SALOME (REESE) TRIECHLER is a daughter of Jacob and Salome Reese, and was born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, January 17, 1817. Jacob Reese (father) was born in Philadelphia, and re-moved to Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, when a very small boy. Later he removed to Niagara county, this State, and located on the Lockport road, where he bought a farm and resided for about fifty years, then removed to the town of Shawnee, where be resided until his death, which occurred December 8, 1863,[prob ably not correct year- see Jacob Reese] in the eighty-third year of his age. He was a democrat, and a good business man. He married and had a family of seven children, three of whom are still living: Margaret, Mary, and Salome. Mrs. Reese was born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, and was of German descent. Mr. Reese-was also of German extraction, and came from the thrifty German element that populated most of the eastern counties of Pennsylvania.

On December 29, 1841, Salome Reese was married to Daniel Triechler; a farmer of this county. To this union have been born two children: Sarah A., resides with her mother; and Mary C., who resides with her mother on the old homestead, married Dr. A. H. Flood, who was a prominent physician of Elmira, where he practiced for seven years, and died there. This union was blessed with three children: Emma S., who is attending the State Normal school at Buffalo; Albert H., is in the employ of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company at East Buffalo; and Edith M., lives at home with her mother. Mrs. Triechler owns a beautiful little firm of twenty-five acres, which is in a high state of cultivation. When quite young she joined the Reformed church, and has been a life-long professing Christian. She and her husband have had the reputation of being charitable, generous and unselfish, and never permitted the hungry to pass without assistance, believing that charity is one of the essentials of a true Christian life. .

Daniel Triechler, the husband of our subject, was born in York; York county, Pennsylvania, August 7, 1816, and died July 17, 1877. At the age of fifteen years he came with his father to Niagara county, with whom he resided until he grew to manhood, when he started out to do for himself. They located in the town of Wheatfield, and engaged in farming. pgs 601-2.
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