Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Slaughter, Frederick M.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Solebury Township


   FREDERICK M. SLAUGHTER merchant, P.O. New Hope, was born 
in Frankford, Pa., October 21, 1818, and is a son of Peter 
and Sarah (Mangold) Slaughter.  He was reared in Frankford, 
where he served four years and four months as an indentured 
apprentice at the machinist's trade, after which he worked 
as a journeyman in various sections of the country until 
1855, when he located in New Hope and embarked in the 
mercantile business, which he has continued until the 
present time.  In 1841 he married Mary A., daughter of John 
and Martha (McKeone) Bartley, of New Hope, by whom he had 
four children:  Hiram (deceased), Peter, Frederick 
(deceased) and Jonathan.  Mr. Slaughter served about one 
hundred days in the late war of the rebellion, being 
honorably discharged at the end of that time.  He is a 
member of the New Hope Presbyterian chapel.  Politically he 
is a republican.