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History of the Counties of Lehigh
and Carbon, in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania
MARTIN KEMMERER.
Mr.
Kemmerer is both on the paternal and maternal side of German descent,
the families having been very early settlers in the State and county. His grandfather, Henry Kemmerer, resided in Salisbury
township, where he cultivated a farm. His
children were Jacob, George, John, Adam, Henry, Martin, and three
daughters. Martin, the youngest of these
sons, married Deborah Walter, and had children,--Maria (Mrs. Adam
Laudenschlager), Philip, Henry, David, Solomon, and Daniel. Mr. Kemmerer removed in 1821 to Upper Milford
township, where his death occurred in 1854. His
son, Martin, was born in Salisbury
township, Dec. 28, 1818, and at an early age removed to Upper Milford. Here
he enjoyed but meagre [sic] advantages of education, and until his
twentieth year found active employment on the farm of his father. He then sought a broader field of activity in
the West, and, making Ohio
his residence, engaged for a while in traffic. On
returning he was married to Miss Sarah, daughter of J. W. Bruner, of Upper Milford township, whose children are
William (deceased), Mary Ann (Mrs. Jacob M. Backenstoe, of Salisbury
township), Sarah A. (Mrs. Philip B. Kemmerer, of Illinois), Leah (Mrs.
Thomas Leidy, of Berks County), and Martin (deceased).
In 1842 Mr. Kemmerer purchased the homestead farm and
engaged for twenty-four years in its cultivation and improvement and in
the business of mining and lumbering, after which, in 1867, he removed
to Allentown,
his present residence. Here he is occupied
in the purchase and sale of real estate on a considerable scale. He is interested in many of the important
business ventures of the city, as vice-president and director of the
Second National Bank of Allentown,
director of the Lehigh Furnace, etc. In
politics he is a stanch Republican, and in 1845 was in a township
largely Democratic elected justice of the peace, and served during an
extended period of twenty years. Other
offices of minor importance have at various times been held by him. Mr. Kemmerer is in his religious faith a
Lutheran, and member of St. Michael’s Lutheran
Church of Allentown.
Page
229
History
of the Counties of Lehigh and Carbon, in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania
Alfred
Mathews and Austin N. Hungerford
J.
B. Lippincott & Co., Pennsylvania.
1884
Transcribed
by Annette Bame Peebles
The
Lehigh
County,
Pennsylvania
Biographies Project –
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~arkbios/Lehigh/index.html.
Date
of Transcription: 12 June 2007
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