Peter LOBACH

Father: Peter LOBACH
Mother: Gerdraut MEY

Family 1:

Family 2: Helena PALLIO
  1. Andrew LOBACH 
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 _Peter LOBACH _|
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|_Gerdraut MEY _|
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From Notes and Queries, Historical, Biographical and Genealogical, relating chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania, Edited by William Henry Egle, Annual Volume 1900, article "Two Pennsylvania-German Families, by A. Stapelton, pp 187-189: "With the Schwenkfelder colony, there arrived in Philadelphia, in 1734, in the ship 'St. Andrew,' Wilhelmus and Degenhart Pott, and Peter Lobach, the latter a minor. Wilhelmus Pott was the step-father of Lobach. They were from Holland and from highly respectable antecedents. * * * Upon their arrival in Pennsylvania, they settled on a branch of the Manatawny creek in Rockland township, Berks county, where their lands adjoined that of Johannes Keim, who is supposed to have come to the valle prior to 1700. Peter Lobach was fourteen years of age when he arrived in the Province. In 1746 his step-father conveyed to him a portion of the estate, and on which the village of Lobachsville was built, which with all its buildings and industries remained in the Lobach family until its breaking up in 1885, by the death of David Lobach, Esq. The Pott and Lobach families were very active and enterprising people. John Pott, a son of Wilhelmus the immigrant, bought extensive tractsof land where Pottsville now is. He erected large ironworks, and founded the city which perpetuates the family name. It is also claimed that he was the first to utilize anthracite coal in that region, and opened a market for the same. Recurring again to young Lobach, we find that soon after he acquired his land he erected in 1748 a fulling mill and saw-mill. At this time he also imported from England machinery for finishing woolen goods. A dye house was also built this same year, and the manufacture of woolen goods was carried on until 1824. To all these industries were added a chair factory an d turning mill. A stone hotel and post-office followed. All as stated remained in the hands of the family. In 1850 Samuel Lobach, a grandson, who had succeeded to the estate, secured the plate of Scull's map of Philadelphia, made in 1750, and published an edition w hich is now quite rare. It seems surprising that families so important in Provinical days as the Pott and Lboach families should die out so utterly in the locality of its first settlement and activities. Few if any descendants are now found in that region. * * * the Lobachs were not only active in business, but were far in advance of their surroundings in general intelligence." He is buried in the Lobach family plot in the cemetery adjoining St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Lobachsville, PA.

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Lenard ELLEMAKER

Father: Lenard ELLAMAKER
Mother: Annie Margaret HAMBURGER

Family 1: Elizabeth BAKER
  1. Susanna ELLEMAKER 
                             _Elias ELLAMAKER _
 _Lenard ELLAMAKER _________|
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|_Annie Margaret HAMBURGER _|
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Baker Becker chart and records of Fern Robinson

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