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Revised
September 6, 2010
This
begins with the immigrant Conrad
Waltman
(1715-1796), who came to
America aboard the Davy
in 1738 and settled in the area around
Kreidersville, Pennsylvania, about ten miles north of
Allentown. This is presented in three chapters:
Part I focuses on Conrad Waltman himself and the genealogical debate over whether he was the man named "Conrad Waltman" who was a member of a Flying Camp unit that participated in the Battle of Fort Washington on November 16, 1776. This part includes a critique of a book relied upon by many researchers, The House of Waltman, by Lora S. LaMance. Part II focuses on the 13, 14, or 15 estimated children of Conrad, with special attention to his son Valentine Waltman (1732?-1810?), who lived near Schoenersville, Pennsylvania, and on Valentine's son, Conrad Waltman (1759-1785), here called "Conrad Waltman, Junior," who died at the age of 26 but may have been the Conrad who participated in the Revolution (and not his grandfather). Part III focuses on Peter Waltman (1779-1836), the son of Conrad Junior, who lived near Allentown. It includes attention to Peter's children, particularly Joseph Waltman (1806-1898), who moved to Easton, Pennsylvania, and was a noted carpenter and bridge-builder. It also includes special treatment and photographs of the families of two of the sons of Joseph Waltman, Jacob Franklin Waltman (1835-1923) and Samuel Waltman (1832-1911). Also provided are details of the Taylor family of Easton, which was joined to the Waltmans through the marriage of Sabina Taylor and Samuel Waltman, and the Rutman family of Easton, which joined to the Waltmans through the marriage of Minerva Rutman and Dr. Charles Waltman. This
section focuses on Johann
Georg Friedrich Boyer (1718-1804), who
traveled from Europe to America aboard the Nancy in 1752 and
settled in the area around Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania. Known as
Frederick or Friedrich, he was the founder of a large family with many
descendants. Among them was the noted gunsmith David Boyer
(1806-1883),
of Orwigsburg. A detailed chronology of the
family
is provided, showing the descendants of Johann Georg Friedrich Boyer in
a direct line down to Lewis Elmer Boyer (1869-1948) of Easton,
Pennsylvania, and all of his descendants.
This section contains discussion of the work of the Association of American Boyers, which has published histories of the Boyer family across the United States since 1915. This
section focuses on two of the descendants of the Orwigsburg
Boyers, who moved to Easton, Pennsylvania, in the mid-1800s.
This includes George
B. Boyer
(1839-1907), and his son Lewis
Elmer Boyer
(1869-1948), who married Henrietta
Waltman (1874-1948)
and linked the large Boyer and Waltman families. The
section also includes Lew Boyer's descendants down to the present day.
Genealogical charts are provided for Lew and each of his children. Also, a detailed chronology of the family, limited to basic genealogical data, is provided, running from the ancestors of Lewis Elmer Boyer, back to 1718, to his descendants, as recent as 2009. A shorter chronology is also provided. Also included, NEW, is a photo gallery showing the Boyers of Easton from 1880 to 2009. This
section deals with nine interrelated families (see the list below),
mostly originating in
Western Pennsylvania. The section focuses on Clarence
Ray
Long
(1889-1935), a muckraking journalist,
prolific writer
and liberal intellectual who lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It
provides
detail on the lives of his descendants and his ancestors, with
additional
detail on family members interlinked through marriage.
The major families covered here are these: Parker
family of Parker’s Landing, Pennsylvania
Vanderford family of the Eastern Shore of Maryland Long families of western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Tulsa Samuel W. Long (1833-1865) of Ohio Samuel Parker Long (1860-1926) of Rangoon, Burma, and Naples NY Haniel Clark Long (1888-1956) of Pittsburgh and Santa Fe
William George Long
(1865-1926) of Tulsa, OklahomaJames Parker Long (1889-1970) of Naples NY Donald Oldham Long (1892-1957) of Tulsa, Oklahoma Wendell Partridge Long (1894-1982) of Naples NY Clarence Ray Long (1889-1935) of Tulsa, Oklahoma William Charles Long
(1916-1988) of Buellton, California
Thompson
family of Western PennsylvaniaVallance McLaughlin Long (1917-1975) of Tulsa and Chicago John Vanderford Long (1920-2004) of Washington DC Rachel Long Misey (1924-2004) of Washington DC Eckhardt family of Western Pennsylvania McLaughlin family of Western Pennsylvania, New York and West Virginia McClurg family of Beaver County, Pennsylvania Ralston family of Beaver County, Pennsylvania Miscy / Misey family of Milwaukee, Wisconsin This
section focuses on ancestors of Dorothy
Buss Boyer
(1914-1987),
who married S.
David Boyer
(1911-2006), both of Easton,
Pennsylvania. These
begin with the heads of four intertwined Northampton County families:
William I.
Buss (1825-1891), of Farmersville
George William Reyer / Royer (1806-1893), of Cherryville William Lee (1825-1860?), born in Ireland, who lived briefly in Massachusetts, and his wife, Bridget
McNiff Lee McGuire (1825-1893), also born in
Ireland, who lived in Easton
This
section focuses on the families of George
Jackson,
born in
Workington, Cumberland, about 1793, and Francis
James
(1793-1865), born
in Birkby, Cumberland. George's son Edward Jackson
(1813-1857) married Agnes James (1814-1889), daughter of Francis James,
and they lived in Bridekirk. Their descendants were related by marriage
to the Wilkinson, Barton
and Hayes
families of Lancashire.
Among those descendants, William Jackson (1879-1944) and Sarah Wilkinson Jackson (1879-1942) traveled to America from England in 1923 and 1924 and settled in the area around Easton, Pennsylvania, and Phillipsburg, New Jersey. Descendants include Anna Jackson (1912-2006), daughter of Bill and Sarah, who married L. Arthur Boyer (1909-1985), of Easton, Pennsylvania, and her brother, John E. Jackson (1923-2000), of Phillipsburg, who later moved to California and Washington State. See these pages: Jackson Family of Cumberland
Francis James Family of Cumberland Hayes Family of Leigh, Lancashire Wilkinson Family of Leigh, Lancashire The Casson Family of Ulpha, Cumberland Bill and Sarah Jackson Family of Phillipsburg, New Jersey Anna Jackson Boyer Family of Pennsylvania John Jackson Family of California and Washington State Genealogical
charts on most of these family groups.
Detailed chronology of the ancestors and descendants of Lewis Elmer Boyer Photo Gallery of the Boyers of Easton |