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


JONAS S. LOUX farmer, P.O. Bedminster, is a native of 
Tinicum township, and a grandson of Jacob Loux, who lived 
near Pipersville, and died about forty years ago.  Martin, 
the father of Jonas S., was born in 1795.  For several years 
he kept a store at Pipersville.  He afterward kept the hotel 
on the Ridge for two or three years, then bought a farm in 
Tinicum on which he lived twenty-eight years, dying in 1858. 
 He was a man of great popularity, and in the latter years 
of his life joined the Reformed church of Lower Tinicum, in 
which he was choir leader for many years.  His wife, Sarah 
Smith, was born in Springfield township in 1801 and died in 
1863.  They had ten children, five of whom are living:  
Jonas, Ephraim, Catherine, Lavina, and Eliza.  Jonas was 
born in Tinicum, January 16, 1839.  On his marriage he 
removed to Springfield township, from which place, in 
October, 1862, he entered the Union army, in the 174th 
Regiment, P. V.  He was mustered out August 7, 1863, and in 
the following March bought his present home and removed to 
it.  January 26, 1861, he was married to Mary, daughter of 
Isaac Fretz, of Tinicum, where she was born in 1842.  They 
have three children:  Harvey F., married to Lizzie, daughter 
of Charles Fox, of Tinicum, where he lives; E. Lincoln, who 
is a successful teacher; and Flora.  Mr. Loux is a man of 
good plain common sense, a good farmer, and an honest man.  
He and all of his family are members of the Reformed church, 
of which he was for seven years an elder.  In politics he is 
a republican.