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Joseph Buehrle
1802 - 1877 (74 years)-
Name Joseph Buehrle Nickname Josephus Birth 21 Dec 1802 Kappel am Rhein, Freiburg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany 
Christening 24 Dec 1802 Kappel am Rhein, Freiburg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany Gender Male Military Service Abt 1820 Germany Army of the Grand Duke Death 3 Mar 1877 Tinicum, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, USA Burial Upper Timicum Union Cemetery, Tinicum, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, USA Notes - In obedience to the law, Joseph Buehrle served for six years as a soldier in the army of the Grand Duke, at the expiration of which time he was appointed a gunsmith in the frontier, and also in the Customs department. In this service he so distinguished himself in his encounters with smugglers (from the conflicts with whom he carried scars to his grave), and for his zeal and honesty in the discharge of his responsible duties, that after six years, he was promoted for meritorious conduct to the position of Internal Revenue assessor and collector in his native village. Being a man of universally admitted probity of character, a free-thinker, though a great admirer of Martin Luther, and an intense hater of slavery and despotism, how could he do otherwise than co-operate with the earliest of those patriots (joined later by Carl Schurz, Frederick Hecker and Franz Sigel), who unsuccessfully attempted to bring about the freedom and unity of Germany through the Revolution of 1848 (he lived to see the unity, though not the freedom, brought about as a result of the Franco-Prussian war, in 1870), and as a consequence was deprived of his government office in 1844, and came to America, “The Land of the Free.” Not finding his trade of linen-weaver congenial nor remunerative, he, in 1848, became a boatman on the Lehigh canal (running from Mauch Chunk and points above to Philadelphia and New York), and thenceforth resided in Tinicum township, Bucks county, Pa. He owned his boat, of which he was captain, and was assisted by his two sons, the subject of this sketch and his elder brother. He retired in 1888 to a little homestead, and died in 1877, followed nine years later by his widow, in her eightieth year. In politics Joseph Buehrle voted with the Democratic party, because the Whig seemed to him to favor wealth, nativism and prohibition, but when the Democratic party became distinctly pro-slavery he left it, as he had always been anti-slavery, and thenceforth continued to be a consistent Republican, in which respect his descendants and relatives followed him.
(Beers, J.H. & Co., Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Containing Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers, 1903, pp.440/441)
- Joseph Buehrle, was a native of Baden, and entertained strong Republican principles as opposed to monarchical ideas. He served as revenue agent and tax collector for the duchy of Baden for a long period, but on account of his connection with the Republican movement which culminated in the rebellion begun at Baden in 1848 he was deprived of his office and of most of his property, and in 1846 he sought a home beyond the Atlantic in the “land of the free.” Bucks county was his destination and he established his home near Easton, where he began boating on the Lehigh and Delaware canal. Later he purchased a farm in Tinicum township, Bucks county, where he spent his remaining days, devoting his attention to agricultural pursuits. The conditions of his life were very greatly changed from those of his German home, but he made the best of the circumstances and became a loyal and valued citizen of the Keystone state. His children were: Robert, who is now superintendent of schools in Lancaster city; Wilhelme, who married Jacob Steeley, a resident of Nockamixon township; Emma, who married Titus Applebach, of Bethlehem; Josephine of Bethlehem, who was married twice; first to Jacob Krouse, and two years after his death to James Williams, both of Tincicum.
(Davis, William W. H., A Genealogical and Personal History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1905, Vol. II, page 377)
Person ID I38946 OurNorthernRoots | Rebecca's Ancestor Last Modified 4 Jan 2026
Father Franz Joseph Bührle, b. 5 Feb 1762, Baden-Württemberg, Germany d. 19 Feb 1815, Kappel am Rhein, Freiburg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany (Age 53 years) Mother Katharina Kraemer, b. 10 Dec 1760, Kappel am Rhein, Freiburg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany d. 30 Oct 1811, Kappel am Rhein, Freiburg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany (Age 50 years) Marriage 7 Jan 1788 Kappel Am Rhein, Freiburg, Baden, Germany Family ID F14703 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Johanna Koch, b. 15 May 1806, Rust, Baden-Württemberg, Germany d. 15 Apr 1886, Tinicum, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, USA (Age 79 years) Marriage 6 Sep 1830 Katholisch, Kappel Am Rhein, Freiburg, Baden, Germany Children 1. Wilhelmina Buehrle, c. 11 Jan 1831, Katholisch, Kappel Am Rhein, Freiburg, Baden, Germany + 2. William Koch Buehrle, b. 30 May 1834, Baden-Württemberg, Germany d. 15 Jan 1921, Bedminster, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, USA (Age 86 years)3. Josephine Buehrle, b. 8 Apr 1838, Baden, Germany 4. Robert Koch Buehrle, PhD, b. 24 Sep 1840, Ueberlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany d. 19 Jun 1920, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 79 years)5. Emeline Buehrle, b. 16 Aug 1842, Baden, Germany d. 6 Aug 1928, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 85 years)Family ID F13826 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Dec 2013
- In obedience to the law, Joseph Buehrle served for six years as a soldier in the army of the Grand Duke, at the expiration of which time he was appointed a gunsmith in the frontier, and also in the Customs department. In this service he so distinguished himself in his encounters with smugglers (from the conflicts with whom he carried scars to his grave), and for his zeal and honesty in the discharge of his responsible duties, that after six years, he was promoted for meritorious conduct to the position of Internal Revenue assessor and collector in his native village. Being a man of universally admitted probity of character, a free-thinker, though a great admirer of Martin Luther, and an intense hater of slavery and despotism, how could he do otherwise than co-operate with the earliest of those patriots (joined later by Carl Schurz, Frederick Hecker and Franz Sigel), who unsuccessfully attempted to bring about the freedom and unity of Germany through the Revolution of 1848 (he lived to see the unity, though not the freedom, brought about as a result of the Franco-Prussian war, in 1870), and as a consequence was deprived of his government office in 1844, and came to America, “The Land of the Free.” Not finding his trade of linen-weaver congenial nor remunerative, he, in 1848, became a boatman on the Lehigh canal (running from Mauch Chunk and points above to Philadelphia and New York), and thenceforth resided in Tinicum township, Bucks county, Pa. He owned his boat, of which he was captain, and was assisted by his two sons, the subject of this sketch and his elder brother. He retired in 1888 to a little homestead, and died in 1877, followed nine years later by his widow, in her eightieth year. In politics Joseph Buehrle voted with the Democratic party, because the Whig seemed to him to favor wealth, nativism and prohibition, but when the Democratic party became distinctly pro-slavery he left it, as he had always been anti-slavery, and thenceforth continued to be a consistent Republican, in which respect his descendants and relatives followed him.
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Military Service - Army of the Grand Duke - Abt 1820 - Germany 
Marriage - 6 Sep 1830 - Katholisch, Kappel Am Rhein, Freiburg, Baden, Germany 
Death - 3 Mar 1877 - Tinicum, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, USA 
Burial - - Upper Timicum Union Cemetery, Tinicum, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, USA = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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