Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Schoch, William E.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Richland Township N-Z


   WILLIAM E. SCHOCH attorney-at-law, P.O. Richland Center, 
represents one of the early families of Richland township.  
His great-great-grandfather, Joseph Schoch, came from 
Germany and settled in what is now Richland township, two 
miles southwest of Quakertown borough.  In 1802 one of his 
sons, Rudolph, purchased one hundred and thirty-seven acres 
of land in this township from one Jacob Smith, the 
consideration being Ł1,500.  Rudolph sold eighty acres of 
this to John Schoch, Sen., May 27, 1817, for Ł1,608.  In 
1853 fifteen acres of this were purchased by John Schoch, 
Jr., father of William E., for $675.  Rudolph married a Miss 
Gross, and by her had the following children:  Jacob, John, 
Maria, Elizabeth, Daniel and Sarah.  Of the above, John, the 
grandfather of William E., married Hannah Nase, by whom he 
had five children that grew to maturity, viz., David, 
Reuben, John, Samuel and Hannah.  David, a bachelor, resides 
in Philadelphia, Reuben and John settled in Bucks county, 
Samuel removed to Lehigh county; Hannah married William Z. 
Reichenbach, settled in this county and finally removed to 
Montgomery.  John, the father of William E., was a tinsmith, 
and was married to Matilda Ehl, from Montgomery county.  
They brought up four children:  William E., Hannah, Caroline 
and Allen E.   Hannah is the wife of Abraham Heft, and 
resides in Bethlehem; Caroline is the wife of Edwin S. 
Scheetz, and resides in Trumbauersville; Allen E. resides in 
Montgomery county.  William E. was reared in Richland 
township.  He graduated from the Keystone State Normal 
school in the spring of 1874, and afterward engaged in 
teaching.  In 1876 he was appointed deputy sheriff and 
served three years.  He then began reading law in the office 
of N. C. & J. D. James, in Doylestown, and was admitted to 
the bar June 13, 1881.  He opened an office in Quakertown, 
November 14, of the same year.  He was appointed justice of 
the peace March 8, 1883, but was elected the following 
spring, and has since served in that capacity.  He is a 
member of the Quakertown lodge, No. 512, A. Y. M.; Aquetong 
lodge, No. 193; and of Doylestown encampment, No. 35, I. O. 
O. F.