Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Uhler, Michael
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Tinicum Township


   MICHAEL UHLER merchant, P.O. Uhlertown. The ancestors of 
this gentleman were for several generations residents of 
Northampton county. His father, Jacob, was born there, and 
removed to Durham township, where he died when 42 years old. 
He was an enterprising man, and after building the stone 
house and barn on his farm in Durham, which are yet 
standing, he bought another farm in Northampton county, on 
which Uhlersville now stands. He was a prominent churchman, 
and one of the committee to build the Durham Lutheran and 
Reformed church, of which he was long a trustee. His wife 
was Margaret Messinger, of Northampton county, who survived 
her husband nearly 40 years. Their children were:  Phebe 
(deceased), Rebecca (deceased), Nancy (deceased), Mary 
(deceased), Peter, who died at Easton, and was the founder 
of Uhlersville, where he has extensive interest; John, who 
is in the lime business at Easton; and Michael, who was born 
February 6, 1822, in Durham township. He was reared to 
mercantile pursuits, beginning for himself in a general 
store in Allentown, Pa., in 1843, where he remained six 
years. His store was burned out in 1849, entailing a heavy 
loss, after which he went to Uhlersville, and was for two 
years in the mercantile and lime business, having purchased 
thirty acres of the finest limestone property in Northampton 
county within one-half mile of Easton. Eight large kilns for 
the manufacture of lime were at once erected along the canal 
bank, whose annual output is 250,000 bushels. The lime is 
loaded in boats (about twenty of which are owned solely by 
Mr. Uhler), and farmers along the Delaware division, Morris, 
and Delaware and Raritan canals, as well as throughout the 
lower end of Bucks county and southern New Jersey, get their 
supply from the above kilns. In 1853 he came to Uhlerstown, 
then called Mexico, and was subsequently appointed 
postmaster of the place. He is engaged in general 
merchandising, dealing in coal, lime, lumber, hay, etc., and 
also in boat building; in fact, it may truthfully be said 
that Uhlertown owes its existence and prosperity to Mr. 
Uhler, as upwards of one hundred men are kept busy the year 
round. In 1872 he built a grist-mill in the place, which is 
noted for the excellent quality of roller process flour and 
different brands of choice feed produced, and which is run 
both by water and steam power. August 16, 1847, he married 
Hannah S., daughter of John V. R. and Annie Hunter, of 
Allentown. She was born December 6, 1830. To their union 
four children have been born:  Taylor Milton, now in 
Philadelphia; Emma Annie, wife of E. F. Hillegas, of Point 
Pleasant; Mary Margaret, widow of John Mayberry, living with 
her parents; and Michael Van Reed, who died in Los Angeles, 
Cal., in February, 1887, aged nearly 32. Mr. Uhler is a 
member of Peace and Union lodge, No. 456, I. O. O. F., of 
Riegelsville; of Tinicum Tribe, No. 168, I. O. R. M.  He is 
trustee of the Frenchtown Union cemetery, and for the past 
twenty-five years has been a director of the Union National 
bank of Frenchtown. He is a member of the Upper Tinicum 
Lutheran church, and his wife of the Baptist church of 
Frenchtown. An enterprising, pushing man, Mr. Uhler's place 
in the community could hardly be filled by another, and his 
multifarious enterprises give employment to many men.