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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



of Peter Swartz; Mary, wife of Joseph 

 Keller; Elizabeth, wiK o. i\ F. B. Smith; 

 Tobias, born August o, 1007; Abraham, 

 boni May 11, 1809; Daniel, born April 13, 

 1^13; Josiah, born September 15, 1817; Sa- 

 rah; Isaac; and Dorothy. 



Abraham, seventh son of George and 

 Dorothy, born in Haycock, May 11, 1809, 

 was a carpenter by trade, but also followed 

 farming. He purchased a farm in Hay- 

 cock in 1854, part of a tract formerly 

 owned and occupied by his maternal great- 

 grandfather, Heinrich Keller, and purchas- 

 ed by the latter of Griffith Davis, to whom 

 it had been patented by the Penns in 1737. 

 Abraham Afflerbach died in January, 1874. 

 He had married Mary Magdalene Bebig- 

 horse, who was born April 17, 1808, and 

 died July 3, 1887. Abraham and Magdalene 

 Affierbach were the parents of four chil- 

 dren : Sarah, born September 25, 1835, mar- 

 ried Jacob Strouse; Charles Tobias, born 

 August 12, 1838, died in 1868; John Hen- 

 ry, born August 12, 1840; and George 

 Franklin, who died in service in the civil 

 war, December 6, 1862, at Suffolk, Virgin- 

 ia. He married Levina King and left two 

 sons, Milton and John. 



Captain John Henry Afflerbach, son of 

 Abraham and Magdalene, was born and 

 reared on the Haycock farm. In early life 

 he was a school teacher. In 1862 he and 

 his brother George Franklin, enlisted as 

 privates in Company C, One Hundred and 

 Seventy-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania 

 Volunteers, and the latter was elected ser- 

 geant, but died as previously stated. Cap- 

 tain Afflerbach was elected captain of the 

 company, October 31, 1862, and served for 

 nine months in Virginia and North and 

 South Carolina, and was mustered out with 

 his company August 7, 1863. At the ex- 

 piration of this term of service he re- 

 turned home, and in the spring of 1864 

 accepted a clerical position in the general 

 store of Charles Sheets, at Keller's church, 

 and in 1867 went to Bedminsterville, and 

 three years later purchased the store and 

 conducted it for six years, the last three 

 in partnership with Abraham Keller, his 

 cousin, whose son Lewis now owns and 

 conducts the store. His father dying in 

 January, 1874, he sold out the store to the 

 Kellers, and purchased the old homestead 

 in Haycock, and still lives there. Captain 

 Afflerbach married November 15, 1868, Ab- 

 bie Fulmer, daughter of John and Cath- 

 arine (Kramer) Fulmer, and they were the 

 parents of four children : John Franklin, 

 born August 27, 1869; Abraham Lewis, 

 born December 24, 1870; Emma, born Sep- 

 tember 24, 1872, now the wife of Elmer 

 Johnson ; and Anna I\Iary, who died in in- 

 fancy. 



John Franklin Afflerbach. the subject of 

 this sketch, was born in Bedminster, and 

 removed with his parents to the old home- 

 stead in Haycock at the age of four years. 



He received his primary education at the 

 public schools, and later entered the nor- 

 mal school at Kutztown. After leaving 

 school he taught school in Haycock ana 

 Bedminster townships for four years, and 

 also studied telegraphy. He married Octo- 

 ber 17, 1894, Emma Atherholt, born April 

 ^5> 1873, daughter of Aaron and Emma 

 (Strawn) Atherholt, and for five years con- 

 ducted her father's farm. In igoo he erect- 

 ed a handsome residence in Perkasie, 

 where he has since resided. In 1901 he be- 

 gan the manufacture of brick at Perka- 

 sie, which business he has since success- 

 fully conducted. He is a member of the 

 Reformed church, and politically is a Dem- 

 ocrat. He has served as school director, 

 and filled other local offices. He is a mem- 

 ber of the Modern Woodmen of America, 

 of Lodge No. 671, I. O. O. F., of Perka- 

 sie; Mont Alto Lodge, No. 246, K. of P., 

 of Perkasie; and Colonel Edmond Schall 

 Camp, No. 92, Sons of Veterans, of Lands- 

 dale, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Affler- 

 bach are the parents of two children — 

 Calvin Eugene, born October 11, 1896; and 

 Esther Lucretia, born December 25, 1899. 



DR. GEORGE THOMAS HESTON 

 was born in Pineville, Bucks county, Penn- 

 sylvania, February 27, 1826, the son of 

 Jesse Stackhouse Heston and Martha Comly 

 Thomas, of the well known Philadelphia 

 family of that name. 



Deceased removed from Pineville to 

 Newtown with his parents when four yearsi 

 old. His early education was acquired at 

 the old Newtown Academy and Westtown 

 Friends' School. On the completion of a 

 course at Haverford College he entered the 

 University of Pennsylvania for the study 

 of medicine, his preceptor being the noted 

 ■ Dr. P'hineas Jenks, of Newtown. Failing 

 health compelled him to travel at the end 

 of two years, and he toured the world, 

 starting on the barque "Adelaide," com- 

 manded by Captain Joseph Eyre, of 

 Newtown, spent sometime in California in 

 '49, afterwards visited Brazil, Chili and 

 Peru, and bore the distinction of a man 

 living in Newtown who had twice doubled 

 Cape Horn. While in Peru he met Don 

 , Pedro, and, when the latter visited the 

 Centennial Exposition in 1876, through the 

 instrumentality of George W. Childs, the 

 acquaintance of former years was renewed, 

 and the agricultural developments of Bucks 

 county, that the Doctor had described as 

 the "Eden of Pennsylvania," were thor- 

 oughly appreciated and lauded by the 

 Emperor. 



After a close study of fevers on the 

 South American coast he embarked from 

 Valparaiso on the ship "Independence," 

 commanded by the Danish Captain Peder- 

 son, studied on his arrival in Europe in 

 the hospitals of Berlin, Paris and London, 

 and, on his return to his home in 1851, re- 



