Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Asure, Edward October 31, 1840 - 
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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

EDWARD ASURE, one of the best known farmers of Montgomery 
township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, was born in Bucks 
county, October 31, 1840. He is the son of Abraham and Tacy 
(Stradling) Asure, both natives of Bucks county.

Abraham Asure (father) spent the early portion of his life 
in Bucks county, but about 1860 removed to Montgomery 
township, where he engaged in farming, and passed the 
remainder of his life. He married Tacy Stradling, the couple 
having the following children: William, residing at Edge 
Hill; Edward, subject of this sketch; Anna A., widow of 
William Bender, residing in Philadelphia; Susanna, widow of 
Chalkley Kenderdine; George and Thomas, both residing in 
Jenkintown. Mr. and Mrs. Asure affiliated with the Society 
of Friends.

Edward Asure acquired his education in the public schools of 
the vicinity in which the family resided in Bucks county. 
From early boyhood he has been engaged in farming pursuits, 
in which he has been successful. He has been a farmer for 
more than forty years in Montgomery township. He has resided 
on the farm of sixty-two acres on which he now lives for 
more than thirty years. In politics he is an active 
Republican, being on many occasions a delegate to county 
conventions of the party, and has taken a very prominent 
part in their deliberations, being an efficient party 
worker. He has served as township auditor and as assessor, 
although the district has always been Democratic. He is a 
man of the highest integrity, stands well in the community 
in which he lives, enjoying the confidence of his neighbors.

Mr. Asure married Amanda, who died in 1866, daughter of 
Frederick Geisel, in old resident of the vicinity, of German 
descent. No children were born of this marriage. Mrs. Asure 
was a member of the Hilltown Lutheran church.

Amanda Geisel (Mrs. Edward Asure) was a daughter of 
Frederick and Frederica (Speck) Geisel, and was born at 
Hilltown, Bucks county, November 15, 1815. Frederick and 
Frederica (Speck) Geisel were both natives of Germany, born 
in the province of Wurtemberg. Frederick Geisel came to 
America in early manhood, locating in Philadelphia, where he 
worked at butchering.Later he removed to Line Lexington, 
Bucks county, where he purchased a farm and for a number of 
years was engaged in agricultural pursuits; he subsequently 
sold that farm and purchased a farm in Montgomery township, 
on which he resided for many years. The declining years of 
his life were spent with his son-in-law, Jacob Ulmer, at 
whose residence he died May 5, 1888.
 
The children born to him and his wife are as follows: 
Caroline, wife of Henry Zollar, residing at Line Lexington; 
Christian, died from the effects of a wound received while 
serving in defense of his country in 1864; Hannah, deceased, 
wife of Jacob Ulmer; Annie, widow of George Swallow; Amanda 
(Mrs. Asure); Louisa, deceased wife of Sebastian Ebinger; 
William J., married Martha Madee, residing in the west; 
Frederick, married Morgan Morgan, resides in West Chester, 
Pennsylvania; Franklin P., deceased, married May Bailey: 
Wilhelmina, wife of Ellwood Land, resides at Pottstown.

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