Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; genealogy--family history--biography; containing historical sketches of old families and of representative and prominent citizens, past and present, J. H. Beers, Chicago, 1916, Volume I, Page 381:
"David Baver, son of Christoph, was born in 1823 in Windsor township, Berks county, where he was reared, receiving such education as the local pay schools afforded. Having learned the trade of carpenter, he became a boatbuilder in the employ of the Schuylkill Navigation Company at Hamburg, Pa., and also followed the other branches of his calling, assisting in the construction of a hotel at Tuscarora. Schuylkill county. He bought the farm of seventy acres in West Brunswick township, this county, now owned by Charles Schaeffer, and after living there eleven years rented the George Moser farm for one year, after which he purchased from John Medlar the farm at present owned by his son Franklin David Baver. When it came into his possession it consisted of 160 acres, but he sold part of the property, retaining 125 acres, now practically all under cultivation. He carried on general farming, and was one of the industrious and prosperous agriculturists of the neighborhood in his day. A man of active disposition and foresight, he was one of the first to advocate the establishment of public schools in the township, and he served twenty years or more as a member of the board of school directors, filling the office until his death, which occurred Feb. 18, 1888, in West Brunswick township. In political faith he was a Democrat, in religious connection a member of Zion's Reformed Church (the Red Church) in his township, and he was serving that body in the capacity of elder at the time of his death. As a member of the building committee he helped to rebuild the present house of worship of that church. He and his wife are buried there. Mr. Baver married Mary Miller, who was born in 1823, daughter of Daniel Miller, a native of Berks county, and died at the age of seventy-six years. They had the following children: Saria, who married H. J. Wagner; Emma, Mrs. J. R. Stevens; Cordelia, who died unmarried; Ellen, unmarried; Mary Cordelia, now the widow of Charles Mengle; Sarah J., unmarried; Allen Albert, who married Serena Smith; Franklin David; and Annie, Mrs. Horace Stroah."
"David Baver, son of Christoph, was born in 1823 in Windsor township, Berks county, where he was reared, receiving such education as the local pay schools afforded. Having learned the trade of carpenter, he became a boatbuilder in the employ of the Schuylkill Navigation Company at Hamburg, Pa., and also followed the other branches of his calling, assisting in the construction of a hotel at Tuscarora. Schuylkill county. He bought the farm of seventy acres in West Brunswick township, this county, now owned by Charles Schaeffer, and after living there eleven years rented the George Moser farm for one year, after which he purchased from John Medlar the farm at present owned by his son Franklin David Baver. When it came into his possession it consisted of 160 acres, but he sold part of the property, retaining 125 acres, now practically all under cultivation. He carried on general farming, and was one of the industrious and prosperous agriculturists of the neighborhood in his day. A man of active disposition and foresight, he was one of the first to advocate the establishment of public schools in the township, and he served twenty years or more as a member of the board of school directors, filling the office until his death, which occurred Feb. 18, 1888, in West Brunswick township. In political faith he was a Democrat, in religious connection a member of Zion's Reformed Church (the Red Church) in his township, and he was serving that body in the capacity of elder at the time of his death. As a member of the building committee he helped to rebuild the present house of worship of that church. He and his wife are buried there. Mr. Baver married Mary Miller, who was born in 1823, daughter of Daniel Miller, a native of Berks county, and died at the age of seventy-six years. They had the following children: Saria, who married H. J. Wagner; Emma, Mrs. J. R. Stevens; Cordelia, who died unmarried; Ellen, unmarried; Mary Cordelia, now the widow of Charles Mengle; Sarah J., unmarried; Allen Albert, who married Serena Smith; Franklin David; and Annie, Mrs. Horace Stroah."
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; genealogy--family history--biography; containing historical sketches of old families and of representative and prominent citizens, past and present, J. H. Beers, Chicago, 1916, Volume I, Page 381:
"David Baver, son of Christoph, was born in 1823 in Windsor township, Berks county, where he was reared, receiving such education as the local pay schools afforded. Having learned the trade of carpenter, he became a boatbuilder in the employ of the Schuylkill Navigation Company at Hamburg, Pa., and also followed the other branches of his calling, assisting in the construction of a hotel at Tuscarora. Schuylkill county. He bought the farm of seventy acres in West Brunswick township, this county, now owned by Charles Schaeffer, and after living there eleven years rented the George Moser farm for one year, after which he purchased from John Medlar the farm at present owned by his son Franklin David Baver. When it came into his possession it consisted of 160 acres, but he sold part of the property, retaining 125 acres, now practically all under cultivation. He carried on general farming, and was one of the industrious and prosperous agriculturists of the neighborhood in his day. A man of active disposition and foresight, he was one of the first to advocate the establishment of public schools in the township, and he served twenty years or more as a member of the board of school directors, filling the office until his death, which occurred Feb. 18, 1888, in West Brunswick township. In political faith he was a Democrat, in religious connection a member of Zion's Reformed Church (the Red Church) in his township, and he was serving that body in the capacity of elder at the time of his death. As a member of the building committee he helped to rebuild the present house of worship of that church. He and his wife are buried there. Mr. Baver married Mary Miller, who was born in 1823, daughter of Daniel Miller, a native of Berks county, and died at the age of seventy-six years. They had the following children: Saria, who married H. J. Wagner; Emma, Mrs. J. R. Stevens; Cordelia, who died unmarried; Ellen, unmarried; Mary Cordelia, now the widow of Charles Mengle; Sarah J., unmarried; Allen Albert, who married Serena Smith; Franklin David; and Annie, Mrs. Horace Stroah."
"David Baver, son of Christoph, was born in 1823 in Windsor township, Berks county, where he was reared, receiving such education as the local pay schools afforded. Having learned the trade of carpenter, he became a boatbuilder in the employ of the Schuylkill Navigation Company at Hamburg, Pa., and also followed the other branches of his calling, assisting in the construction of a hotel at Tuscarora. Schuylkill county. He bought the farm of seventy acres in West Brunswick township, this county, now owned by Charles Schaeffer, and after living there eleven years rented the George Moser farm for one year, after which he purchased from John Medlar the farm at present owned by his son Franklin David Baver. When it came into his possession it consisted of 160 acres, but he sold part of the property, retaining 125 acres, now practically all under cultivation. He carried on general farming, and was one of the industrious and prosperous agriculturists of the neighborhood in his day. A man of active disposition and foresight, he was one of the first to advocate the establishment of public schools in the township, and he served twenty years or more as a member of the board of school directors, filling the office until his death, which occurred Feb. 18, 1888, in West Brunswick township. In political faith he was a Democrat, in religious connection a member of Zion's Reformed Church (the Red Church) in his township, and he was serving that body in the capacity of elder at the time of his death. As a member of the building committee he helped to rebuild the present house of worship of that church. He and his wife are buried there. Mr. Baver married Mary Miller, who was born in 1823, daughter of Daniel Miller, a native of Berks county, and died at the age of seventy-six years. They had the following children: Saria, who married H. J. Wagner; Emma, Mrs. J. R. Stevens; Cordelia, who died unmarried; Ellen, unmarried; Mary Cordelia, now the widow of Charles Mengle; Sarah J., unmarried; Allen Albert, who married Serena Smith; Franklin David; and Annie, Mrs. Horace Stroah."
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