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


REUBEN K. BACHMAN P.O. Durham, was born in Williams 
township, Northampton county, this state, August 6, 1834.  
His father, David Bachman, was a son of Solomon and Annie 
Bachman, natives of Bucks county, and was married to Mary, 
daughter of George and Catherine Knecht, natives of 
Northampton county.  Reuben K. spent his early boyhood upon 
his father's farm, and received such education as was to be 
had in the farming districts during the winter months, in 
what was known as the old log school-house.  In early life 
he followed the vocation of teaching, and in riper years he 
engaged in mercantile and milling business at Durham.  He 
held neither military nor civil office until he was elected 
to the forty-sixth congress from the tenth district of 
Pennsylvania, in the year 1878, as a democrat.  He is a 
member of the Reformed church.  November 10, 1859, he was 
married to Miss Malinda E. Bachman, of Northampton county.  
They have had four children:  Howard O. and Mary I., 
deceased; and Elmer C. and D. Maynard living.