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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



sylvania; Anna Pickering; John B., Eliza- 

 beth C. ; and Clarissa W. 



Captain Chambers is well and favorably 

 known in Bucks county, and is connected 

 with many of the local institutions, lie 

 and his family are members of the Epis- 

 copal church. He is a member of Newtown 

 Lodge, No. 427, F. and A. M., and of the 

 Philadelphia Commandery of the Loyal 

 Legion, and also a member of the Grand 

 Army of the Republic, Post No. 427, New- 

 town, Pennsylvania. 



Mr. Chambers dates his ancestry on his 

 father's side from William Chalmers, as the 

 name was then spelled, who was born and 

 lived in Perth, Scotland. His son Alex- 

 ander Chambers, came to Philadelphia 

 when a lad, and married Ann Fox, of that 

 city, in 1746. He died in London, England, 

 and is buried in St. Andrew's churchyard 

 in that city. John Chambers, son of Alex- 

 ander and Ann (Fox) Chambers, was born 

 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, about 1746, 

 and married there in 1770 Deborah Hall; 

 he died April 3, 1776. George Chambers, 

 son of John and Deborah Hall Chambers, 

 was born in Philadelphia, August, 1774, and 

 died June 7, 1814; he married Mary Pres- 

 ton, August I, 1796, and had six children. 

 After the death of George Chambers his 

 widow married Mr. Richard Harris, ot 

 England, and in 1827 moved from Phila- 

 delphia to Newtown township, where they 

 purchased a farm of one hundred acres. 

 Mrs. Harris died in 1864. 



Alexander Chambers^ the father of the 

 subject of this sketch, son of George and 

 Mary Preston Chambers, was born in 

 Philadelphia, June 4, 1808. On March 25, 

 1835, he married Frances Wayne, daughter 

 of Caleb Parry and Mary Stokes Wayne. 

 Caleb Parry Wayne was great-grandson of 

 Captain Anthony Wayne, and a cousin of 

 General Anthony Wayne, of Revolution- 

 ary fame, also grandson of Captain David 

 Parry, and a nephew of Colonel Caleb 

 Parry, who fell in the battle of Long Isl- 

 and in 1776. They had two sons, Thomas 

 P. and Frances Wayne Chambers. Mr. 

 Chambers was engaged in the mercantile 

 business in Philadelphia until 1841, when 

 with his family he moved to Newtown and 

 purchased the farm of his mother, and be- 

 came a prominent and active man in this 

 community. He and his family attend-^d 

 the Protestant Episcopal Church at Now- 

 town, where he was a vestryman until his 

 death. 



Alexander Chambers, son of Thomas P. 

 and Hannah H. (Barnsley) Chambers, \\as 

 born in Newtown, October 20, 1865. He 

 was educated at the schools of Newtown, 

 at Swarthmore College and Lehigh Univer- 

 sity, but failing health prevented his grad- 

 uation from the latter institution in the 

 class of 1887. He was engaged in the 

 oil business with the Tidewater Oil Com- 

 pany of New York, until 1894, when he 

 purchased the Agricultural Machine Works 

 at Newtown, which he operated for sev- 

 eral years in connection with the manu- 



facture and sale of other machinery. He 

 is general manager and treasurer of the 

 Newtown Electric Street Railway Com- 

 pany, and actively associated with its man- 

 agement. For the past several years much 

 of his time has been spent in Honduras, 

 where he is associated with his father and 

 brother John in the management of. the 

 Ulua Commercial Company, and the Olan- 

 cho Mineral Company. He is a member 

 of Newtown Lodge, No. 427, F. and A. 

 M., and a well known young business man 

 of Newtown. 



LEWIS KELLER, the enterprising and 

 successful merchant of Bedminster, was 

 born in Plumstead township, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, December 26, 1852, being the 

 eldest son of Abraham and Judith (Myers) 

 Keller. He comes of good old Pennsylvania 

 German stock who for five generations have 

 been prominent in the afifairs of the upoer 

 end of Bucks county. The pioneer an- 

 cestor of the family was Heinrich Keller, 

 who was born in Weierbach, Baden, Ger- 

 many, January 9, 1708, son of Wilhelm and 

 Gertraut Keller. His wife was Juliana 

 Kleindinst, daughter of Peter and Anna 

 Maria Kleindinst, the former an official of 

 Weierbach, Baden. Julianna was born in 

 171 1, and was married to Heinrich Keller, 

 October 20, 1728. Heinrich Keller, with his 

 wife Juliana and four young children, emi- 

 grated to America in 1738 in t]lie ship 

 "Glasgow," arriving in Philadelphia on 

 September 9, 1738. Their eldest cnild x'eter 

 died within a week of their landing, and 

 seven others were born to them in Penn- 

 sylvania. Heinrich Keller was one of the 

 organizers of Keller's Church in 1746. and 

 was an elder there until his death on Octo- 

 ber 18, 1782. He purchased large tracts 

 of land in Bedminster and Haycock, which 

 descended to his children and grandchil- 

 dren. His children, as shown by the 

 records of the church of which he was one 

 of the founders, were; i. Johan Peter, born 

 November 20, 1729, died September 15, 

 1738. 2. Johannes, born January 28, 1733, 

 died 1792, married Maria Drach. 3. Anna 

 Margaret, born June 2, 1735. married Feb- 

 ruary 3, 1756. Solomon Gruver. 4. Maria 

 Elizabeth, born November 19, 1737. mar- 

 ried October 8, 1756, Philip Stever. 5. 

 Eliz. Barbara, born April 14, 1739: mar- 

 ried, 1760, John Niemand, and in 1769 

 Michael Steinbach. 6. Anna Maria, born 

 November 5, 1742, married April 24, 1770. 

 Adam Litzenberger. 7. Johan Hendrick, 

 born June 20. 1745 ; died in the year 1748. 

 8. Johan Peter, born July 13. i747. was 

 twice married and had many children. _ 9. 

 Dorothea, born September 2. 174O. married 

 Henry Steinbach. 10. Christopher, bcrn 

 December 15, 1751. died July 8, 1820— see 

 forward, ii. .Heinrich, born May 19, 175S, 

 married Catharine Fox, and had many chil- 

 dren. 



Several of the sons and sons-in-law of 

 Heinrich Keller were prominent in the Rev- 



