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A HISTORY

DELAWARE COUNTY

PENNSYLVANIA

AND ITS PEOPLE

UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF

JOHN W. JORDAN, LL D. , '

Librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philacielphia

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CHURCHES OF DELAWARE COUNTY

From the beginning of creation there has been no force which has playetl
a greater part in the hves of nations and the history of races than the super-
natural, and no rehgious rites or practices whose work has been grander or
more sublime than that effected by Christianity. The causes for settlement oi
most of the American colonies were religious, many people in the old countries
of Europe being willing, nay, glad, to face the hardships of new lands and the
cruelties of hostile tribes, rather than sutler the noble and lofty principles for
which they stood to be scorned and mocked by those of different belief. Her-
bert, the celebrated English writer of religious works and poems, wrote in his
poem, "The Church Militant:"

"Religion stands on tip-toe in our land,
Ready to pass to the American strand,"

and no more prophetic words were ever spoken, for immediately thereafter
persecution drove the Puritans from their native land, and the flight of religion
to America had begun.

To the Society of Friends belongs the honor of erecting the first house of
worship in (now) Delaware county — the old Friends meeting house in Haver -
ford township, built in 1688-89. Here Governor William Penn preached soon
after its erection, and often attended worship. For years it has^b^eji. a land-
mark in the county, a monument to the staid, simple foJk'whQ tiicrem wpfS'iip-
ped their Creator according to the unpretentious tenets of tllfeir'1?elief. jT-o this
sedate and pious sect the county, and, indeed, the state, ; Owe^s kvuf^'-pf its
strength and stability, which was drawn from their very sdiyefe aaid:"jncor-
porated into the laws of the communities which they founded; piaWH^''them
strong and firm to withstand the ravages of time and the abuses which it
brings. Their faith was their life, by it they ordered their existence. To liv.'
in peaceful quiet and to have honorable dealings with their fellow-men, was to
them assurance of a blessed hereafter.

Education was a large factor in the life of the Friends, that being one of
the forms of pleasure which they exercised to the fullest. With them learning
was not a duty, it was a privilege ; and, since it meant self-improvement, was
necessary to all men. Therefore, their efforts were early directed to the dis-
semination of useful knowledge, these efforts later resulting in Haverford
and Swarthmore colleges, institutions of great value, fully treated elsewhere
in this work.

The second church erected in Delaware county was an Episcopal house of
worship, "Old Radnor," in Newtown township, known as St. David's. It was
erected previous to 1700, and around it have grown up traditions that have
lived through the decades. One is that Rev. David Jones, the Baptist preacher
of the Great Valley Church, in Chester county, holding a service there
during the Revolution, was so incensed by the sight of several able-bodied and
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sermon entirely, tlircw back a heavy cloak he wore, disclosed himself in an
American uniform, and launched a terrific philippic at their indolence and
lack of patriotism, demanding to know why they were not in the American
army. The old man himself later entered the army as chaplain. The poet
Longfellow, during the national centennial, visited the old church and was so
impressed by the beauty and dignity of the edifice, with its arched windows
and ivy-covored walls, sheltered protectingly on all sides by overhanging trees
and surrounded by tombstones marking the graves of its former members,
that he immortalized the sanctuary in a short poem entitled "Old St. David's
at Radnor," characterizing it as "an image of peace and rest."

The Roman Catholic church had its first mission in what is now Delaware
county, about 1730, in Concord township, at the home of the Wilcox family,
the congregation later building St. Thomas' Church. The followers of this
religion have become more numerous in past years, and one of the county's
large educational institutions, Villanova College, was founded by the Catholic
church.

The causes for mentioning the above churches in more detail than the
others, are not because they are more important than those of other denomina-
tions, but because of their priority of erection and the interest which is naturally
attached to them as land-marks. Baptist, Presbyterian and Methodist churches
are numerous throughout the county, owning many large and pretentious houses
'.of wovsJiip., Another of the county's educational institutions, Crozer Theo-
' iogtcaJ.St^milwri-jf, ii'J^'i Baptist origin, mentioned elsewhere in this work.

• Tljc fi''»^l org'ahi"z(?d church to exist in (now) Delaware county, was the
Swedish iiiflici'ai:, founded by the Swedes, who settled on the Delaware in
lO^y.'AuA i<vj!:_ While Lutheran was a term at first applied to all Protestants
bdicving'in':ni)'{:<,lc>ctrines taught by Martin Luther, it had become the estab-
lished state religion of Sweden, and was adhered to by the early settlers of
that race, who made early settlement. After them came the English Friends,
and members of the Established Church of England. With the Scotch-Irish
came Presbyterianism, then Catholicism — all of which religions took strong
root in the county and have prospered. At a later day the Methodists and
Baptists entered the field, and have borne an active part in the religious de-
veloi)ment of the county. Other religious .sects have also established in the
county and have aided in the upbuilding of a strong religious community.
There has been no persecution on account of religious faith. The early set-
tlers, fleeing from intolerant conditions, did not in Pennsylvania emulate the
example set by the Puritans of New England, but gave every man the right to
worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience. Common sense
and freedom have gone hand in hand, resulting in a religious history in which
there is nothing to conceal, and in the upbuilding of a strong Christian senti-
ment in all parts of the county.

( )ne of the first efforts to Christianize the .\mcrican Indian was made l)y
Rev. John Campanius, in the little log Lutheran church at Tinicum, over
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himself in liis work, he undertook the study of their language and mastered
it sufficiently to make a translation of the Lutheran Cathechism into the ilialect
of the Lenni Lenape family of the great Algonquin tribe. He was the first
person to translate a book into the Indian language, although his work was
not published until 1696, when, by command of royalty at Stockholm, it was
printed ; nevertheless, his efforts were made a few years previous to Eliot's
Indian translation of the Bible, made in New England, and published thirty
years before the former work.

Joseph H. Lewis, in his "History of Chester County," relates how the
Swedes in those early days used to attend church at Tinicum "to which they
came in canoes from New Castle and other places along the Delaware, both
rtbove and below the Island." The church was on land belonging to Armegat
Printz, a proud and haughty woman who had inherited it from her father. In
her pride and arrogance she had great contempt for those of poorer station,
and tu show her disregard for the humble Swedes who worshipped on her
property, she sold the church bell by which they had formerly been called to
worship, but the devout and earnest congregation repurchased the bell, paying
therefor "two days' labor in harvest time."

The old Birmingham Friends meeting house which stood in old Birming-
ham township before its site in that political division was made part of Chester
. coimty. was erected in 1722, on grounds donated for that purpose by Elizabeth
Webb, and about its ivy-covered walls tradition has woven many a thread of
fanciful history. One of the stories connected with the ancient edifice is linked
with the battle of Brandywine, in which conflict the American riflemen used
the stone-walls surrounding the burial-ground, for breastworks. The dark
blots on the oaken floor were said to have been made by the blood of wounded
.soldiers, as the building was used as a hospital for nearly a week, until the
British army marched to the Boot Tavern. Another story asserted that a
young British gentleman, a close relative of the Duke of Northumberland, was
killed near the meeting house, a report which was later denied by relatives in
England.

Friends' Meeting Houses. — The first recorded meeting of Friends in the
Province of Pennsylvania was at the house of Robert Wade, at Upland, in
1675, when William Edmundson, an eminent minister from England, then on a
religious visit to America, was present. Previous to the coming of Penn, at a
monthly meeting held 11 mo. 7, 1681, it was agreed: "A meeting shall be
held for ye service and worship of God every First Day at ye Court House in
Upland." In the old meeting house erected by Chester Monthly Meeting,
William Penn often spoke, and services were held therein for forty-three years
until 1736, when a larger building was erected. The Friends meeting house
at Shoemakerville, was built in 1828, on land donated by Enos Sharpless.

The Friends meeting house in Birmingham township was first erected in
1722, of cedar logs. About 1763 a stone building was erected, to which later
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which the old church stood fell to Chester county, but for nearly two centurie-.
Friends of Lower Birmingham have there worshipped.

Concord Friends meeting house is erected on land leased to trustees in
1697. At a monthly meeting held at the house of George Pearce, 4 mo. 10
1697, it was agreed to build and subscriptions taken. The building, however, was
not completed until 1710. In 1728 the modern structure gave way to one of
brick, which in 1788 was destroyed by fire. The walls, however, were left
intact, and were used in the new and larger building at once erected. The
question of human slavery was often discussed in the old meeting, but not
until 1800 was it possible to make the announcement that Concord Quarterly
Meeting was "clear of importing, disposing or holding mankind as slaves."

The records of Darby Meeting, begin 2, 5 mo. 1684, but "there is some
evidence that the business of a monthly meeting had been transacted at Darby
a short time prior to the date of the first regular minute." The meetings were
held in private homes until 1687, when John Blunston acknowledged in court
a deed "for one acre of ground in the township of Darby to build a meeting-
house thereon." The first building, presumably of logs, was replaced by a
more substantial structure begun in 1699, but not completed until 1701. This
building stood for a full century, then gave way to a stone structure completed
in 1805. The first marriage in Darby Meeting was that of Samuel Sellers
and Anna Gibbons, in 1684; the first marriage in the first meeting house was
that of John Marshall and Sarah Smith. The first marriage in the third meet-
ing house was that of Hugh Mcllvain, of Philadelphia, and Hannah Hunt, of
Darby.

In Haver ford township, Friends erected the first place of worship in now
Delaware county, about 1688 or 1689. The first marriage solemnized therein
was that of Lewis David to Florence Jones, 20, ist mo., 1690. An addition
was erected in 1700, and the older structure replaced by another in 1800. In
1700 William I'enn preached in the new building, but as Welsh was principally
spoken by the members, many could not understand him. A Friends meeting
house is also located on the grounds of Haverford College.

Media Monthly Meeting was founded in 1875 by Friends who were resi-
dents there, withdrawing from other meetings. They erected a stone church on
Third street, wherein they worship. In an iron safe in this building, the rec-
ords of Chester Meeting are preserved. Providence meeting house (Hicksitc)
is also located in Media. The old house of worslii]) was torn down in 1812
and re|)lacc(l by the structure now in use.

In .Middletown township, a Friends meeting was authorized by Chester
Quarterly Meeting, held 3, 3 mo. 1686. Early in 1700 the appointed com-
mittee reported that they had decided upon the burial lot in Middletown as the
site for a meeting house, a building being erected that was finished in 1702.
This was followed many years later by another that is still used as a house of
worshi]). After the division in the society in 1828, the Orthodox branch of
Middletown meeting held their meetings in a school house until the completion
of their meeting house in 1835.

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The earliest mention of a Friends" meeting in Newtown township is found
in the records of Haverford Monthly Meeting under date of 14-11 mo. 1696.
This record states that "Wilham Lewis and some friends having proposed to
this meeting to settle a meeting at Newtown they were left to their freedom
therein." The meeting was established, services being held at the residence
ol members, but under the control of Chester, and later Providence monthly
meetings. On the 30th day, 8 mo., 1710, "Newtown meeting laid before the
meeting their intentions of building a meeting house by Friends "burial yard
in Newtown," which met with the approval of Providence meeting. In 171 1
the building was completed, replaced in 1791 by the structure now in use.

Providence Friends meeting was authorized by Chester Quarterly Meet-
ing, 3 mo., 1696, the minutes stating that it was agreed to settle a meeting "At
Thomas Minshall's every First and Fourth day." On 9 mo. 4, 1700, the first
day and week day meeting was ordered to be removed from Thomas Min-
shall's to the meeting house, and on 12 mo. 12, 1700, the meeting at Randall
Vernon's was also "removed to the new meeting house." The building of logs
erected in Nether Providence township was improved by a stone addition in
1727. In 1753 the remains of the original structure were removed and a stone
addition erected in its place.

While Radnor Friends did not commence to build their first meeting
house until 1693, there was as early as 1686 a sufficient number of Friends in
the township to establish an independent meeting. The early meetings were
held at the home of John Jerman, a Quaker minister, and at the residence of
John Evans, where the first marriage was solemnized, 2, 3 mo. [686, between
Richard Ormes, of Philadelphia, and Mary Tyder, of Radnor. In 1693 the
Radnor Friends built their first meeting house, and in 1718 began the erection
of a new building which was not completed until after 1721, a later addition
being erected for school purposes.

The first Friends' meeting house in Springfield township was erected in
1700 at Friends' graveyard, at the junction of the Springfield and Darby
loads, on the line between Springfield and Marple townships. Friends in the
township had, however, held meetings at the homes of Francis Stafford and
Bartholomew Coppock as early as 3d mo., 1686, under authority granted by
Chester Quarterly Meeting. The first meeting house was destroyed by fire in
1737, the erection of a second building beginning the following year. This
second building was of stone, with a date stone bearing the inscription "Re-
uuilt 1738." After serving for one hundred and thirteen years, it was torn
down and a third structure erected, yet used by the Springfield meeting. In
the second building, tradition states the future of Benjamin West, the great
painter, then a boy, was discussed. He was a birth-right member of the So-
ciety, and the painter's art was not sanctioned by them. It was, however,
af'reed that young West, in view of the great talent he displayed, should be
given the sanction of the meeting, strong friends pleading his cause. A private
meeting was appointed at the house of his father, which was largely attended.
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women arose and kissed the young artist, ami the men one by one laid their
hands on his head and prayed that the Lord might verify in his Ufe the value
of the gifts whicli had induced them, in spite of their religious tenets, to allow
him to cultivate the faculties of his, genius." The after career of this great
artist must have been in some measure the result of this solemn meeting of
the sini])le, earnest h'riends of Springfield meeting.

In Ridley township, Eriends were authorized to hold meetings at the
house of John .Sinnock, by Chester Monthly Meeting, held 7 mo. 11, i6<S2.
The meeting was later changed to "Walter Faucet's house on Ridley creek."
Friends never erected a public meeting house in Ridley, nor were the meetings
at l-'aucet's house continued after the erection of the Chester meeting house.

Protestant Episcopal Churches. — St. David's Episcopal Church at Radnor,
Newtown township, in point of age ranks second in Delaware county. Haver-
ford h'riends meeting house being tlie oldest. The exact date at which a church
organization was effected in Radnor is not known, but it was prior to 1700. A
certificate given by the church wardens of Radnor, ilated July 28, 1719, Rev.
Evan l^vans, states, "that the Rev. Dr. Evans has preached the Gospel at
Radnor at the home of Mr. William Davis, one of the subscriliers, once a fort-
night from November in the year 1700, all the time he was resident in Phila-
deljihia, without any reward from us ; and since his return from England,
which was on the 22nd day of March, 1716-17, until the latter end of June
past, he preached at St. David's Church at Radnor." Rev. Evan Evans, in a
letter to the .Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Lon-
don, luigland, states that he "preached in Welsh once a fortnight for four
years, till the arrival of ]\lr. Nicholas, minister, to Chester in 1704." He
recommends: "Could a sober and discreet man be procured to undertake that
mission, he might be capable by the blessing of God to bring in a plentiful har-
vest of Welsh Quakers." This resulted in the appointment of John Chubb, a
Welshinan, who had been a schoolmaster in Philadelphia. ITe had occasion-
ally conducted services at the church prior to 1 7 14, when he was appointed mis-
sionary to the Radnor and O.xford churches, he being in the latter year in
England. He reached Philadelphia in August of that year and reported to
the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (who sent him
out) that the "i)eople of Radnor" had met him "unanimously and heartily
engaged to build a handsome Stone Church." The laying of the corner stone
is described by Acrelius:

"'I'lie Laying of a Comer Stone — Bnt something peculiar is to be seen among the
English at tlie laying of the foundation of a church. On the 9th of May 171S, Pastor
Saiulcl was invited to attend the laying of the foundation of Radnor Chnrch sixteen
miles from Philadelpliia. First, a service with preaching was held in a private house;
then they went in procession to the place where the church was to be built — There a
prayer was made : Clergymen laid a stone according to tlie direction of the Master
Mason."

For over a half century after the church was built, no floor was laid, and
no pews, the worshipers being seated on benches, at first furnished by the

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occupant, but later placed there by the vestry and leased to the congregation.
The old record states : "William Evans and Hugh Jones are to have ye upper
bench above ye door for two pounds." Later pews were introduced, the cus-
tom being to sell the ground, the purchaser to make the improvements, thus:
"At a vestry held December 5, 1763, the vestry granted to Robert Jones the
privilege to build a pew on a piece of ground in St. David's Church, adjoin-
ing Wayne's and Hunter's pugh, he paying for ye ground four pounds ten
Shillings." In 1765 the church was floored; in 1767, a vestry house built on
the site of the later Sunday school, and in 1771 a gallery was added. Captain
Lsaac. father of "Mad" Anthony Wayne, was the chief mover in the latter
improvement, and under his direction it was built. The church suffered greatly
during the Revolution, and seldom during that contest were religious services
held within the building. In 1783 Rev. \VilIiam Currie again took charge, and
collected funds to repair the old church building and graveyard wall. In 1786
the church was admitted to membership in the Diocesan Convention of Phil-
adelphia. In August, 1792, while Rev. Slaytor Clay was rector, the church
was incorporated, and during his incumbency the body of Gen. Anthony Wayne
was removed from Presque Isle to Radnor churchyard, by his son, Col. Isaac
Wayne. On July 4, 1809, a plain marble monument was erected at his grave
by the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati, although the body was placed
there at a later date. On July 30, 1820, the first confirmation ever held in St.
David's was conducted by Bishop White, sixteen persons being admitted to
membersliip. In 1824 the Sunday school was organized, and about 1830 that
part of the old gallery which passed over the front door was taken down,
the highbacked old fashioned pews taken out, the pulpit enlarged, and the
sounding board removed. In 1844 the present rectory was built. There is ;i
tradition that Queen Anne presented the Radnor church with a communion
service. This service was taken by a marauding party of soldiers during the
Revolution and was never recovered. In 1861 the corporation of St. David's
purchased an acre of land and enlarged the graveyard. In 1871 the church
was repaired and a new vestry-room erected. In 1876 the poet Longfellow
visited Old Radnor Church, and was so impressed that he wrote his poem
entitled "Old St. David's at Radnor." In 1881 he said in an interview, relat-
ing the story of his poem:

"I was stopping at Rosemont and one day drove over to Radnor. Old St. David's
Church with its charming and picturesque surroundings attracted my attention. Its
diminutive size, peculiar architecture, the little rectory in the grove, the quaint Church-
yard, where Mad Anthony Wayne is buried, the great tree which stands at the gateway
and the pile of gray stone, which makes the old Church and is almost hidden by the
climbing ivy, all combine to make it a gem for a fancy picture."

Old St. Paul's Church, in Chester, was built in 1702, on land on the south
side of Third street, east of Market Square, the land having been first donated
to the Swedish church early in the history of the settlement of Upland. Where
the first St. Paul's Church was erected, there was previously a burying place
for the Swedes in Upland. This is established by the report of Mr. Ross to

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the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in 1714. The
foundation of the ancient structure was laid in July, 1702, and January 24 of
the following year, St. Paul's Day, Rev. John Talbot preached the first ser-
mon delivered therein. The church was of stone, twenty-five feet in height,
with a wooden stcejile containing the bell. In 1835 extensive repairs were
made, the number of jiews was increased, the large pews subdivided, the old
fashioned highbacks lowered, a gallery built in the west end, and under it a
large mam entrance made. Tn 1850 agitation was started among the congre-
gation for an entirely new church structure, preparations were made, and the
corner stone was laid July 25. 1859, on the north side of Third street, ad-
dresses being made by Right Rev. .-Mfred Lee, D. D., Bishop of Delaware,
and Rev. Charles W. Quick. The building was built of pointed stone, in
Gothic style, with a spire one hundred and twenty- four feet high. In 1872.
the building was once more remodeled, later suffering two accidents, being
struck by lightning on June 3, 1777, and catching fire on March 9, 1884.

Calvary Episcopal Church was organized by Richard S. Smith, in an up-
per room of his nail factory at Rockdale, Aston township. There was no
other Episcopal church within five miles, so the mission was well attended. .A
Sunday school was all that was attempted at first, Mr. Smith acting as super-
intendent, and his wife and daughters fulfilling the duties of teachers. Soon
it was re,solved to form a church congregation. Bishop Onderdonk authorized
Kingston Goddard, a student of Divinity, to till the offices of lay-reader at
Rockdale, and, the field being promising, the Rev. Marmaduke Hurst was de-
tailed as missionary, under the auspices of the Advancement Society, the
church receiving the name of Calvary, and being admitted to representation
in the Episcopal Convention. On August 18, 1836, Bishop Onderdonk laid
the corner stone for a building, a movement which Mr. Smith had labored dili-
gently to further. The basement was pushed to completion, and here church
and Sunday school services were held until sufficient funds could be raised to
finish the entire work. In 1868 the church was enlarged and in other ways
improved, the whole being "as a thank-offering for the blessings of peace."

Rev. J. Coupland, rector of St. John's Cliurch, Concord, held services at
Chadds Ford, according to the Episcopal church ritual, at irregular intervals,
as did his successor. Rev. J. J. Sleeper, but it was not until 1884 that St.
Luke's Church was organized. J. M. Baker was largely instrumental in the
erection of the church, the corner-stone of which, was laid June 11, 1883. by
Rev. W. H. Graff, of l^hiladelphia, and which was first used for divine ser-
vice on May i, 1884.

Another church dedicated to St. Luke was organized in Chester. Novem-
ber 28, 1868, and was at first in the parish of St. Paul's Church. Rev. Henry
Brown had charge of the chai^el, for such it was at first intended to be. The
congregation began worship in the uncompleted building, as the construction
funds had been exhausted. Thomas R. List, a student at the Philadelphia Di-
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19. 1873, when he was ordained as rector. In 1880 the entire debt of tlie churcli
was paid, and work begun afresh on an unencumbered basis.

Tlie ground upon which St. Martin's Episcopal Church of Birmingham
township was later erected was given to the adherents of the Church of Eng-
land by Walter Martin, a Friend of Upper Chichester, who had become em-
bittered against his sect because of being "dealt with" according to the cus-
toms of that society. In 1702 the few believers of that faith purchased a rude
frame building, formerly a blacksmith sliop, from John and Tobias Hendrick-
son, for the sum of £5. which they moved to the ground granted them by Wal-
ter Martin. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
established it as a missionary station, in connection with St. Paul's of Chester
and the church at Concord. In 1745 the old frame structure becoming insuf-
ficient, a fund was raised and a small brick church erected, the old sanctuary
coming into use as a school-house. In 1845, one hundred years later, the build-
ing had fallen into such dilapidation that it was determined to build a new edi-
fice, which was accordingly done, making the third building occupied by the
congregation. In 1822, St. Martin's separated itself from St. Paul's parish,
and has since continued as an independent organization. John Larkin Jr., in
1879 presented the church with a tract of two acres adjoining the old church-
yard of St. Martin's, which had been crowded with the bodies of those who
had fallen under the scythe of the Grim Reaper.

The Rev. Evan Evans first mentions what later became St. John's Epis-
copal Church of Concord, in a letter dated London, September 18, 1707, in
which he writes on "the state of the church in Pennsylvania, most humbly of-
fered to the venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts." In 1702 John Hannum donated a plot of ground at the northwest
corner of his tract, on which to erect a church, and a log structure was built
that year. In 1769 part of the proceeds of a lottery held in the province was
assigned to St. John's, and with this sum a brick end was added to the church
in 1773, and in 1790 a stone end was erected adjoining the brick section on the
site of the frame building. Another addition was made in 1837, but on June
IS. 1844, a new building was begun, since the scope of the church work had
been so enlarged and widened that this step was made necessary. In this
building was placed a large chancel window, a memorial to Bi.shop Onclerdonk,
whose long service had endeared him to the members of the church of which
he was so sturdy a pillar.

On May 5, 1872, Rev. James S. Pjrooke, rector of St. George's Church,
West End, officiated at the first sei-vices of St. Stephen's Church in Upper
Darby, held in the village school-house, and on October 27 that year com-
munion was administered for the first time, fourteen persons uniting. In
May of the following year a Sunday school was organized, and led a pros-
perous existence. The congregation was composed mainly of the mill-workers
and their families, and although their slender incomes were not sufficient to
support the mission in a pretentious manner, nevertheless, their earnest efforts
were bent toward the realization of a church of their own. Oborn Levis
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donated several lots on the Baltimore turnpike, and enough money was raised
to warrant the erection of a church, even with the handicap of a sum of money
lost in the failure of the h'ranklin Savings l'"unil of Philadelphia. The corner
stone was laid October 12, 1878, and (jn Sunday morning, Marcn 16, of the
following year, the house of worship was dedicated by Bishop Stevens, and,
owmg t(i the generous subscription, was able to begin its existence free from
any hampering debt. The Iniilding was of pressed brick, stone trimmed, orna-
mented with colored brick design, and finished inside with hard stained wood.
On October 9, 1880, the corner stoni' of a Sunday-school and parish building
was laid, with impressive exercises. Th-j structure was the gift of Thomas
A. Scott, then president of the Pennsylvania railroad. .\ brass tablet on its
walls bears this inscription : "Erected in memory of Thomas A. Scott, Jr.,
who died Ascension Day, 1S79. Of such is the Kingdom of God." Ground
adjoining the church vestry was received by gift of Dr. R. A. Given and
Thomas A. Scott, and thereon, in the fall of 1882, the erection of a rectory
begun and the building completed the following year. The church grew rap-
idly, and in the midst of the vayi'id increase in the population of Clifton Heights
has been expanding its activities and has offered a church home to many who
have accepted its offer of Christian fellowship, always carrying out its mission
as an active instrument for good.

The first religious services in Media imder the Episcopalian ritual, were
held in the court house during the summer of 1853, the congregation later
erecting Christ Church. From that time until the erection of a church edifice,
services were held in the courtliouse, and the Methodist church. Letters of
incorporation were granted by the court of Delaware county, August 28, 1854,
and the cornerstone ot the church laid July 5, 1858, Right Rev. .Mfred Lee,
D. D., Bishop of Delaware, officiating. Consecration was made June 21, i860,
by Right Rev. Alonzo Potter, D. 1)., LL.D., liishop of Pennsylvania, Right
Re . Alfred Lee assisting. During the rectorship of Rev. Edward Lounsberry,
•ormerly of the diocese of Iowa, a tower was built ui)on the church, and a pipe-
jrgan installed. The young ladies of Brooke Hall made presentation of a
chancel-rail and marble font. To meet the needs of the younger members of
the parish, a Sunday school was organized, an institution which has grown
steadily and prospered exceedingly from its inception.

Prior to the organization of the Church of the Good Shepherd, in Radnor
township, the congregation frequently held divine service at Woodfield, while
Sunday .school was conducted at the house of Mrs. Supplee, in Radnor town-
ship. At a meeting held in Wayne Hall, July 7, 1869, the parish was organized
and .services were begun there in July, 1869, Rev. H. P. Hay, D. D., being
elected rector in the fall of that year, all former services having been con-
ducted by supply clergymen. The corner-stone of the church was lain July
25, 1871, Bishop Stevens conducting the services. Mission services had been
held in the i)ublic school-house, near Radnor station since- 1869, hut on July 25,
1880, Bishop Stevens officiated at the laying of the corner-stone of the Chapel
of the Good Shepherd, which was completed the next year. A parish building

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and rectory have also been built on ground adjoining the Church of the Good
Shepherd, the former in 1888, the latter, 1884. Various institutions have
sprung up about this church, not the least important of which was the Hospi-
tal of the Good Shepherd, opened formally by Bishop Stevens, on June 11,
1874, with accommodations for twelve children, to whose use the building is
restricted. As proof of the need and usefulness of this hospital, two children
were entered as soon as the institution was opened.

Christ Church of Media holds supervision over the Church of the Atone-
ment, an Episcopal church erected in 1880. The early meetings were held at
the home of Miss Sue Pearce, later in a cottage belonging to J. H. Irwin, who
donated the lot upon which the church was built.

Presbyterian Churches. — Presbyterianism is the contribution of those
sturdy settlers of Scotch-Irish descent to the religious life of this country. The
denomination is widespread in its influence, embraces all sections of the lam I,
and has as permanent, as extensive and as efficient an organization as any
religious sect in the United States. The founding of this church in Chester
county dates from shortly after 1718, as in that year the Scotch-Irish began
[heir settlement, and it was characteristic of the people that the establishing
of the church followed soon after or simultaneous with that of the home. The
earliest church records have been destroyed, but it is highly probable that the
church was founded in 1728 or early in 1729, as on April i, 172Q, the New
Castle Pfesbytery, responding to the request of the people of Newtown to be
permitted to build a church, acceded thereto, with the condition that the mem-
bers would continue "a united congregation with Brandy wine." In 1729 a log
church was built in Middletown, although the land was not conveyed to the
trustees until 1751. when the building is nienti(inc(l in the deed. It has been
incontrovertibly establishcrl that a full organization of the church was effected
and a meeting-house built in 1735. in which year Dr. Isaac Watts presented the
"Protestant Dissenters" with a folio copy of one of Baxter's works. There
was no regular pastor until 1770, and until that date services were held on an
average of once a month. The congregation was widely scattered, many
journeying ten or twelve miles to hear the two sermons preached on a Sunday,
which, if the specimens which have been preserved to us intact are fair exam-
ples, were not of the best. On May 10, 1762, Robert McClellan, one of the
congregation, conveyed to William Lindsay, Hugh Linn, James Lindsay, John
McMinn, James Black, Charles Linn, Joseph Black, James Hemphill, and
Thomas Trimble, three-quarters of an acre of land for the use of a Presby-
terian church, which was erected soon after. In 1770 Rev. James Anderson,
a young man of twenty-one years of age, was called to the pulpit, spending
almost all the years of his manhood in that service, until his death in 1793.
In 1846 the ancient building was so out> of repair that it was entirely rebuilt,
and was used until 1870, when it was burned to the ground.

The Lower Brandywine Presbyterian Church was established in Birming-
ham township in 1720, the first house of worship being a log structure. After
the Revolution the site of the church home was moved to Centreville, Dela-

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ware, where services were held at the "old log meeting," as often as a speakej
could be procured. June 3, 1878, a church was dedicated at Dilworthtown,
and a short time afterward Sunday school work was begun.

Previous to 1850, the Presbyterian residents of Chester had been com-
pelled to attend divine service conducted after the ritual of some other denom-
ination than tiieir own, since there was no Presbyterian church in the city.
But in the fall of that year, Rev. James \V. Dale began to hold services
accoreh'ng to the Presbyterian tornnila in the court house, every Sunday after-
noon, continuing for over a year, when, largely through the generosity of 1.
E. Cochran Sr., and Joseph H. Hinkson, a church was erected on ground
donated by Mr. Cochran. The sanctuary has been considerably enlarged
and remodeled since its erection.

The founding of the Chester City Presbyterian Church was a direct out-
growth from the estaljlishment of a Sunday school in the western end of the
city, designed to meet the necessity for religious instruction among the chil-
dren of that neighborhood. On December 14, 1862, the school was organized
in the .Academy building, and so rapid was its growth that it was determined
to enlarge the works so as to inchulc the adult population. To this end.
Thomas Reaney, of the firm of Reaney, Son & Archbold, erected a building
and tendered it to the congregation as his contribution, the expense of the fur-
nishing being borne jointly by Mr. Reaney and Mr. Perkins. Until the com-
pletion of the church proper, worship was held in the lecture room, after
organization had been effected under the direction of the Presbytery of Phil-
adelphia. The first pastor was the Rev. Martin P. Jones, who was called
in 1866.

The Third Presbyterian Church of Chester was organized as a result of
division in the First Presbyterian Church, the organization first named holding
their early services in a Sunday school mission erected by the latter body. The
congregation in 1873 enlarged and rebuilt the structure at a cost of $15,000
and dedicated it October 5 that year.

The Presbyterian Church of Darby Borough was organized by the con-
gregation of the mission conducted by the Darby or Knowle's Presbyterian
Church of Darby, during the pastorate of Rev. J. Addison Whittaker. Ser-
vices were first held in the public school house, and in January, 1854, a fund
had been raised for the erection of a church building. In 1858 the edifice
was completed and ready for use. In 1862 a parsonage was built on a lot
adjoining the church. In the course of all this improvement and advancement,
the church had contracted a heavy debt, the dissipation of which in 1873 was
marked by a joyous jubilee meeting. There is a large Sunday school con-
nected with the church, which, under excellent management, has been a force
of inestimable potency in the preparation of the younger generations for the
assumption of the duties and responsibilities of church work. Charles O.
Raird, son of Matthew Baird, erected a handsome stone chapel in the spring
of 1 88 1 as a monument to the honored memory of his father and mother. The
dedicatory sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Cattell, of Princeton.

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Tlie first services of what later grew into the Presbyterian Church of
Media, were held in a room over John C. Beatty's store, the Rev. Dale, pas-
tor of the Middletown Presbyterian Church, officiating. Soon after, before
a church was built, a Sunday school was organized, with Mr. Beatty's home as
a meeting place. The corner-stone of the church was laid July 4, 1854, on a
site of one acre donated by Mr. Beatty, who was the moving spirit. On
October 11, 1855, the church, of Doric design, was dedicated amid most impres-
sive ceremonies. Since then the church has prospered, and its value to the
community is inestimable. With its increasing financial prosperity, a parson-
age was erected adjoining the church.

One of the church structures erected about the middle of the 19th century,
to which more than usual interest was attached, was that built at Todmor-
den, by William T. Crook, for the benefit of the employees of his mills. The
building was erected to serve not only as a church, but was provided with
reading, school, and lecture rooms. It was dedicated September 30, 1850, and
marked a new epoch in the relations between employer and men which boded
well for peaceful and profitable business, as well as inspiring and helpful
social and religious work.

From public services held in Wayne Hall, beginning Sunday, June 5, 1870.
and the organization of a Sunday school on June 19, of the same year, grew
what came to be known as the Wayne Presbyterian Church of Radnor town-
ship. On June 21, 1870, a meeting preliminary to church organization was
held in Wayne Hall, and commissioners appointed by the Presbytery met in
the same place three days later, organizing the Wayne Presbyterian Church,
with a membership of nine. A call was extended to Rev. S. P. Linn to becom.'
pastor, which he accepted, and was duly installed on July 5, 1870. Until
the completion of the church edifice, for which ground was broken March 21,
1870, meetings were held each Sabbath morning in Wayne Hall. The laying
of the corner-stone was performed by Rev. John Chambers, Rev. R. H. Allen,
D. D., Rev. John McLeod and Rev. T. J. Aiken, assisting. At the dedication
services on December 8, 1870, the sermon was preached by Rev. Charles
Wadsworth, D. D. The building and ground was the gift of J. Henry Askin.
Es(j., whose deep and heartfelt interest in the church life found its outlet in the
presentation of this handsome sanctuary. A parsonage was likewise the gift
of Mr. Askin, a building which was recently sold and another, more spacious
than the first, erected. The various departments of church work, foreign
and home missionary, guild, and Christian Endeavor societies, as well as a
large Sunday school, are in excellent and efficient working order, producing
remarkable results.

Before the erection of the Ridley Park Presbyterian Church in 1876,
two attempts had been made to establish there a church of that denomination.
but both had failed, the first by Rev. Ewing, in 1873, when he held Sunday
afternoon services in the depot; and the second, by Rev. J. E. Alexander, in
1874. In the latter year Mr. Smith, superintendent of Ridley Park, tendered
the use of the hotel dining room for Sunday school services during the win-

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ter, an oficr wliich was gratefully acce])tcd. The next year, after securing the
services of Dr. Grier for a year, a movement was inaugurated for a church
organization. A stone church of Gothic architecture was erected, Rev. Dr. .\i.
Grier and Rev. jMowry, of Chester, conducting the services.

Baptist Cliurclics. — Delaware county boasts of the third Baptist church
erected in Pennsylvania a log structure built in 1718, when the church organi-
zation, formed in 1715, had outgrown the homes of its various members as
meeting places. It is said that religious services were held on the same ground
in Birmingham township twenty-five years previous to the erection of the
church, but this is merely tradition. In 1770 the primitive building was razed
and a stone structure erected on its site, which did duty until i8j(>, when the
tiiird church iiome of the congregation was dedicated. Several of the pas-
tors have been graduates of the county's Baptist educational institution, Cro-
zer Theological Seminar)^ their endeavors and labors casting a worthy reflec-
tion upon their alma mater.

A church erected in the interests of Methodism, May 17, i860, later
becoming a Church of England mission, was purchased by Mrs. Sarah K.
Crozer, and for ten years was conducted as a mission by the Crozer Theolog-
ical Seminary, the students of the seminary filling the pulpit. In 1881 it
was released from its dependency and became a separate church. Rev. Miller
Jones being the first pastor, and has since flourished exceedingly well.

A mission under the control of the Upland Baptist Church was estab-
lished at Bridgewater in 1874, on a lot purchased from Samuel Haigh & Com-
pany. The services are held by students from Crozer Theological Seminary,
an arrangement satisfactory to both parties, as the cost of maintenance of the
church is considerably lessened by this plan, and the students acquire practical
speaking experience.

The first services held in Chester by Baptist clergymen were conducted
by itinerant ministers at irregular intervals, and it was not until 1854 that ser-
vices were had at regularly stated times, when Rev. William Wilder, of the
Upland Bajjtist Church, established worship in the court house, this continuing
as a meeting ])lace for four years. In 1858 John P. Crozer donated land which
he had kept idle until the time should come when it could be used for a Baptist
church. In the sunnner of that same year Benjamin Gartside built a chapel
for temporary use, at his own expense, and herein worship was held every
Sunday afternoon. In the spring of iiS63 an effort was made to have a build-
ing erected, unsuccessful because of the excitement attendant upon the inva-
sion of the' north by Lee's army, but in the fall of that year, September 24,
the chapel was dedicated as the First Baptist Church of Chester, and Rev.
Levi G. Beck was called as its first ])astor. May 24. 1864. In tlie same year a
sufficient sum of money was pledged for the building of a house of worship.
proceedings were begun, and July 2, 1864, the corner stone was laid. By fall
■ the structure was so far advanced lliat the lecture room was put into imme-
diate use. and in the fall following the entire building was ready for occu-
pancy, but as the congregation had decided that the main part of the church

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should not be used while it was under a debt of any kind, the large auditorium
remained unused for several weeks, when the debt of $16,000 was paid in full.
On December 28, 1865, amid great rejoicing, the dedication services were
held, Rev. J. Wheaton Smith, D. D., officiating.

John P. Crozer, prominent in llaptist enterprises and institutions, and
founder of Crozer Theological Seminary, in 1851 began the erection of a Bap-
tist church in Upland borough, a locality which had previously been depend-
ent u])nn the chance of a Baptist clergyman being in the vicinity to conduct
worship. In March, 1852, the edifice was dedicated, and November 17, 1852,
when it was fully completed, prominent Baptist church dignitaries publicly
recognized it as a house of worship, Rev. John Duncan occupying the pulpit
as the first pastor. In i860 and 1873 extensive additions and alterations were
made to the original building, and not only did the church grow and prosper
at home, but caused its influence to be felt abroad by the establishment of four
missions, — at Leiperville, Bridgewater, \illage Green and South Chester.

At a meeting held at the home of James Irving, in North Chester bor-
ough, a few representative Baptists of the locality decided upon the erection
of a church. This was later done, the sanctuary being the gift of James Irv-
ing. The dedication services were held in June of 1873.

The Baptist Church of Marcus Hook was organized May 3, 1789, with
seventeen members, the funds for the church edifice being raised by popular
subscription. The cost of the building was £164 i6s. )4d. The church was
admitted into the Philadelphia Baptist Association, October 6, 1789. When
the original building had outlived its usefulness, a new one was erected, the
corner-stone of which was laid September 10, 1853. The evening of the day
of the corner-stone laying, the box deposited in the stone was broken open and
despoiled of its contents.

In October, 1832, several Baptist residents of Newtown township and the
neighboring region met at the residence of Deacon Samuel Davis, in Haver-
ford, to discuss the organization of a Baptist church. Meetings had been held
in the locality by H. G. Jones, Joseph H. Kennard, William S. Hall, and others.
before the existence of the Newtown Baptist Church, but this was the first
concerted effort at organization. At a meeting held November 10, 1832, at
Dr. Gardiner's residence, the church was organized. Letters of dismissal
from various churches were read, a church covenant and articles of faith were
agreed to and signed, and, on behalf of the church. Dr. Gardiner was given
the right hand of fellowship. Before a church was erected, meetings were
held in the upper part of Dr. Gardiner's carriage house, while his daughters
organized a Sunday school, using the house as a place of meeting. Immedi-
ately after his ordination in 1834, Rev. Samuel J. Creswell was installed as
pastor, and August 30 that year a house of worship was dedicated, Rev. H. G.
Jones, of Lower Merion, officiating.

The Radnor Baptist Church originated in the days of the slavery agitation,
in the Great Valley Baptist Church. Members of the latter church, strongly
opposed to slavery, were desirous of forming an organization where there

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would be no dissension or argument over this issue, and obtained letters to
form a new church. This took the name of the Radnor Baptist Church, and
worship was conducted in a hall originally known as the I-ladnor Scientific
and Musical Hall, where formerly meetings of an atheistical character had
been held. The first pastor was Rev. J. Newton Hobart.

The first Baptist organization perfected in Ridley township was the Rid-
fey Park Baptist Church, founded in 1832, a stone house on the Lazaretto
road doing service as a sanctuary. In 1872 a new church building was erected
and the old structure used as a Sunday school. On December 11, 1837, the
trustees purchased one hundred and seventeen square perches of land adjoin-
ing the old church lot for burial purposes, reserving the right to dam a run
near by for a space of twenty-four hours for baptismal purposes. The mem-
bers of the Ridley Park Baptist church, not to be left in the rear by the onward
march of progress, determined to build a new church at the time when the
Ridley Park .Association began work on improving what is now Ridley Park.
The town of Ridley Park was chosen as a good central location, the Ridley
Park Company donating the lot upon which the edifice, whose cornerstone was
laid July 3, 1873, was erected. The church and all its departments have flour-
ished, and the organization wields a mighty influence for good.

Methodist Episcopal Churches. — The oldest Methodist Episcopal church
in Delaware county is the Radnor church, whose record extends far back
into the history of Methodism and touches upon the lives of many of the most
illustrious pioneers of that faith in this continent. Soon after the Revolution-
ary war, Radnor became a regular preaching place and was supplied by circuit
preachers, the house of worship then being the home of the James family.
"The Mansion House." When this little group was first organized, Radnor
was included in the Philadelphia circuit, the preachers being John Cooper and
George Main. In 1873 the name of the circuit became Chester, it having once
before been changed from Philadelphia to Pennsylvania circuit, and Octo-
ber 20th of the same year Evan Jones and his wife Margaret go on record as
having recorded with Justice Thomas Lewis that for the sum of seven shillings
they sold one-half an acre of land "on which a meeting house was to be built
for Francis Asbury and his assistants, in which the doctrines of John Wesley,
as set forth in his four volumes of 'Sermons' and his 'Notes on the New Tes-
tament,' were to be preached, and no other." Work on the church was imme-
diately begun and after seemingly unsurmountable difficulties had been over-
come, the project was pushed to completion. By 1833 the congregation had so
increased that it was necessary to erect a new church, and while the same
was in process of construction, open-air services were held under the trees in
front of the building. Because of the necessity of having the house of wor
ship completed before winter set in, the work was rushed to the utmost, and
in the fall of the year it was begun. Rev. (afterwards Bishop) E. L. James,
preached the dedicatory sermon, soon after which the building was ready for
occupancy. In 1822 considerable inside alteration and repair work was done.

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and in the following year Radnor Church, which had previously been affiliated
with the Bryn Mawr and Bethesda churches, was made a separate station.

The Mount Hope Methodist Church was erected over a century ago, on
land in Aston township, donated by Aaron Mattson, a noted paper-manufac-
turer of the day, whose body rests in the old churchyard. In the deed to
Powell Clayton, Edward Carter, Daniel Carter, Robert Johnson, John Little,
George Sneath. and Peter Longacre. it states that the lot shall be held "forever
in trust, that they shall erect and build thereon a house or place of worship
for the use of the members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United
States of America, only those preachers appointed by the general conference,
and none others, to preach and expound God's Holy word therein." The
church was built of stone, and was plainly furnished. For many years the
church was dependent upon the services of a circuit preacher, and in his
absence the local minister led the congregation. In the early struggles of the
church, valuable and timely aid was lent by a visit from Rev. James Caughey,
a famous revivalist from England, whose preaching at the Mount Hope Church
was heard by the people for miles around, greatly stimulating the pulse of inter-
est in the institution, whose life and vitality -had become exceedingly low.
From then on, the number of its members steadily increased, a strong inde-
pendent congregation being the result. In 185 1 the church was part of Mount
Hope Station, and the following year became Village Green Circuit.

In the autumn of 185 1 a number of the members of the Mount Hope Cir-
cuit, residing in or near Rockdale, actuated by the belief that the erection of
a church at Rockdale would be of great benefit, met at the home of Rev. John
B. Maddox, near Village Green. After deliberation, trustees were elected,
and a committee on building appointed. At the first meeting of the trustees,
held in the Parkmount school house, November 18, 1851, John P. Crozer do-
nated a lot and subscribed a generous amount to the building fund. In 1852, al-
though no structure had been erected, a petition was presented at the Philadel-
phia Conference, urging that body to separate the Rockdale church from
Mount Hope, and establish it as a regular station. L^pon the favorable consid-
eration of this request. Rev. George W. McLaughlin was appointed the first
pastor, holding his initial services in Temperance Hall at Taylortown, later
known as Lenni. In the meanwhile the construction of the church building
had been pushed forward at a rapid rate, and June 27, 1852, Rev. Dr. William
Ryan, of Philadelphia, preached the dedicatory sermon, and conducted the
contributory service, at which nearly $750 was realized. A resolution was
presented at the Quarterly Conference, held February 19, 1853, that, as a rec-
ognition of the generosity and favors extended to the society by Mr. Crozer,
the name of the church be changed from Rockdale to Crozerville, an order
which was made, and under that title incorporation papers were granted in
December, i860. Attendance and membership increased rapidly, and by the
indefatigable eflforts of the trustees the congregation was entirely free from
aebt in 1866. Ten years later a parsonage was erected near the church, and a
few years later the church was completely renovated and remodeled.

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An association of Methodists in 1872 purchased a farm in Aston town-
ship, on the Bahimore Central raih-oad, and was incorporated as the Chester
Heights Camp Meeting Association. The tract purchased contained about 162
acres, of which sixty was woodland, and was inclosed with a fence seven feet
in heigiit. Within is a large building, 70 by 120 feet, a portion of which was
two stories in height, and was used as lodging rooms, while the remainder was
one-story, open at the sides, 'so constructed that in bad weather it could be
used for religious services. In front of this structure were backed benches
with a seating capacity of about 3500. The use of these grounds was not con-
fined to camp meetings, but any organization renting them for any purpose
whatsoever was required to conform with the discipline of the Methodist
Church.

The Siioam Methodist Church is a branch of the Bethel Church of Dela-
ware, and was organized in 1852. Ground for a church in Bethel tovvnshi])
was donated by Samuel Hanby and Samuel Hance, and thereon was erected
a stone edifice. The basement was in condition to be used before the main
body of the church was completed, and services were held there until .Septem-
ber 24, 1854, when Rev. Hurey and Rev. Andrew Manship, of Philadelphia,
conducted the dedication services. The cost of the building was $4,500, of
which sum one-half had been raised from time to time, when the edifice was
in tlie course of construction, the remaining half being made up by subscrip-
tions on dedication day. The church was embraced in the Mount Lebanon
circuit, and tiie first pastor was Rev. William II. Burrcll. The growth and
expansion of the church led to the establishment of a mission at Chelsea, in a
chapel originally built by Dr. Phineas Price, which was purchased by the con-
gregation and dedicated July 22, 1 87 1.

The Union African Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in Ches-
ter by a freed slave, Robert Morris. An humble beginning was made in a
room of a house occu])ied by a colored family, named Williams, the attendance
and interest gradually increasing, until in 1831 a lot was jnirchased and a
frame house of worshiji erected thereon. Rev. Samuel Smith was the first
local preacher. During the second pastorate of Rev. Benjamin Jefferson, the
stone structin-e, which had been built during his first ministry, was rebuilt
Union Church became a strong institution, and established a mission church at
Media, which has likewise jjrosjjercd.

Rev. Stephen Smith, of Philadelphia, was the founder of the Asbury Afri-
can Methodist Episci^pal Church, which he organized on October 26, 1845. ^'^
this same year church property was purchased and a building erected, the pul-
pit being filled at first by circuit ])i\'aclKTs, altlinni;li lattr Idcal ck-rgynien con-
ducted the services. The first regular pastor was Rev. Henry Davis, ajipointed
in 1849. During the ministry of Rev. Jeremiah Young, who came to Chester
in 1863, the church was rebuilt, and on November 25, 1867, the A.sbury African
Methodist Episcopal Church was incorporated. While Rev. C. C. Felts was
pastor, a parsonage was purchased on Madison street. The church conducted

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the William Murphy church as a mission for a time, the Rev. M. F. Slubey
being installed as its first pastor in 1883.

The South Chester Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in South
Chester, under the direction of Rev. S. W. Gehrett, in 1870, and in this year
a chapel was erected as a mission chapel of Trinity Methodist Episcopal church
of Chester, and was dedicated in November, 1871, Rev. Urie, of Wilmington,
preaching the dedicatory sermon.

The Madison Street Methodist Episcopal Church of Chester had its begin-
ning in meetings conducted by John Kelley, in 1818. Mr. Kelley had formerly
been a preacher in St. George's Church, Philadelphia, and through his influence
a class was formed and the conference prevailed upon to make the place a
regular station on the circuit preacher's route. For many years services were
held in the court house, where it is said the noted Bishop Asbury preached on
several occasions. The congregation grew rapidly, but all efforts for the erec-
tion of a house of worship were futile until 1830, when a stone church was
erected on Second street, largely through the efforts of David Abbott, and was
named Asbury Chapel, in honor of the bishop. In 1845 the congregation had
become so large that it was freed from dependency upon the circuit preachers,
and was established as a regular station, with Rev. Isaac R. Merrill as the
first pastor. In May, 1846, the church was incorporated, and the erection of a
second stone meeting-house was begun. Rev. Dr. Hodgson, of Philadelphia,
and Dr. Kennedy, of Wilmington, assisting the pastor in the laying of the cor-
ner-stone. From 1847 to 1872, thirteen pastors occupied the church pulpit as
duly appointed preachers, and in 1872, the old building being inadequate, the
corner-stone of a new edifice was laid by the pastor. Rev. James Cunningham,
Rev. Henry Brown, rector, of St. Paul's, and Rev. A. W. Sproull, pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church, assisting. The church was constructed of green
serpentine stone, trimmed with granite, and having corner-blocks of the same
material.

For the convenience of the Methodist residents in the South Ward of
Chester, the Quarterly Conference decided to effect a church organization in
that section of the city, in consequence of which services were held in Crozer
Academy, on Second street, while on June 26, 1865, Trinity Methodist Episco-
pal Church was incorporated, and August 25 of that year the court granted an
amentled charter. In the summer of that year, under the leadership of Rev.
Twiggs, the erection of a building began, but the structure had been barely
roofed in, when, in October of 1865, a terrific northeast storm sweeping
through the city, entirely demolishing the whole work, heaping it in the cellar,
a mass of ruin and debris. In this condition affairs remained until the follow-
ing year, when a chapel was erected on the ground to the west, a Sunday
school built, and work recommenced on the main building. In the fall of 1866
the chapel was completed and dedicated, $5000 of the $20,000 debt which the
congregation had incurred, being raised on the occasion. During the pastor-
ship of Rev. George W. F. Graff, the main church was completed, and at the
dedication services Bishop Simpson received subscriptions amounting to $5000.

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By 1875 the entire debt was paid, and the church was free from any obligation
for the first time in ten years. Even during tliis period of adversity, the mis-
sionary spirit had been alive, and a mission chapel was supported, which has
since grown into the South Chester Methodist Episcopal Church.

St. Daniel's Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in South Ches-
ter, with Rev. Henson, officiating as the first pastor.

The African Methodist Episcopal Bethel Church was organized in the old
school house on the public grounds in South Chester. A lot was purchased for
the consideration of one dollar (a gift) from John M. Broomall, and by the
eflforts of William Murphy sufficient money was subscribed for the erection of
a brick edifice which was dedicated June 6, 1872, and Rev. G. T. Waters in-
stalled as pastor.

In 1835 the organization of St. George's Methodist Church was effected,
the indirect cause of which was the visit of Rev. Brooke Eyre to Marcus
Hook. He preached a sermon in a shoemaker's shop, and succeeded in arous-
ing such interest that immediately after his departure subscriptions were taken
and a plain wooden structure erected on Discord Lane, William McLaughlin
selling the land upon which it was built for a small consideration. The con-
gregation was poor and depended entirely upon circuit preachers for regular
services, but what it lacked in wealth it made up in interest and earnestness of
purpose. On February 20, 1839, Lewis Massey and wife made a deed of a
house and lot on Broad street in Marcus Hook, as a ])arsonage for the minis-
ter of the Chester circuit, which was held by the Wilmington Conference until
St. George's Church became a station in 1870. At that date the trustees peti-
tioned the court to be empowered to convey to the trustees of Marcus Hook
Methodist Church one hundred feet on Broad street and extending in depth
the whole length of the lot, to be used for the erection of a church thereon,
and to sell the remaining part of the lot to John A. Stevenson for $2500. which
sum was to be used in the purchase of another parsonage, the house in Alar-
cus Hook, then dilapidated, being six miles distant from the place where the
clergyman of Chester circuit was appointed to preach. The court authorized
the trustees, in November, 1873, to make the deed to Stevenson in fee-simple,
and discharged from all the trusts mentioned in the deed of trust. On Satur-
day, July 8, 187 1, the cornerstone of a new building was laid, as the old church.
in thirty-five years of constant use, had begun to show the ravages of time and
was fast becoming too small. The new edifice was a large and imposing struc-
ture, a worthy instrument for a holy use.

The Hebron African Methodist Church was organized about 1837, the
first meetings being held in a little log house on the road from Dutton's cross
roads to Upper Chichester cross roads, in Lower Chichester township. ,A lot
was purchased from John Mustin in 1844, and a frame church erected during
the pastorate of Rev. Abraham C. Crippin. The first pastor was Rev. Israel
Gcott.

In 1842 the African ]\Iethodist Episcopal Church of Darby township was

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organized, a frame church being erected on Horntown road, which was re-
placed in 1854 by a brick edifice. The first pastor was Rev. J. W. Davis.

The nucleus of Mount Zion Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in
1807, when about twenty believers in the Methodist faith residing near Darby,
formed a class for divine worship. At some time subsequent to that date, Dr.
Phineas Price purchased a lot on the Springfield road from Joseph Wood,
and erected thereon a stone church. Upon the death of Dr. Price, who had
held title during his lifetime, Mary, Ann M. and Henry Price conveyed the
building and ground to Samuel Levis, Charles Levis, Samuel Sungren, David
Dunbar and Jonas Morton, trustees of the church. When the congregation
decided to move the church seat to Darby, a lot in the borough was purchased
and a brick church costing $9400 was erected, and the dedication services held
by Bishop Matthew Simpson.

A society of Methodists in Upper Darby township, who held meetings for
worship at the homes of the various members from 1834 to 1837, resolved
to erect a place of worship, and June 27 of the latter year laid the corner-stone
of the Methodist Episcopal church at Pleasant Hill, Rev. M. Coomer officiat-
ing. The church was under the care of the Philadelphia Conference, and after
the organization of the Qifton Methodist Church, in 1871. the older organiza-
tion was placed under that charge.

The Clifton Methodist Episcopal church was organized in 1871. and that
year the building of a brick sanctuary was begun, the funds being furnished
largely by Richard Young, of Springfield. The corner-stone was laid Augusi
10, 1871, Rev. F. A. Fernley and other clergymen prominent in the denomina-
tion, assisting the pastor. Rev. M. H. Sisty. A Sunday school also sprang
from the main body of the church, and is both well supported and enthusi-
astically attended. In 1884 a parsonage was built on a lot adjoining the church
property.

In 183 1 an organization was formed in Haverford township under the
name of the Bethesda Methodist Episcopal Church, with Rev. William Crider
as its first pastor. The following year a building for worship was erected in
the southwest quarter of the township, which was enlarged and remodeled
in 1871.

The Methodists hold the honor of being the pioneers in organized religious
work of any kind in Media, for in 1851 Rev. John B. Maddox, pastor of the
Village Green Church, preached in the Media Temperance Hall, after which a
class of five members was organized, of which John Hardcastle was the leader.
During the winter, prayer and cla'^s meetings were held in the home of Joseph
Iliff, and in August, 1851, a lot was purchased, with the idea of erecting a
house of worship as soon as possible. Until 1854 meetings were held under
the apple tree in the lot in summer ; in the winter, in the court house and an
upper room in Mark Packard's barn. Rev. Ignatius Cooper, who had charge
of the circuit, published an appeal for aid in the "Delaware County Republi-
can." By August 7, 1854, the $2000 necessary to complete the fund of $3500
had been raised, and on that date Rev. Dr. H. G. King and Rev. J. S. Lane

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conducted services at the laying of the corner-stone. In the spring of 1858
the entire structure was completed and an excellent and impressive dedication
service was preached by Rev. Franklin Moore, D. D., the church becoming
an independent station the following year. During the pastorate of the Rev.
G. T. Ilurlock, extensive repairs and alterations were made to the church and
a parsonage erected.

In 1833, William L. Fox, Eleanor Fox, James Permar, John Pyle and
four other ])ersons, organized a Methodist society at Lima, in Middletowii
township, with James Riddle, a local preacher, in charge. For about six
months services were held in the dwelling of Mr. Fox; later the school house
was rented for the purpose, and services conducted there by the circuit preacher.
On August. 19, 1835, in consideration of $75, John Rattew conveyed to Henry
Permcr, Charles McCally, John Pylc, Lewis M. Pike, John Daniels, Seth
Rigby, William L. Fox of Middletowii, Caleb G. Archer of Aston, and Joshua
Smitii, of Edgemont, trustees, an acre of land "forever, in trust, that they
shall erect and build or cause to be built thereon a house of worship for
Methodist Episcopal church of United States of America." On this site was
built a stone meeting house which in 1873 was rebuilt and enlarged. The
dedication services of the new building were held Sunday, April 0, 1873, and
March 23, 1873, the court of Delaware county incorporated the Lima Metho-
dist Episcopal Church. A Sunday school has also been formed, its advance-
ment being steady from the date of organization.

The Honeycomb Methodist Episcopal Church was formed by a number of
colored people of Middletown in 1872, and a building erected near the Bishop
Hollow road.

The Union Methodist Episcopal Church of Nether Providence township
grew from a class organized in Hinkson's Corners, about 1812, composed of
residents of Nether Providence and neighborhood. On January 28, 1813, the
trustees, William Palmer of Aston, Edward Levis and William Coflfman, of
Sjjringfield, Joseph Dicks, Caspar Coffman and John Esray of Nether Provi-
dence, Christopher Snyder and Rudolph Temple; of Springfield, and William
Morris of Upper Providence, purchased a lot of eighty square perches of land
from I'enjamiii Houlstoii, for $110. Hereon a stone church was erected.
which was enlarged and repaired about 1878. The church was under the same
charge as the Mount Hope church, both being in Village Green Circuit.

The organization of the Stony P>ank Methodist Church was effected in
1810, the first meetings being held in the Stony Bank schoolliouse while a place
of worship was being erected. This was finished in 1812, a stone structure,
that was used until 1870, when work was commenced on a new edifice, the
cornerstone being laid on July 28 of that year. Dedication services were held
May 27, 1871.

The Bethlehem Methodist Episcopal Cliurch of Tliornbnry was not in-
corporated until November 26, i860, but the class from which it grew was or-
ganized in 1845, and March 26 of the following year Albin Pyle conveyed a
lot at Thornton to the trustees to be used for the erection of a church building,

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as well as for a burial ground. Soon after a meeting house was built, remain-
ing under the charge of the Chester circuit for many years, and being depend-
ent upon that body for ministers to conduct services. In 1871 the building
was repaired throughout and reopened on Sunday, November 19, 1871, with
elaborate services at which Revs. Hughes, Wallace, Alcorn, and Watson spoke,
$500 being raised to defray the cost of renovation.

The Thornbury African Methodist Episcopal Church was organized from
a class formed for worship, and used the old frame schoolhouse on the West-
town road as a place of meeting.

The Kedron Methodist Episcopal Church of Springfield township was or-
ganized with about forty-five members in 1859, who, until the erection of their
church, held meetings in the drawing-room of John S. Morton's mansion, later
in a wind-mill back of the mansion, and for a time in a chapel built on the
church lot. The lot was donated by Thomas T. Tasker, and the cornerstone of
the building was laid September 6, i860. The dedication services were held
[une 19, 1862, conducted by Bishop Levi Scott.

In April, 1878, a class of Methodists purchased a lot in Ridley township,
and obtaining a charter August i, 1878, erected a brick structure named the
Prospect Methodist Episcopal Church, which was dedicated June i, 1879, by
Bishop Matthew Simpson. Rev. J. H. Pike was the first pastor.

Catholic Churches. — Although in the localities where they have placed
their missions and churches the Roman Catholic church has been a potent fac-
tor in the development of the religious life of that community, in Delaware
county the churches of that denomination are not numerous. The first Cath-
olic church in this county was St. Denis", founded in 1825. Dennis Kelly, a
v.oolen and cotton manufacturer, donated the ground and the burial lot, also
subscribing largely to the building fund. The direct cause of its erection was
for the accommodation of those of Catholic faith employed in Kelly's mills on
Cobb's creek.

For many years the Catholic residents of Aston township attended wor-
ship at St. Mary's Church, the noted mansion of the Willcox family at Ivy
Mills, Concord township, but eventually the congregation became so large that
a place of worship for those living in Rockdale, was necessary. A tract of land
was purchased from Nicholas F. Walter, the deed being dated August 26, 1852,
and made to Right Rev. J. N. Newman, bishop of the diocese of Philadelphia,
the ground to be held in trust for the congregation of Ivy Mills. On Sunday,
August 29, 1852, the Rev. Sourin, of Philadelphia, conducted services at the
laying of the cornerstone of the church of St. Thomas, the Apostle, an edifice
which was completed in 1856, on October 20 of which year Rev. Charles Jo-
seph Maugin was appointed the first pastor. In 1858 a frame parsonage was
erected, which on Tuesday night, February 4, 1873, was entirely destroyed by
fire, the church building, which stood in close proximity, being saved from a
like fate only by the most strenuous exertions on the part of the fire-fighters.

The history of the church of St. Michael the Archangel dates back to
1842, when a number of Catholics in the city and vicinity determined to erect

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a place of worship, the nearest sanctuary of that denomination being ten miles
distant. Upon apphcation to Right Rev. Francis Patrick Ken.lrick, Bishop of
Philadelphia, Rev. Philip Sheridan was assigned to the parish. On July 12,
1842, a site was jjurchased on the Edgenmnt road, and September 29 the same
year the cornerstone was laid by Bishop Kcndrick. On June 25, 1843, Right
Rev. Dr. Moriarty preached the sermon, dedicating the church under the pa-
tronage of St. Michael the Archangel. Until 1850 no regular pastor was as-
signed, although occasional visits were made by Fathers Sheridan, Lane, Sour-
in, Walsh, .\mat, and Dr. O'Uara, but that year Rev. Arthur P. Haviland.
who had been ordained the month previous, was appointed to the charge. His
ardent and earnest labors soon increased the number of communicants to such
an extent that the building became insufficient for the needs of the worship-
pers, so fhe congregation was divided, and the Church of the Immaculate
Heart established in the South Ward. Notwithstanding this temporary relief
from the overcrowded condition, the necessity for a new church was plainly
evident, and on November i, 1874, Right Rev. Bishop Wood laid the corner
.vtone of the new sanctuary, a building of Leiperville granite, trimmed with
polished granite and columns from Maine. The church is handsomely deco-
rz^ted within, wonderful frescoes adorning the walls, and matchless work in
carved marble, filling one with amazed admiration. On October 3, 1880, Arch-
bishop Wood performed the solemn and impressive ceremony of blessing the
cross surmounting the center tower of the church, in the presence of two
thousand people.

The Church of the Immaculate Heart was, as before stated, an outgrowtli
of the Church of St. Michael the Archangel. The parish was organized in
1873, with Rev. John B. Kelly as pastor. A frame chapel was first erected as
a meeting place, and September 23, 1874, Right Rev. Bishop Wood officiated
at the laying of the corner-stone of the new church, which was dedicated on
Rosary Sunday, October i, 1876, by Most Rev. James F. Wood, D. D., Arch-
bishop of Philadelphia, assisted by Rev. A. J. McConomy, chancellor of the
arch-diocese, with Revs. E. F. Pendercese, Francis P. O'Neill, A. J. Gallagher,
T. J. Barry, James Timmins, and Thomas J. McGlynn, assisting.

Several years previous to 1849, ^ Catholic mission was established at
Kellyville, l^pper Darby township, which later became the Church of St.
Charles Borromeo. The ground for the church structure was donated by
Charles Kelly, the building being erected and dedication services held .Sunday,
October 13, 1850, Very Rev. F. X. Gartland, V. G., conducting the ceremony,
and Rev. Dr. Moriarty preaching the dedicatory sermon.

Undenominational Churches. — Other churches have sprung up in the
county, which, either because of their irregular origin or because of their scar-
city, could not be treated under separate denominational heads. The story of
these churches follows :

In the early part of the nineteenth century a few residents of Ridley town-
ship organized a Free Christian Church, and erected on a lot conveyed, Decem-
ber 29, i8i8, by Isaac Culin, to John L. Morton, John Price, .'\braham Wood,

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Jonathan Bond, and Samuel Tibbetts, trustees, a stone house of worship, Rev.
Frederick Phimmer, of Philadelphia, becoming its pastor. At his death the
organization weakened and finally dissolved, the last meeting being held
about 1865.

In 1832, George Bolton Lownes, of Springfield, who seems to have had the
true essence of religion in his heart, set apart a tract of land on his farm for
church and burial purposes. He erected a church building, dedicated to no
denomination, but free to the use of any which cared to hold services therein.
Services were held by Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian ministers, and at
times members of the Society of Friends have made it their meeting house.

The Wayside Church, erected by a society of Protestants of different
faiths, organized in 1871, was intended for much the same purpose that the
Free Church was erected, with this difference, that the Free Church was for
the use of all faiths, while the latter confined its invitation to all of Protestant
faiths. The lot upon which the church was built was donated by William H.
Erwin, the building being dedicated May 3, 1874, by Rev. Dr. Speer, an Epis-
copal divine of Philadelphia, assisted by Rev. George W. Gaul, of the Metho-
dist church. Rev. Abel C. 'I'liomas, of the Universalist church. Rev. Lynn, of
the Presbyterian church, Rev. Worrell, of the Baptist church, and Darlington
Hoopes, a Friend.

James Lindsay about 1818 erected on the Logtown road, in Aston tnwii
ship, a church building which was always known as the Blue Church, and which
on ;\larch i, 1822, he conveyed to William Glenn, James McMullen, and Sam-
uel Hunter, trustees of the First Branch of the United Presbyterian Congrega-
tion _of Aston, Providence and Springfield, "for and in consideration of the
love of God and ^.roinotion of Religion, and also in consideration of the sum of
one dollar."

Rev. John Smith was the first and only pastor of the Mount Gilead
Church, as he named it. The church later fell into disuse.

In August, 1878, the organization of St. Paul's German Lutheran Church
was effected under the charge of Rev. J. T. Boyer, and in May, 1879, a meet-
ing house, formerly the property of the Methodists, was purchased from George
H. Crozer. The church was consecrated Sunday, May 18, 1879, by Rev. Dr.
C. Shaeffer, president of the Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania, A. T.
Geissenheimer, of Philadelphia, and J. Lewberger, of New Jersey. The build-
ing was remodeled throughout, and July 10, 1879, was dedicated by the pastor.
The services are held in the German language.

Prior to 1830, James Robinson, who had been a lay preacher of the
Swedenborgian Church in England before emigrating to America, began the
teaching of that faith in Upper Darby, holding services in the picker room of
the factory now owned by the Thomas Kent Manufacturing Company, and in
the academy building at Haddington. At the laying of the corner stone for a
church of the denomination Mr. Robinson explained the principles of the New
Jerusalem faith. The Rev. Carll, of Philadelphia, also spoke, stating that
"they had laid the corner-stone of that church in the name of Jehovah, one
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God, and tliat Jesus Christ was that God." expressing the hope "that the
church erected thereon might never be appropriated to the worship of a Trin-
ity, or more tlian one God, as distinct and separate beings." The church was
built on land owned by Frederick and Edward Levis, and it was not until July
31, 1833, that the ground was conveyed to Morris W. Heston and George G.
Trites, church trustees. Incorporation papers were obtained September 2,
1861, under the name of the New Jerusalem Society of Edenfield. Delaware
county.

DENOMINATIONAL ST.VTISTICS.

Methodist Episcopal. — Delaware County Methodist Episcopal churches,
with the twenty-three churches in Philadelphia, and a few others in Chester
county, form the South District of the Philadelphia Conference of the JNletho-
dist Episcopal Church, Bishop Joseph ¥. Berry, president. From the min-
utes of the Annual Conference held in 1913, the following statistics are taken:

Chester

Churches.
Madison street
Providence Avenue
South Chester
Trinity ]

Clifton
Cruziervillc
Darby

East Lansdowne
Eddystonc

Elam and Bethlehem
Glen Mills and Stony Bank
Gradyville
Lansdowne
Lima

Llanerch and Bethesda
Marcus Hook
Media (First Church)
Morton
Mt. Hope
Norwood
Ridley Park
Sharon Hill
Siloam
Swarthmore
Trainer

Union and South Media
Upland

Baptist. — Delaware County Baptist Ciuu\-lK-' form a part of the Delaware
Lninn .Association of the Pennsylvania Baptist General Convention. From
the minutes of that convention the following statistics are taken:

Churches are located as follows:

Value of

Pastor of

church property.

William H. Shafer

$52,000

F. J. Andrews

11.000

Geo. W. Sheetz

35.000

Samuel McWilliams

25.000

J. W. Perkinpine

28,000

G. E. Archer

10,000

J. W. Bennett

20,000

W. S. Houstnan

9,000

H. F. Hamer

•30,000

C. J. Benjamin

$3,000 and 8,000

Geo. R. Tompkins

6,500

R. J. Knox

3,000

N. B. Masters

21,000

A. B. Peterson

6,300

J. H. Royer

21,000

J. R. McDade

10,000

H. S. Noon

13,000

F. W. Z. Barnett

12.000

J. G. Smith

16.000

R. H. Kiser

12,000

Bertram Shay

16,000

S. W. Purvis

15.000

J. S. Tomlinson

5,000

W. L. McKinney

12,000

T. W. Bare

10,000

John Stringer

6,000

A. A. Thompson

5.000

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Brandywine Church, Chadds Ford, organized 1715 ; pastor, J. L. Foreman ; member-
ship, 172; vakie of church property, $16,000; seating capacity, 600.

Chester: — six churches. First church, organized 1863; pastor, Frank MacDonald;
membership, 540; value of church property, $53,900; seating capacity, 900. Calvary,
organized 1903; A. R. Robinson, pastor; membership, 660; value church property,
$10,400. Emmanuel, organized 1899; H. J. Lane, pastor; membership, 258; value of
church property, $25,000; seating capacity, 450. North Chester, organized 1873; pastor,
M. M. Lewis; membership, 86; value church property, $12,500; seating capacity, 450.
South Chester, organized 1873; pastor, R. A. Rook; value of church property, $11,500;
seating capacity, 1400; membership, 268. Union, organized 1902; pastor, J. W. Brown;
membership, 50.

Crum Lynne, organized 1879; pastor. C. J. Dauphin; membership. 46: value church
property, $24,500; seating capacity, 300.

Marcus Hook, organized 1878; pastor, W. H. Van Toor ; membership, 137; value
church property, $13,000; seating capacity, 350.

Media, First Church, organized 1832; pastor, W. S. Staub ; membership. 313: value
church property, $40,000; seating capacity, 450.

Moores, Prospect Hill, organized 1889; pastor, W. R. McNutt ; membership, 206;
value church property, $28,500; seating capacity, 500.

Ridley Park, organized 1830; membership. 78; value of church property. $20,000;
seating capacity, 400.

Village Green, organized 1880; pastor, Alfred Lawrence; membership, 46; value of
church property, $9,000; seating capacity. 250.

Churches of Delaware county belonging to the Philadelphia Association :

Media, Second Baptist, organized 1894; membership, 163; value of church property,
$6,000; seating capacity, 250.

Moores, Second Church, organized 1908; pastor, G. E. Chambers; membership, 30.

Newtown Square, organized 1832; pastor, G. H. Dooley; membership, 183; church
property value, $14,000 ; seating capacity, 500

Lansdowne, organized 1898; pastor, C. M. Phillips; membership, 136; value of
church property, $14,000; capacity, 300.

Garrettford, organized 1908; pastor, L. C. Drake; membership. 61: value of cliurch
property, $12,000; seating capacity, 250.

Collingdale. organized 1888; pastor, F. P. Langhorne; membership, 128; church
property value, $15,000; seating capacity, 250.

Upland, organized 1852; pastor, R. D. Stelle ; membership, 625.

Churches of Delaware county, belonging to the Central Union Association :

Wayne, First Church, organized 1841 ; pastor, W. O. Beazley; membership, 75.

Second Church, organized 1897 ; pastor, George Washington ; membership, 105.

Central Church, organized 1897; pastor, P. E. Wilmot; membership, 126.

The church at Yeadon was organized in 1912 with twenty-one members, the church
having a seating capacity of 150.

Presbyterian Churches. — The Presbyterian churches of Delaware county
are part of the Chester Presbytery of the Pennsylvania Synod. The churches
follow :

Bethany church, of Chester, organized 1S90, Egidius Kellmayer. pastor; Chambers
Memorial of Rutledge. organized 1889. George L. Van Alen. pastor: First Church of
Chester, organized 1852, P. H. Mowry, D. D., pastor, membership 258: Sgcond Church
of Chester, organized 1866, Harvey W. Koehler, pastor, membership 316; Third Church
of Chester, organized 1872, Abraham L. Latham, Ph. D., pastor, membership 902; Fifth
Church of Chester, organized 1899. Thomas M. Thomas, pastor: First Italian Church

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of Chester, organized 1911; Memorial Cluircli of Chichester, organized 1886, Josiah L.
Estliii, D. D., pastor, membership 65 ; First Church of Clifton Heights, organized 1887,
William R. Huston, pastor, membership 123; Church of Darby Borough, organized
1855, James R. Kerr, pastor, membership 521 ; Church of Dilworthtown, organized 1878,
Martin L. Ross, D. D., pastor, membership 70; First Church of Glenolden, organized
1840, David Winters, LL.D., pastor, membership 204; Glen Riddle, organized 1880,
vacant ; First Church of Lansdowne, organized 1887, William Boyd, pastor, membership
536; Leiper Memorial, G. A. Marr, stated supply; Llanerch, organized 1909, Charles S.
Richardson, D. D., pastor; Marple, organized 1834, Ralph A. Garrison, pastor, member-
ship 132; Media, organized 1866, S. Harper Leeper, pastor, membership 256; Middletown,
organized 1720. William Tenton Kruse, pastor; Radnor, of Wayne, organized 1906,
Frank C. Putnam, pastor, membership 176; Ridley Park, organized 1875, Samuel T.
Linton, pastor, membership 335 ; Sharon Hill, organized 1908, Alexander Mackie, pastor ;
Swarthmore, .organized 1895, William M. Woodfin, pastor; Wallingford, organized 1891,
Edwin E. Riley, pastor, membership 107; Wayne, organized 1870, W. A. Patton, D. D.,
pastor.

Protestant Episcopal Church. — Tlie Protestant Episcopal Church of Dela-
ware county is a part of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, the officials of which
follow : Bishop of the Diocese, Right Rev. Philip Mercer Rhinelander, D. D.,
LL.D., D. C. L. ; Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese, Right Rev. Thomas James
Garland, D. D., D. C. L. ; secretary to the Bishop and of the Diocesan Com-
mittees, Rev. W. Arthur Warner; Treasurer of the Diocese, Mr. Ewing L.
Miller. The churches of the county, as listed in the report of the Diocese of
Pennsylvania, for 1912, are as follows:

St. Luke's, of Chadds Ford ; St. Luke's of Chester, admitted to the diocese 1874,
rector. Rev. Henry J. Beagen, membership 115, aggregate value of church property,
$19,000; St. Paul's of Chester, admitted to diocese 1786, Rev. Francis M. Taitt, rector,
membership 684 ; St. Stephen's of Clifton, admitted to diocese 1879, no rector, value
parish property $25,000, membership 120, (at direction of Bishop of the Diocese, Rev.
H. M. G. HufT assumed duties of minister in charge until appointment of minister in
charge) ; Trinity Mission of Collingdale, Rev. Charles A. Ricksecker, missionary, (this
mission, February 15, 1912, established Darby Mission) ; St. John's of Concord, admitted
to diocese 1786, Rev. Thomas L. Josephs, rector, membership 35, value of parish property
$8,000; Darby Mission, Rev. Charles A. Ricksecker, missionary, membership 100, value
parish property, $8,500; St. David's of Devon, admitted to diocese 1786, Rev. James Hart
Lamb, rector, membership 169, value parish property $16,500, endowment fund, $10,000;
St. John the Evangelist Mission of Essington, Rev. Gilbert Pember, B. D., rector, mem-
bership 38; St. John the Evangelist of Lansdowne, admitted to diocese 1897, Rev. Cross-
well McBee, rector, membership 529, value parish property, $45,000; St. Martin's of
Marcus Hook, admitted to diocese 1786, Rev. R. M. Doherty, rector, membership, 85;
Christ's of Media, admitted to diocese 1858, Rev. Harry Ransome, rector, membership
381, value parish property, $25,000; Church of the Atonement of Morton, admitted to
diocese 1886, no rector, membership 95, value parish property, $12,000; St. Stephen's of
Norwood, admitted to diocese 1908, Rev. H. Bakewell Green, rector, membership 114,
value parish property, $8,800; St. James Mission of Prospect Park, Rev. William Howard
Davis, missionary, membership 43, value parish property $8,000; St. Martin's of Radnor,
admitted to diocese 1887, Rev. George Warrington Lamb, M. D., rector, membership
129. value parish property, $40,000; Christ's of Ridley Park, admitted to diocese 1881,
Rev. Gilbert Pember, B. D., rector, membership 200, value parish property $26,000;
Calvary of Rockdale, admitted to diocese 1835, Rev. J. Frederic Weinmann, rector,.

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membership 153; Trinity of Swarthmore, Rev. Walter A. Matos, priest-in-charge, mem-
bership "JT, value parish property, $9,000; St. Mary's Memorial of Wayne, admitted to
diocese 1889, Rev. C. M. Armstrong, rector, membership 350, value parish property,
$105,000.

Society of Friends. — The Meetings of the Orthodox Bianch of the So-
ciety of Friends in Delaware county, are as follows :

Chester, held ist and 4th days, 10 o'clock; Middletown, ist and sth days, 10
o'clock; Media, ist and 4th days, 10 o'clock, 4th day meetings are omitted in weeks of
quarterly and monthly meetings; Landsdowne, ist and sth days, 10.30 o'clock; Con-
cordville, ist day at 10 o'clock, and 4th day at same hour, except monthly meeting, which
is on 3d day, at 9.30.

Friends Meetings (Hicksite) :

Darby, founded 1684, meeting house at Darby; Lansdowne, at Lansdowne; Chester
Monthly Meeting, founded 1681, preparative meetings at Providence, Middletown and
Chester; Concord Monthly Meeting, founded 1684, preparative meetings at Concord and
Chichester ; Swarthmore, founded 1893, meeting house at Swarthmore ; Birmingham,
founded 1815, set off from Concord, preparative Meeting at Birmingham; Newton, at
Newtown Square.

Catholic Churches. — The Roman Catholic church in Delaware county is
embodied in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, with Most Rev. Edmond F. Pren-
dergast, D. D., as Archbishop. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia contains a Cath-
olic population of approximately 6o5,cx30, and to it are assigned one Archbishop,
two Bishops and 654 priests. In it are contained 271 churches, 3 colleges, and
149 parochial schools, the latter having an attendance of 65,912. The various
Catholic churches in Delaware county, are enumerated below :

Chester, six churches: — St. Michael's, Rev. Joseph F. Timmins, rector; Rev. Joseph
V. Sweeney, assistant rector; school-sisters of the Holy Child. Immaculate Heart of
Mary, Rev. Peter J. Ryan, rector; Revs. John J. McMahon and Francis P. McGinn,
assistant rectors; school-sisters of Immaculate Heart of Mary. St. Hedwigs (Polish),
Rev. Leon Wierzynski, rector, pro tern.; school-sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth.
Holy Ghost (Rutherian), Rev. Lucas Bilansky, rector. Chapel of St. Anthony of
Padua (Italian), Rev. Antonio Garritano. Church of the Resurrection, Rev. August L.
Canister, rector.

Qifton : — Sacred Heart (Polish), Rev. A. Kulawy, rector pro tern,; mission, Our
Lady of Czestechowa B. V. M. Eddystone — St. Rose of Lima ; Rev. Thomas F, Ryan,
rector; Rev. Patrick D. Houston, assistant. Ivy Mills — St. Thomas the Apostle, Rev.
Daniel A. Dever, D. D., rector; Rev. James J. Devine, assistant. Mission, Kaolin, first
Sunday each month, station, Glen Mills, House of Refuge every Sunday. Kellyville —
St. Charles Borromeo, Rev. Michael G. Scully, rector; Rev. John J. CunnifF, assistant;
school-sisters of Immaculate Heart of Mary. Lansdowne — St. Philomena's, Rev. F. J.
Markee, rector; Rev. John J. Toohey; school-sisters of Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Lenni — St. Francis de Sales, Rev. William C. Farrell, rector; Rev. Joseph J. Conway,
assistant; school-sisters of St. Francis; station, Delaware County House of Refuge for
Girls. Media— -Nativity of Blessed Virgin Mary ; Rev. Francis A. Brady, rector ; school-
sisters of St. Francis. Morton — Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Rev. James J. Wilson,
Tector. Norwood — St. Gabriel's, attended from Ridley Park. Ridley Park — St. Made-

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lines, Rev. William J. McCallen, Ph. D., rector. Sharon Hill— Holy Spirit, Rev. Joseph
Paul Monvillc, rector; Rev. Francis E. Higgins, assistant; school-sisters of the Holy
Child; Chapel, Convent of Sisters of Holy Child. Villanova— St. Thomas of Villanova,
Rev. H. A. Gallagher, O. S. A., rector; Rev. A. J. Viger, O. S. A., and Augustinian
Father assistant; school-sisters of Mercy; chapel, Augustinian Monastery, Reverend
Augustinian Fathers; St. Rita's in St. Rita's Hall. Wayne— St. Katherine of Sienna,
Very Rev. Joseph F. O'Keefe, V. F., rector.

There are churches of other denominations than those mentioned in the
foregoing chronicle, whose work for the advancement of the cause of Chris-
tianity and the uplift of the community in which they have been placed, has
been just as productive of good as have the etforts of the churches of the
more numerous denominations, to whom more space has been granted.

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EDUCATION*

With the first settlement of the territory now known as Delaware county,
began the fight for educational advantages, now so marked a feature of the
progress and enlightenment of the county. From 1684, when the first employ-
ment of a teacher is noted, the advance along educational lines has been rapid,
until now no locality is without its public school, no borough without its high
school : many private schools flourish, while three great institutions of national
fame are located within the borders of Delaware county — Swarthmore College,
Haverford College, and Pennsylvania Military Institute, all of which will have
further and extended mention.

