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


JOHN A. LOUX farmer and justice of the peace, P.O. 
Pipersville, is a great-grandson of Peter Loux, who came to 
this township in 1737, buying a tract of 170 acres on the 
Deep run.  His son John, grandfather of John A., was born 
there in 1756.  Fifteen years after his marriage he bought a 
farm in Plumstead township, where he lived until his death 
in 1820.  He was twice married.  His first wife was a 
Rosenberger, who was the widow of Henry Leatherman, who died 
comparatively young, leaving four children:  John, Peter, 
Abraham and Catherine.  His second wife was a Wismer and the 
widow of an Augeney.  She had one son, Moses.  The father of 
John A. was Peter, who was born in this township and 
afterward bought the Plumstead farm, where he died July 24, 
1871, aged 85 years.  He was a man of quiet disposition, 
sober, honest and industrious, and a member of the Old Deep 
Run Mennonite church.  He also was married twice.  His first 
wife was Rebecca Atherholt, of New Britain township, who 
died in September, 1834, aged less than 40.  The second wife 
was Anna Overholt, of this township, now living on the old 
home where her only child, Mary, wife of Enos Huntsberger, 
also lives.  The children of the first wife were:  Anna, who 
died young; Samuel, who was accidentally shot in 1847 while 
hunting in New Jersey; Christian, living in New Britain; and 
John A., who was the oldest and was born November 19, 1815.  
He learned the trade of a carpenter, at which he worked for 
six years, when he went into the mercantile business in 
Dublin, this township, and five years later sold out and 
removed to Pipersville, where he was in business for five 
years.  In 1849 he sold out and retired to the farm where he 
now lives.  In 1845 he took up the business of surveying, 
which he followed actively for many years, and he still 
occasionally works at it.  He has been twice married; first 
May 30, 1841, to Hannah, daughter of Leonard Jacoby, of 
Hilltown.  She was born December 5, 1820, and died March 19, 
1844, leaving one child, Amanda, now deceased, who was the 
wife of John F. Raus.  February 1, 1848, Mr. Loux was again 
married, to Rachel, daughter of John High, of Berks county.  
She was born February 1, 1826.  They have had two children:  
William, who died young, and Emeline, who is the wife of 
Daniel T. Bennett, of Shawneetown, Monroe county.  Mr. Loux 
has been a prominent and busy man in the community.  He has 
been county auditor and is the oldest justice of the peace 
in the county, in length of continuous service, being now in 
his forty-third year.  The estimation in which he is held is 
shown by his repeated re-elections in a democratic township, 
he being a republican.  He is an honest and conscientious 
man and a good citizen.