HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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the mines and furnace and found lucra- 

 tive employment. On May 22, 1745, he 

 obtained a warrant for another seventy- 

 five acres, and in 1755 and 1756 three 

 other tracts were surveyed to him. On 

 one of these he erected a saw and grist 

 mill which was the property of his de- 

 scendants for several generations. Some 

 of the land taken up by him is still oc- 

 cupied by his descendants. By his will 

 •dated March 4, 1762, probated January 

 5, 1769, he devised his mills to sons Con- 

 rad and Frederick, and his other lands 

 to sons Rhinehardt and Peter. His eld- 

 est son, John George, received 190 

 pounds, and his daughter Elizabeth, wife 

 of Adam Kuckert, thirty pounds. 



Johan George Laubach, eldest son of 

 Christian and Susanna, born in Germany 

 November 11, 1729, was the great-grand- 

 father of Samuel H. Laubach, of Dur- 

 liam. He reared a family of twelve 

 children, as follows: Susan, born'^No- 

 vember 7, 1757; John Michel, born No- 

 vember 28, 1759; John, born August 25, 

 176T; John Christian, born June 30, 1762; 

 Catharine, born February 26, 1764; John 

 Conrad, born December 23, 1766, died 

 young; Anna Mary, born October 21, 

 1768; Anna Margaret, born January 19, 

 1770; John Conrad, born March, 1772; 

 John George, born March 5, 1774; Wal- 

 burth, born February 15, 1776; and Eliza- 

 zeth. born April 10. 1779. 



John George Laubach, born ]\Iarch 5, 

 1774, tenth child of John George, Sr., 

 ■was the grandfather of Samuel H. Lau- 

 "bach. He married in 1798, Elizabeth 

 Reel, of Williams township, Northamp- 

 ton county, Pennsylvania, and they were 

 the parents of nine children: Mary, born 

 November 11, 1799, married Jacob 

 Boyer; Lydia, born June 7, 1802, mar- 

 ried Joseph Trauger; Anthony, born Oc- 

 tober 18, 1804, married Elizabeth Hess; 

 Elizabeth, born June 23, 1807, married 

 Samuel Rinker; John born July 5, 1810, 

 •died unmarried; Susan, born Januaiv 8, 

 1813, married Simon Illick; Peter, born 

 January I, 1816. married Lavinia Bach- 

 man; Anna Margaret, born May 30, 1819, 

 married Jacob Hess; and Sarah, born 

 January 14, 1826, married David W. 

 Hess. 



Anthony Laubach, third son of John 

 George and Elizabeth (Reel) Laubach, 

 born October 18, 1804. was the father of 

 Samuel H. Laubach and Charles Lau- 

 bach of Durham. He married March 17, 

 1829. Elizabeth Hess, of Lower Saucon, 

 Northampton county, and settled in Dur- 

 Tiam township, where he was a lifelong 

 resident and prominent farmer and busi- 

 ness man. He died March 15, 1891, in 

 his eighty-seventh year. The farm con- 

 veyed to him by his father, George Lau- 

 bach, in 1832, near Riegelsville, pur- 

 chased by George in 1812. is still occu- 

 pied by Samuel H. Laubach. The chil- 

 •dren of Anthony and Elizabeth (Hess; 

 Laubach,. were as follows: Hannah, born 



March 21, 1830, married Leidy N. Wor- 

 man; George W., born December 23, 

 1832, married Maria Fraley, is still a res- 

 ident of Durham; Samuel H., born 

 March 23, 1834, married Sarah Rufe; 

 Charles, born August 29, 1836, died Au- 

 gust 22, 1904, married Jane Raub; Frank- 

 lin, born September 13 1838, married El- 

 mira Heller, and is still residing in Dur- 

 ham; Elizabeth, born May 4, 1841, died 

 unmarried; David Anthony, born De- 

 cember 14, 1843, died young; James 

 Francis, born April 25, 1847, died 

 young; Benjamin H., born March 30, 

 1853, married Lizzie Stover, and is liv- 

 ing in Brooklyn, New York. 



Samuel H. Laubach, second son of An- 

 thony and Elizabeth Hess Laubach, was 

 born in Durham township, March 23, 

 1834. He received a good common 

 school education, and later attended the 

 celebrated Vandeveer school at Easton, 

 Pennsylvania, for several terms. He has 

 always been one of the active and pro- 

 gressive men of his township, and has 

 filled a number of positions of trust. 

 He served for many years as a school 

 director of Durham township, and was 

 twice elected to the office of justice of 

 the peace. He is a practical surveyor 

 and civil engineer, and was appointed in 

 1884 as one of the commissioners to re- 

 trace and locate the boundary line be- 

 tween Lehigh and Northampton coun- 

 ties. He also served as county surveyor 

 for six years, 1877-1883. Mr. Laubach 

 has been interested in various local en- 

 terprises in Durham and vicinity, and 

 has always taken an interest in the af- 

 fairs of the community in which he lives. 

 He has always taken a special interest in 

 botany and mineralogy, and is an au- 

 thority on these subjects in that local- 

 ity. He still resides on the old home- 

 stead near Riegelsville. 



]Mr. Laubach married in 1857 Sarah 

 Rufe. and they are the parents of five 

 children, viz.: Vincent R. Laubach, of 

 Riegelsville, born September 21, 1858, 

 married Margaret Jane Leh ; Howard R. 

 Laubach. of Riegelsville, born June 15, 

 1861, married Laura B. Nicholas; Edgar 

 R. Laubach, of Bethlehem, born June i, 

 1S68. married Abigail L. Judd; Ida R. 

 Laubach, born June I, 1868, now wife of 

 William H. Judd, of Bethlehem; and 

 Clara R. Laubach, born November 24, 

 1877. now wife of William H. Bischoff, 

 of Bethlehem. 



Vincent R. and Margaret J. (Leh) Lau- 

 bach. have the following children: Ger- 

 trude Alice, born November 13. 1881, 

 wife of Charles Lincoln Free, of Phil- 

 lipsburg. New Jersey; Charles Reuben 

 Laubach, born July 16. 1883; Mabel Alma 

 Laubach. born August 8. 1885, wife of 

 Fred Neamand, of Richlandtown; and 

 Laura Lovina Laubach, born October 20, 

 1887. 



William H.. and Ida R. (Laubach) 

 Judd, have one child, Florence Alma, 