The first public utterance on the question of education for the people at
large, is found in the general laws enacted by the second General Assembly,
held at Philadelphia, March 10, 1683, over which William Penn presided.
Chapter CXII, general laws provided:

".And to the End that Poor as well as Rich may be instructed in good and commend-
able learning, Which is to be preferred before Wealth be it, etc. That all persons in this
Province and Territories thereof, having Children and all the Guardians or Trustees of
Orphans, shall cause such to be instructed in Reading and writing; so that they may be
able to read the Scriptures and to write by that time they attain to twelve years of age.
.And that they may be taught some useful trade or skill that the poor may work to live
and the rich if they become poor may not want. Of which every county court shall take
care: And if such parents, guardians or overseer, shall be found deficient in this respect
every such parent, guardian or overseer shall pay for every such Child, five pounds.
Except there should appear an incapacity in body or understanding to hinder it."

This law was in force for ten years ; it was repealed when William and
Mary took the government of the Province out of the hands of Penn and com-
missioned Benjamin Fletcher, the Governor of New York to be Captain Gen-
eral of Pennsylvania and the territories annexed. However, in the laws made
that year the one numbered 25, entitled "The law about education of youth,"
the same law was reenacted with some changes — that part applying to guar-
dians and trustees of orphan children, their obligation to have such minors
taught to read and write depending upon their wards having, "sufficient estate
and ability to do so." Neither of these acts, however, can be considered as
meaning free public instruction, as no public funds were set apart to pay even
the slight cost of education in the branches named, reading and writing. Free
public education did not come for many years thereafter, and only then after
a fierce fight.

The first schools were established by the Society of Friends, Christopher
Taylor, a classical scholar, and prominent in the public life of the first decade,
had a school on the island of Tinicum about which little is known. It was the
first school of high grade in Pennsylvania. It was ordered by the Alonthly
Aleeting, held at Darby, September 7, 1693, "that Benjamin Clift is to teach

*For much of the material of this chapter we are indebted to the excellent "History
of Delaware County" of Henry Graham Ashmead.

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schoole," his term to begin "ye 12th of ye 7 mo." and to continue "One whole
yeare except two weeks." The annual salary was £12, but board was probably
included. These Friends schools have always been a feature of the educational
system of Delaware county. Teachers that had the proper qualifications were
few, therefore progress was slow, but each monthly meeting maintained a com-
mittee on education which had oversight of those schools established. In 1788,
Concord Meeting had three schools, and the rcjiort of the committee was that
they believed there were no Friends' children "but what received a sufficiency of
learning to fit them in a good degree for the business they are designed for."
There were also schools at Darby, Radnor, Haverford, Middletown, Springfield
and Upper Chichester and in connection with almost every Friends Meeting
throughout the county. These schools, although established for the benefit of
the Friends, were open to every denomination and being superior to any other
schools of that day were well patronized. Many, indeed, were of so high a
character that when the general system of free public education was finally es-
tablished, there were many who doubted whether any benefit would result
from the change. It must also be set down to the credit of the Friends that
the proper education of the colored population claimed a share of their atten-
tion.

In 1777, while the British troops were scouring the territory, the I'riend-
Yearly Meeting recommended that each local meeting should buy ground suf-
ficient for a school house and a house, garden and cow pasture for the teacher.
The idea was to secure a permanent teacher for each neighborhood of Friends.
This plan practically covered Delaware County.

The education of the youth of Delaware county, outside these Friends
schools, during the early years, was largely through a system of subscription
schools established in the several townships. The subscriptions were voluntary,
but when once made could be collected by law. This practice had become quite
general by 1750 and many townshiijs had school houses l)iiilt and scliooU iinin-
tained through this system of voluntary contribution. The school houses were
usually built of logs, with desks and seats of pine slabs. The teachers, some
of whom were men of learning, were as a rule hardfisted failures in life,
who ruled as despots in their little kingdoms. They were often itinerant,
mostly poorly paid, and had difficulty in collecting their dues. A few were
perfect Godsends to their children. But the quality of the teachers improved
as the population increased, better text books came into use and better facilities
were aflforded the boys and girls. Yet, from these rude schools, boys and girls
were turned out who went forward and rose to heights of prominence in both
state and church.

The Delaware county superintendent in describing these schools in 1877,
says : "There was no system of public instruction but the education of children
was almost wholly a matter of private concern. The family school was suc-
ceeded by the neighborhood school. . . . Township lines were disre-
garded. Certain persons were made trustees, who had charge of the property
and mostly appointed the teachers. The teachers were paid by their patrons

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at the rate of two or three dollars a quarter for each child and sometimes some-
thing ndditional for wood and ink.''

The pay of the early teacher averaged about $25 monthly, the terms
varying in length from three to seven months. The old subscription and Quaker
paved the way to the public schools and only gave way before that great ad-
vance in educational methods. They did a great work in the training
of the children of the early settlers, and, it must be remembered, trnim- I and
launched upon the seas of every vocation, craft and profession, many men and
women who became famous, many who became noted, and many, many thou-
sands who filled the humbler walks of life faithfully and well. They furnished
the only opportunity for general education during the long period between
1700 and the public schools of 1834, and were, next to the churches, the great-
est force for good in the new world.

All through these years of "subscription" schools, however, there had
been the great idea of a "free school for every child," and in the constitution of
1776 there was a clause which provided that "A school or schools shall be es-
tablished in each county by the legislature for the convenient instruction of
youth, with such salaries to the teachers paid by the public as may enable them
to instruct youth at low prices." This did not, however, bring the free school
into existence, and in the constitution of 1790 another eflfort was made by the
friends of education to reach the goal of free education. The seventh clause
of the new constitution provided that "The legislature shall, as soon as con-
veniently may be, provide by law for the establishment of schools throughout
the state, in such manner that the poor may be taught gratis." But friends
were arising who made valiant effort. In 1794, Dr. William Martin, of Ches-
ter, advocated in a lengthy article in the "Aurora" (published in Philadelphia),
the necessity of establishing ptiblic seminaries of learning, and on April 4, 1809,
the legislature passed a law that the children of parents too poor to provide for
their child's education, should be properly instructed at the public cost, and
directed the manner in which this expense should be defrayed. _

All effort along the line of public education had been in behalf of the poor
child, and was not regarded at all as a duty the state owed its citizens. How-
ever, by the passage of the act of April 3, 1831, a real start was made and
means provided for the cost of maintaining public schools. This act provided
that all money due the State by holders of patented land, and all fees received
by the land office, should be invested until the interest annually would amount
to $100,000, after which time the interest was to apply to the support of the
public schools throughout the commonwealth. When the act of April i, 1834,
providing for a system of general (uiblic education was passed, about $500,000
had been received from the sources named, and the many n])iu)ncnts of the act
contended that the legislature had violated the law of 1831 in providing for the
support of the public school by direct taxation, instead of waiting until the
fund set apart by that law had reached the sum of $2,000,000, when the interest
thereon would have been available for the support of the schools. The act of
1834 was violently opposed not by the illiterate, but by great numbers of the

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ablest and best men of the State, who should have been loudest in its favor. Dr.
George Smith and Samuel Anderson, senator and representative from Dela-
ware county, were both warm friends of the law establishing public schools.
Dr. Smith being particularly active in its support. When the act was sub-
mitted to the various townships of Delaware county, the canvass showed four-
teen townships in its favor and seven opposed to the adoption of the law. The
opponents of public schools in Delaware county held a meeting October 30,
1834, at the public house of Isaac Hall, in Nether Providence, that was pre-
sided over by so influential a man as Benjamin Pearson, Jonas P. Yarnall act-
ing as secretary. This meeting adopted unanimously the following resolution :
"Resolved, That we disapprove of the law passed at the last session of the leg-
islature as a system of general education, believing that it is unjust and im-
politic. That it was never intended by our constitution that the education of
those children, whose parents were able to educate them, should be educated
at the public expense."

The meeting also appointed Dr. Joseph Wilson, Joseph Gibson, James S.
Peters, George Lewis and Benjamin Pearson, a committee to draft a memorial
to the General .Assembly, which, while it did not disapprove of the constitution
of 1790 providing for the education of the poor, gratis, declared the law of
1834 was oppressive, because it: "imposed a disproportionate and unreasona-
ble burden on the middle class of the community, who can partake but little of
its benefits." The memorial also objected that the authority of the school di-
rectors, under the provisions of the new law. was unlimited, having power to
tax the citizens to any extent, and "being responsible to nobody" ; that the as-
sessments for state and county purposes were sufficiently oppressive "without
any addition to carry into operation an experiment of doubtful efficacy," and
for these reasons they petitioned for the repeal of the law. Captain James Ser-
rill and Joseph Bunting were appointed a committee to have the memorial
printed, and a committee of sixty-four persons was appointed to circulate
printed copies for signatures and return ihcm to the chairman by November
1st following.

In the meantime, friends of the act creating a public school system were
equally active. On November 4, 1834, the school delegates from all the town-
ships except Aston and Concord met with the county commissioners in the
court house at Chester, in accordance with the provisions of the act. George
C. Leiper was chairman, and Homer Eachus secretary. The proceedings were
stormy, but by a vote of thirteen to nine it was ordered that $2500 should be
appropriated for school purposes, and a meeting of the citizens at the usual
place of election in each township was called to be held November 20th follow-
ing, to ratify or reject the action of the delegates and commissioners. A meet-
ing of those favoring the appropriation was held at Hall's Tavern, in Nether
Providence, November 13, William Martin acting as president, J. Walker Jr.
and I. E. Bonsall vice-presidents; J. S. White and A. D. William.son, secre-
taries. The following resolution was adopted •

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"That the tax levied by the commissioners and delegates ought to be extended to
bonds, mortgages, stocks, etc., in the same proportion as on real estate, and that in order
to raise an additional tax for the support of common schools, that the directors in the
several districts shall meet as directed in the seventh section and determine whether
there shall be an additional tax, and, if they decide in the affirmative, then the clerk of
the board shall notify the directors, who shall determine the amount and be authorized
to levy and collect such tax on bonds, mortgages and profitable occupations, as well as
real estate, and the proper officers of the townships constitute a court of appeals in case
any person may think himself aggrieved in the amount of tax so levied by said directors."

The same meeting adopted second and third resolutions. The second en-
dorsed the course of Governor Wolf in the matter of public education, as also
that of the members of the assembly who had voted for the measure ; the third
resolution appointed a committee to prepare a memorial to be presented to the
legislature. This memorial declared that the signers were "deeply impressed
with the importance of a proper system of education by common schools
throughout the State. They have examined the last act passed at the last session
of the legislature for that purpose, and are of the opinion that the objects con-
templated by the law would be greatly promoted by an alteration in the mode
of raising the money necessary to support public .schools. So far as the law
bears equally on all they cheerfully acquiesce in it, but some of its provisions
they deem burdensome and unequal m their operations on a portion of their
fellow citizens. The landed interest, as the law now exists, pays nearly the
whole expense of the system, while many that are proper objects of taxation,
contribute but a very small proportion." The memorial, after suggesting the
taxation of bonds, mortgages and money at interest and the method of collect-
ing from the townships concludes : "Your m.emorialists remonstrate against a
repeal of the law. and are only desirous that the matter may have your deliber
ate consideration : sensible that such amendments will be adopted as you may
deem most beneficial and just, tending to equalize the operations of the law,
the effects of which will strengthen the system, disseminate knowledge among
the people, the only sure means of perpetuating the principles of national lib-
erty."

This memorial, with twelve other petitions against repeal, signed by 873
names, was presented to the legislature from Delaware county, a number three
times greater than from any other county. Thirty-three petitions for repeal
signed by 1024 names was also presented. The law was never repealed, but
formed the basis of all following legislation under which the public school
system of the State has been built up.

It was not wholly a mercenary motive which induced the opposition to the
law. The religious denominations had grown up with the idea that education
was a part of religion and could not be properly severed from it. With this
idea they had at considerable sacrifice formed a school system which they
feared, and as shown, justly feared, could not be continued in competition with
a state supported scheme. It is a matter rather of surprise that so many
Friends were willing to join with their neighbors, on the ground of the com-
mon good in supporting the new system of free schools. Dr. George Smith

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cne of their miinber was head of the committee on education in the Senate and
much of the labor of passing the bill in the early critical days devolved on him.

The eleven townships of Delaware county that accepted the law on No-
vember 24, 1834, were: Chester, Haverford, Lower Chichester, Marple, Neth-
er Providence, Radnor, Ridley, Upper Darby and Upper Chichester, but soon
afterward it was accepted by all and placed in operation. The report of James
Findlay, secretary of the commonwealth, dated March 2, 1835, states that in
Delaware county all the school districts had accepted the law, that the State ap-
propriation was $1070.93. and that $2200 had been voted to be raised in the
county by ta.x. From that time each township has operated under the State
law which determines the powers of school boards in school districts, and plain-
ly outlines the course to be followed. LTnder this law Delaware county has
built up a strong system of public schools ; the buildings in which they are
housed are creditable : the personnel of the teaching corps is as high as present
•salaries will allow. The county is divided into forty-four school districts, each
township being suprem? m its power over the districts within its bortlers. In
19 1 2 the value of school property within the county outside the independent
districts of Chester, Radnor and Darby, was $1,143,663.11; the average
monthly salary paid men was $114, and women $53. High schools where stu-
dents can prepare for college are maintained in eight districts, while in si.x
schools a course of manual training is part of the curriculum. The countv has
been fortunate in its selection of superintendents of public instruction, they
having been uniformly men in full sympathy with the cause of public education,
each striving to place the schools upon a higher plane of efficiency.

A great number of parochial schools and those of higher grade have al-
ways been maintained by the Roman Catholic Church for the education of their
youth, and at present, schools, seminaries and academies adequate in scope,
with a sufficient corps of experienced teachers, flourish within the borders of
Delaware county. No other strictly denominational schools are now main-
tained in the county, others being open to all religious bodies.

TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS.

Aston. — That schools existed in .\ston prior to 1777 is proven by the testi-
mony of Thomas Dutton, a centenarian, who related that on the da)' the battle
of Brandywine was fought, he, then a lad of nine years, heard the aged school
master, James Rigby, say, on hearing booming of the cannon at Chadd's Ford,
but a few miles away : "Go home, children ; I can't keep school to-day." There
was, however, no school building, so far as known, until 1802, when on May
II of that year Samuel Hewes, of Aston, conveyed to William Pennell and
Thomas Dutton "for the use of a school, a house thereon to be built," a lot of
land comprising an acre. The lot was to be held "in trust and for the use of a
school, a house to be built thereon for the use. Ijcnefit and behoof of the sub-
scribers towards building said house." The building thus erected was known
as the Octagon building, at Village Green, and therein, about 1820, James Mc-
Mullen was the teacher. In 1836, when the public school act had gone into ef-

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feet and the board of directors for Aston township was organized, the old
school house passed into the possession of the township, and on September 30,
1836, a school was opened there with Nicholas F. Walter as teacher of the
lower room, at a salary of $25 monthly, and Mrs. Moore was appointed teach-
er of the upper room. The Stony Bank school was next opened ; Martins
school-house next, later known as the "Logtown" school, that name giving way
in 1880 to its present name — Chester Heights school. Rockdale followed with
temporary quarters until 1853, when the Aston public school was built at Rock-
dale. The township now employs eight teachers, the schools being kept open
nine months in the year. The salaries of teachers range from $40 to $50
monthly, and the estimated value of school property in the township is $20,800.
Bethel. — About the year 1800, Caesar Paschal, a colored servant of Mark
Wilcox, sold a tract of ground to a committee, on which a log school house
was erected which was used but a short time. Twenty years prior, in 1780, a
subscription school house of stone was erected on the corner of Kirk road,
where in later years Thomas Booth had his shops. This building was torn
down in 1825, having ceased to be used for school purposes several years ear-
lier. In 1824 a school was opened in a stone building erected on a lot pur-
chased from John Larkin, on the Bethel road, east of Booth's Corner, that was
later known as public school No. i, having prior to the act of 1834 been a sub-
scription school. This building was torn down in 1868 to make way for a new
school house costing $1600. In 1839 a one-story octagon house was erected at
Booth's Corner that was used as a school until it was destroyed by fire several
years later. It was at once replaced by a new building that was used until
1870, when it was torn down and a building erected, known as public school
No. 2. School No. 3 was erected in i860 on the Bethel road, a short distance
west of Chelsea. The township now employs three teachers for a term of nine
months, at salaries of $40 to $50 monthly. The value of school property is

$7,700.

Birmmgham.—Tht first school house in this township was built on a lot
conveyed by John Burgess, April 30, 1806, "for the use of a school, but for no
other purpose whatever,"' Burgess reserving the timber growing on the lot. A
stone school house was built thereon, the cost being defrayed by the neighboring
residents. The building was located in the southeastern part of the township,
and was known for many years as Mount Racket. In 1825 Eli Harvey gave
the use of an old hipped roof house, built before the Revolution, it is said, for
school purposes. In addition to the free use of this house, Mr. Harvey also
furnished firewood grates. About i82f) Joseph Russell lived at the Baptist
ch.inch, and taught school in the shed adjoining his dwelling. About 1828-30.
Milcena Gilpin taught a subscription school in the dwelling house near the (jld
Butcher mill, the property then being owned by her father, Isaac G. Gilpin.
Near Dilworthtown, on Thomas Williamson's property was a frame school
house which Williamson sold for one dollar. This school was discontinued in
1841. There was also an octagon shaped building, erected near the residence
of Squire Robert Frame, that was known as the "Frame school house" ; anoth-

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er near Robert Bullock's, called the ISuUock school house. All these buildings,
after the public school law was accepted, became the pro|)ert)' of the township.
The township at the present time is divided into three school districts, and em-
ploys three teachers, receiving salaries from $40 to $50 monthly. The esti-
mated value of school property in the district is S6550, and the schools are open
for a term of nine months.

Upper Chichester. — In 1793 the Society of Friends established a school in
Upper Chichester which was maintained by the Society until the public school
system was introduced. There was also, previous to 1825, a subscription
school maintained in a brick house built for the purpose on the site of the pres-
ent public school building No. i, within a short distance of the village known
successively as Chichester Cross Road, McCaysville and Chichester. After
the adoption of the public law this building became the property of the town-
ship and was continued for school ]nu-poses until 1867, when it was torn down
and replaced with a two-story building at a cost of $2500, for the lower story,
the second story being paid for by subscriptions of citizens of the township, in
order that they might have a room for Sunday school purposes and for public
meetings. John Talbot was the first teacher under the new law, but, being un-
able to maintain discipline, the school was closed until the directors could se-
ctu-e a more efficient teacher, he appearing in the person of Joseph Henderson.

The Button school house, on the road leading from Aston to Marcus
Hook, was built many years prior to the adoption of the free school system,
and was known as the Stone, or White school house. After the schools be-
came free, this school passed under the control of the township, and an addi-
tion was added in 1838. In May, 1837, Elizabeth llarvey began teaching there,
but December 18 of the same year John Lloyd was teacher. In 1870 the school
directors innxhased land adjoining the school lot, the ancient stone building
was removed, and a modern school building erected. ISy 1842 these two schools
became so overcrowded that an additional school was opened December 9, in a
house of Salkeld Larkin on the Chichester and Concord road, Luke Pennell be-
ing the first teacher. This school, known as No. 3, was kept at the Larkin
house until 1859, when the Larkin school house was erected ; school continued
in the building until 1874, then was discontinued, but again opened and contin-
ued until fune, 187C), when the school was finally closed. The township now
contains four school districts, and employs four teachers, for a term of nine
months, at salaries varying from $45 to $65 monthly; value of school prop-
erty, $5500.

Lo'iVcr Chichester. — The first school of which there is record in Lower
Qiichester was conducted under the auspices of the Society for the Propaga-
tion of the Cospel in Foreign Parts, and was held in the frame house of wor-
ship on St. Martin's lot, after the first brick church was erected in 1745, and
continued for nearly sixty years. In 1801 a brick school house was erected on
the church lot, the cost being borne by members of the parish. Here all public
meetings of the township were held it would appear, but certainly so after
1805. The old church house was torn down in i860 by William Trainer, who

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gave $100 for the materials. About 1854 the Cedar Grove school house, near
the Baptist graveyard, was erected, aud old St. Martin's school, after sixty
years of usefulness, was discontinued. After the passage of the school law of
1834, the directors erected a school house near Linwood Station, on land do-
nated by John D. White, one of the directors. The building was so poorly con-
structed that it was torn down, and in 1844 another school house was built at
Rocky Hill. In 1880 a modern school building was erected on the Southern
post road at Trainer's Station. In i860 and for some time thereafter, the
Misses Emanuel conducted a private educational institution in Lower Chiches-
ter, known as Linwood Seminary. The township now comprises seven school
districts, employing seven teachers, for a term of nine months. The value of
school property in the township is estimated at $15,000.

Concord. — The first schools known in Concord were conducted by the So-
ciety of Friends. In 1827 a two-story school house was erected, and in it there
was a separation of the children'into grades. In the following year the Friends
division came, and henceforth Orthodox and Hicksite children were educated
in separate schools. The first board of directors, under the act of 1836, met and
arrived at a .decision, best expressed in the following notice posted throughout
the township :

"Notice : At a meeting, Concord, September 2, 1836. To all concerned : The direc-
tors of the district of Concord have resolved to open three schools in said district, viz :
At Millers or Lower school and Union school near Newlin's store and Upper school,
Concord Hill, on Second Day, the 12th inst. for the reception of all children over four
years old, for tuition and instruction. By order of the Board, Reece Pyle, Secretary."

The first teachers employed were Neal Duffee, at Mattson's : Jesse Green,
for the Flam school ; and Alexander McKeever for Concord. In 1853 the
school houses in the township were Hatton's No. i ; Mattson's No. 2 ; Gam-
ble's, No. 3 ; and Sharpless No. 4.

The first school house erected in the township, except that of the Friends,
was upon land donated for the purpose by Levi Mattson. It was a one-story
stone building, the lot containing half an acre, located on the north side of the
great road from Concord to Chester. The cost of the building was borne by
subscriptions from those living near by, and school was held therein and is the
school mentioned in the foregoing notice as Miller's, or Lower School. From
1812 to 18x5, John McClugen whose Saturday night libations at the Cross
Keys Tavern often incapacitated him from Monday morning appearance at
school, was the teacher. In 1859 another stone school house was erected on
the lot at a cost of $9-14. A school house was also built on the»road leading
from Naaman's creek to Concord road in 1827, which under the public school
act became in 1836 public school No. 3, and so continued until 1856, when a
new school house was erected at Johnson's Corners, and the old property sold.
In 1837 a school was established at the house of Matthew Ash, in the vicinity
of Concord Friends' meeting house, in which a public school was maintained
for a long time. The first agitation for a school house in Concordville was

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made in i860, hut nothing was accomplished until 1873-74, when a comtnodiou&
two-story brick building was erected at a cost of $4000, located on the State
road at the western end of the village.

On June 15, 1847, the directors purchased land of Caspar Sharpless and
erected a stone school house which was opened May 15, 1848, with Sarah C.
Walton as the first teacher. In 1870 the lot was exchanged with Fairman Rog-
ers for one in close proximity to JMarkham Station, on which a building forty
by forty feet was erected. The Spring Valley school house was erected in
1852, and was in use for school purposes until 1870, wlien it was abandoned,
the district being combined with Concordville and McCartney districts. The
McCartney lot was purchased about 1878, and a school house erected, now
known as No. 5, situated in the southern part of the township, below Smith's
Crossing. The Concord township was the home for years of Maplewood In-
stitute, founded in 1862, by Prof. Joseph Shortlidge ; and of Ward Academy,
founded in 1882, both now passed out of existence. The township employs six
teachers, at salaries varying from $45 to $65 monthly, who teach nine months
each year. School property in the district is valued at $20,560.

Darby. — On September 25, 1837. the school directors of the western school
district purchased a lot from the administrator of the estate of John Shaw Jr.,
on which they erected a one-story building which was used until 1874, then re-
placed by a modern brick school building. The Southern school, located on
Calcon Hook, has existed since 1850, when the first school house was built,
but replaced in 1871 by the present building. African school is located on the
Horntown road. The first school building was of frame, and stood on a lot
originally owned by George G. Knowlcs until 1875, when it was replaced by
the present brick structure. The schools of Darby borough will appear else-
where. Darby township is now divided into seven districts, and employs
seven teachers, for a term of nine months, at salaries varying from $45 to $55 ;
value of school property $69,000.

Upper Darby. — The first official record of land being set apart for school
purposes in Upper Darby is in a deed made in 1779, conveying twenty-four
perches of ground on the Darby and Haverford road, near the residence of
Isaac Garrett. On this lot a school house was erected, that is distinctly shown
on John Hill's "Map of Philadelphia and its Environs," published in 1807. In
that school Isaac Garrett was one time a teacher, and William and John Sellers
pupils. Formerly under control of a board of trustees, it was transferred to
the township school directors after the passage of the public school act of
1836. On February 18, 1833, a lot was granted, and later a school house
erected and ^ school maintained there, known as the Union school. On this
site the present stone school house near the William Walker grist mill was erected,
the Union school being transferred by its trustees to the township, after the
passage of the act of 1836.

On the Springfield road, west of Clifton, is a building which for many
years was used as a school house, continuing as such until 1871. On March
23, :87i, a lot was purchased and the present two-story brick school house

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erected at a cost of nearly S6000, the old school house and lot being sold for
$1000. The Central school house above Garrettsford was erected in 1838, and
in 1873 another school house was built on the same lot, and schools have since
been conducted in both buildings. In 185 1 a school house was built at Kelley-
ville, and used until 1871, when the school was discontinued.

On June 6, 1873, the residents of Pattonville (now Fernwood) petitioned
for a school, which was granted, and the old Methodist church was leased for a
schoolroom and used until 1875, when the present two-story brick building was
erected. In 1869 the brick building used for the parochial school of St. Charles
Borromeo Church at Kelleyville was erected, and is under the control of the
Catholic church. Upper Darby now employs the services of twenty teachers,
for a term of ten months. \'alue of school property, $80,000. The township
maintains a high school with five teachers, also for a term of ten months, the
course covering four years of study. A special course in music is also included
in the course. The building is a two-story brick, on Lansdowne Drive ; Hen-
derson M. Mendenhall, prinfcipal.

Edgmont. — One of the first school houses in Edgmont of which there is
recorfl, was built about 1760, in the eastern part of the township, near the line
of Upper Providence. This house was of stone, the mortar used, a composi-
tion of clay and straw. Thomas Hammer was a teacher there, and also taught
in Upper Providence, but in 1799 was a shot keeper in Edgmont. This old
school house was not in use in 1800, and about 18(10 was torn down. What
was later the Central District, was known as Big Edgmont. There a stone
school house was erected in 1749, and in 1809 a new stone building was erected
upon its site, which remained in use until 1870, when the present school house
was erected. Isaac Wood was the first teacher in the second house. In 1841
the school directors purchased a lot in the southern part of the township, on
which they erected a stone school house, that was abandoned after being in
use about ten years. The stone school house in the western district, known as
No. I, was built in 1867. A stone school house erected in the southern district
in 1843, known as No. 3, was in use until 1875, when a lot was purchased from
Jesse Green and Isaac Sharpless, about three hundred yards from the old
building, and a new stone school building erected.

A private school building known as Edgmont Central Seminary was
erected in 1809, and a school maintained for several years. This Iniilding
erected of stone was torn down in 1870. Edgmont now employs three teach-
ers, for a term of nine months, at salaries from $40 to $50; value of school

property, $6500.

Havcrford. — While doubtless schools were maintained from a much earlier
date, the first recorded purchase of land for school purposes was on October
28, 1799, when a lot was bought in the southwestern part of the township,
near the present school building, "for the purpose of erecting a school house
thereon, and for no other purpose or use." A stone building was erected
which was used for school purposes until 1883, when it was abandoned, a
substantial stone building having been erected to take its place.
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On tlic Townsond Cooper property, formerly owned b_\- Levi Lukes, a
stone school hoii.se was built about 1814. It was torn down about 1835, not hav-
ing been used as a school house for several years prior to that date, .\bout 1830
another school house was built on the lands of Jonathan Miller, near tlie Dick-
inson grist mill, on Cobb's creek. John Moore was a teacher there for several
years. On a corner of the Darby road and a roafl leading from the West Chester
road to Clifton mills, a stone school house was built al)Out 1874. on a lot pur-
chased from William Davis. Another school house was built near the Mont-
gomery county line, on Mrs. Sarah O'Connor's property, east of Cobb's Creek.
In Haverford township is also located that |)rospcrous and useful institution —
Haverford College, .that will have extended mention elsewhere. Haverford
township employs twenty-two teachers, for a term of nine and a half months,
at salaries varying from S40 to $160 monthly. A two-story stone high school
building has recently been completed at Oakmont. within which five teachers
give instruction in a four years course of study, with special teachers in draw-
ing and music. School property in the township is valued at $122,800; while
$178,000 has been voted for school buildings not yet completed. Principal
of high school, Joseph W. Huf¥.

Mar pic. — The first school of record in .Maiple was established in 1785. On
May 31, 1 79 1, Enoch Ta}ior and wife conveyed a quarter of an acre of ground
on the west side of the Marple road, in trust, for use of a school to be kept un-
der the direction of the Chester Meeting of Friends. On December 20 of the
same year, David Hall and wife conveyed a lot adjoining for the same purpose.
On these lots a school house was erected and used until about 1836. when it
was abandoned. On December 24. 1836. the schcjol directors ]iurchased land
,in wdnich they erected a school house to succeed the first mentioned one. In
1857 the second school house was sold to Nathan W. Latcher. and a new-
building erected on the site wdiich was used until 1877. In the latter year the
present brick school house, known as No. 2. was erected. On August 28. 1877,
the court authorized the Chester Friends Meeting to sell the old lot. and it be-
came the ])roperty of Malachi Stone, he paying $1000 for the property. On
March 21, 1818, John Craig, in consideration of one dollar and that a school
house should be built thereon, conveyed a piece of ground near firoomall, on
which a stone school house was erected. This school was under the care of
trustees until the school law of i83r) went into efl'ect, when it was transferred
to directors. The house of 18 18 was used until 1855, when it was removed and
a two-story building erected in its place. On February 22. 1837, a lot was
bought from Benjamin Garrett and a stone building erected. This lot was con-
veyed in "consideration of i^romoting the education and literary instruction of
the youth, resident in or belonging to the township of Marple." Thai building
was used until the present stone building was erected in 1877, on the same lot
but nearer the road. This is known as the Ce<lar Crove school house. Marple
school district employs four teachers, at salaries of $30 to $33 monthly; value
of school property $6300.

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school of considerable importance existed in Middletovvn, the building in which
it was located having been donated by Thomas Yarnall and Thomas Minshall.
This school was at one time in charge of George Deeble, a one-armed Eno--
lishman, a very capable instructor. On May 16, 1749, a plot near the Presby-
terian Church, on the Edgemont road, was conveyed to trustees for school
purposes. On this lot a stone school house was built, which was standing in
1835, as in that year it was mentioned by the school directors as "near Mid-
dletovvn Meeting House" and designated as school No. 3. As early as 1783,
Friends of Middletown established a school at their meeting house, the old
stone building in which it was held now standing unused on the church lot.
The society maintained this school until 1827, when the separation into two
bodies placed it under the control of the Hicksite branch, who continued it for
several years. Three well known teachers— John Hutton, Jacob flaines and
Jehu Broomall— taught in this school during the period 1815-20. James Emlen,
at the time the Friends separated, was teaching a private school in a house near
the old Emlen mill. At the same house the Orthodox Friends held their meet-
ings and kept their school until 1836. After completing their meeting house,
about that year, they erected a stone school house upon the same lot that has
been used as a school building until a recent date.

In 1813 a school house is mentioned in the road docket as "William Smed-
ley's school house," which was used as a house in 1808. It was located at the
forks of the Rose Tree and Middletown roads ; was accepted by the school di-
rectors in 1835 : designated school No. 2 and discontinued in 1839. In 1837 a
half-acre of land was bought from Nicholas Fairlamb and a school house was
erected. At a meeting of the school directors in November of that year, it was
determined that the Fairlamb school house "lately erected, shall be called No.
I ; the school house near William Smedley. No. 2 ; the school house at the Mid-
dletown Meeting House, No. 3 ; and the school house lately erected near Riddle
factory, No. 4." On December i. 1837, the directors decided these schools
should open December 19 that year. Public notice was given that four. teachers
would be employed, but five were examined and employed for a term of three
rfionths, the fifth school being located in a house near the Pitts farm, where
later a school house was erected.

In 1839 a school house was built in the western part of the township, on
land purchased from Joshua Sharpless. In 1841 another school house was
built at what is known as the "Barrens." which was used until 1868, when it
was replaced by a much larger and better building, known as No. 8. The
building known as No. 5 was completed in June, 1840. The report of the di-
rectors, dated July 16, 1849. show that in the townshiji at that time there were
six schools open seven months of the year, employing four male and two fe-
male teachers, instructing 192 male and 228 female pupils. The average num-
ber attending each school was 70; the amount of tax collected $1015.43; cost
of instruction, $1008. School No. 7 was built near Knowltoir m 1850, and at
the same time a hall was rented at Spring Hill for school purposes. In 1858
Samuel Riddle's ofifer to furnish a room for school purposes was accepted, and

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the school was known as Glen Riddle school. This was later abandoned and
the Knowlton lot sold in 1869. In 1861 the present No. 7 school was built at
Lima. In 1864 a school house was built on land secured from Samuel Riddle
and school opened there November 28, 1864. The old buildings becoming aged
and inadequate, were in the following years replaced with ones more modern
and changes made in the numbering. The township employs nine teachers, at
gilaries varying from $45 to $65 ; value of school property, $11,100.

Ncwtoivn. — One of the earliest schools in Delaware county was maintained
ut old Newtown Square, early in the last century. It was used as early as
1750, for Benjamin West, the famous painter, then a lad of twelve years,
attended school there that year. It was built of logs, the rude desks being
fastened to the sides of the building. The log house was removed in 1815
and a similar building erected which was used until 1820. No trace of it now
remains. For many years a copybook was preserved in which young West,
"while at school in Newtown Square, had drawn numerous pictures of vari-
ous animals, etc., and there is a tradition that these were made as compensa-
tion for assistance given him in arithmetic by another schoolboy named Wil-
liamson, the owner of the book, the youthful artist not having much taste for
figures."

In 1749, a stone school house was erected on a knoll in front of St.
David's Church, in which school was kept until 1820. This building was
removed in comparatively recent years. About 181 5, the Friends of Newtown
Meeting erected a one-story octagon shaped school house on the meeting
house lot. This school was maintained by subscription, as was usual in
the early days, and on the death of Dr. Jonas Preston, in 1836, by his will,
his estate was charged with the annual payment of $200 towards the sup-
port of this school. This fund for a great many years paid the salary of the
teacher. After the law of 1834 became operative there being no school houses
in the township except this one, application was made by the school directors
to the Society for its use, but the request was denied. On August 11, 1836, a
stone octagonal shaped school house was erected on the West Chester road,
above Newtown Square, which was continued in use for many years, until the
stone building known as Chestnut Grove Seminary was built to take its place.
On July 23, 1839, a piece of land was bought from Isaac Thomas, located on
the road leading from Berwyn to St. David's post office, and was erected
thereon a stone school house which continued in use until 1870, when a lot was
purchased on the Leopard road, at .St. David's post office, and a stone house
erected in the same year, the old building then being abandoned for scliool pur-
poses. In 1841 a lot located on the west side of the West Chester road, east of
Newtown .Square, was donated for school purposes by Isaac Foulk, the deed
providing that in case the ground ceased to be used for school purposes it should
revert to his heirs. A stone school house was erected thereon by the directors
and used for about twenty-five years, then was abandoned. There are now em-
ployed five teachers, for a nine month? term, at salaries of $53 to $73. A high

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school is maintained in the township, giving a two years course. M. Adele
Caley, teacher; value of school property, $13,500.

Nether Providence. — On February 10, i8io, a lot was purchased and later
a stone school liouse erected at what is now Hinkson"s Corners. A school was
there maintained, known as a Union school until April 26, 1841, when it was
transferred by the trustees to the school directors. In January, 186 1, it was
transferred of the school district, which at the same time purchased land ad-
joining. In June, 1866, the old house was torn down and the present structure
erected, and in 1881 an addition was built. One of the early teachers was Ca-
leb Pierce, a noted pedagogue, who taught there in 1821. In 1812 the Friends
near what is now the borough of Media built a school house on their land, in
which school was kept until 1840, when a school house was built in what is now
the borough of Media. When the borough schools were organized in 1856,
this school was used jointly by borough and township for a time, then became
the property of the borough, then sold and converted into a dwelling house. In
1857 the township being without a school in that section, erected the present
brick school house at Briggsville.

In 1840 a lot was purchased at Pleasant Hill, and a stone school house was
erected at a cost of $3000. The Todmorton school was first kept in the lower
story of the Presbyterian church, erected by William T. Cook, at his mills.
This is in Crookville school district, over which there were legal proceedings
necessary in order to establish their right to be a separate school district and
maintain a school. The school at Avondale Mills was built in 1840 of stone,
one-story high. This was used until after 1861, when it was abandoned and
became a ruin. Although Nether Providence at first refused to recognize the
validity of the public school act of 1834, they later came into line, and the cause
of education is there warmly supported. There are ten teachers now employed
in the township, for a term of nine and a half months, at salaries ranging from
$58 to $90 monthly. A high school is also maintained, giving a two years
course. This school, known as Wallingford High School, is housed in a two-
story stone building, employs two regular teachers, with special teachers in vo-
cal music and drawing ; value of school property, $22,500.

Upper Providcnee. — The present Blue Hill school house stands on the
site of one of the ancient school buildings of the county. When the first
building was erected is not known, but in 1877 a school was in existence there.
Some of the early teachers of this school were Jesse Haines, Martha Crom-
well, Thomas Hammer, Samuel Brown, Thomas Megarge, Elizabeth Pass-
more, John Hammer and W. Light foot. The first building was evidently of
logs, but prior to 1797 a stone school house was built by subscription. George
Miller, by will dated January 12, T794, probated 1797, devised to Jacob Min-
shall one acre, two square perches, of land, "with all buildings thereon," in
trust, for the "Society of Protestants, commonly called Quakers," of Chester
Monthly Meeting, for "the use of a school to be kept thereon" under the care
of Friends. School was kept there under the direction of the Chester :\leet-

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iiig until 1837, when the old Blue Hill school passed to the school directors of
the towushii). In 1872 the old school house was rebuilt.

Sandy Bank school Xo. 2 was established on the Providence road below
Rose Tree in 1837, and school maintained in the original building until 1870,
when a brick building was erected on a lot adjoining. Prior to 1872 a school
had been maintained in a house belonging to Samuel Bancroft, near the
Burnt ^lills (Manchester Mills), the present brick building known as dis-
trict Xo. I, having been erected in 1872. Upper Providence now employs six
teachers for a term of nine months, at salaries varying from $50 to $65
monthly; value of school property, $15,500.

Radnor. — Prior to the adoption of tlie public school law oi 1834, schools
had been rnaintained in the township from its early settlement. They were sub-
scription schools, mainly kept open only in the winter and for periods of vary-
ing length. The first court record of schools is in 1825, when it is known
school trustees ("school men") were elected. In 1827 it is recorded that land
was purchased by the "school men" of ^lordecai Lewis, on which to erect a
Union school.

In 1837 the first jiurchase of land by school directors under the new act
was made. In 1855 another purchase was made, and others have continued as
necessity required. Suitable buildings have at all times been provided, and in
public education Radnor compares favorably with other townships. In this
township X'illanoya CoUege, belonging to the Catholic Brotherhood of St. Au-
gustine, is located. This college, an offshoot of St. Augustine's, of Phila-
delphia, was founded by Rev. John Possidius O'Dwyer. The first building
was the two and a half story stone house, tlie former residence of John
Rudolf, from whom the property was purchased. Building after building has
been added on a large scale until nov^f the college comprises a convent with
novitiate and study house for members of the order ; a college for the educa-
tion of the laity of the church, in the classics, arts and sciences; church,
chapel and all the varied buildings attached to a complete monastic and edu-
cational institution of this class. The grounds are extensive, the buildings
costly, stately and beautiful, wholly adapted to their intended uses.

Radnor township is an independent .school district, of the third class, em-
ploying thirty-six teachers for a term of nine and a half months, at salaries
varying from $45 to $168 monthly. This includes all grades from primary to
high school inclusive.

Tiniatm. — From the earliest settlement of the island of Tinicum in the
Delaware, schools in form not differing from those of other townships of
Delaware county, have been maintained. Public schools have existed since
their creation by the act of 1834, and the township now employs five teachers
for a term of nine months, at .salaries ranging from $50 to $60 monthly.
School property in the township is valued at .$19,000, including the new school
building <ledicated to educational jmrposes, November 11, 191 1. The building
contains four large well lighted rooms, with suitable furniture, light and heat.

Thornhury. — In 1715 a deed wa.s made for a lot located near the Chester

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county line, on the road leading from Concord to Dilworthtown, and there at
about the same time a school house was built that was destroyed by fire in
1810 and rebuilt. The lot was transferred to the school directors of the town-
ship in 1837. and school was kept in the second building until December, 1842,
when that building also was destroyed by fire. A third stone house was built
on tlie site and used until 1872, when it was removed and the present brick-
building erected, now known as Western District school house. In the ancient
deed the right to a foot ])ath three feet w^ide to a spring not far distant, was
granted. This right granted in 171 5 was taken advantage of by the pupils
until 1880, when a water supply was furnished much nearer the school house.

The Eastern District school house, erected in 1863, was substituted in that
year for a stone school house built in 1839, a half mile south of the present
building. The first school house in the Central District of Thornbury was
built in 1820, located on ground belonging to Nathan Hunt, who taught school
in a frame house built by himself. Here in 1840 the school directors built a
stone school house that existed until 1863, when the present brick building
was erected.

-A school district exists in the northwestern part of the township, which is
formed from a part of Westtown township, Chester county, the school house
for this district lying in Westtown township. This district, created by act of
legislature, J\Iay i, 1852, is known as the Westtown and Thornbury School
District. In 1861 the residents living east of the district just named also peti-
tioned for the erection of an independent and separate school district. This
was granted by act of April i, 1861, and the district was enlarged by act of
April 9, 1873 — the district known as Union School District of Chester and
Delaware counties. Thornbury employs five teachers, at salaries of $45 to
$55 monthly; value of school property, $13,300.

Springfield. — A school was maintained in Springfield as early as 1793, un-
der the care of the Society of Friends. The Yellow school house was erected
prior to 1800, on land lying along the Springfield and Darby road, at its inter-
section by the road froiu the Rhoads farm to the Chester and Springfield road.
One of the early teachers was an Englishman named McCue. who taught for
several years, but at last fell a victim to his intemperate habits, being found
dead in a haxmow. The Yellow school house was used until 1852. when the
present Central school house was built. .About 1822 a stone school house was
built near the line of Ridley township, one mile south of Oakdale post office,
that was use<l until 1857, when the Oakdale school house, called Oakdale Sem-
inary, was built, and the old school house near Ridley abandoned. In 1855 the
'school house on Darby creek, near Hey's mill, was erected, and is still standing.
In 1830 a school house was erected by trustees, that was in use from 1836 to
1857 by the township as a public school. On April 1. 1857, Seth Pancoast, the
surviving trustee, sold the lot to the school directors, who erected the present
two-story stone building, the upper story being used for a hall, the expense of
its construction having been defrayed by subscription.

The present two-story brick house at Morton was erected in 1875, at a

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cost of $3500. The lower part was built by the townshi]). the upper story by a
stock company, the township having the right to lake it for school purposes,
should necessity require, by paying the stockholders $2000. The lot on which
it is built was donated by Alexander Young. The township now employs five
teachers, at salaries of $50 to $rx) monthly : value of school property, $14,294.

Springfield township is also the home of Swarthmore College, founded in
1866, that is the subject of a separate article. Swarthmore Preparatory School
is a flourishing school for boys, near the college. During its whole history it
has been under the efificient control and ownership of Arthur H. Tomlinson.

Ridley. — In 1800 a school house was erected by subscription on land do-
nated by Caleb Davis, located on the north side of the great road. The first
teacher was Jacob Fenton, a graduate of Dartmouth College. An agreement
made with him is of interest. It provided he should "teach a regular day
school, subject to the direction of the trustees of said school, in the rudiments
of the English language, reading, writing, arithmetic, book-keeping, geography,
and either or every branch of the mathematics, at the rate of $2 a quarter, for
every scholar subscribed for the term of three months to commence on the
twentieth day of tenth month 1800: and the undersigned subscribers to said
school agree to pay the said Fenton, or order, $2 for every scholar subscribed,
together with a reasonable charge for wood and ink." Before the winter had
passed, Fenton was in financial difficulties. He sent his bills before they were
due, refused to allow for time lost by absence, and at the end of his term bade
the trustees defiance and kept possession of the school. The trustees resolved
to eject him. The following brief entry, January, 1801, is significant: "On the
morning of the 23rd, the foregoing resolution of the trustees was carried into
eflFect."

On August 20, i8oo. a school lot was conveyed, lying on the Lazaretto be-
tween the Southern post road and ]\Ioore's Station. The donor was Lewis
Morey, the land to be used "to build a school house thereon, and for no other
purpose." The school house was built at once, as it appears on Hill's maps ;
was under the charge of trustees, then passed to the control of the school direc-
tors of the township, who maintained a school there until 1879, when the Nor-
wood school house was built. The old house was then abandoned and sold. In
T819, Thomas Leiper erected a stone school house on the Leiper church lot,
which was in use until the Thomas Leiper school house was erected in 1870 by
the school directors, just across from the old building that has long been in
ruins.

The Kedron school house, a one story structure, was built in 1862, on the
road from Morton to Norwood Station. In 1870 the two-story brick school
house on the south side of the Southern post road, a short distance south of
Crum Lynne. was erected, and in 1873 enlarged. In 1876 the building at the
northwest corner of Lexington and second street, Eddystone, was built, and in
1879 the directors erected the two-story brick school house at Norwood. Rid-
ley is now employing twelve teachers, for a term of nine months, at salaries
$43 to $65 monthly : value of school property, $26,000.

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Borough schools, in addition to the foregoing have been built and main-
tained ; these will be treated separately, as will the schools of Chester, the only
city in Delaware county.

CHESTER CITY.

Chester City Schools. — There is abundant evidence that in the early days
the youth of the locaHty, now known as the city of Chester, were educated
in the rudiments at least, in subscription schools, or by the ministers of the
Church of England sent out by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
in Foreign Parts. It was a part of the duties of these ministers to give instruc-
tion in reading and writing, but the records are silent concerning the establish-
ment of schools prior to 1770.

Joseph Hoskins, in his will, dated 12 mo. 31 day, 1769, devised a lot of
land for school purposes. He did not die until 1773, but so secure were his
neighbors, that the ground had been so devised, that in 1770 they built a school
house on the lot, their only security being his word that the land would come
to the trustees at his death, which it did and more with it. He allowed more
land to be taken than was at first intended, so that an ample play ground was
provided. In his will he further directed that £30, then a large sum, should
be paid to John Eyre and James Barton, to be applied "for the schooling and
educating of such poor children belonging to the inhabitants of the borough
and township of Chester, as the said Preparative Meeting for the time being
shall think fit to order and direct." The school house was built of bricks, laid
in Flemish bond, the ends of the headers being burnt black, a style much in
vogue at that time. In the south gable large numerals, 1770, were inserted in
the wall, the figures being formed b\- the black ends of the headers. This
was the beginning of free public instruction in Chester, and the importanr
part played therein by Mr. Hoskins has been recognized in the naming of the
new building erected at the corner of Fifth and Welsh streets, in 1882, the
Joseph Hnskins school. One of the noted pupils who attended the first Welsh
street school was the future Admiral Farragut, then living in the family of
Commodore Porter. From 1824 to 1830, William Neal was in charge of the
school, at which time it was known as Chester academy.

The first private school of record in the borough was taught by Mrs. Irvin,
and restricted to primary pupils. The following years Miss Eliza Finch kept
a school in the old Logan house, on Second street, near Edgmont. Among
her pupils was the future Admiral David D. Porter and his brothers. She
retired from teaching in 1830, and was followed by Caleb Pierce, who in a
summer house in the rear of the Columbia instructed in his select school the
youths of Chester whose parents would not allow them to attend the Welsh
street school, which was classified under the act of 1802 as a "charity school."
In 1834, James Campbell, a graduate of Union College, New York, taught the
Chester Academy, and the same year a Mr. Jones was principal of the Chester
High School.

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Jn 1840. the pul)Iic scliool system having l)eeii generally accepted, Caleb
i'ieixc discontinned his "select" school and accepted a position as teacher in
the Old Welsh street school. In 1843 that school was enlarged, James Rid-
dle was appointed ijrincijial. and four women teachers appointed. In that year
Mrs. Frances I'.iddle established a day school for young ladies in the Sunday
school room (if St. raul's C'hurcli. In 1845, James Dawson had a private
school in one of the rooms of the school building, the public demand not
requiring the use of all rooms in that building. In 1850, however, the school
was so taxed for room that the Franklin street school in the south ward wa>
built in 1853, and the Eleventh street school in the north ward erected in
1858. The jiressure became so great on the schools that in 1864 schools were
established in Crozer Academy on Second street; in 1864 and 18C17 primary
schools were opened in the Baptist chajiel on F'enn street, and in the basement
of the African Methodist church on .'Second street, the latter exclusively for
colored pupils. .At this date a school for advanced colored scholars was main-
tained by the directors in a frame house on .Second street. In 1867 the higli
school Inn'lding was erected, in 1870 the Morton avenue building, and in 1871
the Patterson street school hiuise was bnih and set aside as a colored school.
In 1874 the Eleventh street house was enlarged and remodeled. In 1875 the
old school building on \\'elsh street was taken down, and a large brick school
house built. In 1878 the Howell street school house was erected, and in 1882
the Joseph Hoskins school building was dedicated, followed in 1883 by the
purchase of the lot at the corner of Eleventh and Madison streets, formerly
occupied by the Larkintown Sunday school, and a large building er-ected there
in 1885.

Other school buildings have been added as needed, until Chester, a school
district of the second class, has a jniblic school system of which a larger city
might justly be proud. In December, 1912. the total number of scholars en-
rolled in all grades was 5068, distributed among the twenty-two named schools
of the city as follows :

High school 488 Liiui)hi 467

Dr. Starr 2gg Howell 24.S

Harvey 115 Dcvvcy Gr:miiiiar .... 296

Morton 251 Horace Mann 320

Larkin Grannnar .... 570 I luirlow ...... 248

Graliam 240 Clayton .... 156

Martin 301 .MoCay 27

Powell 142 Jolni .A. Watts 369

John Wetherill 20 Harrison 48

Gartside ...;.. .322 George Jones 55

Patterson 171 CiiHraded soliool . iS!

These twenty-two schools em])loy, for a school year nf nine and a half
months, the services of 156 teacliers, under the management of a lioard of di-
rectors of nine persons, who ap])oint a citv superintendent, and four supervi-
sors in primary work, drawing, music and pcnmansliip. ,\ system (<\ medical

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inspection by four physicians safeguards the health of the pupils and teachers.
The assessed valuation of school real estate on June 30. 1912, was $562,352,
and of school personal property. $30,000. The financial condition of the school
district of Chester city was shown on the same date to be most satisfactory, as-
sets over liabilities being $391,250. There was paid in teachers" salaries during
the year, $91,000, and for other salaries, $5620. The city superintendent re-
ceives a salary of $2500 per year, with a secretary's service at $1000. In the
department of supervision, the supervisor of primary grades receives a salary
of $80 monthly ; the supervisors of writing, drawing and music, $75 monthly ;
attendance officer, $20 weekly. Principals" salaries are graded from $210.52
per month down to S52.50, the principal of the high school receiving the high-
er amount, principals of two room buildings, the latter. Teachers in the high
school receive salaries graded from $60 to $1 10 monthly ; those in the Larkin
and Dewey Grammar schools, $65 per month : teachers holding permanent
certificates, $55 per month ; teachers having two years experience and holding
professional certificates, $50 per month : teachers with less than two years ex-
perience, or not having a professional certificate, $40 monthly. A Teachers"
retirement fund has been established and a savmgs fund for the pupils. This
latter fund, established February 24, 1890, showed for the year ending June
30, 1 89 1, a total amount deposited of $12,315.87, and a balance un hand of
$8055.83. For the year ending June 30, 1912, deposits were $17,597.26, with a
balance on hand of $36,224.67.

The course of study in the high school covers four years, and f<.)ur free
scholarships in Swarthmore College arc among the prizes for which graduates
may strive. The city superintendent of schools, Thomas S. Cole, is a man well
fitted by education and experience for the responsible position he occupies.
The principal of the high school, Joseph G. E. Smedley, A. B., is an educator
of high standing, while the principals of the grammar, intermediate and pri-
mary schools have been selected for their peculiar fitness. The teachers in the
various schools are chosen as far as practicable from those holding diplomas
from the city normal school, and it is hoped that soon holders of these diplomas
vvill be placed upon a level with graduates of state normal schools.

BOROUGH SCHCKJLS.

Aldan. — Employs four teachers for a term of ten months, at salaries rang-
ing from $55 to $65. School property is valued at $16,250.

Clifton Heights. — The borough employs ten teachers for a term of ten
months, at salaries ranging from $40 to $90 monthly. .School property is val
ued at $37,000.

Collingdale. — Collingdale school property is valued at $28,800: employs
nine teachers for a term of nine and a half months : salaries ])aid vary from $45
to $75 monthly.

Cokvyn. — Eight teachers are employed in Colwyn schools for a term of
ten months, at salaries of $40 to $70 monthly : value of school property, $(;8oo.

Eddvstonr. — Schools in Eddystone are open for a term of nine and a

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half months, six teachers being employed at salaries of $40 to $65: school
property valued at $20,800.

Darby. — The first record of a school within the limits of what is now
Darby borough is found in the minutes of Darby Monthly Meeting, 7 mo. 7
day, 1692. This record relates to the engagement of Benjamin Clift to teach
school beginning 7 mo. 12 day, 1692, to continue one year, except two weeks.
He was also hired for the next year at a salary of ii2. It is supposed this
school was kept in Friends' Meeting House. This school in Darby was sup-
ported by Friends Society all through the years up to i8oo. Michael Blun-
ston, who died there in 1736, bequeathed "£50 in trust to school the children
of poor Friends in Darby Monthly Meeting." Mention is also made of
Friends Meeting in 1788. and in 1793 the Friends Society had seven schools
in Delaware county, one located at Darby. Friends' schools have regu-
larly kept since that date, and since 1820 women have been members of school
committees. The law providing for free public education gradually superseded
Friends' schools, although as late as 1854 John H. Bunting, of Darby, gave
the sum of $10,000, the interest to be used to support schools maintained by
the Society. Such of these schools as yet remain are of an elementary char-
acter, but excellent results are obtained from them.

Prior to 1735, Davis Thomas of Darby, granted a lot on which to build a
school house. The Iniilding was erected, another school was kept in a one-
story brick house which stood until 1843 o" P^i"* of the site of Mt. Zion burial
ground. In tliis old building, on June f>. 1818, a meeting of citizens of Darby
and adjoining townships was held, when it was resolved "that we will discour-
age the use of ardent spirits as an article of drink; we will not procure, use or
give it to others as such in the time of gathering our hay and harvest, at the
raising of buildings or on other jniblic or social occasions." In 1841 the direc-
tors erected a stone school house in the village of Darby, which was used
until 1855, when it was abandoned on the completion of the "Yellow" school
house. The borough of Darby was incorporated in 1833 and became an inde-
pendent school district. The old school house built in 1841, was sold to the
borough and later was used as a jail. After the creation of the borough, a
two-story stone building was erected, to which a two-story brick addition was
built and rooms for six grades jirovided. In 1878 a one-story brick school
house was built at Sharon Hill, .\fter the population of Darby as a borough
had reached the required number, 5000, application was made for the crea-
tion of an indej^iendent school district of the third class, under which classi-
fication the borough schools now exist. The governing body is a board of
seven school directors, elected for a term of six years. The management of
the schools is under a superintendent who is responsible to the board and
appointed by them. Two buildings, known as the Walnut and Ridge Avenue
buildings, are in use, the former being the home of the high school. Thirty-
four regular teachers are employed, and three substitutes for a school year of
ten months. In the high school, five teachers are emjiloyed. including Ellen
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six teachers and the primary grades eight teachers. A special department of
manual training and a drawing department, with one teacher each, is also
maintained in the Walnut street building.

The Ridge Avenue scliool, Elizabeth A. Hemphill, principal, employs
four teachers in the grammar school grades, eight in the primary grades, and
a special teacher in drawing. The high school course covers four years of
study in two courses : — Latin, scientific and commercial. The minimum salary
in the high school is $500 yearly, with an annual increase of $25 until a max-
imum salary of $700 is reached. Grammer and primary teachers receive a
minimum salary of $400 yearly, with an annual increase of $25 until a maxi-
mum salary of $600 is reached. The Walnut street building, built in 1896,
was enlarged to its present size in 1907. In it are located the high school,
grammar and primary schools, also the high school auditorium, with a seat-
ing capacity of 600. Here also the superintendent has his office. The Ridge
Avenue building, erected in 1903, contains fifteen rooms, accommodating gram-
mar and primary departments, also a room used by the board of school direc-
tors for the meetings. The real estate of the borough was valued at $110,000;
furniture, apparatus and books, $15,000. A later assessment increases the
total valuation to $135,000. For the year ending July 11, 191 1, 1286 pupils
were enrolled, with an average daily attendance of 911. For the year 191 1
these figures were slightly increased. For the same year, 117 high school
scholars were enrolled, with an average daily attendance of 89.

Charles P. Sweeney, borough superintendent of public instruction, is an
educator of forty-five years experience. He began teaching at the age of
eighteen years, in Delaware county. New York; taught one year in Ohio,
several years in New York, nine years in Cape May county. New Jersey, then
taught in the Classical Institute on Thirteenth street, Philadelphia ; was prin-
cipal of Lykens borough school, Pennsylvania ; principal of Orwigsburg,
Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania ; principal of Slatington schools, Lehigh
county, Pennsylvania; then in 1898 came to the Darby schools. He was
principal of the Lykens and of the Orwigsburg schools when the first classes
were graduated, and of Darby high school when the first class graduated from
that institution. In 1913 he will complete his fifteen years of successful
educational work in Darby Borough.

Glenolden. — Schools in Glenolden are open nine months in the year ; seven
teachers are employed at salaries varying from $50 to $75 monthly : value of
school property, $27,500.

East Lansdozme. — This newly created borough had no school buildings at
the time of its erection. Ground, however, was at once secured, and in 1913
a handsome new building was completed. Three teachers are employed for a
term of ten months, at salaries of .$45 to $60 monthly.

Lansdozvne. — This borough employs 26 teachers in its various schools,
including ten in the high school, one in the department of manual training, one
in physical culture classes, and two in kindergarten work. A gymnasium is
connected with the high school, and a siiecial course in art and music is pro-

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vided. A playground owned b\' the borough is used for organized play work,
with teachers specially fitted for that position. School property in the borough
was valued at $130,000 at the close of the school year of 1912. The high school
course covers four years of study; l'rinci]jal, Walter L. Phillips.

Marcus Hook. — Six teachers arc employed in Marcus Hook schools, for
a term of nine months, at salaries varying from $50 to $85 ; school property is
valued at $17,000.

Media. — Sixteen teachers are employed in Media schools for a term of
nine and a half months, salaries ranging from $65 to $180 dollars. Six teachers
are employetl in the high school and ten in the grades below. The high school
course covers four years of study, including a special course in art and music.
also a commercial course for those clectmg that branch. The high school is
presided over by W. C. Joslin, Ph.D. School property in the borough is val-
ued at $50,500, and a bond issue of 875,000 has recently been authorized for
the erection of a new high school building.

Morton. — In Morton the school term is nine months, and four teachers
are employed at salaries of $50 to $75 monthly. School property is valued at
$4800.

Norwood. — This borough has school property valued at $15,500, and em-
ploys for a term of nine months nine teachers, at salaries of $55 to $80 monthly.

Pros[<cct Park. — Thirteen teachers are employed in Prospect Park schools
for a term of nine months. This includes five teachers employed in the high
school, the course covering a period of three years. A commercial course is
also provided for those desiring it. Salaries varying from $50 to $140 monthly.
\'^alue of school property, $26,000. Principal of high school, Owen E. Batt.

Ridley Falls. — This is an independent school district, employing one teach-
er at a salary of $40 monthly, for a nine months term. The school property
is valued at $2500.

Ridley Park. — Thirteen teachers are employed in Ridley Park schools,
five in the high school and eight in the grades below. The high school course
covers four years of study, and includes a course in domestic science; also a
course in music. Salaries range from $60 to $180 monthly, the school term be-
ing nine and a half months. Principal of high school, J. Fred Parsons. \'alue
of school property, $49,000.

Rutledgc. — Rutledge employs five teachers for a term of nine months, at
salaries of S50 to S75 monthly ; value of school property. §8000.

Sharon Hill. — Sharon Mill has school property valued at $26,000. Six
teachers are employed for a term of nine and a half months, at salaries vary-
ing from $60 to $80 monthly.

Swartliiitore. — Swarthmorc employs sixteen teachers in its various
schools, seven being assigned to the Iiigh school, R. Holmes Wallace, principal.
The high school building was completed in 191 2 at a cost of $60,000, on
gfround costing $13,000. The course covers a period of four years, and reg-
ular instruction is given in manual training, art, domestic science and music.
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library, principal's room, manual training room, art room, domestic science
room, gymnasium, lunch room, and an auditorium seating 400, all of which
are suitably furnished and equipped for their intended purposes. Value of
school property in the borough, $92,300. Length of school term, nine months ;
salaries paid vary from $72 to $244 monthly.

Upland. — The schools of Upland are presided over by eight teachers,
drawing salaries ranging from $56 to $85 monthly, for a school term of nine and a
half months. School property is valued at $21,500.

Yeadon. — On September 16, 191 1, Yeadon school board, teachers and
scholars celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of
public schools at that place. The printed programme contained pictures of
the new school building, and of the old building that only gave way to the
new after a continuous service of seventy-six years. Many who attended the
old school forty and fifty-eight years ago gave interesting reminiscence of the
"olden times." The borough now employs teachers for a term of nine and a
half months, at salaries of $55 to $67 monthly. School property is valued at
$16,525.

Milbourne. — This borough as yet has no school property, it being so sit-
uated that it is deemed advisable to pay for the tuition of the children of
the borough in neighboring schools.

PRU'ATE SCHOOLS.

A great number of private schools have existed in addition to the early
"subscription" and Quaker schools. During the war of 18 12, Joseph Neef, a
Frenchman, attempted to establish a school at X'illage Green, wherein pupils
should be taught according to the system employed by Pestalozzi. but prior to
1820 the school was closed.

About 1845, Rev. Benjamin S. Huntington established a seminary for
young ladies at Aston Ridge, which flourished greatly, his scholars being drawn
largely from the southern states. Rev. Huntington, however, was so constant-
ly enlarging his building that he became bankrupt. About 1857, J. Harvey
Barton established a seminary at Aston Ridge in a large brick building on the
Rockdale road, near the Baptist church. Both sexes were received, a fine
corps of instructors employed, the school attaining high rank and flourishing
until 1866, when it passed out of existence.

The city of Chester, aside from its most excellent public schools, is also the
home of the Pennsylvania Military Academy (see special article), and Chester
Academy, founded in 1862, by Charles W. Deans, at one time superintendent
of public instruction for Delaware county. It was first known as the Chester
Academy and Normal School. In 1865, Professor George Gilbert, then of
Philadelphia, purchased Mr. Deans' interest, reorganized the institution, en-
larged the building, thoroughly revised and advanced the course of study and
employed additional teachers. This school has had a successful career, ha.s
doubled in size, and affords facilities for students preparing for college, for
the teapher's profession, or for a business career.

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111 1793 the Friends established a school in Upper Chichester, which was
coniiiuied by the meeting until the public school system was accepted, when it
was discontinued.

In Lower Chichester the first school of mention was conducted under the
auspices of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
and was continued for sixty years. In 1801 a new brick school house was
erected on the church lot, the expense being borne by subscription by the
members of the parish.

.\ noted school of the long ago was located in Darby, at Sharon Hill,
known as Sharon Hill Academy. John Jackson, a noted Friend of Darby,
after his marriage to Rachel T. Tyson, a highly educated woman, in 1834 de-
termined to established a female boarding school, and about 1835, after the
death of his father, Halliday Jackson, located at Sharon Hill, the family estate.
The school soon became famous and was at one time one of the most noted
of female educational institutions in the middle states. John Jackson died in .
1855, his widow continuing the school until 1858, after which it was conducted
by Israel J. Graham and Jane P. Graham. About 1870 the school was pur-
chased by the Rev. C. J. H. Carter, a Catholic priest, and has since been con-
ducted as a church school for females.

In Haverford township is located Haverford College, founded in 1832 by
prominent members of the Society of Friends in the middle states, principally,
however, from Philadelphia. This valuable institution, now presided over by
Dr. Isaac Sharpless, will have special mention elsewhere.

The borough of Media long had its P.rooke Hall Female Seminary. The
buildings were erected in 1856 by H. Jones Brooke, after whom the school is
named, a warm friend of education, and one of Delaware county's honored
citizens. In the fall of 1856 the school was opened as a seminary for young
ladies by Miss M. L. Eastman, and had a long career of usefulness. Brooke
Hall, conducted under the influence of the Episcopal church, became widely
known as one of the best seminaries of its class in the state.

In 1874 Swithin C. Shortlidge removed his school for boys from West
Chester to Media, opening in the building formerly known as the Haldeman
House. This was enlarged until it contained fifty-five lodging rooms, witH
studv, class and dining rooms, ami near the main structure a well equipped
gj'nmasium. A large corps of teachers was employed and the school for many
years enjoyed great popularity, Init is now closed.

Joseph Shortlidge in 1862 established at Concordville, Maplewood Insti-
tute, a school for both sexes, incorporated in 1870, that was well conducted
and po|nilar and was continued under the care of his son, Chauncey Shortlidge.

In the fall of 1872, Miss .-\nna M. Walter, for several years a teacher in
the grammar school, established a private school that later was known as
Media Academy, This school prospered until 1884, when it was closed, Miss
Walter accepting a position in Friends' school at Fifteenth and Race streets,
Philadelphia.

In Middletown township, is located the Pennsylvania Training School for

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Feeble Alinded Children, the third institution of its kind erected in the United
States.

In Radnor township is located Villa Xova College, belonging to the Cath-
olic brotherhood of St. Augustine, established as a branch of the parent house
in Philadelphia in 1842. In 1848 the college was empowered by the legisla-
ture of Pennsylvania to confer degrees. The buildings are ample and the
college ranks as one of the leading colleges of the church.

In Springfield township the Friends have another educational institution
that has acquired a national reputation — Swarthmore College, the cornerstone
of which was laid in 1866. This institution, now presided over by Dr. Joseph
Swain, will have more extended notice elsewhere.

The first man elected Superintendent of Public Instruction in Delaware
county was Dr. George Smith, elected in June, 1854, serving until September,
1855, when he resigned. He was followed by Charles W. Deans, appointed in
September, 1855, to fill out Dr. Smith's unexpired term, then was elected, serv-
ing until June, 1863. James W. McCracken, the next superintendent, served
from June, 1863, until December, 1868, when he resigned. James W. Baker,
appointed to fill out Mr. McCracken's term, was elected later, and served
until June, 1878. He was followed by Albert B. Stewart, who served from
June, 1878, to June, 1887. The sixth superintendent, A. G. C. Smith, assumed
the duties of the office in June, 1887, and has been continuously in office until
the present date, 1913. Beginning with 1914, the term of county superinten-
dent will be four years instead of tliree, as heretofore. All teachers are exam-
ined for fitness by the county superintendent, except State Normal graduates,
holders of permanent certificates and holders of professional certificates, the
holders of such certificates being greater in proportion in Delaware county
than in other counties of the state.

In 1887 Delaware county contained twenty-eight school districts, twenty-
one townships, six boroughs, and one independent district. Two boroughs.
North Chester and South Chester, have been annexed to the city of Chester.
There was but one high school in the county — that at Media. One hundred
and seventy-one teachers were employed, of whom twelve were males; of
these, forty-four held normal diplomas. The average wages then paid was :
male teachers, $47.95 ; female teachers, $42.57. The highest salary was $100
per month, paid in Media, to a female teacher. The highest salary paid a male
teacher was $60 paid in Lower Chichester.

In 191 1 there were forty-one school districts, twenty townships, twenty
boroughs and one independent district under the care of the County Superin-
tendent. Besides these Chester, Darby and Radnor have their own organiza-
tions. There were ninety school houses in the county, against ninety-seven in
18S7, ten having been taken from the county by the annexation of North and
South Chester boroughs to the city of Chester; seven by the creation of Rad-
nor_ township into an independent district, and two in Darby borough, the lat-
ter two having superintendents of their own, and not included in county figures.
At the close of the school year, June. 1911, after twenty-five years under Sup-
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erintendent Smith's administraticn. there were 286 teachers employed in the
coimly, under his jurisdiction, tiie number now being 309. Of these 286 teach-
ers in 1911. 159 were normal graduates. 52 had iiermanent certificates, 27 had
professional certificates, and 28 were college graduates. Cut 18 of the teachers
v.ere males. It is further to be noted that Xnrth Chester, South Chester, Rad-
nor and Darby, which employ al^out on.e hundred teachers, that were under the
sui)ervision of the county superintendent in 1887. are no longer so. The aver-
age salary paid for the }car ending June, 1910. for male teachers, was $114.21.
the highest being paid in Lansdowne. $250. The average salary ])aid female
teachers for the same year was $53.27, the highest being Sioo, paid liy Radnor
and Swarthitiore.

During most of the time since 1887, Delaware county has stood at the head
of the list of counties in the state for average length of school term and average
wages paid for teachers, both male and female. AUeghen\' county is the only
county in the state that challenges Delaware in average salaries paid, and this
comes from the fact that Pittsburgh, where higher salaries are paid, is included
in the report. In 1 910, Lackawanna county led in average length of school
term, with 9.46 months, Delaware county second, with 9.44 months.

In 1887 the cost per pupil was $1.23 and in 1910 $2.16 per pupil. This
means better salaries, and more free text books furnished. While Delaware
county leads in average salary paid male and female teachers and in average
length of school term, the tax rate for school purposes and building purposes,
5.80 mills in 1910, was three mills less than the average school tax for the state.
The directors of Swarthmore organized a mantial training department in their
public schools in 1894, Lansdowne and Colwyn follow^ing later. Lansdowne
has maintained a Kindergarten department since 1894, two teachers now being
regularly employed. Nether Providence also has a Kindergarten department.
Special instruction in drawing and mtisic has for several years been given in
the schools of Darby. Lansdowne, Media, Radnor, Haverford, Nether Provi-
dence and Swarlhmore. Special instruction in music is also given in .\ldan,
Clifton Heights, Collingdalc. Colwyn. Glenolden, I'pper Darby and other dis-
tricts. Yeadon has special instruction in drawing: Colwyn in sewing. In sev-
eral districts one of the regular teachers gives special instruction in music or
drawing. Ridley Park and Swarthmore maintain domestic science depart-
ments. A well e(|nipped playgroimd has been established in Ridley Park, to be
kept open all the summer months in charge of a specially instructed play
ground teacher. Lansdowne also has ac(|uircd a suitable piece of ground for
organized playground work, and in Colwyn and Collingdale one or more of
the regular teachers have taken courses of study in organized playgrotind
work and supervise the children's play during recess periods, when the schools
are open. Medical inspecti(jn is re(|uired in Colwyn, Lansdowne and Media.

In 1897 Radnor township elected their supervisin,g principal, township
superintendent, which resulted in bringing the schools under closer supervision
and greatly increasing their efficiency. In December, 1908, Darliy borough fol-
lowed the example of Radnor, v.'ith the same good results.

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In 1888 the school directors of the county formed a Directors Associa-
tion, which has held two meetings annually ever since, one in connection with
the Teachers' Institute, the other in February. Representatives from the
association assisted in forming the State School Directors Association, and
regularly appointed delegates to attend the annual meeting of the State
Association.

In 1888, a committee from the Directors Association, acting with County
Superintendent Smith, prepared a course of study for the rural schools. It
provided for a county diploma to be given those who could pass a satisfactory
examination in specified studies. This plan has been the means of keeping the
children in the rural schools two or three years longer and making the attend-
ance more regular. At present the superintendent, assisted by six teachers,
conducts the examinations at seven different centers, the same day. The next
day they meet, examine the papers, and announce the results. From eighty to
one hundred scholars have presented themselves annually for several vears,
and from sixty to seventy-five of them have been successful. The school directors
are required by law to send the successful ones to the nearest high school and pay
their tuition. This becomes an additional incentive to more regular attendance,
and the plan as carried out has been very beneficial to the school interests of the
county.

A Teachers' Institute is held in the county each year, at which every
teacher in the county, outside of the city of Chester, must be present, unless
satisfactory reason for absence is given the county superintendent. Three dol-
lars daily is allowed the teachers for attendance at the institute, and a like
amount deducted from salaries for non-attendance.

In conclusion it must be noted that, all through the county, good school
buildings is the rule. The furniture and equipment of the schools is of the
best modern type; ventilation, light and heat is carefully considered in all
new buildings; and ample playgrounds surround each school. The teaching
ability of the instructors is high. Salaries, if not always adequate, are the
highest in the state outside of a few cities, and there is a "free school
for every child," as contemplated by the fathers of the public school system.
While all concerned in bringing about these most excellent results are deserv-
ing of high praise, too much cannot be said of the results accomplished under
the present and for twenty-six years past. Superintendent A. G. C. Smith.

HIGHER INSTITUTIONS.

Haz'erford College. — Although there is no documentary evidence to the
effect that the founding of Friends' Central School, afterward Haverford
School and Haverford College, was due to the great schism which in 1827
rent asunder the Society of Friends in America, the coincidence of time points
to that supposition. At the yearly meeting of Friends held in Philadelphia in
x8,'^o, a committee was appointed consisting of five Friends from each Quar-
terly Meeting, to "enter fully into a consideration in all its parts, of the deeply
interesting subject of the right education of our youth." That there was

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great feeling on the subject uf a school exclusively for Friends is evidenced by
the following extract from an article which appeared in a Friends' publication
of the day: "It is a fact which, although painful, ought to be known to our
members, that many children of Friends are placed at the colleges of other re-
ligious societies, such as Yale, Princeton, iMuhlenberg's on Long Island, and at
the Roman Catholic College in Maryland. The latter has frequently had as
many as six or eight at once."

A corporation which was independent of the Yearly Meeting was formed
for the proposed institution, which met on the 30th day, i2mo, 1830, and ef-
fected the first organization for the management of the school, as follows:
Secretary, Henry Cope ; treasurer, Benjamin H. Warder ; managers — Samuel
Bettle, Thomas P. Cope, Thomas C. James, John Paul, Isaac Davis, Abraham
L. Pennock, John G. Hoskins, Thomas Evans, Daniel B. Smith, Thomas Kim-
ber, Charles Yarnall, George Stewardson, Isaac Collins, Samuel B. Morris,
Bartholomew Wistar, John Gummere, Thomas Cock, Samuel Parsons, Lindley
Murray, Samuel F. Mott, John Griscom, Gerard T. Hopkins, Joseph King
Jr., and Benjamin W. Ladd. The new managers were authorized to select a
site and to purchase ground for the school, which, after extensive investigation
and deliberation, they finally did — "an oblong tract of one hundred and ninety-
eight and a half acres, lying on both sides of the Haverford road, near the ten-
mile stone, and extending from that road to the Pennsylvania railroad, being
nearly south of the eight-mile stone on the Lancaster turnpike."

After the incorporation of the organization as the Haverford School As-
sociation, the selection of a head and a corps of instructors for the infant insti-
tution was considered seriously, the final choice for. superintendent falling upon
Samuel Hilles, of Wilmington, Delaware, a man of singular gentleness and
sweetness of character. Affiliated with him as the faculty were Dr. Joseph
Thomas, the distinguished author of Thomas' "Biographical Dictionary" and
Lippincott's "Pronouncing Gazeteer of the World," instructor in Latin and
Greek ; John Gummere, instructor in mathematics ; and Daniel B. Smith. The
latter was one of the best loved of the host of noble men who have graced
Haverford College as members of the faculty. His genial companionable spirit
made him a favorite of the .students, a regard which continued no less in the
class room than in recreation hours, and made the lesson periods more endura-
ble and the lessons more understandable.

One of the principles which characterized the early days of the school was
the enforcement upon the students of an adherence to the "doctrines and testi-
monies of the Society of Friends." Early in its history it held a position as
merely a Friends' hoarding school, later, as it broadened its course of study,
enlarged its enrollment capacity and was incorporated as a college in 1S56, it
gradually grew into the Haverford College of to-day, historic, strong in vitality
and usefulness, an educational center from which an ever-widening stream of
graduates goes forth yearly.

To give a detailed history of Haverford College through all the stages of
its development would require a volume the size of the one containing this

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sketch. It is therefore necessary to touch 1)Ut Hghtly upon the advancement
of the school, its steady increase in size and influence until overcome by disas-
ter in 1845, when lack of funds compelled the managers to close its doors. The
dark years from 1845 to 1848, when the ultimate fate of the institution was in
grave doubt, must be passed over with only a mention of the valiant efforts of
those who labored so desperately for its revival. In 1848 the school was
reopened, with Lindley Murray Moore as superintendent, and once more the
institution entered upon what promised to be a prosperous career, a promise
that has been more than fulfilled.

One phase of the college life at Haver ford that has probably done more
than any one thing towards making the Haverford man what is commonly
known as "well-read," that is, truly well-educated, has been the society life.
The large number of literary and debating societies that have been organized
at Haverford since the founding of the school is eloquent testimony to the
effect that the students were quite as interested in their mental improvement
and the acquirement of culture as the most zealous of their professors. Of
the societies of this nature the one first organized was the Loganian, founded
1st month 21, 1834, and reorganized 5th month 29. 1848. This was a literary
society of high rank, composed of the college men whose ambitions were above
mere pleasure seeking, and who were banded together for the sake of com-
mon fellowship and improvement. The society was the owner of a rather
e.xtensive library, and many a member confessed to a love of good literature
acquired from the numerous volumes which lined the walls of the library.

The Penn Literary Society existed about 1840. The purpose of its organ-
ization was the promotion of the declamatory art, debating being their chief
exercise. The Haverford Literary Society existed contemporaneously with
the Penn Literary Society, its object being much the same. Other minor socie-
ties, whose term of life was shorter and whose activities were more fitful were
the Franklin Literary Society, the Historical, the Rhetorical, and a society
which, because of its cumbersome title, was universally known as the C. F.
D. D., its full name being Circulus Familiariter Disputando Delectandoque.

The Haverford Lyceum was a literary society organized loth month 25,
1853, which soon disintegrated, its chief distinction being that it was the par-
ent institution of the Athenaeum Society. Another organization which led
but a brief career was the Henry Society formed in 1854. A society whose
purpose should have insured it a longer existence was in the Euethean Society.
Its object was the promotion of good morals among the student body, its motto
being "Mens sibi conscia recti." The society was in reality the forerunner of
College Y. M. C. A. work, and with a stronger backing would have endured
until supplanted by that association.

The most famous of Haverford's societies were the Athenaeum and the
Everett. The former of these was established 12th month 17, 1855, by twelve
students— George M. Tatum, James E. Carmalt, Thomas C. Steele, Stephen
LTnderhill, Theodore H. Morris, James W . Cromwell. Walter G. Hopkins,
Edwin Tomlinson. Roberts \'aux, John S. Witmer, George Wood, and Wil

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Ham II. W'dixl. In the preamble of the constitution it was stated that "Being
sensible of the influence of sound learning in disciplining the mind and matur-
ing the understanding, and also being desirous of cultivating in themselves a
correct taste for literature and a love for scientific pursuits, do hereby asso-
ciate themselves together for these purposes." The organization acquired a
large membership and flourished from the start. Great rivalry was felt
between it and the Everett Society, and for years there was great competition
in regard to membership, first one and then the other forging ahead in the
race. At length, because of the increasing activites of the college, it was
deemed expedient to effect a consolidation of the two, which was accordingly
done.

The grounds of the college have been increased until they now cover two
l.undred and twenty-five acres, some of which is woodland, although, under
the direction of a skillful landscape gardener, sixty acres were laid out in a
level, smoothly rolling lawn, intersected by walks shaded by century-old trees,
and plentifully dotted with shrubs and low-growing trees, making a campus
unexcelled by any in the country. Here and there upon the grounds one comes
upon a quaint old building, a relic of former days, standing proudly beside its
fellow of a later day, the old mingling with the new and giving the whole an
historical and almost a classical appearance. The various buildings which have
been occupied by the college are as follows : Founders Hall, erected in 1833 :
the Observatory, built in 1852 and enlarged in 1883 ; Alumni Hall, established
in 1863 and enlarged to meet the growing needs of the library ; Ilarclay Hall,
a dormitory, erected in 1877 by friends of the college ; the Mechanical Labora-
tory, built in 1884. supplanted by a new building in i8go which was burned in
1896 and whose place was taken by Whitall Hall, a building of three stories ;
the Biological Laboratory, established in 1886: the Physical Laboratory, built
in 1888; Chase Hall, for recitations and lectures, erected in 1888; and the
Cricket Shed, built in 1893. In later years, through the lively interest and
hearty cooperation of the Alumni Association building operations have been
progressing at a rapid rate and the college is being supplied. with an equipment
of which it may justly be proud. The augmenting of Haverford's natural beau-
ties with architecture fitting gives an ideal result, and with the thousand mem-
ories and attachments connected with each spot, it is small wonder that the
wandering steps of the alumnus ever bring him back to the place he came to
know and love so well. Haverford's spell, once woven, is never broken, and
the charm of the historic school begins to wind itself about the new student
even while he is in the throes of his first homesickness, so that the final part-
ing with the college in which he has spent four such joyous years is to him far
more sad and cheerless than the leaving of his home upon matriculation.

The buildings which have been erected in recent years are Lloyd Hall, a
dormitory built in 1899: the large and finely equipped g>'mnasium, completed
in 1900; Roberts Llall, the gift of Lucy Branson Roberts, with college offices
and a large auditorium, erected in 1902; Merion Hall, a dormitory remodeled
in 1903 from the old Havcrford Grammar School Building; a wing added ta

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the Founders Hall in 1905 for dining-rooms and a kitchen; a heating and light-
ing plant, installed in 1906; an enlargement of Merion Hall in 1907; Haver-
ford Union, a building erected in 1909. presented to the college by Alfred Per-
cival Smith, of the class of 1884; the Chemical Laboratory, built in 1910; and
the Infirmary, completed in 1912, the gift of John T. Morris, of the class of
1867, and a new section of Lloyd Hall the gift of the Strawbridge family in
1913. In addition to these buildings there are a number of residences on the
campus, occupied mainly by professors, thus making quite a college com-
munity.

Haverford College has had the prominent place it has held in the world of
athletics, not always because it has turned out championship teams, but for the
sjiirit and enthusiasm that has ever characterized her representatives. No team
could ever be sure of a victory over Haverford, no matter how strong its line-
up, for in the joy of contest and the glory of battle Haverford teams often be-
came the possessors of prowess to which, on paper, they had absolutely no
right. For many years cricket was chiefly indulged at the college, and in this
sport the college ranked high. In due time foot-ball and soccer found their
places in the recreation of the students, and at the present time the college is
represented by many teams.

Previous mention has been made of the societies which have at different
times existed in the college. Of these only one remains, the Loganian Society,
whose chief object is for instruction and practice in debating. The Classical
Club is an organization for the study of the life and literature of the Greeks
and Romans. Membership is held by both faculty and students. There \>
also a chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa, an honor fraternity. The Campus
Club is an association for the study and preservation of trees, shrubs, birds,
and wild animals found on the campus and in the vicinity. Another college
organization is the Haverford Union, open to alumni and students, whose
aim is the promotion of social fellowship at the college. It is housed in a
large and handsome building, the gift of Alfred Percival Smith, '84, and has
a library, comfortable lounging rooms, and sleeping accommodations.

