HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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years. In 1883 he removed to the Mill 

 property at Dyerstown, which he has since 

 operated. He has devoted considerable at- 

 tention to the breeding of fancy stock. Of 

 late years his specialty has been the rais- 

 ing of the celebrated Brazilian ducks, of 

 which he raises m a single year from 17,000 

 to 18,000, for which he finds a ready market, 

 supplying most of the leading cafes in Phila- 

 delphia and Atlantic City. 



]\lr. Beaumont married Flora A. Snyder, 

 daughter of Jacob B. and Frances Snyder, 

 of Plumsteadville, and to them have been 

 born four children : Mabel Frances, grad- 

 uate of West Chester State Normal School, 

 who is now a teacher in the public schools 

 of the county; Horatio N., a graduate of 

 Brown Preparatory School of Philadelphia, 

 now a student at Lehigh University ; Flor- 

 ence R. ; and A. Evelyn. Mr. Beaumont 

 and family are members of the Lutheran 

 church of Doylestown. 



GARRET HARLOW LAM PEN, the 

 distinguished educator, author and lecturer 

 on American History, Ethnology, Arch- 

 aeology and kindred subjects, comes of 

 Bucks county ancestry and is a son of the 

 late Michael Lampen. 



Simon Lampen, so far as is known to 

 his descendants, was the pioneer ancestor 

 of his family in America. At the time the 

 Colonists were beginning to arm in defense 

 of their liberties in 1775, he was a resi- 

 dent of New Hampshire, and of about the 

 age of twenty-five years. He was descend- 

 ed according to family tradition from one 

 of two brothers who emigrated from An- 

 halt, Prussia, to England, and were granted 

 coats-of-arms by the King of England in 

 1565 for conspicuous services to the crown. 

 Simon Lampen rendered valuable services 

 to the patriot cause, assisting in the or- 

 ganization of the militia of New Hamp- 

 shire, and participating in a number of 

 battles and skirmishes. In 1778 he re- 

 moved to Haycock township, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, where he spent his remain- 

 ing days. He was survived by two sons, 

 at least — jNIichael, mentioned later in this 

 narrative, and Nicholas. The latter mar- 

 ried but left no sons. One daughter re- 

 moved to Philadelphia, and the other three, 

 to New Jersey, two of the latter never 

 marrying. 



Michael Lampen, son of Simon Lampen, 

 was bofn in Haycock township, Bucks 

 county, in 1779. As a boy he was a close 

 student, and he became a man of scholarly 

 habits, easily ranking as one of the best edu- 

 cated and most widely read men of his 

 county. He was an unusual Greek and Lat- 

 in scholar, conversing as fluently in these 

 languages as he did in German and Eng- 

 lish. He was also deeply interested in sev- 

 eral of the sciences, and he gave much ol 

 his time to literature. His library of much- 

 thumbed books, nearly all of them bemg 

 along intellectual lines, evidenced a man of 

 high intellectual endowment and deep 

 thought. It was therefore a great surprise 



to his neighbors and friends that he chose 

 the humble trade of a weaver as his life 

 work. He was intensely patriotic and 

 served for a number of years as an officer 

 in and was prominently identified with the 

 volunteer militia of Bucks coimty. Mi- 

 chael Lampen married in 1827 Marie Anne 

 Byers, a widow, with one son Joseph. Mrs. 

 Byers had come from Switzerland to Bucks 

 county in 1817 at the age of fourteen years. 

 ^Michael Lampen died in 1863, his wife hav- 

 ing died two years before. Both are bur- 

 ied at the Brick church, Tinicum, Bucks 

 county. They were survived by three chil- 

 dren : Rebecca, born July 18, 1828, mar- 

 ried Henry Clemens, died May 21, 1882, 

 leaving one son and one daughter, one son 

 having died in infancy; Michael, born 1831, 

 mentioned later in this narrative ; John, 

 born March 14, 1834, married Elizabeth 

 Thomas, died June 14, 1895, leaving one 

 son and four daughters, one daughter hav- 

 ing died in infancy. 



Michael Lampen, Jr., son of Michael 

 and Marie Anne (.Byers) Lampen, was 

 born in Bucks county, April 10, 1831. In- 

 heriting his father's intellectual abilities 

 and love of study, he worked his way 

 through the lower schools and then through 

 the old Pennsylvania Medical College, at 

 Philadelphia, taking a full three years' 

 course and graduating with high honors, 

 and then taking a post-graduate course 

 of one year at the same institution. The 

 expenses of his college course were paid 

 with money earned by farm labor, teaching 

 in the public schools and in surveying a 

 road across the state of Ohio. He served 

 throughout the civil war as assistant sur- 

 geon in the Union army, being part of che 

 time with the army in South Carolina, but 

 during the greater part of the time being 

 detailed to service in the Satterlee Military 

 Hospital at Philadelphia. At the close of 

 the war he settled in Philadelphia and re- 

 sumed the practice of medicine. He ac- 

 quired an enviable reputation as a special- 

 ist in diseases of the heart and lungs, and 

 became one of the greatest obstetricians of 

 his day. In 1858 he married Rachel Ann 

 Vandegrift, of Newportville, Bucks coun- 

 ty, a member of one of the oldest Dutch 

 families in the country, an account of which 

 is given elsewhere in this work. Dr. Lam- 

 pen died June 18, 1890, and is survived by 

 his widow and five children, four others 

 having died in infancy. Those who sur- 

 vive are : Louis Peale, who is also a dis- 

 tinguished obstetrician, and who married 

 Elizabeth Horbert ; Howard Rand, who 

 married Eleanor Thompson Piper, and is 

 a business man of Philadelphia ; Minnie 

 Roe, who married Rev. William Allen, 

 Jr., of the Presbyterian church, and has 

 two sons ; Garret Harlow, mentioned at 

 length hereinafter, and Maud, who married 

 Joseph Guild Muirheid, a member of one of 

 the old families of New Jersey. 



Garret Harlow Lampen, the youngest 

 son of Dr. Michael and Rachel Ann (Van- 

 degrift) Lampen, was born in Philadelphia, 

 January 26, 1867. Fle received his elemen- 



