Howard D. Beysher ¹

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Book: History of Northampton County (Pennsylvania) and the grand valley of the Lehigh, 1920. ¹
Howard D. Beysher - Since meeting with the accident which deprived him of a limb, Mr Beysher has engaged in various business enterprises, both as an employee and proprietor, his present activity, Beysher's Taxi Service, located at No. 405 Broadway, South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, being a most prosperous and profitable one. He is a son of Cornelius Beysher, who died in September, 1916, aged sixty-six years, a pioneer in South Bethlehem, who at the time of his death had been an invalid for ten years, after a life of activity as a contractor. He was a friend of John Fritz, of the Bethlehem Steel Company, a Democrat in politics, member of the School Board for eight years. Cornelius Beysher married Lucinda Ritter, daughter of Nathan Ritter, of Allentown. They were the parents of the following children: John W., now in the employ of the Bethlehem Steel Works, married Mamie Wagner, of Salisbury, Pennsylvania, and the are the parents of a daughter, Clair; Helen L., married John Tenney; Howard D., of further mention.

Howard D. Beysher was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, February 21, 1881, and there educated in the public schools. His first position was as clerk in the Lerch & Rice department store, there remaining eighteen months where, in jumping from a moving train, June 18, 1899, he was so seriously injured that his left leg had to be amputated. After recovering from this serious accident he entered the clerical employ of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, retaining that position four years, resigning to become proprietor of the Bellevue Hotel in South Bethlehem, which he had bought. After retiring from the management of the Bellevue, he spent three years in St. Louis, Missouri, as cashier in the manufacturing plant, then returned to Bethlehem. He started there the Wyandotte Pressing Club, conducting that enterprise four years before instituting Beysher's Taxi Service with the motto "Anytime to Anywhere." He has built up the service to a high level of efficiency, and has made it an institution of South Bethlehem with which this borough would very reluctantly part. He is a man of progressive, energetic nature, and whatever he does is well an promptly done. He is a member of Friendship Fraternal Order and the Loyal Order of Moose, is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Lutheran church.

Mr. Beysher married June 21, 1905, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lotta Bougher, daughter of Martin W. and Alice (Zearfaus) Bougher, both living, her father a retired ship chandler of Philadelphia. He has long been active in the Republican party, was city councilman two terms, represented his district in the State Legislature. He is now practically retired from public life, but has an office in the city department of weights and measures, and serves his ward as committeeman.

Howard married Lottie B. Bougher, daughter of Martin Wesley Bougher and Sarah Alice Zearfaus, on 21 Jun 1905 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.¹ (Lottie B. Bougher was born on 14 Jan 1882 in Durham Twp., Bucks, PA ^{2 3}, christened on 12 Feb 1882 in Durham Twp.: Durham Union Church, Bucks, PA ² and died on 2 Oct 1941 in Tucson, Pima, AZ ³.)