HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 



505 



tunity for his associates to go along with 

 •equal privileges. 



His political affiliations tend toward the 

 Democracy of Jefiferson, although his 

 partisanship is not of the intense type. 

 Man or measure appeals to him because 

 of its worthiness — nothing else — although, 

 all things being equal, he is a Democrat. 

 He was one of the leaders of the Palmer 

 and Buckner (Gold Democrats) campaign 

 in 1900, and was a national delegate to 

 the convention that year. By the. loss of 

 only one vote Mr. Kramer failed to be- 

 come the choice of his party for the as- 

 sembly in 1890. 



The products of his pen are a source 

 of great pleasure. He is versatile, facile, 

 and keen — convincing — and is equally at 

 home with the weapons of sarcasm, ridicule, 

 or the "statement direct" — the power of 

 which has been felt in many a campaign, 

 or other public question. And, remarkable 

 as it may seen, he is equally forceful as a 

 public speaker. 



Mr. Kramer subscribes to the German 

 Reformed faith, and has served the St. 

 Stephen Sunday school as its superi- 

 tendent, choir leader, and orchestra leader. 

 Of late years, however, his religious tenets 

 have undergone a liberalizing process, and 

 his views upon the plan of salvation, and 

 the mundane machinery connected there- 

 with, are a fusion of most beliefs — a com- 

 promise for all. Socially, his home is head- 

 quarters, locally. His genial personality, 

 through which magnetism runs as the band 

 of red through the national colors, attracts 

 all classes. His heart is large, and ,his 

 purse open — although his charity is un- 

 ostentatious. He does good by stealth and 

 blushes to find it fame. 



Commercially, he is at present head of 

 a corporation engaged in manufacturing 

 and selling his patented attachments for 

 platen printing presses — an ingenious 

 mechanism which makes these presses print 

 from a roll, in colors, perforating, number- 

 ing, collating and packing, or rewinding the 

 same. 



He dissolved partnership with ex-Senator 

 Moyer m the proprietorshop of the Central 

 News in 1903, they two disposing of the 

 property to Charles M. Meredith. 



DAVID W. ALLABOUGH, Esq. 

 David W. Allabough, of Silverdale 

 borough, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was 

 born in Hilltown township, Bucks county. 

 May 13, 1869, and is a son of Henry S. 

 and Elizabeth (Wismer) Allabough, of the 

 same place. 



Henry Allabough, grandfather of David 

 W., was a native of Montgomery county, 

 and a carpenter by trade. He lived for a 

 time in Salem county, New Jersey. He was 

 twice married, the subject of this sketch 

 being descended from the second marriage, 

 with Sarah Smith. By his first marriage 

 he had two children — John and Amanda ; 



and by the second three — Etta, Sarah Ann, 

 and Henry S. 



Henry S. Allabough was born in Mont- 

 gomery county, Pennsylvania, December 8, 

 1843. He was reared in that county, and 

 on March 4, 1862, enlisted as a private 

 in Company E, Ninetieth Regiment, Penn- 

 sylvania Volunteers, at Philadelphia, under 

 Captain John Barnes and Colonel Peter 

 Lyle. The regiment was incorporated in 

 the Second Brigade, Second Division, 

 Tenth Corps, of the Army of the Potomac, 

 and was in the thick of the fight through- 

 out the war. He was in the battles of 

 Cedar Creek, Fredericksburg, Chancellors- 

 ville, Gettysburg and many others. At 

 Gettysburg he was wounded in the right 

 shoulder and right cheek and was sent to 

 the military hospital at Broad and Cherry 

 streets. Philadelphia, and after being there 

 four months was transferred to Chestnut 

 Hill hospital. On his discharge from the 

 hospital he was transferred to Company 

 H, Eleventh Regiment, and was at the bat- 

 tle of the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, where 

 he was slightly wounded in the right thigh 

 but took part in the two weeks fight at 

 Petersburg, June 15 to 30th. He was hon- 

 orably discharged May 4, 1865. and was 

 highly commended for bravery and meritor- 

 ious conduct. He is a member of Peter 

 Lyle Post. No. 145, G. A. R., of Quaker- 

 town. Returning from the war he settled 

 in Bucks county, and married October 11, 

 1866, Elizabeth Wismer, daughter of Chris- 

 tian and Mary (Cassel) Wismer of Plill- 

 town, and, purchasing his father-in-law's 

 farm, which he conducted for fourteen 

 years, then moved to Silverdale, purchas- 

 ing a small property where he now lives 

 retired. Henry and Elizabeth (Wismer) 

 Allabough are the parents of three chil- 

 dren: David W., the subject of this sketch; 

 William, of Hilltown, who married Emma 

 Miller, daughter of Noah Miller, of Rock- 

 hill, and has one son Harvey; and Mary, 

 wife of Henry Hunsberger, of Silverdale. 



Christian Wismer, the maternal grand- 

 father of 'Squire Allabaugh, was born in 

 Montgomery county, and was a son of 

 Christian Wismer who married Mary 

 Rosenberger. He settled in Hilltown, and 

 married Mary Cassel, also a native of Mont- 

 gomery county, and they were t?he parents 

 of seven children : Anna, who married 

 David Ruth; Sarah; Elizabeth ;_ Jacob^ of 

 Silverdale, who married Catharine Stout ; 

 Joel, who married Mary Shelly; Mary de- 

 ceased; and Daniel, who married Annie 

 Roberts. 



David W. Allabough was reared on his 

 father's farm in Hilltown, and acquired his 

 education at the public schools. As a boy 

 he entered the tailoring establishment of 

 his maternal uncle, Jacob Wismer, and is 

 still employed there, filling the position of 

 foreman in the large establishment of Mr. 

 Wismer at Silverdale for many years. He 

 has always taken an active interest in the 

 local affairs of the community in which he 

 lived, and has filled a number of local of- 



