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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



on two hundred and thirteen acres of 

 land belonging to Chief Justice VV'illiam 

 Allen, of which Henry Stauffer com- 

 pleted the purchase and received a con- 

 veyance on June 12, 1762. This land re- 

 mained the property of his descendants 

 for a century. The children of Henry 

 and Barbara (Hockman) Stauffer were: 

 Ulrich, born July 16, 1750, married Bar- 

 bara Swartz and lived and died on the 

 homestead; Barbara, died young; Henry, 

 born July 10, 1754. married Elizabeth 

 Fretz and settled in Springfield town- 

 ship; Jacob, born May 13, 1757, died 

 April 28, 1844, married (first) Elizabeth 

 Swartz and (second) Catharine Stauffer; 

 Ralph, born June 10, 1760, died Novem- 

 ber 7, 181 r, married Catharine Funk, 

 granddaughter of pioneer Bishop Henry 

 Funk. The family name was changed 

 to Stover on application to the legisla- 

 ture by Ralph Stover. 



Ralph Stover was one of the prominent 

 "business men of his time, filling for many 

 years the office of justice of the peace, a 

 very important position in that section 

 ■of the county, and did a large amount of 

 public business in the transfer of real 

 estate, settlement of estates, etc. He 

 was a member of the state Igislatvire 

 from 1783 to 1799. and took an active 

 part in state legislation of that im- 

 portant period of our history following 

 the close of the revolutionary struggle. 

 Mr. Stover was one of the first board of 

 directors of the poor, created under the 

 act of 1807, and superintended the erec- 

 tion of the first almshouse of the county. 

 He purchased a farm of three hundred 

 acres at the point where the Durham 

 crosses the Tohickon, partly on Bed- 

 minster and Tinicum townships, where he 

 died November, 7, 1811, in the prime of 

 life and usefulness. 



Abraham F. Stover, eldest son of 

 Ralph and Catharine (Funk) Stover, was 

 born on the old homestead in 1786. He 

 succeeded his father as justice of the 

 peace and was twice elected to the state 

 legislature. In 1833 he sold his interest 

 in the old homestead and removed to 

 Fauquier count3% Virginia, where he died 

 in 1854. He married Rachel Fretz, born 

 1787. died 1870, of the prominent family 

 of that name in Bucks county, an ac- 

 coimt of which will be found in this 

 work. Of their three sons, Charles, Al- 

 bert, and Ralph, the two former died in 

 Virginia. 



Ralph Stover, born September 28, 181 1. 

 went to Virginia with his parents but 

 returned to Bucks county in 1841. He 

 married in October, 1838, Eliza, daugh- 

 ter of Henry S. and Barbara (Stout) 

 Stover, and granddaughter of Jacob 

 Stover, eldest son of Henry Stauffer. the 

 ■emigrant. Her maternal grandfather 

 was Isaac Stout, of Williams township. 

 Northampton county, vv'ho was a son of 

 Jacob and Anna CMiller) Stout, the pio- 

 neers of the family in America. Henry 



S. Stover was one of the pioneer millers 

 on the Tohickon as well as a large land 

 owner. Ralph Stover purchased of his 

 father-in-law the mill property and farm 

 at Point Pleasant long conducted by 

 him, also the house still occupied by the 

 subject of this sketch, where he passed a 

 busy and successful life, living to an 

 advanced age. He was one of the most 

 active in the building of the Delaware 

 river bridge at Point Pleasant, was also 

 one of the projectors of the Danboro and 

 Point Pleasant turnpike, and an oflicer 

 of both corporations for many years. He 

 was likewise interested in many other 

 local enterprises. Ralph and Eliza 

 Stover were the parents of twelve chil- 

 dren, three of whom died young, and the 

 names of the others are as follows: 

 Robert C, of Virginia; Mary G., wife of 

 Charles E. Keyser; John Henry, who 

 was a soldier in the Union army during 

 the civil war, was wounded at the ter- 

 rible battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, in 

 1864, and died of his wounds in Wash- 

 ington, D. C. ; Eliza B., the subject of 

 this sketch, who married Frederick W. 

 Troemner, and their children are: Flor- 

 ence M., Clara Louise, and Henry, de- 

 ceased; Ella, wife of John B. Lequear; 

 Adelaide, wife of A. L. Thompson, of 

 New York; R. Chester, of Bristol, Bucks 

 county; Annie, wife of Albert Stover, of 

 Kintnersville; and Albert F., of Point 

 Pleasant. Frederick W. Troemner, 

 aforementioned, was the son of Henry 

 Troemner, who emigrated from Ger- 

 many when a young man and in 1840 

 established the manufacture of fine bal- 

 ances in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

 Upon the^ death of his father, Frederick 

 W. Troemner succeeded to the head of 

 the firm of Henry Troemner and so con- 

 tinued until his death, April 3, 1902. 



GEORGE W. FLAGLER, of Tinicum 

 township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 

 comes from the following family : 



The grandfather emigrated from Ger- 

 many to this country with his family about 

 1840, and settled in New York citj', where 

 he followed butchering until about 1871 or 

 1872, when he moved to Bucks county, and 

 purchased a farm in Tinicum township. 

 He there tilled the soil until overtaken by 

 death in 1894. He was a devoted member 

 of the Lutheran church. He married, and 

 his children were Peter, George, and Bar- 

 bara. 



Peter Flagler, son of the emigrant, was 

 born in Germany, coming to this country 

 with his father when young. In early life 

 he was engaged in the butcher business 

 with his father in New York city, but 

 later followed the footsteps of his father, 

 and began farming in Bucks county. Penn- 

 sylvania, in which he is still engaged. In 

 religious faith Mr. Flagler is of the 

 Lutheran faith. He married Miss Rosa 



