Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Gearhart, Isaiah W.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Northampton Township


   ISAIAH W. GEARHART, lumber manufacturer, P.O. Holland, 
was horn in Bloomsburg, Columbia county, January 23, 1819, 
his parents being Henry and Phebe (Field) Gearhart. The 
Gearhart family were originally German. His father was a 
chair and spinning-wheel maker. When Isaiah W. was 8 years 
old he came to Bucks county to live with an uncle, Levi 
Field, who was a farmer. With him he lived until he was 16 
years old, when he went to Montgomery county to learn the 
trade of carpenter, where he remained six years. He then 
went to Philadelphia and worked in the city about two years, 
after which he carried on contracting for about fifteen 
years. He then removed to his present location and bought 
the saw-mill, which he has operated ever since, adding many 
improvements to it. He was married in Montgomery county in 
May, 1841, to Miss Elizabeth Eames, a native of Boston, a 
daughter of Robert Eames. Mr. Gearhart started out in life 
for himself, and has made his own way in the world, until he 
is now one of the wealthy men of the township. He is one of 
the directors of the Langhorne bank, and was formerly a 
director of the Newtown bank. He was a director of the 
Bustleton turnpike, and is now a director of the 
Feasterville and Holland turnpike. Mr. Gearhart is a member 
of the Newtown lodge, F. and A.M. He is a member of the 
Somerton church. Mr. and Mrs. Gearhart were the parents of 
nine children, of whom four are living. Those living are: 
Angeline, wife of Watson Spencer, in Falls township; Phebe 
Ann, wife of John Collum, lives in Oxford, Chester county; 
Martha Ann and Frank are at home. Mr. Gearhart has a flour 
mill at Rocksville, called the Rocksville mills, which has a 
capacity for grinding two hundred bushels per day.