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


HORACE R. TRAUGER proprietor of marble works, P.O. Keller's 
Church, is a grandson of William Traufer, a native of this 
county, who died on his farm in Nockamixon township.  His 
wife, Susan Deemer, now nearly 80 years of age, still lives 
on the homestead.  Their children were: Jonas, living in 
Bethlehem; Elizabeth, wife of Michael Yost, of Williams 
township, Northampton county; Rosanna, wife of Michael Roth, 
of the same township; Mary, deceased; Titus and Milton in 
Nockamixon; and Franklin, father of Horace R., who was born 
in 1830, and is now a mason and farmer in Durham township, 
where he bought a farm after his first marriage.  He has 
been twice married, his first wife being Catharine, daughter 
of Frederick Rufe, of Nockamixon.  She died in 1865, leaving 
five children:  Anna, living in Riegelsville; Alice, in 
Kintnersville; Harvey, in Plumsteadville; Horace R., a twin 
brother of Harvey; and Catharine, in Easton.  Mr. Trauger's 
second wife, Mary, is a sister of his first.  They have 
seven children:  Mahlon and Asa, in Durham township; Flora, 
deceased; Irena, David, Carrie, and Susan Augusta, who live 
with their parents. Horace R. was born in Nockamixon 
township, March 19, 1863.  At the age of 19, he began 
learning the trade of marble-cutting, in the shop of which 
he is now proprietor, having in 1884 bought out his 
employer, John K. Koder.  He is a skilled workman, and his 
ability, skill, and taste are shown in many of the 
handsomest monuments in the burial-ground of the Keller 
church.  He erected the largest granite monument in that 
cemetery.  He is unmarried, and a young man of unblemished 
character.