Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Bisbing, J. Maurice December 13, 1842 - 
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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

J. MAURICE BISBING. The Bisbing family are old residents of 
the vicinity of Flourtown. Jacob Bisbing, grandfather of J. 
Maurice Bisbing, was born in Springfield township, in that 
neighborhood. He was twice married, and had four children by 
each marriage. He was a farmer by occupation, and was much 
respected by the community in which he lived. He lived in 
Springfield when the British army marched through it during 
the Revolutionary war, his father's residence being visited 
by the soldiers, who took the bread from the oven in which 
it was baked, at the point of the bayonet.

Among the children of Jacob Bisbing by his first wife was 
Robert, who after reaching the age at which he could be 
placed from home was indentured to his uncle, Robert 
McCurdy, residing in the same vicinity. He was educated in 
the neighboring schools, and, on leaving school engaged in 
the occupation of farming, which he followed very 
successfully all his life. He was good business man, and was 
a valued member of his community. In politics he was a 
Democrat, and served as school director for many years. He 
felt much interest in educational progress: He married Miss 
Mary A. Heilig, of Springfield township, both being long 
deceased. 
 
Mr. and Mrs. Bisbing had the following children: Robert, 
died young; Emma L., deceased, married Thomas May Peirce, 
the founder of the celebrated Peirce's Business College, 
Philadelphia; Anna, Margaret, and J. Maurice, the subject of 
this sketch.

J. Maurice Bisbing was born in Springfield township, near 
what is now Laverock, December 13, 1842. He was educated in 
the public schools of the vicinity, and on relinquishing his 
school studies engaged in business on his own account, 
purchasing on credit, fifty-one acres from his father's 
estate. In a few years, by dint of great industry and good 
management, he paid for it. He has since made extensive 
improvements. In 1888 he erected his present home, a modern 
and commodious house, and in 1892-93 he built the additional 
farm buildings upon his tract where his son now resides. Few 
residents of this township have as desirable homes as he. 
His son has erected on land adjoining a handsome residence 
in which he lives. Mr. Bisbing is fond of sport, and 
scarcely a year passes that he does not leave home on a 
gunning and fishing expedition, on which he spends a month 
or more, and derives, as he believes, great benefit from 
it. 

He married, August 19, 1867, Miss Elmira B. Roberts, born 
June 6, 1843, daughter of Alexander M. and Mary C. (Baumann) 
Roberts, of Springfield township, a farmer. The couple have 
the following children: Robert, born November 1, 1868, 
married Lucy Yeakel, and has one child, Lucy; Clara, born 
March 22, 1870, married Dr. Warren Funk, having one child, 
Mildred. Mr. Bisbing is a Democrat in politics, and has held 
the office of school director for many years. He is highly 
esteemed by all who know him. His family attend the Lutheran 
church.

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