BIO:  J. W. BACHMAN, Mountpleasant Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 485

J. W. BACHMAN, farmer, P. O. New Oxford, was born in April, 1819, in Hanover, 
York Co., Penn.  His grandfather Bachman was born and married in Germany, and 
when a young man came to America and farmed in York County, Penn., but was 
accidentally killed in Adams County, Penn., by a wagon running over him as he 
was returning from a mill after night.  He left two sons and one daughter.  Of 
these David, who was born shortly after the death of his father, learned the 
saddler and harness-maker’s trade, which he followed nearly all his life.  He 
married Rebecca, daughter of David Hellman, and had six children:  Ann, John W., 
Louise, Amelia, Emma and Maria.  David Bachman and wife died at Hanover, York 
Co., Penn., aged eighty and sixty years respectively.  Of their children, John 
W., was educated in Hanover, Penn., and there learned his father’s trade and 
carriage-trimming, which he followed forty years and gave good satisfaction to 
his customers, having learned his trade thoroughly.  He removed to his farm of 
forty acres, in this county, in 1860, and has remained on it ever since, engaged 
principally in agricultural pursuits since coming here.  He was married to 
Nancy, daughter of David Slagle, an old pioneer of Oxford Township.  They have 
two children now living:  Otis G. and Emma E.  Otis G. has been a successful 
teacher most of his life and an active business man, well known nearly all over 
the county in local and political circles.  Our subject has been identified with 
the Democratic party all his life and has served his neighbors and friends in 
different offices, especially in the capacity of justice of the peace, and was 
re-elected without opposition in the spring of 1885.