St. Mathews

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"Kellers Church was one of the oldest Bucks County settlements north of Doylestown. Heinrich Keller founded St. Matthews Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1744. Rev, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America, exercised some involvement with the Kellers Church congregation which was known as "Tohecka congregation" due to its proximity to Tohickon Creek.

Keller's church, Lutheran and Reformed, is situated on the Ridge road, leading from Bucksville to Sellersville, near Haycock mountain, and was organized early, the land it was built on was conveyed to Henry Acker, Henry Keller and Christian Stoneback for that purpose and an additional tract was subsequently purchased of John Ott. Henry Keller was one of the active leaders in the development of this church. In 1840, the Lutherans and Reformed became a union congregation, and joint owner of the real estate by deed dated January 1, 1858.


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