Edwin J., son of Jonathan Julia Fenstermacher Bachman, was born in Lehigh Township, 6/22/1841, and died 2/8/1912. He was a farmer and engaged in the general hauling and contracting business at Catasauqua, where the last thirty years of his life were spent. He also had a coal yard and was interested in a stone quarry. He was a Democrat, and a member of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Bachman married Priscilla Steward, born 1/1/1 845, who resides at Fullerton, they had children: Ammon H.; William G., David Steward, Edwin J., Robert A., Reuben H, Alvin Martin, Franklin H., Susan J., James 0., Priscilla M., Clayton S.