Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Davidheiser, William W. May 16, 1851 - 
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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

  WILLIAM W. DAVIDHEISER, treasurer of the Manatawny 
Knitting Company, of
Pottstown, was born in Amity township, 
Berks county, Pennsylvania, May 10,
1851. He is the son of 
John and Sarah (Weasner) Davidheiser, both born in 

Pennsylvania.

  John Davidheiser (father) was a miller and later a farmer 
in
Berks county, Pennsylvania, living to the age of 
sixty-seven years, seven
months, and fourteen days. He died 
in 1900. His wife died in 1894, aged sixty-
three years. Both 
he and his wife were Lutherans, and in politics he was a 

Democrat. They had three children: William W.; Harriet, wife 
of Luther Fisher,
of Boyertown; and Jacob, of Pottstown.

  George Davidheiser (grandfather) was
also born in 
Pennsylvania, and spent the greater part of his life in 
Berks
county. He died at the age of sixty-seven years, 
leaving a large family.


 Jacob Weasner (maternal grandfather) was also a native of 
Pennsylvania and
lived in Berks county. He died many years 
ago at the age of seventy nears. By
occupation he was a 
farmer. He married Mary Romich and they had six children. 

The Weasner family is of German origin.

  William W. Davidheiser was reared on
his father's farm in 
Berks county and attended the district schools in the 

vicinity of his home. He began life on a farm of two hundred 
and fourteen acres
in Amity township, and remained on this 
farm, which belongs to the estate,
until 1878. On removing 
from Amity township, he went to Greshville, and
purchased a 
farm of two hundred and fourteen acres and seventy acres 

adjoining. He also owns this at the present time. He lived 
at Greshville until
1901, at which time he went to 
Pottstown, where he now lives. 

  He owns a
beautiful home at the corner of Third and 
Johnson streets. He also is the owner
of four houses in 
Boyertown and he has an interest in the Manatawny Knitting 

Mills of Pottstown, of which he is treasurer.

  January 1, 1877, William W.
Davidheiser married Miss 
Matilda Bahr, daughter of Jacob and Kate (Bliem) Bahr.
They 
had two children: Minerva, and one who died in infancy. 
Minerva married
Daniel R. Swaively and they reside in 
Amityville. They had three children, two
of whom are now 
living: Leon and Stella. Mrs. Matilda (Bahr) Davidheiser 
died
in 1880, when she was twenty-six years old. She was a 
member of the Lutheran
church.

  November 26, 1882, William W. Davidheiser married Miss 
Melinda
Moyer, daughter of John and Maria (Moyer) Moyer. Mr. 
Davidheiser and wife
belong to the Lutheran church at 
Boyertown. John Davidheiser, son of William W.
and Melinda 
(Moyer) Davidheiser, married Miss Katie A. Turner, of 
Boyertown,
Pennsylvania. They have one child, William 
Warren. John is a clerk for the
Manatawny Knitting Company. 
The wife of John Davidheiser is the daughter of
William and 
Kate (Arman) Turner. William Turner was a hotel-keeper and 
now
lives on a small farm.

  Mr. Davidheiser is a Democrat in politics and was a
school 
director in Douglass township, Berks county. He is a 
stockholder in the
Reading National Bank, and also in the 
Security Company at Reading, and in a
canning factory at 
Boyerstown. He is also interested in the stonecrushing 

business in Douglas township, Berks county.

  Mrs. Davidheiser's parents were
born in Berks county. John 
Moyer was a farmer and died in 1863, at about
thirty-six 
years of age. His wife died in 1890 at the age of fifty-six. 
They
had six children, as follows: Amanda, wife of Henry 
Romich of Boyertown;
Melinda, wife of Mr. Davidheiser; 
William, of Reading; Katie, wife of Henry
Trout, of 
Pottstown; Augustus, of Boyertown; and Ellen, wife of Jacob 

Davidheiser.

  John Moyer, grandfather of Mrs. Melinda (Moyer) 
Davidheiser,
was born in Pennsylvania and was a farmer. His 
wife was Catherine Dierolf, who
lived to be ninety-three 
years of age. He died well advanced in years. They had
three 
children.

  The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Davidheiser, Frederick 

Moser, was a native of Pennsylvania. His wife was Dena 
Weand. He was more than
seventy years of age at the time of 
his death. She died before him. They had
six children. The 
father of Frederick Moser was Franz Moser, who emigrated 

from Germany and settled in Berks county.

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