Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Fackenthall, Alfred
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Doylestown A-L


ALFRED FACKENTHALL attorney-at-law, P.O. Doylestown, was 
born in Durham township, Bucks county, May 24, 1846, being a 
son of Jacob and Hannah (Mickley) Fackenthall, of German and 
French descent.  His great-great-grandfather was the first 
of the Fackenthalls to settle in Bucks county.  They were 
farmers.  His grandfather, John Fackenthall, was a farmer 
and was at one time register of the county and a member of 
the legislature.  He was a man of prominence and had many 
friends.  Jacob Fackenthall was a farmer and also a 
mill-wright.  He died in Doylestown in 1875.  His wife is 
yet living.  They were the parents of three children:  
Alfred, Horace and Jerome.  Alfred lived a part of his early 
life on a farm, and at the age of 17 years entered the 
Carversville Normal school and studied the higher English 
branches under a private tutor, and afterward taught school 
for about six years.  He then became a student of ex-Judge 
Watson for the law course and was admitted to the bar May 5, 
1869, and has since been practicing in Doylestown.  He was 
on the electoral ticket in 1884 on the republican side.  He 
was married in September, 1874, to Annie, daughter of Aaron 
and Martha (Scholl) Meredith.  They have two children, 
Norman and Mabel.  Mr. and Mrs. Fackenthall are members of 
the Reformed church.  He is also a member of the Lodge No. 
193, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Doylestown 
Encampment, No. 35, and has passed all the chairs in both 
branches.  He has also passed the chairs in the Grand 
Encampment of the state.  At the annual session of May 17, 
1886, upon retiring from the chair of grand patriarch, he 
was presented with a handsome gold watch by the members of 
the lodge as a token of their esteem and respect, and in 
acknowledgment of the able manner in which he had discharged 
the duties of the office.