The periodicals of the institution are the Haverford College Bulletin, pub-
lished eight times a year by the college ; "The Haverfordian" issued monthly by
the students ; and the "College Weekly,' also edited by the students.

Haverford College has real estate worth .$1,500,000, and a productive
endowment of $1,800,000. It owns a library of 60,000 volumes and many
thousand pamphlets, and an excellent equipment in Astronomy, Biology, Chem-
istry and Physics. Its students nearly all reside in dormitories on the College
grounds and take their meals in a common dining room. Picked by Entrance
Examinations, and kept to their work by the stimulus of close association with
the Professors and the necessity for a good record, they hold a high place at
graduation. They are received at Harvard and other universities on equal
standing with their own graduates, in advanced scholarly or technical work.

The College has given its energies to general cultural studies rather than
professional. All of its courses embrace languages, literature, science and the

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otiicr essentials of a liberal education, and it is in this field that it has earned
its laurels.

The curriculum of the college permits it to award degrees in three courses,
arts, science, and engineering. The faculty is large and efficient for the num-
ber of students, and in 1913 is as follows: Isaac Sharpless, Sc. D., LL.D.,
L. II. D., president and professor of ethics; Allen Clapp Thomas, A. M.,
librarian and professor emeritus of history ; Lyman Beecher Hall, Ph.D.,
John l'"arnuin, professor of chemistry; Francis Barton Gummere, Ph.D.,
1,1,. I)., Litt. D., professor of English literature; Henry Sherring Pratt, Ph.D.,
David .Scull, professor of biology; James Addison Babbitt, A. M., M. D., pro-
fessor of hygiene and physical education; Rufus Matthew Jones, A. M., Litt.
D., professor of philosophy; Oscar Marshall Chase, S. M., registrar and
instructor in drawing; Albert Sidney Bolles, Ph.D., LL. D., lecturer on com-
mercial law and banking; Don Carlos Barrett, Ph.D., professor of economics;
Albert Elmer Hancock, Ph.D., professor of English ; Legh Wilber Reid, Ph.D.,
professor of mathematics; William Wilson Baker, Ph.D., associate profes-
sor of Greek; Frederic Palmer, Jr., Ph.D., dean and associate professor of
])liysics; Leon Hawley Rittenhouse, M. E., associate professor of mechanics
and electricity; Richard Mott Guoimere, Ph.D., associate professor of Latin;
Thomas Kite Brown, Jr., A. M., instructor in German; Alexander Guy Hol-
born Spiers, Ph.D., associate professor of romance languages ; Rayner Wick-
ershain Kelsey, Ph.D., associate professor of history; Albert Harris Wilson,
Ph.D., associate professor of mathematics ; Henry Joel Cadbury, Ph.D., instruc-
tnr in Biblical literature; Edward Eugen Krauss, instructor in physical train-
ing ; X'ictor Oscar Freeburg, A. M., instructor in English ; William Otis Saw-
telle, .\. W., instructor in physics; William Henry Collins, A. M., superinten-
dent of grounds and buildings ; Helen Sharpless, assistant librarian ; Charles
Otis Young, S. B., assistant in chemical laboratory ; Paul \\'. Weaver, assistant
in engineering.

The corporation governing Haverford College has as its officers T. Wistar
Brown, |)resident ; J. Stogdell Stokes, secretary ; and Asa S. Wing, treasurer.
There is also a board of managers of twenty- four members, of which the pres-
ident of the corporation is president, ex officio.

The present jiresident of the college. Isaac Sharpless, .Sc. D., LL.D., L.H.
1)., h.-is hi'ld that ])osition of honor, trust, and responsiljility for twenty-six
years. He was born 12th month I'l, 1S48, and attended the Friends'. Boarding
Sciiool at Westtowii. Pennsylvania, whencr he was graduated in 1867, and
wIktc he taught Uiv the four \ears following his graduation. In 1S73 he
was graduated S. 1!. from the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard, and
two years later his connection with Haverford began, when he was called to
fill the chair of Mathematics at the college. In 1879 he became professor of
astronomy, a subject upon which lie is a well-known authority. In 1884 he
was made dean of the college, and on May 17, 1887. his formal inauguration as
president was held.

Doctor .Sharpless is the author of several scientific work's, and in connec-

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tion with Professor Phillips, of West Chester State Normal School, has pub-
lished treatises upon astronomy and physics. In early recognition of his scien-
tific researches the University of Pennsylvania, in 1883, conferred upon him
the honorary degree of Doctor of Science.

He is also the author of a volume on "English Education," and of several
treatises on Pennsylvania History — "A Quaker Experiment ui Government,"
"Quakerism and Politics" and "Two Centuries of Pennsylvania History."

In the quarter of a century that Dr. Sharpless has been at the head of
Haverford College, the institution has had an era of unprecedented growth and
expansion, due to the loyal support of many friends.

Swarthnwre College. — The Society of Friends, finding its immediate im-
pulse in the Puritan Revolution, shared the sympathy of the Puritans in a
widespread and thorough-going system of education. Throughout the subse-
quent history of the society it has laid especial stress upon the importance of
education, not merely for the sake of a better understanding of the Bible af-
forded thereby, but because it has recognized as man's highest duty the culti-
vation of every means by which the Inner Light may be best comprehended,
and the voice of the Christ Within may be distinctly heard and most effectually
obeyed. The founders of the Society emphasized the value of education as the
handmaid of religion, and when the Friends, very early in their history, turned
their faces towards America, they brought with them this belief as the pal-
ladium of their intellectual and civil liberty.

It was not so much the meeting-house and the block-house, as in New
England, nor the church and the courthouse, as in Virginia, as it was the
meeting-house and the school which served as the bulwark of Quakerism in
the wilds of the New World. The materializing influences of the Colonial
struggle for existence were counteracted by the ideals of a common-school edu-
cation : and when, in the first half of the nineteenth century, the more insidious
influences of commercialism, following in the wake of the industrial revolution,
asserted themselves so powerfully in .America, the Friends came to appreciate
the higher education as an idealizing force in sustaining the spiritual life. It
is noteworthy that this conviction was first definitely expressed by Friends who
dwelt in that part of America where the doctrine that "Cotton is King" had led
:o the enthronement of human slavery as well.

Benjamin Hallowell, of Alexandria,' Virginia, and Martha Tyson, of Bal-
timore, Maryland, in the dark days just before the Civil War, made so earnest
an appeal to their fellow-Friends in Baltimore that the Yearly meeting of that
city appointed a committee to promote their plan of establishing a Friendly
institution of higher education. This committee issued in the first year of the
war an address to the Friends in the Middle States and Maryland urging "the
establishment of a boarding-school for Friends" children ami for the education
of teachers," and it began the collection of $150,000, the sum of money deemed
necessary for the purpose. During the four years of the Great Struggle which
"^olved the problem of slavery for America, the Friends furthered their educa-
tional project, and in 1864 a charter was secured from the General Assembly

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and Governor of Pennsylvania incorporating Swarthmore College. This name
was derived from Swarthmore Hall, the Northern England home of George
Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends. Its first suggestion for the college-
is ascribed to Benjamin Hallowell's wife Margaret, although Martha Tyson,
suggested and advocated it at the meeting in which the name was chosen.

The second section of the charter states thus succinctly the purposes of the
corporation : 'That the said corporation be authorized to establish and maintain
a school and college, for the purpose of imparting to persons of both sexes
knowledge in the various branches of science, literature and the arts ; and the
board of managers shall have power to confer upon the graduates of the said
College, and upon others, when, by their proficiency in learning they may be
entitled thereto, such degrees as are conferred by other colleges or universities
in the United States."

The site chosen for the college, and purchased in 1864, combined the vir-
tues of country environments with easy access to a great city. It w^as a large
tract (now- comprising over two hundred acres") of beautiful lawn and wood-
land, about ten miles west of Philadelphia and overlooking the Delaware river
and its valley, all of which are so rich in historic memorials of the Quaker
Founders of Pennsylvania. The United States postal authorities had given-
to the post office standing on the edge of the college tract the name of West-
dale, in commemoration of the fact that Benjamin W'est, the first great Ameri-
can artist and president of the Royal Academy, had been born in a house still
standing on the college campus — and had there given the first crude expres-
sion to the forms of beauty which his eye perceived amid the modest environ-
ments of his parents' Quaker home.

The selection of a site was followed in the same year by the appointment
of a president. The choice of the managers for this important position fell
upon Edward Parrish, of Philadelphia, who was at the time professor of ma-
teria medica in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and president of the
American Pharmaceutical Association. Retiring from his arduous duties in
the middle of the second year after the college opened its doors to students.
Dr. Parrish was appointed soon afterward by President Grant to undertake a
friendly mission to the Indians, and in the course of its performance he died,
September 9, 1872, at Fort Sill, Indian Territory,

It was not until the second year after President Parrish's appointment that
the corner-stone of the first college building was laid (]\Iay 10, 1866), and
three years more elapsed before its doors were opened to students (November
8, 1869). The delay in commencing and completing the erection of the first
building was due to the fact that the requisite sum of money ($304,000) had
come in slowly, and to the determination that the college should not enter on
its career burdened by a load of debt. To this first and largest building has
been given the name of Parrish Hall, in commemoration of the services of
the first president.

Twelve years after its completion (September 23, 1881), Parrish Hall
was almost completely destroyed by fire, nnly the solid stone wall and one sec-

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tion containing the Friem's' Historical Library being left standing. This mi.-.-
fortune, instead of being fatal to the young and struggling institution, only
served to rally its friends the more enthusiastically to its aid, and by June of
the following year the commencement exercises were held as usual in the re-
built though still unplastered assembly hall ; and in the following October the
students were again installed in the resurrected building. During the interval
of rebuilding, the college had taken up its abode in two large boarding-houses
in the borough of Aledia three miles distant, where, with the loss of only a fort-
night and of three students, it held its own against cramped quarters and inade-
quate equipments. The magazine published by the students for the
past thirty-one years has borne the name of The Phoenix, in commemoration
of the conflagration and the swift and complete rejuvenation which followed.

The students who first ca.me to Swarthmore numbered 170, and comprised
82 girls and 88 boys. This approximate equality has been preserved to the
present day, and has facilitated the maintenance of co-education. \\'hen
Swarthmore was founded, co-education had been adopted by three colleges and
one State University (Indiana) in the west, but it was still looked upon with
doubt or disfavor in the eastern states. The theory and practice of the Society
of Friends in home and church determined them, however, in their organiza-
tion of school and college as well ; and throughout the forty-four years of
Swarthmore's history their faith in co-education — in "college life in a home
setting" — has been justified and strengthened.

In order to encourage, and, when necessary, to make possible post-grad-
uate study, especially on the part of those desirous of teaching, five fellow-
ships of from $400 to S525, each, have been established.

More than seventy scholarships varying in sums from $25 to $350 are
awarded annually by the college and individuals to undergraduate students
of bright promise and limited means.

The completion of Parrish Hall in 1869 has been followed by the erection
of 20 other college buildings. Most of these are built of Delaware county's
famous building stone, and they form a group which dominate the Borough
and serve as a land-mark for many miles around.

By 1871 the collection of books, which had commenced before the col-
lege opened, had become large enougli to justify the appointment of a librar-
ian ; and ten years later there were 3600 volumes in the general library.
These were all destroyed in the fire of 1881 ; but the friends of the college
speedily repaired this disaster, and the number of bound volumes has grown
to over 40,000. The Friends' Historical Library, founded in 1871 by Anson
Lapham, of Skaneateles, New York, contains over 6,000 books and pamphlets,
which, together with photographs and manuscripts, form one of the most
valuable collections extant of materials relating to the history of the Society
of Friends.

The five scientific departments have been equipped with adequate labo-
ratory facilities, the expense and labor of whose collection and arrangement
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most promiiuMilIy is that of Dr. Joseph Leidy, who for eleven years before
the tire, and for four years after that disaster destroyed the first fruits of his
labor, devoted himself with peculiar assiduity and success to building up the
biological and geological museums and laboratories.

Commencing in 1869 with 170 students, the number rose to 289 in 1883.
The gradual cutting-off of the preparatory .school began soon afterward,s and
the number declined until, in 1897-8, five years after the abolition of the pre-
paratory classes, it reached 162. From that time the number slowly increased
to 207 in 1901 ; and beginning with the new era of 1902 the number has risen
more rapidly to 420 in 191 3- 14. The present number comprises college stu-
dents only, and as such repre.sents a gain of more than 1500 per cent, over the
26 college students of the year the college opened 44 years ago. Although the
great majority of the students have always come from the four Middle States
and Maryland, they have come to represent in the present year twenty-five
states of the Union, extending from Maine to Hawaii, and from Florida to
Montana.

The first class graduated in 1873 and the 41st in 1913. The total num-
ber of graduates is 1265, of whom 27 women and 36 men have died;
33 women and 84 men have received second degrees at Swarthmore, with
4 as the smallest in 1885, a"'! 83 as the largest in 19 13. The twenty classes
graduated before 1892, when the preparatory school was discontinued aver-
aged 15; the twenty-one classes graduated since that time have averaged 43.
A number of the children of alumni have entered the college, and several of
these have also graduated from the college.

Although one of the younger colleges, with a comjjarativelv small num-
ber of alumni, Swarthmore is justly proud of the useful and distinguished rec-
ord of her sons and daughters; and one of her chief causes of gratitude as -
well as one of her most marked characteristics, is the enthusiastic loyalty and
self-sacrificing devotion with which her alumni have encircled her spirit, even
as the ivies planted by departing classes have enveloped her walls.

Commencing in 1869 with fourteen instructors, the number has grown
to 44; at first there were three resident professors, now there are 15; then
there were four separate dejiartnients, now there are 18. This increase not
so much in the number of instructors as in the number of full professorships
and departments of study, is an emphatic evidence of the growth of the insti-
tution into full college rank. For example, the subjects of ethics, chemistry
and natural science were first taught by an instructor, who acted also as presi-
dent of the college; at present there are 5 (le|)artinents in languages and litera-
ture, 5 in science, 7 in history, economics, philosophy, law, art, political science,
and education, and the department of physical training.

In accordance with the catalog of 1912-13 the 44 instructors have been
students in 24 colleges and universities; 12 have studied in 16 universi-
ties in Europe ; they have received degrees from 35 colleges and universities ;
10 are .Swarthmore graduates; 7 have taught at Swarthmore for more than
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Among the historically prominent names are those of Dr. Joseph Leidy,
who gave weekly lectures in natural history from 1870 to 1886; Dr. Joseph
Thomas, who gave weekly lectures in English literature from 1873 to 1887 ;
Professor Eugene Paulin, who filled the chair of French from 1872 to 1888;
Arthur Beardsley, professor of engineering from 1872 to 1898, and the organ-
izer and care-taker of the Friends' Historical Library from its establishment
to the present time; Susan J. Cunningham, who had charge of the depart-
ment of mathematics and astronomy from the opening of the college until
1906; and Dean Elizabeth Powell Bond, who for twenty years (1886-1906^
infused into the social relations of the college those elements of sweetness
and light which Iiave done so much to realize Swarthmore's ideal of "a col-
lege life in a home setting." An important source of scholarly and moral
impulse in the college has been lectures delivered each year by men and women
of high character and distinction ; among these have been Goldwin Smith,
Thomas Hughes, Matthew Arnold, Mary A. Livermore, Julia Ward Howe,
Thomas Went worth Higginson, William Goodyear, David Starr Jordan,
Charles Wagner, Baroness von Suttner. John W. Foster, Jacob A. Riis, An-
drew D. White, Woodrow Wilson. William J. Bryan and Horace Howard
Furness.

During the year and a half of Dr. Parrish's tenure of the presidency after
college opened, Edward H. Magill, was professor of Latin and French and
principal of the Preparatory School. When Dr. Parrish resigned in the mid-
dle of the year 1870-71, the president's duties devolved -upon Dr. Magill, who
was formally inaugurated president in June 1872 and continued to fill that office
until June 1889. After one year spent abroad, Dr. Magill returned to assume
the professorship of French, whose duties devolved upon him alone from 1890
to 1900; in the latter year an assistant professor was appointed, and from
1902 to 1907 Dr. Magill was emeritus professor, lecturing occasionally on
French and other themes. Thus it is seen that Dr. Magill's name and ser-
vices link the earliest days of the college with the recent past, and form a gold-
en chain bright with achievements and lustrous with the affections of an
entire generation of college students. Among his more important services
to the college should be mentioned three things which were due in a large
measure to him : the recovery from the great fire, the abolition of the prepar-
atory school, the collection of a sum of money for the endowment of a profes-
sorship which led immediately to the endowment of three more. To the teach-
ing of French he contributed a grammar and readings, and the system of
international correspondence ; and to the cause of education in general he con-
tributed the foundation of the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools
of the Middle States and Maryland.

William Hyde Appleton, professor of Greek from 1872 to 1905, and of
German and English for fifteen year periods each, was acting president in
1889-1890, and president in 1890-91. Preeminently a teacher, and finding his
chief happiness in filling his students' minds with an abiding enthusiasm for
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many, and of England, Professor Appleton reluctantly accepted the office of
president, and gladly returned as soon as possible to his professor's chair.
Although the diplomas of twenty-four graduates bear his signature as presi-
dent, he is best known to a thousand other Swarthmore students as the gen-
tleman and scholar who first inspired them with a discriminating appreciation
of the best things in the world's literature.

Charles De Garmo, at present the head of Cornell University's School of
Pedagogy, came to Swarthmore as president in 1891, and for seven years de-
voted himself to its varied interests. His own chief interest and his chief suc-
cess at Swarthmore lay in developing and organizing the course of study. The
members of his class in pedagogy realized his logical strength and keenness as a
teachei , and his colleagues in the faculty profited by the stimulus of his scholar-
ship.

\\'illiam W. Birdsall was elected Swarthmore's fifth president in 1898,
and served a four years' term in that capacity. Having been engaged in the
work of secondary schools during the twenty years since his graduation from
college in 1878, President Birdsall was anxious to strengthen the relations be-
tween the college and its natural constituents, the Friends" preparatory schools,
and he devoted himself largely to that task, resigning the presidency in 1902.

Joseph Swain coming to Swarthmore as presitlent in 1902, at the end of
the first generation of the college's career, commenced a new era in its history.
Having found a most successful and congenial field of usefulness as president
of Indiana University, with which as a student, professor and president he had
been associated for twenty-one years, it was with great difficulty that he was
persuaded to accept Swarthmore's leadership. One of the conditions of his
acceptance was that the college should be placed upon a solid financial basis
within three years by increasing its endowment from $400,000 to $1,000,000;
this condition was fulfilled before the Commencement of 1905. The introduc-
tion of the system of prescribed, major, and elective studies, which Dr. Swain
had helped to inaugurate and administer in Leland Stanford Junior and Indiana
Universities ; the strengthening of the faculty and the endowment of profes-
sorships ; the erection of thirteen buildings ; a closer relationship between the
college and the public school system, with which he has been prominently iden-
tified in the West ; a marked increase in the number of students ; and the in-
trodiK-tion of regular and frequent means of publicity, have followed his inaug-
uration eleven years ago.

Cro::cr Theological Seminary. — A direct result of the deep interest in the
cause of cdncatinn displayed by John P. Crozer during his lifetime, this insti-
tution for the preparation of men for a holy calling stands not only as a
monument to his memory, but also as a testimony to the public spirit and the
generosity of his widow, sons, and daughters. The location is a beautiful
elevation overlooking the Delaware river, at Upland, selected by Mr. Crozer,
on which he erected a substantial stone building that was opened as a
secular school in 1858. Many causes contributed to the non-success of
this school, which only continued a few years under Mr. Crozer's patron-

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age. After his death, his children and widow, desiring that the property might
in some way be used for the purpose intended, were favorably disposed toward
a proposition made by one of their number that a school for the preparation
of young men for the ministry of the Baptist church be therein established.
Leading Baptists finally removed all objections by securing the consent of the
officials of Lewisburg L'niversity for the removal of their theological depart-
ment to the new institution, when it should be ready. Accordingly, on Xovem-
ber 20, 1866, the Crozer heirs jointly endowed the new seminary with land,
"buildings, and invested funds, amounting in value to $275,000, "a princely
gift." On April 4, 1867, the legislature of Pennsylvania incorporated the
board of trustees of Crozer Theological Seminary, with Samuel A. Crozer as
president of the board. The first president of the seminary was Henry G.
Weston, D. D., LL.D., a minister of the Baptist church, a man of learning,
piety, tact, and great organizing ability. The first faculty consisted of Rev.
G. D. B. Pepper, D. D., a graduate of Amherst, professor of Christian The-
ology, and Rev. Howard Osgood, D. D., a graduate of Harvard, professor of
Hebrew and Church History. The first annual catalogue contained the names
of twenty students, and at the first commencement exercises, in June, 1870,
a class of eight was graduated. As the school prospered, new chairs were
established: Biblical Interpretation, a separate chair of Church History, Sys-
tematic Theology, Old Testament Exegesis, Biblical Theolog}' ; and in 1900
a chair for the Interpretation of the English New Testament. Courses of
study have been revised several times, the general plan now including three
distinct courses — the regular course, including the study of the Scriptures in
toth Hebrew and Greek, and two years in Systematic Theology: the Greek-
course, identical with the regular, except that English is substituted for He-
brew in the study of the Old Testament; the English course, in which the
English Bible only is studied, and a shorter course of one year in Systematic
Theology. The first president of the institution. Dr. Weston, continued its
Iionored head for forty-two years, then was succeeded in 1909 by Professor
Milton G. Evans, D. D. The number of students steadily increased from
20 to 56 in 1886, then in 1895 to 103, the last annual catalogue (1913) con-
taining the names of 83 students.

The founders have at various times made suttstantial additions to the orig-
inal endowment fund, including $50,000 given by the children of Mrs. John P.
Crozer after her death to endow in her name the chair of Preaching and Pas-
toral Duties. The seminary campus contains twenty-five acres, heavily wooded
with drives, shrubbery, and flower beds, making, with the handsome buildings,
grounds unsurpassed, if equalled, among the theological schools of the LTnited
States. The buildings consist of a main building, two hundred feet front, in
substantial colonial architecture; Pearl Hall; and residences for faculty mem-
bers. Pearl Hall is a large fire-proof library building, the gift of William
Bucknell in memory of his wife, Margaret, who was a daughter of John P.
Crozer. In addition to the cost of the hall, $30,000, he gave $25,000 for the
immediate purchase of books, and $10,000 for an endowment fund.

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The present faculty consists of Milton G. Evans, president, and Mrs.
John r. Crozer, professor of Comparative Theology ; Barnard C. Taylor, pro-
fessor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis; Henry C. \'edder, professor
of Church History ; Alvah S. Hobart, professor of Interpretation of the Eng-
lisli New Testament, and secretary of the Faculty ; Eugene E. Ayres, professor
of New Testament Literature and Exegesis; Edward B. Pollard, professor of
Homilectics; Spenser B. Meeser, professor of Systematic Theology; Frank G.
Lewis, librarian and instructor in Hebrew. The following are the instructors
appointed by the faculty : Eli S. Reinhold, instructor in rhetoric and logic ;

, instructor in elementary Greek; Silas S. Nefif, instructor in

public speaking and reading ; Frank S. Dobbins, instructor in missions : Ed-
ward ^L Stephenson, instructor in Sunday school method and pedagogy ; Carl-
ton B. Sanford, director of physical training ; Eli S. Reinhold, registrar and di-
rector of correspondence courses; Edith M. West, assistant librarian. The of-
ficers of the present board of trustees are : George K. Crozer, president ; I'^ran-
cis E. Weston, secretary ; Robert H. Crozer, treasurer.

Inseparably linked with Crozer Theological Seminary, and bound to that
institution with the associations of over forty years of continuous service, is
the memory of Henry G. Weston. Beginning his connection with the seminary
soon after its incorporation, as its first president, his tactful handling of all
the school's problems brought it safely through a stormy infancy and into its
full inheritance as an instrument for the preparation of men for the execution
of the Great Commission.

He was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, September ii, 1820, son of Rev.
John E. Weston, who founded the first Baptist weekly publication in America.
"The Christian Watchman," now known as "The Watchman." He prepared
for college in Lynn Academy, graduating from Brown L^niversity in 1840. He
at once began study in the Newton Theological Institution, but hereditary
weakness of the lungs compelled him to abandon his studies before the end of
his second year. To ofifset his physical weakness he began the practice of deep
breathing out of doors for an hour or an hour and a half daily. Compelled to
seek a more favorable climate, he went to Kentucky, and was ordained at
Frankfort in 1843, spending the next three years as a missionary in Illinois.
For thirteen years he was pastor of a Baptist church in Peoria, and from 1859
10 1868 occupied the pulpit of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, New-
York City. The fruits of his pastorates were bountiful, his breath of human
sympathy and lovable nature adding force to the doctrines he expounded from
the Book he knew so well. A noble power was added to the educational world
when Dr. Weston became president of Crozer Theological Seminary. Nature
had intended him for a great preacher, had favored him with an impressive
presence, a kindly bearing, and a voice powerful in volume and sympathetic in
tone; but his qualifications and gifts as a teacher were no less abundant. His
knowledge of human nature, his friendly aspect, his ready understanding and
as ready humor, his loftiness of spirit and faith in mankind, all contributed to
make him the honored and revered head of the seminarv, the confidant of the

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students, the "big brother" of the graduates, and the vital moving spirit of the
entire institution. His magnetic personality was felt by all with whom he came
into contact, and his absence from his accustomed place in morning chapel
caused a void that persisted, whatever the occasion. When a delegation from
a graduating class waited upon him to consider a change in the commencement
program, he remarked, "You do not seem to be afraid of me, gentlemen," and
in answer one of the committee, said, more in earnest than in jest, "You know.
Doctor, that perfect love casteth out fear." His death, at the advanced age of
eighty-nine years, was deeply and sincerely mourned by the wide circle of
friends he had bound to him in spirit during the forty-one years of his con-
nection with Crozer Theological Seminary. After his long life of labor and
usefulness in the cause of the Master, his life with Him is surely one of perfect
peace and happiness, confirmed and ratified by the Divine "Well done, thou
good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."

Pcnnsyk'ania Military College. — By act of Assembly, April 8, 1862, the
Pennsylvania Military Academy was incorporated as a university under the
title, Chester County Military Academy, which the court of common pleas of
Chester county, on application for the board of trustees, immediately changed
to Pennsylvania Military Academy, a name it held until the organization of a
collegiate department, when the word "college" was substituted for "academy."
Its first location was at West Chester, and as a military institution it was at
once brought into the public eye by the enlistment of several of its students in
the LInion army. For the first few years of its life the academy specialized
in military instruction rather to the neglect of academic and scholarly pursuits,
but peace between the states turned it again to the original purpose, and a high
educational standard was set up which, through the six decades since its incep-
tion, has never fallen, increasing, on the contrary, in scope and efficiency. At
the close of the war, the buildings of the Crozer Normal School, which had
been utilized by the United States government for hospitals but were then
vacant, were procured by the officials of the academy, and the school was moved
there in 1865. Three years later, the facilities at this site having been out-
grown, a more spacious site was sought and found in its present location in
Chester, northeast of the city, and an imposing group of buildings was here
erected. The main edifice burned to the ground on the afternoon of February
16, 1882, the fire originating in the laboratory from an unknown cause.
Although the school organization was somewhat demoralized by this accident,
twenty days later the regular routine of the institution was being followed in
temporary quarters at Ridley Park. After the necessary adjustment of the
losses by the insurance companies, plans were subriiitted and work begun upon
a new building, of pretentious size and ornate architecture. Besides the main
hall and laboratory, a large drill hall and a gymnasium were built, both fitting
to perfection the purposes for which they were designed. The present grounds
are upwards of twenty acres in extent, including cadet limits, dotted with the
following college buildings : the College building, accommodating one hundred
and fifty cadets, together with the resident members of the faculty and mili-
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tary staff the Chemical Laboratory; the Theodore Hyatt Memorial Observ-
atory; the Hospital building; the Drill Hall, and Cannon House; the Gym-
nasium, and the Riding Hall.

The courses of study include preparatory courses, courses in languages,
and the collegiate — courses in civil engineering, chemistry and arts. The mili-
tary department has an especially thorough course in military science, theo-
reticat'aria~practical. The faculty is composed of college graduates of high
standing in the educational world, well fitted to carry on the work of an insti-
tution of such high scholastic standing. The combination of military and
ordinary college life puts forth graduates of graceful carriage and vigorous
powers of body, with habits of neatness, system, and punctuality, trained both
to command and to obey, results obtained nowhere but iri a military school.
Believing that physical well being is essential to the best mental effort, athletics
are given a prominent place in the curriculum of the Pennsylvania Military
College. All indoor sports are encouraged, while the outdoor games are
indulged in by almost the entire body of students. The teams representing
the college have gained a wide reputation for both the cleanness and excel-
lence of their play, and the generous manner in which they accept victory, as
well as the sportsmanlike reception they accord defeat. The optional cavalry
drill is another department of the routine which properly comes under the
head of athletics, and is wonderfully popular with the students. The char-
acter of the drill gives it a peculiar value to an educational system, inasmuch
as it developes alertness of mind and the prompt and vigorous response of
body, together with a continuous demand for self-control under varying and
trying conditions.

The faculty and instructors of the college are as follows: Charles E.
Hyatt, C. E., LL. D., president: Milo C. Burt, A. M., Ph.D., vice-president,
professor of geology; Carl H. Miiller (graduate United States Military
Academy), professor of military science and tactics; Levi P. Wyman, A. M.,
Ph.D., secretary and professor of chemistry: Herbert J. Wild, C. E. (mem-
ber American Society of Civil Engineering), professor of engineering; Henry

B. Sachs, A. M., Ph.D., professor of modern languages ; Carton S. Greene,
A. M., professor of English language and literature ; Frank K. Hyatt, B. S..
professor of mathematics; Edward Brautigam, C. E., assistant professor of
mathematics and instructor in military science and tactics; Harold C. Bird,

C. E., assistant professor of engineering; Albert Blohm, A. M., assistant
professor of Latin and English ; F. Otis Bryant, M. D., instructor in anatomy
and physiolog}'; Stanley F. Brown, A. B., instructor in chemistry; Frank
R. Thomas, Jr., C. E., instructor in mathematics and engineering field work ;
Carleton B. Sanford, instructor in gymnastics. The board of trustees has the
following officers: lion. John Wanamaker, president: Hon. William X. Ash-
man, vice-president; Oliver B. Dickinson, secretary.

IVilliavison Free Scliool of Mechanical Trades. — This school illustrates to
the complete satisfaction of its friends the great value of vocational institutions
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trades to all but a few apprentices, hundreds of American youths were de-
prived of an opportunity to learn useful occupations that otherwise would
have remained open to them. To reopen the closed doors is the mission of
the vocational school. While not by any means the only trade school, nor the
largest, it is apparent that under the apprenticeship system practiced at the
Williamson School, has been found the ideal way to develop high-grade effi-
cient workmen in the five trades there taught by instructional methods. Al-
though the first class was not received until 1891, 965 pupils were graduated as
follows up to the year 1913; Bricklayers, 223; carpenters, 210; stationary en-
gineers, 95; machinists, 254; and pattern makers, 183. These graduates had
not only pursued the three year courses as apprentices and had become intelli-
gent, skillful journeymen mechanics, but the scientific and thorough methods
of the courses had prepared them to embrace readily any opportunity for ad-
vancement in their respective trades, and a large number of them have reached
positions of special responsibility, while others have entered into business for
themselves as contractors, builders, etc.

The school was founded December i, 1888, by Isaiah V. Williamson, a
wealthy merchant and philanthropist of Philadelphia, for the purpose of giving
poor and deserving boys a good education, for training them in habits of moral-
ity, economy, and industry, and for teaching them trades. Professional schools
abounded but places were few where a knowledge of useful trades was taught
and the boys provided for during their apprenticeship years. Himself a poor
boy and the architect of his own fortunes, Mr. Williamson was desirous of us-
ing his wealth to aid other boys along life's pathway and chose as one method
the founding of this vocational school. He outlined the plan in his deed and
gave a generous sum for endowing the school that bears his name.

The school property consists of forty buildings located on two hun-
dred and thirty acres of ground in the beautiful hill section of Delaware coun-
ty, near Media, sixteen miles from Philadelphia, on the Central division of the
Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington railroad, and is also reached by trolley
from Philadelphia, via Media. After suitable buildings were erected, pupils
were received, but it was not until 1891 that all was in readiness for the first
class. Admission is made in April of each year, none being received who are
under sixteen or over eighteen years of age. Candidates are required to pass
scholastic, moral, and physical examinations, after which a selection is made of
the number the school can accommodate. Other things being equal, preference
in admission is made in the following order : To those born in the city of Phil-
adelphia : to those born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania ; to those born in Mont-
gomery and Delaware counties, Pennsylvania ; to those born elsewhere in Penn-
sylvania ; to those born in New Jersey. Only natives of the United States are
eligible to admission and none are admitted save those who intend to follow
for a livelihood the trades there taught them, and only those are accepted who
are able-bodied, moral, intelligent, and possessed of a natural aptitude for me-
chanical pursuits. The candidates v;ho are accepted are given a preliminary
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three years as apprentices to the trustees, each apprentice taking but one of the
six courses, the assignment to the same being made at the lime of admission.
These courses or trades are : agricuhure, inchiding a practical and scientific
course in dairying, horticulture, general farming, and poultry raising, car-
pentering; bricklaying, including range, furnace, and boiler setting; the ma-
chinists trade in all its usual branches ; operating engineering, including care
of steam and electrical appliances, steam-fitting, etc., and pattern making. The
course for several years included only the five trades, agriculture having been
recently added.

The school is in session eight hours daily on five days of the week, and
three hours on Saturday, each apprentice spending about one half of the time
in the shops during the first year, the proportion gradually increasing until the
last few months of the senior year, when it includes the entire day. During
the last year of the course there is evening instruction three days in the week
in strength of materials, higher mathematics, and theory of the steam engine.
The branches taught in the academic de])artment are reading, writing, gram-
mar, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, physical and political geog-
raphy. United States history, English literature, physical science, physiology
and hygiene, civil government, chemistry, elementary vocal music, theory of
the steam engine, strength of materials, building construction, mechanical and
freehand drawing, and estimating. The instruction in drawing pertains directly
to the apprentice's particular trade. The school is not a factory and nothing is
made for sale, its sole object being the benefit of its apprentices. The school
is open all the year but regular exercises are suspended during the month of
August, when such students as desire it are given a vacation.

The domestic life of the school is that of good family government. The
students are divided into families of twenty-four, each having its own matron
and its own cottage, eared for by the occupants. The cottages contain no
kitchens, dining-rooms, or laundries, these being located in other buildings.
The central building is a larger stone and brick three story structure called the
Administration building, although one family of twenty-four is located therein.
Otherwise it is used for offices, class, and instruction rooms. By the terms of
Mr. Williamson's deed of endowment, the benefits of the school are entirely
free. This includes board, clothing and instruction during the entire course.
The school is non-sectarian, but each student is required to name the church
of his choice and thereafter attend its service regularly at its place of wor-
ship in the neighborhood.

The graduates' record is excellent. Ninety-five per cent, enter at once on
trade work at wages of sixty to one hundred per cent, of full journeyman's
pay, nearly all receiving the latter within twelve months, some within three, and
not a few begin on full pay. Experience has proved the value of the instructional
methods of the Williamson School, employers reporting that graduates are as
an average more valuable and proficient than shop apprentices. The manage-
ment of the school is in the hands of a board of trustees consisting of seven
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sists of Isaac H. Clothier, Lincoln Godfrey, Alfred C. Harrison, John Story
Jenks, George H. McFadden, John M. Shrigley, John Wanamaker. The pres-
ident is Harry S. Bitting.

If there were any doubts as to the efficacy and practicality of the meth-
ods pursued at Williamson School, a visit would dispel them all. To see the
air of interest, industry, and activity that prevails everywhere, the well-disci-
plined and orderly groups of boys eagerly absorbing information and instruc-
tion from an expert mechanic or a professor, would prove to the most skep-
tical observer that, with the spirit that is present, Williamson School must needs
be a success. The most desirable result obtained by the course of training at
the school is not that it sends forth mechanics superior to those taught in the
old method, but that it is graduating young men who are well equipped to con-
sider the various questions of the day and to act upon their own judgment
and not the advice of some one else; that tastes in literature and culture have
been devolepd that will not be content with daily labor and drudgery, but will
reach outward and upward for the better things of life; and that its graduates
are men who in the coming days will make less plain the line of demarcation
between the man of trade and the man of business or profession, and will raise
the one to the level which it should occupy, upon the same plane as the other.

The founder, Isaiah \'. Williamson, was born in Falsington, Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, February 3. 1803. son of Mahlon and Charity (Vansant) Wil-
liamson, and fifth in line of descent from Duncan Williamson, a Scotchman,
who came to Pennsylvania about 1661, twenty or more years prior to the com-
ing of William Penn. Isaiah \'. Williamson obtained a limited education in
the public schools, and at the age of thirteen years became a clerk in Harvey
Gillingham's store in Falsington, continuing until he was of legal age. During
that period of his life he formed those strict habits of economy as to personal
expenditure, and the careful investment and reinvestment of any surplus
means, which continued throughout his long and useful life. In 1825 he
opened a retail dry goods store on Second, near Pine street, Philadelphia, but
after a few months formed a partnership with William Burton and moved his
place of business to Second street and Coombe's alley. One year later the firm
dissolved, Mr. Williamson purchasing the store of John S. Newlin, at 9 North
Second street. In 1834 he formed a partnership with H. Nelson Burroughs,
his clerk, which continued until 1837, when he retired from active business as
a merchant but retaining an interest as special partner in the firm of William-
son, Burroughs & Clark. Thereafter he engaged in a variety of public enter-
prises, investing his means wisely, and at the age of seventy years was reputed
to be worth about $4,000,000. He then yielded to the impulse of his naturally
kindly sympathetic nature, and began a system of wise, judicious, and libera)
distribution of his fortune. He gave in a broad, catholic spirit, both money and
property to hospitals, schools, homes, and similar charitable and educational in-
stitutions. He gave away in the years from the age of seventy to eighty-six,
about $5,000,000, yet so wisely had he administered his investments that he was
far richer than when he began. He left at his death an estate valued at $10,-

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000,000, one-tenth of which was also used for charitable purposes. The par
value of the securities given as a building and endowment fund to the Wil-
liamson Free School was $1,596,000, having an appraised value at the then
market price of $2,119,250.

In founding his Free School for Mechanical Trades, Mr. Williamson
profited by the failure of other philanthropists to have their wishes carried out
after their deaths, and avoided hostile litigation by doing it during his life-
time. The trustees selected by himself in the foundation deed selected the
present site, and but a few days before his last illness Mr. Williamson visited
it and expressed in warm terms not only his satisfaction but his pleasure in the
choice, this -approval being the last business act of his life. Just before the
closing of his long, honorable, and useful life on March 7, 1889, he sank into
unconsciousness, from which he never rallied. He was eighty-six years of
age at his death, but so correct had been his life and so regular his habits that
he enjoyed uniformly good health. His physical activity was umlimiiiished
and his mental faculties unimpaired ahnost to the last, his death being due to
the debility attending old age rather than to any acute disease. He lived a life
of integrity, self-denial, and industry, regarding himself as onlv a steward of
the vast fortune he had acquired. He carefully thought out his plan for the
Free School arid in his Foundation Deed outlined the method of procedure
and operation to the minutest detail, the school being conducted at the present
time upon practically the same lines laid down by the founder.

Iiislitiite for Colored Youth. — This institution had its origin in a bequest
of $10,000 made by Richard Humphreys in 1827, the object of which was
iefined as "the benevolent design of mstructing descendants of the .\frican race
n school learning, in the various branches of the mechanic arts and trades,
and in agriculture, in order to prepare, fit and qualify them to act as teachers."
The following will show how thoroughly the terms of the bequest have been
followed, and with what highly gratifying results.

In 1837 the Institute was established u]ion a farm on the York road, and
m 1842 a charter was procured from the Pennsylvania legislature. In 1 85 1
the work was located on Lombard street, Philadelphia, and in 1866 was moved
to Tenth and Bainbridge streets. There, in 1885, an industrial department
v.-as added, and the school was contiiuied with an enrollment of about 350 in
the academic department, and 300 in the industrial department, until 1903.
In this year the resignation of the principal, Fannie Jackson Coppin, was
acce])ted, and the work was reorganized. In order to best carry out the wishes
of the founder, the managers decided to move the school to the country, and
to there concentrate the resources of the Institute upon the development of a
high grade normal school for negro pupils. This was accordingly done, and
the success of the school for the past ten vcars has more than vindicated the
judgment of the managers and the wisdom of their decision. The school,
located at Cheyney. Delaware county, Pennsylvania, consists of the three
buildings originally erected — Humphreys Hall. Emlen Hall, and the principal's
house — together with the Carnegie Library building, the Cassandra Smith cot-

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tage, the Susanna Brinton cottage, and barns and other buildings for the
accommodation of the Hve stock owned by the Institute. A new dormitory
costing $30,000 is in the process of construction, the nucleus of the building
fund, $5000, having been donated by Joshua L. Baily, on the condition that
the other $25,000 be raised before Sixth month 30, 1912.

The Institute offers to the negro who has the true welfare of his race at
heart, an education that will prepare him to enter upon a work in behalf of
his people which will be of inestimable value to the negroes in raising them to
a plane where they will be able to become useful members of American com-
uumities. Instruction is given in English, drawing, physiology, hygiene, gym-
nastics, wood-working, domestic science, domestic art, iron working, and agri-
culture, and the graduates are sent as teachers to colored schools in all parts oi
the country. Because of the increasing importance of all agricultural matters
today, especial stress is laid upon this branch of the curriculum in training
young men and women to be able to inspire negro rural communities with the
worth and dignity of farm life. The agricultural department has charge of the
garden from which much of the produce used in the Institute is procured. Al-
though many of the graduates accept positions in the north, where they were
born and reared, by far the greater number take up their work in the form-
er slave states, where the need for their services is greater because of the lowly
state of the negro in those places, caused by the degrading effects of his previous
condition of servitude. :\11 of the graduate teachers keep in constant touch
with the Institute, writing for advice on particularly knotty problems in their
schools, and receiving helpful suggestions in return. The Institute often offers
aid in a much more substantial manner, in many cases sending discarded tools
and other apparatus and appliances which have outlived their usefulness at
the home institution.

The record of the Institute since moved from Philadelphia to Cheyney
has been full of encouragement. In the ten years which have elapsed there
have been sixtv-nine graduates sent out from the Institute, now engaged in the
r<ccupations enumerated below : Teachers, fifty-one ; secretarial work, three ;
teaching in private institutions, thirty-three : teaching in public institutions,
eighteen ; pursuing advanced studies, three ; scientific embalmer, one ; cabinet-
maker, one : postal clerks, two ; and dressmaker, one. Thirty-one of these are
teaching in the former slave states, of whom thirteen were born and lived in
the north.

Too much credit for this great and good work cannot be given to the So-
ciety of Friends, under whose direction the board of managers has constantly
acted. The board of managers, always guided by the advice and counsel of an
advisory educational board, consisting of men of well-known reputation in the
educational world of to-day. That the work may have a prosperous continu-
ance, that the teachings of the Institute at Cheyney may be world-wide in their
effect, and that Divine guidance may direct the efforts of the graduates to the
best possible good of the race, is the prayer that should rise from every hearth-

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stone. The task is hard and the road rougli, but the goal worthy of all the
hardship and toil.

The board of managers consists of George ]M. Warner. Philadelphia, sec-
retary : George S. Hutton. Philadelphia, treasurer ; George \'aux, George
Vaux Jr., and Walter Smedley, Philadelphia ; Walter P. Stokes, Moorestown,
New Jersey : James G. Biddle, \\'allingford, Pennsylvania : J. Henry Bartlett,
Tuckerton, New Jersey : Davis H. Forsythe, West Grove, Pennsylvania ; Al-
fred C. Elkinton, Moylan, Pennsylvania : David G. Yarnall, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania ; John L. Balderston, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania ; Edward
f.rinton. West Chester, Pennsylvania : Thomas C. Potts, Philadelphia : Stanley
R. Yarnall, Philadelphia, secretary of the board of managers. The Advisory
Educational Committee has as its members President Isaac .Sharpless, of Hav-
erford College. Pennsylvania ; Principal Booker T. Washington. Tuskegee In-
stitute • Dean James E. Russell, Teachers' College, New York City ; Professor
John Dewey, Teachers' College, New York City ; President Joseph Swain,
Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. The members of the faculty of the
Clieyney Institute for Colored Youth are ( igi2) : Hugh M. Browne, princi-
pal, applied physics and general methods ; Evangeline R. Hall, English and ed-
ucation; Naomi B. Spencer; Laura Wheeler, drawing; Clayda J. Williams,
physiology, hygiene, and gymnastics ; George K. Conway, iron-working ; Lew-
is \^'. S. Comegys, wood-working; R. Mabel Moorman, domestic art; Julia
Phillips, domestic science ; Harriet ]M. Hodge, applied domestic science ; Wil-
liam M. Berry, agriculture; Louise P. \\'alton. matron; Lottie N. Conway,
secretary ; Thomas L. Harrison, applied domestic science, and assistant secre-
tary.

Convent of the Ho!\ Child. — Sharon, now the Convent of the Holy Child,
was once the Sharon Boarding School founded by John Jackson. Quaker min-
ister, in 1837. The mutual interest which Mr. Jackson and his wife took in the
subject of education led him to institute a school in which the usual course of
instruction should be combined with a religious training. His own varied
knowiedge. his eloquence and governing powers fitted him for the task and his
wife's accomplishments and refinement helped the project to its fulfilment.
From a little volume, "A Brief Memoir of John Jackson," printed in 1856, after
his death, these extracts are taken, proving the sincerity of the man and the
deep seriousness which he brought to bear upon his mission :

'Ti mo.. iS,?7. The religious instruction of children has often licen to my mind a
subject of deep interest and concern. To direct the young mind to the influence of those
principles of action wliich should govern the whole course of human conduct, is. in my
view, one of the most effectual and powerful means of preserving them from the tempta-
tions of the world. And the improper indulgence of those feelings and i)ropensities which
are invariably followed by misery and nnhappiness. The command which was given to
the Israelites to teach diligently the law which God had given them. is. no doubt, a per-
petual obligation binding upon all generations of men. The minds of children should be
directed to principles, not to opinions. The soul by obedience advances in righteousness,
and is prepared to receive new disclosures of the Divine Will. ."Xs the minds of children
are directed to the important truths of religion, they learn to cultivate an acquaintance

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with themselves, and understand their relation, as accountable creatures, to the Author
•of their being." "It was his aim," his Memoir tells us, "not only to cultivate and expand
the intellect, but also to imbue the tender minds of the children with the necessity of a
life of daily self-denial, in order to enjoy that peace which the world cannot give nor
destroy."

It was a worthy object he had in view; it was a high ideal that he set before himself,
.and imparted to his pupils. That they respected him, and responded to his teaching, their
own words prove. One of them, in writing of the influence of Mr. Jackson, said : "I can
never tell what I owe to his instruction. How many and what pleasant memories come
with his name ! I feel that it was no ordinary privilege to be taught by him. I never
■went with a question to him without having it answered fully, plainly; there was always
time, there was always a smile with which to answer every inquiry. And now I cannot
look at a pebble, or go in imagination to the farthest extremity of the universe, but I feel
that he has led the way, and I follow dimly and afar oflf, where he has gone shedding
light on mystery. Truly can I say that I always felt in those Sharon days that worship
was exalted when he mingled in it. Social life was purified when in his presence, and
that as a teacher, he led and guided us with fatherly love and care."

Reference is made in this extract to his love of scientific studies. He considered a
knowledge of natural science indispensable. "Every page of the great volume of nature,"
he said, "is full of living and instructive truth. There is a beautiful relation between mind
and matter, between the works of God and our capacity to contemplate them. Our
intellectual nature is as much a gift of God as the gift of grace, and we are as respon-
sible for the culture and improvement of one as for the other. I have no idea that so
noble a talent is to be buried in the earth, that it is to be employed merely in procuring
food and raiment for these frail temples which are so soon to moulder into dust. Far
otherwise! Placed in the midst of a beautiful creation, we are invited to meditate on
the workmanship of its Author. Such an exercise of intellect is profitable to us, for it
leads to humility, and while it makes manifest the feebleness of man, and our compara-
tive nothingness amidst the immensity of Creation, it exalts our view of the wisdom,
goodness, and power of the Creator."

Mr. Jackson was also an eminent astronomer, and had an observatory fitted
up for his own use and that of his pupils, with a Framenhoffer equatorial tel-
escope, at that time the largest in America. He had a fine collection of fossils
and minerals, and an extensive library which was open to all who cared to use
it. He was a botanist, and his conservatory contained plants and exotics of
different countries. Even to-day tlie Sharon grounds show, in their rare trees
and shrubs, the results of his labor in this direction. Besides being a mem-
ber of the Delaware County Institute of Science, John Jackson was continually
in communication with the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, and his ob-
servations and services were an acknowledged help to the Coast Survey Depart-
ment of the Government.

It was natural that girls brought up under the care and direction of such
a man should develop sterling qualities of mind and heart, and should go forth
stamped with the hail mark of genuineness. Still Sharon life in those days was
not without its escapades, its small breaches of discipline, its youthful reaction-
ary rashness, its irrepressive mirth, and all the wild, windy outbursts which at-
tend the "equinoctial gales of youth." Many old Quaker ladies, who come
back from time to time to review the scenes of their school-days shake their
heads in reminiscent enjoyment over "scrapes" and "pickles" which once called

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forth the stern rebuke of "L'ncle John" and the mild reproach of "Aunt Re-
becca" Jackson. After all, these Quakeresses were not so demure and im-
movable as we once supposed !

In 1863 the Jackson school was purchased by Father Carter. For the
work of Catholic education, he gave it to the Sisters of the Holy Child, and
here the convent was established on the sixteenth of July, 1864.

The first days at Sharon were memorable ones for all. The quaint Quak-
er buildings with its peaceful aloofness, seemed to wield an attractive influence
upon their children, who ever remain devotedly attached to their alma mater.
The atmosphere seemed in every way suitable to the work undertaken, and
the school soon became known, not alone for the thoroughness of the education
imparted, but for the stamp of refinement and cultured life upon its pupils, and
this in its measure may be claimed as a special characteristic of the work of
the society wherever its schools have been established.

The old Jackson house was a three storied building, but the needs of the
school, in a few years outgrew these limits. An addition became imperative
and a mansard roof was planned. The quaint Quaker house submitted to this
first innovation in 1870. In 1877, a chapel was built, which in its turn, was re-
placed by the beautiful little Gothic Church in 1899. The Holy Child's School
was partially erected in 1890 and used in its unfinished state until 1900 when it
was completed.

COURTS AND LAWYERS.

Crude as were the statutes administered, there is no doubt that at Tinicum.
in the present county of Delaware, justice was first dispensed in the state of
Pennsylvania, and there is little doubt that there was held the first court in the
entire Delaware river territory. The Swedish Governor Printz was required,
in obedience to instructions given him, to "decide all controversies according to
the laws, customs and usages of Sweden." This was a difficult task to impose
upon a military man, as the codification of all the Swedish statutes, manners
and customs had then but recently been made. There were, fortunately for
the peace of mind of the well meaning governor in 1647, but one hundred and
thirty-eight souls living under his jurisdiction, yet he often found difficulty in
adjusting nice points of law, often also under the embarrassment of acting in
the dual capacity of plaintifif and judge. The governor thus describes his own
plight : "Again, I have several times solicited a learned and able man to
administer justice and attend to the law business, sometimes very intricate
cases occurring, in which it is difficult, and never ought to be. that one and the
same person appear in the court as plaintiff as well as judge." Governor Printz
was clothed with both civil and criminal jurisdiction : he was especially directed
to enforce obedience and order, and could punish great offenders, not only
with imprisonment, but even with death, "according to the crime," but all must
be done under legal forms and in accordance with the ordinance. The records
of this Swedish court are very indistinct, and little can be learned of this period,
while the Dutch records that follow are hardly more explicit on the subject of
e:ir]y tribunals among the early settlers on the Delaware prior to the English
conquest.

fean Paul Jacquet, who was appointed vice-director, November 29, 1655,
was instructed to "administer law and justice to citizens as well as soldiers,"
while Andrew Hudde. the secretary, was "to book all matters, complaints, de-
faults, arrests, with the reasons there." also "all judgments, sentences and deci-
sions." The court, where branches of the ordinances were to be tried, was a
meeting of the council, which was to be called only by order of the vice-direc-
tor, and all cases pending before that body to be decided by a "majority of
votes," but, in case of a tie, the vice-director was to have a double vote. This
tribunal seems to have exercised legislative as well as judicial powers, as there
are ordinances regulating various practices, as early as February 13, iC^S^*' =1"''
several arrests for their violation are recorded. Jacob Alrichs, vice-director of
the city's colony on the Delaware (part of the Delaware territory from Chris-
tiana river to Bombay Hook had been transferred to the city of Amsterdam by
the Dutch West Indian Company for moneys advanced) in the latter part of
April, 1657, arrived at New Castle. That there then was a court held on the
river is proven from the prayer of the Swedish inhabitants that a court mes-
senger and provost might be appointed for them, which was done. This court
evidently was not in accordance with Director Alrich's ideas of what a court
of justice should be, as on March 30, i''>58, he writes Governor Stuyvesant,

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complaining of its crudities. But there was a court, and at least one practicing
attorney, as, under the same date, he mentions paying certain sums to the "At-
torney Schelluyn." On May 8, 1658, the Swedish magistrates at Tinicum pre-
sented a petition to Governor Stuyvesant, who was then visiting the Dutch set-
tlements on the Delaware, requesting that they might be properly instructed in
the discharge of their duties, and that a court messenger or officer should be
appointed to serve summons, make arrests and enforce sentences of the courts.
From a letter written April 28, 1660, to Governor Stuyvesant by William
Beekman, vice-director, a great deal of information is gleaned concerning the
customs of the magistrate and something of the people they governed. This
letter relates. to the present Delaware county, all the persons mentioned hav-
ing resided within the limits of the present county, and is interesting as being
conclusive that, at that time, no other court existed within the territory be-
longing to the present state of Pennsylvania.

When Sir Robert Carr, in command of the English forces, subjugated the
Dutch Provinces on the Delaware, the articles of capitulation dated October,
1684, stipulated that "the schout, the burgomaster, sheriffe, and other inferior
magistrates, shall use and exercise their customary Power in .-\dminis'on of
justice within their precincts, or until his Ma'ties pleasure is further known."

Under the terms of this agreement the Dutch magistrates continued in
ofiUce until April 21. 1668, when Governor Lovelace commissioned Sir Robert
Carre schout, and Hans Block, Israel Helme, Peter Rambo, Peter Cock, Peter
.A^lricks, or any two of them, as councillors, "to advise, hear and determine, by
the major vote, what is just, equitable and necessary in the case or cases in
question." Steadily but slowly, Governor Lovelace from that time began bring-
ing the judicial system of England into use, but so gradually that no radical
change would be made, and at the same time do no violence to the colonv. by
unsettling quickly the whole body of ordinances, manners and customs with
which the people had grown familiar. The attempted rebellion of the Long
Finn in the summer of 1669 afforded the governor an opportunity to make
some sweeping changes in criminal procedure, and that case will ever be mem-
orable in county annals, inasmuch that for the first time there is undoubted
record of a trial on the Delaware wherein the defendant was formally indicted,
and a jury of twelve men impaneled, who were subject to challenge on the part
of the prisoner, and charged after the testimony was concluded, by the com-
missioners, to find "the matter of fact according to the evidence." Governor
Lovelace, knowing well the power of pomp and display, hedged the bench with
all the pomp and circumstance necessary to impress the citizen of that day with
the importance and dignity fif the judicial office. In ifiji he instructed Captain
Carre, on the Delaware, to set up the King's arms in the court house, and to
have the same insignia of majesty borne on the staffs carried by the officers in
attendance. The records show a town court was established at New Castle,
May 17, 1672, to be presided over by a bailiff and six assistants, to have juris-
diction over all cases of debt and damage not to exceed ten pounds, and there
is inferential evidence that a similar court was established ;u l']i''"i''' August

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8, 1672. Certain it is, however, that when the Enghsh standard was lowered
and the Dutch again became masters on the Delaware, the Dutch council at
New York, July 30, 1673, established "one court of justice for the inhabitants
of Upland, to which provisionally shall resort the inhabitants both on the east
and west banks of Kristina Kill and upwards toward the head of the river."
At the same time council instructed the inhabitants of the Delaware river ter-
ritory, "for the maintenance of good order, police, etc.," to nominate eight per-
sons in each of the judicial districts as magistrates, and from the names thus
submitted council would select and appoint these officers. These courts were
of limited jurisdiction, council ordering that all important cases be sent for trial
before the governor general and council. Yet they had legislative powers that
made them of considerable importance in the government. The same docu-
ment from the council instructed how persons should be elected to the higher
offices, a system that was adopted by the British after the territory again
passed under their rule, and was maintained in a large measure even after
Pennsylvania had in turn cast off the English yoke. By the terms of the treaty
between Great Britain and Holland, the Dutch authority ceased. on February 9,
1674, but as Major Edmund Andross, the representative of the Duke of York,
to whom the King had reconfirmed the province after it became an English de-
pendency, did not take formal control until the 31st of October following, it is
to be presumed that judicial matters up to that time were conducted according
to the Dutch form of procedure. Two days thereafter the governor ordered
that the old magistrates on the Delaware, excepting Peter Alricks, who were
in office when the Dutch captured the province in July, 1763, should be "estab-
lished for the space of six months, or further orders." On November 4, Cap-
tain Edward Cantwell, who had been the former sheriff under the English
rule, was reappointed to the same office. The magistrates thus reappointed
were : Peter Cock, Peter Rambo, Israel Helme, Lars Andriesen, Wolle Swain :
and William Tom was appointed clerk.

The jurisdiction of the several courts on the Delaware river seems not to
have been extended so as to give them cognizance of the higher grade of
crimes. Hence a special commission was issued by Governor Andross, Febru-
ary 21, 1675, for holding a court of oyer and terminer at New Castle for the
trial of several prisoners charged with rape, which commission was addressed
to five justices of New Castle court, and Justices Cock, Rambo, Helme, An-
driesen and Swain, of Upland court, requiring any seven or more of them, as
soon as conveniently may be, "to sitt one or more times during the space of one
week, if occasion require, for the hearing, trying, giving judgment, and causing
the same to be put in execution according to law."

A celebrated case of the period was the trial of James Sandelands, of Up-
land, for the death of an Indian forcibly ejected from his house. The case
was tried at New Castle, at a special court held May 13, 1675, Governor Sir
Edmund Andross presiding in person, assisted by three commissioners — one
each from New Castle, from Upland and Whore Kill. "The bench," old docu-
ments state, was "called over and placed on the governor's left hand : Governor

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Philip Carteret, of New Jersey, on the right of Mr. Samuel Edsall ; Mr. Thom-
as Wandall, Mr. Joseph Smith, Mr. John Jackson, Mr. William Osborne."
The jury, as provided by the Duke of York's laws, which had not yet, how-
ever, been extended to the Delaware river settlement, consisted of seven free-
men. The verdict of the jury : "They find the prisoner not to be Guilty. Hee
is ordered to be cleared by Proclamation."

On September 22, 1676, Governor Andross promulgated an ordinance in-
troducing the Duke of York's laws and establishing courts of justice on the
Delaware in conformity therewith. ( )nc of the tribunals was located at Up-
land, and was to consist of justices of the peace, three of whom would consti-
tute a quorum, the oldest justice presiding, having the powers of a court of
sessions, with jurisdiction over all matters under twenty pounds in civil cases,
and in criminal cases, excepting where the punishment extended to life impris-
onment or banishment, when appeals were to be allowed to the court assizes.
The sessions were to be held quarterly, beginning on the second Tuesday of
the month, and rules governing practice, unless repugnant to the laws of the
government, could be made by the court and were to continue for one year.
A record of all proceedings was to be kept in the English language, to which
every person should have free access "at due or seasonable times," and for that
purpose a clerk was appointed by the governor on the recommendation of the
court. In pursuance of the ordinance, on November 14. 1676, the first court
under the code of laws was convened at Upland, where Captain John Collier
and Captain Edmund Cantwell, specially authorized by Governor Andross, ad-
ministered the oath of office to the newly commissioned justices — Peter Cock,
Peter Rambo, Israel Helme, Lace Andricsen, Wole Sweinsen and Otto Ernest
Cook. Ephraim Herman was appointed clerk. (From this date to the second
Tuesday of September the original records of the Lapland court are in posses-
sion of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and in i860 were published by
the Society with copious notes and an introduction by Edward Armstrong.)

One act of that court was the appointment of Jan Jansen and Morton
Mortensen as guardians for the heirs of Hendrick Johnson, deceased, it being
represented to the court that the estate of the minors was being wasted. This
is the first instance of record in this state of such appointment, and, while the
guardians were instructed to prepare an inventory of the estate, they do not
seem to have been required to give honfl for the faithful performance of the
trust.

At a court of quarter sessions held June 13, 1677, the most important
case was one of assault and battery committed on Justice Helme by Oele Oel-
sen. The dignity of the court was upheld, and Justice Helme secured the verdict,
which he afterward remitted as the "saide Oele was a poore man." The court
established by Governor Lovelace and administering the Duke of York's laws
continued with little change until the coming of William Penn, and even then
there was little attempt made at change for several years. Trial by jury was
uncommon, there being but two instances of a jury being impaneled in the en-

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tire period covered by the record of the Upland court. The first case above
cited was tried on November 12, 1678; the second, October 13, 1680.

Although after Penn came he advocated radical change in the criminal
and civil code, removing much of the severity of the former, he continued the
courts already established and did not confuse the people with new judicial
procedure. The changes that were made were authorized by legislative bod-
ies, and, by enlarging the responsibilities of the individual, increased the in-
telligence of the masses. The law enacted December 7, 1682, requiring all per-
sons who were not by birth subjects of Great Britain, to declare within three
months their intentions to become "freemen," resulted in retiring for the time
being all the Swedish judges. At the February session of the court, held
1682-1683, John Simcock, a newly appointed justice, presided, but at the June
term of 1683, when Penn personally presided, the familiar figure of Justice
Cock again was seen on the bench.

To this court, held June 27, 1683, the first grand jury of record in the
civil court of Pennsylvania was summoned, the grand inquest consisting of
seventeen persons. While the powers of the court at this period covered many
points and details not now considered judicial subjects, their jurisdiction was
restricted so far as the higher grade of crimes were concerned, until the consti-
tution of 1790 gave the judges of the court of common pleas, in each county
the right to act as justice of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery for
the trial of capital and other otifences.

A feature of the act of March 10, 1683, now unknown, were the "peace-
makers,"— three persons in every precinct, chosen yearly, to whom dispute
could be referred in writing, and the decision of these "peacemakers" was as
conclusive as that of the court. The act of March 10, 1683. also directed the
justices of each county to sit twice a year "to inspect and take care of estates,
usage and employment of orphans," this constituting the first orphans' court
in the province. The first court under this title was held at Chester on the
"3rd day in ye ist week of ye 8th month, [687."

Previous to the act of May 10, 1684. there was no high appellant court in
the province other than the governor and council, but on that date a provincial
court was created, consisting of five judges, which was ordered to sit twice a
year at Philadelphia, (and two members of the court, at least every fall and
spring, were directed to "goe their circuit into everie respective county in the
province) to hold a court of appeals, as well as to try all criminal cases of a
high grade, questions of title and all other causes over which the county court
had no jurisdiction. The following year the assembly took away their right
to try cases which involved title to real estate and reduced the number of
judges to three, but later the original mimber was restored.

A little over a year after Penn first came to the province, no provincial
court having then been established, he was called to preside over a witchcraft
case, eight years before the cruel craze attacked North Carolina. The verdict
was "guilty of having the common fame of a witch, but not guilty in manner and
form as she stands indicted." Some of the acts of Penn, and those of Colonel

48c DELAWARE COUNTY

Benjamin, who was appointed governor of Pennsylvania by the King, October
20, 1693, aroused the wrath of David Lloyd, the first lawyer of whom there is
record in the county. He was the leader of the battle for popular liberty, and
dared to oppose Penn when his plans were thought to be in opposition to the
general welfare. He was a member of the assembly from Chester county in
1693, and as speaker of the house the following year bore the full brunt of the
anger of Governor Fletcher. This brave Quaker lawyer was the father of the
bar of Pennsylvania, and that bar to-day is benefitted by his battle for the
rights of the people waged over two centuries ago.

By the act of October 27, 1701, county courts were required to be held
in Chester on the third day of the last week in February, May, August and No-
vember, their -practice to conform as nearly as possible to that of the common
pleas of England, "all fictions and color in pleadings to be avoided." They
had equity powers, and all matters of maritime disputes not cognizable in the
court of admiralty were to be heard.

The judges of the supreme provincial court were to go on circuit twice in
each year, the acts requiring such court to be held in Chester on the "2nd day
of eighth month," "and on the i8th day of second month," for the trials of
all felonies, and to have appeals in civil cases, but, by the act of February 10,
1710, the supreme court justices were not required to go on semi-annual cir-
cuits to counties outside Philadelphia unless cases were pending there for trial,
and commissions of oyer and terminer were issued by the governor.

The act of 1710 was repealed in 1713 by Queen Anne, and on July 20,
1714, Lieutenant Governor Gookins, following the precedent of Governor
Evans, published an ordinance of like tenor establishing the several courts in
the province. The courts of common pleas in the several counties continued
to exercise in the main tlie jurisdiction conferred by the act of 1701, but all
through the colonial period all the courts were subject to legislative enactments,
and prolonged controversy arose between the assembly and the governors rep-
resenting the crown. The courts of quarter sessions, as distinctive from the
county courts, created by Governor Evans' ordinance, in 1707 were directed to
be held in Chester on the last Tuesdays of February, May, August and No-
vember, and their powers defined. By an act of September 29, 1759, the jus-
tices of the court of quarter sessions were forbidden from being commissioned
justices of the common pleas. The last court held at Chester before the erec-
tion of Delaware county was on August 29, 1786, and continued by adjourn-
ment until August 31, when the session ended.

The first court held after the erection of Delaware county was on Novem-
ber 9, 1789, Justice John Pearson presiding. There being no bar, William
Tilghman, afterward chief justice of Pennsylvania, addressed the court and
moved his own admission. After he had been sworn in, Mr. Tilghman moved
the admission of William L. Blair and others, eight lawyers qualifying that day
as hu-iiiIktn of the Delaware county bar. L'ndcr the judicial redistrictint;-
caused by the adoption of the constitution of 1790, Delaware county, together
witli the counties of Philadelphia, Bucks and Montgomery, formed the first ju-

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dicial district. James BiddTe was commissioned president judge of the district,
continuing until June 19, 1797, wlien he was succeeded by John D. Coxe, he
being succeeded in 1805 by WilHam Tilghman.

The first president judge, and the only one prior to the constitution, was
Henry Hale Graham, who died January 23, 1790, while attending the constitu-
tional convention as a delegate. John Pearson, who presided over the first
court for one day, was appointed president judge to fill out Judge Graham's
term, serving until the appointment of Judge Biddle under the constitution
of 1790.

On February 24, 1806, the State was redistricted, Delaware county with
Chester, Montgomery and Bucks, forming the seventh judicial district. In
April, 1806, Governor McKean appointed Bird Wilson president judge, he
serving until 1817, when he resigned.

On January 28, 1818, Governor Findlay appointed John Ross, of Easton,
president judge of the seventh judicial district, he then being a member of
congress. By the act of March 12, 1812, the fifteenth judicial district was cre-
ated, comprising the counties of Delaware and Chester, and on May 22, 182 1,
Governor Heister appointed Isaac Darlington president judge of the new dis-
trict. Judge Darlington held his first court under this appointment in the old
court house at Chester, October 23, 1821, being then forty years of age, and
served until his death in April, 1839.

On May 16, 1839, Governor Porter appointed Thomas S. Bell to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Judge Darlington, who served until his pro-
motion to the supreme bench, December i8, 1846. Governor Shunk appointed
John M. Forster, of Harrisburg, to succeed Judge Bell, but he failed of a
confirmation by the senate. The governor then appointed James Nill, of Cham-
bersburg, who also was rejected. The March term was presided over by As-
sociate Judges Engle and Leiper, but by the next term the governor had ap-
pointed his son-in-law, Harry Chapman of Middletown, who was confirmed
and served with great acceptance until November 26, 185 1, when an amend-
ment to the constitution changed the office of president judge from an ap-
pointive to an elective one. During Judge Chapman's incumbency the county
seat was moved to Media, the last court being held in the old court house in
Chester, May 26, 1851, adjourning Friday, May 30, following. Judge Chap-
man declining the nomination, Townsend Haines, of West Chester, was elected
the first president judge of the courts under the new law, retiring on the last
day of the November term, 1861. Judge Haines was succeeded by Wil-
liam Butler, elected October, 1861, presiding until 1874, when a vacancy
was caused by the erection of the thirty-second judicial district. This vacancy
was filled in April, 1874, by Governor Hartranft appointing as president judge
John M. Broomall, whose family had been prominent in Delaware and Chester
counties for two hundred years. Judge Broomall was succeeded by Judge
Thomas J. Clayton, as the first elective president judge under the constitution
of 1873. His ancestry also traces to the earliest days, his ancestor settling at
Marcus Hook prior to the granting of the royal charter to Penn.
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DELAWARE COrXTY

The following is a list of all associate justices and judges of the courts
of Delaware county from its erection until the constitution of 1874 (which
abolished the office) with date of commission:

William R. Atlee
Richard Hill Morris
Thomas Lewis
John Pearson
George Pearce
EHsha Price
Joel Willis
John Sellers
Ricliard Riley
Mark Wilcox
Hugh Lloyd
Benjamin Brannon
John Crosby
John Pierce
Wilham Anderson
Joseph Engle
Henry Meyer

September 28, 1789
October 12, 1789
12. 1789
" 12, 1789
" 12, 1789
March 16, 1790
July 15, 1790
September 17, 1791
17. 1791
17. 1791
April 24, 1792
June 5, 1794
April 26, 1799
January 5, 1823
•• 5. 1826
5, 1827
December 27, 1833

George Smith
Joseph Engle
Joseph Engle
George C. Leiper

George G. Leiper
James Andrews
Sketchley Morton
Frederick J. Hinkson
James Andrews
Chas. R. Williamson
George Smith
James Andrews
Thomas Reese
Bartine Smith
Thomas Reese
Bartine Smith

December 28, 1836
January 26. 1842
March 11, 1847
February 25, 1843

Admitted
February 16. 1848
November 10. 185 1
ID. 185 1
" 12, 1856

12, 1856
January 10. i860
November 23. 186 r
23. 1861
8. 1866
8, 1866
" 17, 1871

17, 1871

CHARACTICR SKETCHES OF PRESIDE.N'T JUDGES AXD OTHERS.

Henry Hall Graham, the first president judge, was born in London, Eng-
land, July I, 1 73 1, son of William Graham, who came to Pennsylvania in 173,^.
settling finally in Chester. Judge Graham studied law under Joseph Parker,
then deputy register of Pennsylvania for the county of Chester, and on his
death in 1766, Mr. Graham was appointed to the vacant position, then includ-
ing the duties of prothonotary, register and recorder. He had been commis-
sioned one of the justices of the county in 1761, and again was honored in
1765. He was neutral during the Revolution, his leanings being toward the
mother country. For this reason he was not reappointed in 1777. After the
Revolution he was practicing attorney in the Chester courts. On November 7,
1789, he was appointed president judge of Delaware county, but, not being at
the time a justice of the peace, could not act as president of the court of quar-
ter sessions and orphans' court, hence the court of common pleas was opened
and presided over the first day by justice William Richardsijn Atlee, holder of
the oldest commission among the justices constituting the bench. On Novem-
ber 9, 1789, Governor Alifllin commissioned him justice of the peace, and the
next day. November 10, appointed him president judge, he at once assuming
the duties of that office. He was elected a member of the constitutional con-
vention of 1789-90, and died in Philadelphia, January 23, 1790, while attend-
ing the meetings of that body.

Tames Riddle was the second president judge of Delaware county, and the
first under the constitution of 1790 that placed Delaware county in the first dis-
trict with Philadelphia, Hucks and Montgomery cnimties. He served imiil Jidy
19, 1797. He was succeeded on that date by John .S. Co.xe, who on .\pril 6 of
that year had been appointed one of the judges of the high court of errors

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and appeals, but resigned that office to accept the office of president judge of
Philadelphia and the courts of the first judicial district. Both Judges Biddle
and Coxe were learned in the law, and jurists of a high order.

When Delaware county was created under the act of September 26th.
1789, naturally there was no bar, and, through an error, no president judge of
common pleas, quarter sessions or orphans' court. The latter difficulty was
overcome, and then William Tilghman arose and addressed the bench setting
forth the peculiar circumstances and moving his own admission. The court
saw in this the best solution of the difficulty, and William Tilghman was sworn,
becoming the first member of the Delaware county bar. Fifteen years later,
on July 31, 1805, he was appointed by Governor McKean president judge of
Delaware county courts. Judge Tilghman, one of the most conspicuous figures
of his time, was a native of Talbot county, Maryland, and began reading law
in 1772, when sixteen years of age, under the preceptorship of Benjamin Chew,
of Philadelphia. In 1783, after eleven years of study, he was admitted to the
Maryland bar. In 1789 he moved to Philadelphia, where he rapidly rose to the
front rank in his profession. In 1801 he was appointed chief judge of the
circuit court of the United States, but the act under which this court was con-
stituted was repealed the next year and the judge returned to private practice.
He only held the office of president judge of Delaware county seven months,
when he was appointed chief justice of Pennsylvania to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Chief Justice Shippen. Judge Tilghman died in 1827.

When the act of February 24, 1806, creating the seventh judicial district,
became operative, the government m April of that year appointed Bird Wilson
president judge of the new district. He was a son of James Wilson, a signer
of the Declaration of Independence, and for eleven years presided over the
courts of Delaware county, sitting for the last time at the October term of
1817. He then resigned and became a minister of the Episcopal church, for
which he had prepared while still a judge, studying under Bishop William
White, whose biography he wrote. Judge Wjlson also edited Bacon's "Abridge-
ment of the Law," first published in seven volumes.

The next president judge of the seventh district, John Ross, of Easton,
was appointed by Governor Findlay, January 28, 1818. He had served in the
eleventh, fourteenth and fifteenth congresses, resigning office to accept the ap-
pointment as judge. He presided for the first time over Delaware county
courts April 13, 1818, and at this session the first conviction for murder was
secured since the erection of the county twenty-nine years earlier. When the
act of 1821 divided the seventh judicial district Judge Ross continued to pre-
side over the counties of Bucks and Montgomery until April, 1830, when he
was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania.

By the act of May 21, 1821, Chester and Delaware counties became the
fifteenth judicial district, and on May 22, 1830. Governor Heister appointed
Isaac Darlington to be president judge of the new district. He first presided
at the old Chester court house. October 23, 1821, Judge Darlington had pre-
viously served two terms in the Pennsylvania legislature and one term in con-

484 DELAWARE COUNTY

gress, declining a renoniination. He made an excellent judge, serving until his
death, April 27, 1839. At the suggestion of the bars of Delaware and Chester
counties in December, 1838, Judge Darlington resigned before the constitution
of 1838 went into effect, although having two more years to serve. He was
reappointed by Governor Ritner for another full term of ten years, but Gover-
nor Porter, who was inaugurated in January, 1839, regarded this as a trick
to deprive him of the appointment. He directed Attorney General Douglass to
sue out a writ of quo warranto to test the validity of Judge Darlington's com-
mission, but, two days before the case was to be argued before the supreme
court, the judge had passed away from all scenes of contention and strife.
When his death was announced to the supreme court, Chief Justice Gibson dis-
missed the proceedings, at the same time eulogizing the character and learning
of the dead jurist.

Thomas S. Bell, appointed May 16. 1839. by Governor Porter to fill out
the unexpired term of Isaac Darlington, was president judge from May, 1839,
until August, 1846. He was a scholarly gentleman, refined in manner, and a
brilliant lawyer of the Chester county bar. He had been a member of the
constitutional convention of 1837, and in 1838 was state senator, but in Janu-
ary following was unseated. He was highly esteemed in Delaware county, and
was raised to a seat on the supreme court bench by Governor Shunk in De-
cember, 1846, his term not having expired. He was an able jurist; his opin-
ions were clear and learned, and were confidently relied on by the best lawyers
of the country.

After two appointments to fill the office of president judge made vacant
by the appointment of Judge Bell to the supreme bench, and the holding of
the March term of 1848 by Associate Judges Engle and Leiper, Governor
Shunk appointed Henry Chapman, of Doylestown, as president judge. He
presided over the last court held in the court house at Chester, May 26, 185 1,
and over the first court held in Media, November 24, 185 1, and, although of-
fered an unopposed nomination by the unanimous bar of both counties, refused
an election for the term, only serving until his successor was commissioned
in the same year.

The act of assembly which took eft'ect in 1852 made the office of president
judge elective, and, at the preceding October election, Townsend Haines, of
West Chester, was chosen as the first elected judge of the Chester, Delaware
district, known as the fifteenth judicial district. He had been a member of the
Pennsylvania House of Assembly and secretary of the commonwealth, serving
until February, 1850, when he was appointed by President Taylor treasurer of
the United States, an office he resigned when elected judge of the fifteenth dis-
trict. He first presided in Delaware county at the February term in 1852, the
county seat then being located at Media. Judge Haines had a well trained
mind, and in the writing of a charge was a paragon of caution and care, few
of his decisions ever being reversed. As a lawyer and advocate he was most
eloquent, giving to his speeches a depth of feeling most effective on jury and

DELA^^■ARE COUNTY 485

audience. He presided over the courts of Delaware county until the Novem-
ber sessions of 1861, and then declined re-election on account of his years.

At the October election of 1861, William Butler, of West Chester, was
elected president judge of the district embracing Chester and Delaware coun-
ties. He had been a successful lawyer of Chester county for sixteen years, and
in 1856 had been elected district attorney, holding that office until 1859. He
was commissioned judge November 30, 1861, presiding in Delaware county for
the first time at the Februarj- term in 1862. He was an able, upright and
learned judge, and attained high rank as a jurist. He presided at the Udder-
zook trial, which was one of the first cases in the United States where murder
was committed to secure large life insurance. Judge Butler's charge to the
jury in that case is still cited as a mode! of a clear comprehensive charge to a
jury. He was elected president judge in 1871, but. Delaware county being set
oflf in 1874 as a separate judicial district. Judge Butler presided from that date
over the Chester county courts only. On February 12, 1879, h^ ^^'^s appointed
by President Hayes judge of the United States district court for the Eastern
district of Pennsylvania, which vacancy was caused by the death of Judge
John Cadwallader. Judge Butler held his honorable position with dignity and
great credit for twenty-five years, resigning in 1904, at the age of eighty-two
years. He died in ^^■est Chester in 1908. His son, William Butler, junior, is
now a judge in Chester county.

Delaware county is now the thirty-second judicial district. The vacancy
which that change made on the bench was filled in April, 1874, by Governor
Hartranft appointing John M. Broomall president judge to serve until the fol-
lowing election and qualification of the judge, then elected.

John M. Broomall was born in Upper Chichester, Delaware count)', Janu-
ary 19, 1816. He was a highly educated man, learned in the law, of pro-
nounced literary and scientific tastes, and a strong well balanced lawyer. He
was admitted August 24. 1840. and in 1848 was appointed deputy attorney
general for Delaware county by .-Utorney General Cooper, but resigned, prose-
cuting all state cases before the courts at the November term of that year. He
was elected to the House of Representatives in 185 1 arid 1852, being appointed in
1854 a member of the State Revenue Board. He was a presidential elector on
the Republican ticket in i860, and, when Maryland was invaded in 1862, was
captain of Company C, i6th Regiment State Militia. In the elections of 1862
he was chosen to represent his district in congress, and while in office took the
field in 1863 as captain of Company C, 29th Regiment Emergency Men, serving
in the Gettysburg campaign. He followed his service in the Thirty-eighth Con-
gress by returning to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses. In 1872 he
was presidential elector, and in 1873 was a member of the constitutional con-
vention. He served under appointment as president judge of the newly cre-
ated Thirty-second judicial district ; and was nominated by the Republican
party to succeed himself, but was defeated by Thomas Gayton, running as
an independent Republican with a Democratic endorsement. Judge Broomall
died June 3. 1894.

486 DELAWARE COUNTY

Thomas J. Clayton, the first elected president judge of the Delaware
county courts, was born in Bethel. June 20. 1826. He read law in Wilmington.
and was admitted to the Delaware county bar November 24, 1851. He located
in Philadelphia, was admitted to that bar January 7, 1852, and tor twenty-four
years practiced in that city, residing, however, most of that period near Thur-
low, now a part of the city of Chester. He was an adroit politician, al-
though until his election as judge, never held an office, lie built up a strong
political machine in Delaware county that in 1874 elected him judge over the
much abler lawyer and jurist, Judge John M. Uroomall. He served a full term
of ten years, and was re-elected in 1894, when he was nearly seventy years of
age, holding until his death, January 30, 1900. He was an energetic and suc-
cessful lawyer, had a bright retentive mind, and was able as a judge.

The present judge. Isaac Johnson, was appointed in January, 1900. to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Clayton, .^t the November elec-
tion he was chosen to serve a full term of ten years and in 1910 was again
elected to the same high position. He was born in Ridley, studied law, and has
the distinction of being the only member of the Delaware county bar ad-
mitted without an examination. Judge Clayton admitted him on motion of
ex- Judge John M. Broomall, who stated that his qualifications were such as to
render examination unnecessary. He was very successful as a lawyer, a popular
orator, and as a jurist has displayed great wisdom and legal acumen. He
served as captain in the Civil War, and previous to his elevation to the bench
had for twelve years held the office of prothonotary and clerk of the courts of
Delaware county.

In IQ07 the growth of the county so increased the work of the courts that
a bill was passed by the legislature granting Delaware county an additional law
judge. On March 17. 1907, Governor Stuart appointed William B. Broomall
to that position, and at the Novemlier election of that year he was elected for
a full term of ten years.

Judge William B. Broomall, son of Judge John j\i. Broomall, was born in
Chester, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1843: was graduated from Haverford Col-
lege in 1861, and then began the study of law. In 1862 he enlisted in Com-
pany D, 124th Regiment Pennsylvania \'olunteer Infantry; was in hard active
service in the .\ntietam and Chancellorsville campaigns, and at the close of
his term of enlistment received honorable discharge. He then returned to
legal study, and in 1864 was admitted to the Delaware county bar. He rose
rapidly in his profession, appearing in almost every case of importance, and
became a recognized leader of the county bar. As a judge he has worthily up-
held the traditions f)f this one of the strongest bars in Pennsylvania.

As.^oriA! I-: jrncF.s of notf..

William Richardson Atlee was commissioned one of the justices of the
com-t of common pleas of Delaware county two days after the act of Sep-
tember 28. 1789. erecting the county, became a law. He was also appointed
the same day prothonotary and clerk of the quarter sessions and orphans'

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court. On September 4, i/gi. he was reappointed by Governor ]\Iifflin to the
office of prothonotary, and again on March 16, 1792. He was indicted for ex-
cessive fee charges, but was acquitted. He held office until April 6, 1796, and
the 26th of July folUiwing was admitted to the county bar.

