Nathan Laudenslager

History of the Counties of Lehigh and Carbon, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

NATHAN LAUDENSLAGER.

George H. Laudenslager, the grandfather of Nathan, emigrated from Germany about the year 1776, and settled in Macungie township, then Northampton County, where he followed the weaver’s craft. He married Catherine Agel, and had four sons and two daughters. His son, Henry, was born Oct. 28, 1790, in the present Lehigh County, his life having been chiefly spent in Macungie township and Allentown, to which city he removed in 1831. Here his death occurred in 1871. He married Lydia Hamman, of the same township, to whom were born children,--Nathan, Catherine, Susan, Sally, Henry, Charles, and Elizabeth. Nathan was born July 5, 1814, in Macungie township, where his youth until his fifteenth year was spent. He then removed to Bethlehem and became an apprentice to the trade of a tinsmith, which was continued in Allentown until 1838, when he sold his business and purchased a half-interest in the Allentown Gas-Light Company, meanwhile manufacturing and supplying the city with gas. Under his management the works were enlarged, and the property greatly improved. In 1871 the interest purchased by him was sold for ten times its original cost, and Mr. Laudenslager retired from active business, though still identified with the Catasauqua National Bank as a director. He was married in July, 1834, to Miss Rebecca, daughter of Abram Horn, of Allentown, to whom were born children,--George H., William A., Charles L., Mary, Eliza (Mrs. George Seislove), and Sally (Mrs. Charles H. Edwards). Mr. Laudenslager is in politics a Democrat, but has aspired to no office other than that of water commissioner, which he held for four successive years. He is a member of the German Reformed Church, as was also his wife, whose death occurred June 3, 1883. He is an active Odd-Fellow, member of Allen Lodge, No. 71, of I. O. O. F., and of Union Encampment, No. 12, of which he has been for thirty-three years treasurer.

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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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