Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Conver, Samuel B. December 31, 1847 - 
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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

SAMUEL B. CONVER. Jacob Conver, grandfather of Samuel L. 
Conver, the subject of this sketch, came to this country 
with a Captain Reed, during the Revolutionary war, and 
afterwards married the Captain's daughter. Among the 
children of the couple was Samuel (father). He was born is 
Hatfield township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania.

Samuel Conver was educated in the public schools. On leaving 
school he became apprenticed to the shoemaker's trade and 
later to the carpenter trade, which he followed with 
success. In politics he was a Democrat, and held many 
offices of no particular importance. He was a man whose 
counsel was wise, and was greatly valued by his neighbors. 
He married Miss Catharine Baler, and the children of the 
couple were: Margaret, William, and Samuel L.

Samuel B. Conver was born in Hatfield township, on the 
Conver homestead, December 31, 1847. He attended the schools 
of the township for a period of thirteen months.He then 
learned the carpenter trade with his father. He followed 
that occupation for some years with success, becoming a 
contractor as well, and continuing in business for nine 
years. He then engaged in the platting mill business at 
Hatfield. In 1878 he decided to engage in the undertaking 
business. After learning it he entered an embalming school 
and became proficient in that art, so much so that he is 
esteemed one of the best embalmers in the state, and his 
services are often engaged in this capacity outside of his 
own neighborhood. He has interred in all, during his more 
than a quarter of a century's service as an undertaker, over 
seven thousand bodies. 

In 1868 he married Susan Dresher, daughter of Jacob and 
Catharine (Well) Dresher, of Worcester township, Montgomery 
county, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Conver have had four 
children, as follows Reuben, Lillian, both died young; 
Jennie, married Oscar J. Fry, they having two children; and 
Samuel, who is a student at Princeton College in the law 
course.
 
Mr. Conver is a Republican in politics. He is one of the 
best known men in Montgomery county. He has held the office 
of member of the town council of Lansdale, and also that of 
assessor. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows, and also of the Masonic Order. He is a director in 
the Lansdale Cemetery Company, and is also connected with 
other corporations. He and his family attend the Lansdale 
Reformed church.

Mrs. Samuel B. Conver is of Schwenkfelder stock. The other 
children of her parents were Mary, born December 24, 1851; 
Samuel, born October 10, 1856; Jacob, born April 8, 1867; 
Reuben, born April 20, 1869, died May 4, 1869. Susanna, Mrs. 
Conver, was born September 20, 1850, Jacob Dresher 
(grandfather of Mrs. Conver) son of Abraham and Susanna 
(Seipt) Dresher, married Regina, daughter of Christopher 
Kriebel. 

Their children were: Reuben, born 1824; Susanna, 1825; Jacob 
(father) March 9, 1828; Abraham, 1830. Abraham Dresher 
(great-grandfather) was the son of Christopher and Anna 
(Kriebel) Dresher. 

He was twice married, first to Eve Schultz, they having five 
children, Daniel, Anna, Susanna, Regina and Abraham; and 
(second) married Susanna, daughter of Caspar Seipt, their 
children being George, died in infancy, and Jacob, 
grandfather of Mrs. Conver), born May 13, 1790, died March 
23, 1833. Christopher Dresher (great-great-grandfather) was 
the son of George Dresher, the immigrant, who with his wife 
Maria and three children came with the body of 
Schwenkfelders in 1734. He died March 3, 1774; and she died 
March 18, 1762. Abraham, his son, born May 14, 1730, died 
July 30, 1811, aged sixty-one years.

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