Family Reunions: The Trexler Family

Family Reunions: The Trexler Family

Source: Morton Montgomery, p. 321

Surnames: TREXLER, RENO

Trexler. The first reunion of the Trexler family was held at Kutztown
Park, Berks county, Pa., on Aug. 28, 1907. It was largely attended.
The officers of this reunion are:

President, James B. Trexler, Lewistown, Pa.

Vice-Presidents, Dr. Jacob Trexler, Lancaster, Pa.; B. F. Trexler, Allentown, Pa.; J. Allen Trexler, Allentown, Pa.

Secretary, Claude Trexler Reno, Allentown, Pa.

Treasurer, Morris D. Trexler, Topton, Pa.

Historian, Hon. Frank M. Trexler, Allentown, Pa.

This meeting was called to order by Claude Trexler Reno, Esq., and the
history of the family was then read by Judge Trexler, the historian.
His paper showed considerable research and gives to posterity a true
record of the Trexler family, which is an honored family of the State,
a number of notable personages being found among its members.

Peter Trexler, the forebear, came to America prior to 1720, and located
in Oley township, Berks county. His name, among others, appears upon
the petition for the erection of Oley township in 1720. Shortly
afterward he removed to what is now Upper Macungie township, Lehigh
county. In 1729 he obtained, through Casper Wister, land agent, a
patent for land upon which he lived. He died in 1758. His last will
bears date 1744. He disposes of his estate to his widow, Catharine,
and his three sons and three daughters, named, respectively: Jeremiah,
John, Peter, Anna, Catharine and Margaret.

Jeremiah Trexler (son of Peter) as early as 1732 had a public house at
Trexlertown. He and wife, Catharine, had sons John and Peter.

Peter Trexler, the second son of the first Peter, occupied a tract near
Breinigsville. He was justice of the peace from 1752 to 1776, and in
the Colonial system sat at the courts at Easton. His son, Peter, the
third Peter in line of descent from the first settler, was known as the
Mertztown Peter. In 1783 he was lieutenant-colonel of the militia. He
had eleven children, and his posterity is known as the Berks county
branch of the family. The names of his children as they appear in the
family Bible (in the possession of Edwin H. Trexler, of Mertztown) are
as follows: Maria, John Peter, Jacob, Reuben, Benjamin, Catharine,
Jonas, Anna, Nathan, Daniel, Judith.

The minutes and proceedings of the first reunion of the Trexler family
are published in pamphlet form. They were compiled by Claude Trexler
Reno, of Allentown, Pa., and are valuable.