Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Ahlum, H. G.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Richland Township A-M


   H. G. AHLUM hotel keeper, resides at Richland Center, Pa. 
The Ahlum family ranks among the pioneer families of Bucks 
county.  Jacob Ahlum came from Germany about the year 1742.  
He was a wheelwright by trade and settled in what is now 
Haycock township, four miles east of Quakertown, where he 
purchased about three hundred acres of land.  He had six 
sons: George, Michael, Philip, Jacob, John and David; and 
five daughters.  John, the grandfather of H. G., married 
Catherine Yost, by whom he had Ephraim, born in February, 
1809, in Haycock township.  He married Levy Groman, born in 
this county July 15, 1813, a daughter of George and 
Elizabeth (Pauff) Groman.  The fruit of this union was our 
subject, Henry Groman, who was born October 8, 1836, in 
Milford township, where he grew to the years of manhood.  He 
engaged in farming until 1867, when he began the hotel 
business at Milford Square, continuing there until 1875, 
when he came to Richland Center and purchased the hotel 
owned and run by Frank Hartman, which has ever since been 
known as the Eagle hotel, and in which he has been doing a 
good business.  October 22, 1857, he married Belinda R. 
Miller, who was born in Montgomery county, in 1834, daughter 
of John and Henrietta (Faber) Miller.  Mrs. Miller is a 
daughter of Rev. Theobold Faber, a well-known minister of 
Montgomery county.  Mr. Ahlum has six children:  Emma C., 
wife of Milton D. Tice, boot and shoe dealer; Charles is a 
bookkeeper for Strawbridge & Clothier in Philadelphia; Rosa 
is the wife of William Haney; Ellen, wife of J. F. Fisher, 
cattle dealer; Calvin E. and Carrie L. are at home.  Mr. 
Ahlum is a member of the I. O. O. F., Lodge No. 390, of 
Coopersburg, and also of the Knights of Pythias, Lodge No. 
372, of Trumbauersville.