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Joseph Saeger, son of Nicholas and his wife, Eva Balliet. was born May 18, 1787, and died Aug. 24, 1848. He married Anna Margaret Pretz, born March 11, 1791. She died Jan. 1, 1858. Both are buried on Allentown cemetery. He settled at Saegersville in 1807, which was named in honor of Mr. Saeger, where he had a hotel and store business until l83l.when he sold it to his son-in-law, Peter Miller, and moved to Allentown, where he engaged in the mercantile business with his brother-in-law, Christian Pretz under the name of Pretz & Saeger. They had nine children: Reuben, Nathan, Joseph, Owen, Franklin, Edwin, Magdalena, Salome, and Messina.