Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Swartzlander, Fred, Dr.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Northampton Township


   FRED SWARTZLANDER, physician, P.O. Richboro, was born at 
Yardley, Bucks county, September 21, 1848, his parents being 
Joseph and Abigail W. (Rankin) Swartzlander. Philip 
Swartzlander, great-great-grandfather of our subject, was 
born at Freiburg, in Swartzwald, Germany, and emigrated with 
his family to America, and located two miles north of 
Doylestown, on the Dublin road, opposite the old Abraham 
Delp property. With him came his son, Gabriel, five years of 
age, who was reared here, and married Salome Stout. Their 
original homestead was the Cope farms opposite Delp's, and 
they owned other tracts adjoining, among which was the 
Abraham Delp tract of 400 acres. They had six children: 
Jacob, John, David, Joseph, Margaret and Catherine. The last 
lived in Doylestown and died in Philadelphia. The oldest 
child, Jacob, was the grandfather of Fred. He came to 
Southampton township in 1808, bought Lightwood's house and 
mill (now Sterner's). His first wife was Elizabeth Cope, and 
they had the following children: Joseph, Abraham, Salome and 
Gabriel, deceased. His second wife was Elizabeth Moot. Their 
children were: Emily, Clara, Wilhelmina, and Harriet, who 
died in infancy. He and his first wife are buried at 
Feasterville, Southampton township. His second wife is still 
living at Bustleton. Joseph Swartzlander, father of Fred, 
was the oldest child of Jacob, and was reared in Southampton 
township, and learned the milling trade at Swartzlander's 
mill. At the age of twenty he set out on foot to travel. At 
Zanesville, O., he took the smallpox, but recovered, started 
ahead, and went on to New Orleans on a flat boat, to St. 
Louis on the steamboat and walked to Detroit, 564 miles. 
Coming north, he arrived on the shores of Lake Michigan. The 
site of the present metropolis, Chicago, was then a swamp. 
He then started for Rochester, via the Erie canal, and 
thence went to Boston, and from there returned home. A trip 
of this character at that time was both rare and hazardous. 
On his return he engaged in milling, which he is still 
engaged in, but has centered his interests in the lumbering 
business at Yardley. He has cut more hard timber than any 
man or firm in Bucks county. He is the father of nine 
children, seven living: Mary, Frank, Harry, Ella, Albert, 
Fred and Laura, Jacob and Abraham, deceased. Fred was born 
and reared in Yardley. He studied medicine at Doylestown in 
1867 with his brother. He attended lectures at the Bellevue 
Hospital Medical college, New York, and afterward attended 
lectures at the old Jefferson college, at Philadelphia, and 
graduated in March, 1872. He located at Yardley, and 
practised there two years, associated with Dr. Joseph Smith. 
He came to Richboro in April, 1874. He was married July, 
1877, to Miss Henrietta Slack, daughter of Joseph C. and 
Elizabeth B. Slack. They have two children living, Joseph 
and Louis. One child, Bessie, is dead. In 1884 Dr. 
Swartzlander, desiring to attend the International Medical 
association at Copenhagen, took an extensive tour through 
Europe. He has also travelled in the United States. During 
the war of the rebellion he was for three years an 
uncommissioned officer in company B, 6th regiment 
Pennsylvania Cavalry, under Colonel Rush. This was Rush's 
Lancers regiment.