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Title: Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921. mn Green, Edgar Moore. mn Ettinger, George Taylor, 1860- mn Lewis Publishing co., Chicago
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Publisher: New York Chicago : Lewis Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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ania, traceshis descent from German ancestors, one of whomemigrated to the new world at a period not stated,but probably at some time in the eighteenth cen-tury. He made a home for himself in Pennsyl-vania, where his descendants still reside. John Schweitzer (i) the first ancestor of whom we have any authentic record, was born August 15,1755, and married Mary Freeman, who was born December 30, 1762. Their children were: 1. Catharine, who was born March 23, 1782,died April 22, 1861 ; she married John Oberly,born December 2, 1781, died August 23, 1833;they were parents of the following children: a.Charles, who married Anna Boyer, and was thefather of Rebecca; John T., William Owen,Charles and Catherine Oberly ; b. Owen Oberly;c. John S. Oberly; d. Polly Oberly; f. RobertOberly. 2. Rebecca, born August 19, 1799, died January 3, 1882; married, April 19, 1818, Anthony Oberly, born March 11, 1796, died June 8, 1878.Thev had four children: William, Sarah Ann, o in >D O M > ■z ina n 00 -
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Image: Homestead of Robert T. Schweitzer, Butztown, PA. Built by George Butz in 1800. GENEALOGICAL AND PERSONAL MEMOIRS. 3^^S born Novcniljcr 12, 1821, who became tlic wife of Samuel Weaver, and had three children ; Eliza-beth, born October ly, 1824, who married William Reigle, and was the mother of one child ;Mary, who was the wife of Joseph Riegle, and had one child. 3. Mary Ann who married John Shinier ofShimersvillc, and was the mother of the follow-ing children : Irwin, who married Miss Hoffman ;Milton, who married Miss Bixler; William,James, Jacob, Robert, Sarah, and Mary. 4. (Not known) who married John Shimer,of New Jersey, and had eight children, four ofwhom were named respectively: Robert, John, William, and Lyda. 5. John, mentioned at length hereinafter. 6. Sarah, who became the wife of Joseph B.Jones, and had a son John, and a daughter Sarah,who married John Lerch (sketch elsewhere) andhad one child. 7. Isaac, born July 11, 1792, married Chris-tianna Dech; children—John Dech Schweitzer,George Henry Schweitzer, and Elizabeth, married Levi Hutcheon. John Schwe

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