Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Atherholt, Aaron D.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Haycock Township


AARON D. ATHERHOLT tanner, P.O. Tohickon, was born in 
Haycock township in 1843.  David Atherholt was a tanner and 
lived to be 86 years old.  When a young man he came to 
Haycock township and purchased forty-three acres of land, 
whereupon he erected a stone tannery and during the 
remainder of his life he carried on the tanning business.  
He married a Fulmer, to whom seven children were born, five 
sons and two daughters.  Joseph was the oldest.  He was born 
on the farm and at an early age learned the trade of his 
father, which he followed up to his death.  He married 
Catherine Dieterly, a daughter of Michael Dieterly, of Bucks 
county.  Three sons and four daughters were born to this 
union.  Aaron D. was the sixth child.  He attended public 
school till he was 16 years old, when he left school and 
learned the trade of his father, which he has carried on at 
the same place ever since, also superintending the farm of 
forty-three acres purchased by his grandfather.  In 1865 he 
was married to Emma F. Strawn.  He has three children:  
Lavinia, Emma and Wilson.  Mr. Atherholt is one of the most 
progressive men in his township.  In politics he is a 
republican.  The family are members of the German Reformed 
church.