Frederick Rohrer and Catherine Deemer

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Husband Frederick Rohrer ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 28 Jul 1742 - Alsace, France 2 3 4
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           Died: 1834 1 2
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       Marriage: 1776 - York Co, PA 2

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Wife Catherine Deemer ²

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            AKA: Catherine Deemar 5
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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Rohrer ^{2 6}

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         Spouse: William Cope (      -      ) 2 6 7

         Spouse: John Fleeger (      -      ) 8

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General Notes: Husband - Frederick Rohrer

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Born in Alsace, then a part of France, he emigrated to America when he was seventeen years of age. He married in York County [Pennsylvania?], and afterward removed to Hagerstown, Maryland. It was in this year that he visited Pittsburgh, which then consisted of a fort and less than a dozen Indian huts, bringing with him some cattle, for which Gen. Arthur St. Clair gave him a tract of land in the Ligonier Valley. The next year he brought across the Alleghanies the first wheat ever imported into the western country, and this he planted on the banks of the Conemaugh, where he also boiled salt in an earthen pot, trading it to the Indians, having himself discovered there the since valuable springs from whose water it was produced. In 1771 the pioneer, with his family, was driven away by the Indians. For a long time they had been the only white settlers in the county. He returned to Hagerstown, and thence he removed permanently to Greensburg, where he became Justice of the Peace. When he died he had nine children, forty-two grandchildren and seventeen great-grand-children. The following interesting extract concerning him is from a letter dated Jan. 21, 1822, from F. J. Cope to Thomas P. Cope. It relates to a full new set of teeth which unexpectedly blessed him in his eighty-first year:
"Grandfather Rohrer, respecting whom you wished to know more about, had an addition of two teeth to the eleven which he had when I left home, making thirteen as handsome teeth as any I have seen in any young person. Those parts of the jaw where teeth have not appeared are exceedingly painful, which I presume is occasioned by the growing of the new teeth. They begin to be of material service to him, enabling him to eat that description of food which the want of them had long prevented him from enjoying the benefit of. His diet for some time had been confined to pap, which had reduced him to a mere skeleton. Since the new teeth began to be of service the greatest change has been effected, and instead of the frightening figure of a meagre man, we see a stout, healthy old man of eighty years of age, sitting at a window with a head almost white as snow, reading the newspapers without spectacles."

1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 523.

2 —, Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of Pennsylvania, Vol. I (New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889), Pg 307.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 577.

4 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 524.

5 Compiler's Speculation.

6 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 283.

7 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 503.

8 —, Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of Pennsylvania, Vol. I (New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889), Pg 308.