Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Moyer, I. S., A.M., M.D.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Richland Township A-M


   I. S. MOYER, A. M., M. D. P.O. Quakertown, was born 
February 27, 1838, at Harleysville, Montgomery county.  His 
parents were Jacob D. and Barbara Ann (Shoemaker) Moyer.  
The Moyers of Bucks, Montgomery and other counties of 
eastern Pennsylvania are of German descent, coming mostly 
from the region of the Palatinate, in Germany.  Jacob D. 
Moyer was born, lived and died in Montgomery county.  He 
learned the trade of clock-making, which he carried on many 
years.  During the latter years of his life he was a 
successful farmer.  Barbara Ann Shoemkaer was the daughter 
of Isaac Shoemaker, a prominent citizen of Skippackville, 
Pa.  She died when the subject of this sketch was eight days 
old. He was then taken to his grandfather, Isaac Shoemaker, 
by whom he was cared for until 16 years of age.  He attended 
common schools and at an early age was sent to Freeland 
seminary at Collegeville, Pennsylvania, where three years 
were spent.  He taught two years in Montgomery county with 
general satisfaction.  At 19 he entered the office of his 
uncle, Dr. Joseph Moyer, at Kulpsville, Pennsylvania, with 
whom he studied medicine.  He graduated March 5, 1859, from 
Pennsylvania Medical college, located the same month at 
Plumsteadville, and remained there nine years, enjoying a 
large and lucrative practice. He was married October 20, 
1859, to Laura Kratz, daughter of Jacob Kratz, of that 
place.  Four children were born to them, of whom only one, 
Lilian, now survives.  His wife died March 16, 1866.  After 
traveling extensively in 1968 he located, April 5, 1869, in 
Quakertown, having purchased the practice of Drs. Joseph 
Thomas and R. J. Linderman, of that place.  Here he has 
since resided, enjoying a practice still larger than at 
Plumsteadville.  He has now been in continuous practice 
twenty-eight years and has had an uninterrupted share of 
public confidence.  He was again married November 15, 1868, 
to Caroline Fackenthall, daughter of B. Frank Fackenthall, 
of Easton, Pa.  To them one child, Florence Barbara, was 
born, who still survives.  He commenced the study of botany 
when quite young.  After settling in Bucks county he studies 
the flora of the county systematically, and in 1876 
published a catalogue of the plants of this county in the 
county history published by General W. W. H. Davis, the 
first ever issued.  He has also studied general natural 
history, especially ornithology and entomology.  He is a 
member of the Lehigh Medical society, of the board of 
censors of the Medico-Chirurgical college, of Philadelphia, 
and was a member of the electoral college of Pennsylvania on 
the republican ticket in 1880.  In 1887 he received the 
degree of A. M. from Muhlenberg college, at Allentown, Pa.  
Doctor Moyer is a man of intellectual ability, liberal and 
progressive in his views, and enjoys in a marked degree the 
confidence and esteem of the community in which he resides.