History of Schuylkill County, Pa: W. W. Munsell, 1881

William Audenried, eldest son of Lewis Audenried, emigrant from Switzerland in 1789, was born at Kutztown, Berks county, Pa., March 14th, 1793, and when a mere boy removed with his father's family to what is now known as East Schuylkill county.

Endowed by nature with a strong mind and extraordinary energy of character he was, in 1816 (about the time of the death of his father) appointed by Governor Simon Snyder a justice of the peace in the district numbered one, composed of the township of Brunswick, including the borough of Orwigsburg, Schuylkill county, which commission he held until 1821, when he was commissioned by Governor Heisler as lieutenant-colonel of the 30th regiment infantry of the Pennsylvania militia, 2nd brigade, 6th division. In 1822 he was elected to the State Legislature from Schuylkill county, and re-elected in 1823. In 1824 he was elected to the Senate of the State of Pennsylvania for a term of four years.

He was extensively engaged from 1817 to 1842, in the business of buying and selling real estate, and in farming and lumbering, having mills on both the Schuylkill and Little Schuylkill rivers, furnishing employment to many people, but, as a result of the panic of 1837, he succumbed to the times in 1842. In that year he removed to Cumberland county, Pa., where he continued to reside on a farm till the time of his death, December 2nd, 1850.

History of Schuylkill County, Pa: W. W. Munsell, 1881

William Audenried, eldest son of Lewis Audenried, emigrant from Switzerland in 1789, was born at Kutztown, Berks county, Pa., March 14th, 1793, and when a mere boy removed with his father's family to what is now known as East Schuylkill county.

Endowed by nature with a strong mind and extraordinary energy of character he was, in 1816 (about the time of the death of his father) appointed by Governor Simon Snyder a justice of the peace in the district numbered one, composed of the township of Brunswick, including the borough of Orwigsburg, Schuylkill county, which commission he held until 1821, when he was commissioned by Governor Heisler as lieutenant-colonel of the 30th regiment infantry of the Pennsylvania militia, 2nd brigade, 6th division. In 1822 he was elected to the State Legislature from Schuylkill county, and re-elected in 1823. In 1824 he was elected to the Senate of the State of Pennsylvania for a term of four years.

He was extensively engaged from 1817 to 1842, in the business of buying and selling real estate, and in farming and lumbering, having mills on both the Schuylkill and Little Schuylkill rivers, furnishing employment to many people, but, as a result of the panic of 1837, he succumbed to the times in 1842. In that year he removed to Cumberland county, Pa., where he continued to reside on a farm till the time of his death, December 2nd, 1850.