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BIOGRAPHICAL AND PORTRAIT CYCLOPEDIA

(Lehman) Ream, and was born in Conemaugh township, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, December 30, 1830. He was reared on the home farm, received his education in the early common schools, and remained with his father until he attained his majority, when he went west and purchased a farm in Elkhart county, Indiana. Upon this farm he remained until the commencement of the late Civil War, and then, on September 2, 1861, enlisted in company B, Twenty-ninth Indiana infantry, being enrolled as a musician. He was soon promoted to fife-major, and served in that capacity until the close of the war, being honorably discharged at Marietta, Alabama, in December, 1865. He contracted rheumatism from exposure while in the service, which rendered farming difficult to him after returning to Indiana, he sold his farm in order to return to Pennsylvania. After returning, his rheumatism became somewhat better, and he was engaged in farming at Scalp Level from 1866 to 1870; and in St. Clair township, Bedford county, from March 17, 1870, to March 2, 1880. Retiring from farming a second time, he turned his attention to merchandizing, and opened his present general mercantile establishment at Scalp Level. In this last line of business he has met with good success, has a large establishment well stocked, and enjoys an extensive patronage from the surrounding country.     In 1855 Mr. Ream married Sarah Horner, a daughter of John C. Horner, of Richland township. They have three children: Jeremiah, Rev. James F., and Alonzo E.     In politics Mr. Ream has been active, and has discharged the duties of several township offices. He is a member of the German Baptist church, of which his sons, Jeremiah and James F., are members, and the latter a minister.

The Reams are of German ancestry, and Garrett Ream, the paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was the first of the family to come to Somerset county; he located at Bear Creek furnace, at which place he owned a saw-mill, and died in 1842, at a ripe old age. His son, Daniel Ream (father), was born at Bear Creek furnace, and died at Scalp Level March 12, 1852. At the time of his death he owned a flouring mill and a large and valuable farm. He was a member of the German Baptist church, and married Maria Lehman, who was a member of the same church, and died in 1895, aged eighty-seven years. She was a daughter of Isaac Lehman, a native of Conemaugh township, and a resident of Paint township, Somerset county, where he died in 1880, at a ripe old age. Mr. Lehman was of German descent, and a member of the Amish church, which he honored by a correct walk in life. ANTHONY KOHLER, one of the largest dairymen of the county and an industrious and enterprising farmer, is a son of Jodock and Annie (Reichstadt) Kohler, and was born December 9, 1857, in Conemaugh township, Cambria county. His grandfather, Casper Kohler, was a native of France, and died in the land of his nativity. Jodock Kohler, father, realizing the advantage to be gained in America, emigrated to this country in 1847, at the age of thirty-two years, and located at what was then Ben's Creek furnace, this county, where he remained about seven years. He was a stone-mason by trade, and while here followed this avocation. In 1854 he removed to Conemaugh township, where he purchased a farm, and from this time until his death, in 1888, he adopted and followed the pursuits of a farmer.

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