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History of the Counties of Lehigh
and Carbon, in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania
JOSHUA STAHLER.
Nicholas
Stahler, the grandfather of the subject of this biographical sketch,
was born in Upper Milford, Lehigh Co. (formerly Northampton County),
and married to Barbara Baer, whose children were Lohrens, Daniel,
Jacob, Elizabeth, and Magdalena. Lohrens was born April 19,
1779, in Upper Milford, where his life was spent in the pursuit of his
trade of carpenter and as a prosperous farmer. He was also for
thirty-five years a justice of the peace and surveyor. He was
united in marriage to Magdalena
Reinhard, born Aug. 12, 1789, and had children,--Joshua, Reuben, Joel,
Dan, Asor, Mary (Mrs. Charles Klein), Anna (Mrs. William Reichenbach),
Sarah (Mrs. Solomon Schantz), and Zillah (Mrs. Arah Ortt). Mr.
Stahler died Aug. 15, 1854, in his seventy-sixth year, and his wife in
her eighty-eighth year. The birth of their son, Joshua, occurred
on the 2d of October, 1814, in Dillingersville, Upper
Milford township, on the spot which had for years been the
home of his ancestors. The log school-house of the neighborhood
afforded him the earliest opportunities for education, though a habit
of reflection and close observation aided largely in fitting him for a
successful career as a business man and a public official. He
engaged in teaching for a period of eight years, and subsequently
learned the trade of blacksmith, which was followed in the immediate
vicinity of his birthplace. He was on the 17th of
December, 1837, married to Sarah, daughter of David Stahler, of the
same township, to whom were born five children, all now deceased.
Mr. Stahler pursued his trade for ten years with success, after which
it was relinquished for the less laborious calling of a merchant and
landlord, to which was also added the occupation of a farmer and the
profession of a surveyor. He was, as a Democrat, in 1844, elected
justice of the peace, and re-elected on the expiration of his
term. In 1851, on being elected register of Lehigh County,
Allentown
became his residence. He was in 1854 elected associate judge of
the county court, and filled the office for two successive terms.
He was then elected alderman of Allentown, and re-elected to the same
office. Mr. Stahler has been identified with the public interests
of the city of his residence, and a promoter of all measures tending to
its moral and material progress. In religion he was educated in
the tenets of the German Reformed Church.
Page
224-225
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: 11 June 2007
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