Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Davidheiser, Milton R. December 6, 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

  MILTON R. DAVIDHEISER, of the firm of Davidheiser & Wiand, 
contractors and builders of Pottstown, was born in Upper 
Pottsgrove township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, 
December 6, 1851. He is the son of Henry and Sarah (Reigner) 
Davidheiser.

  Henry Davidheiser (father) was born in Montgomery county, 
and spent his life in farming in Upper Pottsgrove township, 
where he owned a fine farm of 160 acres. He died at the age 
of seventy years. His wife survived him ten years, and at 
the time of her death was seventy-one years old. He was a 
Lutheran in religious faith, and she was of the Reformed 
church.

  They had eight children who grew to maturity, six sons and 
two daughters, four now living. They are: Ephraim, Reuben, 
Mary Ann, wife of Henry Wise, Milton R.

  Henry Davidheiser (grandfather) was a farmer and died in 
1852, being advanced in years. He had nine children. Joseph 
Reigner (maternal grandfather) lived in Upper Pottsgrove 
township, where he died at an advanced age. He was a farmer. 
His wife was Rosanna Reigner, and they had three sons.

  Milton R. Davidheiser was reared on his father's farm, and 
lived with his parents until he married. He received his 
early education in the district schools, and later attended 
the Hill school at Pottstown. After leaving school he 
entered on the occupation of teaching, and remained thus 
engaged for sixteen terms, working at the carpenter trade in 
the summer season, and teaching in winter.

  On October 10, 1874, he married Miss Anna E. Linderman, 
daughter of Peter and Sarah (Egolf) Linderman. They have had 
no children. Mr. and Mrs. Davidheiser are members of 
Emmanuel Lutheran church, of Pottstown.  Mr. Davidheiser is 
a church trustee and a member of the church council, and is 
also the present church treasurer, and a teacher in the 
Sunday school connected with it. Politically he is a 
Democrat. He has never sought or held public office, he has 
served of the borough school board for fifteen years, being 
its president for a number of years. Mr. Davidheiser and his 
brother Reuben own a brickyard at Stowe, a short distance 
above Pottstown. He built a beautiful home in which he 
resides at 364 Fork street, in 1893-4. He also owns a number 
of other properties in Pottstown.

  Mrs. Davidheiser's parents were natives of Montgomery 
county. They had two children. The father died in 1900, the 
mother is still living. He was a school director and a 
prominent man in his community, having been a teacher in his 
younger life. Mrs. Davidheiser's grandfather was Aaron 
Lindeman. He lived on Crooked Hill, in the vicinity of 
Pottstown. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and died at 
the age of eighty-five years, and was buried in Limerick.

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