Daniel Follweiler was born October 2, 1769, and died February 14, 1847, aged eighty-seven years. He was a lifelong resident of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and was a farmer of considerable means. He married Marie Dorothea Leiser, daughter of Frederick Leiser, who was at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the war of 1812, when the British threatened to capture the Liberty Bell. His team and wagon were used to convey the bell from that city to Allentown, but on arriving at Bethlehem one of the wagon wheels broke, thus necessitating the removal of that historic relic to another mode of conveyance.