Biographical Sketch of Isaac R. HALDERMAN (1893); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsyl- vania, comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Phila- delphia, PA, 1893, page 315. "ISAAC R. HALDERMAN, one of the old and honored citizens of North Coventry township, residing near Pottstown, is the eldest son of John and Rebecca (Reinhart) Halderman, and was born January 2, 1828, in North Coventry township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, where he has always resided. He was reared on the farm, educated in the common schools, and has divided his attention between farming and milling, being successful in both occu- pations. He now owns two hundred and five acres of valuable improved land in that township, and also owns and operates a grist mill and saw mill on pigeon creek - the same mill erected by his father about 1814, and the first ever built on this creek. "Isaac R. Halderman has been twice wedded. His first wife was Magaret Sabold, whom he married on Christmas day, 1855, and by whom he had three children - one son and two daughters: Valeria, born October 21, 1856, and died May 1, 1859; John H., a sketch of whom will be found on another page of this work; and Arabella, born April 14, 1860, and passed away November 16, 1861. Mrs. Halderman died April 7, 1852 (sic - is this really 1862?), aged thirty-one years, and on March 24, 1864, Mr. Halderman wedded Hannah Keim, who was born April 19, 1831, and is a daughter of Samuel Keim, of Warwick township, Chester county. By this marriage Mr. Halderman had two sons and a daughter: Wilmar K., born July 20, 1865; Alice K., born December 17, 1868, graduated in June, 1892, from the Normal school at Kutztown, and is now engaged in teaching; and Maurice S., born March 18, 1877. "The Halderman family is of German descent and is an old family in Penn- sylvania, having been resident here for many generations. The paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Samuel Halderman, was a native of Berks county, this State, where he died at the early age of twenty- eight years. He was a democrat in politics, a farmer by occupation, and married Magdalena Wanger, by whom he had two children who lived to matur- ity: John W., and Susan, who married John Rinehart. John W. Halderman (father), was born on the old 'Felix farm' in Berks county, on January 3, 1799, and after his father's death, when only six or eight years of age, came to Chester county with his mother, and was reared in North Coventry township. There he passed the remainder of his life, dying February 18, 1880, in the eighty-first year of his age. He was by turns, a farmer, shoemaker, and miller, and in 1814 erected the first mill ever built on Pigeon creek, which he successfully conducted for a number of years. In politics he was a democrat. He married Rebecca Rinehart, a daughter of Abraham Rinehart, of East Coventry, Chester county, and had a family of six children: Isaac R., the subject of this sketch; Nathan R., deceased; William R., born November 25, 1829, and died January 8, 1845; Ann Amelia, born July 17, 1831, and died August 21, 1855; Catharine, born August 31, 1833, and died September 1, 1856; and Valeria, who was born March 28, 1835. Mrs. Rebecca (Rinehart) Halderman was born March 10, 1807, and is yet living, being now in the eight-sixth year of her age."