Richard Hill ^lorris was commissioned October 12, 1789, having previous-
ly been a justice of quarter sessions of Chester county. George Pearce, of As-
ton, was commissioned the same day, also having been a justice in Chester
county. He held the rank of lieutenant-colonel of the Third Battalion of Mili-
tia during the Revolution. John Pearson, also commissioned on the same day,
was a resident of Darby and a Revolutionary soldier, first lieutenant of the
Pennsylvania line, promoted captain September 7, 1777, and active all through
the war.

Thomas Lewis, commissioned the same day with Justices Morris, Pearce
and Pearson, was also a Revolutionary soldier, ranking as captain. He held
many offices in Chester county, and in 1799 was commissioned lieutenant-colo-
nel of the 65th Regiment Pennsylvania Militia.

In 1791 Richard Riley was appointed associate judge. He was born in
Marcus Hook, of English parents. He was county assessor, a justice of the
county, and member of the legislature prior to his apixiintment as judge. He
was an ardent patriot during the Revolution, a member of the Chester county
committee of correspondence, delegate to the first and second Provincial con-
vention, member of the committee of safety of Chester county, and inspector
of arms. He died August 27, 1820. aged eighty-five years.

Alark Wilcox, commissioned September 17, 1791, was a son of Thomas
Wilcox, who about 1727 built on the west branch of Chester creek the second
paper mill in the United States — the Ivy Mills. Judge Wilcox was a member
of the assembly from Chester county in 1799, lieutenant-colonel of the iioth
Regiment, and for thirty years associate judge of Delaware county. He died
in 1827, aged eighty-four years.

Hugh Lloyd served as associate judge of Delaware county courts a third
of a century, the longest term in the judicial history of the county. P)orn in
1742, he took active part in the war for independence, and serving two terms
in the Pennsylvania Assembly : he was a man of usefulness, and lived to the
great age of ninety-three years.

Benjamin Brannon, of Upper Darby, was an ardent patriot, and in I77ri
was appointed to instruct the people of Chester county in the mode of making
saltpetre for the state powder mills. In 1777 he was one of the sub-lieutenants
of the county, was county commissioner in 1779; member of the Assembly
from Chester county 1782; and commissioned associate judge June 5, 1794.

John Crosby, appointed April 26, 1799. was a first lieutenant of the First
Battalion Pennsylvania Militia, saw service, was captured at his home in Ridley,
taken to New York, and confined on the British ship "Falmouth." He served
as associate judge until 1826.

William .Anderson, a A'irginian, joined the Continental army when fif-
teen vears of age: was present at the siege of Yorktown and witnessed the

488 DELAWARE COUNTY

surrender of Cornwallis. He settled in Chester, and in ijyO purchased the
Columbia House. He was a member of the Eleventh, Twelfth and Fifteenth
Congresses ; made the address to Lafayette in response to the sentiment, "The
Nation's Guest," in the State House at Philadelphia, September 29, 1824. He
resigned as associate judge to accept a position in the Philadelphia custom
house. He held the military rank of major, and died December 16, 1829,
aged sixty-seven years.

Joseph Engle, born 1770, was thirty-six years of age before attaining any
office of prominence in the county. In 1806 he was appointed commissioner,
and on May 24, 1809, was commissioned prothonotary, recorder, register and
clerk of the courts, commissioned January 14, 1812, and again December 20.
18 14. He was well acquainted with judicial procedure from his years of ex-
perience with the courts, and frequently during Judge Darlington's term
as president judge, was obliged to preside, charging the grand jury and trying
cases. Associate Judge Engle died October 18, 1857, in his eighty-eighth
year.

Henry Myers was prothonotary, recorder, register and clerk of Delaware
county courts for three terms prior to being commissioned associate judge, De-
cember 27, 1833. In 1826 he was elected state senator, serving four years,
retiring from ])ublic life at the expiration of his term. He left his home on
February 23, 1855, a bitter cold day, and was found frozen near Cobb's Creek
the following day.

Dr. George Smith, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, 1820,
practiced in Darby five years, then coming into a fortune he retired from his
profession. From 1832 to 1836 he was state senator, and as chairman of the
committee on education drafted a bill in the interest of the public schools, the
first practical enactment respecting free public education secured in the state.
Governor Ritner appointed Dr. Smith associate judge of Delaware countv in
1836, and in 1840 he was elected for a second term. He was superintendent
of public instruction in the county for several years, and president of the
school board for Upper Darby. In September, 1833. with four others, he
founded the Delaware County Institute of Science, and for nearly fifty years
he was its president. In 1862 he published his "History of Delaware County,"
a much quoted authority on history of the county. He died February 24, 1884,
full of years and honors.

George Gray Leiper was appointed associate judge by Governor Porter.
He was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, 1803. at the age of
seventeen years, and settled after his marriage on the Leiper estate in Ridley
township. In 181 1 he established the first Sunday school in the county. He
served in llic war of i8ij as lieutenant of the Delaware County Fencibles.
In 1818 he built at his own expense the Ridley Presbyterian Church. In 1822-
1823 he was a member of the legislature, and so strongly urged state aid for
the maintenance of the Deaf and Dumb .\sylum in Philadelphia that he was
chosen a director of that institution, continuing as such until his death. In
1828 he was elcclecl a memlu'r of the Twentv-first ('nnoress. but decliniti"' a

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489

renomination. In 1843 he was appointed associate judge, continuing on tlie
bench until the office was made elective. He died November 18, 1868, in his
eighty-third year.

James Andrews and Sketchley Morton were the first two associate judges
of Delaware county elected by the people. They were elected November 10,
1851, Judge Andrew being re-elected in 1856; and in 1861, at the expiration of
his term, being then seventy years of age, he retired. Judge Morton served
but one term, and was more the merchant than the public man, although he
served a term in the legislature. He was president of the Delaware County
Mutual Insurance Company from 1852 until October, 1878, when he resigned.
He died February 9, 1878, aged sixty-seven years.

Frederick J. Hinkson Sr. was elected in 1856. He was born Novem-
ber 8, 1803, in Upper Providence, and learned the tailor's trade, obtaining lat-
er an education, and taught school. He entered the employ of the Bank of
Delaware County in Chester, 1828, and as clerk, cashier and president was con-
nected with that institution until 1864, when he resigned. He was for twenty
years treasurer of the borough of Chester, was trea.surer of the first building
and loan association in the borough, and held many offices of trust. He re-
signed his office of associate judge before his term expired.

THE BAR.

Beginning with William Tilghman. who moved his own admission to the
bar of Delaware county, the opening day of the first court ever held in Dela-
ware county, the following is a list of the attorneys of Delaware county, with
the date of their admission :

William Tilghman
William Blair
Joseph Thomas
Thomas Ross
William Graham
Benjamin Morgan
Anthony Morris
John Todd
Alexander Wilcox
Wm. Bradford, Jr.
Jacob Bankson
Elisha Price
Robert Porter
Thomas B. Dick
Moses Levy
William Rawle
Benjamin Morgan
Anthony Morris
Sampson Levy
Matthias Baldwin
J. D. Sergeant
•George Campbell
John Thompson

November 9, 1789
9, 1789
9, 1789
9, 1789
9, 1789
9. 1789
1789
1789
February 9, 1790
9, 1790
9, 1790
9, 1790
9, 1790
" 9, 1790
9, 1790
9, 1790
9, 1790
9, 1790
May II. 1790
" II, 1790
November 9. 1790
9. 1790
9. 1790

Nicholas Diehl
Robert H. Dunkin
John C. Willis
Isaac Telfall
Seth Chapman
Thomas Armstrong
Robert Fraser
John Ross

Thomas W. Tallman
John D. Cox
Joseph Hemphill
John Horn
Caleb Pierce
William Sergeant
James Hunter
David Moore
William Martin
William R. Atlee
Michael Kepple
Alex. James Dallas
Bird Wilson
William Ewing
W. L. Hannum

May ID, 1791

" 10, 1791

" 10, 1791
August 10, 1791
November 9, 1791
December 2, 1791
July 30, 1792

" 31. 1792
January 3,' 1793
April 30, 1793
October 1793
January 29. 179S
29, I79S
April 27. 1795
October 1795
January 23, 1796
April 1796
July 26, 1796

" 26, 1796
November i. 1796
April 7, 1797
October 30, 1797
April 1798

-!90

DELAWARE COUNTY

Joseph Reed
Jonathan T. Haight
Charles Chauncey
John Sergeant
John Taylor
William Hemphill
Xich. G. Williamson
Jonathan W. Condey
Rich. Peters, junior
Richard Rush
John Evving, junior
W. Robinson, junior
Isaac Darlington
Thomas Bradford
James D. Barnard
Peter Arrell Brown
Charles F. Frazer
Charles Kissellman
Rich. Bache. junior
Samuel Edwards
Joseph Barnes
Benjamin Shober
Jno. Edwards, junior
B. Newcomb, junior
William H. Todd
Thomas R. Ross
Ziba Pyle
Samuel H. Jacobs
Jonathan Dunker
Edward IngersoU
Randall Hutchinson
Thos. D. Anderson
Clymer Ross
Charles Harland
James M. Porter
Michael W. Ash
Charles J. Cox
Charles Catlin
William Bowen
Wm. A. Dillingham
Thos. F. Pheasants
James Henderson
Jonathan Hampden
John Kerlin
Robert H. Smith
Benjamin Chew
Isaac D. Barnard
Archibald T. Dick
Samuel I. Withy
Matthias R. Sayres
Henry C. Byrne
Edward D. Cox
Thomas Kitters
Henry G. Freeman

May 2, 1798
January 28, 1799
28, 1799
July 30, 1799
April 1800
July 1800
January 1801
April 1801
■' 1801
■' 1801
July 20, 1801

" 25, 1802

" 25, 1802
April 30, 1804
May I. 1804
October 30, 1804
30, 1804
May I, 1805
April 30, 1805
October 23, 1806
January 21, 1807
October ig. 1807

19, 1807
April 17, 1809

17. 1809
July 17. 1809
January 21. 1811
July 24, 181 I
January 20, 1812
" 20. 1812
" 23. 1812
April 13. 1812
" 13. 1812
July 26, 1813
" 26, 18 1 3
" 26, 1813
January 17. 1814
April 12, 1814
" 12, 1814
" 12, 1814
July 28, 1814
" 28. T814
" 28. 1814
January 16. 1815
April 10, 1815
January 16, 1816
16. 1816
April 8, 1816
July 22, 1816
August 26, 1816
October 22, 1816
January 20, 1817

20, iSt7

Matthew Morris
John Kentzing Kane
James C. Biddle
Samuel Rush
Charles Sidney Cox
John J. Richards
Joseph P. Norburry
Nathan R. Potts
David Paul Brown
Wm. Wilnior, junior
John Duer
Arthur Middleton
Richard C. Wood
Robert R. Beale
William Williamson
Edward Darlington
William Martin
Aquilla A. Brown
John P. Owens
John M. Reed
William S. Haines
Thomas S. Bell
Thomas F. Gordon
Bond Valentine
Edward Richards
Thomas A. Budd
A. Marshall, junior
Thomas Dunlap
Francis E. Brewster
Nathaniel Vernon
William Kimber
John P. Griffiths
Mordecai Taylor
Daniel Buckwalter
John S. Newbold
William Darlington
Samuel Chew
H. H. Van Aminge
William T. Smith
Lewis G. Pierce
John Cadwalader
Joseph J. Lewis
Joseph S. Cohen
John K. Zeilin
Owen Stoever
David H. Hoope
F. A. Reybold
John W. .^shmead
John H. Bradley
William C. Brown
David J. Desmond
James A. Donath
Levi Hollingsworth
Robert E. Hannum

April 14, 1817
" 14. 1817
•' 14. 1817
October 19, 1818
19, 1818
January 19, iSiP'
July 16, 1819
" 16, 1819
" 16, 1819
" 16, 1819
August 18, 1819
18, 1819
18. 1819
October 17, 1820
January 17, 1821
April 9, 182 1
April 27, 1821
January 21. 1822
April 8, 1822
June ig, 1822
July 22, 1822
April 14. 1823
" 14. 1S23
" 14. 1823
July 28, 1823
" 28, 1823
" 28, 1823
October 23, 1823
23, 1823
April 13, 1824
13. 1825
13. 1825
July 27, 1825
January 26. 1826
" ' 26, 1826
July 24, 1S26
" 24, 1826
" 24, 1826
" 24, 1826
" 24, 1826
January 16. 1827
April 9, 1827
" 9, 1827
August 10, 1827
October 15. 1827
" 16. 1827
January 22, 1828
April 14. 1828
October 20, 1828
20, 1828
January 22, 1829
.\pril 15, 1829
15, 1829
July 27, 1829

DELAWARE COUNTY

491'

P. Frazer Smith
John C. Daniel
Peter Hill Engle
Andrew T. Smith
John C. Nipper
George L. Ashmead
Charles C. Rawn
John Rntter
Thomas W. Morris
Robert R. Dodson
Thomas R. Newbold
John Swift
David H. Mulvany
J. Hemphill, jnnior
Horatio Hubbell
Samuel F. Reed
Daniel McLaughlin
Joseph Williams
Horatio G. Worrall
Wm. M. Tilghman
James Hanna
Wm. H. Keating
Wm. M. Meredith
Henry J. Williams
John Freedley
Thomas M. Jolly
John B. Sterigere
•William E. Wliitman
John D. Pierce
Saunder Lewis
Frederick E. Hayes
Elihue D. Farr
John M. Broomall
\J. V. Pennypacker
Christopher Fallon
B. Franklin Pyle
Charles B. Heacock
Isaac S. Serrill
Addison May
Garrick Mallery
Paul Beck Carter
William D. Kelley
James Mason
Lewis Allain Scott
Mortimer R. Talbot
William P. Foulke
John M. Simmes
Ben. C. Tilghman
Henry Chester
Wm. R. Dickerson
Matthew A. Sanley
John Smith Futhey
Edward Hopper
Samuel Hood

November 22. 1829
January 18, 1830
April 13, 1830
■■ 14. 1830
March 2, 1831
April II, 1831
November 28, 1831
28, 1831
30. 1831
November 27, 1832
August 27, 1832
April 22, 1833
February 25, 1834
May 30, 1834
August 23, 1835
November 24, 1835
August 22. 1836
" 27, 1836
February 27, 1837
•' ' 28, 1837
May 22, 1837
August 28, 1837
" 28, 1837
" 28, 1837
30. 1837
30, 1837
June 4, 1838
" 7, 1838
November 27, 1838
27, 1838
May 25, 1840
" 26. 1840
August 24, 1840
" 26. 1840
November 24. 1840
August 23, 1841

24, 1841

25, 1841
November 25, 1841

25, 1841
May 23, 1842
" 23, 1842
August 23, 1842
November 30, 1842
30, 1842
May 22, 1843
" 22, 1843
" 22, 1843
" 27, 1843
August 28, 1843
November 27, 1843
27. 1843
.30. 1843
March i. 1844

Thos. H. Speakman
Jesse M. Griffith
Ashbel Green
Constant Guillou
Robert Frazer
Wm. W. Hubbel
R. Rundel Smith
James B. Everhart
Joseph P. Wilson
Samuel B. Thomas
John A. Gilmore
Nathaniel B. Brown
R. C. McMurtrie
William F. Boon
Robert M. Lea
Nathaniel B. Holland
Marshall Sprogell
Samuel A. Black
Robert McCay
George Palmer
Wash. Townsend
James H. Hackleton
Henry B. Edwards
George W. Ormsby
John Banks
Joseph R. Morris
William Butler
Gilbert R. Fox
Henry Freedley
Enoch Taylor
Harlan Ingram
Thomas H. Maddock
Charles D. Manley
Ezra Levis
Paschall Woodward
Wm. Hollingshead
John Markland
Robert Alsop
John F. Roberts
Thomas Greenback
Jesse Bishop
John H. Robb
John Titus
Joseph R. Dickinson
Thomas Leiper
George Norton
Thomas J. Clayton
Francis Darlington
James M. Goodman
William B, Waddell
Benjamin A. Mitchell
A. Lewis Smith
Edward Olmstead
J, Williams Biddle

August 20, 1844
November 5, 1845
February 24. 1845
24, 1845

24. 1845
May 6. 1845
August 25, 1845

25, 1845
November 24, 1845.
February 26, 1846
26, 1846
May 25, 1846
" 25, 1846
•' 25, 1846
August 24, 1846
24, 1846
24, 1846
November 23. 1846'
February 22, 1847
22, 1847
August 23. 1847
23, 1847
November 22, 1847
February 27, 1848
May 22, 1848
August 28, 1848
28, 1848
28, 1848
28, 1848
28, 1848
November 27, 1848
27. 1848
February 26. 1849
May 28. 1849
" 28, 1849
" 28, 1849
August 27. 1849
February 25. 1849

25. 1849
May 27. 1850

" 27, 1850

" 27, 18.50
August 26. 1850
November 25, 1850
May 26. 1S51

" 28, 185 1
November 24, 1851
February 23. 1852

26. 1852
May 24, 1852
August 23, 1852
October 15, 1853
March 6. 1854

6, T854

492

DELAWARE COUNTY

William Vodges
Robert S. Paschall
Edward A. Price
George E. Darlington
William Nicholson
Robert D. Clialfant
John W. Stokes
James Otterson
Andrew Zane
Peter Wychoff
John Hibberd
Samuel Simpson
M. J. Mitcheson
Francis C. Hooton
Aaron Thompson
John K. Valentine
Jacob F. Brynes
John P. O'Neal
William Ward
Joseph R. T. Coates
O. Flagg Billiard
Frank M. Brooke
H. Ryland Warriner
John S. Newlin
Richard P. White
Nathan S. Sharpless
John C. Laycock
J. Alex. Simpson
John H. Brinton
John Eyre Shaw
A. V. Parsons
T, Passmore Hanbest
William T. Haines
David M. Johnson
M. J. Micheson
William O'Neill
James Doyle
Wayne McVeagh
John B, Hinkson
James Barton, Junior
James H. Lytle
William B, Broomall
John Dolman
John O'Bryne
William H. Sutton
George F. Smith
Eldridgc McKonkey
T. H. Oelschlager
William F. Johnson
William M. Bull
Jesse Cox, Jimior
William H. Yerkes
J. Howard Gendell
Ceorge Hasty

May 22, 1854

■■ 24, 1854
February 25, 1856
May 26, 1856
June 6, 1856

" 6, 1856
November 24, 1856
August 24, 1857
February 22, 1857
May 24, 1857

" 24, 1857

" 24, 1857
August 28, 1857
November 23, 1857
May 2j, 1859
23, 1859
23, 1859
23, 1859
August 22, 1859
22, 1859
" 22, 1859
October 17, 1859
December 29, 1859
June 4, i860
August 25, i860
September 3. i860
October 15, i860
November 26, i860
27, i860
January 25. 1861
September 21, 1861
September 21, 1861
March 30, 1862
June 21. 1862
August 27, 1862
November 26. 1862
November 26. 1862
May 26. 1863
August 24, 1863
November 23, 1863
December 28, 1863
February 24, 1864
July II, 1864
November 28, 1864
February 27. 1865
August 30, 1865
November 27. 1865
May 28. 1866

" 28. 1866

" 28, 1866
August 27. 1866

" 27. 1866

March 2, 1867

2. 1867

William F. Judson
Wencel Hartman
George M. Pardoe
A. S. Letchwnrth
James Parsons
A. P. Reid
John C. Bullitt
Alex. Reed
Wm. H. Dickinson
Orlando Harvey
James Ross Snowden
Geo. H. Armstrong
Thomas J. Diehl
William J. Harvey
Henry C. Howard
P. M. Washabaugh
Charles Eyre
Christian Kneass
W. W. Montgomery
W. W. Wistar
Samuel Emlen
W. McGeorge. Junior
Edward C. Diehl
J. L. Farren
Rees Davis
Morton P. Henry
Carroll S. Tyson
V. Gilpin Robinson
Tames O. Bowman
James V- McGinn
Wesley Talbot
Abram H. Jones
John B. Thayer
John R. Reed
George M. Rupert
Paul M. Elsasser
J. V. McGeoghegan
I. Newton Brown
Edward H. Hall
David F. Rose
George M. Booth
H A, L. Pyle
Hutchinson Sprogel
C. W. Beresford
Thomas H. Foreman
William H. Caley
Henry G. Ashmead
George B. Lindsay
Wilbur F. Calloway
Theo. F. Jenkins
S. Davis Page
William McMichael
R. Jones Monaghan
Joseph F. Perdue

May 27, 1867
February 25, 1868
March 24, 1868
September 28, 1868
28, 1868
28, 1868
28, 1868
28, 1868
November 8, 1868
25, 1868
February 22, 1869
22, 1869

22. 1869
.September 27. 1869
November 23, i86g

23, 1869
" 24, 1869

February 28, 1870
March 2, 1870
2, 1870
November 28, 1870
February 27, 1871
May 25, 1871
February 29, 1872
March 4, 1872
" 26, 1872
" 26, 1872
August 26, 1872

" 29, 1872

September 21, 1872

November 25. 1872

25, 1872

" 25, 1872

December 23. 1872

" 23. 1S72

June 23, 1873

August 24, 1873

November 24. 1873

24. 1873
February 23, 1874
June 1874
August 27, 1874
September 28. 1874
October 26. 1874
November 24. 1874
February 23. 1S75

23, 1S75
23. 1875

March 22. 1875
22, 1875
22. 1875
22. 1875

June 29, 1R75

DELAWARE COUNTY

493-

George W. Bliss
John T. Reynolds
Walter S. Pearce
John V. Rice
Alfred Driver
Alfred Tyson
Henry M. Fiissell
James McKenlay
A. S. Biddle
A. C. Fulton
D. Smith Talbot
Joseph W. Barnard
John F. Yonng
Weldon B. Heyburn
Wm. M. Thompson
Harry L. Kingston
H. Pleasants, Junior
Henry C. Townsend
William B. Huston
John B. Hannum
William S. Windle
Benjamin F. Fisher
Albert T. Goldbeck
F. C. Cleenann
J. B. Dickeson
J. M. Broomall, Ju'r
Benjamin L. Temple
Edmund Jones
Townsend E. Levis
Patrick Bradley
William S. Sykes
J. N. Shanafelt
S. Grafton Davis
John A. Groff
Truxton Beale
Rowland Evans
Charles A. Logan
David Garrett
Oliver B. Dickinson
Ward R. Bliss
George T. Bispham
Oliver C. McClure
Wm. E. Littleton
Curtis H. Hannum
Edward C. Quinn
Horace P. Green
Garrett Pendleton
W. Ross Brown
Edward H. Weil
Abraham Wanger
Nelson H. Strong
Joseph M. Pyle
H. F. Fairlamb

September 20, 1875

22, 187s

November i, 1875

December 13, 1875

13. 187s
January 3, 1876
" 17, 1876
June 8, 1876
■■ 13, 1876
September 19, 1876
" 19, 1876

October 9, 1876
9, 1876
November 6, 1876
6, -1876
December 7, 1877
January 8, 1877
8. 1877
February 5, 1877

s. 1877

March 5, 1877
" 12, 1877
" 12, 1877
April 12, 1877
June 4, 1877
September 17, 1877
20, 1877
December 3. 1877
March 4, 1878
April 7, 187S
" 7. 1878
March 6, 1878
June 3, 1878
6, 1878
September 16, 1878
29. 1878
October 14, 1878
December 2, 1878
3. 1878

3. 1878
February 3, 1879
March 5, 1879

" 14. 1879
June 3. 1879

" 9. 1879

" 9, 1879
July 7, 1879

" 7, 1879
September 22, 1879
November 3, 1879
December 3. 1879

4. 1879
June 16. 1880

James S. Cummins
Jesse M. Baker
William A. Porter
Henry J. McCarthy
E. Wilson, Junior
Edward W. Magill
John B. Booth
Samuel S. Corning
Benjamin H. Lehman
David W. Sellers
John B Robinson
William Herbert
A. Gordon Bromley
Garrett E. Smedley
George C. Johnson
Edward S. Campbell
Henry L. Broomall
Harwell A. Cloud
Isaac Chism
Joseph L. Caven
Alfred F. Curtis
John W. Shortlidge
William W. Lamborn
Joseph T. Bunting
William B. Thomas
Isaac Johnson
Wm. A. Manderson
Edmund Randall
Damon Y. Kilgore
(Mrs.) C. B. Kilgore
Samuel Lyons
Wm. L. Mattheus
W. C. Stoever
Henry S. Calloway
Ale.x. Simpson, Jr.
Jolin J. Pinkerton
Oliver Troth
Wm. H- Harrison
Henry R. Major
Adolph Myer
Thomas B. Reeves
Samuel U. Ward
Joseph H. Hinkson
George H. Morris
Lewis L. Smith
H. Hathaway, junior
Samuel A. Price
Thomas J. Hunt
A. A. Cochran
Horace L. Cheyney
John Lentz Garrett
Henry W. Smith
Horace Haverstick
W. R. Fronefield

September 20, 1880
" 22, 1880

25, 1880
2, 1880
27, i8,So
27, 1880
December 6, 1880
6, 1880
6, 1880
21, 1880
March 7, 1881
" 14, 1881
" 14, 1881
September 22, 1881
December 8, 1881
20, 1881
February 6, 1882
6, 1882
16. 1882
March 4. 1882
June 5, 1882
November 6, 1882
December 19, 1882
April 2, 1883
September 24, 1883
December 17, 1883
March 17. 1884
April 7, 1SS4
" 7, 1884
June 2, 1S84
June 2, 1884
Nov. 10, 1884
January 5, 1885
February 2, 1885
" ' 2, 1885
March 16, 1885
December 20, 1885
February I, 1886
I, 1886
March 8, 1886
" IS, 1886
April 5. 1886
June 15. 1886
December 13, 1886
June 15. 1886
January 3, 1887
March 7, 1887
June 6. 1887
May 2, 1887
June 13, 1887
" 13. 1887
July 5. 1887
September 19. 1887
19. 1887

494

DELAWARE COUNTY

Eugene S. Daley
Benj. C. Potts

D. Stuart Robinson
Samuol L. Clayton
William I. Schaffer
William L. Delahunt
J. Hazleton Mirkil

A. J. Wilkinson
James W. Mercur
Frank B. Rhodes
Charles Palmer
Joseph M. Dohan
Frank R. Savidge
Isaac Elwell

E. G. Hamersley
Robert J. Williams
T. L. Vanderslice
Milton C. Work
Wm. H. Ridley
Edward P. Bliss
Charles I. Cronin
C. D. M. Broomall
J. Russell Hayes
C. Percy Wilcox
S. H. Kirkpatrick
Josiah Smith

W. A. Shoemaker
William B. Harvey
John C. Hinkson
Henry V. Massey
Morton J. Paul
C. Y. Audenreid
George T. Butler
George K. Cross
Conrad C. Wilfred
T. Speer Dickson
George Vaux. Jr.
Henry Ashton Little
James Henry Scott
Francis G. Taylor
Louis S. Hough
Louis T. Finnegan
Albert D. MacDade
Alexander B. Geary
J. Henry Mclntyre
Benjamin C. Fox
George J. Parker
William S. Ellis
John E. McDonough
William T. Brennan
Edwin A. Howell
John R. Valentine
Walter Washabaugh
John S. Freeman

October lo, 1887
November 9, 1887
December 19, 1887
February 13, 1888
13. 1888
March 5. 1888
April 2, 1888
December 17, 1888
March 25, 1889
December 2, 1889
April 7, 1890
May 5. 1890
5. 1890
June 2, 1890
November 3, 1890
November 3, 1890
10. 1890
January 12, 1891
March 23, 1891
May 5, 1891
July 6, 1891
September 21, 1891
June 7, 1892
September 26, 1892
October 12, 1892
December 22, 1892

22, 1892
March 6, 1893
May I, 1893
June 19, 1893

" 19. 1893

" 19. 1893
July 3, 1893
October 9, 1893
December 4, 1893
4. 1893
4. 1893
January 3, 1894
March S, 1894
May 7, 1894
September 3, 1894
17. 1894
17, 1894
December 3. 1894
February 4. 1895
March 5, 1895
" 25. 189s
May 6, 1895
June 3, iSq?
March 2, 1896

" 9, 1896

" 2, 1896
May 4, 1896

" 4. 1896

Charles D. White
Albert J. Williams
Jesse M. Johnson
Wm. C. .\lexandL-r
H. J. Makiver
William C. Lees
Frank Marion Cody
Edwin P. Hannum
William B. Knowles
D. yi. Johnson, Jr.
Frank G. Perrin
Charles B. Galloway
James H. Osborne
Eleanor J. Wilson
Carolus E. Hough
Frederick T. Pusey
Isaac E. Johnson
Cypriana Andrade
F. F. Eastlack, Jr.
K. Montgomery
George B. Harvey
J. M. (3) Broomall
Joshua C. Taylor
John McConaghy
Harry Schalcher
Isaac D. Yocum
Stephen E. Taylor
Thomas S. Williams
B. Frank Fenton
Henry W. Jones
J. R. Robinson
James B. Robertson
John De H. White
J. B. Hannum. Jr.
Edward J. Mingey
Frances ."Xnne Keay
Frank S. Morris
Wm. Taylor
John A. Poulson
Wm. B. Northam
Theo. J. Grayson
A. S. Longbottom
Joseph Hill Brinton
George W. Carr
Charles F. Da Costa
A. Culver Boyd
John Booth Miller
Morton A. Cooper
Samuel W. Mifflin
J. De H. Ledward
Ernest LeRoy Green
Matthew Randall
Boyd C. Barrington
Robert Oglesby

September 21, 1896
December 7, 1896
March I. 1897
■■ 2. 1897
.Vpril 5. 1897
June 7, 1897
■■ 7, 1898
July 6, 1897
September 20. 1897
March 7, 1897

" 7, 1897
June 6. 1898
September 19, 1898
19, 1898
December 5, 1898
5, 1898
5. 1898
S. 1898
May I, 1899
" I. 1899
March 6. 1899
June 26, 1899
December 4, 1897
.-^pril 7, 1900
November 12, 1900
April 2, 1900
January 8, 1901
January 14, igoi
December 30, 1901

20, 1901
March 11, 1902
April 14, 1902
March 25, 1902
June 16, 1902
December 2. 1902
" 4. 1902

" 29. 1902
" 29, 1902
" 30. 1902
" 30. 1902
" 30. 1902
July 20, 1903
March 7, 1904
7, 1904
7. 1904
" 28. 1904
28. 1904
September 19. 1904
December 5. 1904
September r8, 1905
October 4, 1905
November 15, 1905
27, 190S
March 20. 1906

DELAWARE COUNTY

495

Walter S. Mertz
D. Reese Esrey
J. J. Pinkerton
C. H. Pennypacker
F. A. Moorehead
Edwin S. Dixon
W. F. McClenachan
F. B. Calvert
Albert N. Garrett
Samuel P. Hansom
T. O. Haydock, Jr.
Albert E. Holl

September 17, 1906
October 22, 1906
March 17, 1908
" 31, 1908
June I, 1908
August 5, 1908
September 30, 1908
February 27, 1909
27, 1909
" 27, 1909
March 20, 1909
" 20, 1909

James F. Casey
John J. Stetson
John J. McCann
Elvvood J. Turner
E. C. Bonniwell
E. W. Chadwick
Howard E. Hannum
Harwell B. Button
Walter R. White
Howard W. Lutz
James L. Rankin
E. E. West

December 6, 1909

II, 1909
October I, 1910
December 10, 1910
March 13, 191 1
June 6, 1911
June 6, 1911
December 9, 1911

" II, 1911
March \2, 1913

" 10, 1913

EMINENT LAWYERS.

While the Delaware bar has always ranked among the l>est in the state,
there are several members who have so far outranked their contemporaries as
to be worthy of special mention. Among the earliest of these notables was
William Graham, fifth of the group admitted on the first day of court. He was
the only son of Judge Graham; was chief burgess of Chester in 1794, and
commanded a troop of cavalry from Delaware county during the "Whiskey
Insurrection." For many years prior to his death, December 19, 1821, he was
unable to speak in public through loss of voice from exposure.

Thomas Brinton Dick was admitted January 9, 1790. He was an espec-
ially strong character, and ranked as one of the ablest advocates of his time.
He lost his life in a blinding snow storm, April 21, 181 1, while out shooting
•ducks from a skiff on the Delaware.

Robert Frazer, of Thornbury, was admitted July 30, 1792. He was the
father of the plan to remove the county seat from Chester to Media, he pre-
paring the petition to the legislature in 1820, praying for the removal to a more
central location.

William Martin, although a native of Philadelphia, moved to Chester at
an early age. He was both physician and lawyer, admitted April, 1796. He
was chief burgess of Chester in 1789. and in April made the address of wel-
come to Washington, who stopped there when on his way to New York to be
inaugtirated as the first president of the United States. Mr. Martin died Sep-
tember 22, 1798, a victim of yellow fever.

Samuel Edwards, born in Chester township, March 12, 1785, died No-
vember 25, 1850, admitted April 30, 1806. He was a member of the assembly
in 1814 and 1816, and a member of the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Congresses,
and with George C. and Samuel Leiper, Levi Reynolds and James P.uchanan,
was credited with the control of political affairs in Eastern Pennsylvania un-
der Presidents Jackson and Van Buren administrations.

John Edwards. Junior, was born at the Black Horse Tavern. July 15,
1786, died October, 1846. He was admitted 'October 19, 1807: was deputy
attorney general for the county in 181 1 and in 1S24: was of counsel for Well-
ington for murder of Bonsall. He owned rolling mills, and was largely inter-

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ested in the iron business. He was elected to congress in 1838 and served two
terms. He died in October, 1845, aged fifty-nine years.

Thomas Dixon Anderson, only son of Major and Judge William Ander-
son, moved to Tennessee, where he became attorney general of that state.
Later he was United States consul at Tunis and Tripoli for several years.

John Kerlin was the fourth president of the Bank of Delaware County.
In 1824 he began four )ears service as state senator, and in 1828 was again
elected for a like period. He died in Philadelphia, May 21, 1847, aged fifty-
four years.

Isaac D. Barnard became clerk in the prothonotary's office when a boy of
thirteen years, serving two years at Chester and a like period in the office of
the prothonotary of Philadelphia county. He was a gallant officer of the war
of 1812, captain of a company in the Fourteenth Regiment United States Cav-
alry; he was promoted major for gallant conduct at Fort George, and at
Plattsburg commanded the regiment, all his superior officers having fallen. He
had a large practice, but gave up a great deal of his time to the public service.
He was state senator in 1824-26; was appointed secretary of its common-
wealth, and in the same year, 1826. was elected United States senator, serving
until 1831, when he resigned, broken in health. He died February 18, 1834.

John K. Zeilin was deputy prothonotary and clerk of courts under Henry
Myers. He read law with Edward Darlington, and seems to have been more
prominent in military and public life than in the law. He held many offices,
both state and federal, and was colonel of the Forty-seventh Regiment Penn-
sylvania Militia, and offered his regiment for service in the Mexican war. He
di(d in I^hiladelphia, August 6, 1876, in his seventy-third year.

Samuel Baldwin Thomas practiced in Philadelphia, but located in Media
in 1857. He was deputy secretary of the commonwealth, and in 1863 was at
the head of the military department of the state, ranking as colonel. After the
war he was commissioner of the revenue board, and later commissioner in
bankruptcy.

Edward Darlington in 1824 was deputy attorney general for Delaware
county; was elected by the Whigs to the Twenty-third Congress by the Anti-
Masons, to the Twenty-fourth, and again by the Whigs to the Twenty-fifth. In
1851 he was elected district attorney, ^ml was the first president of the Deia-
w.are County Bar Association. He died in Media, November 21, 1884, in his
ninetieth year.

Abraham Lewis Smith has been a mitable figure for over fifty years. He
was born in Upper Darby township, November 12, 1831, son of Dr. George
and Mary (Lewis) Smith. He was graduated A. B. from the University of
Pennsylvania, 1850, and received his A. M. in course; entered the law depart-
ment of the University and was graduated LL.B., 1853, and admitted to the bar
the same year. He has been in active practice over fifty years and has covered
a wide range of practice. In his knowledge of the law of real estate, probably
no member of the bar is his ec|ual. From 1858 to 1883 he was secretary of
the West Chester & Philadeljjhia Railroad Company ; was one of the founders

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and the first president of the West End Trust Company, organized in 1891, and
is still a member of the board of directors and of the finance committee. He
has been president of the Delaware County Historical Society since its organ-
ization; is a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Sons of the
Revolution ; Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, the Genealogical Society ; and
the Delaware County Institute of Science. At the University of Pennsylvania
he belonged to the Philomathean Society, later to the Phi Beta Kappa. No
member of the bar is held in deeper respect, nor is there one more deserving.
No one ever saw him show a trace of anger, and his presence at a trial insures
confidence. He resides in Media. On October 15, 1903, the bar of Delaware
county gave him a complimentary dinner and reception in commemoration of
the fiftieth anniversary of his admission to that bar. Thirty-five members of
the bar attended the dinner, which was given in the Flemish room of the Un-
ion League at Philadelphia.

On May 26, 1906, George E. Darlington, another veteran, was tendered a
picnic and reception at the club house of the Rose Tree Hunt, in Upper Provi-
dence, the occasion being the fiftieth anniversary of his admission to the bar.
Mr. Darlington was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, in August, 1832, and was
educated in the public and private schools. He studied law under his father,
Edward Darlington, in Media, and was admitted in 1856. He enlisted during
the civil war, attaining a rank of first sergeant in actual service. In 1889 he
was elected district attorney, and held many positions of honor and trust, both
professional and practical. He has been a member of the Masonic order since
1864, and has filled well every position to which he has been ca)led. For thirty
years he was an enthusiastic fox hunter and rode with the hounds. In 1890
he toured Europe, and although now past eighty years has a well preserved
body and continues in active practice.

William Ward, a graduate of Girard College, read law with John M.
Broomall ; he was admitted in 1859, and became his preceptor's partner ; later
was with his son, W. B. Broomall, as Ward & Broomall. He was president of
council and city solicitor of Chester ; member of the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth
and Forty-seventh Congresses, and a most able skillful lawyer. He died Feb-
ruary 27, 1895.

Ward R. Bliss was the compiler of "A Digest of the Special Laws of Del-
aware County," and very prominent politically. He was a member of the state
legislature from 1888 to 1902, chairman of the committee on appropriations,
and died while in office.

John B. Hinkson was a lawyer of the highest class. In 1893 he was
elected mayor of Chester. On April 28, 1890, he was admitted to practice be-
fore the supreme court of the United States, on motion of then Solicitor Gen-
eral Taft, later President of the United States, 1909 to 1913. Mr. Hinkson
died May 22, 1901.

The present bar, as composed, is an able body of lawyers that maintain
the high standard always characteristic of the Delaware bar. Many of them
are holding important positions in state and in nation, and all are men of high
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character and praiseworthy anihition. Under the changed cduiHtions, recogni-
tion is not easily obtained and the fight for honors not easy to win, yet the ethics
of the profession are rigidly observed, the older members honored and de-
ferred to, the young members encouraged and helped. The Law Library
Association was formed by members of the bar December 4, 1871, and
May 30, 1872, incorporated with John M. Broomall as the first president and
Charles D. Manley as the first secretary.

List of Deputy Attorneys General from the erection of Delaware county
until the office was abolished by the act of May i, 1850, which act also pro-
vided that district attorneys, "learned in the law, should be elected in each
county to serve a term of three years," is given below :

February session
August "

October "

January "
October "
January
April
January

April
January
April
January

1790 Thomas Ross

1790 Joseph Thomas

1791 " "

1795 William Sergeant

1796 Thomas Ross

1797 William Sergeant
1799 Thomas Ross

1799 Richard Bache. ]\\

181 1 John Edwards

18 1 2 Edward Ingersoll

1813 Benj. Tilghman

1813 Edward Ingersoll

1814 John Edwards
1814 Edward Ingersoll
181=; Robert H. Smith

.-^pril session

January "
October

January "

April "

August "

March "

February "

November "

February "

Mav

1815 W. H. Darlington

1817 Henry G. Freeman

1818 Samuel Rush
1821 Archibald T. Dick
1824 Edward Darlington
18,10 John Zeilin

1833 Robert E. Hannum

1836 John P. Griffith

1839 P. Frazer Smith

1845 Robert Frazer

1845 Joseph J. Lewis

1848 J. M. Broomall

1850 Charles D. Manley
1850 T. H. Speakman

List of District .Attorneys and date of election from 1850. when the office
was created, until the present date, 1913:

Robert McCay, Junior, appointed to serve
during the year 1850 to 1851.

1851 Edward Darlington.

1854 Jesse Bishop, resigned and on No-
vember 24, 1856, the court appointed
Edward A. Price to finish out the term.

1857 Edw. A. Price 1863 F. M. Brooke

iSrxj John Hibbcrd 1866 C.D.M.Broomal!

1869 G.E.Darlington
1872 D. M. Johnson
1875 V. G. Robinson
1878 "

1881 Jesse M. Baker
1884 Jesse M. Baker
1887 J. B. Hannum
1890 J. B. Hannum

1893 W. I. Schaffer
1896 W. I. Schaffer
1899 Josiah Smith
igo2 Josiah Smith
19OS A. D. MacDade
1908 A. D. MacDade
lOTi J B.Hanni'.m.Jr.

THE NEW COURT HOUSE.

The new Court Hou.se in Media now rapidly approaching completion in-
cludes the old building with its east and west wings with a frontage of 127
feet and a depth of 145 feet. To each side has been added another wing of 39
feet making the present total frontage 205 feet. The depth was not changed
except at the main front entrance, which has been extended to make a more
commodious lobby and a more imposing entrance. The added wings are in the
form of a II, and meet the old building at front and rear, allowing a small
court yard and giving ample light to both old and new offices. The height re-

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mains unchanged, except that of the old wooden clock tower was torn down : a
new clock will be placed in the front of the building. The entire edifice, the
old sections included, is of West Grove ( Pennsylvania) granite, with founda-
tions of Georgia granite. Eight magnificent columns grace the entrance. The
interior work — pilasters, columns, stairways, etc.. are of various marbles —
Italian and Tennessee predominating.

On the facade of the Court House is this inscription : "This Court House
was built in 1850 and rebuilt in 1913. It is the sixth in this judicial district, in
direct succession from the first Court House in Pennsylvania."

The above enumeration is deduced by counting the public house of Neeles
Laerson, which was devoted to the sittings of the Court from 1668 to 1677, as
the first. The judicial administration of Governor Printz at Tinicum was ear-
lier, but this was conducted by him in the exercise of his general powers con-
ferred on him by the crown of Sweden. It was thus exercised at Printz Hall
where he resided, and was for the most part a personal administration rather
than a court administration. Hence the Neeles Laerson house is counted the
first. It was situate at Upland, now Chester, between Edgmont Avenue and
Chester Creek and between Second and First streets. The second Court
House was the House of Defense, which stood within the lines of the subse-
quently laid out Edgmont Avenue, nearly opposite the Neeles Laerson house.
It was used from 1677 to 1684-5. The third Court House was adjoining and
northwardly of the House of Defense. It was in use from 1684-5 to 1694.
The fourth was on the west side of Edgmont Avenue, in the vicinity of the
others, and was in use from 1694 to 1724. The fifth was the building yet
standing and used as a City Hall, on the west side of Market street, between
Fourth and Fifth streets, Chester. It was used as a Court House from 1724
to 1850. This inakes the present Court House at Media the sixth. It has been
in use since 1850.

MEDICAL HISTORY.

In preface to a chronicle of the physicians and medical societies of Dela-
ware county, it is eminently fitting and proper that tribute be paid to the
father of the physician of to-day, the country doctor. In direct contrast to our
modern white-robed, hospital physician or surgeon, with his immense and
scientific knowledge of every atom of the human organism, or opposed to the
fashionable, businesslike city physician, making his calls in a handsome limou-
sine, is the homely old-fashioned, simple-minded, great-hearted figure once so
well known and loved in every country district. He was the forerunner of
our present day healer, and yet his healing often went deeper than any remedy
for physical ills, for often he was the family confidant and advisor, the haven
to which they fled in time of trouble or distress. He filled an important posi-
tion in every rural district — the local minister, schoolmaster, and he, forming
a trio representing to the country folk the acme of learning and the heights
of wisdom.

His medical service was more often than not, a labor of love, or else
his payment was in the form of any article of value in the household. Office
hours were unthought of, and a case of colic often called him from his bed in
the middle of the night for a ride, perhaps through a driving storm, to the
bedside of a painracked infant; while a crash of falling timber might take
him from his noonday meal to the bloody task of amputating the leg of a work-
man crushed by falling timber.

In mentioning our present day physicians and surgeons, to whom a human
being is but a combination of nerves, tissues, muscles, bones, arteries and veins,
let us not forget his predecessor, now unknown, who was the close friend of
each of his patients, treating their bodily ills with large doses of ill-smelling
compounds and sugar pills, the while he cheered them with helpful consoling
and enlivening conversation, brightening the sick chamber with the very charm
of his presence.

Probably the first physicians, or "barbers," as they were then called, in
Delaware county, were brought over by Governor Printz. Their acquaintance
with their art was in all likelihood very primitive, for frequent fevers and
bccurges visited the colony, causing many deaths, although much of this could
be blamed upon the rigors of the climate and the undue exposure necessitated
during the erection of homes. Another of the practices, which modern scien-
tific investigation has proved a fallacy, which they indulged, and which prob-
ably accounts for some of the inefficiency of their treatment was the extensive
use of alcoholic beverages as medicine.

One of the earliest physicians in the county was Dr. Timon .Stiddem,
who came to this country at the same time as Governor Rising, landing at
Fort Casimir, May 21, 1654, residing for a time at Upland. On December
18, 1663, he was appointed by Dr. Jacop to succeed the latter as doctor of the
Dutch Company, but his api)ointment was objected to and he settled at Wil-
mington, where Governor l,nvelace granted him a tract of land upon which.

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much of the city now is built. It is stated by Professor Keen in his article,
"Descendants of Joran Kyn," that the descendants of the doctor still pos-
sessed the metal case, engraved with his name and title' in which he used to
carry his surgical instruments when making calls in the Swedish Colony.

The next doctor to come to the colony was Surgeon Jan Costing, who was
succeeded by William Van Rosenberg. The latter was evidently busily en-
gaged in the practice of his profession during the voyage to America, for up-
on his arrival he presented a bill for a hogshead of French wine and one of
brandy furnished to those sick of scurvy during the protracted voyage.

Governmental guidance and direction was early given to the practice of
the healer's art in this statute, embodied in 1676 in the Duke of York's Book
of Laws :

"That no Person or Persons whatsoever Employed about the Bed of Men, Women
or Children, at any time for preservation of Life or Health as Chirurgions, Medicines,
Physicians or others, presume to Exercise or put forth any Arte Contrary to the known
approved Rules of Art in such mistery or Occupation, or Exercise any force, violence
Cruelty upon, or to the Bodice of any whether Young or old ; without, the advice and
Counsell of the such as are skillful in the same Art (if such may be had) or at least of
some of the wisest and gravest then present and Consent of the patient or patients, if
they be Mentis Compotes ; much less Contrary to such Advice and Consent upon such
severe punishment as the nature. Of the fault may deserve, which Law nevertheless, is
not intended to discourage any from all Lawful use of their skill but rather to encourage
and direct them in the right use thereof, and to inhabit and restrain the presumptions
arogancy of such as through Confidence of their own skill, or any sinister Respect dare
bouldly attempt to Exercise any violence upon or toward the body of young or old, one
or other, to the prejudice or hazard of the Life or Limb of man, woman or child."

In 1678-9, Dr. Thomas Spry is recorded as a witness in a case tried at
Upland. Sluyters and Dankers, in their visit to Tinicum township in 1679,
state that on that island was a Swede, Otto Ernest Cock by name, whom they
mention as a "late medicus," showing that at some previous date he had been
a practicing physician. The following remark, made by Gabriel Thomas,
loses some of its truthfulness and hence some of its force in face of the num-
ber of physicians who were in that locality prior to 1698: "Of lawyers and phy-
sicians I shall say nothing, because this country is very peaceable and healthy.
Long may it so continue, and never have occasion for the tongue of one nor the
pen of the other, both equally destructive to men's estate and lives, besides, for-
.sooth, they hangmen like have a license to murder and make mischief."

Dr. John Goodsonn is recorded as being a practicing physician in Chester
in 1681, holding the title "Chirurgeon to the Society of Free Traders," while in
1694 he was appointed deputy governor under Williain Markham, his comtnis-
sion being signed by William Penn. Joseph Richards is also named as a physi-
cian in Chester prior to 1700, as well as an extensive landowner.

Isaac Taylor, sheriff of Bucks county in i'')93 and a surveyor of no mean
ability, was according to Professor Keen "at the time of his death a resident
of Tinicum Islaml. practicing the art of surgery," although this statement is
flatly contradicted by Gilbert Cope, in his "History of Chester" who gives

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Thornbnry as the place where his death occurred. His son John followed the
profession of his father, leaving his practice to enter business, erecting the
Sarum Forge, on Chester creek.

Alexander Gandonett, a "Practioner in Physyck," made a unique petition
on file in West Chester for a license for the sale of liquor. "Your Petitioner,
by way of his Practice, is Obliged to Distill several sorts of Cordiall waters,
and it being often Requested by several of the inhabitants of this County to
sell the same by small measure your Petitioner Conceiving that the same be of
absolute necessity by way of his Practice yet it may be Considered to be within
the Act of Assembly for selling liquor by small measure, prays your honours for
the premises.". Nothing is known what action was finally taken upon his plan
for the legalizing of his sale of "Cordiall waters," as it was labelled "Referred
to further Consideration" ; but the doctor continued in practice in Chester, for
m January, 1747, he presented a bill to the province for medicine and attend-
ance upon the sick soldiers of Captain Shannon's company quartered there.

Although not a regularly authorized member of the profession because of
his lack of medical education, John Paschall, of Darby, acquired quite a repu-
tation in the vicinity as a doctor, becoming especially famous as the compound-
er of "The Golden Elixir." advertised throughout the region as "Paschall's
Golden Drops," widely used by the country folk as a cure-all and defender
against old age, in much the same manner as the early explorers of Florida
expected to employ the waters from Ponce de Leon's "Fountain of Youth."

To Dr. Jonathan Morris was granted a remarkably long life, his death
occurring in his ninetieth year, until which time he practiced the art he had
learned under Dr. Bard, of Philadelphia, in Marple, where his venerable,
well-borne, erect figure, was well known and as well loved by the people
among whom he practiced.

Paul Jackson, buried in St. Paul's graveyard, in Chester, was graduated
from the College of Philadelphia, and for many years practiced in Chester.
There he became chief burgess, at that time an office of great honor, dignity
and responsibility. His death occurred when he was thirty-six years of age,
but even in that short span of life he had gained an enviable reputation as a
scholar and linguist ; eminence in his profession ; renown as a soldier ; and the
love of his associates for the clean, honorable upright life he led. The Penn-
sylvania Magazine of History states, in speaking of his scholarly ability, "His
Latin compositions, which were published, secured for him a reputation for
correct taste and accurate scholarship." Cpon the marble slab marking his
grave is this inscription: "Here lies PAUL JACKSON, A. M. He was the
first who rcceiveil a Degree in the College of Philadelphia. A man of
virtue, worth, and knowledge. Died 1767, aged 36 years."

His brother, David Jackson, was likewise a physician, being a member
of the first medical class graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He
held the office of surgeon general of the Pennsylvania troops during the
Revolutionary war.

For a I'ing time one of the most conspicuous figures in the locality was

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Dr. Bernhard \'an Leer, the centenarian pln-sician. He was born in Ger-
many and came to this country with his father, later returning to his native
land to engage in the study of medicine. He was a learned and efficient
physician, having a reputation for the mildness of his remedies, which were
for the most part compounded from vegetable formulae. Two of his sons,
Branson and Benjamin, followed the profession of their father, the former
filling the post of county physician. It is interesting to note from one of his
reports that he evidently believed in the more powerful and stringent methods
of the profession — plasters, bleeding, powders, juleps, and purging ingredients,
being frequent items in his course of treatment. The comrade of Bernhard
\'an Leer's journey to Germany for the study of medicine was John Wor-
rall, whose purpose in going abroad was the same as that of his companion.
Upon his return from the continent he settled in Upper Providence, practic-
ing there until his death, aged eighty-six years.

Drs. John Cochran, director general of the military hospitals during
the Revolution, and Samuel Kennedy, surgeon of the Fourth Battalion of
Pennsylvania troops and senior surgeon in the military hospital, were residents
of what is now Delaware county, but their practice was confined to the mili-
tary organizations of which they were a part.

William Currie, a native of Chester county, had been intended for the
ministry, but his ambition and desire were diverted from his original inten-
tion, and he began the study of medicine, graduating from the College of Phil-
adelphia. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary war his father, rector of his-
toric St. David's Episcopal Church at Radnor, a strong loyalist, opposed his
desire to enter the Continental service, but despite the opposition, he enlisted,
being attached as surgeon, first to the hospital at Long Island, later at Amboy.
At the close of the conflict he settled in the borough of Chester, there estab-
lishing his practice. In 1792 he moved to Philadelphia, where he spent his
remaining years in the compiling of three works, which at the time were of
great value — "Historical Account of the Climate and Diseases of the United
States," "Views of the Diseases most prevalent in the United States, with
an account of the most improved methods of treating them," and a "General
View of the Principal Theories or Doctrines which have prevailed at different
periods to the present time."

John Morton, third son of Jojin Morton, a signer of the Declaration of
Independence, was a surgeon in the Continental service during the Revolution,
was captured, and died on the British prison-ship "Falmouth." in New York
harbor.

A physician of Lower Chichester, during the Revolutionary period, was
Dr. John .Smith.

One of the most eventful careers ever led by a member of the medical
profession, was that of Dr. Peter Yarnall. who practiced his profession with
great success in Concord between 1780 and 1791. He was a Friend by birth-
right, but when eighteen years of age quarrelled with the master under whom
he was serving his apprenticeship and ran away, enlisting in the army. He

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was released from the service through the influence of his family and was in-
duced to engage in the study of medicine, a pursuit which was interrupted by
his vohinteering for service in the American army. The war over, he took his
degree at the Philadelphia College of Medicine and returned lo the service as
surgeon's mate on the privateer "Delaware," later resigning and beginning
practice in the Pennsylvania Hospital. From 1791 until his death in 1798, he
practiced in Montgomery county.

Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick was a native of Delaware county, and practiced
at Marcus Hook for a number of years. After his marriage he followed his
profession with good success in Alexandria, Virginia. He and Dr. Brown
were called upon by Dr. Craik as consulting physicians at the bedside of George
Washington, during his fatal illness. Thomas Maxwell Potts, in his sketch
of Dr. Dick in the "Centenary Memorial of Jeremiah Carter," says that Dr.
Dick, when all hopes of Washington's recovery with less extreme remedies
had been abandoned, proposed an operation which he ever afterwards thought
might have proved eltective in saving the general's life, but it did not meet
with the approval of the family physician.

In 1799, Jane Davis is credited with keeping an "apothecary shop" in
Chester, the first establishment of its kind in the county, although at about the
same time Dr. Sayres of Marcus Hook had a store for the sale of drugs at his
home. In this year the following physicians were in active practice of their
profession in Delaware county: William Pennell, Aston; Nicholas Newlin and
Caleb S. Sayres, Lower Chichester : Joseph Shallcross and William Gardiner,
Darby; Jonathan Morris and Bernhard Van Leer. Marple; John Knight, Mid-
dletown ; Jonas Preston, Newtown; John Cheyney, Thornburv.

Dr. William Martin, grandfather of John Hill Martin, author of the "His-
tory of Chester and its Vicinity," was a physician who gained a great deal of
prominence in the civil as well as the professional life of Delaware county. He
was a lawyer, justice of the peace, and chief burgess of Chester, and in April
of 1779, when General Washington passed through Chester on his way to Phil-
adelphia, then the seat of government. Dr. Martin made the speech of congrat-
ulation to the new President tendering liini the hearty and enthusiastic sup-
port of the people of the city. Dr. Martin, always filled with a dread of yel-
low fever, was extremely cautious in such cases as came under his care during
the death-dealing scourge of 1798, even refusing to enter homes in which it
prevailed, prescribing from the outside, yet met his death through the agency
of that terrible disease while attending the sailors of a British vessel lying in
the harbor, all of whose crew had contracted the malady.

Another physician of the county who was a victim of the yellow fever
l)lague, yet whose death was not directly due to the disease, was Dr. Caleb
.Smith Sayres, whose arduous labors in combating the epidemic undermined
his health, so lowering his vitality that he died at the early age of thirty-one
years. .At the time of his death he was surgeon of the Eighth Battalion of
Militia nf the county of Delaware, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Edward
V^enion.

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Dr. Jonas Preston, of Delaware county, obtained his medical education in
this country and abroad, first studying under Dr. Bond of Philadelphia, and
-attending lectures at the Pennsylvania Hospital, later being graduated from the
University of Edinburgh and completing his studies in Paris. Returning to this
■country, for a while he practiced in Wilmington, Delaware, and Georgia, finally
moving to Delaware county, acquiring an extensive practice in this and Ches-
ter county, confining his attention almost entirely to obstetric cases, becoming
one of the most famous and best reputed accoucheurs in this continent. Dur-
ing the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 he volunteered for duty in the army de-
tailed to put down the insurrection. This warlike move was contrary to the
doctrines of the Society of Friends, of which he was a member, and caused
him to be expelled, or "read out" of meeting. He became extremely prominent
in the political alTairs of the commonwealth, his well balanced judgment and
discerning foresight making him the choice of Delaware county for the legis-
lature eight consecutive terms, while in 1808 he was elected state senator. Be-
sides his professional and political interests. Dr. Preston had numerous busi-
ness associations, holding the office of president of the Bank of Delaware Coun-
ty, and was also a supporter and contributor to many benevolent and philan-
thropic organizations. At his death Mr. Preston made a clause in his will
by which he left $400,000 "towards founding an institution for the relief of
indigent married women of good character, distinct and unconnected with any
hospital, where they may be received and provided with proper obstetric aid
for their delivery, with suitable attendance and comforts during their period of
weakness and susceptibility which ensues." By this provision was established
the Preston Retreat in Philadelphia, one of the noblest and most happily con-
-ceived institutions within the state.

Dr. William Gardiner had a son, Dr. Richard Gardiner, a graduate of the
University of Pennsylvania, who practiced for a time in Darby, later moving
to Newtown, finally establishing in practice in Philadelphia, where he studied
homeopathy, and was graduated in 1848 from the Homeopathic College.

Drs. Jacob Tobin, Brown and Tidmarsh are all recorded as having prac-
ticed in Chester about the beginning of the nineteenth century, as well as Dr.
George Bartram, who conducted a drug store and for a number of years was
justice of the peace, chief burgess of the village, and customs officer at the
Lazaretto. Previous to 1818 Dr. Edward Woodward practiced in Middle-
town, where he resided, and in 1808 Dr. Nathan Hayes was a practicing
physician in Edgemont.

Dr. Isaac Davis, son of General John Davis, studied medicine under Dr.
Joseph Shallcross, of Darby, and in 1810 began practice in Edgemont, but at
the outbreak of the war of 1812-14 was appointed surgeon of the Sixth Regi-
ment United States Infantry, dying in the service at Fort Jackson, Mississippi.
July 21, 1814.

Dr. Job H. Terrill was a noted physician of Chester, where he came in
1809, and was famed for his engaging and interesting conversational powers
and his innate love of fine-bred horses, of which he was always the admiring

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owner. It does not seem fitting that the thing he loved so well should he the
cause of his death, hut one day, while entering his sulky, his horse started,
suddenly throwing him against the wheel of the vehicle, injuring him so
severely that he contracted a thigh disease which ultimately proved fatal.

Dr. Samuel Anderson, although not a native of Delaware county, neverthe-
less, gave so much of his labors to the county that he is closely identified there-
with. He early entered the LTnited States navy, as assistant surgeon, but
resigned his commission and located in Chester, where he soon attained a
position high in his profession. During the war of 1812-14 he raised a vol-
unteer company, the Mifflin Guards, and in the fall of 1814 served for three
months as its. captain at Fort Du Pont. For three years he represented the
county in the legislature, and in 1819 was elected sheriff. He was once more
appointed to an assistant surgeonship in the United States navy and assigned
to the West India Station, under command of Commodore Porter, but ill
health compelled his resignation. After his return to Delaware county he
was elected to the legislature in 1823-4-5, and the following year represented
in congress the district comprising Delaware, Chester and Lancaster counties.
He was a member of the legislature, 1829-33, in the last year being speaker
of the house. In 1834-35 he was again returned to the legislature and made
the report of the joint committee of the two houses relative to alleged abuses
in the eastern penitentiary, at that time one of the most talked of scandals in
the state. In 1841 he was appointed inspector of customs at the Lazaretto,
and in 1846 was elected justice of the peace in Chester, an office he filled until
his death, January 17, 1850.

A brief record of the physicians who practiced in Delaware county after
1800 follows: Ellis C. Harlan was in practice at Sneath"s Corner, Chester
township, in the early part of the century. His practice was taken over by
Dr. Jesse Young, whose associate. Dr. James Serrell Hill, succeeded him.
Dr. David Rose was Dr. Young's successor.

Drs. Benjamin Rush Erwin, Joseph Leedom, James Boyd, James Wilson
and William L. Cowan are names which were familiar in L'pper and Nether
Providence from 1800 to 1850. Dr. Gideon Humphreys was a practicing phy-
sician in Aston in 1820; Dr. George R. Morton, at Village Green, in 1827;
Dr. Byington at Aston, in 1833; Dr. Samuel A. Barton there previous to 1840:
while Dr. Richard Gregg, then residing at Wrangletown, had quite a nmnber
of patients in that vicinity. Dr. Joseph ^\'ilson, prominent in the political af-
fairs of the day, practiced in Springfield in 1812; in 1837 Dr. James Jenkins
and Dr. Joseph Elackfan were in Radnor; Dr. J. F. Huddleson, in Thornbury.
In 1833, Dr. M. C. Shallcross was in practice in Darby, later associating him-
self with Dr. J. P. Stakes, of Philadelphia, continuing his practice in Delaware
county. In 1823. Dr. Joshua W. Ash began practice in Upper Darby, continu-
ing until his death in March, 1874. He belonged to the Society of Friends,
and was prominently connected with the Delaware County Institute of Science
and the Training school for Feeble Minded Children. In 1S48 he jniblisbed the
first map of Delaware county drawn from actual surveys. In 1833, Dr. Caleb

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Ash was in Darby, while prior to 1848 Dr. George Thomas had an office at the
same place, although in 1845 he located in Newtown or Edgemont ; while in 1833
Dr. William Gray Knowles was in Darby. In 1852, Dr. J. P- Hoopes was in
practice in Upland, and Dr. James Aikens in 1852, and Dr. H. Bent, a botanic
Thomsonian physician in 1842, in Edgemont. Dr. Phineas Price was located in
Bethel in 1840: in 1844, Dr. J. H. Marsh, in Concord, as was Dr. George Alar-
tin in 1852.

Dr. William Gray, a member of the family from which Gray's Ferry
takes its name, studied medicine with a relative. Dr. Warfield of Maryland,
after graduation settling in Chester. Dr. John M. Allen practiced in Chester
in 1844, later abandoning his practice and opening a drug store, a business he
conducted very profitably. In 1861 he was appointed surgeon of the 54th Regi-
ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, subsequently becoming medical director of the
Department of West Virginia, and surgeon-in-chief of stafi', in which capacity
he served until 1864 when, his health failing, he received an honorable dis-
charge from the service after being in the hospital for several months. Until
1855, Dr. James Porter practiced in Chester. Dr. P. K. Smith, a physician at
Chichester Cross-roads, was succeeded by Dr. Manley Emanuel, whose son,
Dr. Lewis M. Emanuel, began practice at Linwood immediately after gradua-
tion, serving as assistant surgeon in the field during the war between the states.
Dr. Jesse Kersey Bonsall, a Delaware countian by birth, was a graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania, and followed his profession during his earlier
years at Manila, in the Philippines. In 1842 he returned to Delaware county
and pursued his calling until his death in 1838.

Dr. Tracey E. Waller, of Marcus Hook, was a physician of the county,
whose untimely death was deeply regretted by the members of the medical fra-
ternity, as well as bv his hosts of friends. Dr. Waller retired one night in ap-
parentlv perfect health and was foimd dead in bed the following morning, from
no a]jparent cause.

Dr. loshua Owens, of Chester, was a graduate of Jefferson College,
Philadelphia, and during the Civil War was senior surgeon of Pennsylvania,
and the first volunteer surgeon to reach Washington after the first fire on
Fort Sumter. He was one of the first medical directors of divisions, his assign-
ment to duty being with the Army of the Potomac. In 1863 he was commissioned
surgeon-general of New Mexico, a position he held for two years, at the end
of that time resigning to make a tour of Europe on foot, on which journey he
was accompanied by his two sons. Dr. Mordecai Laurence, a practitioner of
Haverford, died there February 21, 1880, in the seventy-seventh year of
his age.

One of the native Delaware countians whose labors have redounded greatly
to the credit of the locality which produced him, was Dr. George Smith, born
in Haverford, February 4, 1804. Fie received his degree at the L^niversity
of Pennsylvania in 1820, and practiced in Darby for five years, when, coming
into the possession of a large estate, he laid aside the active duties of his
profession, superintending his estate and devoted his leisure moments to literary

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and scientific pursuits. He was not however suffered to remain long in
retirement, for in 1832 he was elected state senator from the district com-
prising Delaware and Chester counties. While a member of that body he was
appointed chairman of the senate committee on education, and it was in this
capacity that he performed a service which has been of incalculable advantage
to the people of the state. This was the drafting of the public
school bill, which, ably and warmly supported by Thaddeus Stevens and
George Wolf, was passed almost in its entirety as reported by Dr. Smith.
Thus the first step in free public education was taken in Pennsylvania,
and the magnitude of the vision seen by the authors of the bill is shown by
the immensity of Pennsylvania's present public school system, employing
thousands of teachers and operated at a cost of millions of dollars yearly.
On December 8, 1836, Governor Kitner appointed Dr. Smith an associate judge
of Delaware county, and in 1840 he was re-elected. Dr. Smith's interest in
the public school system was so deep and genuine that he consented, at great
personal sacrifice, to act as county superintendent for several years, until the
workings of the organization should be planned a little more smoothly and the
rough edges in the system rubbed off. Besides this work he was also pre-
vailed upon to accept the presidency of the Upper Darby school board. He
remained in both positions until a plan of procedure from year to year had
teen definitely decided upon and until the public schools had demonstrated what
a vital and important institution they could become under careful and skillful
management, and how essential to the proper education and development
of the youth of the state.

In September, 1833, he was one of five men who founded the Delaware
County Institute of Science, of which he was president for almost half a cen-
tury. In 1844 the Institute appointed Dr. Smith, John P. Crozer and Min-
shall Painter a committee to prepare and submit an account of the terrific rain-
storm and flood of August 5 of that year in Delaware county. The greater part
of the preparation of this work, an octavo pamphlet of fifty-two pages,
printed in small pica type, was done by Mr. Smith, an achievement upon which
be was publicly congratulated and thanked by the institute. In 1862 he pub-
lished his "History of Delaware County." which for interest, accuracy and
thoroughness of treatment, will long stand as a gem of historical composition.
It is an unquestionable authority uyxin the district of which it treats, and pre-
serves many of the most interesting facts and traditions of the county. Dr.
George Smith died February 24, 1884, after a life of sixty-four years, lived for
the elevation and enlightenment of the commonwealth of his birth.

Dr. Isaac Taylor Coates, born in Chester county, March 17, 1834, taught
school in Delaware county in order to procure funds to complete his medical
■education. He was graduated M. D., l^niversity of Pennsylvania, in 1858,
and began his professional career as surgeon on the packet ship "Great Wes-
tern," and as such made several voyages to Liverpool. During the war be-
tween the states he volunteered his professional service to the government,
serving throughout the war. In 1867 he was surgeon of United States cavalry

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under General Custer. In 1872 he visited Peru and was there appointed medi-
cal director of the Chimbota & Hua?.az railroad, then being built over the
Andes mountains by Henry Meigs, the American. In 1876 he returned to the
United States and settled in Chester where he practiced until 1878. He then
joined the Collins expedition to Brazil, as surgeon, sharing to the fullest de-
gree the hardships and sufferings of the members of that illfated company of
adventurers. Broken in health, as a result, he spent several years in the west
dying at Socorro, New Mexico, June 23, 1883. He was an eloquent speaker
and a writer of national reputation. He held membership and took active part
in the workings of the American Geographical Society, the Pennsylvania His-
torical Society, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and other
scientific bodies.

Dr. Alfred M. Owens, son of Dr. Joshua Owens, a surgeon in the United
.States navy and a native of Delaware county, died at the Pensacola Navy Yard,
August 22, 1883, of yellow fever, his wife dying with the same disease five
days later.

Dr. Jonathan Larkin Forwood, whose personal and family sketch appears
elsewhere in this work, is yet an honored resident of Chester, rounding out a
long and successful professional career, marked also by important public ser-
vice.

Dclazvarc County Medical Society. — To Dr. Ellwood Harvey, then of
Birmingham, and to Dr. George Martin, of Concord, this society owed its first
existence. They agreed upon the necessity of such an organization, and to that
end a meeting of physicians was held in Chester, May 2, 1850. A temporary
organization was effected. Dr. Joshua Owen being chairman ; Dr. Martin, sec-
retary. A committee appointed to draft a constitution, and at a meeting held
in Chester, May 30, 1850, it was adopted and officers elected. Dr. Jesse Young
was chosen president ; Dr. Joshua Owens, vice-president ; Dr. Robert Smith,
secretary ; Dr. Ellwood Harvey, treasurer. For several years regular meetings
were held at the homes of members and a great deal of good accomplished. In
1851 a geological survey of the county was made by Drs. Harvey and Martin,
m association with Dr. Samuel Trimble, of Concord township. The chart and
reports made by these capable men were published in the Transactions of the
State Medical Society, and have been made the basis of all subsequent geo-
graphical publications in reference to Delaware county.

In 1852 the Delaware County Medical Society, in connection with a simi-
lar society in Chester county, entered into an arrangement for the publication
of a quarterly journal, The Medical Reporter, the first issue appearing in July,
1853. Two of the editors were from Delaware county — Dr. J. F. Huddleson
and Dr. George Martin. This journal was published for three years, then
passed out of existence. The society languished until February 24, 1857, when
a resolution "that it is expedient that the Delaware County Medical Society
be and it is hereby dissolved" was adopted by a unanimous vote. On March 16,
1857, a meeting of the physicians of Delaware county was called at the Wash-

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ington House, Chester, to reorganize the society. On .March 30th, an ad-
jciirned meeting was held at the Charter flouse, Media, and an organization
effected by the election of Dr. Hillborn Darlington, president: Dr. Manley
Emanuel, vice-president ; Dr. George B. Hotchkin, secretary ; and Dr. Charles
H. Uudd, treasurer. But life had not yet been restored, the society languishing
until May 10, 1861, when the society was permanently re-established by the
election of Dr. Manley Emanuel, president; Dr. Joseph Parrish. vice-president;
Dr. George B. Hotchkin, secretary ; and Dr. Joseph Rowland, treasurer. The
Civil War made such demands upon the physicians of Delaware county
that those remaining at home were kept too busy to attend the occasional meet-
ings of the society. At the conclusion of the war, an adjourned annual meet-
ing was held-at the office of Dr. J. L. Forwood, and officers were elected, but
nothing further seems to have been done until March 16, 1869, when a meeting
was held at Dr. Parrish's Sanitarium at Aledia, which was addressed by Dr.
Emanuel, who appealed to the medical practitioners of the county to awaken
from their lethargy- and co-operate for the common good, through the means of
an energetic and well organized medical society. The following officers were
then elected : Dr. Manley Emanuel, president : Dr. J. L. Forwood, vice-presi-
dent ; Dr. Isaac N. Kerlin, secretary ; Dr. Theodore S, Christ, treasurer. This
began a new era for the society, and the meetings have since been well attended
with interchange of opinions and discussion of the various papers on the science
and practice of medicine, resulting in great benefit to the profession. The
membership of the society, ]«st and present, follows :

Dr. George Martin,
Manley Emanuel
Elhvood Harvey
Charles S. Heysham
Robert K. Smith
Joshua Owens
Charles J. Morton
Caleb Ash
Joseph Wilson
Samuel A. Barton
Thomas Turner
Reuben H. Smith
J. C. Hutton
Joseph Rowland
A. W. Matthew
George Smith
J. Howard Taylor
Jesse W. Griffith
J. P. Mcllvain
J. T. Huddleson
J. Morris Moore
Hillborn DarHngton
James S. Hill
J. .Siter Parke

Concordville

Linwood

Chester

Newtown Square

Darby

Chester

Darby

Village Green

Media

Chelsea

Media

Aston

Upper Darby

Concordville

Ridleyville

Media

Thornbury

Newtown

Concordville

Chester Township

Radnor

David Rose
Edward Maris
Cliarles H. Budd
Henry M. Lyons
John G. Thomas
Jacob Boon
Samuel Trimble
D. Francis Condie
Henry M. Corse
Edwin Fussell
Linnaeus Fussell
Edward T. Gammage
John W. Eckfelt
Dillwyn Greene
Francis F. Rowland
Ri-bccca L. Fussell
Daniel W. Jefferis
John B. Mitchell
Joshua Ash
D. G. Brinton
George R. Vernon
Joseph H. Horner
Robert A. Given
Conrad J. Partridge

Sneath's Corner

Howellville

Darby

Media

Newtown Square

Darby

Lima

Media

Chester

Haverford

Marcus Hook

Media

Chester

Clifton Heights

Media

Clifton Heights

Thornton

Clifton Heights

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Edward Young
John A. Thompson
George B. Hotchkin
James W. Hoey
John M. Allen
Jonathan L. Forwood
Joseph Parrish
Isaac N. Kerlin
James J. McGee
William H. Forwood
Charles D. Meigs
Henry Pleasants
Charles W. Pennock
Henry M. Kirk
W. T. W. Dickeson
Isaac T. Coates
F. Ridgeley Graham
T. L. Leavitt
Theodore S. Christ
J. Pyle Worrall
Lewis M. Emanuel
C. C. V. Crawford
Orrin Cooley
Francis E. Ileenan
Samuel P. Bartlcson
William B. Ulrich
James E. Garretson
M. F. Longstreth
William C. Bacon
John T. M. Forwood

Chester

D. K. Shoemaker

Chester

Eugene K. Mott

Media

John Wesley Johnson

Lenni

Williain S, Ridgely

Chester

Philip C. O'Reiley

Chester

Mrs. F. W. Baker

Media

T. P. Ball

Chester

Media

John B. Weston

South Chester

U. S. Navy

A. Edgar Osborne

Media

Chester

Pennypacker

Thornbury

Robert H. Mitner

Chester

Radnor

F. Marion Murray

Lenni

Howellville

H. H. Darlington

Concordville

Upper Darby

Henry B. Knowles

Clifton Heights

Media

William B. Fish

Media

Chester

Henry C. Bartleson

Fernwood

T. C. Stillwagon

Media

Chester

J. W. Phillips

Clifton Heights

William Bird

Chester

Media

Fletcher C. Lawyer

Howellville

Linwood

C. W. DeLannoy

Chester

Village Green

Joseph C. Egbert

Radnor

L. M. Bullock

Upland

Chester

Charles Carter

Wallingford

Clifton Heights

William S. Little

Media

Chester

Henry Seidell

South Chester

Darby

Mrs. H. J. Price

South Chester

Henry C. Harris

Landsdowne

Upper Darby

George M. Fisher

South Chester

Chester

Present officers of the Society elected to serve until January 1914:

President, Fred. H. Evans, Chester.
Vice-Pres., J. William Wood, Chester.
Secretary, C. Irvin Stiteler, Qiester.
Treasurer, D. W. Jefferis, Chester.
Reporter, Walter E. Egbert, Chester.
Librarian, Chas. B. Shortlidge, Lima.
Asst. Librarian, Amy E. White, Chester.

Censors :
J. Harvey Fronfield, Media.
Daniel J. Monihan, Chester.
H. Furness Taylor, Ridley Park.

Members, August, 1913 :
Clarence K. Alger, Swarthmore.
Harry M. ."Krmitage, Chester.
Frances W. Baker, Media
Frederick S. Baldi, CoUingdale.
Edward W. Bing, Chester.
Ervrit S. Boice, Moores.
Ellen E. Brown, Chester.
F. Otis Bryant, Che.s'ter.
Edwin C. Bullock. Upland.

Ethan A. Campbell, Chester.
George H. Cross, Chester.
George F. Crothers, Marcus Hook.
S. Ross Crothers, Chester.
David Dalton, Sharon Hill.
Horace Darlington, Concordville.
A. Lovett Dewees, Haverford.
H. Leno.x H. Dick, Darby.
Morton P. Dickeson, Media.
Chas. K. Dietz, Chester.
Harry C. Donahoo, Chester.
Henry C. Dooling, Norwood.
Louis S. Dunn, Chester.
Alice Rogers Easby, Media.
Walter E. Egbert, Chester.
Fred. H. Evans, Chester.
William B. Evans, Chester.
W. Knowles Evans, Chester.
Walter V. Emery, Chester.
John S. Eynon, Chester.
Harvey P. Feigley, Eddy.Uone.

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Jonathan L. Forwood, Chester.
J. Harvey Fronfield, Media.
Harry Gallagher, Glenolden.
Leon Gottshalk, Marcus Hook.
Stoddard P. Gray, Chester.
E. Marshall Harvey, Media.
Hiram M. Hiller, Chester.
A. Parker Kitchens, Sharon Hill.
Sylvester V. Hoopman, Chester.
Henry Horning, Gloucester, N. J.
Elizabeth W. Howell, Chester.
Fred. S. Hunlock, Collingdale.
G. Victor Janvier. Lansdowne.
D. W. Jeflferis,. Chester.
Frank E. Johnston, Moores.
I. Irwin Kalbach, Media, R. F. D. 2.
Walter A. Landry, Chester.
Chas. L. LaShelle, Lenni Mills.
\Vm. F. Lehman, Chester.
Mary R. Hadley Lewis, Swarthmore.
J. Chalmers Lyons, Marcus Hook.
Robert S. Maison, Chester.
G. Hudson Makuen, Chester.
Daniel J. Monihan, Chester.

Alexander R. Morton, Morton.
Maurice A. Neufeld, Chester.
Frank R. Nothnagle, Chester.
Adrian V. B. Orr, Chester.
Conrad L. Partridge, Ridley Park.
Jerome L. Pyle, Gradyville.
William A. Raiman, Swarthmore.
Victor M. Reynolds, Darby.
John Byers Roxby, Swarthmore.
Chas. H. Schoff, Media.
Jeanette H. Sherman, Ridley Park.
Chas. B. Shortlidge, Lima.
Norman D. Smith, Rutledge.
Herbert C. Stanton, Clifton Heights.
J. Clinton Starbuck, Media.
Thos. C. Stelhvagen, Media.
C. Irvin Stiteler, Chester.
H. Fumess Taylor, Ridley Park.
Samuel Trimble, Newtown Square.
Ross H. Thompson, Moores.
Katherine Ulrich, Chester.
Frances Weidner, Media.
Amy E. White, Chester.
J. William Wood. Chester.

Homoeopathy. — The practice of this school of medicine was introduced into
Delaware county in 1836, by Dr. Walter Williamson, born in Delaware county,
July 4, 181 1, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, class of 1833.
He settled in Marple township, moving to Xewtown in 1835, practicing accord-
ing to the teachings of his alina mater until the spring of 1836, when his
attention was directed to the new system. He carefully studied all the liter-
ature of the new school, and becoming convinced of its merit began practicing-
it in his own locality, when Homoeopathy was an unknown word save in the
family of John Thompson, of Upper Providence. Dr. Williamson rapidly
gained a large practie, but in 1839 he moved to Philadelphia, his health hav-
ing failed. He was one of the founders of the Homoeopathic College of Penn-
sylvania, the first institution of its kind in this country. From 1848 until his
death in 1899 he filled one of the chairs at the college.

The second practitioner of this school in the county, was Dr. M. B.
Roche, who settled in Darby in 1839, continuing there until 1842, when he
was succeeded by Dr. Alvin E. Small, who espoused the new practice that
year. Dr. Small continued in Darby until his removal to Philadelphia in 1845.
Dr. James E. Gross, of New England, a graduate of the Homoeopathic Col-
lege of Pennsylvania in 1850, practiced in Darby a few months, then moved
to Lowell, Massachusetts. Dr. Stacy Jones, a graduate of the same college in
1853, settled in Upper Darby township in 1853, practiced there three years,
then moved to the borough of Darby .

The first Homoeopathic physician in Chester was Dr. Charles V. Dare, of
New Jersey, a graduate of the Hoinoeopathic College of Pennsylvania, class

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of 1854. He practiced in Chester until March, 1858, when he sold to Dr.
Coates Preston, a graduate of the same college, class of 1853. Dr. Preston
had practiced in Sculltown and Woodstown, New Jersey, prior to coming to
Chester, building up in the latter place a good practice. In 1865, being in
feeble health, he admitted Dr. H. W. Farrington to a partnership, but this was
soon dissolved. Dr. Preston continued in successful practice in Chester until
the spring of 1881, when he moved to Wilmington, Delaware, dying there
August 9 that year. He outlived much of the prejudice and opposition that
existed in Chester, as elsewhere, against the new practice, and firmly estab-
lished homoeopathy in the respect and confidence of that community.

Dr. Davis R. Pratt, born in Newtown, and a graduate of the Homoeo-
pathic College of Pennsylvania, settled in his native town, where he practiced
until 1863. In that year he moved to Philadelphia, thence to Trenton, New
Jersey, where he practiced until his last illness. He died January 28, 1868.
About 1863, Dr. E. D. Miles practiced homoeopathy in Media, as did Dr.
John F. Rose, a veteran surgeon of the Civil War, who settled July i, 1865,
but only remaining one year.

Dr. Robert P. Mercer graduated at the Homoeopathic College of Penn-
sylvania in March, 1861, settling the following month in Marshalltown, Ches-
ter county. In January, 1863, he was appointed to the entire charge of the
medical department at Chester county almshouse, resigning in 1865 and mov-
ing to Wilmington, Delaware. In November that year, at the solicitation of
Dr. Preston, he located in Chester, where he long continued in successful
practice. Dr. Henry Minton Lewis, a graduate of Hahnemann Medical Col-
lege, Philadelphia, in March, 1869, settled in Chester and practiced there a
few years, then moving to P)rooklyn, New York. Dr. Trimble Pratt, a grad-
uate of Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, March, 1870, settled in
Media the following June. Drs. Charles W. Perkins, Samuel Starr, William
T. Urie, Frederick Preston and Franklin Powell located in Chester; Dr.
Isaac Crothers at Upland.

The Homeopathic jMedical Society of Chester and Delaware counties was
organized in October, 1858, Dr. Dufiield of New London, being elected its
first president.

^ NEWSPAPERS.

The earliest among the many newspaper enterprises in Delaware county
was the Post Boy, of Chester, a weekly folio, fifteen and a half by nine and a
half inches, owned and edited by Steuben Butler and Eliphalet B. Worthing-
ton. Their office was in the Colbourn house on Third street ; the date of first
issue, November 8, 1817 ; its motto, "Intelligence is the life of liberty." There was
little attention paid to local news, only one purely local incident being recorded
during the first months : "A Live Eel — An eel w^as caught in Chester creek a
few days since by Messrs. Sutton and Buck which weighed six pounds and was
upwards of two feet six inches in length." This may be regarded as the first
local happening ever printed in a distinctively Delaware county newspaper. In
the latter part of 1824 Worthington bought his partner's interest and issued the
tiny sheet until 1826, when he sold it to Joseph M. C. Lescure, who increased
its size and changed its name to the Upland Union, continuing it until 1838. In
that year he sold the paper to Joseph Williams and Charles F. Coates, the for-
mer a lawyer, a good political speaker, and versatile entertainer. He was a
man of attainments, and one of the secretaries of the constitutional convention
of 1837. After a short time the paper was sold to Alexander Nesbit, who in
turn sold it to Alexander Mclveever, an ardent Democrat, who continued its
publication until March 30, 1852, when he ceased to edit it. In 1858 an effort
was made to revive the Upland Union by Mr. Brummer, then editing the
Pennsylvanian, in Philadelphia, and William Cooper Talley, of Delaware coun-
ty, but publication was finally suspended on February 19, 1861.

