History of Beaver Springs, Penn'a and cenntennial souvenir book . e, married to A. ; Annie Matilda, married to Clymer Romig; Charlotte Mabel. Kate May and Lillian Miriam,the last three unmarried. Flizabeth Pontius is still very active and able to do some work, bothin the house and garden. She is one of the oldest citizens of Beaver Springs, having six grand-children and four great-grand-children. OlttigraH 0f Mmwx ^pringa. Brief Sketches and Portraits of Present Residents and Business Men. SAMUEL 5. BACHMAN. Samuel S. Bachman, a son of John and Eliza-beth (nee Swineford) Bachman, who em
History of Beaver Springs, Penn'a and cenntennial souvenir book . e, married to A. ; Annie Matilda, married to Clymer Romig; Charlotte Mabel. Kate May and Lillian Miriam,the last three unmarried. Flizabeth Pontius is still very active and able to do some work, bothin the house and garden. She is one of the oldest citizens of Beaver Springs, having six grand-children and four great-grand-children. OlttigraH 0f Mmwx ^pringa. Brief Sketches and Portraits of Present Residents and Business Men. SAMUEL 5. BACHMAN. Samuel S. Bachman, a son of John and Eliza-beth (nee Swineford) Bachman, who emigratedfrom Lehigh county, in the year 1823, located inSvvinefordstown, now Middleburg, then in Unioncounty. Mr. Bachman, Sr., was a miller by tradeand run the old mill located where the FranklinMills now stands. The subject began life as aclerk when about 15 years of age for SimonFrank, a Jew, who had a store in Swinefords-lown Middleburg) at that time. At the age of 17years he came to Adamsburg and clerked a yearor two for Henry Mick, who then had a store and. hotel in the old stone mansion on Water then went to Richfield, Juniata county, andcerked for Abraham Qraybill for a year and ahalf; then spent a year traveling with JohnnieWellers Flying Circus. He then settled down inmarried life; was united in marriage to MissChristina Fike, June 18, 1840. and unto them wereborn six children, five sons and one daughter asfollows: Pharus, living in Yeagertown; Irvin,(since died); Wellington, living in Plymouth,Ind.; Albert, living in Niles, Mich.; Alice M., in-termarried to Jonathan Spangler, and with whomthe subject of the sketch is now living; and Cal- vin, also dead. Irvin died in single blessedness,but Calvin left a family to mourn his loss. has fourteen grandchildren and twenty-six great grandchildren living. After his marriagehe moved to Adamsburg and worked on a farmfor his old employer, Henry Mick, for a fewyears, then at intervalsclerked for David Hoovel-
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