Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Harley, J. Price
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Bedminster Township


J. PRICE HARLEY farmer and miller, P.O. Dublin, is a 
grandson of Samuel Harley, who was the founder of 
Harleysville, in Montgomery county, where he kept a store 
and hotel, and he was a prominent man in that locality.  He 
was a leading member of the Dunkard church near there, known 
as the Indian Creek church.  He died in his 82nd year about 
fifty years ago.  His wife, Catherine, was a daughter of 
Christopher Sauer, the first German printer in Pennsylvania, 
who being on principle opposed to all oaths, refused 
(although a patriot) to take the oath of allegiance, and 
thereby lost all his property.  Samuel Harley's son, Jacob 
S., was the father of the subject of this sketch.  He 
engaged in many business enterprises; first in Harleysville 
and then in Franconiaville, where he had a store and hotel.  
He gave up the hotel in a few years, but was in the 
mercantile business twenty-two years altogether.  During 
this time he built almost all the buildings that compose 
that village.  In 1847, he sold out his store and also a 
lumber yard which he owned, and bought a farm in Hilltown 
township.  He lived there for ten years, then went to 
Line-Lexington, engaged in general business there for a 
time, then started a stove and hardware store.  He carried 
on that business for fourteen years, then retired and came 
to Dublin, where he died August 1, 1882.  Like his father, 
he was a prominent member of the Dunkard church, and a 
conscientious, upright man.  His wife, Sarah, was the 
daughter of Rev. John Price, of Chester county.  She was 
born February 26, 1804, and died September 1, 1882, one 
month after her husband.  Of their children Caroline, Eliza, 
Franklin, Charles, and Jacob are deceased.  Those living 
are:  Matilda, wife of Samuel F. Loux, living in Dublin; 
Mary, wife of David Swink, in Hilltown township; David, a 
lawyer in Manistee City, Mich.; Jonathan, a farmer in 
Michigan; and J. Price, who was born October 6, 1839, in 
Franconiaville.  He inherits the family characteristics of 
push and energy, and has had much experience in actual 
business.  He was first in his father's store and then for 
three years in wholesale dry-goods houses in Philadelphia.  
In 1871 he came to Dublin and engaged in the manufacture of 
clothing for the principal houses in Philadelphia.  This 
business he carried on successfully for sixteen years, after 
which he gave his attention solely to his farm until 1887, 
when he built the steam saw and grist mill which he is now 
running.  June 3, 1871, he was married to Amanda H., 
daughter of Joseph Crouthamel, then of Hatfield, Montgomery 
county, where she was born March 28, 1846.  They have had 
two children, one of whom, Lucretia M., died in infancy.  
The other, Lavinia P., is living with her parents.  Mr. 
Harley is a member of Keystone Lodge, No. 271, A. Y. M.; f 
Kensington Chapter, No. 233, R. A. M.; and of Philadelphia 
Commandery, No. 2, K. T.  He is also a member and trustee of 
Girard Lodge, No. 12, Knights of Birmingham, and was the 
founder of Cuttalossa Tribe, No. 244, I. O. R. M., of 
Dublin.  He is a wide-awake energetic, and enterprising man.