The Weekly \'isitor, owned by William Russell and edited by Strange N.
Palmer, was first edited in 1828, in the interests of the opponents of the Demo-
cratic party. The paper existed in a very weak condition until 1832, then gave
up the ghost.

The Delaware County Republican was first published on August 31, 1833,
by Y. S. Walter, who purchased the press and material of the defunct Weekly
Visitor and moved it to Darby. On October 25, 1841, he moved the printing
office to Chester, locating on the northeast corner of Market Square. In March,
1845, he moved to a brick building on Third street, in 1851 to the Penn build-
ing, and in 1876 to a large office which he erected at Market and Graham
streets. The paper grew and prospered under Mr. Walter's ownership, he con-
tinuing its publication until his death in 1882, his editorship extending over a
period of fifty years, during which time it quadrupled in size. On September
I, 1882, the Republican was purchased by Ward R. Bliss, who further en-
larged it. Under Mr. Walter the paper was Whig and afterward Republican
in politics, and a strong advocate of the abolition of slavery.

The Morning Republican, now published daily at Chester, is one of the
official papers of the city, Samuel Burke, editor, Charles R. Long, general
manager.

The Delaware County Advocate, first known as the Chester Advocate, was
])ublished as a weekly newspaper, fifteen by twenty inches, by John Spencer

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and Richard Miller, the first issue coming out on June 6, 1868. Their printing
office was located on the second floor of the old city hall, where Mr. Spencer
had previously located his printing office. The paper was distributed gratui-
tously at first, but in May, 1869, after Mr. Spencer became sole owner, a sub-
scription price of fifty cents yearly was charged. The paper was well con-
ducted, and gained so large a subscription list outside of Chester that in Sep-
tember, 1874, Mr. Spencer changed its name to the Delaware County Advocate,
and raised the subscription price to $1 a year. This is now one of the best and
most valuable newspaper plants in Delaware county, and is still owned by
John Spencer, and published from his building, 517-519 Edgmont avenue,
Chester, every Saturday. The Advocate is Republican in politics.

The Delaware County Democrat. — Papers bearing this title have existed in
Chester since 1835, the first having been published in that year by Caleb Pierce
to further the gubernatorial ambitions of Henry A. Muhlenberg, but the paper
had but a brief existence. In October, 1856, John C. Michelon founded a
weekly called the Upland Union and Delaware County Democrat, but it, too,
was shortlived. On October 5, 1867, D. B. Overholt established the Delaware
County Democrat, but soon sold his interest to Dr. J. L. Forwood, of Chester,
who continued its publication until the fall of 1871, when he sold it to Colonel
William Cooper Talley. In 1876, John B. McCay became its owner, but soon
sold the paper to William Orr, then publishing the Democratic Pilot, a paper
started in 1872, but which had never prospered. The two papers were merged
but in 1877 were sold by the sheriff on an execution against Orr, to Dr. For-
wood, who again sold to William A. Gwynne. The latter sold in August, 1879,
to Edward J. Frysinger, the paper then having less than one hundred and
seventy-five paying subscribers, the value of the plant being estimated solely on
the worth of the printing materials belonging to the office. The first issue of
the Democrat under the Frysinger ownership was on September 4, 1879, Henry
Frysinger being editor and publisher. Well edited and having the full Demo-
cratic support of the county, the paper prospered, and has become a remuner-
ative and valuable property. The paper is published every Thursday at 714
Edgmont avenue ; Henry Frysinger, editor and publisher.

The first afternoon paper established in Chester was the Evening News,
first issued June i, 1872, F. Stanhope Hill, editor and proprietor. On June
17 following the title was changed to the Chester Evening News. In October,
Mr. Hill sold his interest to William A. Todd, who published the News until
his death, August i8, 1879, the paper greatly increasing in size and value. Af-
ter his death the plant was purchased by William H. Bowen, Oliver Troth,
and Charles D. Williamson, who further enlarged the paper. Mr. William-
son dying about two years later, his interest was purchased by the other part-
ners, who on November 4, 1880, added still another column, further enlarging
in 1883. The News was always Republican in politics.

The second afternoon daily in Chester was the Chester Daily Times, es-
tablished in September, 1876, by Major John Hodgson, who continued its editor
until March 7, 1877. He disposed of the Times to J. Craig Jr., who managed

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it quite successfully until October 20, 1877, when he sold to John Spencer, the
proprietor of the Delaware County Advocate. Mr. Spencer enlarged and im-
proved the paper, continuing its publication until April 5, 1882, when he sold
to the Times Publishing Company. The Times is owned and edited at 418-
Market street, by John A. Wallace, William C. Sproul and Charles R. Long, is
an afternoon daily, strongly Rejjublican in politics, and one of the official pap-
pers of Chester.

Other papers in Chester are the Herald-Ledger, published every Satur-
day at Seventh and Market streets, by the Ledger Publishing Company, Wil-
liam Ward Jr., jjresident, John W. Ward, secretary and treasurer ; the Inde-
pendent, published at 134 West Third street, by William T. Seth. Other
papers of Chester that have been founded at various times ; The Weekly Re-
porter, established March 31, 1881, by Ward R. Bliss, for advertising legal
notices and reporting in full the opinions of the courts of Delaware county;
The Chester Business Mirror, established in 1882, by Edward Frysinger ; The
Chariot, established in 1842, to aid the cause of temperance, but soon discon-
tinued; the Chester Herald, established in April, 1850, by S. E. Cohen, dis-
continued at the end of its first year ; the Evening Star, the Chester Adver-
tiser, the Independent, the Public Press, the Commercial Advertiser, the Tem-
perance World, later the Chester World — all suspended publication after a
very short life. The Delaware County Mail, established November 27, 1872,
by Joseph De Silver & Company, was sold in 1876 to the proprietors of the
Delaware County Paper, merged with that publication, later known as the
Delaware County Gazette, and purchased by the Times Publishing Company
prior to their purchase of the Chester Daily Times.

In 1884. on February 11, Henry and Edward J. Frysinger issued the first
number of the Daily Herald, an independent journal designed only to take part
in the spring election for mayor, but continuing after that time.

In October, 1833, the first number of the Brotherhood was published
in the interests of the Brotherhood of the Union, by the Brotherhood Publi-
cation Society, Charles K. Melville, editor. The paper was the first official
organ of the order in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.

The Union and Delaware County Democrat was the first newspajier
started in Media prior to June, 1852. This was a small sheet and did not long
survive. The next paper started in the new county seat was the Media Adver-
tiser, a Republican, seven column weekly, owned and edited by Thomas V.
Cooper and D. A. Vernon, the first issue appearing March i, 1855. The-
paper prospered and was enlarged, its title changing on February 27, 1856, to
the Media Advertiser and Delaware County American. On March 2. 1859, the
title was again changed, becoming as at present the Delaware County Amer-
ican. Mr. Cooper retired from the paper July 4, i860, but again became a
partner July 12, 1865, the finn name then becoming Vernon & Cooper, so
continuing for many years, but is now published by Mr. Cooper's sons under
the firm name Thomas V. Cooper & Sons. The American has never missed
an issue since its first ai)ei)arancc in 1855, and is a valuable newsjiaper prop--

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erty. It is devoted to the interests of Media and Delaware county, and com-
mands a most generous patronage in its circulation, advertising and job-print-
ing departments. Its publication day is Saturday, its politics Republican.

The Delaware County Record was established in Media on March 23,
1878, as an independent local newspaper, by J. W. Baiting, C. D. Williamson
and Joseph Chadwick, under the firm name of J. W. Baiting & Company. The
paper prospered and was soon enlarged. Mr. Baiting died April 2, 1880, and
from that date until May 6, 1882, the paper was published under the firm
name of Chadwick & Williamson. Mr. Chadwick, who had been manager
and editor since July, 1880, became sole owner in 1882, and still conducts the
Record as a prosperous enterprise.

Other newspapers of the county : Progress, a semi-weekly published at
Darby, by M. H. Maginin, editor. Republican in politics ; the Rockdale Her-
ald, a weekly, established in 1898, at Glen Riddle, W. E. Driffith, editor; the
News, established at Lansdowne in 1897, a Republican weekly, S. P. Levis,
•editor; the Times, a weekly, established in Lansdowne in 1911, George C.
Johnson, editor ; the Chronicle, an independent weekly, established in Morton
in 1880, George E. Whitaker, editor; the Delaware County Republican, a
weekly, Swarthmore, edited by J. Scott Anderson; the Suburban, a Republican
weekly established in 1895 at Wayne, A. M. Ehart, editor; the Phoenix, a
monthly published at Swarthmore College by the students of that institution ;
Sine Nomine, a monthly society journal, devoted to the interests of the Rose
Valley Section of Delaware county, published at Chester ; the Ledger, a weekly,
estabhshed in Media in 1891. William Ward Jr., editor.

CIXIL LIST.

Members of Congress from Ddazvare County. — In 1789 the members of
Congress from Pennsylvania, were elected on a general ticket. The Appor-
tionment Act of 1791 first established congressional districts, and by its pro-
visions Philadelphia and Delaware county became the First District. In iSoi,
Joseph Hemphill was chosen, he being the first elective congressman from
Delaware coimty. By the Apportionment Act of 1802, the same territory, the
First District, was entitled to three members, Delaware comity furnishing
Jacob Richards, who served 1803-09, and Major William Anderson, 1809-15.
The Act of 1812 gave the First District four representatives in congress: Ma-
jor Anderson served one term as shown: Thomas Smith, served 1S15-17; Wii
Ham Anderson, 1817-19; Samuel Edward, 1819-27.

By the Act of 1822, Chester, Delaware and Lancaster counties became the
Fourth Congressional District, entitled to three members ; Samuel Edwards,
serving until 1827; Dr. Samuel Anderson, 1827-29; George Gray Leiper, 1829-
31. The Act of 1832 made no changes in the Fourth District; Edward Darling-
ton serving 1833-39 '• .John Edwards, 1839-43. By the Act of 1843, Delaware
and Montgomery counties were made the Fifth Congressional District, with one
member. The Act of 1852 made Delaware and Chester counties the Sixth
Congressional District, but under the apportionment of 1862 the same counties
became the Seventh District, J. M. Broomall being the Delaware county repre-
sentative, 1863-69. The Act of 1873 made the same counties the Sixth Dis-
trict, Delaware county sending William Ward, who served 1877-84. In 1890
John B. Robinson was elected from Delaware county, and was the last con-
gressman chosen from this county, the successful candidates being residents of
Chester county. Thomas S. Butler, of Chester county, is the present repre-
sentative for the district, now known as the Seventh.

State Senators. — Delaware county has been coupled as a State Senatorial
District with Philadelphia, then with Chester county, then with Chester and
Montgomery counties, again with Chester county, and now forms in itself a
senatorial district. Holders of the office of State Senator from Delaware coun-
ty, with the date of their taking office, follow :

lygo — John Sellers; 1794-99 — Nathaniel Newlin; 1808— Jonas Preston; 1812— John
Newbold; 1816— Maskell Ewing; 1S24-28— John Kerlin; 1832— Dr. George Smith; 1836—
Henry Meyers; 1839— John T. Huddleson ; 1848— H. Jonas Brooke; 1854— James J.
Lewis; i860— Jacob S. Serrill: 1869— H. Jonas Brooke; 1874-84, 1889— Thomas V.
Cooper; 1893— Jesse M. Baker; 1897— John F. Colbourn ; 1901-05-09-13— William C.
Sproul.

AssemblyuH-n. — The present representation allotted Delaware county in
the House of Assembly is three members — one from the city of Chester, and
two from the county at large. Beginning with the session of 1899. the follow-
ing have represented the county :

1899— Ward R. Bliss, Thomas H. Garvin, Richard J. Baldwin,
igoi- Robert M. Newland, Ward R. Bliss. Tliomas V. Cooper.

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1903 — Fred Taylor Pusey, Ward R. Bliss, Thomas V. Cooper.
1905 — Thomas V. Cooper, Crosby M. Black, Fred Taylor Pusey.
1907 — Thomas V. Cooper, J. Milton Lutz, Samuel D. Clyde.
1909 — Thomas V. Cooper, William D. Jones, William Ward, Jr.
191 1 — V. Gilpin Robinson, Richard J. Baldwin, William Ward, Jr.
1913 — Richard J. Baldwin, Harry H. Heyburn, William T. Ramsey.

County Treasurers. — In early days the office of couiuy treasurer seems
to have been one within the gift of the county commissioners and assessors.
That it was of cash value to the holder is proven by the offer of John Taylor
in 1741 to accept the office "without bringing any charge against the county."
In 1790, when the board of assessors was abolished, the commissioners
adopted the plan of appointing the outgoing commissioner county treasurer,
or "commissioner's treasurer," generally observing that custom until 1838,
when the constitution of 1837 made the office an elective one. Since that date
the following treasurers have been elected :

1838 — William Eyre : 1839 — Davis Beaumont ; 1840 — William Eyre ; 1840 — William
Eyre, Jr. (to fill unexpired term of father) ; 1841 — John Miller ; 1844 — Richard F. Wor-
rell; 1846 — Benjamin F. Johnson; 1848 — Marshall Eachus: 1850 — Edmund Taylor; 1852
—Samuel Button; 1854 — Joseph H. Hinkson ; 1856 — Jackson Lyons; 1858 — Charles R.
Williamson; i860 — Charles Johnson; 1862 — David R. Ralston; 1864 — William Hinkson;
1866— William H. Eves; 1868— William F. Matthews; 1870— John J. Hoopes ; 1872— John
D. Howard; 1874 — Alvin Baldwin; 1876 — Henry B. Taylor; 1879 — William P. Yarnall ;
1882— Stephen Clowd, Jr. ; 1885— Samuel M. Challenger ; 1888— Gasway O. Yarnall ; 1891
— B. F. Compton; 1894— William M. Ford; 1897— John J. Buckley; 1900— Edward S.
Hickman ; 1903 — Wesley S. McDowell ; 1906 — Francis E. Harrison ; 1909 — John Mac-
Murray; 1912 — Walter S. Westcott, whose term is for a period of four years under the
new law.

Directors of the Poor. — The early settlers cared for the bodily wants of
their poor, infirm, and destitute, but accompanied their charity with the act of
^lay 31, 1 741. requiring that all persons receiving public assistance, the wives
and children of such paupers, "shall, upon the Shoulder of the right Sleeve of
the upper Garment of every such Person, in an open and visible manner, wear
such a Badge or Mark as hereinafter mentioned and expressed, That is to
say, a large Roman letter (P) together with the first Letter of the Name of
the County, City, or Place whereof such Person is an Inhabitant, cut either in
red or blue Cloth, as the Overseers of the Poor, it shall be directed or ap-
pointed." The failure of "any such person" to comply with this barbarous
provision was to render him or her liable to be brought before a justice of the
peace, he having it in his power to deny them further county aid or to commit
tliem to the House of Correction, "there to be whipped and kept at hard labor
for any number of Days, not exceeding twenty one," as the justice saw fit.
Truly Chester county had a "Scarlet Letter" law equalling the statute made
famous by Hawthorne. The following are the present directors of the poor
for Delaware countv : William H. Tones, Clark W. Baldwin, and Arthur Mar-
tin. '

Countv Commissioners. — The office of County Commissioner was estab-

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Iislied about 1820, the duties having been performed prior to that time by the
justices, grand jury, and the assessors. The board consists of three members,
and, beginning with the year 1882, has been as follows :

1882 — Owen VV. Yarnall, Benjamin F. Pretty, Jesse Brooke.
1885 — William Armstrong, Benjamin F. Pretty, Andrew Armstrong.
1S88— William Armstrong, William Quinn, Daniel M. Field.
1891— Harry L. Hippie, W. Lane Qninn, Robert M. Henderson.
1897— C. Harry Marshall, William P. Hippie, W. Frank Cutler.
1903— A. A. Sellers, C. H. Marshall, Sidwell B. Green,
1906 — A. A. Sellers, Thomas B. Allen, George J. Johnson.
1909 — George W. Allen, Vanleer E. Bond, E. Lewis Barlow.
1912 — George W. Allen, Jesse D. Pierson, Thomas F. Feeley.

Sheriffs. — On May 17, 1672, Governor Lovelace and Council decided
"that the office of Schout to be converted into a Sheriff for the Corporation
and River, and that he be annually Chosen." In the early days the electors
named two persons for the office of sheriff, the governor making a selection of
one of them. This custom, begun by Penn, prevailed under the constitutions
of 1776 and 1790, and not until the constitution of 1838 were the people given
the right to elect their own choice of but one person. The following is a list of
sheriffs since the erection of the county with the year of their election :

Nicholas Fairlamb, 1789; Nicholas Fairlamb, 1790; James Barnard, 1792; Abraham
Dicks, 1795; John Odenheimer, 1798; Matthias Kerlin, Jr., 1801 ; John Odenheimer, 1804;
Richard P. Floyd, 1807; Isaac Cochran, 1810; Daniel Thomson, 1813; Robert Fairlamb,
1816; Samuel Anderson, 1819; Joseph Weaver, Jr., 1822; John Hinkson, 1825; Jehu
Broomall, 1828; William Baldwin, 183 1 ; Charles Baldwin, 1834; Samuel A. Price, 1834;
Evan S. Way, 1837; John Larkin. Jr., 1840; Samuel Hibberd. 1843; Robert R. Dutton,
1846; Jonathan Esrey, 1849; Henry T. Esrey, 185 1 ; Aaron James, 1851 ; John M. Hall,
1854; Jonathan Venion, 1857; Morris L. Yarnall, i860; Abraham Vanzant, 1863; Caleb
Hoopes. 1866; Evan C. Bartleson, i86g; Charles W. Matthew, 1875; John J. Rowland,
1878; William Armstrong, 188 1 : William F. Matthues, 1884; G. Leiper Green, 1887;
John D. Howard. 1890: Elwood T. Carr, 1893; J. Humphreys Marshall, 1896; Edmund
Oliver, 1899 : William E. Howard. 1902 ; David B. McClure, 1905 ; Charles H. Wolfe,
1908, (Mr. Wolfe died before taking office, Mr. McClure continuing another year) ; S.
Everett Sproul, 1900.

Protlionotarics. — The offices of prothonotary, recorder of deeds, and reg-
ister of wills, were held by one person from 1707 until the act of Assembly,
February 19, i860, when the offices of prothonotary and recorder of deeds
were separated and ordered filled l)y dift'erciit persnns. \\y act of March 20,
1873, the office of register of wills and clerk of the ( Orphans Court were sepa-
rated. The office of prothonotary, clerk of the Court of Oyer and Terminer
and General Jail Delivery, and Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions has
been filled since 1875 as follows:

r875. Isaac Johnson: 1894, Morris P. ll.uiiuun; 1887. Wilhani D. Thomas; 1892,
Willi.'ini 1,. Mattluics: i<)04. .Andrew J. Dalton. the present incunilient.

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RECORDERS OF DEEDS.

1863, Frederick Fairlamb; 1872, Frederick R. Culler, whose unexpired term was filled
•out by Canby S. Smith; 1876, Charles P. Walter; 1881-84-87, Edward Blaine; 1890-93,
John H. Kerlin ; 1896-99, Thomas D. Young; 1902-05, Richard J. Baldwin; 190S-12, J.
Lord Rigby.

Register of Wills and Clerk of the Orphans' Court. — The first incumbent
of this office under the act of March 20, 1873, was Thomas Lees, who held it
for four terms, his first commission dating December 13, 1874, his last term
expiring in December, 1886. He was succeeded as follows :

1887, Gilbert A. Hazlett ; 1893, William H. Hall; 1899, George G. Patchell; 1905,
William J. Tazwell; 1912, Theodore F. Kreeger.

Coroners. — This office, first mentioned in Chester county records in 1684,
has been held since 1880 in Delaware county by the following:

1881, Abram J. Quinby; 1884. Horace W. Fairlamb; 1890, L. M. Bullock; 1893,
Joseph E. Quinby; 1896, Thomas H. Marshall; 1899, Edward S. Fry; 1905, William B.

C. Gilmour ; 1908, Barney F. Carr, the present incumbent.

Present Officials and Representatives (1913). — Congressman — Thomas S.
Butler (Chester county) ; State Senator — William C. Sproul : Assembly — R. J.
Baldwin, Harry H. Heyburn, William T. Ramsey; President Judge — Isaac
Johnson ; Judge— William B. Broomall ; District Attorney — John B. Hannum,
Jr.; Prothonotar)' — Andrew J. Dalton ; Recorder of Deeds— J. Lord Rigby;
Register of Wills— Theodore F. Kreeger; Treasurer— Walter S. Westcott;
Sheriff — S. Everett Sproul ; County Commissioners — George W. Allen, Jesse

D. Pierson, Thomas F. Feeley; Jury Commissioners — Jacob Wise, William
Stewart ; Directors of the Poor — William H. Jones, Clark W. Baldwin, Arthur
Martin ; Coroner — Barney F. Carr ; County Auditors — Charles Gallagher, Ja-
•cob Somers, Harry Sheldon : Surveyor — A. Yocum.

DELAWARE COUNTY IN THE CI\"IL WAR.

When on Saturday, April 13, 1861, the American tlag was shot from Forf-
Sumter, in Cliarkston Harbor, and tlie little band of men who had so gallantly-
held out in the face of certain defeat marched out and Alajor Anderson offi-
cially surrendered, the first episode, in what was destined to be the greatest
sectional conflict the world had ever seen, was completed. Northward the last
echoes of the firing rolled, and in their flight aroused the passions which had
been slumbering for forty years. Over North Carolina, \'irginia and Mary-
land they came, leaving in their wake, martial alarm and a wild unreasoning
excitement. Reaching Pennsylvania, they transformed a peaceful, industrious
farming and manufacturing community into a place of excited madmen, drunk
with patriotic fervor. In Chester, Media, Darby, Rockdale, Kellyville, and
in every town, borough and hamlet in Delaware county, the pent-up feelings
of the people broke all restraint. Merchants closed their shops, farmers left
their plows, and everywhere were groups of men discussing the engrossing
news. Patriotism was at its highest pitch, and from the top of every store,
factory, public building and private dwelling the Stars and Stripes floated in
the breeze. j\Iany were the theories advanced as to the probable course of the
Federal government, and great the speculation regarding the outcome of the
struggle which all saw was inevitable. The following day was Sunday ; every
ear was strained for intelligence from Washington, and in its absence the sus-
pense became unendurable. Monday morning, April 15, 1861, the public ex-
citement was given direction, when President Lincoln issued his first call for
seventy-five thousand volunteers to serve for a period of three months, unless
sooner discharged.

In Media, that morning, the tolling of the court house bell summoned the.
people thither, and after patriotic speeches had been delivered, it was deter-
mined to form a rifle corps immediately. .\t Chester, on the evening of the
same day, the old town hall, which had witnessed the formation of companies
to take part in the Revolution, saw again a like scene which equalled in stern-
ness and decisiveness of purpose that former one. To the present generation
the issue of the preservation of the Union was as vital as that of obtaining lib-
erty had been to their forefathers, and there were as many who were glad, nay
anxious, to oiifer their lives to maintain the unity of their country. Theirs was
a sterner duty, for here was no invader or oppressor to be fought, but brother
would meet brother ; father, son : and the wound of bullet could never equal
the woimd of heart caused by the thought that perchance a speeding shot had
found a resting place in the body of a loved one.

On Wednesday night, at Media, a meeting was called in the court Ikuisc;
Edward Darlington was chosen ch.airman. with Charles D. Manley, Charlc'^ R.
Williamson, James R. Cummins, John R. Roland, Robert Playford. and J.
Crosby Fairlamb, vice-presidents : O. F. Bullard and Thomas V. Cooper, sec-
retaries. The speakers were John M. liroomall, Joseph Addison Thompson
and Hugh Jones Brooke. The many rumors of Confederate prejjaration for

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attack had keyed the feelings of the populace to a higher point, if such were
possible, and no historical or oratorical goad was needed to spur them on tu en-
listment. Name after name was rapidly handed in, and in a short time thej
ranks of the Delaware County Union Rifles were filled, with many disap-
pointed applicants, clamoring for a place in line with the fortunate ones who
had been chosen. One Friday morning, April ig, the men assembled before
the court house, and after a prayer by Rev. Gracey, in which he commended
the company to the care of an allwise and omnipotent Providence, they
marched to the cars and left for Philadelphia. In the afternoon they reached
Harrisburg, encamping on the capitol grounds, and the ne.xt day, .\pril 20,-
1861, were mustered into service for three months, as Company F, 4th Regi-
ment Pennsylvania \'ohmteers. The officers were :

Captain, George Dunn; first lieutenant, T. V. Cooper; second lieutenant, A. McMuron;
sergeants: William Callum, Richard Stiles, Thomas J. McMillan, J. L. Woodcock; cor-
porals; Caleb Hooper, James Mulholland, John B. Sully, William Durell; musicians:
William Quail, Henry Camay. Privates : Henry J. Baker, Thomas Broomall, John Baggs,
Peter Brantz, William Baggs, John Britton, Matthew Blair, Robert Coppock, John Cot-
tingham, John Clowney, Thomas Coulter, James Conner, John B. Davis, Thomas Dyson,
John M. Davis, William Eekil, James Evans, Abel Ford, Allen Ford, Lorenzo D. Farra,
William Farra, David Grubb, Thomas Griff en, James Gorman, John W. Glen, Benjamin
Graden, George W. Glen, Harry Greenwood, Hamilton Gillon, Robert Henderson, John
Hollingsworth, Patrick Hughes, Daniel Harigan. Robert Johnson, Stephen Johnson, Jere-
miah Ketzler, Thomas Kelly, Thomas Laden, Benjamin H. Magee, Michael Monahan,
Michael Martin, John McCuen, William McGinnis, Richard J. Nuttle, John Palmer. John
P. Potts, Joseph Parker, William Roberts, Amos R. Rap, Franklin Redmond_, Antrim
Redmond, Ephraim Stirk, George Stikes, Samuel N. Techton, William Townsend, John
Yeehton, Baker E. Wright, James W. G. Weaver, James Walters, James Worrell, John
Williams, Lee L. Yarnall.

The 4th Regiment, commanded by Col. John F. Flartranft. was ordered
on the following day, April 21. to proceed to Philadelphia, where, under com-
mand of Col. Dare, of the 23rd Regiment, acting brigadier, it was dispatched
to Perryville, Maryland. The next day it embarked on steamers for Annapo-
lis, thence to Washington, a direct route, having been abandoned for fear of
delay and possibly riots at Baltimore. The regiment had been rushed for-
ward so rapidly that it had been impossible to uniform the men, but all were
provided with muskets and carried ammutiition in their pockets. Many of the
men were taken ill, and the regiment encamped about two miles from the city,
toward Bladensburg. On June 24 the regiment received marching orders and
proceeded to Alexandria, where on Sunday, June 30, its pickets for the first
time were engaged with a small detachment of the enemy. The 4th, in Mc-
Dowell's army, formed part of the 1st Brigade, 3rd Division. Its term of en-
listment expired Sunday, July 31, 1861, and McDowell, planning an attack,,
desired the regitnent to remain until the battle, now known as the First Bull
Run, was fought. The men diflrered as to what course to pursue, but the regi-
ment finally marched to Washington and thence by rail to Harrisburg, where
it was mustered out of service. Gen. McDowell, in his report after his crush-

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ing defeat, censured the 4th Pennsylvania severely. The records show that in
the majority of cases the men performed their duty well on many a bloody
field in the following four years, when their valor and patriotism were tested
to the full and tliey were not found wanting. The Delaware County Rifles,
however, had been discharged from duty the day before, and were thus re-
lieved from McDowell's unfavorable criticism.

In Chester, also, steps for the organization of a company were immediate-
ly taken. On Wednesday following the call for volunteers, more than a suf-
ficient number had been enrolled to form a company, and the name Union
Blues was adopted. An election of officers was immediately held, Henry B.
Edwards being chosen cajjtain, and to him Rev. Talbot presented a sword he
bad worn when chaplain in the United States navy. The company, in order to
be ready to responil to orders at a minute's notice, began to drill and to equip.
On Saturday morning, April 20, i860, the Union tilues were ordered to Har-
lisburg, and on the evening of that day gathered in front of the Washington
House in Chester, where they were addressed by Frederick J. Hinkson. He
assured the volunteers that the citizens of the borough would see that their
wives and families should suffer in no way during their absence. Several oth-
er addresses were made by prominent clergymen, among them Rev. Talbot,
Rev. Sproul and I-iev. Father Haviland. The latter divine contributed largely
to a fund for equipping the soldiers and for maintaining their families, besides
personally soliciting subscriptions. Toward evening, as the time of departure
approached, crowds of people from the outlying districts came into town to
witness the leavetaking of the "Boys in Blue'^ for the front. At the time there
was a general feeling in the North that the trouble would be settled in a month
or so, and at this first leavetaking there was not the air of gloom and depres-
sion that came in later years of the war, when families had been drawn upon
tmtil only the youngest son remained, leaving entire towns empty and cheer-
less.

The Union Blues reached Camp Curtin at Harri-biirg the following day,
and on Monday, April 22, were mustered into the 9th Regiment Pennsylvania
\'olunteers, for three months. On May 4, the regiment moved to West Ches-
ter, arriving there in the midst of a blinding snow and sleet storm, and quar-
tered in the old depot. The next day Col. Longnecker selected a location for
camp, calling it Camp Wayne, in honor of "Mad Anthony" Wayne of Revolu-
tionary fame. On May 26, i86t, the 9th was ordered to Wilmington, Dela-
ware, to prevent the organization of Confederate companies there, and camped
at Hare's Corners, between Wilmington and New Castle. The regiment was
ordered to Chambersburg June 6, to join Gen. Patterson's command, and was
attached to the ist Brigade, ist Division, under Coi. Miles. On Simday, June
16, Col. Miles' brigade crossed the Potomac, the gth regiment on the right of
column, the troops wading the stream breast high. They were later ordered to
recross and take a position covering tin- ford. On July i the brigade again
crossed over in the direction of Martinsburg. and a week later Gen. Patterson
ordered a movement in the direction of Winchester and Bunker Hill, but the

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order was countermanded. On the 17th of July, Longnecker's brigade marched

toward Charlestown, encamping there and remaining until the 21st, when it

marched on to Harper's Ferry. On the 22nd the 9th Regiment proceeded to

Hagerstown, thence to Harrisburg, where it was mustered out of service, the

term of enlistment having expired. The roll of Company 1, 9th Regiment

Pennsylvania \'olunteers, is as follows :

Captain, Henry B. Edwards; first lieutenant, James G. Stacey; second lieutenant,
William Blakeley; Sergeants: William B. Stevenson, John Beck, James Williams, William
Eves ; coroprals : Isaac Weaver, William R. Thatcher, Charles Storey, Jesse Cummings ;
musicians : Ezra Dransfield and Alexander King.

Privates : John Booth, Joseph Barker. Joseph Brewster, Lewis Benner, John C. Bar-
rowclough, Thomas Blythe, Isaac F. Badden, William H. Brown, David Burke, George
Booth, Thomas W. Bruner, Edward Crowther, Edward Collison, Samuel Cross, Daniel
Crowther, James Cliff, Allen Carr, Frederick Cutler, Frederick Crider, Simeon Davis, John
John Doyle, William Elliott, Theodore Ettienne, Robert Fogg, John Farraday, Joseph
Grooves, William P. Huff, James Hewes, George Helms, William F. Jester, James P. Kel-
ley, Edward Kay, Jonathan Kershaw. Edward Lilley, Edward Lyons, Thomas McNamee.
William McNeil, John Marshall, William Marlor, Samuel McDaniel, George McAffee,
John C. Morton, John Phillips, Daniel Pithie, Thomas F. Pierce, .\nthony Quinn, Francis
Rodrigos, Robert Reaney, Samuel Shepherd, Francis Scott, Edgar Stevenson, William V.
Shellinger, John Smith, Samuel Smith, Thomas Toy, Joseph Taylor, junior, Richard
Turner, George W. Wilson, Joshua L. Wilson, John Wagner. Robert Wright, Alfred
Woodhead, George Weigan, Reed L. Weaver.

While the Delaware County Rifles and the Union Blues were the twO'
largest companies formed in the county, the citizens immediately formed oth-
ers, so that in case of another call they could take the field at once. All
through the county, Home Guards were formed and drilled — at Chester,
Media, Rockdale, Darby, Linwood, Kellyville, Wildeville, Glen Mills, Village
Green, Upland, and other towns. So rapidly did these organizations become
proficient in the handling of arms and in drill, that at Chester, on the Fourth of
July, the Wayne Guards, Captain W. C. Gray ; the Home Guards, Captain H.
B. Taylor ; Company A, Captain George E. Darlington ; and the Upland
Guards, Captain George K. Crozer, held a parade, while at the county seat, on
the same day, the Village Green Guards, Captain Barton; Glen Mills Guards,
Captain Willcox; Manchester Rifles, Captain Ballentine ; and Upper Darby
Home Guards, Captain Buckley, joined with the Media Home Guards in a

parade.

A meeting, at which were present people from all over the county, was
held at the Media court house on Tuesday afternoon, April 23, 1861, under
charge of H. Jones Brooke, for the purpose of raising money to equip troops
and for the maintenance of those dependent upon the volunteers then in ser-
vice. The response was generous and hearty, $2500 being contributed that
day. Moreover, the county was divided into seven districts for the purpose of
making a house to house canvass in the solicitation of subscriptions. The first
district was composed of Chester, Ridley and Tinicum : the second, of Media,
Nether and Upper Providence; and all of Middletown east of Edgemont road;.

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the third, Marcus Hook, Linwood, Lower and Upper Chester, Bethel, and all
of Aston south of Concord Road ; the fourth, Concord, Birmingham, and
Thornbury ; the fifth, Aston, east of Concord Road and Edgemont ; the sixth.
Darby, Upper Darby and Springfield; and the seventh, Haverford, Marple,
Newtown, and Radnor. Since all present were taxpayers, they called upon the
county commissioners to appropriate at once $5000 and $20,000 later, for the
support of the families of those who should enlist. The activity of the several
committees was remarkable, for in two days they collected $2,700 in addition
to which Samuel M. Felton, president of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Bal-
timore Railroad Company, contributed $1000, a company gift. Further evi-
dence of the generosity of the company, as well as of the patriotic spirit of
the directors, was given, when Mr. Felton informed the clerks in the employ
of the road that in the event of any of them leaving to go to the front, their
salaries would be paid during their absence, and that their positions would be
open upon their return.

It would be difficult to pay a fitting tribute to the courage and fortitude of
the women of the county, who, in stoical silence, watched their loved sons, hus-
bands and fathers, march away with the possibility that the present would be
the last farewell. We may admire and honor the soldier at the front for his
dauntless courage, his uncomplaining endurance of hardships, his faithfulness
to his cause, but, in all justice, we must grant the same measure of admiration
and honor to his wife or mother, who, in the silent desolation of her home,
waits for intelligence from the battle, longing for, yet dreading, the news that
may either break her anxious heart, or consign her once more to ceaseless wait-
ing for the unknown. There was no more suffering at the front during the
terrible years from 1861 to 1865, than there was by many a hearthstone at
bome.

Twcnty-slxtli Regiment. — On May 31, 1861, a company recruited by Wil-
liam L. Grubb, from Chester and vicinity, for three years, was mustered into
service as Company K, 26th Regiment. Immediately after, it was ordered to
Washington, where the main body of the regiment was on guard over the
quartermaster-general's stores, the arsenal, and the flying bridge at George-
town. As the company's train passed through Chester, the great throng at the
station cheered wildly until it passed out of sight. The 26th was assigned to
Gen. Hooker's division, and in April, 1862, was transported to the Peninsula,
engaging in the siege of Yorktown, and on May 5th, in front of Fort Magrud-
er, at the battle of Williamstown, drove the enemy from the riflepits into the
works, and held its position for eight hours, until reinforced by fresh troops,
when the fort was taken. The regiment was engaged in the battle of White
Oak Swamp from noon till night, and just before dusk broke the enemy's lines
with a gallant bayonet charge, compelling them to retire, and the following
day took part in the battle of Malvern Hill. On August 20 it was dispatched
to the support of Gen. Pope, with Heintzelman's corps. During that campaign
it was engaged at Bristoe Station on the 26th, and the following day connected
the army with its base of supplies. On the 29th it marched to the battle of

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Bull Run, where Captain Meekins, of Company K, was killed, and the whole
regiment suffered severely. The next day the 26th supported three different
batteries, which kept them continually on the march, repelling charges at dif-
ferent points. When Burnside was defeated at Fredericksburg, it was in the
front line of battle, engaged with the enemy for thirty hours, with slight in-
termission. At Chancellorsville, on May 2, 1863, the regiment was ordered to
reconnoiter in front of Hooker's headquarters to feel the enemy, and on the
3rd was held as a support to batteries after it had fallen back to the intrench-
ment, a movement caused by the 72nd New York's breaking and leaving the
flank of the 26th exposed to a heavy fire by which it lost one hundred men. In
the Gettysburg campaign the regiment was under Gen. Sickles, and was on
the field when the battle started on the extreme right of the division, sufifering
severely. Toward evening it sustained the attack of a Florida brigade, which
it checked, and, charging, drove the latter into confusion, capturing many pris-
oners. The 26th entered the battle with 364 men ; its loss was 216 killed and
wounded, a terrible slaughter. The regiment was in Grant's campaign, on
May 5, 1864, in the battle of the Wilderness, and held an exposed position on
the left, although repeated efiforts were made to dislodge it. On the 12th it
took part in Hancock's memorable charge with the 2nd Corps at Spottsylvania
Court House, capturing two Napoleon gims. It was engaged at the crossing
of North Anna river ; on the 27th of May crossed the Pamunkey river at Nel-
son's Ford, thence marching to Philadelphia, where its mustering out on June
18, 1864, in front of Independence Hall, saw the end of a career of glorious
service and the hardest kind of fighting.

Thirtieth Regiment (First Reserves). — So nobly and so well did the men
of Pennsylvania respond to President Lincoln's call for volunteers, that for a
time it seemed probable that none save those already accepted, would be mus-
tered into service. But. Gov. Curtin, who perhaps had a better knowledge of
the condition and requirements of the time than any other man in official cir-
cles in the North (excepting Simon Cameron), realized that many more troops
would be needed, and determined to form several military camps, and there to
mobilize the various organizations of the state, to equip and discipline them,
and to have them in readiness for any emergency. This purpose Gov. Curtin
carried into effect, and the name Pennsylvania Reserves will ever cling to the
companies thus formed : and to Gov. Curtin, Pennsylvania owes much of the
honor it received, for having played such important part in the war.

In May, 1861, Samuel A. Dyer recruited from Chester and vicinity a
company of infantry, named the Keystone Guards. For ten days the company
was quartered in the Chester town hall, maintained by the subscription of sev-
eral citizens of the borough. After changing the name of the company to the
Slifer Phalanx, in honor of Hon. Eli Slifer, then secretary of the common-
wealth, the organization was mustered in at the Girard House, Philadelphia,
May 31, 1861, where a handsome flag, the gift of the ladies of Chester, was
presented to the company of Hon. Edward Darlington. On June 4th, the Sli-

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fer Phalanx left for Camp Wayne, at West Chester, where it became company
C, 30th Regiment, ist Pennsylvania Reserves.

Another Delaware county company which had difficulty in being accepted,
but which was extricated from the difficulty by Gov. Curtin's formation of
the Pennsylvania Reserves, was the Rockdale Rifle Guards, recruited by Wil-
liam Cooper Talley, at Crozerville and Rockdale. Subsequently the name was
changed to the Archy Dick Volunteers, in honor of Archibald T. Dick, a de-
ceased member of the bar of Delaware county, in which he had held an hon-
ored position. On May 30th, 1861, the company was mustered into the 30th
Regiment, ist Reserves, as Company F, for three years service. The organi-
zation of the regiment was not fully effected until June 9, 1861, when Biddle
Roberts was chosen colonel, he appointing Lieutenant Joseph R. T. Coates, of
Company C, quartermaster. On July 4, Gov. Curtin reviewed the First and
Seventh Reserves at West Chester, and on the 21st the ist Regiment was or-
dered to Washington. At about dusk of the next day the regiment reached
Baltimore, and Col. Roberts was met outside of the city limits by the police
authorities, who advised against attempting to pass through the streets because
of the excitement and possible rioting. Col. Roberts, however, distributed
ammunition among his men and ordered them to proceed, marching through
the city without molestation. The regiment was mustered into the United
States service at Camp Carroll, July 26, thence marching to Annapolis, where
it was quartered until August 30th in the Naval School, and then moved to
Tenallytown, Maryland, where it was assigned to the ist Brigade, under Gen.
Reynolds, of McCall's division. It took part in all the movements preceding
the peninsular campaign, and in that campaign, at Mechanicsville, was on
the extreme right of the Army of the Potomac. In the battle of June 26th,
1862, it was under command of Fitz John Porter. There the ist held the cen-
ter, and after a three hours fight repulsed the enemy, sleeping that night on
the hard won field. The next morning it was ordered to fall back, the brigade
retiring in the direction of Gaines' Mills. On the 27th. the ist and 8th Re-
.serves moved to the rear for ammunition. Their action alarmed Fitz John
Porter, who thought they were in flight, and he appealed to Col. Roberts to
stop them, which upon the general's promise to provide them with ammunition,
the colonel did with a word, winning the general's warm approval for the
prompt action, coolness and precision of the Reserves. At New Market, on
the 30th, the ist Reserves maintained its position for five hours, repulsing
three heavy attacks with a gallantry that won special mention in McCall's of-
ficial report. On August 2gth and 30th, in Pope's campaign, it was marching
nearly all the time, constantly under fire, and for the entire forty-eight hours
was totally without food. On Sunday, September 14, 1862, at South Moun-
tain, the regiment charged the gorge and summit of a hill held by a part of
Hill's corps, gaining the summit with a brilliant rush. The ist Reserves were
ready at the break of dawn to resume the struggle, but the Confederates had
withdrawn under cover of darkness. The following morning. Gen. Hooker
came to the field to compliment the regiment personally. In that headlong

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charge, Second Lieutenant John H. Taylor, of Company C, fell, leading his
command. On September 16, the eve of Antietam, the First's pickets were
firing upon the enemy, and at daybreak of the 17th it engaged with the Con-
federates, fighting until relieved at 9 o'clock. During the greater part of the
battle, Captain Talley commanded the regiment. Col. Roberts having command
of the 1st Brigade, and after Hooker was wounded, March i, 1863, Captain
Talley was promoted to the colonelcy.

At Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, the 1st Reserves charged across
an open plain under a heavy artillery fire, driving the enemy two hundred
yards behind its entrenchments, when, finding he was flanked on the right, the
enemy strongly reen forced in front and no supporting troops coming up in the
rear. Col. Talley "was compelled to retire after having opened the way to
victory."

An inspiring scene was enacted when the Reserves, on June 29, 1863,
were marching with the main army to Gettysburg to repel Lee's invasion of
Pennsylvania. Col. Talley, as soon as the state line was crossed, halted his
troops, and, in a few earnest words, besought his men to fight as they had nev-
er fought before, to cleanse the soil of their native state from the polluting
step of the invader. With this incentive and their colonel's heartfelt words
ringing in their ears, the men were sent to the front immediately after arrival
on the field, July 2, and by a splendid charge upon the right of Little Round
Top, drove the enemy back upon their reserves. On July ist, the 1st Regi-
ment, commanded by Col. Talley, occupied the centre of the line in the terrific
charges made by the ist Brigade. The regiment also took part in the battle
of Bristol Station, and in the numerous movements of the Army of the Poto-
mac during the latter part of 1863. In Grant's campaign, on the 5th of May,
T864, it was engaged in the battle of the Wilderness, and on May 8, Spottsyl-
vania. In that battle Col. Talley was in command of the brigade, and on the
enemy's third charge through the pine thickets, was captured by soldiers of
Ewell's corps, but the following day he and several hundred other prisoners
were rescued by Sheridan's cavalry. The Pennsylvania Reserves saw their
last day of service May 31, 1864, when the ist Regiment played a prominent
part in the battle of Bethesda Church. The next day the Reserves were or-
dered home, and on June 13th were mustered out of service at Philadelphia.
On March 13th, 1865, Col. Talley received the rank of brigadier general of
volunteers, by brevet, for distinguished services in the field.

Fifty-ciglith Regiment. — Delaware county receives no credit whatsoever
in the official records for citizens enlisted in the 58th Regiment, except in so
far as "Philadelphia and vicinity" applies to the county, a condition which is
found in other organizations as well. The fact is that almost one-half of
Company H was recruited in Delaware county, while in companies B, C, and
K, many Delaware county men were the first to enlist.

Jn March 8, 1862, the 58th was ordered to Fortress Monroe, arriving
there the following day, Sunday, while the battle between the "Monitor" and
"Merrimac" was in progress. ■ On May loth it led the advance of Gen. Wool's
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troops, and after the surrender of the city of Norfolk on that day, the flag of
the 58th was raised over the custom house, where it remained until the regi-
ment was ordered to Beaufort, North Carolina. While at Norfolk, First Lieu-
tenant Thomas I. Leiper, of Company A, who had been appointed adjutant
while the regiment was in Philadelphia, before being ordered to the front,
was assigned to the stafif of Gen. Thomas L. Kane, under whom he saw ser-
vice in the battles of Antietam and Gettysburg. When on September 9, 1863,
Leiper was promoted to the captaincy of Company A, he at once returned to
his command. On June 27, 1S62, the sSth was ordered to garrison Washing-
ton, North Carolina, at the head of navigation of the Pamlico river, and while
there, heavy artillery practice was held daily. One of the most dashing raids
of the entire war was made on December 16, when Captain Theodore Blakeley.
of Company B, a daring soldier from Chester, with a detachment of one hun-
dred men, made a foray into the country, fifteen miles to the south, and sur-
prised a Confederate cavalry encampment, capturing a captain and sixty men,
with their horses and equipment, so completely surprising them that they
yielded without a single shot. Captain Blakeley was accorded the high honor
of having his expedition especially mentioned in an order from department
headquarters, and was complimented therefor. The regiment joined the
Army of the James, ^lay i, 1864, and was in action in the operations against
Richmond under Gen. Butler. On the 9th, the 58th was engaged near the
Appomattox river, and the following day destroyed the Petersburg & Rich-
mond railroad for a considerable distance, thus greatly handicapping the Con-
federates in their transportation of ammunition and supplies. The regiment
was subsequently transferred to Grant's army, and at Cold Harbor, June 3d,
charged the enemy's works, capturing the rille pits, and in the words of a
New York Herald correspondent, "Here, however, the men found themselves
close prisoners, for it was utterly impossible for a head or an arm to make its
appearance without being riddled by bullets. For two long hours the regiment
held its position until it was reenforced."

It was in the attack of the Army of the James, to which it had been re-
turned, on the enemy's lines in front of Petersburg, when the outer works
were carried. When on June 24 the re-enlisted soldiers were ordered to Phila-
delphia on the furlough granted to veterans re-entering the service, the second
term men of the 58th were allowed twenty days beyond the usual time because
of good conduct and commendable service. Great self-denial was shown by
Captain Leiper, who remained at the front in command of the men who had
not re-enlisted and the recruits assigned to the 58th. After the furlough the
regiment rejoined the army on the north of the James, and on September 28,
the 58th and the io8th Pennsylvania made a desperate assault upon Fort
Harrison, under a scathing fire from sixteen heavy calibre guns, when the
colors of the 58th were shot away three times. Out of the 228 men of that
regiment who had made the charge, 128 were killed and wounded. Among
the former was Captain Theodore Blakeley, of Chester. As a result of this
determined and intrepid attack, the fort, with its cannon, small arms, battle

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flags and garrison was captured. Although it would seem that the 58th and
io8th regiments had done sufficient service for one day, nevertheless they
were ordered to assault Star Fort, a mile to the left of the fortification just
captured. This they did, and although they were able to scale the works and
spike the enemy's guns, their fatigue and lack of support obliged them to fall
back under the heavy fire to which they were subjected by the enemy's gun-
boats. In the final campaign of the war, resulting in the surrender of Gen.
Lee, it acquitted itself with great credit, and after the disposal of the enemy's
field force was assigned to duty in the lower counties of Virginia, being mus-
tered out at City Point, Virginia, January 24, 1866.

Sixtieth Regiment {Third Cavalry). — It is believed that the first Pennsyl-
vania men to enlist for a term of three years were those of Captain William
L. Law's company of cavalry, organized in Delaware county in July, 1861. As
Pennsylvania's quota was full at the time, Col. William H. Young asked per-
mission to raise a regiment in any part of the country, the organization to be
known as Young's Light Kentucky Cavalry. Law's company, for some un-
known reason, was not accepted as a whole in this regiment, the greater part
of the men being assigned to Captain William K. Grant, of Company L and
the remainder distributed among the other companies. The regiment, which
was entirely recruited in Pennsylvania, excepting Company D (from Wash-
ington City), was later credited to the Keystone State, and Col. Young's resig-
nation requested by Gov. Curtin.

On October 31, 1861, William W. Averill, an officer of the 5th United
States Cavalry, was appointed Young's successor. The strict discipline and
adherence to rules exacted by the new commander made him most unpopular
with the men at first, for under Young their conduct had been lax and unsol-
dierly, but the honorable record which the regiment now bears is in large
measure due to the training and discipline of Col. Averill. During the winter
and spring of 1862 it was constantly in the advance of the army, and was the
first Union force to enter the Manassas fortifications and ascertain that the
enemy had abandoned the works. In the peninsular campaign, the regiment
did most of the reconnoitering for the army staff, and during that week of
fighting, while the base of the operations was being changed, was almost con-
stantly in the saddle. At Antietam it was centrally engaged, and when in Oc-
tober the army crossed into Virginia, it covered the right flank, which brought
it constantly into contact and battle with Stuart's and Hampton's commands,
meetings which finally forced the latter to retire to the Blue Ridge. On March
l6th the Southern cavalry learned that their neighbors of the North were quite
as skilled in mounted warfare as they, when the 60th encountered Fitz Hugh
Lee and Stuart's cavalry at Kelley's Ford and decisively defeated them. The
60th rode in the noted raid which, previous to the battle of Chancellorsville,
traversed the country in Lee's rear and for a time severed his railroad com-
munication with Richmond. On June 19th, 1863, it took part in Buford's and
Gregg's attack on Stuart, between Culpeper Court House and Beverly Ford,
in which the latter was so signally defeated that for a time it compelled a de-

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lay ill the proposed invasion of Pennsylvania. Two weeks later it was in the
engagement at Aldie, which resulted in cutting off Lee from the whole of
Stuart's command, so that the former was without the greater part of his
cavalry until after the battle of Gettysburg. On July 2, in that battle, the
60th Regiment sustained the charge of Hampton's division in the latter's at-
tempt to gain the rear of the Union army, and although driven back by weight
of numbers, when Custer arrived with reenforcements it rallied and joined in
the charge, in which the enemy was defeated with heavy loss. After taking
part in the action at Old Antietam Forge on July 10, and at Shepherdstown on
the i6th, it led the brave charge near Culpeper Court House, September 13,
and was complimented in a general order for valor. On October 14 it was en-
gaged at Bristol Station, and the next day, when the cavalry covered the army
wagon train of seventy miles, the 60th was detailed as rear guard and re-
pulsed the attack of Gordon's division, holding its ground for over two hours,
before supported. Once again Gen. Buford issued an order commending its
skill and bravery. At New Hope Church, on September 26th, while dis-
mounted, aided by the ist Massachusetts, it maintained a position against the
attacks of the Stonewall Brigade for two hours until Sykes' Regulars had
time to advance to its support. It was constantly engaged in the Wilderness
campaign under Grant, and acted as escort when Grant and Meade crossed
the James on pontoon bridges. The history of the engagements preceding
Lee's surrender is the history of the 60th Regiment, and when on April 3,
Grant and Meade entered Petersburg, it formed part of the General's escort.
At Lee's surrender it was in the advance between the lines of battle of the two
armies. The 60th was mustered out of service August 7, 1865.

Ninety-seventh Regiment. — Henry B. Guss, of West Chester, wa^ au-
thorized by the Secretary of War in the latter part of July, 1861, to raise a
regiment for three years' service. The companies recruited mainly from
Media, Chester and neighboring vicinities were composed almost entirely of
men who had been in the three months' service, and had some knowledge of
military tactics and duties. The following companies were enrolled : Com-
pany D, the Concordville Rifles, Captain William S. Mendenhall, recruited in
the western end of the county ; Company G, the Broomall Guards, ( named in
honor of Hon. J. M. Broomall), Captain Jesse L. Cummings, recruited mostly
in Media, Chester and neighborhood: Company I. Brooke Guards (so called
in honor of Hon. Hugh Jones Brooke, post commissary of Pennsylvania,
who contributed largely to the outfit and comfort of the men), Captain George
W. Hawkins, recruited mostly from Springfield and Ridley townships. The
companies encamped at Camp Wayne, near West Chester, where Gov. Curtin
presented the state colors to the regiment on November 12, the day it left for
Washington. Shortly thereafter it was ordered to Fortress Monroe and sub-
sequently to Port Royal, South Carolina, arriving off the harbor December 11,
but was compelled by heavy weather to put out to sea, and disembarkation was
delayed for three days. In January, 1862, it took part in the expedition to
Warsaw Sound, Georgia, which resulted in the capture of Fort Pulaski, and

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on March 5 the 97th was landed from the transport in the Florida expedition,
capturing Fermandina and Fort Church. In March, Gen. Hunter, relieving
Gen. Sherman, ordered an evacuation of Florida. In a bold expedition to
Legarsville, South Carolina, in June, 1862, Company G (Broomall Guards)
and Company H occupied the town. In the Confederate attack at Secession-
ville, June 10, the 97th held the most exposed position and bore the brunt of
the fight until the gunboats could get into position and open an etfective fire.
The physical condition of the regiment in the fall of that year was very poor,
and its members suffered severely with intermittent fever, five hundred men
being on the sick list at one time, while there were also many cases of yellow
fever, a number of which proved fatal. In April, 1863, it was at Folly Island,
Charleston Harbor, during the bombardment of Fort Sumter. One of the
most humane acts in war history, and one which displayed the true bravery
and true courage of a band of soldiers, more than any fighting against odds,
or any other war peril could possibly do, was performed at the storming of
Fort Wagner. The 54th Massachusetts Regiment (colored) led the assaulting
column and suffered dreadfully under the murderous fire from the fort.
When the attack failed, Companies C and D (Concordville Rifles), stacked
their arms, and during the entire night busied themselves carrying off the
wounded colored soldiers, urged on in their work of mercy by Brig. Gen.
Stevenson with the oft repeated words, "You know how much harder they
will fare at the hands of the enemy than white men." With never a thought
of self, these men crawled to the very brink of the enemy's entrenchment.
dragging away the wounded black men. No nobler spectacle ever lightened
the dark days of the war. War may dull men's finer feelings, but then it
strengthened the bonds of human brotherhood, a gospel as old as creation.

The 97th was active in the siege of Fort Wagner, which was evacuated
the night of September 6, 1863. The following month it was ordered to Flori-
da, where it was engaged mainly in destroying Confederate supply stations.
In April, 1864, it was attached to the 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the
James, under Gen. Butler. On May 9 it led the advance on Petersburg, de-
tailed to destroy the railroad and telegraph wires : after the accomplishment
it was engaged at Swift Creek. When Beauregard, on the i8th, attacked the
Army of the James, the pickets of the 8th Maine were driven back and the
97th was ordered to retake the position, which was done under a hot and de-
structive fire of musketry. On the evening of the 19th, when four of the
companies had been driven back with fearful slaughter and the line broken,
the remainder of the regiment, including all of the Delaware county compan-
ies, was ordered to regain it. The attempt to obey the command was made
eagerly, and the line advanced steadily, despite holes torn in their ranks by
volleys of grape, canister, and a steady fusilade of musketry. At last they
were recalled, having sustained the awful loss of 200 killed and wounded.
Because of its well known calmness under fire and its dauntless courage, the
regiment was constantly in the advance, and on June 30th, Captain ]\Ienden-
hall, of Company D. (Concordville Rifles) with 300 men from the companies,

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was ordered to attack the enemy's works in front of the cemetery, to divert
the latter's attention from the real point of assault. The order was gallantly
obeyed, the works were captured and held until nightfall, although the real at-
tack was not made. Over one-third of the force under Mendenhall was either
killed or wounded. When the mine was exploded, July 30th, Captain Haw-
kins (Brooke Guards), in command of five companies, successfully charged
the enemy's riflepits, an attack in which Captain Mendenhall was wounded.

On the isth of August, the regiment took part in the action at Deep Bot-
tom, and on the i6th at Strawberry Plains. At Bermuda Hundred, on the
25th, it was attacked by the enemy while being relieved, and a part of its line
was captured, which, however, was shortly afterward retaken. It participated
September 28th, in the capture of New Market Heights, and the same dav in
the unsuccessful attack on Fort Gilmore. In a short engagement with the
enemy at Darbytown Roads, on October 27, 1864, Captain George W. Haw-
kins was mortally wounded. Here the relation of the 97th Regiment and Del-
aware county ceases, for the period of enlistment expired at the end of 1864,
and when the regiment was re-formed but little of its original elements re-
mained.

One Hundred Si.vfli Regiment. — The lorith Regiment was recruited in
Philadelphia during the late summer and early fall of 1861, forming part of
Eiaker's brigade. At the battle of Ball's Bluff, the io6th was just across the
Potomac on the Maryland side, but for want of transportation could not cross
to the assistance of the other division, which was overpowered by superior
numbers, Col. Baker being mortally wounded. At the battle of Fair Oaks it
supported Kirby's battery against Magruder's assault, the latter having sworn
to regain possession of the battery, as it had been formerly under his com-
mand in the United States army. Magruder's efforts, however, were unsuc-
cessful. .At Savage .Station, exposed to a severe and raking fire, it withstood
for nearly three hours every attack made against it. at one time being en-
gaged in a hand-to-hand conflict with the enemy. At Antietam the regiment
suffered greatlv. and at a fence near Dunker church one-third of the entire
body was stricken down in ten minutes. At the battle of Fredericksburg, De-
cember 13. 1862, it charged under a heavy fire to within seventy-five yards of
the enemy's works, and from noon until sundown held its ground, and on
May 3, 1863, came to the support of .Sedgwick, commanding the Sixth Corps,
at Salem Church, when the latter was engaged with overwhelming odds.

At Gettysburg the io(Sth arrived on the field at midnight of July i, and
took up a position behind the low stone wall on the right centre of the line in
front and to the left of Mead's headquarters. The next day, when Sickle-'
line was broken, the io6th was part of Webb's brigade, which marcherl to the
gap in the line. As it reached the crest of the hill, the enemy, less than sixty
yards away, was advancing to what seemed certain victory. The brigade,
giving one close volley of musketry, charged, striking the enemy on tlic left
flank and hurling back the advancing column, the lorith and two companies of
the 2nd New York pursuing them to the Emmitsburg road. The following

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day it was at Cemetery Hill, stationed on the right of the Baltimore Pike, near
Rickett's battery, and there remained under a terrific cannonade until the end
of the battle.

During the Wilderness campaign it saw a great deal of action, taking part
in Hancock's famous charge at Spottsylvania on the morning of May 12. It
was engaged in the battle at the North Anna ; and in the battle of Cold Har-
bor, the brigade of which the io6th was a part attempted to drive the enemy
from its entrenchment, but was unsuccessful. The troops, dropping to the
ground, remained there until night, when they threw up a breastwork which
they held. The last engagements participated in by the regiment were before
Petersburg, June 14, 1864, and the Jerusalem Plank Road a week later. The
regiment was mustered out of service September 10, 1864.

One Hundred Twelfth Regiment (2nd Artillery). — On the recommenda-
tion of Gen. McClellan, Charles Angeroth, of Philadelphia, in October, 1861,
was authorized by the Secretary of War to recruit a battalion of heavy in-
fantry, later enlarged to a regiment — the 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery,
1 1 2th of the line. On February 25, 1862, seven companies were ordered to
Washington, where they remained in the fortification until the spring of 1864.
By this time the regiment had been so increased that it numbered 3,300 men,
and was divided into two regiments. The second body, receiving the name
Second Provisional Heavy Artillery, was dispatched to the front, and as in-
fantry was assigned to the Ninth Corps. It participated in all the battles of
the Wilderness campaign and sustained great loss at Petersburg. In May,
1864, the original regiment was assigned to the 18th Army Corps, under Gen.
Baldy Smith, Army of the Potomac. The story of the two divisions of this
regiment entails a review of the year of battle ending with Lee's .surrender.
The Second division. Provisional regiment, was in hard service before Peters-
burg, losing about one thousand men in four months. It was part of the bri-
gade which charged into the crater when the mine was exploded and after
Fort Harrison had been captured, on September 29, 1864, the Second Penn-
sylvania Artillery and 89th New York were ordered to charge on Battery Gil-
more, a movement which was disastrous because of lack of proper support,
the 2nd .Artillery losing in killed, wounded and prisoners, 200 men. The his-
tory of the regiment is indeed honorable, and its light of valor was surely hid-
den under a bushel when for so many months it remained in inactivity at the
capitol, intrusted with the defence of the heart of the nation.

One Hundred Nineteenth Regiment. — Peter C. Ellmaker, under authori-
zation of Gov. Curtin, began recruiting for the 119th Pennsylvania, August
5th, 1862. William C. Gray, of Chester, had raised a company in Delaware
county, known as the Delaware County Guards, which he offered to the au-
thorities, to be credited to Delaware county, but was informed that the quota
was full and that the company could not be accepted. Captain Gray offered
the company to Col. Ellmaker, the offer was accepted, and the organization
became Companv E, 109th Regiment, .\ugust 10, 1862. Because of the dire
reed for troops, the regiment was ordered to Washington before its organi-

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zation was complete, and assigned to rluty at the arsenal. About the middle of
October it joined the Army of the Potomac, in camp near Antietam — ist Bri-
gade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps. Tiie regiment was in action first at
Fredericksburg, December 15, 1862, and although m a trying position and ex-
posed to a heavy artillery fire, maintained its ground like a veteran command.
Later, when the "Light Division" was formed, it was assigned to the 3d Bri-
gade, 1st Division, under Gen. Russell. On April 28, 1863, when Hooker ad-
vanced under cover of darkness, the brigade crossed the Rappahannock at
]!anks Ford on pontoon boats, drove back the Confederate pickets, and held
the right bank of the river. The following morning it moved forward and,
driving the enemy from the riflepits, held the same until May 3, when the Con-
federates retreated. The 119th and 95tli Pennsylvania regiments were de-
tached and marched along the plank road in the direction of Chancellorsville.
At Salem Church the 95th met the enemy, concealed in a wood, and a warm
engagement at close quarters followed. The iT9th, on the left of the road,
was met by a vastly superior force, but stoutly maintained its position, al-
though it suffered severely, losing 12 killed and 112 wounded out of 432 men.
The following day, Sedgwick, learning that Hooker had been defeated and
that the corps was outnumbered, recrossed the river.

The brigade was at Manchester. ^Maryland, when on July i, 1863, it was
hastily summoned to Gettysburg. At 9 o'clock that evening march was begim
and w^as continued without halt until four the following afternoon, when the
field of battle was reached. On the morning of July 3d it occupied the ex-
treme left of the line, in the rear of Round Top, to meet any attempted flank
movement, but nothing of the sort developing, the brigade was not engaged.
The next day it was stationed at Little Round Top, and on the 5th was in the
advance of the pursuit of the retreating army, with which it had a slight en-
counter at Fairfield. At this point pursuit was abandoned by ]vleade. but the
119th on July 13th came upon the enemy at Hagerstown, at once engaging
their skirmishers, but during the night the Confederates decamped. On No-
vember 7, 1863. the Confederates held a strong position at Rappahannock
Station, covering three pontoon bridges, when Gen. Russell, at his earnest re-
quest, was ordered to storm the woods. This he did in the face of a murder-
ous fire, and carried the intrenchments with a brilliant bayonet charge, cap-
turing the whole of the enemy. Public recognition was given to this gallant
rush by Gen. Meade in his order thanking the regiment for the capture of
four guns, 2000 small arms, eight battle flags, one bridge train and 1600 pris-
oners. The 119th lost seven killed and forty-three wounded in this short,
though fierce conflict. In the ^^'ildcrness campaign, on May 4th. 1864, the
brigade crossed the Rapidan at Germania Ford, and at noon on the following
clay entered the engagement, the i loth holding the centre. The fighting con-
tinued until nightfall, four color bearers being killed or wounded. On May
10 the fighting was very severe, and in a grand charge through a hail of bul-
lets, grape and canister, the colors of the regiment were planted on the ene-
my's works, but lacking support it was forced to fall back, suffering severely

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on the retreat. The regiment used two hundred rounds of ammunition to a
man in the terrific struggle, known as the "fjloody Angle," or the "Slaughter
Pen," on the 12th, where the fighting continued from seven in the morning
until sundown. In the eight days. May 4th-i2th, out of 400 men available for
duty, the regiment lost 215 killed and wounded. All during this time the 119th
was led by Captains Landell and Gray, Col. Clark resuming command of the
regiment on the 12th of the month.

At Cold Harbor, on June i, the brigade received orders to feel the posi-
tion of the enemy, and on the 12th lay within one hundred and fifty yards of
the Confederate line, under constant fire. Major Gray, who had been in com-
mand of the regiment from the ist to the 12th, and had directed it in all the
fierce fighting of that time, continued to do so at Bermuda Hundred and be-
fore Petersburg. When Early was in the Valley of the Shenandoah, the
Sixth Corps was dispatched to the support of his army. On September 19th,
at the battle of \\'inchester, the 119th drove the entire Confederate line for a
half a mile until its advance was checked by the latter's falling back into a
strong position. At 4 o'clock the Union line was strengthened, and. Sheridan
leading it forward, drove the enemy, utterly routed. On September 20. the
brigade was detached for garrison duty at Winchester, remaining there until
the following November.

At Petersburg, the 119th was highly distinguished, for, with no aid what-
ever and under a heavy fire from front and flank, it stormed and carried a
part of the enemy's intrenchments, capturing the ojiposing force, with artillery,
small arms and colors. Col. Clark had been wounded early in the action, and
the command developed tipon Lieut. Col. Gray. On the 6th the fleeing enemy
was overtaken in a strong position on Sailor's Creek, and the brigade, fording the
stream in water waistdeep, charged in a body, capturing the entire command.
.-Xfter marching to Danville, Virginia, to unite with Sherman's army, and after
the surrender of Johnston, the regiment returned to Washington, being mus-
tered out at Philadelphia, June 6th. On May 13, 1864, Major Gray was com-
missioned lieutenant-colonel by Gov. Curtin, and April 6, 1865, the president
gave him the rank of lieutenant-colonel by brevet, for gallant and meritorious
services before Petersburg and at the battle of Little Sailor Creek, March 10,
1865.

0/)(' Hundred Twenty-fourth Regiment. — The three companies of this
regiment recruited in Delaware county were Company B, (Delaware Cotinty
Fusileers), Captain Simon Litsenberg, Company D (Gideon's Band), Cap-
tain Norris L. Yarnall, and Company H (Delaware County Volunteers),
Captain James Barton, Jr. The regiment was for a time at Camp Curtin, but
before organizing was hurried forward on August 12, 1862, to Washington.
Here it was organized, with Joseph W. Hawley, of West Chester, as colonel;
Simon Litzenberg, captain of the Delaware County Fusileers, lieutenant-col-
onel; and Isaac Lawrence Haldeman (previously on Davis's staff) first lieu-
tenant of Gideon's Band, major; and was assigned to the ist Brigade, ist Di-
vision, I ith Corps. It reached Antietam creek on the evening of September

538 DELAWARE COUNTY

i6. 1862, having marched all day without rations, and the hungry men were-
about to receive provisions when an order came sununoning it to the support
of Hooker, on the right wing. The fighting began in the dull gray light of the
early morning, when company could hardly be distinguished from company.
As it grew lighter the struggle grew more fierce and steady combat ensued un-
til 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when, after positions had been lost and recap-
tured several times, the enemy's guns were finally silenced. The exhausted
men, who had been fighting for eight hours, on empty stomachs, were then or-
dered to the rear, where Gen. Hancock held them in readiness to support the
batteries on the right, and there passed the night. The regiment, in its first
battle, lost fifty men killed and wounded, among the latter being Col. Hawley.
The 124th was subsequently assigned to the brigade commanded by Gen.
Kane, and when it was transferred to the 12th Corps, Kane still continued its
brigade commander, in Geary's division. It took an active part in the disas-
trous campaign culminating at Chancellorsville. On May i, 1863, it held the-
right wing of the 12th Corps, and in the advance had pushed the enemy before
until it was in danger of being flanked, when it was ordered to retire to its
position of the evening previous. On May 2 it advanced along the Freder-
icksburg plank road, and the brigade, being unable to dislodge the enemy
from their intrenchments, returned to the breastworks, which thev had hardly
reached, when the demoralized nth Corps came rushing in from the extreme
right wing. Geary's division immediately formed to check the pursuing ene-
my, and from 10 o'clock in morning until 3 o'clock in the afternoon it held its
position well, until, outflanked, it was compelled to retire to a second position,
where it readily repulsed every attack. On the 6th it recrossed the Rappa-
hannock, and on May 9 was forwarded to Harrisburg, where it was dis-
charged on the 1 6th of the month, its term of service having expired.

One Hundred Fifty-second Rei/inicnt (Third Artillery). — The Dela-
ware county men recruited in this regiment were in the batteries ordered to
the front to take part in the siege of Petersburg, being posted on the Bermuda
front. The artillery regiments never received the full credit due them, be-
cause they never acted as a whole, although their conduct was just as gallant,
their behavior as soldierly, and their bravery as conspicuous as any other regi-
ment in the war.

One Hundred Sixtieth Regiment (Fifteenth Cavalry'). — William J. Pal-
mer began recruiting a battalion of cavalry in Pennsylvania in the earlv jiart
of .-Vugust, 1862. which was subsequently iru-reased to a full regiment. At
the time of Lee's crossing the Potomac and advancing into Maryland, 250
picked men were ordered to the front, the remainder of the regiment to re-
main in the Cumberland valley. The detachment in the -\ntietam campaign
did effective duty in skirmishing and scout work; and .'September 15 when
the Confederate troops were on the retreat from Hagerstown. it charged
through the village and captured thirty stragglers. The regiment was trans-
ported to Louisville, Kentucky, November 7, 1862, and a month later joined
Rosecrans at Nashville. On December 26. Rosecrans, then prejiaring to-

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give Bragg battle, ordered the 15th Cavalry to advance with Gen. Stanley's
division, but the greater ])art of the regiment stacked arms and refused to
obey the order. It is greatly to the credit of Delaware county that among
the three hundred men who, deferring all their real or imaginary grievances
until a future time for settlement, volunteered to go forward, were the fol-
lowing : Captain Edward Sellers ; Lieutenants Joseph R. Thomas, Edward C.
Smith. Annesley N. Morton; Sergeants Isaac Bartram, Simeon Lord, Jr.,
Marshall L. Jones, George W. Lukins, Geoffrey P. Denis, John W. Caldwell ;
Corporals Hiram P. Eves, Thomas A. Jones, Henry W. Pancoast, Benjamin
Bartram ; Privates Horatio D. Snyder, Andrew J. Buchanan, Richard
Pancoast, William Armstrong. Edward W. Jones, Augustus W. Markley,
Samuel Trimble, Charles P. Sellers, Joseph S. Bunting, and William P. Pow-
ell. The brave and loyal conduct of those three hundred volunteers from the
regiment on that occasion was the subject of a commendatory order issued by
Gen. Rosecrans, and the historian Bates mentions it as follows : "The con-
duct of the men who followed the gallant Rosegarten and Ward, even under
the most discouraging circumstances, and met death in the face of the foe,
will never cease to be regarded with admiration and gratitude."

Stanley, covering the entire right flank of the Union army with his com-
mand, attacked the enemy on the 27th, driving them nearly five miles, and on
the 29th, in the engagement at Wilkinson's Cross Roads, charged the greatly
superior force of the enemy and finally, overpowered, was compelled to retire,
although he made one more desperate effort to dislodge them. The detach-
ment suffered severely during the four days of the battle at Murfreesboro,
when it was constantly on duty. On January 20, 1863, Rosecrans submitted a
plan for the reorganization of the regiment, which was accepted, and the 15th
Cavalry was thoroughly organized and equipped. On April 4, after' its return
to camp from a successful scouting expedition, Rosecrans received the regi-
ment, expressing himself pleased with its good conduct and soldierly bearing
To show his good feeling toward the regiment, which had once taken excep-
tion to his orders, he detailed three of its companies to act as his personal es-
cort, while the remainder was instructed to scout and become acquainted with
the topography of the country in advance of the army. The regiment had be-
come so expert in scouting that in January, 1865, it was especially detailed to
watch the enemy, learn its movements, and harass its foraging parties. This
duty brought it into frequent contact with the enemy and its conduct was uni-
formly commendable and meritorious. In one bold dash it captured Gen.
Vance, part of his staff, 150 horses, and fifty men, besides recapturing twenty
Union baggage wagons and prisoners. A week afterwards it partially re-
peated this daring stroke by capturing eighteen wagons, ninety mules and sev-
enty-two of the enemy. The story of its many narrow escapes and death de-
fying escapades while scouting about the body of the enemy, reads like a book
of fiction, and the amount of information it was able to bring to the command-
ing general was of inestimable value, gaining frequent public praise from head-
<juarters and more than atoning for an error committed in its youth. In pur-

540 DELAWARE COUNTY

suit of Hood's demoralized troops after the battle of Nashville, it was emi-
nently successful and of great advantage to the Union cause, and on May 8,
1865, while searching for Jefferson Davis, near the banks of the Appalachee
and Oconee rivers, it captured seven wagons, one containing $188,000 in coin,
one with $1,588,000 in bank notes and other securities, one containing $4,000,-
000 of Confederate money, besides considerable specie, plate and valuables,
belonging to private citizens in Macon. Two days later Company G captured
Gen. Bragg, his wife and staff officers. At the close of the war the regiment
went to Nashville, where it was mustered out of service. May 21, 1865.

One Hundred Eiglity-cighlh Regiment. — Delaware county was repre-
sented in Companies B, C, F, E and H of the 188th Regiment, recruited out of
the artillery in- 1864 as infantry and assigned to the i8th Corps, 3rd lOivision.
It participated in the battle of Proctor's Creek, May 10, 1864, and June 1 was
engaged at Cold Harbor, where it suffered heavily. On June 16 it was in the
battle before I^etersburg, and on the 28th it was in the force which charged
and captured Fort Harrison, turning the guns of the fort U|)un the fleeing
enemy. The same day it attacked Fort Gilmore, but was repulsed, the killed
amounting to nearly sixty, and the wounded to more than one hundred. It
was mustered out of service December 14, 1865.

One Hundred Ninety-seventh Regiment. — This regiment was recruited
under the auspices of the Coal Exchange Association of Philadelphia, and
was known as the Third Coal Exchange Regiment. It was organized at Camp
Cadwalader, July 22, 1864, with Captain John Woodock, of Delaware county,
major, and many Delaware county men in Companies A and I. Shortly after
organization it was ordered to Mankin's Woods, near P)altimore, and instead
of being sent to the front as the regiment, mostly veterans, hoped, it was or-
dered to Rock Island, Illinois, where it was assigned to guarding prisoners of
vvar. There were 9000 prisoners detained therein, and the <Iuties of the iQ/th
.vere so constant and arduous that the service bore almost as heavily upon
the men as an active campaign, barring, of course, the casualities of battle.
Immediately after the regiment's arrival at Rock Island, Captain Barton was
appointed assistant provost marshal of the island, in which capacity he had
direct charge over the prisoners. The prison covered about forty acres, sur-
rounded by a board fence ten feet high, beyond which was a trench twelve
feet wide, filled with water. The guard was mounted on an elevated platform
on the outside of the fence, while within were barrack? for the accommoda-
tion of the inmates. The prisoners were provided with comfortable clothing
and food from the same larder which fed the men of the regiment, but, not-
withstanding the excellent treatment, the incarceration broke many a proud
Southern spirit, and melancholia and nostalgia were diseases far more destruc-
tive than an epidemic of fever, many deaths resulting therefrom. On Novem-
ber II, 1864, the 197th was mustered out of service at Philadelphia.

One Hundred Ninety-eighth- Regiment. — This regiment, which niunhered
forty-three Delaware county men among the number of Company K. was re-
cruited under the auspices of the Union League in Philadelphia, in the sum-

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mer of 1864. It required five weeks to fill its ranks. On the morning of Sep-
tember 19th it was reviewed before the League House, presented by that as-
sociation with regimental colors, and immediately proceeded to Petersburg,,
where it became part of the ist Brigade, 5th Division, ist Corps, Army of the
Potomac. On September 30, it participated in the battle of Peebles Farm,
and was hardly in position when the enemy opened upon it with a heavy artil-
lery and musketry fire, but holding its ground it finally gathered for a c/iargt
and drove the enemy from its first line of ivorks.

On October 2 it held its lines under a fierce attack and severe fire. At
the battle of Hatcher's Run, February 5, 1863, at 3 o'clock, the 3rd Brigade
was being hard pressed when the igSth was ordered to its relief by Gen.
Sickles, and. crossing an open field at doublequick it fell upon IMahone's "fight-
ing brigade." The enemy was repulsed, but during the night succeeded in cap-
turing a part of the Union line by a massed attack. At the first alarm the
198th delivered a volley, and with muskets clubbed and bayonets drawn,
charged the enemy in a hand-to-hand conflict, driving them back and regain-
ing the works. At the battle of Lewis's Farm, March 29, the 198th encount-
ered the enemy near the old saw mill, and, side by side with the 184th New
York, charged the enemy across a clear field of one thousand yards, led by
Gen. Sickles. The entire fire was reserved until close to the fortifications,
when an effectual volley was given and the foe dislodged. The regiment's
loss was appalling, it being learned later that three of the best Confederate
brigades had opposed the Union troops in that engagement.

On March 31 it was in action at White Oaks Swamp and Five Forks. Its
last battle was fought April ist, when, after the Union assault had failed.
Gen. Chamberlain, commanding the division, rode to Major Glenn, command-
ing the 198th, and asked, "Major, can you take those works and hold them?"
The latter, turning to his forces, inquired "Boys, will you follow me?" and
dashed forward, his troops following to a man. Twice, the color bearer was
shot down, but the standard, caught up by another, was carried forward and
planted on the enemy's works. For this magnificent deed Chamberlain pro-
moted Glenn on the field, but the latter had little opportunity to enjoy his new-
ly won honors, for later in the day he was fatally wounded. The regiment
was mustered out of service at Arlington Heights, June 3, 1865.

Tzi'O Hundred Third Regiment. — Delaware county was represented in
the 203rd Regiment by Company B, nearly all of which was recruited as sharp-
shooters for Gen. Birney's division, but upon the General's death they were
disposed of as ordinary infantry. It was organized September 10, 1864, and
on the 27th reached the army before Petersburg, being assigned to the 2nd
Brigade, 2nd Division, loth Corps, the same day. In the action at Chapin's
Farm and New Market Road, the 203rd was employed in picketing Malvern
Hill and escorting prisoners. On October 7 it participated in the battle, repuls-
ing the enemy's assaults, and on the 27th was in action on the Darlington road.
When the Army of the James was reorganized the 203rd was part of the 2nd
Brigade, 2nd Division, 24th Corps. On December 13, 1864. it embarked on trans-

542 DELAWARE COUNTY

ports at Fortress Monroe and accompanied the naval expedition under Ad-
miral Porter for the reduction of Fort Fisher, North Carolina. On January 15,
1865, when the attack on the fort was made, the regiment was in the Penn-
sylvania brigade which drove the enemy from the palisadings. The 203rd
charged through an opening in the face of two guns, which it captured, carry-
ing traverse after traverse, and when the 4th was charged. Col. Moore, his
regiment flag in one hand and his sword in the other, fell dead while urging
on his men. The fight continued from 3.30 in the afternoon until far into
the night, when the enemy finally yielded. In this memorable assault the colo-
nel, lieutenant-colonel, one captain and a lieutenant were killed, and two cap-
tains and four lieutenants wounded, among the wounded being Captain Benja-
min Brooke, of Company B. Admiral Porter, in his report, pays this tribute
to the men under his indirect command : "Fort Fisher was really stronger than
the Malakofif Tower, which defied so long the combined powers of England
and France, and yet it was captured by a handful of men under the fire of the
guns of the fleet, and in seven hours after the attack commenced in earnest."

On February 11, 1865, the regiment was in the advance on Wilmington,
thrown out as skirmishers, and succeeded in getting possession of the riflepits
in front of the enemy's works, but owing to the swampy ground and the
dense underbrush the line of battle could not advance. Hence the regiment in
the pits could not withdraw until night, when with cautions stealth they with-
drew, a few at a time. The works were finally captured by a flank movement
and the enemy compelled to abandon its fortifications. The 203rd was in ac-
tive service in all the movements in North Carolina until Johnston's surrender,
when it was assigned to duty at Raleigh, where on June 22, 1865, it was
mustered out of service. Captain Brooke, on June 22, 1865, was promoted
to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

Two Hundred Thirteenth Regiment. — This regiment was recruited, as was
the 198th, under the auspices of the Union League .Association of Philadel-
phia, and was organized March 2, 1865. On the 4th it was ordered to Annap-
■olis, Maryland, where it was assigned to duty in guarding Camp Parole, part
of it being ordered to Frederick City to protect the lines of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad. In April it was stationed at Washington, where it remained
guarding the northern defenses of the city until November 18, 1863, when
it was mustered out of service.

Delaware County Militia. — The northern invasion by Gen. Lee, begun
September 5, 1862, aroused in Pennsylvania almost as much excitement as
had the first announcement of war. It was believed that Lee in his advance
through Maryland would gather many hitherto inactive sympathizers with the
Southern cause to his standard, and, thus strengthened, march northward in
invincible array, carrying everything liefore him and leaving in his wake
such dreary desolation as had followed in the path of many a Union army in
the south. In consequence of these forebodings. Gov. Curtin, of Pennsyl-
vania, on September 4, 1862. ordered more military organizations to be
formed, and a week later called 50,000 of the state militia to the field. The old

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■state had responded nobly indeed when the danger was far from her door,
-but now that the enemy was at hand her exhausted supply of men seemed to
be magically renewed, and company after company of militia was organized.
William Frick, at that time a leading business man of Chester, within a few
hours after the call was issued, hastened to Harrisburg to tender his services
to the state in any capacity in which he might be used. Gov. Curtin imme-
diately appointed him colonel of the 3rd Regiment of ^lilitia, but he declined
pleading that his knowledge of military tactics and movements was too im-
perfect to permit of the proper handling of so large a body of men, but upon
the Governor insisting that he should at least be major of the organization,
he was mustered into service in that capacity.

