History of Bucks County

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THE CROUTHAMEL FAMILY.

 

            The pioneer ancestor of the Crouthamel family of Bucks county was Andreas Krauthamel, who emigrated from Germany in the ship "Edinburg," arriving in Philadelphia, on September 30, 1754, and settled in Bucks County Pennsylvania.  Henry Crouthamel, son of Andreas, accompanied his father from Germany when a lad, and on arriving at manhood settled on a tract of land in Bedminster township, Bucks county, which he subsequently purchased of William Allen, Esq. He died in 1816 leaving a widow Catharine and nine children: Andrew; Catharine, wife of Jacob Nace; John; Henry; George; Elizabeth, wife of Michael Rush; Abraham; Jacob and Samuel.

            George Crouthamel, fourth son of Henry, was born in Bedminster township, and spent his whole life there, dying in 1855. He maried a Rush, and reared a family of five children: Catharine, Nancy, Tobias, Henry and Peter. He was a farmer and lived on a portion of the old homestead in Bedminster, purchasing later the Jacob Yost farm near Keller's Church.

Peter R. Crouthamel, youngest son of George, was born in Bedminster township in the year 1812. He was reared on his father's farm, and early in life learned the trade of a shoemaker, but not taking kindly to an indoor life, learned later the trade of a carpenter, which he followed in Bedminster for twenty-five years, in connnection with the conduct of a small farm conveyed to him by his father in 1834, upon which he lived until 1841, when he purchased the estate of his father-in-law Frederick Ott, a farm of fifty acres. In 1856 he sold his Bedminster farm and purchased one in Hilltown township, upon which he lived until 1865, when he sold out and removed to Illinois, where he resided for one year, and then removed to Boone county, Iowa, where he purchased a farm on which he resided until his death in 1892, aged seventy-eight years, six months and two days. He married Catharine Ott, daughter of Frederick and Eve Ott, of Bedminster, and granddaughter of Peter and Catharine Ott, the former of whom, as well as his father, Henry Ott, was a soldier in the Reevoluntionary war. Peter R. and Catharine (Ott) Crouthamel were the parents of ten children: Jonas, who married Elizabeth Yost, and reared a family of six children: Isaac, who married (first) Eliza Loux, who bore him four children and, (second)Sarah Winner, by whom he had five children; Eli, who married Barbara Sherm, and has a family of four children; William, who removed to Iowa with his parents, married and reared a family: Noah O., of Perkasie, ex-recorder of deeds of Bucks county, a sketch of whom follows: Philean, who died in Illinois; Ephiah died in Iowa; Mary, who died in Hilltown, Bucks county, at the age of twelve years; Titus and George, who died in childhood.

 

            NOAH O. CROUTHAMEL. Among the successful business men of South Perkasie is Noah O. Crouthamel, cigar manufacturer. He was born in Bedminster township, Bucks County, October 12, 1841, son of Peter R. and Catharine (Ott) Crouthamel.

            Noah O. Crouthamel was reared and educated in Bedminster township. Early in life he learned the carpenter trade with his father, and followed that vocation for five years. In 1865 he went to the city of Philadelphia, where he filled the position of a clerk in a cigar store for one year. In 1866, he started the manufacture of cigars in Philadelphia. In 1875 he removed to what is now South Perkasie, where he purchased a property which he still owns, and started a cigar factory there. In 1898 he built himself a fine residence on Market Street, Perkasie, where he still resides, and has a cigar factory on Arch Street, Perkasie. In politics Mr. Crouthamel is a Republican, and has always taken a lively interest in the councils of his party, and has served as delegate to district, congessional and state conventions at different periods. In the fall of 1892 he was elected to the office of Recorder of Deeds of Bucks county, and filled that office with ability for three years. He was census emunerator for his district in 1890. He has always taken an  active part in the affairs of his town and neighborhood. He is a director of the Quakertown Trust Company. Religiously, he is a member of the Evangelical Church of Perkasie. He is affiliated with Perkasie Lodge, No 671, I.O.O.F., and Perkasie Council, No. 359, O. U. A. M.

            Mr. Crouthamel married in 1865 Rebecca Freed, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Cuffel) Freed, and they have been the parents of eight children, viz.: Mary Catharine, born January 5, 1867, maried Horace H. Texter, of Hatfield and has five children - Naomi, Florence, Susa R., Laura C. and Sarah; Sallie, born April 24, 1868, and Maurice, born July 11, 1870, both deceased: Laura, born July 29, 1872, married Isaac Rosenberger, who died October 13, 1896, leaving one child, Esther Rebecca: Joseph born August 16, 1874, maried Tillie Deibert, and has one child, May: Albert, born October 16, 1876, married Theresa Kresge, and has one son Ralph: Forest, born June 1, 1880, married Edna Bowen: Arthur, born April 4, 1882, died in infancy.