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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, 



where he has since resided. Mr. Trum- 

 bauer is a Republican in politics, but has 

 never aspired to public office. In mat- 

 ters of religion he accords with the 

 doctrines of the Lutheran church, being 

 a member of the Scheelz Lutheran church 

 at Spinnerstown, Milford township. 



February 25, 1897. Michael Sholl 

 Trumbauer was united in marriage to 

 Eliza Moyer, daughter of Henry Beidle 

 and Susan (Kratz) Moyer, who was born 

 March I, i860, in Bedminster township, 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Her father, 

 Henry Beidle Moyer, was born Decem- 

 ber 26, 1826, in Milford township, the 

 son of Abram and Anna (Beidle) Moyer. 

 He followed the occupation of a farmer 

 all his life. In politics he was a Whig, 

 but after the formation of the Republi- 

 can party, he joined that organization. 

 He was a member of the Lutheran 

 church. September 18, 1858, Mr. Moyer 

 married Susan Kratz, settled in Bed- 

 minster township and the following chil- 

 dren were born to them: Eliza; Mary 

 Ellen, born April 16, 1869. 



JOHN B. POORE, county treasurer of 

 Bucks county, was born in Nockamixon 

 township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, INIay 

 6, 1867, and is a son of Robert Alpheus and 

 Hannah (Bennett) Poore, both natives of 

 Upper Makefield township, Bucks county. 

 On the paternal side Mr. Poore is of Eng- 

 lish descent. 



John Poore, born in Wiltshire, England*^ 

 in 161S, settled in Newbury, Massachusetts, 

 in 1635, and became one of the prominent 

 men of that town;' filling the position of se- 

 lectman and many other positions of trust. 

 The house built by him is still standing in 

 Newburyport, and has been continuously 

 owned and occupied by his descendants to 

 the present generation. He died November 

 21, 1684, his wife Sarah and eight of his 

 thirteen children surviving him. The chil- 

 dren were: John, Hannah, wife of Elisha 

 Isley ; Henry ; Joseph ; Mary, wife of John 

 Clarke; Sarah, wife of John Sawyer; 

 Lydia, wife of Pennel Titcombe ; and Abi- 

 gail, wife of Isaac Isley. 



John Poore, son of John and Sarah, was 

 born at Newbury, Massachusetts, June 21, 

 1642, and died there February 15, 1701-2. 

 Like his father, he held many positions of 

 trust in his native town, filling successively 

 the offices of overseer of wills., selectman 

 and coiistable, and many other local offices. 

 He married, February 27, 1665, Mary Tit- 

 combe. daughter of William and Joanna 

 (Bartlett) Titcombe. who was born Febru- 

 ary 27. 1644. and they were the parents of 

 eight children, seven of whom grew to 

 maturity, viz : five daughters and two sons, 

 Jonathan and John. The latter died un- 

 married August 17, 1705. 



Jonathan Poore. sixth child and only 

 surviving son of John and Mary (Tilcomb) 



Poore, was born on the old homestead at 

 Newbury Neck, February 25, 1678, and died 

 there June 30, 1742. Fie filled many im- 

 portant positions, and, dealing extensively 

 in real estate, .he was one of the prominent 

 men of that locality. He married, August 

 18, 1703, Rebecca Hale, daughter of John 

 and Sarah (Jaques) Hale. She was born 

 February 18, 1693, and died March 16, 1760, 

 having married (second) Jonathan Jewett. 

 Jonathan and Rebecca (Hale) Poor were 

 the parents of nine children, six of whom 

 grew to mature age, two sons and four 

 daughters. The eldest son, John, born 1711, 

 died 1792, was prominent in the afifairs of 

 his native town and took an active part in 

 the war of the revolution. His wife was 

 Ann Longfellow. 



Daniel Poore, sixth child and second sur- 

 viving son of Jonathan and Rebecca (Hale) 

 Poore, was born in Newbury, Massa- 

 chusetts, March 13, 1716. On arriving at 

 years of manhood he settled at Haverhill on 

 land given to him by his father, in that part 

 of Haverhill which fell into the state of 

 New Hampshire in the readjustment of the 

 state lines in 1741, and was later incorpor- 

 ated into a district under the name of Plais- 

 tow, and in 1769 incorporated into the town 

 of Atkinson. The land on which he lived 

 was owned and occupied by his great- 

 grandson, Jeremiah T. Poor, as late as 1880. 

 Daniel Poore was an enterprising and 

 prominent man in the community, a sur- 

 veyor, officer of militia, etc. He died 

 January 9, 1792. He was twice married; 

 his first wife and the mother of his six 

 children was Anna INIerril,- born in Haver- 

 hill. March 18, 1718-19, and died July 6, 

 1781. She was a daughter of Nathaniel 

 and Ruth (Wallingford) Merrill. Her 

 father and grandfather were born in New- 

 bury, and her great-grandfather, Nathaniel 

 Merrill, was the ancestor of the now nu- 

 merous family of the name. Daniel Poore 

 married (second) February 24, 1782, Lydia 

 Bradley, who survived him but nine days. 

 The children of Daniel and Anna (Merrill) 

 Poore were":. Jonathan, Daniel, David and 

 Jeremiah, all of whom lived and died in 

 New _ Hampshire ; Merrill, who died in in- 

 fancy, and John. 



John Poore. youngest son of Daniel and 

 Anna' (Merrill) Poore, was born at Plais- 

 tow, (now Atkinson) New Hampshire, 

 July 8, 1752, and received an excellent clas- 

 sical education, graduating at Harvard Col- 

 lege, Massachusetts, in 1775, and followed 

 the profession of a teacher during the ac- 

 tive years of his life, first in his native state 

 and later in Philadelphia and Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania. He came to Philadelphia 

 after the death of his wife, and in 1787 be- 

 came the principal of a young ladies' acad- 

 emy established there in that year, being, it 

 is said, the first institution of its kind in the 

 country. His pupils were from all parts of 

 the United States, from the West Indies, 

 Nova Scotia and Canada. He had mar- 

 ried, November 2, 1777, Sarah Folsoni. bom 