Sunday, as a day for religious services, was not observed in Delaware
county on September 14, 1862, and it is believed that the Recording Angel will
pardon the oversight, for all day preparations for sending the companies to
the front were being made. On Monday, May 15, a company was fully re-
cruited at Media, with Hon. J. M. Broomall as captain, which after being
mustered in, left the following day for Harrisburg. The same day the Ches-
ter Guards, commanded by Captain William R. Thatcher, and the Mechanic
Rifles, of Chester, Captain Jonathan Kershaw, left for the state capital. The
two latter companies were equipped partly by the borough, which appropriated
$1500 by public subscription. In Upper Darby, the Darby Rangers, Captain
Charles A. Litzenberg; a company from Thornbury and Edgemont, under
Captain James Wilcox ; the Delaware County Guards of Concord and Aston,
Captain John H. Barton ; and the Upland Guards, Captain James Kirkman,
were also dispatched to designated rendezvous. The last named organization
had recruited so many men from the mills at Upland that the factories of that
place were compelled to close, as every able bodied operator had left for the
front. The blankets for the militia were supplied by Samuel Bancroft, of
Upper Providence, who declined to receive any compensation whatever. While
it is impossible in this work to pay tribute to all of the citizens of the county
who either by their services or financial assistance served the Union cause, it
is fitting at this point to say that nowhere in the state was there a more spon-
taneous answer to appeals for financial aid, and that on September ist, 1862.
' Delaware county had sent more men to the front, in proportion to its popula-
tion, than any other county in the state. The troops from this section were,
after arriving in Harrisburg, assigned to various regiments and hastened to
Camp McClure, at Chambersburg. The leaders seriously considered, just be-
fore the battle of Antietam. sending militia over the border line into Maryland
and advancing them as far as Hagerstown, that they might be within support-
ing distance of Hagerstown. The companies were informed of this plan and
told that if the move was made, none but volunteers would be taken for-
ward. Again the Delaware county contingents responded bravely, less than a
dozen signifying their intention of remaining behind. However, after the
Union victory of September 17, 1862, when Lee retreated across the Potomac,
the crisis having passed, the militia was relieved from further field service. Al-

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though never in actual battle, the value of the moral support thus rendered to
the L'nion cause was inestimable, for besides the encouragement it ofifered to
the leaders of the regular army, it had its effect upon foreign nations, who,
had the outcome been different, or had the North suffered invasion with in-
difference, might have recognized the Confederate government.

Iliiicrgcncy Troops. — Hooker's defeat at Chancellorsville in May, 1863,
once more aroused the hopes of tlie Confederate leaders that a bold, quick in-
vasion of the northern states might terminate the war and compel the north
to submit to terms of southern dictation. Gov. Curtin, who had all through
the war kept in close touch with its every move, saw the threatening danger
and began preparations to check its advance. Therefore, on June 12th, he
issued proclamation asking the people of Pennsylvania to cooperate with him
in raising a home force for the protection of the state. The mass of the peo-
ple had been deceived so many times by threatened Confederate invasion, that
the Governor's plan met with little favor and much opposition. It became so
evident, however, that such was the intention of the enemy, that on June 15,
1863, President Lincoln called for 100.000 militia from four states, Pennsyl-
vania's quota being placed at 50,000 men. A short time before midnight on the
15th, a Confederate force occupied Chambersburg. On Monday, June 15th,
authentic information was received that Lee had invaded Pennsylvania, and
for a second time since the initial call for volunteers, Delaware county was
plunged into wildest excitement. In Chester a meeting was immediately held
and a company recruited, the Chester and Linwood Guards consolidating, and
many of the citizens, fully awake to the gravity of the situation, hastened to
Philadelphia, these uniting with military organizations. In the Crozer United
States Hospital at Upland, eighty convalescent Union soldiers and several
men from Bancroft's Mills in Nether Providence, formed a company, with
Lieutenant Frank Brown, of the 12th New Jersey, as commanding officer, and
departed for Harrisburg the next day. On Wednesday they were ordered to
return, transportation having been refused them at Philadelphia on the ground
that they were in no fit physical condition to endure the rigors of a campaign.

At Media, conditions were much the same as at Chester. On Wednes-
day, the 17th, messengers were sent in all directions to summon the people,
and the court house bell rang out a general alarm, so that at noon a vast as-
semblage gathered in the court-room, ami steps at once taken for the enroll-
ment of companies. That evening a company collected by Judge M. Broomall
started for Harrisburg, Dr. D. A. Vernon and nearly every member of the
Delaware County American staff volunteered and went to the front. The fol-
lowing day the Delaware county companies of the 124th Regiment, mustered
out a month previously, again offered their services and left that night for
the capital of the state, Company 1'.. Captain Woodcock, and Company D,
Captain Yarnall. The ranks not being filled, Lieutenant Buckley remained at
Media to collect the recruits, following on Monday, the 21st, with a number of
men. Captain James Wilcox, with a company from Glenn Mills, and Captain
Benjamin Brooks, with a company from Radnor, left for Harrisburg on the

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17th. John C. Beatty, of Springfield, suspended operations at his edge tool
works that his employees might enlist. When the news was received at Darby
on ^Monday, a strawberry festival was being held, which was immediately
turned into a meeting and a full company organized. While the company
was being recruited at the one end of the grounds, subscriptions were sought
at the other for the support of the families of those who would enlist. The
troops went to the front the following Wednesday morning, commanded by
Captain Charles Andrews. At Lenni, thirty men joined the Media company,
and on Wednesday a meeting was held at Black Horse, in Middletovvn, wher'.'
a number of men enlisted. At Chester about fifty colored men volunteered to
raise a company of their race, an offer which was not accepted.

The real seriousness of the condition of affairs was brought home to the
public when on the afternoon of June 26th, Gordon's brigade of Early's divi-
sion of Lee's army, occupied Gettysburg and moved onward toward Hanover
and York. On that day Gov. Curtin issued a proclamation calling 60,000 mili-
tia to the field for forty days. Wild rumors filled the air, growing with each
repetition, and none so wild but that it found ready ears to listen and willing
lips to pass it on. On Sunday, the 28th, it was reported at Media that a Con-
federate force was marching toward Philadelphia, having come as far as Ox-
ford already. Intense excitement and anxiety prevailed. By the discharge of
cannon and the pealing of bells the townspeople were called to assemble. H.
Jones Brooke was chairman of the meeting, with B. F. Baker secretary,
Charles R. Williamson and Frederick Fairlamb collected $2300 to be used in
the payment of bounties to induce enlistment and, when the people gathered,
the fund was largely increased, Mr. Fairlamb pledging $1000 beyond the
amount he had already contributed, if it were necessary. The greatest con-
sternation prevailed after the report of the Confederate advance. Plate and
valuables were packed for instant flight, and the money in the vaults of the
Chester bank was collected and carted away by the officers of that institution ■
to Philadelphia in order that it might be transported to New York. In Ches-
ter, on Monday, June 29th, a meeting of the citizens was held in the town hall,
and, council being assembled, appropriated $10,000 for the maintenance of the
families of volunteers. In answer to a call for additional men, in an hour
eighty men enrolled under Captain William Frick. The store of George Bak-
er was compelled to close for the reason that he and all in his employment en-
listed in the ranks. Next day the company left for Harrisburg, its ranks
swollen to over a hundred men. At Upland, on Monday morning, the 29th,
the people gathered by common impulse, and in a trice a company of seventy-
two was recruited, with George K. Crozer as captain.. On Wednesday it
went to Philadelphia, where it was attached to the 45th Regiment, Pennsyl-
vania Militia (First L'nion League Regiment), Col. Frank Wheeler, and en-
camped for a day or two at the Falls of the Schuylkill. The regiment was
soon ordered to Shippensburg, then to Greencastle, near the Maryland line,
and after the retreat of Lee was stationed at Pottsville, returning home Satur-
day, August 22, 1863, having served longer than any other Delaware county
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C()ni])any of militia. At Rockdale and Lcnni a cc)ni])any of tifty men was re-
cruited in addition to the number already raised, and on Tuesday, July 2, was
forwarded to the state capital. In fifteen days after President Lincoln's call
on Pennsylvania of June 15, more than Delaware county's quota were on their
way to Harrisburg. Pver one thousand militiamen had been gathered to meet
this new emergency.

In the meantime the Army of the Potomac was advancing steadily to
meet Lee, who, learning of their approach, summoned his widely spread forces
to concentrate at Gettysburg. Here he awaited the Union army, and while
the militia waited for orders at Harrisburg, the armies of the north and of the
south met death in a grapple at Gettysburg, and there men's bodies were
strewn over the fields in more careless profusion than seed had been formerly
strewn, and were watered by their blood as plentifully as spring showers mois-
tened the crops in peaceful days. Here the battle was fought that dwarfed the
slaughters of the Old World, that made Agincourt, Waterloo and Marathon
seem but as a skirmishing of picket lines, and here the whole tide of the war
turned in favor of the north, while the gallant southern soldiers, defeated
in body but unconquered in spirit, retreated, to fight for two years with a
courage that was admirable, for a lost cause.

The militia companies from Delaware county were distributed as follows :
Company C (Captain Broomall), Company F (Captain Woodcock), Com-
pany G (Captain Bunting), Company A (Captain x\ndrews), and Company
[ (Captain Piatt, Captain Yarnall having been appointed lieutenant-colonel;,
were assigned to the 29th Regiment, and stationed for a time at Huntingdon.
Comiiany G (Captain Brooke) was assigned to the 28th Regiment, Company
A (Captain Frick), and Company F (Captain Huddleson), joined the 37th
and were at Harrisburg, Carlisle, Shippensburg, and on the Maryland line;
while Company F (Captain Black), was assigned to the 47th, Col. Wicker-
sham, and was stationed at Williamsport, afterwards at Reading, and later
in the mining regions of Schuylkill county, where outbreaks were feared. .-\11
the companies from Delaware county returned between the ist and 5th of
August, excepting Captain Crozer's, which, as has been said, was kept in ser-
vice three weeks longer.

'In addition to the service of Delaware county companies in the regi-
ments named, there were many men from Delaware county, who entered and
served in other Pennsylvania regiments and in regiments from other states.
Ten [jhysicians from the county served as surgeons in army and navy, and
Delaware countians served in the 6th California, 48th Illinois, 6th New Jer-
(iey, 43rd Pennsylvania (ist Artillery), 64th Pennsylvania (4th Cavalry),
65th Pennsylvania (5th Cavalry), 66th Pennsylvania, 17th Pennsylvania (6th
Cavalry, Rush's Lancers), 71st Pennsylvania (California three years service),
72nd Pennsylvania, 77th Pennsylvania (Baxter's Zouaves), 88th Pennsyl-
vania, 8(jth Pennsylvania, 95th Pennsylvania, onth Pennsylvania, 11, ^h Penn-
sylvania, 1 18th Penn-ylvania. i6ist Pennsylvania. i8ist Penn,■^ylvania. Ser-

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vice in these regiments was arduous and many of their killed and wounded
were men from Delaware county.

As soon as the government announced that colored men would be re-
cruited, a number of men of that color, living in Delaware county, enlisted,
although no colored company was enlisted from the county. The colored sol-
diers served in the regular United States army in the 3rd, 6th, 13th, 32nd,
177th regiments, and in the 54th Massachusetts. Drafts were made in several
of the townships in Delaware county, the last time the fatal wheel turning
being April 7, 1865. The men who were drafted in Upper and Lower Chi-
chester responded and the greater part of them were held for service. On
April 13, Secretary Stanton ordered all enlistments and drafting discontinued
in every part of the country, and on April 25 the drafted men of Delawai ';
county were ordered to return to their homes.

The Navy. — It is extremely difficult to treat the subject of the naval rep-
resentatives of Delaware county who took part in the Civil War, with any de-
gree of thoroughness, for the reason that enlistments in the navy were not
made, as in the army, in bodies. An entire company was not assigned to one
ship, probably but a few from the same county seeing service on the same
vessel. It will, therefore, be impossible to mention the numerous enlistments,
but only to give a brief sketch of the county's sons who have gained a degree
of prominence in the service. The most noted family in the county whosf
name appears in naval warfare annals of the United States, is the Porter fam-
ily, those remarkable sea captains — Commodore David, the father ; William
David, Admiral David D. and Lieutenant Henry Ogden, his sons. The county
likewise claims credit for Admiral Farragut, the hero of Mobile and New
Orleans, who resided in Chester at the time of his appointment, and who was
there educated.

The most noted of Porters to serve in the navy was Admiral David D.
Porter, who is said to have been born in Philadelphia in 1813, but in a letter
regarding the date stone on the Porter (Lloyd) house in Chester, he speaks of
Chester as his birthplace. His boyhood was spent in Chester, and in 1829
he entered the United States navy as midshipman. He took part in the Mexi-
can war, was in command of the Powhattan, of the Gulf Squadron, in 1861.
He commanded the mortar boat fleet in the attack on the forts defending New
Orleans in 1862, and did valiant service on the Mississippi and Red rivers in
1863 and 1864. He was a conspicuous figure at the siege of Vicksburg, and
was there created a rear-admiral. In i8fi4 he was in command of the North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron and rendered most important service at Fort
Fisher, in January, 1865. In i86fi he was created vice-admiral, and in 1876
admiral. His father. Captain David Porter, was one of the brightest orna-
ments of the early LTnited States navy, and in the Essex, which he rendered
famous in a battle with two British war vessels off the coast of Chili, he cap-
tured many prizes during the war with England, 1812-1814.

William David, brother of Admiral David D. Porter, was also a noted
naval commander in the Civil War, and was so badly scalded by escaping

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steam that he ultimately died of its effects, May i, 1864. This was in the at-
tacks on Forts Henry and Donelson. Later, though in feeble health, he ran
the batteries between Cairo and New Orleans, took part in the attack on
Vicksburg, destroyed the dreaded ram "Arkansas," near Baton Rouge, and as-
sisted in the attack on Port Hudson.

Theodoric Porter, another brother of the admiral, was killed in a skirm-
ish with the Mexicans, April 18, 1846. It is said that he stayed out of camp
the night before the battle of Palo Alto, and that his body was found the next
morning, with several dead Mexicans lying around him.

Another brother, Henry Ogden Porter, was acting lieutenant in the navy
during the Civil War, and fought his vessel, the gunboat "Hatteras," off Mo-
bile, in an engagement with the "Alabama," until she sank, her flag proudly
flying as she disappeared beneath the wave. He was rescued and died near
Washington about 1870,

Another brother, Hamilton, was lieutenant in the navy, died of yellow
fever, August 10, 1844. These Porter boys lived in Chester, and after the
marriage of David Porter to Evelina, daughter of Major William Anderson,
they lived in the historic old Lloyd house in Chester, purchased by Major An-
derson and conveyed to David Porter, February 24, 1816. After the Por-
ters ceased to use it as a residence, it passed through a variety of tenants un-
til 1862, when it was leased to Prof. Jackson, a manufacturer of fireworks.
On Friday morning, February 17, 1882, fire was discovered in the kitchen of
the old building, and later an explosion of powder stored in the building, kill-
ing eighteen and wounding fifty-seven persons.

Commodore Pierce Crosby, of Chester, entered the navy June 5, 1838,
as midshipman, and at the outbreak of the Civil War held the rank of lieu-
tenant. He was employed in Chesapeake Bay and the sounds of Carolina, and
was complimented by Gen. Butler for his conduct at the capture of Forts Hat-
teras and Clark. In April, 1862, he was in command of the gunboat "Pinola,"
and during the night of the 23rd that vessel and the "Itasca" led the fleet when
Farragut determined to run by Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and broke
through the barrier of chains stretched across the Mississippi at these forts.
He was at the capture of New Orleans, .^pril 25, 1862, and when Farragut
and his fleet ran the batteries at Vicksburg, June 30, and returned July 15,
the same year, Crosby, in command of his vessel, shared in the glory of that
daring deed. On September 13, 1862, he was promoted to captain, and dur-
mg the year 1863-64, did effective service in command of the "Florida" and
"Keystone State." Rear Admiral Thatcher, in his dispatches of April 12 to
the Navy Department, said, "I am much indebted to Commodore Crosby, who
has been untiring in freeing the Blakeley river of torpedoes, having succeeded'
in removing one hundred and fifty. A service demanding coolness, judgment
and perseverance." In the year 1872 he was in command of the frigate
"Powhattan," and in 1877 was ordered to the navy yard at Leagtte Island, re-
taining command there until 1881.

Commodore DeHavcn Manley, son of Charles D. Mauley, entered the

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United States navy September 25, 1856, and rose step by step until he reached
the rank of commander April 5, 1874.

Captain Henry Clay Cochran was appointed second lieutenant in the
Marine Corps, and passed the examination August 29, 1861, but his youth \)re-
vented his being at once commissioned. He served as master's mate until
March 10, 1863, when he was commissioned second lieutenant. On October
20, 1865, he was i)romoted first lieutcnaiU. During the war he was in active
"service under Admirals Goldsborough, Dupont, Farragut, Porter and Lee, in
the Atlantic Gulf and Mississippi squadrons.

CASUALTIES TO DELAWARE COUNTIANS.

Twenty-sixth Regiment. — Company K — John F. Mekins, capt., killed at Bull Run, Aug.

29, 1862; George W. Rosevelt, sergt., wounded, loss of leg, at Gettysburg; Samuel P.
Morris, sergt., died of wounds, Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 ; Nathan R. Van Horn, corp., killed
at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863; James L. Gelsten, corp., killed at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863;
Isaac Bird, corp., died of wounds, Spottsylvania C. H., May 15, 1864; Henry Abbott,
wounded at Bull Run, Aug. 29, 1862; Lewis Bail, wounded at Spottsylvania, May 15, 1864;
George Brannon, wounded at Bull Run, Aug. 29, 1862; Lewis Bail, died at Andersonville,
June 19, 1864, grave 2180; James T. Bell, died of wounds, Spottsylvania, May 15, 1864;
John Derlin, killed at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863; Constantine Fuget, wounded at Gettysburg,
July 2, 1863 ; Brinton Fryer, wounded at Fair Oaks, June 23, 1862 ; James Gleason, died of
wounds, Spottsylvania C. H., May 15, 1864: William Hayes, wounded at Spottsylvania,
May 10, 1864; James Higgens. killed at Bull Run, Aug. 29, 1862; John McClem, died at
Yorktown, Va., April 21, 1862; Samuel Pullen, wounded at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862;
William Phillips, wounded at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863; Andrew Phillips, died of
wounds, Spottsylvania C. H., May 15, 1864; William Rambo, wounded at Gettysburg, July
2, 1863; George Roan, killed at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863; Charles Shut, died at Washington,
D. C, May 23, 1864, buried in Military Asylum Cemetery; Benjamin F. Sutch, wounded at
Spottsylvani.i, May 15, 1864; Francis Scott, wounded at Bull Run, Aug. 29, 1862; Henry
Smith, died at Andersonville, Aug. 20, 1864: George Toner, wounded at Mine Run, Nov.
27, 1863; George Wood, killed at Gettysburg. July 2, 1863; James Welsh, died of wounds,
Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863.

Thirtieth Regiment (First Reserves).— Company A — Edward Blaine, wounded at
Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862.

Company C— John H. Taylor, 2nd lieut., killed at South Mountain, Sept. 14, 1862;
George McAflfee, corp., wounded at Bull Run, Aug. 30, 1862; Harry Hobaugh, died Oct.

30, 1861; R. Mills, died May 31, 1864, of wounds; Thomas McGarvey, died May 31. 1864,
of wound; James Police, died Nov. 10, 1862, of wounds; J. T. Schofield, killed at
Bethesda Church, May 30, 1864; William H. Taylor, wounded at South Mountain, Sept.
14, 1862; Alfred G. Webb, killed at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862; Solomon Wesler,
killed at Spottsylvania C. H., Dec. 13, 1864.

Company F— Charles F. Sh'eaflf, ist sergt., died Aug., 1862; John Fitzgerald, sergt.,
died Dec. 22, 1863; Henry Briggs, wounded at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862; Isaiah Budd,
died at Gettysburg, Aug. i, 1863; Henry Bailey, killed at Mechanicsville, June 26, 1862;
James Clark, wounded June 30, 1862 ; Charles W. Cheetham, killed at Charles City Cross
Roads, June 30, 1862 ; James Glass, killed accidentally, Camp Pierpont, Va., Nov., 1861 ;
James Gorman, killed at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862; John Howard, died of wounds, Charles
City Cross Roads, June 30, 1862 ; John Kilroy, killed at Bull Run, Aug. 30, 1862 : Haines
J. Kernes, died at Harrison's Landing. Aug. 13, 1862; Michael Maklem. killed at Spott-
sylvania C. H., May 12, 1864; Joseph Mills, died at Baltimore, July 10. 1864; John
McDade, wounded at South Mountain, Sept. 14, 1862; James Oakes, wounded at An-

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tietam, Sept. 17, 1862; John C. Roberts, died in military prison, date nnknown ; John
Stewart, killed accidentally, at Camp Pierpont, Va., Nov., 1861 ; Edward Smith, killed at
Mechanicsvillc. June 26, 1862; James Wyatt, killed at Charles City Cross Roads, June
30, 1S62.

Fifty-eighth Regiment.— Carnxmny A — Thomas Bnsh, died at Richmond, Va., Feb.

28, 1865; Thomas Hardy, died at Washington, N. C, March 5, 1864; William Vantine,
killed in action, April 29, 1863. Company B— Theodore Blakeley, capt., killed at Fort
Harrison, Va., Sept. 29, 1864.

Sixtieth Regiment (Third Cavalry) .—Company 1— James Aides, wounded Oct. 15,
1863, died in service, date unknown. Company F— John O'Brien, died at Philadelphia,
Oct. 25, 1863. Company M — Benj. McDonald, sergt., died Sept. 12, 1861, of wounds
received accidentally.

Ninety-seventh Regiment.— Company D (Concordville Rifles)— W. S. Mendenhall,
capt., wounded at. Bermuda Hundred, Va., May 20, and Petersburg, July 30, 1864; Isaac
Fawkes, ist lieut., died May 20, 1864, of wounds, buried in National Cemetery, City Point,
Va., sec. A, div. I, grave 88; Henry Odiorne, ist lieut., died January 16, of wounds
received at Fort Fisher, N. C, Jan. 15, 1865; David W. Odiorne, ist lieut., wounded, Sept.

29, 1864; John W. Brooks, 2nd lieut., wounded May 18, 1864; Philip E. Hannum, isi
sergt., wounded May 18, 1864; David Morrow, sergt., wounded at Bermuda Hundred,
Va., May 20, 1864; William McCarty, sergt., wounded Sept. 29, 1864, and at Fort Fisher,
Jan. 15, 1865: Samuel McBride, sergt., wounded at Bermuda Hundred, May 20, 1864;
Isaac Sapp, sergt., wounded May 18, July 30, August 4 and 16, 1864, died March 12, 1865,
buried in National Cemetery, City Point, Va., sec. A, div. 3, grave 36; David H. Freas,
Corp., died at Point Lookout. Md., of wounds received at Bermuda Hundred, May 20,
1864; John Goodwin, corp., wounded at Bermuda Hundred, May 20, 1864; Jacob H. Hall,
Corp., wounded at Bermuda Hundred, May 20, 1864; Tliomas Rutter, corp., wounded
Sept. 29, 1864; John W. Carter, corp., wounded May 18, 1864; John Jorden, corp.,
wounded May 18 and Sept. 29, 1864; Isaac N. Stout, Corp., wounded at Bermuda Hun-
dred, May 20, 1864; Harnien B. Cloud, musician, wounded Sept. 3, 1864; Robert Buriey,
wounded at Petersburg, June 30, 1864 ; James Beaumont, wounded June 3 and August
16; Robert Babe, wounded, with loss of foot, Bermuda Hundred, May 20, 1864; William
W. Bullock, wounded Aug. 26, 1864; James Barr, wounded May 18, 1864; James S.
Bullock, wounded May 18, 1864; Charles H. Blew, wounded May 18 and June 30, 1864;
Joseph Baker, died at Hilton Head, S. C, July 25, 1862; Joseph Booth, died at Morris
Island, S. C, Oct. 3. 1863 ; James Brierly, died May 20. 1864, of wound received in action,
with loss of leg: Henry A. Cloud, wounded at Deep Bottom, Va., Aug. i6, 1864; Charles
S. Cloud, died near Petersburg, Va., July i, of wounds received June 30, 1864; John
Dowling, wounded at Petersburg, July 30, 1864 ; Emanuel Derckman, wounded at Deep
Bottom, Va., Aug. 16, 1864; Benj. Davis, died at Hilton Head, S. C, Sept. 10, 1862;
Samuel Drake, died at Edisto Island, S. C, June 8, 1862; Joseph L. Eyre, killed on picket
at Morris Island, S. C, August 4, 1863; Abner Frame, wounded May 18, 1864; William
H. Griffith, wounded Sept. 29, 1864; James Geary, wounded at Darbytown road, Va.,
1864; James Hamilton, wounded July 26. 1864; Richard S. Howarth, wounded June 16,
1864; Levi Hadficld, wounded June 16. 1864; Edward H. Hogg, wounded June 6, 1864;
Michael Hafner, burial record, died June 17, 1865, buried in Cypress Hill Cemetery, Long
Island; Sniilli Jnnes. wounded July 3, 1864; William H. Kelly, died Aug. 29, 1864, of
wounds received near Petersburg, Va., buried in National Cemetery, City Point, sec. D,
div. I. grave 2: Thomas M. Lancaster, died at St. Helena Island, S. C, Dec. 29, 1862;
Ferdinand Martin, died at Hilton Head, S. C, .April 15, 1863; William W. Mcintosh,
woinuled June 6, and .at Fort Fisher, N. C. January 75. 1865: James McMannus,
wounded May 18, 1864; Patrick McGee. wounded June .^o and July 24, 1864; Waller
Pyle, wounded June 18 and July 75, 1864; Jacob Putell, wounded at Bermuda Hundred,
May 20, 1864; George K. Pierce, died July 26, 1S64, of wounds received at Petersburg;
Samuel Parker, wounded at Deep Bottom, .Aug. 16, 1864, died at Salisbury, N. C, Dec.

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16, 1864; John Smith, died at Hampton, Va.. June 5, of wounds received at Bermuda
Hundred, May 20. 1864 ; John Thompson, wounded at Petersburg, June 30, 1864 ; James
Wright, died at Hilton Head, S. C, Oct. 23, 1862; Joseph B. West, died at Hampton, Va.,
May 26, of wounds received May 18, 1864; Jesse D. Walters, killed near Petersburg,
June 29, 1864, buried in National Cemetery, City Point, sec. D, div. 4, grave 65.

Company G— Gasway O. Yarnall, 1st sergt., wounded at Bermuda Hundred, May
20, 1864; William H. Eves, 2d lieut., wounded at Petersburg, July 10, 1864; Franklin P.
Clapp, 1st sergt., wounded at Bermuda Hundred, May 20, 1864; John L. Ray, sergt.,
wounded at Petersburg, June 30, 1864; Simon Litzenhurg, sergt., wounded May 18, 1864,
killed at Petersburg, July 30, 1864, buried in National Cemetery, City Point, sec. D, div.
4, grave 174; Reese L. Weaver, sergt., died at New York, Oct. 12, 1863, buried in
Cypress Hill Cemetery. Long Island, grave 897; Albin Edwards, sergt., killed at Bermuda
Hundred, May 20. 1864; Ezekiel T. Richie, Corp., wounded near Bermuda Hundred, May
18, 1864; Henry Hards, Corp., wounded at Bermuda Hundred, May 20, 1864; Henry
Hoofstiller, corp., died March 17, 1863 ; Henry G. Yocum, corp, died at Fortress Monroe,
Dec. 21, 1865; Israel Oat, corp., died at Hilton Head, Aug. 10, 1862; Patrick Hughes,
Corp., killed at Bermuda Hundred, May 20, 1864 ; John Doyle, died at Helton Head, Oct.
26, 1863 ; John Edwards, corp., wounded at Petersburg, July 30, 1864, died at Weldon,
N. C, Aug. 21, 1865; John B. Brady, wounded at Petersburg, June 30, 1864; William A.
Brooks, wounded May 18, 1864; Joseph H. Brensinger. wounded May 18, 1864; Nehemiah
Baker, died at Fernandina, Fla., Jan. 8, 1864; Lewis Bentz. died at Point of Rocks, Md.,
Aug. 19, 1864; John Dickson, died at Hilton Head, Oct. 21, 1863; William Dawson, killed
at Fort Fisher, Jan. 16. 1865; William Efoux, killed at Petersburg, June 30, 1864;
George Green, died at Hilton Head, Sept. 20, 1862; Isaac A. Hoopes. killed at Bermuda
Hundred, May 20, 1864; Hend. L. Herkins, wounded at Bermuda Hundred, May 20,
1864, died at Wilmington. N. C.. March ig, 1865 ; Frederick Heitz, killed at Bermuda
Hundred, May 20, 1864, buried in National Cemetery, City Point, sec. F, div. i, grave
128; Thomas T. Jones, died at Fortress Monroe, June 10, of wounds received at Bermuda
Hundred, May 20. 1864 ; Charles Kuhn, wounded at Petersburg, July 20, 1864 ; Samuel
H. Lloyd, wounded at Petersburg, June 30, 1864; John Laughlin, wounded at Bermuda
Hundred, May 20. 1864; Herman Meiser, wounded at Bermuda Hundred, May 20, 1864;
William Maloney, died at Fernandina, Fla., Dec. i, 1863; William D. Murray, died at
Raleigh, N. C, May 18, 1865; Thomas Mcintosh, wounded June 16, 1862, September I,

1863. and May 20, 1864; Terrence O'Brien, wounded at Bermuda Hundred, May 20,

1864, killed at Strawberry Plains, Aug. 17, 1864; William Papjoy, wounded May 18,
1864; Joseph Ray, wounded Sept. i, 1863; Merritt C. Reeves, wounded at Bermuda
Hundred, May 20, 1864; James Russell, died at New York. Jan. 8, 1864. buried in Cypress
Hill Cemetery, Long Island; William T. Snyder, wounded at Bermuda Hundred, May 20,
1864; Alexander Seaborn, wounded May 18, 1864, died at Alexandria, Va., Oct. 10, of
wounds received at Petersburg, July 30, 1864; Theodore Solomon, wounded at Peters-
burg, Aug. 24, 1864, died at Raleigh, N. C, May 26, 1865, buried in Cypress Cemetery,
Long Island, grave 2887; A. McD. Talbot, wounded at Petersburg, June 30, 1864: O.
Rees Walker, wounded May 18, 1864; Patrick Waters, wounded May 18, 1864; Thomas
P. Waddell, wounded May 20, and June 25, 1864; James Wright, died at Fernandina,
Fla., Nov. 20, 1863; Edward E. Wade, died at Salisbury, N. C, Dec. 18, 1864; John Wor-
rell, died at Hilton Head, S. C, May 12, 1862.

Company I (Brook Guards) — George Hawkins, capt., died Aug. 28, of wounds
received at Darbytown road, Va., Oct. 27, 1864 ; George W. Duffee, capt., wounded at
Fort Gilmore, Va., Sept. 23, 1864. and at Fort Fisher, N. C, Jan. 15, 1865 ; Sketchley
Morton, 1st lieut., died at Hilton Head, S. C, Nov. 12, 1862; William H. H. Gibson, ist
lieut., wounded at Bermuda Hundred, May 20, 1864; George M. Middleton, wounded at
Bermuda Hundred, May 10, 1864. and at Fort Fisher, Jan. 15, 1865 ; William Ottewell,
wounded Aug. 26, 1865 ; James E. Engle, ist sergt., wounded with loss of arm, at Ber-
muda Hundred. May 20, 1864; William K. Wood, ist sergt., wounded at Bermuda Hun-

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dred, May 20, 1864; William P. Haymeii, scrgt., wounded at Bermuda Hundred, May 20.
1864; William H. Reese, sergt., wounded at Darbytown road, Va., Oct. 27, 1864; Thomas
Creigan, Corp., wounded at Bermuda Hundred, and at Fort Fisher, Jan. 15, 1865; James
Graff, Corp., wounded Aug. 16, 1864; Charles Stewart, Corp., wounded at Bermuda Hun-
dred, May 20, 1864; Francis Todd, corp., wounded at Fort Fisher, Jan. 15, 1865; Adolph
Fry, Corp., wounded, loss of arm, Fort Fisher, Jan. 15, 1865; William F. Green, corp.,
woimded at Bermuda Hundred, May 20, 1864; John L. Morton, corp., died at Fernandina,
Fla., March 28. 1862; Robert Trowland, corp., died at Philadelphia, Nov. 4, 1863; Harry
Hunter, musician, died at Hilton Head, S. C., April, 1862; Morton Brontzman, wounded
at Bermuda Hundred, May 20, 1864; William H. Baker, died at Hilton Head, Aug. 2,
1864; Philip Clark, wounded July 16 and Aug, 16, 1864; Elias Cole, wounded at Bermuda
Hundred, May 20. 1864; William Davis, wounded at Bermuda Hundred, May 20, 1864;
William J. Dunlap, wounded July 6, 1864 ; James Donovan, wounded at Bermuda Hundred,
May 20. 1864; John Donovan, wounded July 15, 1864; James Donnelly, killed at Bermuda
Hundred, May 20, 1864; William R. Dicker, died on steamer Hero, June 18, 1864; Evan H.
Everman, died at Philadelphia, August I, of wounds received at Petersburg, June 24,
1865 : George Frace, died at Raleigh, N. C, May 13, 1865 ; Philander Foster, died at
Raleigh, July 5, 1865; William T. Gutterson, killed at Bermuda Hundred, May 20, 1864;
David W. Gaul, killed at Bermuda Hundred, May 20. 1864; Philip Henn, wounded at
Bermuda Hundred. May 20, 1864: Daniel Harrigan, wounded at Bermuda Hundred,
May 20, 1864; Nathan T. Harris, died at Hilton Head, May 12, 1862; Caleb Horn, died
at New York, June 27, 1864, buried in Cypress Hill Cemetery, Long Island, grave 1006;
John Krissell, killed at Petersburg, July 15, 1864; Daniel W. Lukens, wounded at Ber-
muda Hundred, May 20, 1864, and at Darbytown road, Va., Oct. 27, 1864; James Lewis,
wounded at Bermuda Hundred. May 20, 1864; James Mahoney, wounded at Darbytown
road, Va., Oct. 27, 1864; John McDermott, wounded at Fort Fisher, Jan. 15, 1865; Alex-
ander G. McKeewen. wounded at Bermuda Hundred, May 20, 1864: David Powell,
wounded at Fort Fisher. Jan. 15, 1865; William Pine, died at New York, Oct. II, 1864,
buried in Cypress Hill Cemetery, Long Island ; John J. Richardson, wounded at Peters-
burg, July 15. 1864; Herbert Rodgers, wounded at Bermuda Hundred, May 20, 1864;
John W. Sputt, died at Fortress Monroe. July 14, of wounds received at Bermuda
Hundred, May 20, 1864; Levers Solverson, died Aug. 3, of wounds received at Peters-
burg, July 30, 1864; Philip Schwartz, killed at Fort Fisher, Jan. 15, 1865; Lemuel J.
Thompkins, wounded at Bermuda Hundred. May 20. 1864 ; Richard Walraven, wounded
at Bermuda Hundred. May 20, 1864: Amos G. Webb, died at Beaufort, S. C, July 6,
1862 ; John Ward, died at Fort Schuyler, N. Y.. Oct. 28, 1863 ; Isaac Wood, killed at
Petersburg. July 29, 1864; Willard Waterman, died at Raleigh, N. C, May 21, 1865,
buried in National Cemetery, sec. 20. grave 2 : Jacob Wagoner, died at Portsmouth Grove,
R. I,. July 20. 1865.

OiH- Hundred Sixth Regiment. — Company I — Reuben Dansfield, corp., died Aug. 16,
1862; William Gamble, died Jan. 12, 1863: John Stevenson, killed at Savage Station, Va.,
June 29. 1862. Company E — John McLaughlin, killed at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862.

One Hundred Ttvelfth (Second .-Irtillery) — Battery E — Lewis Moulder, died at
Salisbury, N. C. Jan. 14, 1865; Charles Barges, killed at Petersburg.

One Hundred Nineteenth Regiment — Company E — Frederick Williams, sergt.,
wounded at Fort Steadman, Va., March 25, 1865 ; Nathan Heacock. died at Winchester,
Oct. 4, of wounds received at Opequan. Va.. Sept. 19, 1864; James Burns, died at Charles-
ton, S. C, Oct., 1864: Jonathan Culbert, died at Fredericksburg. Va., May 20, of wounds
received at Spottsylvania C. H., May 10. 1864: William Ewing, wounded at Spottsylvania
C. H., May 10. 1864; Robert Elliott, wounded at Wilderness, May 5, 1864: James Louther,
wounded at Wilderness. May 5, 1864: James McGee, wounded at Wilderness, May 5,
1864; Isaac Pike, died at Washington. D. C. Aug. 15, 1864, of wounds received at Wilder-
ness, buried in National Cemetery. .Arlington. Va. : Robert Bcaney, killed at Rappahan-
nock Station, Va., Nov. 7. 1863: William Roberts, died at Washington. D. C. May 8. of

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wounds received at Salem Church, Va., May 3, 1863 ; George S. Smith, wounded at Fred-
ericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862; John Steel, died at Annapolis, Md., Dec. 8, 1863, buried in
Camp Parole Hospital Cemetery; William Stewart, died at Washington, D. C, of
wounds received at Rappahannock Station, Va., Nov. 7, 1863 ; David Sloan, killed at
Spottsylvania C. H., May 12, 1864; John B. Tetlow, killed at Salem Church, Va., May 3,
1863.

One Hundred Twenty-fourth Regiment. — Company B — George Fields, sergt., wounded
at Chancellorsville, May 2, 1862; Jacob Barlow, wounded at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862;
Jerome Byre, wounded at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863; Joseph Barlow, killed at Antie-
tam, Sept. 17, 1862; Edward Kay, died at Washington, D. C, Jan. 20, 1863; William
Lary, died at Harper's Ferry, Nov. 24, 1862 ; James Makin, died at Washington, D. C,
March I, 1863.

Company D — William T. Innis, corp., wounded at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863;
James Crazier, corp., died Sept. 21, of wounds received at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862; H.
H. Williamson, died at Stafford C. H., Va., Feb. 8, 1863; James B. Aitken, died at Bolivar
Heights, Va., Oct. 27, 1863; William L. Bittle. wounded at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862;
William Heybum, died March 12, 1863 ; Philip R. Johnson, wounded at Chancellorsville,
May 3, 1863.

Company H — William G. Knowles, sergt., wounded at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862 ;
Thomas H. Jackson, sergt., died at Washington, D. C, Jan. 19, 1863; William Trainer,
Jr., wounded at Chancellorsville, May 2, 1863; Thomas Burk, died at Harper's Ferry,
Nov. 3, 1862; J. Ephraim Lobb, died at Stafford C. H., Va., March 8, 1863; Samuel W.
Neald, wounded at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863; James Piard, Jr., wounded at Chan-
cellorsville, May 3, 1863; Horatio N. Piatt, wounded at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862; Samuel
R. Zebley, killed at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862.

One Hundred Sixtieth Regiment, Fifteenth {Anderson) Cavalry. — Company L — Wil-
liam H. Powell, died at Nashville, Tenn., of wounds received at Stone River, Dec. 29,
1862, buried in National Cemetery.

One Hundred Eighty-eighth Regiment. — Company C — Richard Renshaw, sergt.,
wounded Sept. 29, 1864. Company F — Andrew Kestner, wounded at Fort Harrison, Va.,
Sept. 29, 1864. Company H— Isaac E. Wilde. 2d lieut.. died at Broadway Landing, Va.,
July 26, 1864.

One Hundred Ninety-seventh Regiment. — Company A — Harrison Hoffman, died at
Rock Island, Ills., Oct. 22, 1864.

One Hundred Ninety-eighth Regiment. — Company K — Levi Booth, wounded at Hatch-
er's Run, Va., Feb. 7, 1865; John Holt, wounded at Five Forks, April i, 1865; Washing-
ton Hickson, wounded at Hatcher's Run, Feb. 7, 1865 ; George Latch, wounded at Lewis
Farm, Va., March 29, 1865 ; James Morgan, wounded at Lewis Farm, March 29, 1865 ;
Edward T. Mason, wounded at Five Forks, April i, 1865; Jesse W. Paist, wounded at
Lewis Farm, March 29, 1865; Hiram Williams, wounded at Appomattox C. H., April 9,
1865; Robert Weir, wounded at Lewis's Farm, Va., March 29, 1865; Jeff W. Wetherill,
wounded at Peebles Farm, Va., Sept. 30, 1864, and Five Forks, April i, 1865.

Two Hundred Third Regiment. — Company B — Benjamin Brooks, capt., wounded at
Fort Fisher, Jan. 15, and in action, Feb. 11, 1865; Charles T. Brooks, corp., wounded at
Fort Fisher, Jan. IS, 1865 ; Andrew Lamport, wounded at Fort Fisher, Jan. 15, 1865 ; John
J. Clar, died at Hampton, Va.. Jan. 23, of wounds received at Fort Fisher. Jan. 15, 1865,
buried in National Cemetery; William H. Camp died at New York, March 15, of wounds
received at Fort Fisher, Jan. 15. 1865. buried in Cypress Hill Cemetery. Long Island;
John Duffee, wounded at Fort Fisher, Jan. 15, 1865; William E. Fetters, wounded at Fort
Fisher, Jan. 15, 1865; Elwood D. Fryer, wounded near Wilmington, N. C, Oct. 27, 1864;
William J. Farra. died at Hampton, Va., Jan. 23, of wounds received at Fort Fisher, Jan.
15, 1865; John Grim, wounded near Wilmington, Oct. 27, 1864; Edward Haycock, wounded
at Fort Fisher, Jan. 15, 1865; John M. Hoffstitler, killed at Fort Fisher, Jan. 15, 1865;
Edmond Kinch, wounded at Fort Fisher, Jan. 15. 1865; William M. Kitts. died at Fort-

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ress Monroe, Jan. 8. 1865; George Major, died at Philadelphia. Sept. 11, 1864; Samuel
Playford, killed at Fort Fisher, Jan. 15, J865; James Sample, wounded in action, Feb. n.
1865; William H. Swayne, wounded near Wilmington, Oct. 27, 1864; W. M. Vernon, died
at Raleigh, N. C, May 30, 1865.

Si.rly-Afth Regiment. — Company C — John Booth, killed at Harrison's Landing, Va.,
August I, 1862. Company D — Joshua E. Dyer, 2d licut., died in Confederate prison pen,
Florence, N. C, Feb. 16, 1865. Company H — Samuel Wallace, 1st lieut., killed near Wil-
liamsburg, Va., Jan. 15, 1863.

Seventeenth Regiment. — Company L — Levis Miller, Jr.. 1st lient., killed in 1865.

Sevenly-tirsI Regiment. — Company F — William Farraday, killed at Antietam, Sept.
17, 1862.

Seventy-seventh Regiment. — Company E — Joseph Groves, killed at Gettysburg.

Eighty-eighth Regiment. — Company H — James M. Thompson, sergt., died Nov. 16,
1862, of wounds received at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862.

Eighty-ninth Regiment. — Company L — Joseph Dyson, died near Washington. D. C,
Jan. 25, 1862.

Ninety-fifth Regiment. — Company A — John Macon, killed at William.sport, Va.

Ninety-ninth Regiment. — Company H — William H. Groundsell, died in Andersonville.

One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment. — Company H — Edward T. Brogan. died
Dec. 9, 1864. Company G — George Elliott, killed at Salisbury, N. C.

Sixth New Jersey Volunteers. — Company I — James B. Lilley, wounded in Wilder-
ness, May 5, died May 15, 1864.

One surgeon of Delaware county. Dr. William H. Forward, was wounded in
service, October, 1863.

When on April 14th, 1865. the Old Flag was hoisted over Fort Sumter in
Charleston harbor by Major General Anderson, in the presence of the surviv-
ors of that garrison which four years previous had evacuated the fort, it was
believed that the curtain had fallen on the last act of the great war drama. In
Chester the day was celebrated with great fervor, the festivities closing with a
general illumination of the city and a grand display of fireworks. Many from
surrounding townships had gathered in Chester to rejoice over the long hoped
for conclusion of the war. .^t 9.30, while the festivities were at their height,
came the unbelievable news, "President Lincoln has been shot." The opera-
tor at Chester heard this news as it flashed over the wires to the press of the
great cities northward, but the war time injunction of silence kept him mute,
and it was not until the following day that the dread news was given to the
public of Chester. All business ceased, the industrial plants shut down, and
no business place was open save the news stands. By 8 a. m. the news of the
President's death was confirmed, and the dry goods merchants were then com-
pelled to open their stores that the jieople might purcha.se and replace with
black hangings the buildings that the day before they had dressed with such
joy in the national colors, — red, white and blue. By 10 o'clock all the build-
ings bore their sombre garments of crajie. This scene was enacted in every
town and village in the county, for all were griefstrirkcn over the fall of a
trusted leader, and all feared for the future.

On Wednesday, when the funeral of our greatest President was in pro-
gress in Washington, all business was suspended and every mill in the county
closed on that day, while at the same hour, in all the churches, services were

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held, and bells tolled in every steeple. At Chester, the revenue cutter "Wil-
liam H. Seward." lying off the town, fired minute gvms. At Media the court
room was crowded, and religious services were held therein. The feeling of
grief, uncertainty and apprehension of the days following the cruel shot that
deprived the nation of the wisest of rulers, can not be described nor under-
stood save by those who were of sufficient age to realize the sad facts and
yet live to relate them. But time, the great healer, has closed the wounds :
the great armies tliat existed only to destroy, melted away and were absorbed
M- ; ; t .-Ml-- (.-i jieace from whence they came; dead, the martyred Lincoln
preached a gospel, that perhaps he could not have preached so effectively liv-
ing, and now a tiag bearing forty-eiglit stars floats from every flagstaff in the
United States and her island possessions, — "God reigns, and the Government
at Washington still lives."

THE SPANISH WAR.

Immediately after the Act of Congress approved April 25, 1898, declar-
ing that a state of war existed between the United States and Spain, the Gov-
ernor of Pennsylvania was telegraphed to by the Secretary of War, informing
him that Pennsylvania's quota of the 125,000 men called to the colors by Pres-
ident McKinley's proclamation, would be ten regiments of infantry and four
batteries of artillery. It was the wish of the President that the regiments of
the National Guard or State Militia should be used as far as their numbers
would permit, for the reason that they were armed, equipped and drilled.
Later instructions to the Governor notified him the number of men required
would be 10,800, formed in regiments of 1230 men, in twelve companies to a
regiment, companies to have a minimum of 81 men. a maximum of loi : and
that each battery should have 204 officers and men.

The Governor of Pennsylvania. Daniel H. Hastings, at once issued a call
for the mobilization of the National Guard at Mt. Gretna. Lebanon county.
and in accordarrce with his orders the entire Guard, save naval forces, assem-
bled at Mt. Gretna, ninety-nine per cent, of the total strength being in camp
on the morning of April 28, 1898. The full quota was secured, and on May
12 the full division was reviewed by the Governor, who at once sent to the
.•^fcretary of \\'ar. the following telegram :

"Ten thousand eight hundred men. as brave and loyal as ever followed a flag or
defended a country, marched past the Governor in review this afternoon. No grander
sight has been witnessed since the historic days of '6l and '65. Pennsylvania has re-
sponded to the call fully and promptly, has given to the nation's soldie'-y a division of
troops, composed of the best of her citizenship. We deserve recognition by the appoint-
ment of our general officers. It should, if possible, be done to-morrow. Let us announce
it here to-morrow, and our troops will be wild with joy. The general officers deserve it.
For twenty years they have worked to make possible the glorious e.xhibition of patriotism
on this field to-day."

lender the second call of the President, issued May 25, 1898, volunteers

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were called for to bring the regiments already sworn in, up to twelve company
strength. Under this call, companies were offered from all sections of the
state. In Philadelphia, three regiments were recruited and offered, but the
troops were taken from dififerent parts of the state, and but two companies, I
and K, Third Regiment, were taken from Philadelphia under the second call.
From Delaware county, 327 men were taken in all and apportioned among
the different companies. No further troops were asked for by the general
government from Pennsylvania, and before the close of the year 1898 many
of the organizations were mustered out of the service. The troops from
Pennsylvania acquitted themselves with credit, although many of them were
not permitted to see actual warfare. The 4th and i6th Regiments of Infantry,
the three light batteries and the three troops of cavalry, served in Porto Rico.
The loth Infantry served in the Philippines. Their colonel. Alexander Haw-
kins, after a distinguished career in command of his regiment, died en route
from the Philippines to San Francisco, at sea on board the United States
transport "Senator," July 18, 1899. The ist, 3rd, sth and 9th Regiments
were ordered to Chickamauga Park, Georgia, the 3rd going later to Tampa,
Florida. The 2nd Regiment was detailed for special duty in guarding powder
works, regimental headquarters, the ist Battalion being stationed at Mont-
chanin, Delaware ; the 2nd Battalion at Penns Grove, New Jersey. The 6th,
Sth, I2th and 13th Regiments were ordered from Mt. Gretna to Camp Alger,
Virginia. The 14th Regiment was divided ; regimental headquarters and six
companies, viz: A, B, C, G, I and K were ordered to Fort Lott, New Jersey,
two companies, E and F, to Fort Delaware, Delaware. The 15th was also divid-
ed ; regimental headquarters and Companies A, B, D, F, G and K proceeded to
Sheridan Point, Virginia: Companies C and E to Fort Washington. The i Sth
Regiment was also divided : Company F was ordered to Alliance. Ohio, to guard
the works of the Morgan Iron Company ; the regiment, with the exception of
Company F, was ordered to Battery Point, on the Delaware river. Companies
D, E and H were later ordered to Fort Brady, Michigan. ]Many yielded up
their lives for their couniry in both hos[)ital and on battle field. Those who
served in the presence of an armed enemy, never faltered in the midst of dan-
ger or failed in the performance of their duty. Those who, while performing
their duty as it came to them, contracted disease in fever stricken camps, met
death like true soldiers, without flinching, knowing only a soldier's duty, were
faithful to the end, and, whether oificer or private, the state whose honor they
had in their keeping will ever revere their memory.

The representatives from Delaware county were Companies B and C,
from Chester, and Company H of Media, all of the 6th Regiment, Pennsyl-
vania National Guard. These companies at the time of the first call were not
at full strength, but their ranks were quickly filled, and when mustered into
the United States service on May 12, 1898, at Camp Gretna, the 6th Regiment,
which arrived in camp April 28, with fifty ofificers and 928 men, had a full
quota of 132^ men, of which 324 were in the tliicc r('';'\'. -c i- '-im c ininai!
ies. Company B was led by Captain Daniel H. McDevitt. First Lieutenant

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Frederick H. Bell, and Second Lieutenant James A. Cooley; Company C by
Captain Samuel D. Clyde, First Lieutenant William W. Moss, and Second
Lieutenant Albert F. Damon; Company H, by Captain Walter Washabaugh,
First Lieutenant Milner C. Tuckerman and Second Lieutenant James E.
Brooke. The 6th Regiment was commanded to camp by Col. Perry McLaugh-
lin Washabaugh, (who was rejected by the examining surgeon on account of de-
fective eyesight), and placed under the command of Gen. John W. Schall. Com-
panies B and C were composed of men from Chester, and H of men from
Media or nearby. The service of these companies was identical with the ser-
vice of the regiment, and consisted more of their willingness to do, than for
what they did in the way of actual warfare.

Assembling at Camp Gretna, April 28, they were mustered in May 12, and
on May 19, 1898, left Camp for Falls Church, Virginia, arriving there the fol-
lowing morning. Here they remained at Camp Alger until August 3, when
they inarched to Burke Station, Virginia, twelve miles distant, remaining in
camp there until the morning of August 5. Their next march brought them to
the historic battle ground of Bull Run, where they remained two days, the
right flank camping on the site of an old earthwork. On the morning of Au-
gust 7th a march of twelve miles to Bristow Station was made. On the morn-
ing of August 9th the march was resumed, the 6th fording Broad Run in
water to their armpits, carrying clothes and accoutrements above their heads.
On reaching the opposite bank the regiment dressed, reformed their ranks,
and proceeded on their march. Hardly was the column under way than a
fierce thunder storm broke loose, as thoroughly drenching the men as though
they had swum the Run in all their clothing. From Bristow Station they
passed through Gainesville and Haymarket, going into camp about one mile
from historic Thoroughfare Gap. Here the regiment did provost and camp
duty until August 24, when they moved to Camp George G. Meade, at Middle-
town, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. On September 4, arms and equipment
were turned into the United States government inspector. September 7th the
men were paid ofif, each company returning to its home station on furlough un-
til October 7th, and were finally mustered out October 17, 1898.

During the Spanish War, other men from Delaware who were in the ser-
vice of the state, in addition to the men of Companies B, C and H, were as
follows : Inspector General Frank G. Sweeney, Chester, Pennsylvania ; Ma-
jors Thomas Edward Clyde, Samuel Aldrich Price and Howard Campbell
Price: Assistant Surgeon J. M. Broomall, of Chester; Assistant Surgeon John
M. B. Ward, with rank of first lieutenant ; Chaplain Philip H. Mowry, with
rank of captain ; Battalion Adjutant Wilmer Worthington Woodward, all of-
ficers of the 6th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.

The health of the regiment was good during the five months campaign in
Virginia, and the behavior of the men of the best. Camp discipline was strict-
ly maintained, sanitary precautions were carefully observed, and all avoidable
sickness prevented.

From the foregoing the conclusion is plain that Delaware county men in

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war have maintained the same high standard that the sons of Delaware have
ever held, no matter in what profession or business engaged. Their deeds of
valor as individuals were not excelled by the men of any other states, while as
leaders of desperate charges or forlorn hopes the record teems with their
deeds. No braver men ever gave their lives for their country than these hardy
Pennsylvanians, and when the last bugle sounded, and the ragged veterans re-
turned to their homes, they were as eager as any to extend the hand of friend-
ship to their former foes, and with them join again in the peaceful pursuits of ^
farm and factory, that in prosperity and peace the scenes of war should be for-
gotten. Valiant in war, they were no less magnanimous in peace ; and but one
prayer went up from every hearthstone in the county, and that was that never
again should our fair land witness the sight of her sons drawn up in battle ar-
ray, save against a common foe.

THE END.

FAMILY AND PERSONAL HISTORY

Family and Personal History

The late Dr. George Smith, well known as the author of the
SMITH "History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania,"' was fifth in descent

from Richard Hayes, a Friend, who with his wife, Issatt, emi-
grated from Ilmiston, Pembrokeshire, \\'ales, in 1687. and settled on a tract
of land in Haverford township, which is still owned and occupied by their
descendants. Their son, Richard Hayes Jr., was for nearly thirty years a
member of the Provincial Assembly, was a justice of the courts of Chester
county, served for a long time as one of the commissioners of the Loan Of-
fice, and held many responsible public trusts. He married a daughter of Henry
Lewis, of Narberth, South Wales, who in 1682, accompanied by two of his
friends, made the first settlement in Haverford township, where he gave much
of his time to civil affairs and acts of benevolence. Dr. Smith was also de-
scended from Dr. Thomas Wynne, of Caer-Wys, North Wales, the friend and
physician of William Penn, and was in direct descent also from Dr. Edward
Jones, of Merion, and was a lineal descendant of Robert and Jane Owen, that
brave pair who, whether as Lord and Lady of Beaumaris Castle, or for con-
science sake, within the gates of Dolgelley jail, commanded the admiration and
respect of all about them, and whose ancestry is traced by their relative, the
learned antiquary, Robert Vaughan, of Hengwrt, back to the sixth century.

George Smith, grandfather of Dr. George Smith, married Elizabeth,
daughter of Benjamin Hayes, a son of Richard Hayes Jr., above mentioned,
and their son, Benjamin Hayes Smith, father of Dr. George Smith, represented
Delaware county in the legislature of Pennsylvania in 1801-02-03-04. and was
appointed justice of the peace by Governor McKean. although politically op-
posed to him, and continued to the time of his death, in 1806, to hold that, as
well as other positions of public trust. He married Margaret, daughter of
George and Mary (Curry) Dunn, and they were the parents of two children:
Elizabeth Hayes, born May 22, 1802, married Dr. Isaac Anderson ; and George,
of whom further.

Dr. George Smith was born in Haverford township, Delaware county,
Pennsylvania. February 12, 1804, died at his residence in Upper Darby. Penn-
sylvania, March 10, 1882. He was brought up in Radnor and Haverford
townships, and educated in the day schools of the neighborhood and at the
boarding school of Jonathan Cause, in Chester county, Pennsylvania. He then
entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and re-
ceived his degree of Doctor of Medicine, April 7, 1826. He followed his pro-
fession for five years in Darby and its vicinity, and then retired from active
practice as a physician to enter upon that wider field of public usefulness for
which his tastes and cast of mind eminently fitted him. His only business from
this time forth was that of farming, he coming into possession of a very con-
siderable estate, and performing the duties of numerous public and private
trusts. In his farming operations he took great pleasure, and at the time of his
decease was one of the largest land owners in the county. The execution of
all trusts confided to him. whether public or private, was carried out upon the
strictest principles of integrity.
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He served as State senator in the Pennsylvania legislature for the district
composed of Chester and Delaware counties from 1832 to 1836, and during
that time was largely instrumental in establishing a permanent law for free ed-
ucation, a measure which had long been near his heart, and of which he had
been for many years an earnest atlvocate. "As chairman of the senate com-
mittee on education, he drew up a bill embracing the whole subject of public
schools, and, supported by Thaddeus Stevens and Governor Wolfe, it was
passed substantially as reported by him, and proved to be the first practical
and efficient measure on the subject of genera! education in the State of Penn-
sylvania." On December 8, 1836, he was appointed by Governor Ritner as-
sociate-judge of the courts of Delaware county, an appointment held by him
for six years, and renewed by popular vote for five succeeding years from the
first Monday of December, iSCu. Not being bred to the law, his position was
that of lay-judge. He was the first superintendent of common schools in Dela-
ware county under the Act of May 8, 1854, being chosen by the school direc-
tors of the county on the first Monday in June of that year, in accordance with
the provisions of that act. For twenty-five years he was president of the
school board of Upper Darby school district, during all of which period he
devoted his time and energies to the development and improvement of the sys-
tem of public instruction, which he had labored so zealously to establish.

In private official cajwcity, he was president of the Delaware County
Turnpike Road Company from its incorporation in 1845 "-'"t'' within a few
months of his death. In September, 1833, with four of his friends, he founded
the Delaware County Institute of Science, of which he was president from the
time of its organization until his death, a period of forty-nine years. This as-
sociation, the object of which is to promote the study and diffusion of general
knowledge and the establishment of a museum, is in many respects similar to
the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, ami, in Dr. Smith's own
words, was enabled to accomplish most if not all the objects contemplated in
its establishment. The institute was incorporated February 8, i83ri, and the
following year a hall was built in Upper Providence, where the meetings of
the Institute have since been held and its Museum located. The latter em-
braces an important collection of specimens in every department of the natural
sciences, particularly such as are calculated to illustrate the natural history of
the county. To perfect this collection. Dr. Smith presented to the Museum his
valuable herbarium. It was in connection with this body and under its auspices
that he prepared and published the "History of Delaware County, Pennsyl-
vania, from the Discovery of the Territory included within its limits to the
present time ; with a notice of the Geology of the County and Catalogues of
its Minerals, Plants, Quadrupeds and lUrds." This work is an octavo volume
of nearly six hundred pages, with several mai:is and illustrations, and was is-
sued in the year 1862. In adflition to the contents as set forth in this title, the
volume contains seventy-six pages of biographical notices of persons identi-
fied with the county. Upon this is largely based the historical portion of the
present work. Dr' Smith held the pen of a ready writer, and contributetl
numerous controversial articles to the local press on the removal of the seat of
justice from Chester to Media, and upon other subjects. He also published
''An Account of the Great Rainstorm and Flood of 1843," and an essay dem-
onstrating the fitness of the stone quarried at I.eiper's Quarry, in Delaware
county, for use in erecting the Delaware Breakwater.

Dr. Smith was a member of Haverford Friends' Meeting; he was a regu-
lar attendant upon the sessions of religious worship at his meeting, and for
many years had charge of the First-day school connected with it, in the wel-
fare of which he alwavs took the liveliest inte'-est. He was a member of the

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Medical Society of Philadelphia, the American Philosophical Society, the His-
torical Society of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society,
the Contributors to the Pennsylvania Hospital, honorary member of the
Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, and corresponding mem-
ber of the Historical Genealogical Society of New England, formerly an active
and at the time of his death an honorary member of the Delaware County
Medical Society.

Dr. Smith married, February 26, 1829, in the city of Philadelphia, Mary,
daughter of Abraham and Rebecca (Lawrence) Lewis. Qiildren : Abraham
Lewis, an able and most highly esteemed member of the Delaware County
bar, and also of the Philadelphia bar ; Mary Wood ; Rebecca, died February
8, 1856; Margaretta; Benjamin Hayes, a surveyor and civil engineer, held an
important and responsible position in the Surveyor Generars office at Denver,
Colorado, for several years; Clement Lawrence, died July i, 1909, was a pro-
fessor in Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in March, 1882,
was appointed Dean of the college; George Jr., died March 21, 1872; Richard
Hayes, died September 18, 1856.

To one who has given his life and labors to the attainment
SHARPLESS of one ideal, who has toiled through days and months of

disappointments and discouragements, who has been re-
warded by moments of cheering brightness, ever striving ceaselessly onward,
it must be a great satisfaction to see rising a structure that, though in many
ways not realizing the fond dream of the toiler, still holds nearly true to the
magnificent work planned. Such is the solemn pleasure that must come to
Isaac Sharpless, Sc. D., LL.D., L. H. D., whose connection with Haverford
College has extended over a period of thirty-nine years, twenty-seven of which
have been spent as the honored president of that institution.

Of the ancestry of Isaac Sharpless little can here be said but that he is a
descendant of John and Jane Sharpless, who came to America from England
in 1682, founding a family whose members number thousands, the faith of the
Society of Friends prevailing through the many lines. His father was Aaron
Sharpless, who married Susanna, daughter of Thomas Kite, a minister of the
Society of Friends, and after her death married Susanna, daughter of James
and Ann (Truman) Forsythe. It is of this second marriage that Isaac Sharp-
less was the eldest child, iDorn 12th month 16, 1848.

His early education was obtained in the Westtown Friends Boarding
School, of which his father and mother were superintendent and matron re-
spectively, whence he was graduated in 1867, being then eighteen years of age.
So thoroughly had he imbibed the teachings of his instructors that upon his
graduation he was offered a position as teacher in that institution, and for the
four following years guided students but a few years his junior over the path
he had just traversed. He then enrolled in the Lawrence Scientific School, of
Harvard University, in 1873 being awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science
from the civil engineering course. Two years after leaving Harvard he was
tendered the chair of mathematics in Haverford College, which, happily for the
institution and those who have since there matriculated, he accepted, and since
that time he has been continuously identified therewith. In 1879 he became
professor of astronomy, a subject to which he has devoted much study and ex-
tensive private research, and, while he was at the head of this department of
the college work, was ceaseless in his efforts to procure more powerful and
more suitable equipment for the observatory, directing his pleas so forcefully
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one of the proiuinenl college observatories in the country. He later filled the
chair of ethics, probably exerting a strong influence upon tlie student body, al-
though none who worked with him, be it over a problem in calculus, in the ob-
servatory, or as a fellow member of the faculty, could but be impressed by the
dynamic energy, the vast capacity for toil, and the sustaining enthusiasm. In
1884 he was made dean of the college and endowed with full executive and
disciplinary powers, in that capacity giving particular attention to the life of the
students. In January, 1887, he was elected president of the college by the
board of managers, the formal inauguration exercises being held in Alumni
Hall on the afternoon of May 17, 1887, Dr. Sharpless signifying his acceptance
of the high honor conferred upon him in an address in which he touched upon
the situation then existing at Haverford and outlined the plan that he intended
to pursue. What concessions, what surrenders, he has been compelled to make,
is known to none but himself. All may know% however, of his work as pres-
ident of Haverford. of the multitude of undertakings he has fostered to a suc-
cessful consummation, all of which stand as present and enduring monu-
ments of the years he has spent in the service of that college. Many men who
strive for lofty and noble ends are fated never to see the fulfillment of their
fondest hopes and visions. To Dr. Sharpless has been accorded the privilege
of tasting of the fruits of his toil, and at the same time the inestimably greater
joy of assurance that the precedents he has established and the works he has
begun will be followed and accomplished when his is no longer the guiding
hand.

He has been a contributor to various scientific and educational journals,
and is the author of several volumes, among them "Quaker Experiment in
Government," dealing with the early history of his State ; "English Education,"
used as one of the volumes of the International Educational Series ; "Two Cen-
turies of Pennsylvania History"; and "Quakerism and Politics," a collection of
essays. Astronomy and physics have also been the subjects of his writings,
and in collaboration with Professor Philips, of the West Chester State Nor-
mal School, he is the author of a treatise dealing with those sciences. He has
been the recipient of several degrees, that of Sc. D. from the University of
Pennsylvania, in 1883 ; LL.D. from Swarthmore College, four years later ; and
that of L. H. D. from Hobart College, as well as his first, B. S. He has taken
advantage of every opportunity for travel that has come to him in the course
of his busy life, believing in that as one of the best aids to education, and in
1913 made an extended trip abroad, visiting many European and Asiatic coun-
tries. He is essentially a student, and has been blessed, as well, with the inval-
uable ability of engendering in others the desire for scholastic pursuits and in
creating true appreciation of the boundless benefits of mind culture. Two of
the reforms he successfully advocated early in his administration of the presi-
dent's duties was a widening of the scientific courses and a more rational and
advantageous manner of conducting the literary societies of the college, for
which it has ever been famous, both for the number of those skilled in the
forensic art that they produced and in the pleasure derived therefrom. In be-
half of the students, as a professor and as president, he has sought and ob-
tained improved facilities for athletic recreation, and through his cooperation
with the student body has gained its members for his firm friends and sup-
porters. Ample evidence of this was given as early as the time when he was
raised to the presidency, the serenade and celebration of that night remaining
fresh in the memory of many a Haverford alumnus. In closing this greatly
curtailed account of the career of Dr. Isaac Sharpless as an educator it only re-
mains to give the following excerpt from his address at his inauguration as
president of Haverford College, a goal that he placed before himself, and

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which he has, through his own valiant endeavors and those of the splendid fac-
ulty that has always assisted him, happily gained ; "A Haverford degree must
stand for breadth of culture, scholarly spirit, and disciplined powers."

His religious faith is that of the Society of Friends, to which for genera-
tions his ancestors have been adherents, and his political action is never fore-
ordained in favor of the candidates of any particular party.

Isaac Sharpless married, 8th month 10, 1876, at West Chester Meeting,
Lydia Trimble Cope, born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, 2nd month 13, 1857,
daughter of Paschal! and Amy A. (Baily) Cope. Children: i. Helen, born in
Haverford, Pennsylvania, 7th month 25, 1877 ; a graduate of Drexel Institute,
employed in library work. 2. Amy C, born ist month 12, 1879, an artist. 3.
Frederick C, born lOth month i, 1880: a graduate of Haverford College, class
of 1900, and of the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania,
class of 1903; now a practicing physician. 4. Edith F., born nth month i,
1883; a missionary in Japan. 5. Lydia T., born loth month 10, 1885; now
Lydia T. Perry, Westerly, Rhode Island. 6. Katherine T., born 10 month 17,
1896.

The forbears of George M. Booth, of Chester, Pennsylvania,
BOOTH came with the early emigration of Friends from England, set-
tling on lands now situated in the townships of Bethel and Up-
per Chichester. The emigrant ancestor of the Delaware County family was
Robert Booth, who came from an early Friends' stronghold, Yorkshire, Eng-
land, a widower with at least two children. He was a member of Knaves-
borough Monthly Meeting, wherein is recorded his marriage, fifth month 13,
1698, to Alice Marshall, at Randen, also the births of his children : William,
born twelfth month i, 1699: Mercy, first month 16, 1702; Jeremiah, seventh
month II, 1709. On coming to America after the death of his wife he brought
a certificate from Askwith Meeting, Great Burton, Yorkshire, dated eleventh
month 26, 1712. He settled in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, within the
limits of Concord Meeting, purchasing land on both sides of Naaman's Creek,
now in Bethel and Upper Chichester townships. In the list of taxables of
Bethel township for 1715, his name appears third. According to the records
of Concord Meeting, he married ("second) fourth month 23, 1715, Betty Cas-
ton, who survived him and married ("second") Richard Few, son of the emi-
grant of the same name. Robert Booth died in April, 1727. In his will he
mentions, in addition to the living children of his second wife, those of his
first marriage. Children of second marriage: Robert (2), of whom further;
Mary, born third month 11. 1718, married William Pyle ; Ann, born seventh
month 13, 1720, married Samuel Saville ; John, born eleventh month 6, 1723;
Elizabeth, died young.

(II) Robert (2), son of Robert (i) Booth and his second wife, Betty
Caston, was born in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, third month 15, 1716,
died eleventh month 29, 1796. He was a lad of eleven years when his father
died, and in 1732 Robert accompanied his stepfather, Richard Few, and fam-
ily, to a farm in Kennett township, Chester County, on the west side of
Brandywine Creek, there residing until he attained legal age. He inherited,
nnder his father's will, the farm in Upper Chichester, and upon attaining his
majority took possession thereof, continuing his residence there until his death,
almost sixty years later, he being then in his eightieth year. He married
(fir.st) at Chichester Meeting, fourth month 18, 1741, Elizabeth, daughter of
William and Elizabeth (Hayes) Cloud, of Richland Manor, New Castle Coun-
ty, Delaware. She was a granddaughter of Henry Hayes, who came to Amer-

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ica in 1705, settling in East Marlborough township, Chester Comity. Children:
I. William, died 1787; married (first) sixth month 26, 1766, Mary Button,
(second) fourth month k), 1769, Rebecca Hewes. 2. Jeremiah, married in
1765, Elizabeth Dutton. 3. John, of whom further. 4. Elizabeth, married,
in 1776, Robert Steele. 5. Hannah, married, first month 23, 1772, John Ker-
lin. 6. Joseph, married in 1776, Sarah . 7. Aaron. 8. Mary. 9. Jemi-
ma, married, in 1784, Benjamin Tovvnsend. 10. Robert (3), married, in 1778.
Ann Martin. Rolicrt (2) Booth married a second wife, also named Elizabeth,
who bore him Thomas and Phoebe. The former married Phoebe Cloud, the
latter, on twelfth month 27, 1784, married Jeremiah Brown.

(III) John, third son of Robert (2) Booth and his first wife, Elizabeth
Qoud, was born on the Upper Chichester farm, in 1745, died 11 mo. 16,
1823. He grew to manhood as his father's assistant but later owned several
farms, including what is now known as the Booth homestead, on which Booth-
wyn, a station and postofifice on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, is located. Ac-
cording to the assessors' books of Upper Chichester for that period, John
Booili and his son Joseph seem to have occupied the property jointly for sev-
t'ral years, Joseph later inheriting the same. John Booth married, in 1774,
Elizabeth, daughter of James and Prudence (Dutton) Shelley, and grand-
daughter of Roger .Shelley and John Dutton, the emigrant. Thomas Reynolds
and John and Hannah (Simcock) Kingsman were also progenitors of Mrs.
John Booth. Children: Joseph, of whom further; Sarah, married third month
12, 1805, William McCay.

(IV) Joseph, only son of John and Elizabeth (Shelley) P)Ooth, was born
in Upper Chichester township. Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in 1775, died
sixth month 24, 1828. He farmed the homestead with his father during the ac-
tive years of hi^ father's life, later becoming sole owner and residing thereon
until his death. He married, sixth month 2, 181 1, Martha Hoskins, daughter
of William and granddaughter of John Hoskins, the emigrant. Children : Wil-
liam, of whom further; Caleb, born twelfth month 26, 1815, died first month
19, 1898, married, in 1838, Henrietta Eyre; Sarah, born seventh month 21,
1817, died sixth month 20, 1838, unmarried; John, born third month 4, 1820,.
died fourth month 6, 1879, unmarried; Elizabeth, horn eighth month 9, 1823,
died third month 19, 1848, married, tenth month 4, 1841, John M. Broomall ;
Martha, born ninth month 0, 1826. died fifth month 9, 1832.

(\') William, eldest son of Joseph and Martha (Hoskins) Piooth, was
born on the homestead in Upper Chichester, Delaware County, fifth month 27,
1812, died there eleventh month i, 1877. He was educated in the old brick
schoolhouse near Chichester Cross-roads, and a boarding-school in Burling-
ton, New Jersey. He inherited the home farm and there continued his resi-
dence until 1848, seven of his children being born in that place. In 1848 he
moved to the city of Chester and engaged with John Larkin in the lumber and
coal business on Chester Creek, below Third street, also operating a line of
packets. .-Mter the withdrawal of Mr. Larkin from the firm, Mr. Booth con-
tinued the business alone for several years, subsequently admitting his son,
Bartram, as a partner, and operating a steam saw and planing mill on Front
street. He also purchased a farm near Chelsea, Delaware County, where he
gratified his love of agriculture, bred in his blood through many generations of
farmer forbears. He took an active part in the upbuilding of Chester and
was one of the leaders in the expansion of that city after the removal of the
coimty seat to Media. Pie was deeply interested in the building and loan as-
sociations of his day, encouraging investments in these institutions and thus
aiding in the starting of many men U]ion a successful business career. He as-
sisted in the laving out of the Nrirth Ward of Chester, and at the intersection

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of Broad and Madison (the latter street being named by him), he buih his own
mansion and several other residences. He served as a burgess of Chester for a
time, although so retiring was his nature and disposition that he shunned pub-
lic office and held but few official positions. He was one of the early directors
of the Delaware County Bank, elected November 11, 1864, one of the last board
elected under the old State charter. Although not a member of Friends' Meet-
ing, he was a constant attendant at the old meeting house on Market street, and
lived an upright Christian life, gaining and holding the respect of all who knew
him. He died November i. 1877. aged nearly sixty-six years.

Mr. Booth married (first) third month 14, 1833, Hannah, daughter of
Benjamin and Phoebe Eartram, of Darby, and granddaughter of John Bar-
tram, the noted botanist. She died in 1838, and he married (second) second
month 4, 1841, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Sarah (Martin) Broomall,
and a descendant of Thomas Martin, George Mans, Henry Reynolds, Richard
Webb, William Clayton, John Davis, James Dilworth, Joseph Baker, and Ben-
iamin Acton, all men of note in the early settlement of Pennsylvania, and
nearly all of them officials of the colonial government. Children of first mar-
riage: I. Martha, born twelfth month 15, 1833. died eleventh month 3, i88g;
married twelfth month 3, 1855. James Gibson. 2. Henry, born sixth month 4,
1835, died seventh month 31, 1835. 3. Bartram. born eleventh month 3, 1836:
married twelfth month 23, i860, Ellen Morris. Children of second marriage :
4. Sarah Broomall, married twelfth month 5, 1876, Allen Flitcraft. 5. Clar-
issa, married sixth month 12, 1867, Isaac L. Miller. 6. Hannah Bartram, mar-
ried second month 24, 1870, J, Newlin Trainer. 7. Ellen Hoskins, married
third month 26. 1868, Elhvood Harvey. 8. George Martin, of whom further.
9. John Broomall, married fourth month 2, 1891, Mary Nevin.

(\T) George Martin, elder son of William Booth and his second wife.
Elizabeth Broomall, was born at the Booth mansion. Broad and Madison
streets, Chester, Pennsylvania, September 19, 1851. He was educated under
private instruction at home until he was sixteen years of age, then for two
years attended Clarkson Taylor's Academy, at Wilmington, Delaware. He
was a member of the first class to enter Swarthmore College, and one of the
first students enrolled in 1869. He continued at Swarthmore one and a half
vears, then began the study of law under the preceptorship of his uncle, John
M. Broomall, the eminent lawyer of Media, Pennsylvania. He continued the
studying of law until 1874, when, on February 2^,. he was admitted to the Del-
aware County bar. He has continued in legal practice until the present time,
although his connection with the btisiness and financial institutions of Chester
has been constant and exceedingly valuable. Shortly after being admitted to
the bar he organized the Chester Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of which
his honored father was a director until 1877. The first officers of this com-
pany were: John (2) Larkin, president; Mortimer PI. Beckley, vice-president,
and George M. Booth, secretary and treasurer. He continued a potent factor
in the success of this company until it closed a very creditable career in 1887.

For years Mr. Booth has been connected with many local corporations,
either as legal advisor or as an official, his knowledge of the law and wise
executive ability rendering him most valuable in either capacity. For over thir-
ty years he has been an official of the Chester Building Association ; for more
than twenty years, a director and solicitor of the Chester Rural Cemetery ; and
for over thirteen years solicitor for the Chester School Board. He became a
well-known and able financier, so highly regarded that in 1887 he was called to
the presidency of the First National Bank of Chester, being at the time of his
elevation to this responsible position one of the youngest bank presidents of
the State. As head of the First National Bank he has broadened and extended

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his knowledge of matters financial, continuing the strong head of this very
successful institution by successive elections until the present time (see "Banks
of Chester"). In 1901 Mr. Booth was elected secretary and treasurer of the
Penn Steel Casting Company, and still continues active in its management. Not
alone is Mr. Booth the lawyer, financier and business man. He is interested
in the welfare of his city and proves his mterest in most practical ways. He
is a friend of education.' active in his sympathy for the unfortunate as shown
by his service of more than fifteen years as an efficient member of the Glen
Mills Schools, better known as the House of Refuge. He was chief advisor
and assistant to the superintendent in the establishing of a female department
at the school, adding therebv to the usefulness of that institution. In political
faith Mr. Booth is a staunch Republican, and his church affiliations are with
the Society of Friends, as are also those of his family connections. He is a
member of several social clubs and societies, among them the Penn Club, of
Chester, which he helped to organize and has served on its board continuously
ever since.

Mr. Booth married, in 1876, Ellen, daughter of Levis Miller, of Media.
Children: i. Levis M., now engaged in business in New York City. 2. Eliza-
beth M., married Robert E. Lamb, of Philadelphia. 3. Newlin T., now a resi-
dent of the citv of Chester.

The Bicklev family of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, has
BICKLEY lieen well and favorably known in the State for considerable

more than a century. The earlier members of the family came
to this country, from Germany, but' some branches of it trace their lineage back
to William the Conqueror, the elder Bickleys settled in Philadelphia.

(I) Jacob Bicklev married Hannah Horning, and died at an early age.

(II) Mortimer Horning, son of Jacob and Hannah (Horning) Bickley,
was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, November 8, 1831, and died
at his home in Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, April i, 191 1. Hav-
ing been deprived by death of a father's care when he was a very young child,
Mr. Bickley was raised by his grandparents, who assumed the parental office.
His earlier education was acquired in the public schools of his native county,
and this was supplemented by study in a private school in Norristown. LIpon
the completion of these studies, at which time he had attained the age of eigh-
teen years. Mr. Bicklev became a clerk in the drug store of Samuel Simes. in
Philadelphia. Two years later, in 1851, he came to Chester, Delaware County,
Pennsylvania, and there commenced "the career of which he had full reason to
be proud. He found a position in the drug store conducted by Dr. J. M. Allen
at Fourth and Market streets, and at the same time commenced a course of
studies at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, from which institution he
was graduated in the class of 1854. Continuing his relations with Dr. Allen,
these ripened into a partnership, 'January i, 1856, the firm name being Allen
& Bickley. Just three vears later "this partnership was dissolved and the busi-
ness was'thcii carried on alone by Mr. Bickley. That he was prosperous in his-
conduct of aflfairs is evidenced by the fact that he found the premises entirely
too small to properly accommodate the amount of business he was called upon
to transact, and he 'accordingly had the large five-story building erected which
he occupied until his death. The new building was erected on the site of the
old one, in 1868, and while it was in course of construction temporary quarters
were located on the opposite side of the street in the building now occupied by
S. & E. Brandies. At the time of its construction, the Bickley building was

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one of the largest building propositions that had ever been undertaken in
Chester, and it was considered a wonderful creation in the business world.

The business ability of Mr. Bickley, however, was not confined to the drug
trade. He was one of the organizers of the Penn Steel Casting Company, and
served as president of this corporation from 1892 until the time of his death.
His executive ability was an important factor in the success of this enterprise,
and he was always a leading spirit in the deliberations of its executive body.
He was a member of the board of directors of the First National Bank of
Chester from January 10, 1871, until his death, and it was due to his personal
efforts that the fine new building was erected at Fifth and Market streets.
Shipping interests also occupied his attention. Under his supervision the large
river steamers "Mary Morgan," "Jersey Blue," and "Sarah Taggart" were
operated up and down the Delaware river, and he also operated two freight
lines, one between Chester and Billingsport, and the other to Wilmington. He
was one of the charter members of the Chester Rural Cemetery.

Public spirited to a degree, Mr. Bickley assisted materially in furthering
many projects which would otherwise have been neglected. He was one of
the founders of the Pennsylvania Military College, and it is owing to him that
the building is now located in Chester. There was talk of transferring the
institution to Wilmington when it was destroyed by fire in 1882, as there were
apparently no funds available for rebuilding purposes. When Mr. Bickley
tecame aware of this condition of afifairs he threw himself into the breach to
such good purpose that the structure was rebuilt in the city of Chester. Again,
the postoffice had formerly been located in a small store on Market street, in
what would now be the rear of Broomall's store, and the quarters had been
fully outgrown. The residents and property owners of what was then known
as the South Ward, located west of Chester Creek, oflfered inducements to
have the postoffice removed to that section. When Mr. Bickley was made
aware of this state of aiifairs, he at once advanced money for the erection of
the building known as the City Hall Annex, now occupied by the city clerk
and the city treasurer. The postoffice was located in this, and has remained
there since that time. Although Mr. Bickley served several years as a member
of the common council of the city, he was never very desirous of holding pub-
lic office, feeling that he was best serving the interests of the community by
devoting his time and attention to furthering its welfare in other directions.
The Masonic fraternity always had the benefit of his cordial interest, and he
was a member of Chester Lodge No. 256, Free and Accepted Masons ; Ches-
ter Chapter, No. 258, Royal Arch Masons: and Corinthian Commandery,
Knights Templar, of Philadelphia. Domestic and unassuming in his habits,
he was a devoted and loving husband and father. His contributions to the
cause of charity were many and generous ones, yet he preferred to give in an
unostentatious manner, and nothing was more distasteful to him than publicity
in any of his acts of this nature.

Mr. Bickley married (first) Rebecca, died in January, 1875, a daughter of
Samuel Weaver. He married (second) December 12, 1883, Caroline Jester,
of Wilmington. Children, all of the first marriage: i. Mary Abbott, married
Rev. H. R. Robinson, now resides at Red Bank, New Jersey. 2. Milton Hor-
ace, see forward. 3. Walter Scott, see forward. 4. Laura, died at the age of
five years.

(HI) Milton Horace, son of Mortimer Horning and Rebecca (Weaver")
Bickley, was born in Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, September 17,
1862. He was educated in the public schools, being graduated from the Ches-
ter High School in the class of 1882. He then took a course at Pierce's Busi-
ness College and when he had been graduated from this entered the drug store

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of his father, and at the same time commenced a course of study in the Phila-
delphia College of Pharmacy, from which he was graduated in the class of
1886. at which time he was awarded three prizes. He is now in charge of the
drug store. As a business man he has been as successful as his father. He was
elected a director of the First National Bank of C'hester, to succeed his father ;
is a stockholder, director and treasurer of the Boston Iron and Metal Com-
pany of Baltimore, Maryland ; is stockholder, director and treasurer of the
Boldt Anchor Company of Chester; stockholder, director and treasurer of the
Cassada Manufacturing Company of Chester. In Masonic circles, he is a mem-
ber of the Chester Lodge, Chapter and Commandery. and Lulu Temple, of
Philadelphia.

Mr. Bickley married. October 23. 1892, May. daughter of Charles and
Jennie (Bowman) I'ahnestock. and they have one daughter, Helen F., born
November 6, 1895.

