Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Mohr, F. J. Rev.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Richland Township A-M


   REV. F. J. MOHR minister, P.O. Quakertown, is one of the 
oldest residents of this place.  He was born November 27, 
1829, in Allentown.  He is a son of Jacob and Margaret 
(Bishop) Mohr, both natives of Allentown.  Jacob Mohr was a 
soldier in the war of 1812.  His father, Jacob, was a native 
of Switzerland, a baker by trade, and on account of 
religious persecution came to this state and located in 
Saucon Valley, Lehigh county, and furnished bread to the 
continental army.  He reared two sons and one daughter.  
Jacob, the father of our subject, was a cabinet-maker by 
trade and followed this vocation in Allentown, where he was 
born.  He died in 1882, aged 82.  His wife was of French 
descent, the daughter of Jacob Bishop, a clock-maker.  Our 
subject was one of a family of ten children, all of whom 
have settled in this state.  He taught school for several 
years in the seminary where he was educated. He was one of 
the first five students of the new seminary, and was 
afterward eight years professor of mathematics in that 
institution.  In 1853 he was licensed and ordained minister 
in the German Reformed church. The following year he took 
charge of the Williamsport church, which consisted of five 
congregations.  He continued there for thirteen years, and 
from there went to Millersburg, where he remained three and 
a half years over the Berrysburg charge.  Afterward he was 
settled the same length of time at Bloomsburg, and from 
there came to this place in the fall of 1871. He has charge 
of three congregations:  Quakertown, Trumbauersville and 
Richlandtown.  He was married in 1852 to Catherine, daughter 
of Peter and Susanna (Reeb) Coble.  He has five children: 
Agnes V., Ursinus O., J. Eugene, Albertha C. and Maria M. I. 
  Agnes V. is the wife of Dr. J. K. Saylor, of this place; 
Ursinus O. is a minister of the Congregational denomination 
in Connecticut; J. Eugene was a graduate of dentistry in 
1886, and of the Jefferson Medical college; Ursinus O. was a 
graduate of Franklin and Marshall, college, also of Yale 
Theological seminary.