Bio: Samuel BACHMAN, Lancaster County, PA

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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNUALS OF LANCASTER COUNTY, VOL. I, Page 456

SAMUEL BACHMAN, in his lifetime an honored and industrious farmer of Bart Township, 
Lancaster County, was born near Georgetown, August 19, 1791, his parents being Jacob 
and Ann (Heidelbaugh) Bachman.c 

Jacob Bachman, who was born in 1762, was the son of Felix Bachman. Felix Bachman came 
from Switzerland when a young man and settled in Bart Township, where he owned 800 acre 
of land, which was divided among his children. Jacob and George were his two sons; 
Margaret Ann, the oldest daughter, marries Simeon Geise, and died in Bart Township; 
Barbara and Ann Margaret married two brothers by the name of Pickle and spent their lives in Bart Township.

Jacob Bachman was the father of a family of five children: George, the oldest; 
Elizabeth Bachman, the wife of Solomon Hamer, of Bart Township; Mary Bachman, married 
to Adam Fogle, of Bart Township; Jacob Bachman, who lived and died on the old 
homestead; Samuel.

Samuel Bachman was reared in Bart Township, where he married for his first wife Rebecca 
Baird, born Bart Township in 1794. They settled at the Green Tree for a time and then 
moved to White Hall, where the wife died in 1830, leaving four children, two of whom 
are now living: John Baird Bachman, a resident of Columbia; Hiram F. Bachman, killed by 
lightning in 1850; Samuel H. Bachman, who died when a young man; Ann Amanda Bachman, 
unmarried and an invalid, living on the old homestead. 

Mr. Bachman married for his second wife, in September 1834, Miss Isabella Bower, born 
in Virginia in 1798. She died in Bart Township in October 1841, leaving two daughters 
and one son: Harriet E., born and reared in Bart Township, living at the old home from 
which she buried her parents, and much respected and loved for her many kindly 
qualities; Rebecca, who was educated in the home schools and in the State Normal at 
Millersville, taught private school in Lancaster County for several years, and lives at 
the old home; William B., who died in childhood.

Mr. Bachman married for his third wife, in 1844, Miss Hannah Pickle, a lady born and 
reared in Bart Township, by whom he had one daughter, Hannah M., born in 1846, and for 
a number of years a very successful teacher in Lancaster County. She is now the wife of 
James Irwin and has three children, H. Mabel, Sarah B. and Mary G.

In 1849 Mr. Bachman bought the farm where his daughters are now living. It adjoins 
Georgetown, and there he erected good buildings and made many permanent and valuable 
improvements. He also owned a valuable farm near White Hall. He died in 1882.

Religiously Mr. Bachman was connected with the Presbyterian Church, as were all his 
daughters excepting Rebecca, who is Methodist. In politics he was a Whig, and later a 
Republican. He was one of the first school directors in the town. His four daughters, 
noted above, are all that is left of this historic family. They are ladies whose deeds 
of kindness and thoughtfulness have endeared them to the community.