Walter Scott Bickley, son of [Mortimer Horning (q. v.) and
BICKLEY Rebecca (Weaver) Bickley, was born in Chester, Delaware

County, Pennsylvania, March 13, 1866. The public schools
furnished him with a good, practical education, and at the age of nineteen
years he took charge of the shijiping interests of his father and managed them
successfully for a number of years. He then took a position at the Penn Steel
Casting Works, and worked his way through each department of this plant,
thus obtaining a wjrking knowledge of all details which he could have acquired
in no other manner. He rose to the position of assistant manager, from that
to manager, and at his father's death was elected president and general mana-
ger of the company. His other business interests are as follows : Director of
the Delaware County Trust Company : was president and one of the organizers
of the Boldt Anchor Company ; member of the Chester Board of Trade. He
is a thirty-second degree Mason, and a life member of Lulu Temple.

He married, March 18, 1889. Josejjhine. daughter of Charles Sharp, of
liridgeport Township. They have had children: ]\lilton S., Rebecca and
Charles M.

Joseph Warner Jones, of Chester, Pennsylvania, a retired farmer
JONE.S and capitalist well known in liis State, is of direct Welsh origin.
The immigrant ancestor probably landed at Philadelphia before
1800. or soon after the ending of the Revolutionary Wav.

(I) Jones, the Wel-h immigrant, reached the United States from

Wales, via London. With him came his wife and young family. He was a
quarryman in Wales and, after prospecting, he purchased the Leeper stone
quarry, at Leepersville, Pennsylvania. For many years he did a successful
business. Later he sold the quarry and received for it worthless Continental
money, which left him in destitute circumstances. He was the father of a
number of children, among them being \\'illiam. of whom further.

(II) William Jones, son of the Welsh immigrant, was jirobably horn
after his parents reached America. He received his education in the district
schools in the various places in which he lived with his parents. He was taught
the cabinetmaker's trade, which he pursued for several years. Later he entered
the mercantile business at No. 8 Fifth street, Philadelphia. Both he and his
wife were Quakers and members of the Friends' congregation in Philadelphia.
He died at the age of fifty-one. He married Jane Pennell, of Aliddletown
Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, who died at the age of seventy.
Children: I. \\'illiam Pennell. burn iirobabl}' in T839, died in New ^'ork City,

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in 1903 ; a dry goods salesman for the firm of Townsend Sharpless of Phila-
delphia: married Hannah Howey. now deceased; one daughter, Sibyl T.. of
Woodbury, New Jersey. 2. Joseph Warner, of whom further. 3. Edward
C, born in 1843, ^^^^^ i" 1893,' for thirty years a druggist at the corner of Fif-
teenth and Market streets, Philadelphia, and for the same length of time treas-
urer of College of Pharmacy : unmarried. 4. Mary Elizabeth, born December
25, 1846, died June 8, 1898; unmarried: lived in Philadelphia and Media,
Pennsylvania. 5. Hannah S., died aged six years.

(HI) Joseph Warner Jones, son of William and Jane (Pennell) Jones,
was born July 26. 1841, in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. He attended the
Friends' Select School in Philadelphia, and later the Friends" Boarding School,
at Westtow^n. Pennsylvania. After reaching manhood hi went to Middletown
Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, where he married. He pur-
chased one hundred and fifteen acres of land in Middletown Township, known
as the Jonathan Thomas place, which he gieatly improved. The residence was
remodeled and the land was brought to a high state of fertility and productive-
ness under his wise guiding hand, using the most approved scientific methods ;
and here he remained for forty-six years, during which time he accumulated
wealth. In 1900 he retired from farming and moved to Park Place, Chester,
Pennsylvania, where he purchased the property called Park Place, with a
handsome modern structure, which had been built some two years previous, and
in which he now makes his home, at the corner of Twenty-fourth street and
Edgemore avenue. Mr. Jones has commanded respect and esteem in every
community in which he has lived. He is known for his probity, justice and
fair dealings with his fellowmen, as a good friend and neighbor. Both he and
iiis wife are members of the Friends' I\Ieeting House, and take an active part
and interest in the work. On November 7, 1867, he married Sarah L. Web-
ster (see Webster). Children: i. Elizabeth W., born December 3, 1869,
died Tune 3, 1908: married Ellis B. Barker: no children. Mr. Barker married
(second) Elizabeth Moore, and has one daughter, Ruth. After the retirement
of Mr. Jones from active participation in business affairs Mr. Barker moved
to the old homestead in ]\Iiddletown Township, where he farms. 2. Jane P.,
born July 31, 1874: died of diphtheria, February 15. 1884.

(The Webster Line).

The Webster family of Pcnubylvania has long been established in the
State, and is of direct English origin. It has contributed many notable men to
the public life of the United States, lawyers, physicians, divines, teachers, in
fact there is no walk of life that has not been filled by one or more of the
name. The Websters of Pennsylvania have all been, more or less, agricultur-
ists, living on and tilling their own land.

(I) William Webster, the immediate progenitor of Sarah L. (Webster)
Jones, was born, reared and educated in Middletown township. Delaware
County, Pennsylvania. He was a successful farmer and a man of prominence
in his day. He married (first) a Miss Sharpless: married (second) Agnes
Yarnell. Children by first marriage: i. Hilary, married William Smeadly, of

Delaware County. 2. Lydia, married George Smeadly, of Middletown Town-
ship. 3. Sarah, married .-Vbram Pennell. of Middletown Township. Children
by second marriage: 4. Phoebe, died June 14, 1913, aged one hundred years
less four months and was well and hearty up to the last : married Thomas Y.
Hutton and lived in Waterville, Pennsylvania. 5. William, of whom further.
6. Caleb, married Hannah Morgan: lives in Middletown Townshi]). 7. Ruth,
died aged thirty.

(II) William (2), son of William (i) and Agnes (Yarneiri \\'ebster.

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was born in Aliddletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in 1816,
died in the same township October 4, 1891. He was reared on his father's
farm, received the best educational advantages that the times and the district
schools afforded, and on reaching his majority took up farming as his life vo-
cation. By close economy, shrewd judgment and application to his business he
accumulated a nice property, and retired from active participation in the culti-
vation of his land in 1885, removing to Media, Delaware County. He married
(first) Elizabeth Larkin, born in 1816, died March 22. 1877. He married (sec-
ond) Catherine Scarlet, widow of James Scarlet, who died in 1899. Children
by first marriage: i. Hannah, born February 23, 1840: married Samuel
Moore, of Middletovvn Township: he died in Philadelphia, she died May 20.
1908: no children. 2. Sarah L., now Mrs. Jones. 3. Nathan, born February
22, 1844. died WsLTch 24. 1844. 4. Rebecca, born December 18, 1845, died Oc-
tober 30, 1847. 5- Edward, born April 16, 1847, died in 1890; he was a farm-
er and later a milk dealer in Philadelphia : married Emma England : one son
Lawrence. 6. Ruthanna, born February 24, 1849, died April 17, 1880; mar-
ried Samuel Moore, of Chester County, Pennsylvania; three daughters. 7.
William, born March 6. 185 1 : milk dealer at 3224 Woodland avenue, Phila-
delphia; married Cynthia Dora Kester ; two children. 8. Pennell L., born
August 9, 1853: milk dealer in Media, Pennsylvania: married Mary W. Yar-
nell; two children. 9. Owen Y., born February 26, 1855: died in 1908: was a
farmer in Middletown Township ; married Clara England : children : Agnes,
Evelina, England, deceased: Mildred. 10. Elizabeth, born November i. 1856;
makes her home with her sister, Mrs. Jones. 11. Richard G., born Tune 23,
1861 ; a veterinary surgeon in Chester, Pennsylvania ; married Annie Hutton :
three children.

The Hathaways of New England, from whom descend the
HATHAW.AY Hathaways of Chester, Pennsylvania, spring from Nicho-
las Hathaway, who with his son John, a lad of ten years,
came to New England from England, in 1639, settling at Taunton. Massachu-
setts. John, the son, became a prominent public man, married and left three
sons, who in turn married and founded families. A branch settled in the
State of Connecticut, where William ( i ) Hathaway was living in 1809.

William (2) Hathaway, son of William (i) Hathaway, was born in Con-
necticut in 1809, died in Chester, Pennsylvania, in Marcli, 1888. He was a
naval architect and engineer, employed on the Connecticut river at one time,
later at Coburg, Canada, and constructed the first steamboat that sailed the
Great Lakes. He also built the first drydock. built west of the AUeghenies. at
Cairo, Illinois, and for twenty-five years was general superintendent of the
Pennsylvania Coal Company at Rondout and Port Ewen, New York. He
was a delegate from Ulster, New York, to the National Democratic Conven-
tion that nominated Stephen A. Douglas for the presidency in i860, and was a
prominent member of his party in Ulster County. He married Lucy Gardner
Williams, daughter of Samuel and Mercy Williams, of New London. Con-
necticut. On her paternal side she was a descendant of Roger Williams, the
first Baptist minister in New England, and on the maternal side she descended
from Lion Gardiner, the early jjroprietor of Gardiner's Island, in Long Island
Sound, New York. Children of William (2) Hathaway: i.and2. Susan and
Frank, died young. 3. William, born in Rondout, New York, 1837. <''«! at
Port Ewen. New York, in 1886. He was a sea-faring man; was purser of a
line of steamers ruiuiing between New York and Savannah, and was captain of
the steamer "Greyhound," concerned in the Mason and Slidell incident during

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the Civil War, known as "The Trent Affair," which threatened war between
Great Britain and the United States. 4. Hiram, of further mention. 5. Sam-
uel, born in Rondout, in 1843, died in New York City; an employee of the
United States Customs House. 6. Erven, born in Rondout, in 1852, now a ho-
tel proprietor of New York City, with summer residence on Long Island. 7.
Hawley, born in 1855 ; spent several years in the West ; was a mail carrier and
for several years associated with Buffalo Bill ; now a resident of New York

City.

Hiram Hathaway, son of William (2) and Lucy Gardner (Wilhams)
Hathaway, was born in Esopus, New York, January 11, 1840. He was edu-
cated in Kingston (New York) Academy, leaving there in 1856, and for eigh-
teen months thereafter was clerk in the wholesale dry goods store of Barnes
Lyman & Company. The three succeeding years he was permit clerk for the
Penn Coal Company at Port Evven, New York, and in 1861 came to Chester,
Pennsylvania, where until 1864 he was bookkeeper and cashier for Frick &
Thomas, boat builders. From 1864 until 1867 he was engaged in the sale of
oil supplies at Tionesta, Pennsylvania. In the latter year he moved to North
Carolina, where he engaged in boat building for the canal trade, later return-
ing to Chester, where for a time he edited the Delaware County Democrat.
He later was cashier for Charles A. Weidner, a builder of iron boats, then for
thirty-six years and until 1910 was employed in the accounting of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. In that year he retired and is now a resident of Chester. He
is an attendant of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church ; was master in 1873
of Lucius H. Scott Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and since 1874 has been
its efficient secretary.

He married Maria Bartram Hannum, born in Chester, died while on a
visit to Richmond, Virginia. March 31, 1900, daughter of Robert E. Hannum,
deceased, a lawyer of Chester, and his wife, Georgianna M. Bartram, born in
Philadelphia. Children of Hiram Hathaway: i. Hiram (2), of whom furth-
er. 2. Robert H., born September. 1866, died at Shanghai, China, March,
1908; captain of the Pacific Mail Steamship "Mongolia." 3. Lucy Gardrier,
a resident of Chester, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution
and of The Colonia'l Dames. 4. Georgianna Bartram, born 1872 ; married Al-
bert F. Huntt, a leading architect of Richmond, Virginia ; children : Albert and
Spottswood. 5. William R., born 1879; now resident engineer for the Du-
Pont Powder Company, at Houghton, Michigan ; married Frances Holmes, of
Reading. Pennsylvania: children: Frances Holmes and William Hathaway.
6. Alfred, died young.

Hiram (2) Hathaway, eldest son of Hiram _(i) and Maria I'.artram (Han-
num) Hathaway, was born in what is now the First Ward of Chester, Pennsyl-
vania, October 27, 1863. He was educated in the public schools and is a
graduate of Chester High School, class of 1883. He then began the study of
law in the office of Hon. William Ward, Chester, and in January, 1886, was
admitted to the Delaware County Bar. He at once began practice in Chester,
where he has attained unusual prominence in both branches of his profession,
civil and criminal. For many years he was in charge of the legal side of all
the real estate transactions for the Pennsylvania Railroad and has been coun-
sel for the defence in fifteen murder cases, in none of which has a verdict
carrying the death penalty been enforced against him. His offices for the past
sixteen years have been in the Chester Real Estate Building, and here he trans-
acts a very large and lucrative general law business. He is a Democrat in
politic?, and in 1885 was elected city recorder, serving most efficiently for five
years. He has also been the candidate of his partv for State Senator and other
important offices, but the normal Republican majority in his district has been

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too great to be overcome, except the one office mentioned, when his victory
was regarded as a most remarkable one and a flattering testimonial of the high
regard in which he is held in his own city. Mr. Hathaway has been admitted
to all State and Federal courts of his district; is a member of the State and
County Bar associations ; the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, and is an at-
tendant of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

He married in Wilmington, Delaware, January, 1908, Elizabeth, daughter
of John Rowe, a contractor of Philadelphia, now deceased. Cliildren : Eliza-
beth, born at Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, February 3, 1910; Alary, February
12, 1911.

For over forty years the name of McDowell has been one
McDowell connected with the coal and lumber business of Chester, the
business established by the father, continued by his sons
until 1909, and since then by his son, Wesley S. McDowell. The founder of
the family in Chester, John McDowell, was born in County Antriin, Ireland, in
1820, died in Chester, Pennsylvania, in June, 1885. He was educated, grew to
-manhood and married in Ireland, which was his home until 1854, when he
came to the United States, settling at Rockdale, Delaware County, Pennsyl-
vania, where he first worked in the cotton mills, but in 1862 established a
coalyard. He continued in that business until 187 1, when he moved to Ches-
ter where he established a similar business, continuing successfully until his
death. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a Republican
in politics, serving as school director for eighteen years. He married in Ire-
land, Agnes McQuillan, born in County Antrim, died in Chester, September 3,
1900, daughter of William McQuillan, a farmer of Antrim. Children (first
two born in Ireland, four m Rockdale, Pennsylvania) : i. James, born 1850,
died, 1912, in Chicago, Illinois; an employee of the Pullman Car Company;
married Mary Davis, who survives him. 2. William J., born 1852, died in
Chester in 1909; married Anna J. Little, who survives him. He was a partner
of William J. McDowell & Brother. 3. Thomas A., born 1854, now a plas-
terer of Chester ; married Susanna McCoy. 4. Archibald, born 1856 ; married
Emma Green and resides in Chester, a plasterer. 5. Elizabeth, born 1858, re-
sides with her brother Wesley S. 6. Wesley S., of whom further.

Wesley S. McDowell, youngest son of John and Agnes (McQuillan; Mc-
Dowell, was born in Rockdale, IJelaware County, Pennsylvania, May 12, i860.
He was educated in the public schools of Rockdale and Chester, his parents
moving to South Chester in 1871. At the age of sixteen he finished his school
years and was given a position in his father's coalyard. He continued his
father's assistant until the death of the latter in 1885. then in partnership with
his brother, William J., contmued the business as William J. McDowell &
Brother. On the death of the senior ])arlner in 1909, Wesley S. purchased his
interest from the estate and has since conducted the business alone. The old
yards, now a part of the city of Chester, have been greatly enlarged since the
early days of the firm, and the business extended to include all coal lines, lum-
ber, cement, lime, terra cotta and builders' supplies of kindred nature.
The business is an extensive, prosperous one and ably managed. Mr. Mc-
Dowell is a director of the Penn National Bank of Chester, vice-president of
the Iron Workers Building .\ssociation, and treasurer of the West End Free
Library.

He is a Republican in [)olitics, and in 1886 was elected to fill the vacancy
on the Chester school board, caused by the death of his father, serving until
1912. In 1902 he was elected treasurer of Delaware County, holding that re-

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sponsible position for three years. For ten years he served as secretary of the
executive committee of the RepubUcan County Committee, was alternate dele-
gate to the Republican National Convention that nominated William McKin-
ley for presiden*^ in 1896, and has since been delegate to innumerable State and
County conventions of his party. He has always been interested in the \^olun-
teer Fire Department of Chester ; was one of the organizers and a charter mem-
ber of Felton Engine Company, and for eighteen years served as its president.
He is prominent in the Masonic order, belonging to Chester Lodge, No. 236,
Free and .\ccepted Masons: Chester Chapter, No. 258. Royal Arch Masons:
Chester Commandery, No. 66, Knights Templar, and Lulu Temple, .\ncient
.A.rabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Philadelphia. He also belongs
to the Junior Order of American Mechanics, and to the Young ]\Ien's Republi-
can Club. In religious faith he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.

Mr. McDowell married in Chester, November 25, 1888. Elizabeth K.
Law, born in Philadelphia, January 14, 1870, daughter of John (born in Ire-
land) and Martha (Doak) Law, he a brick manufacturer and an ex-burgess
of Chester, where both now reside. Children of Mr. and Mrs. ]\IcDowell,
both born in Chester : Harold, March 29, 1892, educated in the public schools
and Swarthmore Preparatory School, now engaged in business with his father:
Wesley J. (2), born September 23, 1899.

\M:i!e three generations of this family have been prominent
MORRIS in the business and professional life of Chester, they originally

came from Delaware, where Charles J. Morris, grandfather of
Frank S. Morris, was born in 1833. He was a posthumous child, his father
dying two months prior to the birth of his son. Charles J. Morris learned the
sailmaker's trade and moved to Boston where he established a sailmaker's loft :
later he moved to Machias. Maine, remaining two years ; he then returned to
Boston and vicinity, and finally in November, 1867, he came to Chester, where
he again established a loft, but later moved his business to Philadelphia, re-
taining his residence in Chester, where he died in 1885. He married, in Bos-
ton, Almira Josephine Gardner, of Machias, Maine, a descendant of the
Massachusetts family of Colonial and Revolutionary fame. She died in 1902,
aged sixty-nine years.

Qiarles E., son of Charles J. and .\lmira Josephine (Gardner) Morris,
was born in Boston, May 8, 1856. He followed the many removals of his par-
ents, obtaining some schooling, but early became a bread winner. When a
lad of twelve years he hired as cook for a number of fisherman, who lived dur-
ing the season in a cabin on the shores of Delaware Bay, but there was a poor
catch and there was no money for the cook's wages. He helped in the restau-
rant his parents kept in Chester for a time and picked up such jobs t!.s came in
his way. In December, 1871, he found employment as a helper at John Roach's
ship-yard, where he remained until the following March, then shipped on the
L^nited States revenue cutter, "Colfax," but later was transferred to the "Ham-
ilton." In the fall of 1872, being then but sixteen years of age, he left the
vessel and upon returning from a day"s shooting of reed birds on Chester
Island, he was apprehended by L^nited States authorities and when the facts
were presented to the department he was discharged from the service in De-
cember. He worked in the restaurant until the summer of 1874, then opened
a stand for the sale of refreshments at the Market street wharf in Chester.
When the river season closed, he shipped as cook on the revenue cutter,
"Seward," but the crew were soon discharged. Returning to Chester, he en-

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tered the employ of Irving & Leeper, a manufacturing company; he then
worked at Henry Goff's hotel until 1878, when he secured work in the folding
department of the Eddystone Print Works, at a salary of six dollars weekly.
In 1879 he married, and after the wedding fee was paid was the proud posses-
sor of a wife and two dollars in cash, but he had an immense capital of courage
and encrg)', and he contrived to make a living for both by doing extra work.
In March, 1881, he secured a position at forty dollars per month, with the
I'nited States Coast Survey, then charting the Delaware River. During the
following winter he worked in Roach's ship-yard, and gvmned for ducks, then
a profitable occupation. In May, 1882, he became bartender at the Washing-
ton House, a pre-revolutionary hostelry with an interesting history, then kept
by Henry Abbott. It was at the Washington House that in April, 1902, the
Delaware County Chapter of the r)aiighters of the Revolution placed a bronze
tablet in commemoration of the fact, that there at midnight, September 11,
1777, General Washington wrote the only report of the battle of Brandywine,
and at the same hotel, April 20, 1789, he received the congratulations of the
people of Chester upon his election as first president of the United States.

Mr. Morris remained with Mr. .\bbott ten years, and when the latter was
appointed assistant sergeant at arms of the Pennsylvania House of Represent-
atives, Mr. Morris was promoted to be manager, with an agreement that vir-
tually amounted to a partnership. On December 13, 1894, Mr. Morris entered
into a contract with Mr. Abbott to purchase the Washington House at a valu-
ation of fifty-seven thousand dollars, and in February, 1895, he became abso-
lute owner and proprietor. He has had a prosperous career and from time to
time has added to the value of hi'= property by extensive and costly modern
improvements.

Charles E. Morns married. January 20, 1879, Ellen I. P., daughter of
John and Mary Stewart. Children: Frank S., of whom further; Herman
jardella. born October 13, 1881, died May T2, 1889.

Frank S., son of ("harles E. and Plllen I. P. (.Stewart) Morris, was born
in Chester, Pennsylvania. January 21, 1880. He was educated in the public
scliools of that city. In 1898 he entered the law office of John B. Hannuni, as
clerk, and at once began legal study, continuing there until 1902, when he
passed the required examinations and was admitted to the bar. He practiced
with his preceptor, Mr. Hannum, then with Ward P. Bliss, later with A. B.
Geary, then established his own offices in Chester and practiced alone. He
has given a great deal of attention to criminal law and for the length of
time he has been a member of the bar has figured in practically as many im-
p(irtant criminal cases as any other member of the Delaware County bar. He
ha= been a successful advocate, and is rapidly acquiring not only local but state
reputation in criminal law. He is a deep student and in the conduct of his
cases makes careful study and search for precedent. In a recent case of a
tenant seeking relief from an extortionate landlord, Mr. Morris, with the aid
of A. B. Geary. Esq., unearthed a law passed by the English Parliament in
1267 that bore so plainly on the case at issue, that he secured a favorable ver-
dict for his client. With his deep knowledge of law and his capacity for work,
it needs no prophet to determine Mr. Morris's future as a lawyer. He has a
trained mind, quartered in a healthy body that is kept at concert pitch by ath-
letic exercise of all kinds, his favorite sports being horseback riding, fishing
and yachting, the latter perhaps his special delight, his handsome yacht being
kept in commission in all but the extreme winter months. He is a contributing
member of Essington Fire Company ; member of the Alpha Boat Club ; The
""I'oung Men's Rci)ubHcan Club, The Essington Republican Club and the Tini-
cum Republican Club. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Or-

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der of Elks and Fraternal Order of Eagles, of Chester. In politics he is a
Republican, but beyond serving as judge of election and county committeeman
from the Tinicum District of Delaware County, has never accepted public
office.

He married, in Camden, New Jersey, December, 1904, Gerzella, daugh-
ter of William and Jennie (Rogers) Miller, of Essington. William Miller, de-
ceased, was a hotel proprietor of Essington and is there survived by his wife
and five children.

From early days the name of Dutton has been known in Dela-
DUTTON ware county. In 1682, on October 8, Charles Ashcom, a sur-
veyor returned five hundred acres of land laid out for John
Dutton on the west side of Upland Creek in .Aston township and tradition
says that John Dutton settled on the land, built a house in the meadow near
the creek, but being disturbed by floods, removed a few rods farther away and
erected his dwelling on a large rock near a small rivulet. It is also stated that
the family of John Dutton followed an Indian path through the forest, when
they moved from Chester to their land.

Jonathan Dutton founded a family in Middletown township and on No-
vember 12, 1792, bought a grist mill from Nicholas Fairlamb. When his son,
John Dutton, became of legal age he was placed in charge of the mill, which
became his property at the death of Jonathan Dutton, the father in 1820.
Jonathan (2) Dutton succeeded his father John in the ownership of the mills
and in 1843, during the great flood, was driven from floor to floor by the rising
water and finally just before the mill was swept away leaped into the rushing
torrent and succeeded in reaching safety one hundred yards below. The mills
were rebuilt in 1844 and on the death of Jonathan (2) Dutton. September 18,
1880. they were inherited by his son George G. Dutton, the fourth generation
of Duttons to own and operate the mills during a period covering nearly a
century.

Thomas Dutton, a grandson of Richard Dutton, was born in Aston town-
ship, February 2, 1769, died in the same township, his span of life having cov-
ered one hundred years, seven months and eleven days. He was a boy during
the Revolution, remembered hearing the cannon fired in Philadelphia, at the
-signing of the Declaration of Independence, voted for George Washington for
his second term and except for Monroe at his first term, had voted at every
presidential election, casting his last ballot for Gen. Grant in November, 1868:
On February 2, 1869, when Thomas Dutton completed his century of life, his
family connections and friends assembled at his home in Aston township in
celebration of the event. Only three instances are recorded in Delaware coun-
ty of persons who lived to a greater age than Thomas Dutton.

In 1850, Nathan P. Dutton, while attending a public sale of household
goods, at a house near Village Green, was struck by lightning and lived but
five minutes thereafter. Rachel Dutton, his mother, was in an adjoining
room, but was unhurt. On being told of the fate of her son, she came to him
at once and labored over him for nearly half an hour, then gradually lost con-
sciousness and died about three-quarters of an hour after the death of her son.

The Duttons were members of the Society of Friends for many genera-
tions, from the emigrant John Dutton, the early settler in Aston township.
Many of the name yet adhere to the austere faith of their fathers, while others
have connected with other christian denominations, but whether as Friends,
Presbyterians, Baptists or Methodists, they have ever been a family of high
standing in their communities. God-fearing, honorable and upright
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Harwell Beeson Dutton of Chester, Pennsylvania, is a son of Frank and
Martha (Lieeson) Dutton of Chester, Delaware county, where Frank Dutton
was born March 3, 1850. He was educated in the public schools of Upper
Chichester township and at Barlons Boarding School at Village Green. He
was a farmer and butcher of Twin Oaks until the year 1900, when he retired
and is now living in Chester, Pennsylvania. He is a Republican in politics
and for many years served as school director and supervisor of Upper Chi-
chester township. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and
for many years served as steward and trustee. He belongs to the Masonic
order, affiliated with Lucius H. Scott Lodge, No. 352. He married .Martha,
daughter of Amor and Louisa (Cloud) Beeson, he a deceased farmer of Dela-
ware county. His widow married (second) William H. Henderson, a farmer
of Centreville, Delaware, whom she also survives, a resident of Wilmington,
Delaware. Children of Frank Dutton, all born in Upper Chichester township :
Elmer G., born May iq, 1878, now a clerk in the Chester National Bank, mar-
ried Lena P.onsall and resides in Chester; Lawrence A., born June 11, 1880,
now a farmer and butcher of Twin C^aks, married Eunice Whiteley of Wil-
mington, I^elaware : Louisa B., born August 29, 1882, married Lloyd Norris
PTall, a salesman for the Carnegie Steel Company, residing at Ridley Park;
Harwell Beeson (see forward) ; F. Herman, born April 24. 1888. now a mer-
chant and farmer of Twin Oaks, married Amy Erwin ; Wilmer C. born Sep-
tember II, 1890, clerk for James Boyd & Company, married Florence Bardsley
and resides in Ridley Park ; Irwin V., born April 29, 1892, clerk. First Nation-
al Bank, Chester, Pennsylvania.

Llarwell Beeson Dutton was born at Twin Oaks. Delaware county, Penn-
i^ylvania, December 28. 1886. He attended the public schools of Upper Chi-
chester township. Twin Oaks and Boothwyn in Delaware county, then entered
Chester high school, whence he was graduated class of 1904. He then took a
course at Swarthmore College, graduating class of 1908, then matriculated at
the LIniversity of Pennsylvania, law department, whence he was graduated
LL.B. class of 191 2. He was admitted to the Delaware county bar in December
1911, and on receiving his degree from the University began the practice of his
profession in Chester with offices at No. 40 and No. 42 Cambridge Building.
He is a member of the Delaware County Bar Association ; has served as secre-
tary of the Chester Board of Trade from February. 1912, till March, 1913; is a
member of Theta Lambda Phi, legal fraternity. University of Pennsylvania:
I^ucius H. Scott Lodge, No. 352, Free and Accepted Masons, a charter metii-
ber of the Chester Club, and is a communicant of Mount Hope Methodist
Episcopal Church at \'illagc Green, lie is gaining a .satisfactory practice and
is devoted to his profession.

From the maritime country of Louth. Province (if Leinster.
WATSON Irelanfl, came Thomas, son of Roliert Watson, who lived and

died in his native isle.
Thomas Watson was born in Louth in 1834. was left an orphan at an early
age, came to the United States and died in Chester, Pennsylvania, February 7,
1900. He was eighteen years of age when he came to the L'nited States in
company with his sister Bridget and brothers. James and Patrick. He located
in Holmesburg, now a part of Philadelphia, where he followed his trade of
horseshoer. In 1859 he located in Chester, where he established the business
now owned by his son. He contintied there in prosperous business, honored
and respected until his death in 1900. He was a Democrat in politics and a de-
voted member of the Roman Catholic Chiuxh. He married Sarah McPherson,

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born in county Donegal. Ireland, who died in Chester in 1896, daughter of
John and Kate McPherson, he a grain merchant of Castle Finn, County
Donegal. Children (all but the first born in Chester, Pennsylvania) : Robert
(of further mention) ; John, born August 2, i86i, now superintendent of the
American Steel Foundries at Chester, married Mary Welsh ; James, born
March 3, 1864. now a horseshoer of Chester, married Elizabeth Bradbury ;
Thomas, born October 29, 1866, now superintendent of the pattern department
of the New Castle Steel Casting Company, married (first) Mary Mackey,
(second) Ida Eioyer; Catherine, born 1868, now Sister Agatha of the Con-
vent of The Immaculate Heart. Oak View. Delaware county, Pennsylvania;
Mary, born 1870. married John Hamilton, an employee of the Sharpless Man-
ufacturing Company and lives in West Chester. Pennsylvania: Joseph, born
1872. died 1890: Frances, Sarah and Susanna, all died in childhood.

Robert Watson, son of Thomas and Sarah (McPherson) Watson, was
born in Byberry township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, June 15, 1859. He
was but two months old when his parents moved to Chester and there his life
has been spent. He attended the public schools of Chester, entering high
school where he remained until 1875. He then secured a position in the armor
plate weighing department at the Roach Ship Yard, remaining two years, then
going with his father who taught him the horseshoer's trade. He worked at
his trade for five years, then in 1882, entered the employ of George B. Wood-
man, grocer at Thirteenth and Market streets, Philadelphia, with whom he re-
mained until 1888. In that year he returned to Chester, resuming work at his
trade with his father, continuing until the death of the latter, when he became
owner of the business which he continues very successfully at No. 119 East
Fifth street. He is a Republican in politics and from 1903 until 191 1 served
as member of the city council from the Third Ward. He was then employed
by Mayor Ward, commissioner of highways, his term to expire in 1915. He
has proved a most efficient commissioner, the number of macadamized streets
in 1912, exceeding that of any previous year in the history of the city. He is
also president of the Keystone Wire Board Box Company, incorporated in
the state of Delaware. He has been a member of Hanley Fire Company twen-
ty-five years and has served as trustee nine years. He is Past Grand Worthy
President of Chester Lodge. No. 159, Fraternal Order of Eagles; Past Dictator
of Chester Lodge. No. 285. Loyal Order of Moose, and for four years was a
member of the credentials committee : member of the Heptasophs. and of the
Modern Woodmen of America, Charter Oak Camp, No. 5806.

Robert Watson married in Chester. August 26. 1896, Bessie Harkins,
daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (McGlone) Harkins. both born in Ireland,
came to the Ignited States, where he died in 1906. aged ninety-eight years ; his
wife died in 1902. Children: Frances, died young: Catherine, burn in Chester,
June I, 1909: Dorothy, born in Chester, April 3, 1911.

Just why the term "Captains of industry" should be applied to
ROACH present day financiers, solely because tliey have financed great ■

industries, is not easily explained. But among those who justly
bear the proud title must ever stand foremost. John Roach and his no less capa-
ble son. John B. Roach, and when the industrial record of the United States
shall be made up for final inspection, no names will have better title to the
"Roll of fame" than they. The name Roach foriginally Roche) is best known
in connection with iron and steel shipbuilding on the Delaware river at Chester,
although for years prior to the coming to Pennsylvania, John Roach was a fore-
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the demand for an iron clad navy arose, it was to John Roach that the govern-
ment turned for their first steel ships, yet it was from the hands of the same
government that he received the blow that swept away his fortune and carried
him to his grave.

John Roach, shipbuilder and manufacturer, was born at Mitchelstown,
County Cork, Ireland, December 25, 181 5, son of a merchant of high standing
and integrity. His mother was a woman of intelligence, an untiring worker
with a keen and a buoyant spirit, qualities she transmitted to her son. John
was the eldest son of a large family and until he was thirteen years of age re-
ceived the best educational advantage his birthplace afforded. At that age a
crisis occurred in his father's affairs caused by his endorsing heavily for a
friend, and in the struggle to make his endorsement good, he broke down his
health and soon afterwards died. At the age of sixteen John decided to come
to the United States, believing his industry and ambition would there bring
him better returns than elsewhere. He landed in New York and then traveled
sixty miles on foot to Allaire, in Monmouth County, New Jersey (now a for-
gotten village), and there secured work at the Howell Iron Works, then a pros-
perous enterprise in a prosperous village. He began at a wage of twenty-five
cents daily, but by his industry and bright cheery manner, made a most favora-
ble imjjression on the owner of the works, James P. Allaire, who advanced
liim and gave him every advantage possible. In a few years he had by careful
saving and increasing his savings in other ways, twelve hundred dollars on de-
posit with Mr. Allaire, and in 1840 he drew five hundred dollars of it and jour-
neyed westward to Illinois, where he purchased three hundred acres of land
where the city of Peoria now stands, paying his five hundred dollars as a par-
tial payment. About this time i\lr. Allaire failed and Mr. Roach lost not only
the seven hundred dollars, due him, but also the five hundred dollars paid on his
land. He at once obtained a position in New York City, where he learned to
make marine engine castings and similar foundry work, receiving one dollar
per day. He again accumulated a small capital, then in company with three
of his fellow workmen he purchased a small foundry in New York and was
again started on the road to prosperity. He soon bought out his partners, en-
larged his works and in 1856 was worth thirty thousand dollars. In that year
his plant was destroyed by the explosion of a boiler; he was not able to collect
the insurance, and after paying all his debts and obligations of every kind,
found liimself again without a dollar. But he had established a name in the
business world for enterprise and integrity, that now proved to have a money
value. He was able to secure substantial credit, rebuild his works and as the
Etna Iron Works entered upon an era of great prosperity. He specialized in
the heaviest type of marine engine, and built up an immense business. He
built the great engines for the steam ram "Dunderberg;" those used in the
steam frigate "Neshaning," and in the Sound steamers "Bristol" and "Provi-
dence," all of which were the largest ever built in the United States at that
time. In 1868 his business was increased to such an extent that he purchased
the immense plant of the Morgan Iron Works in New York City, and soon
afterwards the Neptune Works, the Franklin Forge and the .Allaire Iron
Works, and Reany Son & Archbold shipyard at Chester, Pennsylvania. This
latter [irojierty was already a well established yard, fairly well equipped, with
a river frontage of about a quarter of a mile on the widest and deepest portion
of the Delaware river. A number of vessels had been built there, including
several monitors for the United States Government. The firm of John B.
Roach & Son was now re-organized as the Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding
& F.ngine Works, the Chester plant in charge of John B. Roach, becoming the
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portion devoted to John B. Roach, who was in charge there, his father rarely
visiting the works oftener than once a week. John Roach, as president, con-
ducted the financial affairs of the corporation from New York, and supervised
the operation of the New York Works. The great bulk of the work done at
both Chester and New York was, until after the Civil War, with private parties
and corporations. Previous to 1865, the only work done for the government
was in the building of large engines for government war vessels. He became
convinced that a radical change was required in the construction of marine
engines and advised the government that much of the machinery they were
buying was a waste of money. This resulted in the Navy Department order-
ing Mr. Roach to build compound engines for the "Tennessee." He had great
plans for building up our merchant marine and interested prominent statesmen
in his project. In 1875 he constructed a sectional dry dock at Pensacola and in
1883 began the construction at Chester, of the famous dispatch boat "Dolphin,"
and the cruisers "Atlanta," "Boston" and "Chicago," the first ships of the new
navy. These were built under the direction of the Naval Advisory Board, au-
thorized by Congress and appointed by the President, consisting of two civi'
engineers and several naval officers, who drew plans, models and specification ,
for the cruisers. When the "Dolphin" was completed, she was accepted by
the board, after a trial, as coming up to the conditions and requirements of the
contract. The then secretary of the navy, William C. Whitney, refused to ac-
cept the vessel and appointed another board to put her through further special
tests. He also ruled that Mr. Roach's contract was not legal. As his large
capital was involved in these contracts, his failure to effect a settlement with
the government led him for the protection of his bondsmen and creditors to
stop business. On July 18, 1885, he made an assignment and from that day
until he lost consciousness he could never refer to the subject without uncon-
trollable emotion. His life was a marvel of industrial labor and he impressed
his genius and individuality upon the time in which he lived, probably to a
greater extent than any other .-\merican manufacturer. His life was typical
of the great possibilities open to a man of courage, initiative and energy, being
dominated by rare fortitude, courage and perseverance, and combined with his
abilities, commanded national and international regard, closing as it did amid
circumstances that excited the warmest human sympathy. Under the strain
his powerful constitution and iron will broke, and he died January 10, 1887,
of cancer of the mouth, similar to that which caused the death of General
Grant.

He married, in 1837, in New Jersey, Emmeline Johnson. Two of his sons
were eminent in the business world, John Baker Roach, of whom further, and
Stephen W. Roach, who was connected with the Morgan Iron Works, of New
York City.

John Baker Roach was born in the city of New York, December 7, 1839,
second in a family of seven sons and two daughters. He was educated at
Ashland Collegiate Institute, Greene County, New York, and began business
life in a wholesale coffee establishment, but later entered his father's office.
The confinement was injurious to his health and for a time he was manager
of a large farm in Dutchess County, New York, owned by his father, where he
regained health and strength. After the purchase of the Morgan Iron Works
by John Roach in 1867, he admitted John B. Roach as a partner under the
firm name, John Roach & Son. In 1871 when the shipyard at Chester was pur-
chased, it was decided to place the son in active management of that branch,
which later made the name of Roach famous. Immediately after the purchase
of the yard and the organization of the Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding and
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sentative of his father, they began building iron steamships on a scale hitherto
unheard of. New Hnes were established, and old ones encouraged to add to
ilieir fleets the style of iron ships, which the old sea captains contemptuously
iubbed "tin ships." One after another the steamship companies placed orders
for the "Roach ships," and in three years a force of two thousand men, drawn
from the surrounding states, was employed at the Chester Works. At the
other Roach industries an equal number were employed in the furnishing of
material and building engines for the ships at Chester. The great forges, foun-
deries and shops were kept running at full speed and an era of great prosperity
for Chester set in. The first iron vessel built by the Roach firm was the "City
of San .Antonio," a small vessel for the Mallory line, followed by many others
for the same company, including in 1904 the "San Jacinto," a double screw
steamship, the finest coasting steamer ever constructed. On March 18, 1874,
the Pacific Mail Steamship "City of Peking" was launched, at that time the
largest ship in the world, except the "Great Eastern." There stands to the
credit of the Roach yard the first compound engines ever built in this country ;
the first iron sailing ship, and the first steel ships, the "Dolphin," "Chicago,"
"Boston" and ".Atlantic," the first vessels of our modern navy. After the as-
signment made by John Roach, on July 18, 1885, the business on hand was
closed up and in 1887 the company re-organized with John B. Roach, presi-
dent of the Delaware River Works and vice-president of the Morgan Iron
Company. He was in complete charge of the Chester plant and in a short
time the company was again in a prosperous condition. The Roaches were
pioneers in iron shipbuilding, and in all the years since, their shipyard has been
one of the leading yards in the country. There have been built the finest of
steamships, steamboats, ferry boats, yachts and sailing ships to the value of
many millions of dollars, and at the great works has been educated one of the
finest bodies of mechanics to be found in any industry in the country. Dur-
ing all the years no strike, or serious difficulty, has occurred at the yards, Mr.
Roach's policy having always been to deal with his men direct and to listen in
person to every legitimate complaint. These men built the "Priscilla," then the
largest and handsomest steamboat leaving New York Harbor, and the product
of their skill may be found in every United States Port. Mr. Roach was per-
sonally familiar with the details of the construction of every vessel laid down
in the vard, and few men in any business so completely grasped the details of
a complicated industry as he. Every mechanic in the yard recognized him as
a critical judge of the work and all strove for his approval. Besides his large
interests in the shipbuilding company, he became a director of the Seaboard
Steel Casting Company, the Chester National Rank, the Cambridge Trust
Company, and gave financial sujjport to many enterprises of a minor nature.
His career as a shipbuilder rivals that of his father, whose close business asso-
ciate he was for many years, while as representative and successor at the head
of the great Chester shipbuilding plant he has always been supreme. True
"Captains of industry" both, and identified with every plate, beam, bolt, shaft
or part of the great engines and ships they built. Pioneers in a full sense,
they gave to the world a new industry and to the city of Chester a posterity
and a name that shall ever endure. In political faith Mr. Roach is a Republi-
can. He is a member of the Union League of Philadelphia, the Engineers'
Club of New York, and the Penn Club of Chester.

He married, in 1861, Mary Caroline, daughter of David and Gertrude
Wallace of Staatsburg, New York. Of their eleven children, five grew to adult
years: Sarah E., died in 1893, married Charles E. Schuyler, of New York;
Emmcline Wallace, married, in 1892, \\'illiam C. Sproul. the capitalist and
statesman of Chester; Marv Garretta, married (first) in 1803, Dr. Frederick

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Farwell Long Jr.. who died in May, 1906, and she married (second) in Decem-
ber, 1912, George Forbes, lawyer, of Bakimore. Maryland; John, married, in
.89CJ. Hortense Moller, of Hoboken. New Jersey, and resides in New York;
William AlcPherson.

William McPherson Roach, youngest son of John B. Roach, was born in
Chester, Pennsylvania, December 23, 1877. He was educated in private
schools, Pennsylvania Military College, Chester, and Columbia University,
leaving the latter in his junior year. He resides in Chester engaged in the
management of his own private estate. He is a Republican in politics. He
married, in the City of Mexico, April 25, 1906, Julia Josefina Enriqueta Hidal-
goy de Vries, daughter of Senator Don Juan Hidalgo. Child : Juan Federico
Farwell Hidalgo Roach, born in Mexico City, February 2, 1907.

Although a resident of Chester since childhood, Mr. Benjamin C.
FOX Fox was born in Germany, bemg brought to Chester when young.
He was born February 24, 1868, and obtained his primary educa-
tion in the public schools of Chester. In 1889 he entered Pennsylvania Mili-
tary Institute at Chester, continuing through a course of three years. Choos-
ing the profession of law he began study under the preceptorship of Judge
W illiam B. Broomall, continuing his studies under the judge's instruction un-
til 1895, when he was admitted to the Delaware County bar. He at once be-
gan the practice of law in Chester and now is well established in practice with
offices in his own, the Fox Building, on Welsh, near the corner of Fifth street,
Chester. He has been for several years largely interested in real estate in all
sections of Chester, and until recently was the owner of the large building on
the corner of Fifth and Welsh streets, now used by the New Chester Water
Company. The Fox Building adjoining, recently completed, is an office build-
ing and one of his latest improvements to the city.

Mr. Fox has always been interested in public affairs ; is a firm believer in
the commission form of government for American cities, and in his study of
the best forms of municipal government has traveled all over the United States,
Great Britain, and the countries of Continental Europe. He is a Republican in
politics and in 191 1 was a candidate at the primaries for the nomination for
mayor of Chester. He is an active member of the Chester Board of Trade,
served for three years as secretary, and in 1909 was president. He is a mem-
ber of the Masonic order belonging to Chester Lodge, No. 236, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons; Chester Chapter, No. 258, Royal Arch Masons; Chester Com-
mandery. No. 66, Knights Templar, and Lulu Temi)le, Nobles of the Mystic
.Shrine, of Philadelphia. He is also a member of the Tall Cedars, No. 21,
and Chester Lodge, No. 488, l^jenevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

Mr. Fox married, December 30, 191 1, in New York City, Ingeborg Jor-
genscn, born in Copenhagen. Denmark.

Tracing English family history back through the centuries,
DOWNING the antiquarian finds a clear line of Downing descent from

Geoffrey Downing, born March 7, 1524. He was a dignitary
of county Essex, styled ''gentleman" and bore arms : "Gules a fesse naire, be-
tween two lions passant, quadrant ermine." Crest : "Out of a ducal coronet
a swan or." The quartering and color show royal descent, which came
through the marriages with Plantagenets. of both Geoffrey Downing and his
grandson Calybut. Geoffrey married October 8, 1548, Elizabeth Winfield and
died September 17, 1593, leaving male issue.

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/\rtliur Downing, son of Geoffrey Downing, was Ijorn at the family seat
in county Essex, England, Pynest, Poles, Belchano, born x\ugust i, 1550, died
at Lexham, county Norfolk, England, September 19, 1606. He married June
lO- 1573> Susan Calybut and had issue: Calybut, see forward; John, born 1581,
died 1617: Dorothy, born 1584, died 1651 : Anna, born 1586, died 1658; Susan,
born 1589, died 1642.

Calybut Downing, eldest son of Arthur Downing, was born June 1. 1574,
and had his estates in Sherrington, Gloucestershire, England, where he died in
1642. He married (first) January 8. 1594, Elizabeth (Winfield) Morrison,
widow of Edward Morrison. He married (second) August 5, 1604, Anna
Ilogan ; children: Emanuel, see forward: Calybut (2), born 1596, died 1644;
Elizabeth, born 1598, died 1660; Susan, 1601, died 165 1.

Emanuel Downing, son of Calybut Downing, was born at Sherrington,
Gloucestershire, England, December 10, 1594, died in London. England, July
26, 1676. He resided in Sherrington, Dublin, Ireland, Salem, Massachusetts
(coming to America in 1638), and London, England. He married (first)
June 7, 1614, a Miss Ware of Dublin, ( second) April 10, 1622, Lucy Win-
throp ; children by second marriage : George, born 1625. died 1654 ; Nicholas,
born 1627, died 1698; Henry, see forward.

Henry Downing, son of Emanuel Downing, was born March 10, 1630,
died September 25, 1698. He held an officer's commission in the Kings Own
Guards and had his family seat at East Hatley, Cambridgeshire, England. He
married, June 2, 1665, Jane Clotworthy, and had issue : .Adam, see forward ;
John, born 1667, died 1736; George, born 1668, died 1729: Elizabeth, born
1669, died 1740: Daniel, born 1670, died 1733; Anne, born 1672, died 1674;
Margaret, born 1675, died 1723; Anne, born 1678, died 1757.

Colonel Adajii Downing, eldest son of Henry Downing, was born March
18, 1666, died May 17, 1719. He was a resident of London (Downing street)
for many years ; a strong partisan of King William of Orange and accompan-
ied him to Ireland in 1689, holding the rank of colonel ; fought at the siege of
Londonderry ("Derry"), and was later deputy governor of Londonderry coun-
ty. He married, November 15, 1693, Margaret Jackson, of Colerain, county of
Derry, Ireland, and had issue: Henry, born 1697, died 1712: John, see for-
ward.

John Downing, youngest son of Colonel Adam Downing, was born April
16, 1700, died September 3, 1762. He was a resident of Dawsons Bridge, Bel-
fast and Rowesgift in Derry. He married, June 10, 1727, Margaret Rowe,
of Rowesgift, and had issue: Clotworthy, see forward: Dawson, born 1739,
died 1808; John, born 1740, died 1792.

Clotworthy Downing, son of John Downing, was born April 4, 1728, spent
fiis life at Dawson's Bridge. Ballaghy and Rowesgift in Derrv, and died No-
vember 13, 1801. He married, June 14, 1753. Elizabeth Gifford, and had is-
sue: William, see forward: John, born i/fio. died 1820: Gifford. born 1762,
died 1830.

William Downing, son of Clotworthy Downing, was born March 13, 1754,
died .\pril 10, 1803, after a life spent in his native county at Dawson's Bridge,
Ballaghy and Rowesgift. He married August 5, 1784, Jane Colwell, of Money-
more, in county Derry; children: \\'illiam Colwell, born 178^1. married 181 1,
died 1868; James, see forward.

James Downing, son of William Downing, was born November 10, 1798,
resided at Moneymore, comity Derry, and died February 14. 1874. He mar-
ried, October 20, 1830, Elizabeth Brown Dufif, and had issue: Robert William,
see forward: Jane Elizabeth, born 1837, died 1839.

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22, 1835. He became a resident of the city of Philadelphia, where he rose to
exceptional prominence in civic affairs. He also became an official of the
Pennsylvania railroad, holding the position of assistant comptroller by appoint-
ment in February, 1872, and being elected to that position in May, 1874. He
resided in the fourteenth ward of Philadelphia, where he held the office of
school director and represented that ward in select council 1871 to 1875, serv-
ing as president of that body 1874-1875. He was also a member of the com-
mission in charge of the erection of the city hall, Broad and Market streets ;
member of the board of Fairmount Park commissioners ; member of the Board
of City Trusts; member of the Board of Prison Inspectors for Philadelphia
county and comptroller of the Board of Education. He served in the war be-
tween the states as a non-commissioned officer of the Seventeenth Regiment
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. In poHtical faith he was a Republican.

He married (first) March 8, 1854, Elizabeth Lefferts Addis, born March
8, 1836, died December 13, 1885. He married (second) February i, 1887,
Catherine Parker Dackson, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Children, first six by
first marriage, two by second marriage ; Charles Gardner, born December 26,
1854, married Mary Leah Brown, of Philadelphia, born September 17, 1857;
Frank Taggart, see forward ; Robert Brown, born and died 1858 : William Col-
well, born April 16, i860, married, 1883, Martha Jane Taylor of Philadelphia,
born September 11, 1861 ; Lillian, born 1861, died 1882; Robert William (2),
born 1864, married November 4, 1886, Charlesanna Heritage Myers of Phila-
delphia, born August 5. 1866: Spencer Brown, born 1893; Roberta Brown,
1895.

Frank Taggart Downing, son of Robert William Downing and his first
wife, was born in Philadelphia. February 21, 1857, resided in Moylan, Penn-
sylvania, where he died in the fall of 1905. He was a well educated man and
at the time of his death was assistant to the comptroller of the Pennsylvania
railroad. He was a member of the Union League Club and a Republican in
political affiliation.

He married, in 1882, Belle Rank Howard, of Philadelphia, born May 13,
1857: children: Frank Taggart (2), born and died February 7, 1885: Elizabeth
Addis, born December 27, 1886, in Philadelphia, married Elwood J. Turner,
(q. v.); Addis Howard, see forward: Isabel, born May 17, 1891, mar-
ried, January 15, 1913, Charles Willing Huber, and resides in Merion, Penn-
sylvania.

Addis Howard Downing, son of Frank Taggart and Belle R. (Howard)
Downing, was born in Philadelphia, February 14, 1889, of the fifteenth re-
corded generation of his family, dating from Geoffrey Downing of Essex, Eng-
land, 1524-1595. He attended a private school in Media, Pennsylvania, until
he was twelve years of age, then until 1006 was a student at the Episcopal
Academy on Locust street, Philadelphia ; then entered Phillip's Academy, Exe-
ter, Massachusetts, whence he was graduated class of 1910. and then for one
year was a student of the Wharton school. University of Pennsylvania. In De-
cember, 1912, he located in Chester, Pennsylvania, establishing the real estate
and insurance firm of A. H. Downing & Company, with offices in the Cam-
iDridge building, where he is conducting a satisfactory business. He is an en-
ergetic, capable young business man and inherits the many virtues of his
sires. He is an independent in politics : an attendant of the Presbyterian
church; member of Phi Kappa Psi (University of Pennsylvania). Kappa Epsi-
lon Psi (Phillips Exeter Academy) ; the Canteen Club (University of Pennsyl-
vania), and the Springhaven Country Club.

Mr. Downing married. June 23, 1913, in St. Paul, Minnesota, Ruth Eve-
lyn, born in St. Paul, daughter of Edward A. Konantz, a lumber dealer of that

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citv and his wife, .Minnesota Hcndrickson. The family home is in Moylan,
Delaware coiintv.

From far-away Germany came about 1850. William
NOTHNAGLE Nothnagle. born in Hesse' in 1837. who located in Ches-
ter. Pennsylvania, where he engaged in the Initcher bus-
iness until he retired in 1888. His death occurred in 1905. His widow. Ber-
tha (Weis) Nothnagle. born in Germany, survives him. a resident of Chester,
with her grandson. Dr. Frank R. Nothnagle. Children of William and Bertha
(Weis) Nothnagle: i. Frank, born in Chester in 1861. now engaged in the
butcher business there: married Lizzie Henry, of Chester, deceased. 2.
Charles .-\.. of whom further. 3. Edward, born in Chester in 1865. now a
painter and decorator: married Margaret GofT. and resides in Chester.

(II) Charles A., son of William and Bertha (Weis) Nothnagle. was born
in Chester. Pennsylvania. October 3. 1863. and is now a resident of Paulsboro.
New Jersey. He'was educated in "the high school of Chester, and grew up as-
his father's assistant in the meat market. I,ater he moved to Paulsboro, New
Jersey, where he is now engaged in the same line, being proprietor of a mar-
ket and meat business. He is a member of Chester Lodge. No. 236. Free and
Accejned :\Iasons : in politics is a Republican : and in religion a member of the
Episco])al Church. Mr. Nothnagle married Josephine Ireland, born in Chester,
daughter of Joseph and Mary iVeland. both deceased: children: William, died
in childhood": Charles, born 'February <). 1886. in Chester, now a machinist,
married Beatrice Miller, of Paulsboro. where they reside: Frank R.. see for-
ward.

(HI) Dr. Frank R. Nothnagle, youngest son of Charles A. and Josephme
(Ireland) Nothnagle, was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, July 9, 1888. He at-
tended the public school there until he was about nine years of age, when his
parents moved to Paulsboro, New Jersey. Here he continued his studies, and
was graduated from the higli school in 1906. In September, 1906. he entered
Jefferson Medical College." Philadelphia, whence he was graduated M. D. in
"the class of 1910. He served one year as interne at Chester Hospital and
then began private practice, locating at Second and Penn streets, Chester,
where he is becoming well established as a safe, skillful and honorable physi-
cian. He is on the obstetrical staff of Chester Hospital, and is a member of
the American Medical Association, the State Medical Society and the Delaware
County Medical Society. He also belongs to Chester Lodge No. 236. Free and
Accepted Masons. .

Dr. Nothnagle married. January 23. 1913. Florence Dyson, born in Ches-
ter, daughter of George and Sarah ("Miller) Dyson, the latter born in England.

The Alonihans of Ireland have long been an agricultural fam-
MONIH.\N ily of that isle, some of them land owners, all men of good
standing and intelligence.
In this country the family was founded by James Monihan. who was
well educated, a good linguist, and in New York was for many years interpre-
ter at the emigration offices, aiding emigrants. He married and had issue.

John, son of Tames Monihan. was born in Ireland in 1843- He came
to the I'nited States before his marriage, settling in Brandywnnc, Pennsylvania,
later moved to Landenberg, where he yet resides. He entered the employ of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, served for many years and is now upon the retired
list. He is a Democrat in politics, and state vice-president of the .Ancient Or-

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der of Hibernians of Delaware Division, No. 4. In religious faith he is a
member of the Roman Cathohc church. He married Juha Haley, born in
Ireland, daughter of Matthew Haley, who settled in Brandywine prior to the
marriage of his daughter and there died. Children of John Alonihan : i. James,
married Mary Curry, of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania ; now is general yard master
for the "Nickel Plate"' Railroad at Cleveland, Ohio. 2. Ella, married James
Riley, of Philadelphia, both deceased. 3. Andrew, married Emily Murray, of
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania ; resides in Philadelphia, freight claim investiga-
tor for the Pennsylvania Railroad. 4. Julia, married Peter Lafferty, a rail-
road conductor, now of Buffalo, New York. 5. Josephine, a teacher in the
iVvondale, (Pennsylvania) high school. 6. Daniel Joseph, see forward.

Dr. Daniel J. Monihan, son of John and Julia (Haley) Monihan, was born
in Landenberg, Chester County. Pennsylvania, March 19, 18S2. He was edu-
cated in the public schools, West Chester State Normal, leaving the latter in-
stitution and taking a business course at Goldeys Business College at Wilming-
ton, Delaware, in 1897. He then entered the employ of the Pennsylvania
Railroad at Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, continuing until 1903, when he
began the carrying out of a long formed plan. He entered the Medical De-
partment of Medico-Chirurgical College, whence he was graduated M. D.,
class of May, 1907. After graduation he served as interne in the college hos-
pital for eight months, then as interne in the Philadelphia General Hospital at
Rlockley for eighteen months. He then began general practice at Crum Lynne,
Delaware County, but in 1909 removed to Chester where he is now well estab-
lished in practice, with offices at Broad Street and Morton Avenue. He was
a member of the Surgical Society at college : is a present member of the Penn-
sylvania State Medical Society, Delaware County Medical Society, Blockley
Medical Society, Philadelphia Medical Club, .\mericus Council, No. 242,
Knights of Columbus. In political faith Dr. Monihan is an independent, and
he is a communicant of the Roman Catholic Church. He i~ unmarried.

The Northams trace to ancient A'irginia families on both ma-
NORTHAM ternal and paternal lines, the Northams and Byrds being of
both Colonial and Revolutionary fame. The Byrd ancestry
leads back to William Byrd, born 1A74, died 1744. He was educated in Eng-
land, The Netherlands and France: was a fellow of the Royal Societv of
England and came to \'irginia as receiver general of that province. He also
served under three appointments as Colonial agent for \'irginia in London.
For thirty-seven years he was a member of the provincial council of Virginia
and was chosen its president. He had in his famous Virginia home "West-
over," the largest private library in America and was one of the literary lights
of his day. An excerpt from the Westover manuscripts left by him was pub-
lished in Senator Lodge's "Classics of Literature." The home seat of the
Northams was in .Accomack county, Virginia, where W'illiam Thomas Nort-
ham owned a farm. He was of Revolutionary ancestry.

William Byrd Northam, son of William Thomas Northam, was born at the
family seat in Accomack county, October i. 1848, now a resident of Chester,
Pennsylvania. He was educated in X'irginia, but at the age of twenty years lo-
cated in Cape May county. New Jersey, where he engaged in farming. Later he
moved to Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, where until 1888 he was employed in
the iron works. In the latter year he located in Chester, Pennsylvania, where
he is connected with the Chester Traction company. In political faith. Mr.
Northam is a Republican, and in religious belief a Baptist. He belongs to Mo-

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zart Lodge, Philadelphia, Free and Accepted Masons; the Junior Order of
American Mechanics: the Shield of Honor and Knights of Malta.

He married Mary Elizabeth Spare, born in Montgomery county, Pennsyl-
vania, daughter of John Spare, a Civil War veteran, a survivor of the battle of
Gettyslnirg, hift died the following August. He was a farmer of Montgomery
county and a man of substance. His wife, who was Miss Bitting, died when her
daugliter, Mary Elizabeth, was quite voung. Children of William Byrd Northam :
George V., born .August 25, 1875, now foreman of the Lorain Steel Company at
Lorain, Ohio, married Elizabeth Mathers of Chester, Pennsylvania ; Harry S.,
born November 18, 1877, now an electrician in Ohio, luarried ^laime Reynolds
of Chester; William Byrd (2) (of whom further); Ella, born February 14,
1881. married Alfred C. Thorpe, a coal dealer of Chester, their home; J. Al-
bert, horn April, i88.^, now a salesman for Lewis Brothers, wholesale grocers,
married Annie Taylor of Chester: Margaret M., born in 1885, married Harry
Ruch, foreman of the Hot Water plant at Sharon Hill, Delaware county, Penn-
sylvania; Elsie, born IMarch 12, 1888, married Harry Hunter, clerk with the
American Foundry Company and resides in Chester; Emily, born August 24,
1891. married Albert P. Taylor, advertisement broker, and resides at LTpland,
Pennsylvania ; Charles B., born April 24, 1895, now stenographer for the Tex-
as Oil company and resides in Chester.

William Byrd (2) Northam was born at Port Providence, Montgomery
county, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1879. He attended the public schools of Ches-
ter county ; in Schuylkill, township ; Oak Grove and Spring City. From the age
of eleven to sixteen years he worked in the cotton mills, except for one term
in the Chester schools. In 1895 he entered Williamson's Free Trade School,
situated two miles from Media, took a full course and was graduated a ma-
chinist and mechanical draughtsman in 1899. For three years of that period he
worked in a Chester machine shop, that being the practical part of the course
of study. In 1900 he began the study of law under the preceptorship of George
B. Lindsay and William B. Harvey and on December 29, 1902, was adiriitted to
the Delaware county bar. He at once began practice in Chester, opening offices
at 140 East Seventh street, where he is well established in a satisfactory
and growing practice.

He is an independent Republican in politics ; a member of the Baptist
Church ; the Junior Order of .'vmerican Mechanics, Col. David Houston Coun-
cil No. 739, of which he is past councillor ; the Patriotic Sons of America,
Washington Camp No, 81 ; and of the Delaware County Bar Association. Mr,
Northam is unmarried.

From Robert Taylor, of the Society of Friends from 1681,
T.\"\T.OR down to the present, the Taylor family has been a leading one

in Chester and Delaware counties. Robert Taylor from Little
Leigh, Cheshire, England, came to this country in 1682. On March 3, of 1681.
he purchased one thousand acres in Chester county, Pennsylvania, of which
six hundred were in the neighborhood of the present village of Broomall, four
hundred were situated south of the Springfield water basin and all conveyed
to him under an original grant from William Peim, made March 3, 1681,
surveyed, November 11, 1682. Robert Taylor was a mcmlier of the Society of
Friends, married and the founder of an important, influential family. From
him through the line of his eldest son sprang the author and poet. Bayard
Taylor, and from the line of his seventh son, springs James Irvin Taylor, of
Chester.

Thomas Taylor, son of Robert Taylor, married Mary Howell.

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Thomas (2) Taylor, eldest son of Thomas (i) Taylor, married Mary
Adams.

Robert (2) Taylor, eldest son of Thomas (2) Taylor, married (second)
Catherine McCloskey. He was a soldier in the Revolution.

Robert (3) Taylor, son of Robert (2) Taylor, and his second wife, mar-
ried Catherine Cummings, of Scotch descent. His father-in-law, James Cum-
mings, was a soldier of the Revolution. William Taylor, son of Robert (3)
Taylor, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, March i, 1815, died in
1903. a Methodist in religious faith, a Republican in politics, but later a zealous
third party Prohibitionist.

He married, in 1836, Jane Boyd, with whom fifty years later he cele-
brated the golden anniversary of his wedding day, surrounded by children,
grandchildren and friends. His sons are : James W., Robert and Henry ;
daughters : Eliza, Mary, Kate and Hannah.

Robert (4) Taylor, son of William and Jane (Boyd) Taylor, was born
in New London, Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1838, died in March, 1891.
He received a good English education and early in life engaged in farming;
later became a contractor and builder. In 1884 he removed his residence to
Chester, where he continued contracting and building with remarkable success.
In one year he erected buildings valued at nearly one hundred thousand dollars
and in each year gained in favor as an honorable, trustworthy and capable
builder, and a man of upright character. He was a devoted member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, a faith he embraced when sixteen years of age.
He was for many years a trustee of Trinity Church in Chester, superintendent
of the Sunday School, and a most active, liberal supporter of all church inter-
ests. He was a strong advocate of temperance and allied with the prohibition
party in political faith. He served as school director of Aston township, Del-
aware county, and always aided the cause of education to the full extent of
his ability. He was a member of the Benevolent Lodge No. 50, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, but would never accept the lodge monetary benefits to
which he was entitled. He married, in 1862, Lydia E. Howard, a daughter of
Benjamin and Henrietta (Miller) Howard, the latter, daughter of Daniel (2)
Miller, and granddaughter of Daniel (i) Miller, a .soldier of the Revolution;
children : James Irvin, William H., Howard D., Ruth W.. and Charles W.

James Irvin Taylor, eldest son of Robert (4) and Lydia E. (Howard)
Taylor, was born in r^Iiddletown township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania,
August 6, 1863. He was educated in the public schools and at West Chester
State Normal, attending the latter, however, but one term. He then began
learning the carpenter's trade under the direction of his father. He worked
at his trade in the residential districts of Philadelphia, remaining there until
his father had established a contracting business in Chester. He then joined
him until 1891. when upon the death of his father he began contracting on his
own account. After the death of Robert (4) Taylor in 1891, J. Irvin Taylor
formed a partnership with his younger brother, Howard D., and under the
firm name, J. I. Taylor & Brother, operated one year, erecting twenty-two
buildings during that period. They then dissolved, and J. Irvin Taylor con-
tinued again alone. He has continued steadily along until the present time,
keeping a force of mechanics at work continuously, and has added eight hun-
dred dwellings to the taxable property of Chester. Many of these, perhaps
half, he has built himself and later sold. Some were for business and public
purposes, but the greater part by far have been beautiful, well planned, desira-
ble residences. The development and improvemnt in the Eighth and Market
street district, is due to his enterprise, while at Third and Upland streets he has
erected twenty-four residences. But all over the city of Chester may be found

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residences and buildings erected by bim. He is now construciing a real estate
office building at Sixth and Market streets.

Not only has Chester benefitted by his public spirit and enterprise, but he
has also given much time to the public service. He was tour years a member
of common council, and for nine years a useful member of the board of edu-
cation. He was instrumental in having the city build the Ninth street bridge
over Chester Creek and in his building operations has been the means of add-
ing to the city, West Ninth street, Spruce street ; Dupont, Barclay street, Penn
street. Fifth street and Taylor Terrace. In politics he was for many years a
Republican, but in the campaign of 1912 joined with the Progressive party
and was then candidate for the legislature. In 1905 he was a candidate for the
Republican nomination for mayor of Chester, and in religious faith he is a
member of .Madison Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Mr. Taylor is a
member of the Masonic order, belonging to Chester Lodge No. 236, Free and
Accepted Masons; Chester Commandery No. 66, Knights Templar, and to
Lulu Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Philadelphia. Other orders with
which he is connected are: Leiperville Lodge No. 263, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, of which he is Past Noble Grand ; Chester Lodge No. 488, Be-
nevolent Protective Order of Elks; Chester Camp, Modern Woodmen of the
World, and the Order of Heptasophs.

In early manhood. Mr. Taylor, in his reading and study, became interested
in phrenology, and in 1886 took a course in that science at the Institute of
Phrenology in New York city, from whence he was graduated. The science
he retains for his own satisfaction only, never having attempted its use pro-
fessionally, regarding himself simply as an amateur, but deriving a great deal
of pleasure from the private exercise of his knowledge. He has the respect of
his community as a citizen and a well established standing as a capable, honor-
able, substantial business man.

Mr. Taylor married, (October 5, 1887, Emma Beaumont, in Calvary Epis-
copal Church at Rockdale, Rev, James Walker performing the ceremony. She
is the daughter of Richard and Hannah (Mills) Beaumont, both parents born
in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England ; children : Robert Leslie, born in Upland,
Pennsylvania, graduate Chester high school, Pierce's Business College, now a
student at the University of Pennsylvania ; Helen Beaumont, graduate Chester
high school: Paul I., deceased: Emma Marguerite, a student in high school;
Charles James Irvin, student in Chester high school : Frank Howard, attend-
ing Lincoln school; Chester. The family home is at No. 512 West Ninth
street, Chester, Pennsvlvania.

Born in England, Basil Cooper when a young man came to this
COOPER country settling in Talbot county, Maryland, later in Kent coun-
ty, Delaware, where he spent his life engaged in farming. He
was a leading member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and in political
faith was a Democrat. He married Miss Cooper of Talbot county, Maryland,
and founded the family of which Clarence C. Cooper of Chester. Pennsylvania,
is representative: children: Mark (see forward) : Mary, died in Kent county,
Delaware, married James Hcndrickson.

Mark Cooper, son of Basil Cooper, the English emigrant, was born in
Kent county, Delaware ; there lived and died aged forty-eight years. He was
a farmer all his life; a Democrat and a Methodist. He married Lucretia Hill,
who did not survive her husband but a short time, dying at the age forty-five
years; children: John, born in 1849, died in Kent county, a farmer. He mar-
ried Lizzie Killein, who survives him a resident of Harrington city, Delaware;

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Lucretia, born in 185 1. married William Billings, a farmer of Kent county —
both deceased: James B. (see forward): Mark (2), born 1855, deceased, a
farmer, he married Emma Scott, who survives him a resident of Harrington
city: Elizabeth, born i860, deceased, married William Rosenstock, now resid-
ing in Norwood, Pennsylvania.

James B. Cooper, son of Mark and Lucretia (Hill) Cooper, was born in
Kent county, Delaware, at Harrington city, September 22, 1853. He was edu-
cated in the public schools, became his father's farm assistant and until 1910
was constantly engaged in the business of a farmer. In that year he joined
his son, Clarence C. Cooper, in the general produce commission business in
CThester and there continues. He is a Democrat in politics and an attendant of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Anna, daughter of Alexander
and Lydia (Lewis) Simpson of Harrington city, both deceased. Alexander
was a son of Clement C. Simpson, born in Maryland in 1809, died in Kent
county, Delaware in 1883, a farmer and an active member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He married .Ann Morris, born 1815, died in Kent county
in 1880. Children : Alexander, married Lydia Lewis, who was the mother
of his nineteen children of whom Anna, wife of James B. Cooper, was the eld-
est. Eight of these children are yet living ; three died unnamed ; two died
young, the others reaching years of maturity. Both Alexander and his wife
Lydia (Lewis) Simpson are deceased. Mary, died unmarried: John, resides
in Carbondale, Kansas, a farmer. He married a widow, Mrs. Wachneyer ;
Ezekiel, died in Harrington city, a carpenter. He married Louisa Calloway,
who survives him : James, married Sarah Meredith and resides at Harrington
city, a farmer: Sarah, married Andrew Melvin, a farmer and resides in Dor-
chester county, Maryland : Annie, died young. Children of James B. Cooper :
Clarence Cecil (see forward) : Bessie, born August 24, 1883, died October 28,
1913, married Clarence Martz, a clerk in Chester, now deceased. She resides
in Chester with her two children. Hazel and Cooper.

Clarence Cecil Cooper, only son of James P>. and .\nna (Simpson) Coop-
er, was born at Harrington city, Delaware, June 16, 1881. He was educated
in the public schools of Kent county, continuing his studies until 1898. He
began business life as an employee of the Pennsylvania Steel Casting Com-
pany in Chester, remaining until 1901. He then entered the employ of Brigh-
ton and Tohnson, commission merchants of Chester, remaining with that firm
tmtil 1906, becoming thoroughly familiar with the commission business, find-
ing it both, congenial and profitable. In 1906 he formed a partnership with I.
M. Wolf and started a similar business for himself. This association continued
until igio, when the firm dissolved, Mr. Cooper continuing in the same lines but
alone, at No. 210 Edgemont .Avenue, Chester. He also has a larger office and
storage rooms at Second and Edgmont .Avenue. He has been very successful
in his business, has a good line of shippers from many localities and holds
their entire confidence. His dealings are based on the principle of the "square
deal" and both his shippers and customers have found that this principle is
strictly adhered to. Mr. Cooper is a member of the Franklin Fire Company
of Chester, having joined in 1902 in coming of age : also belongs to the Junior
Order American Mechanics- is a Democrat in politics and attends the Episco-
pal church.

He married in Chester. August 15, 1906, Minnie Brighton, born in Bos-
ton, England — her parents, Abram and Jane (Lawton) Brighton, coming to
the United States when she was an infant and settling in LTpland, Pennsylvania,
but now living in Chester, retired. Child: James Brighton, born in Chester,
January 21, 1908.

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A monument still standing to the memory of John Hoskins,
HOSKINS the emigrant ancestor, is the old Hoskins House (Edgemont
Avenue, below Third street) Chester, built in 1688.

John Hoskins and wife Mary, came from England in 1682 and settled
at Chester. He was one of the original purchasers under Penn, from whom
he bought before leaving England, two hundred fifty acres which were laid
out to him in Middletown township in 1684. In August, 1684, he purchased
from John Sinnock, the property in Chester upon which he built the house in
1688. John Hoskins was a member of the Society of Friends ; member of
General Assembly of 1683. and kept the old house as an inn. His will is signed
John Hodgskins, but his executors in their report spell it Hoskins. He left
iwo children, John (2) and Mary, also a widow Mary, who married (second)
in 1700, George Woodier of Chester. She was an active member of the
Friends Meeting at Chester, of which she and Ann Posey were appointed over-
seers in 1696.

John (2) Hoskins was elected sheriff of Chester county in 1700, being
then not more than twenty-three years of age and continued to hold that office
until 1715, except during the year 1708. He married in 1698, Ruth Atkinson,
who died in 1739 — he died in 1716. They had issue: John (3), born 1699;
Stephen, born 1701 ; George, born 1703, died young; Joseph, born 1705, and
JMary, born 1707. From John (2) Hoskins springs the Chester family herein
recorded.

A later John Hoskins, was born in Chester and died in Rockdale aged
eighty years, born about 1750. He was a contractor and farmer, a Democrat
and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Mary Evans,
born in Chester, died in Middletown township, who bore him John R., married
Mary Chever; William (of further mention); Joseph, died in Maryland, a
farmer; A'linerva, married Aaron Massey ; Hannah, married Joseph Griswold.

William Hoskins, son of John and Mary (Evans) Hoskins, was born in
Rockdale. Delaware county. Pennsylvania, died at Lima, Pennsylvania, in 1880,
aged about seventy-three years. He was a farmer all his active life ; a Demo-
crat and an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married
Charlotte Taylor, born in Media, Pennsylvania, who died aged about seventy-
four years, daughter of John Taylor, born in Village Green, Delaware county.
John Taylor was a revolutionary soldier, captured at the battle of Long Island,
and confined on a prison ship in the harbor at New Haven. Connecticut, where
he nearly died from starvation and privation. He was finally released through
the kindness of a commission merchant of New Haven and returned to his
home, but not until he had married a Miss Richards of New Haven. He spent
the remainder of his days a farmer of Delaware county. Children of William
Hoskins: loseph, married ]\liss Broomall of Delhi, who survives him a resident
of Darby township ; John, a wheelwright, married Jane Brown, both deceased ;
Aaron M. (of whom further) ; Cheyney, died aged twenty-two years: Henry,
a contractor, married Sarah James and now resides in Berwyn, Pennsylvania ;
Hamilton, a farmer, married Emma Baumgarten, both deceased ; Esther, died
young: Martha, married Robert Johnson, whom she survives a resident of
Lima ; Anna, married Thomas Garrett, whom she survives, residing in Lima.

Aaron M. Hoskins, son of William and Charlotte (Taylor) Hoskins, was
born in Village Green, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. May 18, T836, died at
Elwyn in the same county, March 8, 191 1. He was a farmer and cattle dealer
of Delaware county all his life, an active energetic man of business and a
good citizen. For many years he was an elder of the Presbyterian Church and
in politics a Democrat. He married Josephine \^'illiams. born in East Media.
January 24. 1844. daughter of Thomas T. and Catherine (Thomas) Williams

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— he a farmer and blacksmith of Elwyn, son of Ambrose and Phoebe (Trim-
ble) Williams, who both died at their farm in Middletown township, Tresby-
terians, and he a Democrat. Ambrose Williams was born in Ireland and the
founder of his family in Delaware county. Children of Thomas T. Williams :
Josephine, married Aaron M. Hoskins, of previous mention; Emma, born in
"1843, died in 1885, unmarried ; JNIary Harper, born in 1885, now residing with
Mrs. Josephine Hoskins, widow of Aaron M. Hoskins at Elwyn ; John, born in
1847, died in 1897, a blacksmith: Alfred, born in 1854, died in 191 1, married
Margaret Griel, who survives him a resident of Lancaster. Children of Aaron
M. Hoskins: Thomas Herman, born January 18, 1871, now an ice and coal
dealer in Elwyn ; John (of whom further) ; Mabel, died aged nineteen.

Dr. John Hoskins, son of Aaron M. and Josephine (Williams) Hoskins,
and a descendant of John and Mary Hoskins, the emigrant, was born at
Elwyn, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, November i, 1873. He was educated
in Media high school ; Media academy, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy,
Ph. G., class of 1895 ; University of Pennsylvania, M. D., class of 1898. He
at once located in Chester, Pennsylvania, where his learning and skill in the
treatment of diseases have brought him the reward of a large practice. He
opened his first office at No. 2407 West Third street, where he has always re-
mained. He is a member of Delaware county Medical Society ; a communicant
of the Presbyterian church : a Democrat in politics and for two years a mem-
ber of council. He is unmarried.

The emigrant ancestor of the Palmers of Delaware County,
PALMER Pennsylvania, settled in the Township of Concord, Chester
(now Delaware County), Pennsylvania, about 1688. The first
reliable account of him is the purchase of one hundred acres of land which
was patented to him in 1688. He married Mary Suddery (Southery), daugh-
ter of Robert Southery, of Wiltshire, England, she died in I745-

(H) John (2), son of John (i) Palmer, the emigrant, was born in Con-
cord Township, Chester (now Delaware County), about 1690, died May 5.
1771. He followed farming all his life, first on the farm inherited from his
father, later (1712) he purchased one hundred and seventy acres in the wes-
tern part of Concord Township, on which he lived until his death. He did not
move to his new purchase until about 1748, when he deeded the old home to
their son, Moses, stating the act to be from "the natural love and affection they
bear to him as well as for his better preferment in the world." John (2)
Palmer married in Concord Monthly Meeting of Friends, June 9, 1714, Mar-
tha, born June 14, 1696, daughter of John and Elizabeth Yearsley, who came
from Middlewich, England, in 1700, and settled in Thornbury, Pennsylvania.

(in) Moses, son of John (2) Palmer, was born in Concord Township,
May 26, 1721, died June 20, 1783. In early life he learned and followed tlie
occupation of cordwainer, but soon left it and became a farmer. He was giv-
en the home farm in 1748, later purchasing the adjoining tract on the south, to
which he removed a few years prior to his death. He married (first) April 17,
1745, in Concord Monthly Meeting, Abigail Newlin, who bore him an only
child, John. He married (second) November 22, 1752, Abigail Sharpless,
daughter of Joseph and Mary Sharp, of Chester County, and widow of William
Sharpless. By this marriage he had .A^aron, mentioned below.

(IV) Aaron, son of Moses Palmer and his second wife, Abigail (Sharp)
Sharpless, was born at Angora, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, July 17, 1765,
died March 10, 1842. He married Sarah, daughter of William and Jane Wilton,
of North Carolina.
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(V) Joseph, son of Aaron Palmer, was born at Angora, 1795, died in
West Philadelphia. Like his father he was a farmer all his life and a mem-
ber of the Episcopal church. He married his second cousin, Mary Palmer,
He owned property on the banks of the Schuylkill, that is yet in possession of
his descendants.

(VI) Thomas, son of Joseph and Mary Palmer, was born in Palmertown,
Delaware County, February 23, 1827, died in W'allingford, same county. May
9, 1908. He was a merchant for many years at Darby, Pennsylvania ; later be-
came a farmer and for the last twenty years of his life lived retired. He was
an Independent in politics, and an attendant of the Episcopal church. He mar-
ried Mary Rudolph Dickinson, born at Garrettford, Delaware County, died in
Wallingford. Children, all born in Darby except the first: i. Ida May, born
August 27,. 1854: married Samuel P. Carr, deceased, a merchant tailor; she
resides in West Philadelphia. 2. Joseph Henry, born November 23, 1855. 3.
Andrew Linwood, see forward. 4. Thomas Plumsted, born September 12,
1859, died young. 5. Thomas Bradshaw, born in Darby, August 21, 1861 ;
married Emma Bishop, and resides in Wallingford, a farmer. 6. Ernest,
born December 26, 1862 ; married S. Belle Larkin, and resides in Wallingford,
a contractor. 7. Walter, born. October 10, 1864. deceased; married (first)
Rebecca Wilde, (second) Lena Barton; was in business with his brother, .An-
drew L. Palmer, at Chester, several years. 8. Marian, born May 11, 1866,
resides in Wallingford, unmarried.

(\"II) Andrew Linwood, second son and third child of Thomas and Mary-
Rudolph (Dickinson) Palmer, was born in Darby, Pennsylvania, August 17,
1857. He attended the public schools of Darby and Wallingford, Pennsyl-
vania, until 1876, and remained at the home farm as his father's assistant until
1889. In that year he established in the hardware business at No. 621 Edge-
mont avenue, Chester, in partnership with his brother, Walter, continuing until
1893, when the firm was dissolved by the death of Walter Palmer. The firm
then became Palmer & Gayley, by the admission of W. W. Gayley, a first cou-
sin. Mr. Palmer has been very successful in business under both partnerships,
and the firm now transacts a very large business in hardware and kindred lines.
He is an Independent in politics, always active in public afYairs ; has held many
city offices and the past eight years has been city committeeman. He is liberal
in his opinions, contributes generously to the support of the churches, but is
not a member, inclining, however, to partiality for the Society of Friends, the
ancient creed of the Palmers, also the religion of his mother and her family.

Mr. Palmer is a member of Chester Lodge, No. 284, Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks ; Chester Camp, Modern Woodmen of the World ; is
president of the Delaware Building and Loan Association ; director of the
Chester Real Estate Company, and one of the seven owners of the Home Bene-
ficiary Association of Pennsylvania, with offices in Philadelphia.

He married (first) Susanna T^roughton Worrell, born in Media, Pennsyl-
vania, died in California, in 1900. Child: Arthur T., born in Media, Novem-
ber 17, 1894, a student at Nazareth Hall, Nazareth, Pennsylvania, whence he
was graduated June, 1913. Mr. Palmer married (second) in June, 1905, in
Chester, Annie R. Sidwell. of Cecil County, Maryland, daughter of Stephen
and Jane (Williams) Sidwell. Stcjihcn Sidwell, now deceased, was a farmer;
his widow resides with her daughter .Annie in Chester. Children of Mr. Pal-
mer's second marriage: Andrew L. (2), born July 3, 1906; Richard S., Sep-
tember, 1907; Thomas Rudolph, February, 1909; Ruth .Anna, February 2,
1911.

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Joseph Henry Palmer, eldest son of Thomas Palmer (q. v.)
PALMER and Mary Rudolph (Dickinson) Palmer, was born in West

Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, November 23, 1855. In 1857 his
parents moved to Darby, Pennsylvania, where he attended public school until
he was fourteen years of age. In 1870 his parents moved to Nether Provi-
dence township, and from there he was sent to the Friends School at Darby.
He then took a course at Pierce's Business College, Philadelphia, whence he
was graduated in 1875. He then returned to the home farm in Providence
township, remaining his father's assistant until 1B79, when he began farming
for himself on the old Richard Ogden farm in Springfield township. He con-
tinued farming until 1882 when he entered the employ of Wanamaker &
Brown, "Oak Hall," Sixth and Market streets, Philadelphia, remaining one
year. In 1883 he returned to farming, locating in Nether Providence town-
ship, continuing until 1893. In the latter year he opened a boarding house in
Wallingford, at the same time holding a position with the Provident Life and
Trust Company of Philadelphia. In i8gg he opened a coalyard and feed store
at Wallingford, which he still successfully conducts, also having a similar busi-
ness at Moylan. He is a member of the "Board of View," a body having jur-
isdiction over cases on roads, sewers, street damage, etc. ; is vice-president of
the Pennsylvania Retail Coal Merchant's Association ; member of the Kohl,
Philadelphia-Breaker, an association composed of railroad and coal men ; mem-
ber of the Media Club, director, now chairman of the entertainment committee,
formerly treasurer ; member Spring Haven Country Club, formerly serving on
the membership committee. In religious faith he is a Presbyterian ; for fif-
teen years he has been president of the board of trustees and superintendent
of the Sunday school for the same length of time. In politics he is an inde-
pendent Democrat.

