Biography: Adam Baughman (1773- Jul 23, 1840)

Source: Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. John M. Gresham & Co: Philadelphia, 1890. (Excerpt from biography on Henry Croushore, pp. 287-88).

“Adam Baughman…was the third child of Henry Baughman…and married Magdalene Rugh. After his marriage he, with his wife, settled in Armstrong county on a farm where four children were born them, all of whom are dead. Adam Baughman, after his brother Henry’s death, sold his Armstrong county farm and returned with his family to Westmoreland county and became the owner of the old homestead, on which he died July 23, 1840, aged 65 years. On the homestead farm the following children were born: Elisabeth, Margaret, who died April 1, 1869, aged sixty-four years; Peter, Anna, Henry, Christian and Lydia, all of whom are now dead, except Christian, who now resides in the west. At the time of Adam Baughman’s death he owned seven large farms in Westmoreland county. Henry Baughman [Adam’s father] came from Hamburg, Germany, at the age of four years with his father, who, together with the Byerlys, the Davises and Kunkles, settled near Lancaster City. Here he married Catherine Kunkle and to them were born four boys and four girls. They finally moved and settled in North Huntingdon township (eastern part), within seven and one-half miles of Greensburg, where he purchased 600 acres at 20s. per acre. It will be remembered that one of the above early settlers named Davis, shot and killed an Indian warrior. The Indians to revenge themselves afterward killed Davis on his farm, which is now owned by Sarah (Croushore) Black….”

Source: George Dallas Albert, ed. History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1882. (Excerpt from biography on Jacob Baughman, p. 668)

Henry Baughman and Catherine Kunkle “emigrated from Germany with their parents, the former when four years, the latter when two years old, and settled in the “Blue Ridge” region of Pennsylvania, thirty miles from Lancaster City. Here they were married and raised a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters. They moved from the Blue Ridge, and settled in the eastern part of North Huntingdon township, seven and a half miles from Greensburg, where he purchased six hundred acres of land at 20 shillings per acre. Their children were Margaret, John, Adam, Barbara, Catherine, Sarah, Peter and Henry. Henry was killed by the falling of a tree at the age of twenty-two. All the rest were married and, except Peter and Margaret, raised families.

Adam Baughman, his third child, and father of Jacob, married Magdalene, daughter of Peter Roof (or Rugh). She was born near Greensburg in 1779; her grandparents emigrated from Germany. Her uncle, Jacob Roof, represented his district in the Legislature for a number of years. There were fourteen children in her father’s family, six sons and eight daughters, to each of whom he either gave a home or money to procure one. Six of them settled in Kentucky; all the rest remained in Westmoreland County.

After his marriage Adam Baughman settled on a farm in Armstrong County, about seventy miles up the Allegheny River, and here four children, viz: Catherine, Michael, Polly, and Jacob were born. Upon the death of his brother Henry, to whom in the division of their father’s estate the homestead had fallen, he sold his place in Armstrong County and returned to Westmoreland, and became the owner and occupied the homestead until his death. Here the following children were born, viz.: Elizabeth, Margaret, Peter, Anna, Henry, Christian and Lydia. Henry died at the age of eleven. All the rest were married and raised families, and, with the exception of Polly and Christian, settled in Westmoreland County, and all are deceased (1882) except Jacob, Christian, Anna and Polly. Catherine was the wife of George Krok, one child; Michael was twice married, and raised a family of fourteen children; Polly married Joseph Klingensmith, one son; Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Lenhart, two sons and six daughters; Margaret, wife of George Croushore, six sons and four daughters; Peter married Elizabeth Lenhart, three sons and nine daughters; Anna, wife of John Berlin, six sons and three daughters; Christian married Sarah Diehl, one son and six daughters; Lydia, wife of Samuel Allshouse, four sons and six daughters. Adam Baughman died at the homestead in 1841, aged sixty-eight; his wife in 1831, aged fifty-two.”

(Notes:

1. The Baughmans arrived in Philadelphia, PA on Feb 7, 1739 on the Ship Jamaica Galley. Source: Ancestry.com's Immigrants in Pennsylvania, 1727-76.

2. The Kunkles arrived in Philadelphia, PA on September 16, 1748 on the Ship Patience. Source: Ancestry.com's Immigrants in Pennsylvania, 1727-76.

3. Magdalene Rugh, the daughter of John Peter Rugh and Maria Margaretha Keister, was born Mar 7, 1777, in Westmoreland County, PA. Source: The German Church Records of Western Pennsylvania, 1772-1791, by Paul Miller Ruff, p. 11.)