Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Danenhower, Lewis W.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Southampton Township


   LEWIS W. DANENHOWER dealer in coal, lumber, feed, etc., 
P.O. Southampton, was born in Abington township, Montgomery 
county, this state, November 25, 1846.  His 
great-grandparents were John Danenhower and Catharine 
Righter.  His grandparents, John and Elizabeth Danenhower, 
had seven children:  George, Charles, Jacob, John, Rex, Ann 
Eliza and Abram.   John, the father of Lewis W., married in 
January, 1842, Mary, daughter of Jonathan Shaw, and engaged 
in farming in Abington township, Montgomery county.  They 
had five children: Elizabeth, born December 13, 1843, died 
December 31, 1879; Rachel, deceased; Lewis W., Lottie S. and 
Charles, born October 20, 1852, died November 6, 1876.   
Mrs. Danenhower and her daughter, Lottie, reside in 
Jenkintown.  Lewis W. early in life engaged in farming, and 
March 22, 1874, he embarked in the coal and lumber business 
at Jenkintown, with Thomas Nicholson.   After remaining 
there one year he removed to Breadysville station and 
followed the same business there for two years.  He then 
engaged in farming for four years, and in 1881 rented the 
coal yard on the Philadelphia and New York railroad, at 
Southampton, where he carried on the coal, lumber, feed and 
fertilizer business ever since.  In the spring of 1887 he 
purchased the yard.  Mr. Danenhower started in life without 
capital, and by his own unaided efforts has raised himself 
to his present position.  December 23, 1874, he was married 
to Ella S. Mann.   They have three children:  J. Albert, 
born March 7, 1876; Lewis S., born October 1, 1883; and R. 
Parket, born October 14, 1885.   Mrs. Danenhower was born in 
Moreland township, Montgomery county, April 22, 1853, and is 
a daughter of Albert R. and Rebecca J. Mann.   Her paternal 
grandfather, Joel K. Mann, was a prominent democrat, and 
represented Montgomery county both in the state legislature 
and in congress.  He was a grandson of Captain John Mann, of 
the revolution, and of Scotch-Irish descent.  He was born 
August 1, 1781, and died August 28, 1857.  He married Sarah 
Shelmire and had seven children.  She was born March 1, 
1786, and died May 1, 1856.  Albert R. Mann was born in 
Cheltenham, Montgomery county, March 17, 1822, and was 
married February 18, 1852.  His wife was born June 2, 1824, 
and was the daughter of Daniel S. and Ann W. (Johnson) 
Shelmire; the former was born January 29, 1795, died January 
5, 1861, and the latter born January 11, 1801, and died 
December 10, 1886.  They had eleven children.   Albert R. 
Mann is a farmer and prominent democrat of Montgomery 
county, and elder in the Presbyterian church of Abington, 
and a strictly temperate man.  He has had seven children:  
Ella S., Sallie E., Anna R., Albert J., Kate R., Lottie B., 
and Mary S.   Sallie E. married George Hamel, and Anna R. 
married Frank S. Bockius.