Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Fetter, Samuel E.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Warminster Township


   SAMUEL E. FETTER retired, P.O. Breadyville, is of German 
descent. His grandfather, Casper Fetter, was a farmer in 
Moreland township, Montgomery county, where he died, and 
where his son, George C., father of our subject was born, in 
1789. He bought a farm in this township, near Johnsville, 
but his father dying the same year, he bought the old 
homestead in Montgomery county and removed there, owning it 
until his death, which occurred in Northampton township in 
1864, while on a visit there. He was a good moral man, and 
was respected by his neighbors. His wife was Cornelia 
Montanye, who was born about 1804, and died in 1859. They 
had twelve children, of whom seven are now living. Samuel 
was born March 12, 1823, in Moreland township. He was 
reared a farmer, and on his marriage rented a farm in 
Southampton township, where he lived for thirty-four years, 
retiring in the spring of 1887 to a place in Ivyland, where 
he expects to pass the remainder of his days. On November 
20, 1845, he was married to Jane Elizabeth Twining, who was 
born in Southampton township, August 2, 1828. To their 
union six children have been born:  Newton Cromwell, who is 
pastor of the Baptist church at New Britain; George 
Campbell, who is a merchant in Chicago; Isaac Comly, who is 
a practicing lawyer in Reading, Pa.; Caroline Lewars and 
Eugene Chalmer, residing with their parents, and Janette 
Cornell, who died in 1872, when sixteen years old. Mr. 
Fetter has always been an industrious, hard-working man, and 
has been well aided and assisted by his wife. Together they 
have reared and educated an excellent family. Beginning 
life with no advantages, he determined to give his children 
every facility for education, and the result has been a 
gratifying one. The family are members of the Dutch 
Reformed church at Churchville.