Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Stout, Mahlon H.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Doylestown M-Z


MAHLON H. STOUT attorney, P.O. Doylestown, was born in 
Rockhill township, Bucks county, March 10, 1853, and is a 
son of Jacob and Amanda (Headman) Stout, natives of Rockhill 
township, and of German descent.  The pioneers of the family 
came from Germany about 1730, and were among the earliest 
settlers of Rockhill township.  The great-great-grandfather, 
Jacob Stout, at one time owned nearly all the land where 
Perkasie borough now stands.  He was a potter by trade.  The 
great-grandfather, Abraham, and the grandfather, Jacob, were 
farmers, and resided on the homestead in Rockhill township.  
They are all buried in the family burying ground at 
Perkasie. Our subject's father is also a farmer, and still 
resides in Rockhill township.  He is the father of three 
children:  Maria, Emma, and Mahlon H., who was reared on a 
farm until he was 17 years of age, when he began teaching 
school, which he continued for four years.  He then prepared 
for college at Ursinus college, Montgomery county.  He then 
entered the freshman's class of Franklin and Marshall 
college in the fall of 1874, and graduated in the classical 
course in the class of 1878.  He then began to study law 
with Adam J. Eberly, of Lancaster, and was admitted to the 
Lancaster bar on April 2, 1880.  In May, 1880, he was 
admitted to the Bucks county bar and began to practice in 
Doylestown, where he has since continued.  He is now in 
partnership with ex-Judge Richard Watson.  Mr. Stout has 
also a branch office at Hulmeville, this county, and is 
there on Saturdays only.  He is a member of the I. O. O. F., 
Neshaminy Lodge, No. 442, also of the Chi Phi fraternity, 
Zeta chapter, located at Franklin and Marshall college.  He 
is also a member of the Masonic fraternity of Doylestown.