land adjoin- 

 ing, also operated a mill on the northwest 

 branch of the Perkiomen creek, Howing 

 through Sellersville. In 1812 he removed 

 to Franconia township, where he died about 

 the year 1832. He and his wife Louisa 

 were the parents of six children : Abraham ; 

 Magdalena, who married George Reller ; 

 Catharine, who married Abraham Leister ; 

 Samuel ; Mary, who married George Leidy, 

 and Henry. The tannery and a large part 

 of the land became the property of his 

 son Abraham, who conducted the tannery 

 during his whole life, dying March 4, 1848. 



He married Hannah Kramer, a descendant 

 of another old family in that locality, ana 

 reared a family of live children, viz: Noah; 

 Catharine, wife of Charles Weikel ; Mary^ 

 wife of Charles Schwenck; Aaron K., and 

 Edwin. 



Ncah Wambold was born on the old 

 homestead and on arriving at manhood 

 became a partner with his father in the 

 management of the tannery, and at his fath- 

 er's death inherited it, with a large portion 

 of the homestead, and lived there all his 

 life, dying July 2* 1890. He was an active 

 business man. and a deacon and elder in 

 the Lutheran church. He married Hannah 

 Hartzell, and they were the parents of 

 eleven children, viz : Abraham H., the sub- 

 ject of this sketch; Amanda, wife of Sam- 

 uel Slotter ; Henry ; Zachariah ; Noah ; Jo- 

 siah; Edwin; Hannah; Benjamin Frank- 

 lin, and two who died in infancy. The 

 mother died in December, 1879. 



Abraham H. Wambold was born ana 

 reared on his father's farm, and always 

 lived on the old homestead, having pur- 

 chased it from his father. He was a dea- 

 con of the Lutheran church for sixteen: 

 years. In politics he was a Republican, and 

 always took an active part in local affairs 

 as well as in church work. He married, 

 October 13, 1865, Elizabeth Appenzeller, 

 daughter of David and Mary (Bean) Ap- 

 penzeller, who was born June 28, 1846. and 

 they were the parents of three children : 

 Mary Louise, born June 9. 1866, died May 

 21, 1879; Benjamin Franklin, born Feb- 

 ruary 15. 1870; and Charles Stahley. born 

 1875, dfed 1879. Benjamin Franklin Wam- 

 bold married, December 20, 1893. Carrie 

 Dannehower, daughter of John and Sarah 

 ( Shellenberger) Dannehower, and their 

 only child is deceased. Abraham H. Wam- 

 bold died near Sellersville, February I, 

 1900, aged fifty-five years. 



HARVEY F. HARPEL, merchant arid 

 postmaster at South Perkasie, was born in 

 Bedminster township, Bucks county. Janu- 

 ary I, 1864, and is a son of Amos and Mary 

 (Fulmer) Harpel. His paternal ancestor,. 

 Philip Harpel, a native of Germany, born 

 in 1728, was an early settler near Otts- 

 ville, where he purchased a large tract of 

 land partly in Bedminster and partly in 

 Tinicum. He was one of the early mem- 

 bers of Tohickon Lutheran church, and 

 became a large landowner and a prominent 

 man in the community. He died Decem- 

 ber 24. 1802, and his wife, Anna ]Maria, 

 September 27, 1816, at the age of eighty- 

 two years, eight months and three days. 

 They were the parents of two sons: Philip 

 and Conrad; and three daughters: Eliza- 

 beth. Magdalena and Margaret. The plan- 

 tation of 279 acres was devised to Conrad. 

 Philip the eldest son, settled in Tinicum 

 where he died in 1843. leaving a son Phil- 

 ip R. Harpel, county commissioner in 1844; 

 and daughters, Elizabeth, wife of Peter 



