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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



and resided until l88o, with his uncle 

 and guardian Samuel M. Slack. In the 

 latter year he went to Council Bluffs, 

 Iowa, to look after a tract of land left 

 by his father and in 1881, removed to 

 Huntington, Indiana, where he superin- 

 tended the large plantations of General 

 James R. Slack for fifteen years. In 

 1896 he removed to Mitchell, Indiana, 

 where he engaged in the lime business. 

 At the end of one year he sold his inter- 

 est in the business to his partners, and 

 returned to Bucks county and purchased 

 the James M. McNair farm in Upper 

 Makefield, of 167 acres, upon which he 

 has since resided. 



Mr. Slack married, in 1886, Delila 

 Loughsdorf, daughter of Peter and Su- 

 san (Seifert) Loughsdorf, of Hunting- 

 ton, Indiana, whose family were early 

 settlers of Huntington, having purchased 

 the land now occupied by thein of the 

 government. To Mr. and Mrs. Slack 

 have been born three children, viz.: E. 

 Wilmer, Ethel F. and Lamont, all resid- 

 ing at home. 



In politics Mr. Slack is an Indepen- 

 dent. He is a member of Thompson 

 Memorial Presbyterian -church, of which 

 his grandfather was an elder, his ances- 

 tors for many generations having been 

 staunch Presbyterians. 



J. TITUS SLOTTER, living in Sole- 

 bury township, was born in Bedminster 

 township, Bucks county, on the 17th of 

 April, 1850. He is of German lineage, a 

 descendant of Anthony Slotter, who came 

 from the fatherland and settled on a farm 

 in Bedminster township. He had two chil- 

 dren, a son and daughter. The former was 

 Anthony Slotter, who died in 1825, when 

 Jacob Slotter was about twelve years of 

 age. , 



Jacob Slotter, the eldest of three chil- 

 dren, was born in Bedminster township in 

 1817, upon the farm now owned by his son 

 William, and his entire life with the excep- 

 tion of a brief period of three years was 

 spent as an agriculturist in his native town- 

 ship. For fifty years he resided upon the 

 old family homestead, where he died on 

 the 19th of February, 1904. He lived in 

 Haycock for one year, in Tinicum for two 

 years, and afterward in Bedminster town- 

 ship, near Tohickon, for eight years. In 

 1854 he took up his abode upon the old 

 home property, which for half a century 

 was his place of residence. He was en- 

 gaged in buying and driving cattle through 

 the state, selling to the farmers in different 

 sections of Pennsylvania. His political 

 support was given to the Republican party, 

 and he was a member of the Reformed 

 church. His life was characterized by act- 

 ivity and progress in business and relia- 

 bility in all relations. On the 7th of April, 

 1842, he was married to Miss Leah Hock- 

 man, a daughter of Ulrich Hockman, who 



was born August 24, 1823, and died Janu- 

 ary 9, 1886. They became the parents of 

 thirteen children, of whom three have 

 passed away: Elizabeth II., Mary Ann and 

 John H. The others are: William H., 

 formerly county superintendent, and a resi- 

 dent of Doylestown; Anna Maria, the wife 

 of Abel Stover, of Doylestown; Leah, who 

 married Milton Crouthamel, and resides at 

 Keelersville; J. Titus; Martha, the wife of 

 Louis Ott, at Church Hill; Anthony, who 

 is living on the old homestead in Bedmin- 

 ster township; Aaron, who is conducting a 

 restaurant in Philadelphia; Lincoln, who 

 married Anna Jones, and is living in Me- 

 chanicsville, Pennsylvania ; Barbara, the 

 wife of. Aaron Landus, of Mechanicsville; 

 and Reuben, who married Ellen Crouth- 

 amel, and resides in Richlandtown. 



J. Titus Slotter, son of Jacob and Leah 

 (Hockman) Slotter, was a student in the 

 public schools in his boyhood days, and 

 when not occupied with the duties of the 

 school room assisted in the operations of 

 the home farm, remaining thereon until 

 his twenty-second year, when he accepted 

 a position in the general store at Dublin. 

 There he resided for three years. Follow- 

 ing his marriage he returned to Bedminster 

 township, where for two years he was em- 

 ployed at farm labor, and later he rented 

 a store at New Britain, there conducting 

 a general mercantile establishment for four 

 years. In 1881 he removed his stock of 

 goods to Perkasie, and a year later sold his 

 mercantile business and returned to Bed- 

 minster township, settling on the Kerns 

 farm. The following year he sold his farm 

 stock and removed to Detroit, Michigan, 

 where he was variously employed for six 

 years, but in the spring of 1889 once more 

 took up his abode on the Kerns farm in 

 Bedminster township. Mr. Slotter was 

 married to Miss Emma Kerns, of Bedmin- 

 ster township, and they traveled life's jour- 

 ney together for many years, but the year 

 following their return from Michigan Mrs. 

 Slotter died, and he broke up housekeeping. 

 In the fall of 1890 he removed to Carvers- 

 ville, Pennsylvania, and for two and a half 

 years ran a stage from . Carversville to 

 Doylestown. In 1893 he organized a com- 

 mission route, continuing in that business 

 until the winter of 1899, when he sold out 

 and purchased his present farm, on which 

 he has since lived. By his first marriage 

 there were five children : Frank, a resi- 

 dent of Doylestown; George, who is living 

 in Detroit, Michigan ; Florence, the wife 

 of Howard Rose, of Lambertsville ; Rolin, 

 of Churchill ; and Mabel, who resides with 

 her aunt,- Mrs. A. A. Stover, in Doylestown. 

 On the 23d of June, 1899, Mr. Slotter was 

 married to Miss Elizabeth Cadwallader, a 

 daughter of Franklin and Rc-^chel (Slack) 

 Cadwallader, of Solebury township. They 

 have one child, Sara. 



Mr. Slotter is a Republican in his poli- 

 tical views, and belongs to the Reformed 

 church, while his wife is a member of the 

 Friends' meeting. He is one of the well 



