Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Slotter, William H.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Lower Makefield Township


   WILLIAM H. SLOTTER county superintendent of schools, P.O. 
Yardley, was born in Bedminster township, this county, 
August 5, 1842, and is a son of Jacob and Leah (Hockman) 
Slotter. His paternal grandfather, Anthony Slotter, a farmer 
by occupation, married Elizabeth Iden, by whom he had three 
children:  Jacob, John and Mary.  His maternal grandfather, 
Ulrich Hockman, married a Detwiller.  Both ancestors were of 
German descent and among the old families of Bedminster 
township. Our subject was reared in Bedminster and educated 
in the Excelsior Normal school of Carversville, and the West 
Chester State Normal school, from which he was graduated.  
Since 1867, with the exception of three years, he has been a 
teacher in the public schools of Bucks county. In 1882 he 
married Rachel, daughter of Jacob and Susan (Beidler) Fretz, 
of Bedminster township, by whom he has one child, Jacob F.  
Mr. Slotter has been principal of the public school at 
Yardley since 1883.  May 3, 1887, he was elected county 
superintendent of schools.  He is a member of the Reformed 
church, and his wife of the New School of Mennonites.