Peter Laubach, son of Adam Laubach, grandson of Peter Laubach, and great-grandson of Christian Laubach, was born in Allen Township, August 24, 1788. He resided on a farm near Howertown, and was a man of great activity. In addition to farming, he conducted a blacksmith shop, store, gristmill, and engaged in contracting. He supplied large quantities of material used in the building of the Lehigh canal, including the lumber for the building of Schwartz's dam. The old Laubach's mill, which was assumed by Peter and Joseph Laubach, brothers, in 1822, remained in that ownership until 1857, when Peter Laubach died, and at the appraisement of his estate his son, Samuel Laubach, accepted the flour-mill, and he operated the mill until 1861, the year of his death, when his widow and four sons, Allen D., Edward H., Peter J., of the Northampton Brewing Company, and Samuel F., the coal merchant, assumed the management of the flour-mill, and became the Samuel Laubach Estate, of Laubachsville, Pennsylvania, now Northampton. In 1898 the estate of Samuel Laubach sold the mill and interests to the Mauser Mill Company, large and heavy shippers of flour. Peter Laubach is still remembered in his community for his firmness and kindness. He was a faithful member of the Howertown Reformed Congregation, and contributed liberally to its support; and here his ashes and those of his good wife rest. It was at his house, April 30, 1833, that about sixteen of his neighbors gathered and that it was decided to erect a union church at Howertown. It is said that at that time the Laubachs owned forty per cent, of the land in Allen Township. He died September 7, 1857, and his wife, Elisabeth (Neligh) Laubach, who was born December 30, 1780, died April 2, 1871.