Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Stout, Allen K.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Bedminster Township


ALLEN K. STOUT farmer, P.O. Ridge, is a native of Hilltown 
township, and was born May 21, 1843.  His 
great-great-grandfather, Jacob Stout, was born in 1710, in 
the Palatine district, on the Rhine, came to America in 1725 
with his two brothers, and died in 1779 in Rockhill township 
on the farm afterward bought by his son Abraham.  Abraham 
was born in Rockhill township in the first half of the last 
century, was a farmer, and died there.  His son, Henry, 
grandfather of Allen K., was also a native of that township. 
 He was born in 1776, and died in Hilltown January 1, 1854.  
His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Christian Carn, who kept 
the Green Tree tavern in Rockhill, in connection with which 
he owned a farm of 320 acres.  Henry Stout had seven 
daughters and one son, Enos, the father of Allen K.  He was 
born in 1813 in Hilltown, was always a farmer, and bought a 
part of the home place on which he built, and after his 
father's death bought the rest of the property, owning the 
whole 150 acres until his death, December 6, 1886.  He was a 
good man, especially noted as a wise counselor of his 
neighbors in trouble.  His wife was Catherine, daughter of 
John Kratz, of Plumstead, born May 22, 1809.  She was of a 
family of fifteen children, of whom three are living.  She 
lives on the old home.  They had six children, of whom two, 
Edward C. and Wilhelmina, are deceased; Lewis lives in 
Philadelphia; John Henry, in the west; Reuben, in Perkasie; 
and Allen K., in this township.  Our subject learned the 
trade of milling, at which he worked until March, 1865, when 
he enlisted in company F. 202d Regiment P. V., serving until 
the close of the war, being mustered out August 3, 1865. He 
again engaged in milling, and in 1878 rented a farm, the 
following year buying his present place of over 100 acres.  
July 29, 1871, he was married to Catherine L., daughter of 
Abraham Scherer, of Lehigh county.  She was born in this 
county April 29, 1851, and died March 24, 1887.  They had 
two children:  Edgar, who died in infancy, and Ella Amanda, 
born in 1874.  Mr. Stout is known as a straightforward man, 
and is highly esteemed by his neighbors.