Stephen Balliet (1781-1854)
Stephen Balliet was born on Oct. 27, 1781 to Stephen Balliet (1753- 1821) and Magdalena Burkhalter (1765-1805. Stephen was a member of the second generation of Balliets born in the United States. His grandfather, Paulus Balliet, came to the US from France in 1739 to avoid religious persecution of the Huguenots [1]
Stephen Balliet married Susan Ihrie (1784-1852). They had eleven children, including Stephen (died young), Susan Balliet 1806-1873 who married Dr. Jesse Hallman, Stephen Balliet Jr (1809-1860), Paul Balliet (1811-1886), Aaron Balliet (1813-1895), Maria Balliet (1815-1867), George Balliet, John Balliet (1819-1886), Charles, Sabina and Caroline (Roberts et al. 1914: 51-54).
In 1826 he, with Samuel Hellfrich, bought the land upon which the Lehigh Furnace would be built. In 1828 they erected the East Penn Forge.
Stephen Balliet died in January 1854.
Notes
- ↑ Matthews and Hungerford 1884, 538.
References
- Mathews, Alfred, and Austin N Hungerford. 1884. History of the Counties of Lehigh and Carbon, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Everts & Richards.
- Roberts, Charles Rhoads, John Baer Stoudt, Thomas H. Krick, and William J. Dietrich. 1914. History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Its Families. Allentown, Pa.: Lehigh Valley publishing Company, Limited. https://books.google.com/books?id=mzQPAQAAMAAJ&dq=lehigh%20furnace&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false .