Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Allebach, D. Melvin December 30, 1869 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

  D. MELVIN ALLEBACH, a prominent farmer of Worcester 
township, was born in Skippack township, December 30, 1869. 
He attended the common schools until he was seventeen years 
of age, when he became a clerk in the general merchandise 
store of J. F. Bean, at Creamery, remaining there for three 
years. He then was employed as a clerk by A. F. Scheetz, of 
Doylestown, for two years, and by J. S. Geller, of Lansdale, 
for seven years. At the end of that time he bought his farm 
in Worcester township, which consists of nineteen and 
one-half acres, and where he now lives. He has a good dairy 
and is a successful farmer. He and his wife are members of 
the Schwenkfelder church.

  In 1893 D. Melvin Allebach married Alice, daughter of 
Mahlon H. and Lydia K. Meschter Cassel. She was born July, 
12, 1871, and had three sisters, as follows: Minnie M.  born 
November 27, 1863, married M. B. Benner; Flora, born March 
26, 1870, married S. S. Yeager; and Martha, born May 8, 
1873, is deceased.

  The children of D. Melvin and Alice Cassel Allebach are: 
Iva, born September 29, 1894, attending the Metz school; 
Claude, born August 22, 1896, attending school; and Harold, 
born November 1, 1901. Mrs. Alice Allebach died April 7, 
1902. D. Melvin Allebach married for his second wife Susan 
Kriebel, May 21, 1904. Mr. Allebach is a Republican but not 
an office seeker.

  David H. Allebach (father) married Sarah S. Kulp, and they 
had five children: H. Wilson Allebach married Minerva, 
daughter of William Gerges, of Lansdale, and resides at 
North Wales, having previously been a clerk at 
Lederachsville. They have three children. Maggie Allebach is 
deceased. Esther married Sylvanus Clemens, a farmer in 
Hatfield, and they have three children. Phares is deceased. 
D. Melvin is the youngest.

  Henry M. Kulp maternal grandfather had six children, two 
deceased: Mary Ann, who married Peter B. Clymer, a grocer at 
No. 532 Susquehanna avenue. Sarah S. (mother); Margaret 
Jane, wife of Benjamin W. Markley, of Towamencin, who is a 
farmer by occupation, and they have four children; Sadie, 
wife of Professor H. G. Landis, principal of the Lansdale 
high school, and they have had three children, of whom two 
are deceased; Ella May, wife of Frank Landis, of Worcester 
township, a farmer by occupation, and they have one child; 
Verna, who married Howard Ruth, of Towamencin township, a 
farmer by occupation and they have one child; and Jennie, 
unmarried, attending the West Chester school. David G. 
Allebach grandfather was born in Montgomery county in 1801, 
and died in 1888. He was a farmer.

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