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CLARENCE MELVIN GREGER, son of Charles and Emma (Mills) Greger, is a native of Worcester township, his father having rented for a time a farm in that place, on which he was born, January 29, 1876.

Clarence M. Greger attended the public school at Franklinville, in Whitpain township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, until he had reached his sixteenth year, after which time he remained at home and assisted his father in the management of the farm until his marriage, February 16, 1898, to Mary Catharine, daughter of Alvin Williamson and Mary Catharine (Harp) White, of Bucks county, Mr. White being a farmer in that county. After his marriage Mr. Greger removed to Linden Lodge, the farm of Miss Abigail W. Foulke, daughter of the late. Daniel and Lydia Foulke, of Gwynedd township, on the Bethlehem turnpike, a short distance above Springhouse, where he remained for one year, after which he operated, in conjunction with his father in Whitpain township, the farm known as the Singerley home farm, containing over 200 acres of fertile land, formerly the property of William M. Singerley. Mr. Greger remained there one year and then leased the property known as the Hill Farm, containing 116 acres, the property of his uncle Thomas P. Greger, and adjacent to the Evergreen Farm. He managed the place as a dairy, remaining two years, when he removed to the estate of Edward M. McDonaldson, in New Britain township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, the farm containing 167 acres of improved land, meadow and woodland, where he established a considerable dairy, managing it until March, 1904, when he leased the farm of Henry G. Keasbey, on the Swedesford Road, in Lower Gwynedd township, containing a hundred acres of land. On this farm he established a dairy with a herd of twenty cows, in which he has takes much pride, making every effort to succeed in his business. He is energetic, capable and industrious, and has an excellent assistant in his wife, who does all that is possible to contribute to the success of the enterprise in which she and her husband are engaged. In politics Mr. Greger follows the lines laid down in three generations of his family, and acts with the Democratic party. While he has never participated very actively in party affairs, he has always supported the ticket with his vote and his influence. In religious faith the family are members of St. Mark’s Reformed church, at Pleasantville, Bucks county. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence M. Greger: Elizabeth M., born May 19, 1899; Marion White, born September 4, 1901.

Charles E. Greger (father) is the son of David and Catharine (Blake) Greger, who are now long deceased. They were lifelong residents of Whitpain township. Charles E. Greger was born November 9, 1843, at what was then the Greger homestead, near Blue Bell, and married, December 28, 1867, Emma, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Heyser) Mills, of Worcester township. Charles Greger was for a number of years one of the tenants on the farms of the late William M. Singerley, and was an energetic and successful farmer. He now resides in Worcester township where he follows that occupation.