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


   BENJAMIN LARZELERE farmer, P.O. Eureka, is the 
great-grandson of Nicholas Larzelere, who emigrated from 
France to Long Island about 1690.  His son Nicholas removed 
to Lower Makefield, in this county, in 1741, and his 
descendants now live in this and Montgomery county.  His son 
Benjamin, born in Bensalem township, Bucks county, was the 
grandfather of our subject. He died in 1851, in his 
eighty-fourth year, on a farm he owned in Bristol township, 
part of which extended into the borough of Bristol.  His son 
Nicholas was the father of Benjamin.  He was born at Bristol 
in 1797.  After his marriage, he removed to Montgomery 
county, and subsequently bought a farm in Moreland township, 
that county, where he died in 1857, in his sixty-first year. 
 His wife was Esther Berrell, of Abington, a daughter of 
Colonel Jeremiah Berrell, who was colonel of one of the 
state militia regiments, and descendant of an old Montgomery 
county family.  She is still living, and is now in her 
eighty-fourth year.  They had twelve children, all living 
except a son, Joseph, who was burned to death at the time 
when his parents' house was totally destroyed by fire in 
1841.  The survivors are:  Samuel, a farmer in Doylestown 
township; Jeremiah B., on the old homestead farm; William, 
engaged in the foreign fruit business, in Philadelphia; 
Mary, wife of Albert Shively, of Jenkintown, Montgomery 
county; Henry B., a machinist in Muncy, Lehigh county; John 
B., farmer and drover in Montgomery county; Sarah Ann, wife 
of Robert Kirby, in Philadelphia; Amanda, unmarried, living 
with her mother; Hannah, wife of Israel Mather, of 
Montgomery county; James H., also in the fruit business in 
Philadelphia; and Benjamin, the second son, born January 14, 
1826, in Abington township.  He has always been a farmer, 
and on his marriage removed to Moreland township.  A year 
later he came to Warminster township, in this county, buying 
a farm which he sold six years later, and in 1855 bought the 
farm which has since been his home.  March 2, 1848, he 
married Mary Ann, daughter of Henry Maxwell, of Moreland 
township.  Mrs. Larzalere, who was born in Moreland, January 
2, 1827, is of Irish and Dutch extraction.  They have nine 
children:  Esther Ann, wife of Timothy B. Ely, a farmer of 
Upper Dublin, Montgomery county; Nicholas H., married to Ida 
Locke, daughter of Dr. John Locke, of Norristown, where they 
live, and where he is a practicing attorney; Mary Emma, wife 
of J. Wesley Carwithen, a farmer in Doylestown township; 
Alice B., wife of Granville Sellers, a farmer in New Britain 
township; Miriam, wife of B. Franklin Wright, a farmer in 
Montgomery county; B. Franklin, married to Ida Elizabeth 
Walter, on a farm adjoining his father's place; Sarah Ann, 
wife of John M. Krout, a farmer of Plumstead township; 
Hannah H., wife of Charles O. Wiser, of this township; and 
Adele D., living with her parents.  Mr. Larzelere is an 
energetic, enterprising farmer.  His house was built in 
1865, on the site of one of the oldest houses in the county, 
which was built in 1749 by James Dunlap.  Mr. Larzelere's 
farm, which he has greatly improved, extends five-eights of 
a mile along the county line, and is half a mile wide.