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


   MILTON A. BIEHN boot and shoe dealer, P.O. Quakertown, is 
the son of Michael M. and Catherine (Althouse) Biehn, the 
former a son of Abraham and Mary (Martin) Biehn, the latter 
a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Wert) Althouse.  He was 
born at Bunker Hill (now Rich Hill), Rockhill township, this 
county, in 1851, the family originally coming from Germany.  
Mr. Biehn attended school during the winter months, and at 
the age of 14 years left school to learn the trade of 
shoemaking, which he followed till he reached the age of 20. 
 He then engaged in the boot and shoe trade in the firm of 
Hinkle & Biehn, which existed one year.  Mr. Biehn built his 
store property in 1873, and from 1874 to 1883 continued his 
business alone.  At the expiration of that time he retired 
from business here and connected himself with a Philadelphia 
wholesale shoe house, but resumed the business at Quakertown 
in 1885, when the former partnership was resumed.  In 1877 
he married Sarah R., daughter of Benjamin R. and Lydia 
(Bartholomew) Edwards, of this place.  They are the parents 
of three children:  Nellie E., Harry E., and Grace E., 
deceased.  Mr. Biehn has always been an active business man, 
and is familiar with all the details of his branch of 
industry.  He is a member of the M. E. church of this place, 
and in politics is a prohibitionist.