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


SAMUEL B. LARZALERE farmer, P.O. Edison, was born in 
Bensalem township, January 21, 1824, and is a son of 
Nicholas and Esther (Berrell) Larzalere, the latter a 
daughter of Major Jeremiah Berrell, of Abington township, 
Montgomery county.  They are the descendants of French 
Huguenots, who came to this country about 1600, and settled 
in Rhode Island.  They afterward came to Bucks county, and 
located in Bristol.  Benjamin Larzalere, grandfather of 
Samuel B., had eight children:  Joseph, Nicholas, Benjamin, 
William, Ann, Hannah, Elizabeth, and Mary (deceased).  Of 
these only William is living, aged 75.  Benjamin was a 
farmer by occupation, and was an extensive land-owner in 
Bristol township, where he died in his 77th year.  Our 
subject's father was a farmer, and in 1828 moved to Abington 
township, where he died in 1862.  His widow still resides on 
the old homestead, and is in her 83rd year.  They were the 
parents of twelve children:  Samuel B., Benjamin, Jeremiah, 
William, John, Mary, Henry, Sarah, Amanda, Hannah, James H., 
and Joseph, who was burned to death when the house was 
burned, February 22, 1842.  Our subject was born in Bensalem 
township, and at the age of five years moved with his 
parents to Abington township.  When 21 years of age he went 
west into Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, and followed droving 
for years. His first drove consisted of three horses, which 
he led over the mountains himself.  He continued this until 
1881, driving stock from Ohio, Illinois and Indiana to the 
place where he now lives.  He was the first man to ship a 
carload of horses over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and 
is the first man that ever made a public sale of western 
horses in Bucks and Montgomery counties.  The first sale was 
made in Jenkintown, which is the headquarters for droving, 
yet carried on by subject's brother.  At least five hundred 
head are sold there yearly.  During the war he was very 
extensively engaged in the stock business, and had large 
contracts with the government.  In 1856 he bought the farm 
where he now lives, which consists of 200 acres, and cost 
$20,000.  He moved on it in 1860.  In 1865 he bought 107 
acres of land adjoining at $110 an acre, and now owns 321 
acres in one tract, one of the most valuable farms in Bucks 
county.  In all he owns 433 acres.  In January, 1848, he 
married Beulah Batton of New Jersey, and they are the 
parents of four children:  Joseph N., John F., Samuel B., 
Jr., and Estella, deceased.  Mr. Larzalere is an 
enterprising and intelligent citizen, and has done a great 
deal to build up public enterprise.  He is the oldest 
stock-dealer now living in the county.