Phanus J. J. was born March 4. 1852, on the old Troxell homestead near the Iron Bridge. He assisted his father on the farm for a number of years and was later employed by the Coplay Cement Company as team foreman in whose employ he continued for a period of 25 years. He died July 2, 1906, and was buried on Allen Union Cemetery, Northampton. Pa. In 1874, he was married to Augusta E. E. Resh, born Aug. 5, 1853, a daughter of Ephraim and Carolina Mill Resh, of Lower Macungie, near the Lehigh Union Church.