Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Crouthamel, Reuben B.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Bedminster Township

REUBEN B. CROUTHAMEL merchant, P.O. Hagersville, is a 
grandson of Jacob Crouthamel, whose father came from 
Germany, and who was born in Bedminster in 1787, and died 
there in 1883.  His son, Enos, was the father of Reuben B. 
and was born in Franconia, Montgomery county, where his 
parents lived a short time, in 1807.  He died in 1886, aged 
78.  He learned the trade of a wheelwright and worked at it 
in this township, where he also owned a farm not far from 
the Presbyterian church, on which he lived for forty-two 
years preceding his death.  He was a prominent member of the 
Tohickon Lutheran church, of which he was both deacon and 
elder, and he deservedly stood high in the community.  His 
wife as Mary Ann, daughter of Daniel Bartholomew, who was 
born in Haycock, and is now about 80 years of age.  Their 
children were:  Sarah, wife of Samuel K. Althouse, of this 
township; William, living in Doylestown; Daniel B., a 
merchant in this township; Mary, wife of A. D. Stever, of 
Buckingham township; Jacob, who keeps a hotel at 
Pipersville; and  Reuben B., who was the oldest of the 
family, and was born in Tinicum December 17, 1834.  At the 
age of 19, he went into the store of Levi O. Mickley, at 
Church Hill, in Rockhill township.  A year and a half later 
he went into another store there where he remained for two 
years, then was at Keller's Church a year, when he returned 
to Church Hill, and ten months later (in 1859) bought out 
his employer, Reading C. Haefler.  In 1874 he sold out and 
came to his present location at Hagersville.  November 17, 
1861, he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Shive. 
 She was born February 11, 1841.  They have seven children:  
Mary S., wife of Philip S. Cressman, hotel-keeper at 
Perkasie; Lizzie S., wife of Philip Umfried, of the Cross 
Keys hotel; Abbie, Erwin, Ella Wister, Stella, and Sallie 
Irene at home.  All the family except the younger ones are 
members of the Tohickon Lutheran church, of which he is an 
elder.