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


   SAMUEL R. KRAMER justice of the peace, P.O. Perkasie, was 
born March 29, 1860, on the Ridge road, about two miles 
northeast of Perkasie borough, in Rockhill township, and was 
the youngest of seven children born to Abraham and Elizabeth 
Kramer.  At the age of eight years his father died, and for 
five years he was in the employ of George L. Baringer, a 
farmer in Richland Center, during which time, and between 
the attendant duties of farm life, he received a 
common-school education in the Quakertown public schools.  
In 1875 he was apprenticed to a jeweler in Delaware county, 
Pa.  June 4, 1877, he was apprenticed to J. E. Witmer, of 
the Lansdale "Reporter," at Lansdale, Montgomery county, 
this state, and served the "Central News," in Perkasie, and 
employed him to take charge of the mechanical part, which 
position he held until the death of the founder, February 7, 
1882, when he became a member of the firm of Moyer & Kramer, 
and continued the printing and publication business.  In 
1885, at the age of 24, he was elected to the office of 
justice of the peace by his fellow-citizens, for the term of 
five years  He was married in 1881 to Miss Mary Swartley, of 
Gwynedd, Montgomery county, Pa.