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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



where his son Josiah now lives, and fol- 

 lowed farming- and blacksniithing, having 

 been continuously engaged at the latter 

 trade for upward of fifty years. He died 

 on his Hilltown farm March lo, 1901, at 

 the age of .eighty-seven years. He married 

 Lydia Leidy, daughter of George Leidy, 

 and a descendant of Jacob Leidy, the 

 founder of the Lutheran church, known 

 as Leidy's church, near Souderton, where 

 Mr. and Mrs. Cressman were life -long 

 members. 



Josiah L. Cressman, only son of Tobias 

 H. and Lydia (Leidy) Cressman, was 

 reared to the age of twelve years in Rock- 

 hill township, and removed with his par- 

 ents tO' Hilltown, where he has since re- 

 sided. He acquired his education at the 

 public schools, and was reared to the life 

 of a farmer, and has never followed any 

 other vocation. At the death of his father 

 he inherited the homestead, and still re- 

 sides thereon. He is a member of Leidy's 

 church, and politically is a Democrat. He 

 married, in 1865, Catharine Ann Nace, 

 daughter of Elias Nace, of an old Penn- 

 sylvania German family, who have been 

 residents of Rockhill and vicinity for many 

 generations. 



OLIVER A. FULAIER, teller of the 

 Perkasie National Bank, was born in Hay- 

 cock township, Bucks ccunty, October 4, 

 1862, a descendant of one of the oldest 

 Pennsylvania German families of Upper 

 Bucks. Daniel Fulmer was one of the first 

 settlers in Bedminster and a large landhold- 

 er there. Noah Fulmer, the father of Oliver 

 A., was a farmer in Haycock township. He 

 married Mary Elizabeth Ahlum, daughter 

 of Jacob Ahlum. and they were the parents 

 of seven children, the eldest of whom died 

 in infancy. Those who survive are : Oliver 

 A. ; Wilson A., married Delia Baltz, and 

 has two children — Roy and Renie; Hannah, 

 wife of Henry Stover; Carrie, the wife 

 of Thomas Brunner ; Jacob, married Alice 

 Hartman, and has two children — Horace 

 and Florence ; and Jennie, wife of Preston 

 S. Detweiler. 



Oliver A. Fulmer was born and reared in 

 Haycock, and received his primary education 

 in the schools of that township. He later 

 took a course in the State Normal School 

 at iCutztown, graduating in 1885. He taught 

 school for fourteen years, making a record 

 of high efficiency as an instructor. He then 

 took a special course at the University of 

 Pennsylvania, and then filled the position 

 of principal of the high school at Fox 

 Chase, Philadelphia county, for one year, 

 after which he returned to his home at 

 Perkasie and was made principal of the 

 Perkasie schools. He organized the high 

 school there and was the principal for seven 

 years. In February, 1901, he was appointed 

 teller of the Perkasie National Bank, and 

 still holds that position. He has always 

 taken an active interest in the cause of edu- 

 cation, and on his retirement from the posi- 

 tion of principal of the high school was 



elected a member of the school board. He 

 and his family are members of the Method- 

 ist Episcopal church, and politically he is- 

 a Republican. He is affiliated with the fol- 

 lowing lodges : Sellersville Lodge, No. 

 596, F. and A. M. ; Telford Lodge, Knights- 

 of the Golden Eagle; and Perkasie Lodge, 

 No. 246, Knights of Pythias.' He married, 

 September, 1885, Bertha Hofifmeister, and 

 they are the parents of seven children : 

 Verda, born February 26, 1890; Earl Leon,, 

 born November 18, 1891, died December 18,. 

 1903; Mildred, born March 7, 1893, died 

 March 8, 1893; Russell and Irma, twins, 

 born May 19, 1895, died the same month; 

 Hazel Grace, born March 30, 1897; and 

 Dorothy Ethel, born February 16, 1899. 



CHARLES F. BEAUMONT, of Dyers- 

 town, Bucks county, is a representative of 

 a family that have been prominent resi- 

 dents of middle Bucks county for many 

 generations. The earlier members of the 

 family were members of the Society of 

 Friends at Buckingham and Wrightstown. 

 Andrew Jackson Beaumont, father of 

 Charles F., was born at Brownsburg, Up- 

 per Makefield township, in the year 1809,, 

 and was reared in Solebury township. In 

 early life he was engaged for some time ia 

 selling patent rights on some novel and 

 useful inventions, and in that capacity 

 traveled through nineteen different states. 

 He later settled on a large farm in Sole- 

 bury, near New Hope, which he con- 

 ducted in connection with a paper 

 mill located on the same premises,, 

 and also engaged in the burning and 

 sale of lime on an extensive scale, often 

 marketing over 300,000 bushels in a year. 

 He was the original promoter of the Beau- 

 mont Deer Park, which was laid out on 

 his Solebury farm, and was for many years- 

 a popular resort. He died on his iarm in 

 Solebury in 1890. His wife was Anna 

 Maria Stuckert, daughter of Henry and 

 Elizabeth (Bennet) Stuckert, or Warring- 

 ton, and they were the parents of nine chil- 

 dren, viz. : Horatio Nelson, a prominent 

 surgeon in the United States navy for 

 many years ; John Henry, who died young ; 

 Andrew, also deceased ; Adelaide, wife of 

 Dr. Huffnagle, of Vineland, New jersey; 

 Charles Foulke, the subject of this sketch; 

 George, a farmer in Delaware county, Penn- 

 sylvania ; Sarah A., wife of Williard P. 

 Miller, of Arizona; and two who died in 

 infancy. 



CHARLES FOULKE BEAUMONT^ 

 was born in New Hope, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, in 1851, and acquired his 

 education at the common schools, the Pen- 

 nington, (New Jersey) Seminary, and the 

 Trenton Business College. He began his 

 personal career as a clerk in the large car- 

 pet house of Arnold, Constable & Co., at 

 Nineteenth and Broadway, New York city^ 

 where he was employed for two years. He- 

 then returned to his old Solebury home and 

 operated the paper mill and farm for a few 