He married, April 9, 1888, in Chester township, Delaware county, Han-
nah Bryans Lukens, who died November 24, 1899, daughter of Abram C.
and Mary (Pauling) Lukens, he a farmer of Chester township and a county
commissioner for six years. There was no issue by this marriage. He mar-
ried (second) Mrs. Sarah (Levis) Pancoast, September 25, 1902, born in Up-
per Darby township, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Lukens) Levis. John
Levis was a farmer of Upper Darby all his life; his widow yet survives him,
residing in Upper Darby, which township has been the home of the Levis fam-
ily since 1682. Sarah Levis married (first) Samuel Pancoast and had a son,
John Lawrence Pancoast, born April 25, 1900. Children of Joseph H. Palmer
by his second wife: Elizabeth Levis, born October 8, 1903; Florence Miller.
April 16, 1905; Joseph Henry (2), May 4, 1906. All attending Friends Se-
lect School in Media; Sarah, born .April 29, 191 1.

(The Levis Family).

Mrs. Joseph H. Palmer descends from the French Huguenot family of
Levis, who are traced to the year 1575. They sought refuge from persecution
in England, but in 1682 the eldest brother returned to France, recovered pos-
session of the family estates and resumed the title. The family became num-
erous in England between 1575 and 1684 and were of substance and high
standing. The will of Christopher Levis, father of Samuel, the American an-
cestor, dated October 19, 1677, is sealed with a crest, a dolphin transfixed with
a spear. Arms : A chevron ermine, between three dolphins coronet. This
coat-of-arms is that of the original de Levis family of France, quartered with
the arms of de Montmorency.

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was born in Hanly, England, 7 mo. 30, 1649. He came to America in 1682,
bringing servants and material for a building to be used as a home. He later
returned to England, coming again in 1684 with wife and son Samuel. He be-
came prominent in the province; was a member from Chester County to the
Provincial Assembly 1 686-89-94-98- 1700-01 -06-07-08-09 ; justice of the peace
1686-90-98; in 1692 a member of the governor's council, died 1734. The house
he built in what is now .Springfield township, Delaware county, is yet in good
condition and has always been in the possession of one branch of the Levis
family. Samuel (i) Levis was succeeded by his son Samuel (2), who was a
member of the provincial assembly 1720-21-22-23-30 and 1731. He died in

1758. .

His son, John Levis, married Rebecca, daughter of John Davis, of Wales,
and had a son, Thomas Levis, who was born in the Springfield township
homestead, built by his great-grandfather, Samuel Levis, and there spent most
of his life. When the War of the Revolution broke out he said he would hang
up his Quaker garb, put on soldier clothes and fight for his country, and it is a
matter of record that Captain Thomas Levis did his full share in securing in-
dependence. He married Sarah Pancoast, a daughter of Seth and Esther
Pancoast and granddaughter of Bartholomew Coppock, who was a member of
the governor's council in 1688 and 1690, also of the provincial assembly 1686-
87-92-95 and 1697. Captain Thomas Levis was the father of thirteen children
and from them descend the present family. Wealth, prosperity and honor
have ever attended them, and perhaps no emigrant founded in Pennsylvania
a family that has more worthily borne through the years that have passed the
name of their sire, than did Samuel Levis.

Charles Levis, seventh child of Captain Thomas and Sarah (Pancoast)
Levis, married Margaret DeBarger and lived on the old Levis homestead in
Springfield township, where all his eleven children were born.

John Levis, youngest child of Charles and Margaret (DeBarger) Levis,
was born at the old homestead April 12, 1831. He remained at the home farm
until 1862, obtaining his education in the public school and West Chester Acad-
emy. In 1862 he moved to ITpper Darby township near Llanerch, where he
purchased a farm upon which he resided until his death, January 18, 1882. He
was a consistent member of Darby Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends ; was
for many years a member of the school board and in all things was the upright
exemplary citizen. He married Elizabeth, only daughter of Nathan and Sarah
N. (Lincoln) Lukens. Children: Nathan L., married Elizabeth Pancoast;
Charles, married Alida Conrow ; Florence, married Benjamin J. Miller ; Sarah
Lukens, see forward ; Margaret, born September 20, 1867 ; Elizabeth L., June
10, i86g: Mary H., married X-N'illiam Ridpath ; Caroline Lutton ; John Edgar,
born May 22, 1874 : Helena L., September 6, 1880. Both the Levis and Lukens
families are prominent, not only in Delaware and Chester counties, but hold
similar standing in many parts of the United States.

Sarah Lukens, second daughter and fourth child of John and Elizabeth
(Lukens) Levis, was born February 2, 1865 ; married (first) Samuel Pan-
coast, (second) Joseph H. Palmer.

From 1688, when John Palmer settled in what is now, Dela-

PALMER ware county, Pennsylvania, the family has been prominent in

the county, as tillers of the soil, and professional and business

men. Thomas Palmer (q. v.), born 1827, died 1908, married Mary Rudolph

Dickinson and had issue including Thomas Bradshaw, the fifth son.

Thomas Bradshaw Palmer was born in Darby, Pennsylvania, August 21,.

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1861, and spent his early childhood there. In 1870 his parents moved to Nether
Providence township, Delaware county, where he attended the public schools,
also spent a year at Sh.ortlidge's Academy in Media. In 1881 his father pur-
chased the farm of one hundred and two acres, located on the "Pike" at what
is known far and near as "Palmer's Corner" and here Thomas B. Palmer has
ever since resided. I'ntil 1886 he worked as his father's assistant, then he and
his brother Ernest for two years worked the farm on shares with their father,
but since 1888, Thomas B. has operated it alone, renting the farm from the
heirs, the property never having been divided. Mr. Palmer has prospered in
business and has gained the warm regard of the community, in which thirty-
two years of his busy life have been passed. He is a member of Brookhaven
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry ; also a director and treasurer of the Keystone
Grange Exchange, established and maintained by that grange for mutual bene-
fit. He is a Democrat in politics and has served Wallingford township one
term of three years as collector of taxes and five years as school director, filling
these offices with fidelity and devotion to duty. He is a member of the Presby-
terian church.

Mr. Palmer married, March i, 1888, Emma Bishop, born in Chester,
Pennsylvania, August 9, i860, daughter of Thomas Bishop, born in Eastown
township, Chester county, a farmer, now deceased ; he married Thomazen
Otley: children: Ruth Ann, married John W. Ramsey; Thomas D. Winfield ;
Mary, married Elwood Baldwin; Sarah Josephine, married George A. Frame;
Charles ; Margaret C, married William Shank ; John F., and Emma, wife of
Thomas B. Palmer. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer have children : Thomas Earl, born
September 10, 1891 ; Joseph Paul, September 16, 1893; Marian Estellena, De-
cember 26, 1895 ; Dorothy Fromfield, October 23, 1897.

The biographical history of any people is interesting by reason
PALMER of the valuable lessons it inculcates, and the many invaluabk

details which are furnished in this manner and which are not to
be found in a general history of the country. In many cases the record of or-
dinary household occurrences gives a better idea of the manners of the time
in question, than the events recorded in a more formal history. Delaware
county, Pennsylvania, has many instances of this kind to offer, some of its
settlers having come there in the very early days of the settlement of that sec-
tion. The Palmer family, of which Ernest Palmer is a representative in the
present generation, has been identified with the life of the county many years,
the father of Mr. Palmer having made his home there.

Ernest Palmer, son of Thomas Palmer (q. v.) and Mary Rudolph (Dick-
inson) Palmer, was born on Summit street, near Darby, Pennsylvania, Decem-
ber 26, 1862, during the stirring times of the civil war, when the state was torn
with the struggle of contending factions. His early years were spent at
"Palmer's Corner," a property which had been successfully developed by his
father, who had made his home there when his son was hut six years of age.
Young Palmer was educated in the public schools of the district, then attended
the Shortlidge Academy at Media, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated
in 1889. Two and a half years were spent in the study of law in the Universi-
ty of Pennsylvania, after which Mr. Palmer engaged in agricultural pursuits,
on the family homestead, and was identified with this vocation for a period of
twenty-one years, a part of this time being spent at Todmorden. He then
removed to Wallingford, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, in which place he
has been resident since that time. About one year ago he established himself
in the contracting and road building business, operating under the firm name of

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Palmer & Snyder, and has achieved a very satisfactory amount of success. He
has had practical experience in the building of roads, having held the office of
road commissioner in the year 1902. In 1890 he was elected one of the school
directors, and served a term of three years. His political affiliations are with
the Democratic party and he has served as a member of the Democratic Coun-
ty Committee. He and his wife are consistent members of the Presbyterian
church.

Mr. Palmer married. April 18, 1900. Sarah Belle Larkin, born August 5,
1871, in Bethel township, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of Isaac Ell-
wood and Isabel ( Savres) Larkin, the former born in Bethel township in
1829, died in the same'place in 1891 : the latter born in Wilmington, Delaware.
They had children : Ann Sayres : Sarah Belle, see above ; Caroline. Mr. and
Mrs. Palmer had children : Ernest. Jr., born April 6, 1903, and Isabel, born
December 13, 1904. Mr. Palmer is an energetic, wide-awake business man.
Although only about one year has elapsed since he established himself in his
present business, he has undoubtedly made a fine success of the undertaking.
He is possessed of a happy combina'tion of industry and sound judgment, and
his undaunted ambition must surely bring victory. He is as well informed up-
on the leading topics of the day as upon his special business affairs, and enjoys
the confidence of all with whom he comes in contact.

The Hannums are first of mention in Delaware county, Penn-
HANNUM sylvania, in 1686, when on March i, John Hannum bought
two hundred acres of land near IMarkham Station, Concord
township, patented March i, 1682, to Jeremiah Collett. John Hannum was
the grandfather of Colonel John Hannum, of the Revolution, who was the
controlling mind in causing the removal of the county seat to West Chester,
an act later led to the erection of Delaware county. John Hannum gave
the ground at the northwest corner of his two hundred acre tract on which St.
John's Episcopal Church was built and on the same farm it is said Colonel
John Hannum was born. He was the third John Hannum in lineal descent and
was an active influential citizen of Chester county until his death. February 7,
1799. His farm was in East Bradford township on the Brandyvvine and Val-
ley Creek, purchased by him from his father. He was a zealous participant in
all the movements which led to and resulted in the independence of the United
States; held the rank of colonel; filled many responsible offices in Chester
County ; married and left a large family.

.A. later marriage of a Hannum with a Bartram unites them with an old
and famous family of Chester (now Delaware) county, founded Ijv John P.ar-
tram, an Englishman, made famous by his grandson. John I'.artrani. one of the
earliest American botanists and the first to establish a botanic garden in Amer-
ica.

|ohn Bartram. the emigrant, came in 1683. died September i, 1697, in
full unity with the Societv of l-'riends. He settled in Darby township, west
of Darl)y Creek, had a wife Elizabeth and sons John, Isaac, William.

William Bartram. son of fohn Bartram. married at Darby Meeting,
March 27, 1696, Elizabeth, daughter of James Hunt, and had two sons, John
(the botanist) and James.

John (2) Bartram, "the botanist," son of ^^'llllam Bartram, was born in
Darby township. March 23, 1699, died September 22, 1777. shortly after the
battle of Brandvwine. his death having been hastened by a fear that "his darl-
ing garden the' cherished nursling of almost half a century," might not be
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ture study, and conceiving the idea of a botanic garden purchased the well
known site of "Bartram's Garden" on the bank? of the Schuylkill in 1728. He
was one of the first and most eminent of American botanists and his life has
been most fully written in the literature of botany. He was twice married, in
accordance with the discipline of the Society of Friends, of which he was a
member until 1758. when he was disowned for holding opinions not in accord-
ance with the doctrines of Friends. Over the door of an apartment devoted to
studv and retirement he engraved with his own hands the following, which ex-
presses his religious belief: "Tis God alone Almighty Lord, The Holy One
by me adored, John Bartram 1770." He married (first) Alary Maris, (second)
Ann Mendelhall.

Moses Bartram, son of John (2) Bartram, "the botanist," and his wife,
Mary (Maris) Bartram. was born m 1732, died in 1809. He married in 1764,
Elizabeth Budd. who died in 1807. leaving isHie including Moses.

Moses (2) Bartram, son of Moses (i) Bartram, was a wealthy land own-
er of Philadelphia. He married and had issue.

(fieorge \Vashington Bartram, son of Moses (2) Bartram, was born in
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, November 17, 1784. died at Chester, Pennsylvania,
Julv 8. 1853. He was for many years engaged in the drug business in Chester,
was an alderman, a Whig in politics and a warden of St. Paul's Protestant
Episcopal Church. He married .Anna Alaria, daughter of George Adam and
.Anna Catherine Baker, who survived him. dying in Chester, July 28, 1856,
aged sixty-eight ycar^. Children: Anna Catherine, born February 9, 1806;
Henry. December 28, 1807. died December 8. 1837: Abijah. May 22. 1810;
Georgeanna Alaria. July i, 1814, died January 30, 1815: Georgeanna Alaria, of
whom further: Pocohontas, August 29, 1829, died October 28. 1875.

Georgeanna Alaria Bartram, daughter of George Washington and Anna
Alaria (Baker) Bartram, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 6,
1817, died in Chester, Alarch i, 1876. She married Robert Evans Hannuni, a
descendant of John Hannum. the English emigrant.

Robert Evans Hannum was born December 10, 1805, died in Chester,
Pennsylvania, February 15, 1893. He prepared for the practice of law. was
admitted to the Delaware county bar, July 27, 1829, and became one of the
leading lawyers at that bar. He was a great sufTerer during his latter years
from rheumatism, which reduced him to a sadly crippled condition. Children
of Robert E. and Georgeanna Alaria (Bartram) Hannum: i. Maria, born
.August 10. 1838. deceased: married Hiram Hathaway. 2. Susanna, born May
14, 1840: married (first) Conly Jones, (second) Preston Wilson, now a re-
tired manufacturer of Chester, their home. 3. Georgeanna, born Noveiuber
13, 1841 ; educated in Chester, Philadelphia and Upland Normal School; now
a resident of Chester with her brother Robert E. ^. Robert E., of whom
further. 5. Catherine Bartram, born .April 19. 1846. died young. 6. Louisa,
born .April 19, 1848, deceased; married Jeremiah Hotaling. of Port Ewen,
New York, where he now resides. 7. Alary .Ann, born July 19, 1849: resides
in Chester, with her brother, Robert E. 8. Pocohontas Bartram, born Novem-
ber 17, 1851 ; resides in Chester with her brother Robert E. g. George Bar-
tram, born March 23, 1854; now connected with Crozier Hospital at Upland,
Pennsylvania. 10. Elizabeth, born Alarch 22. 1856, died young. 11. Eliza-
beth (2), born Alarch 20, 1858, died 1912: married Samuel Bailey, who sur-
vives her. a resident of Holmes, Pennsylvania. 12. William G., born October
16, i860: resides in Holmes. 13. Pauline Graham, born June 19, 1863, died
young.

Robert Evans (2) Hannum, son of Robert Evans (i) and Georgeanna
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November 22, 1843. He attended private school in Chester and Oak Grove,
then entered Episcopal Academy, Twelfth and Locust streets, Philadelphia,
but his plans for an education were completely altered by the outbreak of the
war between the states. He enlisted August 13, 1862, and was honorably dis-
charged at Nashville, Tennessee, June 21, 1865. He was a private of the
Fifteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry and was first attached to the Army
of the Potomac and fought at the battle of Antietam. He was then transferred
to the Army of the West, serving at Nashville, under Generals Rosecran and
Buell ; at Stone River; Chattanooga; Lookout Mountain under General Hook-
er and at the last named battle had two horses killed, but he escaped unhurt.
Shortly afterward, however, he was taken sick and spent several months in the
hospital at Nashville, recovering in time to march with Sherman to the Sea.
He was with his regiment in pursuit of the fleeing president of the Confed-
eracy in 1865, and although they did not capture him they captured a wagon
train with four hundred thousand dollars in specie belonging to the Confeder-
ate government. After the war, Mr. Hannum became a professional nurse
and continued in that profession many years, but now lives retired at No. 2344
Providence avenue, Chester. He has traveled a great deal, spending a long
period in Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek, Colorado, and in other parts of
the West. He returned from his travels, June 13, 1909, and has since made
Chester his home. He is an Independent in politics, a member of Chester
Lodge, No. 352, Free and .\ccepted Masons; Guard Mark Chapter, No. 214,
Royal Arch Masons, Philadeljihia. of which he is a life member, and of the
Veteran .Association of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry.

Mr. Hannum married at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, June 27. 1866,
Mary E. Farson, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1845, daughter of
Enoch S. Farson, a sea captain, later in the refrigerating business in Philadel-
phia, and his wife, Lavinia (Hackett) Farson, both deceased. Children: i.
Albert B., born in Chester, April 5, 1867; resides in Philadelphia, a detective,
unmarried. 2. Henry, born in Chester in 1869; now residing at .Sea Isle City,
New Jersey. 3. Leon, born at Marcus Hook in 1871 ; resides in Philadelphia.
4. Enoch, born at Marcus Hcok in 1873; resides in Philadelphia. 5. Norval,
born at Marcus Hook in 1875 : resides in Philadelphia. 6. Martha, born at
Marcus Hook in 1877; resides in Philadelphia.

The ancestry of Mrs. Sallie P. (Eyre) Price traces to the stirring
PRICE Coloniel times preceding the Revolution and to the early settlement
of Delaware county. She is a descendant of Elisha Price, (son of
John Price and nephew of Elisha Catchall, a lawyer of prominence) who rep-
resented Chester comity at a Provincial meeting of deputies from the several
counties in Pennsylvania, held in Philadelphia, July 16, 1774. Elisha Price
was appointed at that meeting one of a committee to prepare and report a draft
of instructions to be presented to the General Assembly, a.sking that body to
appoint delegates to the Continental Congress, then in session. Elisha Price
was also a member of the body who met in Carpenter's Hall, June 18, 1776,
assembled by the committee of correspondence from each county in the prov-
ince to "adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives
of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in
])articular and America in general." .\fter making provision for representa-
tion of every county in the province and for an election of members to the
proposed Constitutional Convention, this Provincial .Assembly adjourned June
24, 1776, after each deputy had signed a declaration which slated their "will-
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and independent States." Elisha Price was commissioned justice of the courts
of common pleas and quarter sessions, March i6, 1790, and was a prominent
opponent of the removal of the county seat from Chester to West Chester.

Mrs. Price also descends from Robert (born 1648) and Ann (Smith)
Eyre of Bethel, Pennsylvania, the English emigrants who first settled in New
Jersey. Their son, William Eyre, married 1723, at Haverford Meeting, Mary
David, daughter of Lewis David of Darby, and resided in Bethel until his
-death.

Isaac Eyre, son of William and Alary Eyre, settled in Chester, where in
1766 in Chester Meeting he married Ann, daughter of Jonas and Jane Preston.
He took so active a part in the measures for securing the independence of his
country that he was disciplined by the Society and dismissed in 1775. In 1783
he made acknowledgment and was restored to membership in the meeting.
In 1786 he married Abigail, daughter of Nathan Dicks, but because the cere-
mony was performed by a magistrate he was again punished by dismissal.

Jonas Eyre, eldest son of Isaac and Ann (Preston) Eyre, was born 4 mo.
28. 1767, married (second) 11 mo. 11, 1801, Susanna, daughter of Joshua and
Mary Pusey of London Grove, Chester county, born 10 mo. 17. 1776.

William Eyre, youngest son of Jonas Eyre and his second wife, Susanna
Pusey, was born in Chester, April 25, 1807, died March 6, 1863 (another au-
thority says that he was born 7 mo. 14. 1803, and that Joshua was his twin
brother, this however is an error as the family bible in possession of Mrs. Price
shows the birth of William as stated above, the latter being the date of birth of
his brother, Joshua.) In early life he and his brother. Joshua, began business as
general grocers which then meant trading in all kinds of farm produce. Their
old sloop "Jonas Preston" made weekly trips to Philadelphia carrying produce
to market and returning loaded with goods for the store. William Eyre was
engaged in the lumber business, at that time the only lumber yard in Chester.
Prosperous in their business and universally esteemed they early retired from
active business, yet occupying many high positions of trust in their community.
Joshua P. Eyre represented the county in the legislature 1840-42. He refused
nomination to Congress. Both were directors of the Delaware Mutual Safety,
the old Delaware County Insurance Company, a Chester institution originally,
now of Philadelphia. Excellent likenesses of both brothers by the celebrated
Philadelphia portrait painter, Waugh, adorn the directors' room of the com-
pany, a tribute of respect and in remembrance of their long faithful service.
The close friendship and lifelong companionship of the two brothers was re-
markable and was ever the subject of favorable comment. Both were tall,
slender men, like most of their name and generation ; kind, gentle and cour-
teous in their manners and in their friendships "true as steel." They built the
"Old National Hall" in Chester and in all their business dealings were partners.
Joshua never married and always lived with his brother and after the death of
the latter, continued to live with the children, their guardian and friend and at
his death his large fortune was divided among them. The old farm now a part
of Chester, was long their home, but after their retirement from business they
occupied the handsome residence erected in Chester by Archibald T. Dick.

William Eyre married (first) March 4, 1835, .Anna Louisa, daughter of
Dr. Job H. Terrill of Chester, who bore him two children : Joshua Pusey Eyre
and another who died in infancy. He married (second) November 26, 1844,
Rebecca P.. daughter of Caleb Churchman, who bore him Caleb C. : William
P. and Rebecca, who married William Wilson, now living retired in Chester.

Dr. Job H. Terrill was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, November
18, 1786. In 1807 after receiving a certificate from the Supreme Court of New
Jersey admitting him to practice medicine he started on horseback to find a

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suitable place to locate. He travelled to Washington, D. C. Returning he de-
cided to settle in Chester. Here he married Margaret .Smith. They had two
daughters, Emineline, married John O. Deshong, and Anna Louisa, married
\\"illiam Eyre. Dr. Terril! was one of the most prominent physicians of Dela-
ware county. He died January 20, 1844.

Joshua Pusey Eyre, only son of William Eyre and his first wife, Anna
Louisa Terrill, was born in Chester, January 19, 1836, died there September
25, 1889. He resided in Chester all his life, his home being the old family
residence, Preston Place, on Concord Road ; in 1876 he built a new house near
the old one, facing on Seventh street. He was a large property owner and gave
his attention solely to the care of his private estate.

He married, June 25, 1862, Martha .Smith Pennell. born in Chester, March
17, 1837, who survives him a resident of Washington, D. C. She married (sec-
ond) George Gray Knowles of L'pland. Pennsylvania, now living retired in
Washington. Martha Smith Pennell is the daughter of Edmund and Eliza-
beth Jaquett (Price) Pennell and granddaughter of Jonathan and Ann (De-
Laney) Pennell of Chester. Elizabeth Jaquett Price was the daughter of John
and Elizabeth (Smith) Price of Chester, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and
again of Chester. John Price w^as an attorney and a soldier of the War of
181 2, holding the rank of major. He was the son of Elisha Price, the patriot,
whose valuable service to the Colonial cause has been given. Children of
Joshua Pusey Eyre : William, died young, and Sallie Pennell.

Sallie Pennell Eyre, onh- daughter of Joshua Pusey and Martha Smith
(Pennell) Eyre, was born in Chester Pennsylvania, July 19, 1872. She at-
tended private school in Chester until twelve years of age, then until sixteen
years was a student at the Friend's School, Fifteenth and Race streets, and of
Miss Agnes Irwin at her private school in Philadelphia. Later she studied at
the Academy of Fine Arts, and advanced English and history under the instruc-
tion of Miss Susan Wharton of Philadelphia. She is a member of St. Paul's
Episcopal Church of Chester, Delaware county, and of Daughters of the
American Revolution.

Miss Eyre married, June i, 1893, '" Philadelphia, at Church of the As-
cension, by Rev. G. Woolsey Hodge, William Gray Price Jr., son of William
Gray Price, of distinguished Pennsylvania ancestry. John Price, his paternal
ancestor, who died in 1773, married Elizabeth Alrick, daughter of Peter (2)
Alrick, who was a grandson of Peter ( i ) .\lrick, (also spelled .Alrich and Al-
ricks). Peter (1) was ensign and commissary of the fort near Cape Henlo-
pen, built in 1659: commander of Towns and Forts 1683: Counsellor under the
Duke of York 1667: Deputy Governor 1673-1674; Member of Assembly 1682-
i''>83: Provincial Councillor 1685-1689: Justice 1677- 1678- 1680- 1684- 1689, and
July 7, 1690, was commissioned as one of the Associate Judges of the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania, holding until 1693. After the transfer of the province
to William Penn, Peter Alrick was the first commander of the standing mili-
tary forces, which Penn was compelled to maintain. Peter (2), grandson of
Peter (i) Alricks, married Dorcas Land, a granddaugliter of Samuel Land,
prominent in the afi'airs of the province, and recorded as being one of the nine
persons who were in the fort and witnessed the surrender of the fort and gov-
ernment to William Penn. October 28. 1682. and was a signer of the Declara-
tion of Obedience to his governinent on the same date. Elizabeth, daughter of
Peter (2), married John Price.

Samuel Price, son of John and Elizabeth (Alrick) Price, was a member
of the Committee of Observation of the Chester County Associators, Decem-
ber 20, 1774, also a private in the company of Captain William Price, First
Battalion of riie-^tcr count\' militia and served in the Revolution. He married

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Ann Richards, a descendant of Joseph Richards, who was one of the first pur-
chasers under Wilham Penn.

Major Samuel Alrich Price, son of Samuel and Ann (Richards) Price,
was born in 1796, died in 1861. He was a major of the early Pennsylvania
militia and a man of importance. He married, Sarah, daughter of Thomas
and Sarah (Davis) Bickam, of Philadelphia.

William Gray (i) Price, son of Major Samuel Alrich Price, was born
1828, died in 1906. He held the rank of lieutenant in the 37th Pennsylvania
Volunteer Regiment. He married Jane E. Campbell, born in Rockdale, Penn-
sylvania, August 28, 1837, eldest daughter of James Campbell, born in Stock-
port, England, in 1805, died at Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1862, the pioneer cot-
ton cloth manufacturer of that city; married Angeline. daughter of John and
Mary Turner Garsed (three of whose sons fought in the Civil War). James
was a son of Joseph and Mary Dodge Campbell of Campbelltown, Argyleshire,
Scotland. Children of William Gray (i) Price and Jane E. Campbell: Edward
A., William Gray and Howard Campbell Price, Captain U. S. A.

William Gray (2) Price, son of Lieutenant William Gray (i) Price, was
born in Chester, Pennsylvania. March 23, 1869, and was educated in private
and public schools of that city. He entered the employ of the Delaware Coun-
ty Trust Company. Chester, in 1887, continuing with at that corporation six
years. On March 11, 1893, he located in Philadelphia, there engaging in the
coal business for two years, then engaging as an operative builder on an exten-
sive scale. He was continuously in successful business until the Spanish-Amer-
ican War when he tendered his services to the Government, which were accept-
ed and temporarily drew him away from private business. He was mustered
out in October, 1898, and until 1906 was engaged in the same line of business
in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. In that year he returned to his native city,
Chester, and is there engaged in building operations, similar to those engaged
in, in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and also is president of the Wyoming Sand
and Stone Company of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Mr. Price has held a distinguished military career in the Pennsylvania
National Guards, beginning in his seventeenth year when he entered as a pri-
vate in Company B, Sixth Regiment, on May 24, 1886. He has inherited his
military ardor from his many warlike ancestors and when once started in mili-
tary life his progress was rapid. On February 11, 1889, he was made corpor-
al; elected second-lieutenant of Company B, Sixth Regiment, April 13, 1891;
elected first lieutenant of Company C, December 20, 1892; July 7, 1893, was
appointed adjutant of the Third Regiment; March 11, 1895, appointed battal-
ion adjutant of the same regiment ; May 24, 1895, he was commissioned ma-
jor; March 18, 1898, lieutenant colonel and on April 23, 1901, was elected
colonel, being unanimously re-elected colonel in 1906. In April, 1910, he was
appointed by Governor Stuart a brigadier general in the National Guard of
Pennsvlvania and assigned to command the First Brigade, consisting of the
First, Second and Third Regiments of Infantry. During the .Spanish Ameri-
can War he served as lieutenant colonel of the Third Regiment Pennsylvania
Volunteer Infantry, being commissioned l\Iay 11, 1898, and was mustered out
with his regiment October 12, 1898. General Price belongs to many social
and patriotic societies ; is an original member of the .State Armory Board, hav-
ing been appointed by Governor Pennypacker, September 20, 1906. Among-
his other memberships is that of the Sons of the Revolution, Naval and Military
Order Spanish-American War, and the L'nion League of Philadelphia. He is
a vestryman of St. Paul's Church of Chester. In politics he is an active ardent
Republican, but never accepted other than military office. He married as
stated, [une i, 1893, Sallie Pennell Eyre, of equally distinguished colonial

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descent. Children of Gen. William Gray and Sallie Pennell (Eyre) Price;
Josluia Pusey Eyre, born April 25, 1894, in Philadelphia, graduate Chester
high school, now a student at the University of Pennsylvania, class of 1915;
Terrill Eyre, born in Philadelphia, November 13, 1895, graduate Chester high
school, now a student of the L'niversity of Pennsylvania, class of 1915 ; William
Alrich, born in Philadelphia, February 22, 1897, now a student at Chester high
school ; Martha Eyre, born at Secane, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, August
13, 1899; Elizabeth, born at Secane, April 15, 1902; Virginia, born at Secane,
August 7, 1903 ; these three now attending Friends School at Media ; Sarah
Eyre, born in Chester, Pennsylvania, August 27. 1907.

The Bagshaws of England have long been seated in that
BAGSHAW country, the first of this branch coming to the United States
when a young man, being the only one of a large family to
leave England for a home in this country.

William Bagshaw born in Manchester, England, in 1824, died in Delaware
county, Pennsylvania, in November, 1900. He came to Pennsylvania before
his marriage, taking passage in one of the sailing vessels of the Cope line, con-
suming six weeks on the voyage. He settled at Leiperville, Delaware county,
where he was employed in a mill, thence coming to Chester, following the same
employment until 1873. He was an energetic, careful man and accumulated suf-
ficient capital to start in 1873, a confectionery and ice cream establishment in
Chester, which he successfully conducted until his death. He was a Democrat
in politics, but supported William McKinley for the presidency when opposed
by William T- Bryan. He married Ann Robinson, born in Manchester, Eng-
la'nd, in 1823', died in Chester in 1890; children: John, died young; William L.,
died in Chester in February. 191 1. He was associated with Prof. Jackson in
the manufacture of fireworks, later was a confectioner in Chester. He mai--
ried (first) Miss Hoopes, (second) Miss Worrell, who survives liim a resi-
dent of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ; ATary Ellen, died in Chester aged twenty-
three years, unmarried; James R., see forward.

James R. Bagshaw, youngest son of William and Ann (Robinson) Bag-
shaw", was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, July 29, i860. He attended the pub-
lic schools of Chester and was a student in high school, when in 1873 he left
school to assist his father in his business, later becoming a partner and was the
active manager of a prosperous and constantly increasing ice cream and con-
fectionery business until 1898. He then retired from the firm and until 1906
was in the employ of Wanamakcr and Brown at Sixth and Market streets,
Pliiladclphia. In 1906 he returned to business in Chester, opening a clothing
store, having gained an expert knowledge of that business during his eight
years in one of the best known of Philadelphia's clothing stores. He opened
his store at the corner of Edgmont avenue and Welsh -treet, where he has
built up a very large business in clothing and gentlemen's furnishings. ^In his
shoe department he has very strong lines, including the sole agency in Chester
for the W. L. Douglas shoes. Mr. Bagshaw has been engaged in retail mer-
chandising since a lad of thirteen years of age and for fifteen years has devoted
himself exclusively to his present line. He is a wise buyer, a good salesman
and manages his large business with a wisdom that results in a constant
growth, a loyal army of patrons and a satisfactory balance sheet.

Mr. Bagshaw has also been prominent in the public and official life of
Chester. In 1887 he was the successful Re])ublican nominee for common coun-
cil, serving through successive elections five years. From 1893 to 1896 he was
chief of police, then was elected to select council, serving for twelve consecu-

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tive years, having retained home and residence in Chester during the years he
was in business in Philadelphia. He also was appointed to fill out an unex-
pired term in the office of City Comptroller. He served his city well in official
capacity and left behind him in each position held, a record of duty faithfully
performed. He attends St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church; is a mem-
ber of Chester Lodge No. 236, Free and Accepted Masons; Larkin Lodge,
No. 78, Knights of Pythias ; Chester Lodge, Patriotic Order Sons of America ;
Chester Evrie No. 159, Fraternal Order of Eagles, of which he is past presi-
dent; Chester Lodge, Loyal Order of jNIoose, of which he is dictator; treasurer
of the Moyamensing Hook and Ladder Company, of which he has been a mem-
ber twenty-five years, and was chairman of the general committee of the State
Fireman's Convention held in Chester in the summer of the present year 1913.
He has interests outside those mentioned and is president of the Edgmont
Avenue Business Men's Association.

Mr. Bagshaw married. May 14, 1895, in Chester, Esther Turner, born in
Rockdale, Pennsylvania, daughter of George W., deceased and Jane (Faulk-
er) Turner, who survives her husband, a resident of Chester; children, all
born in Chester: James R. (2), born May 18, 1896, graduate Chester high
school class of 1913 ; Leon, born February 3, 1898; Mary E., August 4, 1900.

Alexander Brooke Geary, of the Delaware county bar, with
GEARY offices in the city of Chester, Pennsylvania, resides at Walling-

ford, in Nether Providence township, Delaware county, Penn-
sylvania, where he was born, November 24, 1870. His education was obtained
in the public schools of that township, which he attended until he was fourteen
years of age. After leaving school he worked on a farm until he was seven-
teen years of age, and then worked in the Baldwin Locomotive Works until
October, 1892, when he entered the office of Oliver B. Dickinson, Esq., of
Chester, Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the bar of Delaware county on
December 3, 1894.

Soon after his admission he opened an office and has since been engaged
in general practice, being a member of the Delaware county bar, the Philadel-
phia bar, the Supreme and Superior Courts of Pennsylvania and the United
States Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He has been counsel
in a number of important cases and in public investigations. At the unanimous
request of the grand jury in 1899, he acted as special counsel in the investi-
gation of a bridge contract. He was also of counsel for a committee of citi-
zens in the audit of the accounts of the Directors of the Poor, which resulted
in the surcharging of the officers and also the prosecution of them. When the
stuffing of the jury wheel for the December court of 1912 was discovered, he
was appointed chairman of a Bar Association committee to investigate the
matter, and at this writing the committee is engaged in the discharge of its
duties. He has never represented an applicant for a liquor license, but has
consistently appeared as counsel in opposing the granting of licenses and is at
the present time counsel for the No-License League of Chester.

In politics he is a Democrat, and has been a member of the Democratic
county executive committee since attaining his majority. In 1905 he was se-
lected as the candidate for district attorney on the fusion ticket, and while de-
feated, an adverse majority of about 15,000 of the previous year was reduced
to 1400. He was also the candidate of his party for state senator in 1912. He
was elected school director in Nether Providence township in 1899, and served
for a term of three years. During his term the old Union school house was
abandoned and the handsome new building erected on the Providence road, at

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Wallingford. He was the moving spirit in the organization of the Horace
Howard Furness Free Library at Wallingford, the name of which has since
been changed to the Helen Kate Furness I'"ree Library, and has been the treas-
urer of the corporation since its organization. He is actively engaged with the
other officers and directors in preparing for the erection of a new library
building for the library.

In January, 1909, the county commissioners elected him county solicitor,
and he served as such for one year. During his term in that capacity he gave
strict attention to the duties of the office and saved the county considerable
money by insisting that officials should not be paid more than they were enti-
tled to by law, so careful was he of the county's interests that the bosses
brought pressure to bear upon the county commissioners and at the end of the
year he was dismissed from the office. He is the editor and publisher of "The
Weekly Reporter," the legal journal of the county, which in book form is
known as "The Delaware County Reports."

He is a descendant of James Geary, who came to America with a brother
during or immediately preceding the Revolutionary War. The father of Tames
was an officer in the English navy, and as the boys were sympathizers with the
colonies it seemed best that they should come here. James settled in Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, and married Dinah Carrell, a direct descendant of James
Carrell, who was one of the founders of the old Log (Presbyterian) church
in Bucks county. Dinah, the wife of James, was the daughter of Solomon and
Mary Carrell. Solomon was a soldier in the Revolutionary army, and was
killed or died while with the American army on Long Island. His widow
Mary afterward married Charles Ryant, a member of the Society of Friends
of Concord township. After his death she purchased a tract of land in Nether
Providence township and erected a house upon it which is still standing, and
in which she resided until her decease. She lived to the advanced age of 104
years. Her daughter, Dinah Geary, also lived to the age of 104 years, leaving
to survive her three children, one of whom, William, was the grandfather of
the subject of this sketch. William was born in Philadelphia in 1789, and died
in Nether Providence township m 1880. He was a soldier in the war of 1812.
He was a carpenter by trade, and for a number of years taught school. He
married Ann Abbott, a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania. He left three
sons — Davis, who died without children ; Albert, who died in Nether Provi-
dence, leaving five children ; and George, the father of Alexander B.

George Geary was born in Philadelphia, in 1827, and died in Nether
Providence in 1913. He married Susannah Armstrong, a native of county
Armagh, Ireland, and who died in 1898. George Geary worked at farming,
in an axe factory, and as a genera! laborer. In 1868 he purchased a property
in Nether Providence and resided upon it until his decease. George and Su-
sannah Geary were the parents of twelve children : Charles C. Susannah E.
Bishop, George, Robert, Catharine Dietrich, William H., John B., Annie V.
Vernon, Sarah E., .Alexander B.. Laura E. and Joseph L., ten of whom are
living in 1913.

.Alexander B. Geary is a member of George W. Bartram Lodge, F. and
A. M., of Media, Pennsylvania : Chester Lodge No. 253. I. O. O. F. ; Penn Club
of Chester, Chester Club, the Lawyers' Club of Philadelphia, and the Demo-
cratic Club of Philadelphia. He is also a member of the Laymen's Evangeli-
cal .Association of the Chester Presbytery, and of the Carrell Reunion. He
is a member of the Wallingford Presbyterian Church of Wallingford, and for
several years was superintendent of the Sunday school connected with that
■church.

On May 10, 1902. he was united in marriage with Miss Eleanor J. Wilson,

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•of Chester, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Geary is a daughter of Joseph Osgood Wil-
son and Isabel (Cornog) Wilson, the former of whom was born in the state
of Delaware, and the latter in Delaware county, Pennsylvania. Mr. Wilson is
a veteran of the civil war, having served in the navy, and the inventor of a
number of patented appliances in connection with stationary steam engines and
boilers.

Mrs. Geary was educated in the public schools of Chester, and is a gradu-
ate of Peirce School of Philadelphia. She studied law with George M. Booth,
Esq., of Chester, Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the Delaware county bar
on September 19, 1898. She has not been engaged in practice since her mar-
riage, but has been interested in many movements for civic advancement. She
is a member of the Woman's Club of Media, Pennsylvania, of the Philadelphia
Music Club of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union of Delaware county. After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Geary
lived in Chester until 1906, when they moved to their present residence, then
newly erected. They reside on part of a large tract which was granted by
William Penn to the Vernon family in 1682, and this portion of which remained
in that family until 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Geary are the parents of two children:
Eleanor Wilson, born in 1903, and Alexander Brooke, born in 1906.

Six generations of Bossards have lived in Monroe county,
BOSSARD Pennsylvania, the first settler of the name being Philip Bos-
sard, born in France in 1687. He was a man of means, bring-
ing ten thousand dollars with him to this country. He purchased from the
Penns a large tract of land, now included in Monroe county, Pennsylvania,
where he died in 1777. Of his five sons, only Peter grew to manhood, the oth-
ers being killed by the Indians, who passed the log home of the FSossards on
their way to the Wyoming Valley, where the massacre soon afterward fol-
lowed. Peter alone of the children escaped. The name was originally spelled
Bossert.

(II) Peter, son of Philip Bossard, was a farmer of Monroe county, Penn-
sylvania. He married and had a son Peter, of whom further.

(III) Peter (2), son of Peter (i) Bossard, was also a farmer of Mon-
roe county, Pennsylvania. He married and had a son Melchoir, of whom
further.

(IV) Melchoir, son of Peter (2) Bossard, was a farmer of Monroe coun-
ty, Pennsylvania. He married and had a son Jacob, of whom further.

(V) Jacob, son of Melchoir Bossard, was born in Monroe county. Penn-
sylvania, died in Ida Grove county, Iowa, in 1910. aged nearly ninety years.
After a life spent in farming in Monroe county he moved to Iowa in his old
age with his wife, who was a Miss Reis, who died there in 1908, aged eighty-five
years. Children, all born in Monroe county: i. Samuel, see forward. 2. Ed-
ward, a coal dealer in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1903. 3.
Ida, twice married, all deceased. 4. Alice, married John Hauser, a building
contractor, now residing in Wilkes-Barre.

(VI) Samuel, son of Jacob Bossard, was born in Monroe county, Penn-
sylvania, in the autumn of 1841, died in Chester, Pennsylvania, March, 1909.
He was a farmer and school teacher of Monroe county until his retirement in
1904, when he joined his son in Chester. He was a veteran of the Civil War,
serving in a Pennsylvania regiment for three years. He was captured at the
battle of Antietam and held a prisoner in Libby Prison for six months, then
exchanged. He rose to the rank of sergeant. In political faith he was a
Democrat, a man of high character and respected by all. He married Mar-

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garet Edinger, born in }\lonroe county. Pennsylvania, in 1840, died in Strouds-
burg, Pennsylvania, in March, 1909, daughter of Abraham Etlinger, a member
of the Pennsylvania Legislature and a wealthy cattle dealer; he married a
Miss Fennel!. Children of Samuel Bossard, all born in Monroe county: i.
I\lartha, born in 1865; married George F. Bartholomew, a clerk, and now re-
sides in Stroudsburg. Pennsylvania. 2. Susan, born in 1867 ; now residing iit
Chester, unmarried. 3. Catherine, born in i86g; married Allen Musselman,
now proprietor of Chester Steam Laundry. 4. Robert Lee, see forward. 5.
Frederick Philip, born in June. 1876 : now a partner in business with his
brother Robert L. ; he married Lizzie Morgan, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.

(\'II) Robert Lee, son of Samuel and Margaret (Edinger) Bossard, was-
born in Monroe county, Pennsylvania, August 27, 1874. He attended the pub-
lic school until 1890, then began business life as a grocer's clerk, continuing un-
til 1893. In that year he visited the World's Fair, held in Chicago, later re-
turning and working in a grocery store for one year. He then became a cloth
weaver, working at .Stroudsburg. Pennsylvania, until 1896. He then engaged
in the manufacture of cigars in Stroudsburg, continuing until 1902, when he
moved to Philadelphia, opening a branch laundry office. In 1904 he located in
Chester, forming a partnership with his brother. Frederick P. Bossard, and
establishing an ice-cream and confectionery business. They have prospered
exceedingly and now have two large well-stocked and furnished stores at No.
314 Market street and No. 607 Edgmont avenue. The brothers are well
known business men and prosecute their business with an energy that means
success. Mr. Bossard is an Independent in politics : a member of the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks, of Chester, and the Woodmen of the World.

He married, in New York City, in November, 1907, Margaret Brennan,
born in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, daughter of Milton Brennan, de-
ceased. Children, both born in Chester: Roberta, December 20, 1908; Sam-
uel, February 4, 1912.

The original Eyre settler in Delaware county was Robert

CHEETHAM Eyre, a member of council and a man of importance. The

line of descent from him to Mrs. Philena Eyre Cheetham, is

through his grandson. Adam Eyre, who w-as a son of either Robert (2) Eyre

(jr his brother, William Eyre, both sons of Robert Eyre, the emigrant from

England.

Adam Eyre was born in Delaware county, died in Ohio, grandson of Rob-
ert (i) Eyre. He was a farmer and a member of the Society of Friends. He
married .'^arah Larkin. born May 14, 1771, in Bethel township, Delaware coun-
ty, died in Ohio, daughter of Joseph and Ann (Salkeld) Larkin, and grand-
daughter of John Larkin, who came from England: children: i. Joseph, born
1798. 2. William, born l\Tarch 18, 1800, married and had issue: Mary Ann,
Sarah Jane, Melcina, William and Phoebe. 3. Nathan L. (see forward). 4.
Lewis, died young. 5. Lewis (2), born March 14, 1805, married Jane Hunter
and had a son William H., who married Hannah Graham, whose children are:
Harry C, William H. (2) married Millie Haas and has a son \A'illiam H.
(3), died March 30, 1910. Lewis G.. married Mamie Detra and has a daugh-
ter Dorothy May. 6. Elizabeth Ann. born January 12, 1808, married William
Heacock. 7. Ann S. Price, born September 15. 1812, died April i. 1863, mar-
ried Joseph Larkin, had daughter Sarah Elizabeth, married .\lfrcd England.
They had daughter Ella Irene.

Nathan L. Eyre, third son of .Adam and Sarah (Larkin) Eyre, was born
in \'irginia, February 22, 1803, died in Bethel, Delaware county, Pennsyl-
vania, August 9, 1864. He moved with his parents settling in Highland coun-

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ty, Ohio, but after their deaths came to Delaware county where he finished his
education, married and engaged in farming until his death. He was a member
of the Society of Friends and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

He married, September 26, 1838, Ann Larkin, born in what is now the
city of Chester, April 7, 1806, died April i, 1863. She was the daughter of
Salkeld and Sarah (Pennell) Larkin, both of old Delaware county families;
children (all born in Bethel township, Delaware county) : i. Sarah, born
March i, 1839, died at Bethel, January 17, 1859, unmarried. 2. Joseph Lar-
kin, born January 26, 1840. He enlisted in 1861 in the 97th Regiment Penn-
sylvania Volunteer Infantry and was killed at Port Royal, South Carolina, Au-
gust 4, 1863. 3. Philena (see forward). 4. Pennell, born August 30, 1843,
now living in Chester. He married, May 19, 1864, Eliza A. Hanby, deceased.

5. Louisa, born April 29, 1846, died May 25, 1853. 6. Nathan, born May 28,
1849, "ow living in Chester, married Sarah Cheetham, deceased.

Philena Eyre, daughter of Nathan L. and Ann (Larkin) Eyre, was born
in Bethel township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, August 21, 1841. She
was educated in the public school and Friends school at Ercildoun, Pennsyl-
vania, also was taught privately at home. She is a birth-right member of the
Society of Friends and a woman of charming gracious manner.

She married, April 26, 1865, James Cheetham, born October 13, 1840, in
Aston township, Delaware county, died in Chester, Pennsylvania, May 30,
1902, son of Charles and Sarah Lawrence (Elliott) Cheetham. Charles Cheet-
ham, born in England, came to the United States when a young man, natural-
ized and became a resident of Delaware county. He rented the mills now
known as the John B. Rhodes mills, which he operated successfully for a time,
later bought and operated the Concord Cotton mills. James Cheetham was ed-
ucated in the public school and until his marriage worked in his father's mills.
He then engaged in farming until 1869, when he established and maintained a
successful dairy business until his death. He was a veteran of the Civil War,
serving for one year with the 124th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.
He later re-enlisted, was commissioned second-lieutenant, but his command
was not again called into service. He was a Republican in politics and a man
of high character. Children: i. Sadie, born July 17, 1866, died November 3,
1886. 2. Anna Eyre, married. June 18. 1902, James H. McClymont, a promi-
nent architect of York, Pennsylvania ; child. James Cheetham. 3. Madella,
born in Maryland, married January 2, iC}Oi. William Harlan Rigby, born in
Concord, Delaware county, a descendant of the early Sharpless family which
came in 1682; child: Madella Johps. 4. Samuel Dutton. 5. Jean Meyer, mar-
ried January 8, 1902, Hugh Carlon .Aiken — children : Richard Page and Louise
Eyre. Hugh Carlon Aikin was ? member of Company C, Sixth Regiment,
National Guard Pennsylvania, and served during the Spanish-American War.

6. Joseph Larkin Eyre, married October 12, 191 1, Catherine Marguerite
Hughes — child: Joseph Larkin Eyre (2) ; Joseph Larkin Eyre Cheetham was
a member of Company C, .Sixth Regiment, National Guard Pennsylvania, and
served during the .Spanish-American War. 7. Philena Pennell.

Mrs. Cheetham, since becoming a widow, has continued her residence in
Chester, her home being at Eleventh and Madison s<^reets.

In early times the Garretts were important millers of Upper
GARRETT Darby township, Delaware county. William Garrett came in
1683 from England, settling on two hundred and three acres
that was surveyed to him March 5. if^i88. In 1766, William Garrett was as-
sessed on a leather mill and a blade mill, also in 1774 on a fulling mill and a
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blade mill. In 1782 Osborn Garrett was assessed on a fulling mill and in
1788 on a skin mill, also on a plaster mill. In 1798. Thomas Garrett owned a
tilt mill at the site of the later Union Mills and there Thomas and Samuel
Garrett conducted the tilt mill, oil mill and cotton factory for many years.
These were all descendants of the emigrant, William Garrett, the founder of
the Garrett family of Delaware county. The line of descent from William (i)
to Edwin Garrett of Chester is through William (2) Garrett and Alary Smith,
married in Darby Meeting 1-5-1726 or 1727. Their second son. Isaac Garrett,
and his first wife. Elizabeth Hatton, who were married in Concord Meeting
3-26-1742; their son, Isaac (2) Garrett and Elizabeth Thatcher, who were
married in Concord Meeting 4-24-1783. They settled on one hundred forty
acres in Willistown township, Chester county, inherited from Isaac (i) Garrett.

Their youngest son, William Garrett, born 2-1-1800, died 4-22-1854 —
killed in an accident. He was a paper mill owner and a farmer of Willistown,
where he inherited a part of his father's land. He married in Goshen Meet-
ing, Eliza Sharpless. born 6-26-1807. died 11-25-1889, daughter of Jesse and
Ann (Harvey) Sharpless of East Goshen.

Their third son, Harvey S., born 6-16-1834, is now a resident of West
Chester, Pennsylvania. He owned and operated the [)aper mills in Willistown
for many years and also owns a large and fertile farm in Chester county. He
married Mary D. Worrall of Upper Providence township: children: Edwin (of
further mention) : Phelena, died aged eighteen years: Joseph Harvey, lives on
the old farm and operates the paper mills there, married Emma Williams;
Phoebe S., married Willard Evans.

Edwin, eldest son of Harvey S. and .Mary 1). ( Worrall ) ( larrett. was born
in Willistown township, Chester county. Pennsylvania, October 10, i860. He
attended the public school of Willistown, finishing his studies at the Westches-
ter Normal School. He worked in his father's paper mills until 1884, then
moved to Chester, Pennsylvania, and there established a stationery store at
No. 516 and 518 Welsh street. He has been very successful and does a large
business, both wholesale and retail. In 1891 he bought the Francis Tempest
paper mill at Beaver \'alley. which he also operates. For fourteen months he
resided at Beaver Valley, then purchased a residence in Media at No. 7 West
Third street, where he now resides, dividing his time between mill and store.
He is an active resourceful business man, honorable and upright, as the Gar-
retts ever were and in political faith a Republican. Mr. Garrett married at
Westtown, Chester county, Pennsylvania, Belle Hoopes, born at Westtown. ed-
ucated there and at West Chester, daughter of Elwood and Minerva (Bernard)
Hoopes, both deceased, farm owners : children : Elwood Hoopes, born March
9, 1892, graduate of Media high school, finishing his studies at Mercersburg
academy — now engaged with his father; Laura, born March 9, 1894, educated
in the public schools of Media and in George's school in Bucks county, Penn-
sylvania.

(The .Sharpless Line).

The Sharpless family of Pennsylvania spring from Geoffrey and Margaret
Sharpless of Wybunbury, Cheshire. England, through their son John Sharp-
less, who was baptized at Wybunbury, August 15, 1624, died 4-11-1685, near
Chester, Pennsylvania. The date of his coming is fixed as in 1682 and it is
supposed that he came in the ship "Lion," arriving the 13 da. of 6 mo. John
Sharpless became a land owner of Chester county and was a member of the
Society of Friends. He married, April 27, 1662, Jane Moor, born 1638, died 9
mo. I, 1722.

Joseph Sharpless, son of John (i) Sharpless, was born at Hatherton. Ches-

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hire county, England. 1678, died in Middletown. Chester (now Delaware)
county, Pennsylvania, 1758. He was a land owner, constable of Nether Provi-
dence township and an elder of the Middletown Meeting. He married at Hav-
erford !\Ieeting, 3-31-1704, Lydia Lewis, born in Glamorganshire, Wales,
1683, died 1763.

Jacob Sharpless, sixth son of Joseph Sharpless, was born in Middletown,
Delaware county, 10-14-1722, died in Concord. 7-19-1775. He married at Con-
cord Meeting, Ann, daughter of Charles and Susanna Blakley, who came to
Philadelphia from England, died 10-8-1811.

John Sharpless, eldest son of Jacob Sharpless, was born 9-2'8-i749, died
10-29-1834. He was an industrious farmer, prosecuting his business with en-
ergy and acquiring considerable real estate. One season he raised eighty bush-
els of cloverseed, which he sold for twenty dollars per bushel, which feat
caused his fame to spread widely. Both his marriages were performed by a
magistrate, which caused him to be disowned, but he was later received with
his family into the society. It is said that as fast as his children married, he
placed them upon farms, but as he had twelve children, this would imply vast
holdings or small farms. He married (first) Elizabeth Yearsley, born 12-11-
1752, died 7-31-1796, daughter of Nathan and Susanna (Wright) Yearsley of
Thornbury.

Jesse Sharpless, third son of John Sharpless, by his first wife, was born
in Concord, Pennsylvania, 2-II-1779, died in East Goshen 6-22-1866. He set-
tled after marriage on a part of his father's land in East Goshen on the road
from Rocky Hill to Goshenville. In 1818 he purchased from Evan Griffith and
wife an adjoining farm of eighty-three acres. He married, 3-14-1805, at Ken-
net Meeting, Ann Harvey, born at Pennsbury, 5-31-1783, died in East Goshen
8-28-1866, daughter of Amos Harvey, son of William (2) son of William (i)
Harvey, who came from Worcestershire, England, in 1712.

Eliza, second of the nine children of Jesse and Ann (Harvey) Sharpless,
married in Goshen Meeting, William Garrett, of previous mention, and they
became the grandparents of Edwin Garrett of Chester and Media, previously
recorded.

That passing years and changing conditions have not served
SCHAFFER to dim the lustre which has been characteristic of the Dela-
ware County Bar from the earliest times, sufficiently appears
by any review of the character and attainments of the lawyers of the county in
this present day. among whom no name stands out more prominently than
that of William I. Schafifer. A notable member of a bar of which much is
expected, his reputation marks him already, when barely in his prime, as an
advocate worthy of the best traditions of his profession. His ability as a
lawyer and his other gifts have already made him a state wide figure, and
broader fields seem merely to develop latent powers, with splendid promise of
future years and further triumphs in political and forensic endeavor.

Mr. SchaflFer comes of Scotch-Irish and German stock, and is the son of
George A. and Mary H. (Irwin) Schaffer, having been born in Germantown,
Philadelphia, on February 11, 1867. In 1874 his parents moved to Chester,
Pennsylvania, where he obtained his education in the public schools ; so that
he may be truly claimed as a product of the county. After leaving school, he
acted as clerk for a short time, but his natural aptitude and inclination were
toward a professional career. Mr. SchafFer confesses even yet to some weak-
ness toward the study of medicine, but financial difficulties stood in the way of
acquiring a medical education, and an opportunity opening to study law with

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William B. Broomall, Esq., who was already a giant in the profession, direc-
tion was thus early given to his career. Although a mere boy, he at once dis-
played the qualities of mind which have since marked him, and by intense ap-
plication and unflagging industry he not merely mastered his student tasks, but
acquired a proficiency in stenography which stood him well in hand in his stu-
dent and early professional days. He was prepared to seek admission to the bar
before he had attained the minimum age of eligibility, so that on his twenty-first
birthday, February ii, 1888, he achieved the first step of his ambition and be-
came a lawyer. One year later he was admitted to practice in the Supreme
Court, being one of the youngest men of his generation admitted to practice
before that tribunal.

He continued to be associated in his professional career with Mr. Broom-
all as first assistant, and in the office of his former preceptor he found not only
opportunity for valuable experience, in cases involving every form of legal
procedure, but the advantage of association with a senior of pre-eminent abil-
ity. He early won his spurs as a trial lawyer by his defense in the famous
"Fire-bug" case, and thereafter his services were in constant demand. Since
then he has figured on one side or the other, in most of the important causes
tried in the county, and in many tried in other jurisdictions in the state, nota-
bly in the famous "Capitol" cases in Harrisburg, in which he was one of the
leading attorneys for the defense. His success is attributable not merely to
his more than first rate ability in all the peculiarly professional fields, but to a
winning personality and a loyalty to friends and clients which with him raises
advocacy to the highest plane of service.

In lyoo he was appointed Reporter of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl-
vania, which position he continues to liold. He is now engaged in practice in
Chester, with offices in the Gibson Building.

Mr. Schaffer has been interested in political affairs from his youth. He
is a lifelong Republican and early in life was engaged as an organizer and
campaign speaker, his services being in constant demand. He served many
terms as a member and chairman of the county committee ; was a frequent
delegate to county conventions and in 1890 was a delegate to the State Con-
vention of his party. In that convention, he was a supporter of General Hast-
ings for the gubernatorial office and in an eloquent speech seconded his nomi-
nation. At the Harrisburg Convention of 1894, he made the speech nominating
John B. Robinson for Lieutenant Governor, and in 1903, he placed William L.
Mathues in nomination for State Treasurer. One of his nominating speeches
which attracted widest attention was that placing Judge Robert van Moschzis-
ker in nomination for Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He has
done yeoman service for his party friends and has not been unrewarded. The
convention of 1891 nominated him as a delegate at large to the Constitutional
Convention, and in 1893, he was elected District Attorney of Delaware county,
taking office January, 1894, serving through a re-election, a period of six years.
He won general cornmendation for his administration of his office, one which
by learning, experience, energy and ability as a public speaker, he was eminent-
ly qualified to fill. His gifts as an orator have brought him many calls for
speeches, not only in his own, but in other States, where hard political battles
were being fought. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the
State and County Bar Associations and of many societies, organizations and
clubs, including the Masonic Order and the Union League of Philadelphia.

Mr. Schafifer married. December 23, 1893, Susan A., daughter of Charles
F. Cross, of Towanda, Pennsylvania.

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The Green family in America springs from English stock and
GREEN it is highly probable, in fact, every item of information concern-
ing the early members of the family confirms it, that the progeni-
tors of the American family were socially and politically distinguished and
prominent, as well as possessing great wealth. The following letter, published
in "The Nation." at Boston, in October, 1888, serves to throw some light upon
the early generations, whose history and traditions are closely shrouded in
time's misty veil :

To the Editor of the Nation.

Sir — I may perhaps be trespassing on your space if I ask you to publish the following
"Simple Tale."

I happen to be the Rector of the parish of Green's Norton, Northamptonshire, Eng-
land. In the parish church are several mutilated tombs, belonging to the family of
"Green," who, for si.x generations between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were the
lords of the manor. The first Sir Henry Green was Lord Chief Justice of England about
the end of the thirteenth century ; the last Sir Thomas Green was the father of Maud
Green, who married Sir Thomas Parr, of Kendal, Westmoreland, and was mother of
Kate Parr, Queen of England by marriage with Henry VIII.

The only information I can arrive at by inquiry from the oldest inhabitant of this
parish about the Green family is that many years ago a gentleman from America (my
informant mentions Boston doubtfully) came to this church, presumably to inspect the
beautiful tombs and brasses belonging to the Green family.

We are about to undertake the re-arrangement of the church. I write to you to know
if it is within the limits of your rules as editor to allow the letter to appear in your
columns, as perhaps some member of the Green family would wish to have a voice in the
disposal of the effigies which still remain as witnesses of their wealth and position.

I may only add that I am "a constant reader" of your paper and an occasional con-
tributor thereto.

Yours sincerely

S. BEAL, D. C. L.
The Rectory, Green's Norton. Towchester, England, September 29. 1888.

Horace Plankinton Green, a grandson of George Green, a prominent char-
acter in the history of Delaware county, and son of Isaac and Phoebe H.
(Plankinton) Green, as born in Edgmont township, Delaware county, Penn-
sylvania, June II, 1854. He obtained his early education in the public schools,
continuing his studies in the West Chester State Normal School and the Maple-
wood Institute at Concordville, Pennsylvania. Deciding to follow the legal
profession he placed himself under the preceptorship of the Hon. John M.
Broomall, of Media, and after two years study creditably passed the examina-
tions and was admitted to the bar of Delaware county in June, 1879. beginning
active practice immediately. In 1883, he formed, with V. Gilpin Robinson, the
law firm of Robinson & Green, an association that continued with pleasure and
profit to both partners until 1892, when each opened a separate office. For
many years Mr. Green's office occupied the corner of South avenue and Front
street, in Media.

To mention his law practice is to praise it, for in the over a quarter of a
century that Mr. Green was engaged in active practice, he was retained in
many of the most notable cases tried in the courts of the county, in none of
which he was worsted because of an opponent more skilled in legal lore than
he. His clients were assured of a speedy settlement without the delay and liti-
gation resorted to so often for the purpose of a larger fee. While a fluent,
and, when occasion demanded, an eloquent speaker, he was wont rather to
couch his argument in strong, clear, direct phrases, than to resort to the tear-
ful plea or the thousand and one arts of the profession so frequently used as
appeals to the sentiment of the jurors. As guardian, executor, administrator,
trustee, and assignee of estates and valuable properties, Mr. Green's assiduous
fidelity to his client and the faithful administration of the client's best inter-

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ests, gained for liim a reputatidii that caused his services in that hne to be
greatly in demand. His skill in the preparation of all legal papers affecting ti-
tles or rights was widely known, his documents offering no loop-hole of escape
or entry to a possible contestant.

With all of his professional duties, Mr. Green nevertheless found ample
time to fulfill the duties owed by every good citizen to his community, that is
to promote its welfare, to be watchful of its prosperity, and to contribute to
its development. For six years he was a member of the borough council, of-
ficiating for part of that time as president. The excellent results obtained
from his administration of the duties of that office were equalled bv those for
which he was responsible when president of the local Board of Education of
which board he was al.so a member for nine vears. Until his resignation he
was a director and vice-president of the Charter National Bank, of which he
was an organiser. He also helped in the organization of the Media Title and
Trust Company, filling the offices of director, solicitor and vice-president for
that corporation, besides holding positions upon the directorates of several
other financial institutions. In the Masonic order he was prominent, holding
the past mastership of the George W. Bartram Lodge, No. 298, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, and the past high priestship of :\Iedia Giapter, No. 234, Royal
Arch Masons.

Upon partially laying aside the cares of business life, Mr. Green .seized
the opportunity to gratify a long-felt desire for travel and made two trips to
Europe, one in ifp^') and another in 1909. His exceedingly active mind and
unabated energy could not content itself with mere pleasure-seeking and sight-
seeing, in consequence of which he made a complete and exhaustive study of
the sociological problems of the countries through which he traveled, becoming
more thoroughly acquainted with the subtle class distinctions and observation.^
)f caste in European countries than probably any man who had not made such
research his lifework.

In conclusion it is only right that recognition should be granted the ver-
latility of Air. Green's personality. Imagine a man active legally, politically,
.'diicationally, financially, scientifically, fraternally and socially, and not only
active but a leader in each activity, the force of whose character and the
warmth of whose personality, together with an irrepressible enthusiasm,
carry one along on the flood tide of achievement, and you have the late Horace
Plankinton Green.

He married, October 7, 1880, Ida Mrginia, daughter of John and
Mary P. Beatty, of Chester township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. Child,
Ernest LeRoy, of whom further. Horace P. Green died in Media, Pennsyl-
vania, April 4, 191 1.

Ernest LeRoy, son of Horace Plankinton and Ida Mrginia (Beatty)
Green, was born at Media, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. .August 4, 1881.
He obtained his early education in the public schools of the place of his birth
and was graduated from the Media High School in June, 1897. With the pur-
pose of matriculation at Swarthmore College, he spent one vear in Swarth-
more Preparatory School and graduated there, entering the college in the fall
of 1898, whence he was graduated and received the degree of A. B. in 1902.
With a hereditary liking for the law as well as inherited ability he decided to
follow the legal profession and accordingly was enrolled in the law depart-
ment of the University of Penn.sylvania. He here achieved brilliant success,
the forerunner of that to come, and was graduated LL.B. in the cla.ss of 1905
with the highest honors of the year. He immediately started upon the prac-
tice of law in Media, and has ever since continued there. His practice is large
and hu-rative, his legal activitie>> (|uite equalling the high standard set bv his

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honored father. He is a member of the bars of Philadelphia and Delaware
counties as well as of the appellate courts of Pennsylvania, to all of which he
was admitted in 1905. The various activities of his town claim a considerable
portion of his time and attention, as he is a member of the board of directors
of the Media Title and Trust Company, likewise a member of the ]\Iedia
school board, holding the office of secretary.

He is a prominent member of the Masonic Order, being a Master Mason
of George \V. liartram Lodge. No. 2q8, Free and Accepted Masons, a Com-
panion of Media Chapter, No. 234, Royal Arch Masons, and a Noble of Lu Lu
Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He has also tak-
en the thirty-two degrees in Scottish Rite Masonry, belonging to Philadelphia
Consistory. He is a member of the Delta LTpsilon fraternity, which he joined
while at college, and the Order of the Coif, a legal fraternity, admission to
which is based upon scholastic standing. His clubs are the Hare Law Club,
the Gentlemen's Club of Media, the Springhaven Country Club, and the four
alumni associations of the institutions of learning which he attended, he being
corresponding secretary of the society of alumni of the Law Department of
the University of Pennsylvania.

He married, November 12, 1913, Julia Fries Roberts, daughter of the
late Harry F. and Emma Van Buskirk Roberts, of Philadelphia.

The P)roadbeIt family, which has been domiciled for a
BROADBELT number of generations in the state of Pennsylvania, has

been an honored one in this country, and probably had its
origin in England, as the style of the name would indicate. They have been
chiefly engaged in agricultural pursuits, and have ever done their duty as good
citizens and patriots in defense of their country.

Alfred Broadbelt was engaged in farming throughout the active years of
his long life and is now living in well earned retirement. He removed from
Darby in 1871 to a farm one mile north of Media. Delaware county, Pennsyl-
vania, and his life has been spent there since that time. While he has never
taken an active part in the political life of the section of which he is a resident,
he has given his staunch support to the principles of the Republican party, and
has kept in touch with all public questions of importance. He and his wife
are consistent supporters of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Broadbelt
married Susan Crozier, and they celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their
marriage, February 5, 1913, at the house of their son, Alfred C.

Alfred C. Broadbelt was born in Darby, Delaware county. Pennsylvania,
December i, 1868. He was but three years of age when his parents removed to
Media, and in the district schools of that section of the country he obtained the
educational advantages which usually fall to the lot of a farmer's son. He as-
sisted his father in the cultivation of the home farm, obtaining in this manner
a thorough, practical knowledge of the many details to be considered in suc-
cessful farming. At the age of eighteen years he was apprenticed to learn the
blacksmith's trade, but abandoned it at the expiration of three years, as he
found the work too heavy for his strength, and again engaged in farming.
Ten vears were thus occujiied. and he then received the appointment of su]:)er-
intendent of Media Cemetery, and so satisfactory has been his management of
all matters connected with this that he is still holding the office at the present
time (1913). The cemetery is an old one, having been founded in 1857, and
additions have been made from time to time, so that it now covers a tract of
twenty-seven acres. It is located on elevated ground, one mile north of Media,
and commands a fine view of the surrovmding country. Mr. Broadbelt is also

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a member of the board of trustees of the MecHa Cemetery, and his opinions
carry weight in the councils of the board.

Mr. Broadbelt married, June 9, 1892, Hannah B., daughter of WilHam
and Lydia (Hoops) Henry, of Chester, Pennsylvania, the latter having died
aIkh her daughter was but five years of age, and the former named died
in June, 1913. Mr. and Mrs. Broadbelt have had children : Frances Baker,
born August 5, 1894: Bertha May, October 6. 1901 ; Sue Crozier, November
13, 1906. Mr. Broadbelt has always been Republican in his political affiliations;
and while he has never desired to hold jniblic office, always takes a deep and
beneficial interest in all matters concerning the welfare of the communitv in
which he lives, as well as in those concerning the country at large. He is an
active member of the Patriotic Sons of America, and he and all the members
of his family, are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and are active
workers in the interests of that institution. Tn his private, as in his public life,
Mr. Broadbelt has displayed a most exemplary character, and is held in the
highest respect and esteem by all in the community.

The Engles were among the earlier settlers in Chester county,
ENGLE Pennsylvania, and Burlington county. New Jersey, members of
the Society of Friends, land owners, men of good repute, promi-
nent ill church and public affairs. Harry P. Engle. of Media, is a descendant
of the Chester county family, hi? ancestors having settled in Delaware frori
Chester county.

Edward Engle, father of Harry P. Engle, was a blacksmith of Chester
county, Pennsylvania. Settled later in L'pper Providence township, Delaware
coimty, where he pursued that calling until his death in 1875. His wife. Alary
(Phillips) Engle, born in Delaware county, yet survives him, a resident of
Media.

Harry P. Engle was born in Upper Providence township. Delaware coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, January 23, 1871. When four years of age his father died,
and until he was eight years old he attended the township schools. He then
was admitted to Girard College, Philadelphia, where he remained nine years,
obtaining a good education and enjoying all the benefits of that most valuable
institution. He then for one year worked as a machinist's apprentice, but
finding that trade unsuited to him, he became a baker's apprentice, working at
that trade until he had mastered its every detail, finishing with a Philadelphia
concern. He spent two inore years working at his trade in West Chester,
Pennsylvania, then located his own bakery at South Media, continuing until
1898, then moved to his present location at the corner of State and ( )range
streets. Media. His plant is a modern one, equipped with every aid to sani-
tary baking, his trade an extensive one covering Media and surrounding lior-
oughs. During his fifteen years in Media, Mr. Engle has not only obtained a
solid substantial standing as a business man, but has won a high place in public
regard as a useful, loyal citizen, and has the honor of being the first Democrat
to hold the office of burgess since 1893. He is a director and treasurer of
the Second Media Building and Loan Association, one of the solid financial
institutions of the borough and one to which Mr. Engle gives his closest atten-
tion and best business judgment. He is a member of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias and has held all the office chairs
in both orders. He is a member of the Baptist church and a liberal patron of
all worthy causes.

In February, 1909, Mr. Engle was elected burgess of Media as a Demo-
crat, but his party in that borough is the minority one and the election of a

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Democrat is a rare occurrence and only happens when the candidate possesses
such strong qualifications for office that they cannot be ignored. Mr. Engle
has given the borough a wise business administration and has vastly improved
•conditions ; since taking the office of burgess, streets have been improved, the
water works system extended and greatly improved, and each department of
"borough affairs brought to a higher state of efficiency. Both aggressive and
progressive. Burgess Engle is the right man in the right place.

He married, December 25, 1895. Cora, daughter of Pierce and Sidney
(Iford) Bunes, of Chester county, Pennsylvania. Children: Sidney Bunes,
Mary S., Mildred Bunes.

The Worrall and Worrell families of Pennsylvania descend
WORRELL from John W^^rrall (or Worrell) who settled in Chester
township, then Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1648, sup-
posed to be a descendant of Sir Hubert de Warel, who lost three sons at the
"battle of Hastings. John came to Pennsylvania from Oare, Berkshire, Eng-
land. Descendants settled in Marple township, now Delaware county, where
John, Joseph, Peter and Joshua Worrall had various sized tracts of land as
early as 1683. Peter Worrall was a tanner and founded a family in Marple
township, as did Joseph, but of Joshua little is known. The family have ever
been members of the Society of Friends and people of the highest standing and
substance.

Joseph W., father of Frank Brooke Worrell, of Media, was a large land
rand mill owner of Radnor township, Delaware : his mills, which he also oper-
ated, being known as the Brooke Mills, established by Jesse Brooke, as early
as 1802, consisted of saw, grist and plaster mills. In addition to his milling in-
terests he also had a large farm which he cultivated. His business interests
were large and his standing in the township was of the highest. He was very
public spirited, using his wealth and influence to further the best interests of
his community.

He married Catherine Sharpless Palmer, of the well known Palmer fam-
ily. Both were members of the Radnor Monthly Meeting of the Society of
Friends and both are buried in the Friends cemetery near Ithan postoffice. He
died in March, 1900, she surviving him until February, 1904.

Frank Brooke Worrell, son of Joseph W. and Catherine Sharpless Wor-
rell, was born at Radnor. Delaware county, Pennsylvania, December i, 1859.
He attended the public schools of the township and of Radnor, working on
the farm during vacation months. He remained at the home farm, his father's
assistant, until he was twenty-one years of age, then entered Coe College at
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, continuing until his senior year, when failing eyesight
compelled him to abandon all thoughts of completing his college course. Leav-
ing college he returned to his home at Radnor, where he remained one and one-
half years. He next entered the employ of the government as a teacher in the
Indian schools at Cheyenne and Darlington Agency, Indian Territory. This
position he held but a short time when he was appointed superintendent of the
schools under Colonel Miles, continuing until called home by the illness of his
father. He remained at home several years, then established in the real estate
business with offices at North Penn Square and Market street. Philadelphia.
He there conducted a most successful business, handling large properties and
continuing until the death of his father in March, 1900, at Media, then his
home. He then gave up his Philadelphia business and joined his mother at
Media, where he yet resides. He remained at home with his widowed mother
Tjntil her death in 1904, then after settling the estate established in 1906, a real

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estate office in Media. Although at the time of opening his Media office he
ilid not have even one piece of property listed, he quickly became known as a
most capable man and has built up a large and prosperous business. During
his first three years he made three hundred and nineteen sales, and since 1909
his business has increased even more rapidly, his office consummating a greater
number of sales than any other agency in Delaware county. His business cov-
ers the entire range of a real estate office, buying, selling, renting, making loans
and selling estates. In the business done for others he also manages a great
deal of suburban and town property that is his own. He has attained high
standing in his community, a position won by uprightness and business meth-
ods of strictest integrity. His wife is a member of the Baptist while he is a
member of the Presbyterian church, of Media. He is a Republican in politics,
interested in public afifairs, but never accepting public office.

Mr. Worrell married December 21, 1903, Deborah P., daughter of Mar-
shall R. and Lydia (Campbell) Worrell, of Media. Children: Marshall R.,
born April 21. 1905; Frank Brooke (2), born November ij , kjo8.

The name of Babbitt has been well known in the New England
B.\BBITT states for many years, members of it having gained note in
business and professional circles. It is connected by marriage
with a number of the old colonial families who bore their share gallantly in
defence of the rights of their country in the old and in the more recent strug-
gles.

Thomas H. Babbitt, whose death occurred in August, 1882, was a machin-
ist by occupation and, at the time of his death, held the res])onsible position
of superintendent of a large plant at Worcester, Massachusetts, whence the
family had removed from Harrisvillc, Rhode Island. He married Mary S.
Boss, who died at the home of her son, Angell B., in February, 1910. She was
a daughter of Captain Benjamin Boss, who was in active service in the war of
the revolution, and her maternal ancestors had also taken part in that mem-
orable struggle.

.\ngell B. Babbitt, son of Thomas H. and Mary S. (Boss) Babbitt, was
born in the village of Harrisville, Rhoilc Island, August 21, 1859. He was four
years of age when his parents decided to remove to Worcester, Massachusetts,
and his early education was acquired in the public schools of that town. He
was graduated from the high school with honor in 1879, ^^^ then became a
student at Harvard University, from which institution he was graduated in
the class of 1883 with the degree of liachelor of Arts. The earnest .spirit
which marked the beginning of his career has been apparent throughout its
progress. He determined to devote his life to teaching, and his successful ca-
reer as an educator is ample evidence of the wisdom of his decision. During his
thirty years in school life he has been an indefatigable worker, and has applied
himself closely to his chosen duties. He commenced his pedagogical work in
the Shortlidge .Academy, an institution which gained a national rc]nitation, and
was engaged in teaching the classics there for a period of eight years. The
De Lancy School in Philadelphia was the next field of his activities, his posi-
tion being that of classical master, and the connection with this institution has
been unbroken since that time. He was appointed to the position of head of
the upper school, and in 1910 was made associate head master, which respon-
sible ])osition he is filling at the present time (1913). This school also has
a broad and national reputation, certificates awarded by it enabling the stu-
dents to obtain admission to the best universities and colleges. Mr. I'abbitt ob-

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tained high honors while a student at Harvard. Second year and final honors
in classics were conferred upon him, by special examination, and he was
elected to membership in the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, an honor
bestowed only upon those of the highest scholarly attainments.

Mr. Babbitt married, September 2, i(S84, Ida L., born May 11, i860, a
daughter of John Quincy and Martha (Taft) Adams, of the old New England
family of that name, in Milford, Massachusetts. Her father enlisted as a sol-
dier in the civil war when a young man, and died in the hospital at Alexandria.
Mr. and Mrs. Babbitt have had children: Louis A., born July 9, 1885; Ethel
Adams, August 20. 1887: Earle O.. January 21, 1890: Walter Hathaway, Feb-
ruary 23, 1892; Clarence Stephen, September 30, 1894. The family home is
located at the southwest corner of Jackson and Third streets. Media. Mr.
Babbitt is a member of the Classical .Association of the ]\Iiddle States. His
religious affiliations are with the L'niversalist denomination, in which faith he
was born, but he is not a member of any church. He will not allow himself to
be fettered in the expression of his political opinions by party ties, preferring
to form his opinions in an independent manner. He is a member of the execu-
tive committee of the Media Civic Association, and is vice-president of the
Media Free Library Association.

Harry Leedom Smedley, M. D., D. D. S., Ph. G., traces his
SMEDLEY descent from George Smedley, who was born in England, and
came to Pennsylvania about 1682, making his first purchase of
land from William Penn in Dublin township, Philadelphia county. He after-
wards removed to Middletown (now Delaware county ), and later to Willistown
township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, where he died in March, 1723. He
was a member of the Society of Friends. He was married in Friends' Meet-
ing, Philadelphia, in 1687. to Sarah Goodwin, widow of John Goodwin, and
daughter of Thomas Kitchen, of Dublin township, Philadelphia county. The
line of descent is through his second son, George (2), who married Jane Sharp-
less, daughter of John and Hannah (Pennell) Sharpless, who bore him thir-
teen children.

William ( i), son of George (2) Smedley, married, in Providence Friends'
Meeting, Elizabeth Taylor, a descendant of Peter Taylor, of Chestershire,
England, who also came to Pennsylvania in 1682.

William (2), youngest son of William (i) Smedley, married, in Middle-
town Friends' ^Meeting, Deborah Lightfoot, a descendant of Thomas Light-
foot, a highly esteemed minister of the Society of Friends of England and
Ireland.

Jacob, youngest son of William (2) Smedley. was born on the old Smed-
ley homestead, which his father bought and inherited, December 31, 1801, and
died in Media. Pennsylvania. September 26, i88fi. He was an elder of the
West Chester Meeting, Commissioner of Delaware county, and a man of sub-
stance. He married in Middletown jMeeting, November 13, 1826, Jane Yar-
nall, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Pennell) Yarnall, of Edgemont, Chester
county.

Abram Pennell Smedley, second son of Jacob and Jane (Yarnall) Smed-
ley, was born in Edgemont, Chester county, Pennsylvania, January 5, 1829,
died in Media, Pennsylvania, December 9. 1895, having lived in that town
since i8t2. He was an expert dentist and practiced in ]\Iedia forty-three years.
He was a Republican in politics and both he and his wife were members of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church, of Media. He was a man of active habits.

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fond of out-of-door exercise and thought little of walking from Media to
Philadelphia and returning the same way. While always interested in puhlic
matters he took no active part in local affairs, beyond expressing his prefer-
ence at the polls. He was highly regarded as a dental practitioner, and held in
like esteem as a friend and neighbor. He married, in Philadelphia, January
1,3, 1858, Lydia Emma Bishop, born in Edgemont, April 20, 1835, daughter of
William and Mary (Ottey) P)ishop, of Media, Pennsylvania. One son Frank,
died in infancy; for their only other child, see forward.

Dr. Harry Leedom Smedley. son of Dr. Abram Pennell and Lydia Emma
("Bishop) Smedley. was born in Media, Pennsylvania, October 12, 1858. His
primary, intermediate and preparatory education was obtained in the Media
public school and Friends Central School, 15th and Race streets. Philadelphia.
He then entered Swarthmore College after which he entered the Philadelphia
College of Pharmacy, whence he was graduated Ph. G., class of 1880. He then
entered the University of Pennsylvania (dental department), whence he was
graduated D. D. S.. class of 1882. He continued at the university (medical
department) obtaining the degree of M. D., class of 1883. having taken the
dental and medical courses together until his last year, when he attended medi-
cal lectures only. He at once after graduation began practice with his father,
electing from the three professions he was qualified to follow, that of dentistry.
He practiced in association with his father until the death of the latter, since
then practicing alone. He is thoroughly modern in his practice : his offices be-
ing equipped with the latest electrical and other devices pertaining to the den-
tal profession and every attention paid to perfect sanitary and hygienic con-
ditions. He is a member of the Pennsylvania State Dental Society and the
Chester and Delaware Counties Dental Society, having served as president of
ihe latter society. He belongs to George W. Bartram Lodge, No. 208, Free
and Accepted Masons of Media : the Media Club ; Media Hook and Ladder
Company. No. i. of the fire department, having been a member since its or-
ganization. In politics Dr. Smedley is an independent Republican and has al-
ways been most active in his interest in borough affairs. He served three years
on the board of education, being president of that board one year : was elected
burgess of Media by the votes of the people, irrespective of party, serving
three years, introducing many needed reforms that tended to better civic con-
ditions, particularly in the matter of public health and general appearance of
streets, alleys and vacant lots in the borough. He is a member of the Delaware
county board of prison inspector? and in all things is the friend of progress
and reform.

He married. January 28, 1892, in .Springfield, Ohio, Mary .\., daughter of
George Henry and Rebecca (Clark) Christian, of Media, both deceased. Both
the doctor and his wife are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church
of Media, and both are active, useful workers in church and Sunday school,
he having been superintendent of the .Sunday school for a number of vears
and is a member of the oflicial board, governing the church. Mrs. Smedley is
a member of the Woman's Club, of Media, and prominent in the social life of
the town. The family home and the doctor's offices arc at No. 13 East Wash-
ington street, one of the best and most desirable residence districts of Media.
The doctor like his father, is fond of out-of-doors and gives his sanction and
encouragement to all wholesome athletic sports. TTe is a most desirable citi-
zen and is held in the highest esteem, both professionally and socially.

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The Westcotts of Media, Pennsylvania, represented in the
WESTCOTT present generation by Walter S. Westcott, county treasurer,
and proprietor of the Charter House, the oldest hotel in
Media, descend from the New Jersey family founded by Daniel Westcott, a
prominent public official at Stamford, Connecticut, in 1639, representing his
district in the general assembly three terms. The Westcott family is spoken of
in the "History of Devonshire, England," four centuries ago, as "an ancient
and honorable one as far back as A. D., 1170." The name was then de West-
cote, a form yet retained in some branches.

Daniel Westcott, of Stamford, aforementioned, was voted town lands for
"services rendered against our common enemy," presumably meaning the In-
dians. In 1694 he disposed of all his property in Stamford, and with a number
of other citizens of that town removed to New Jersey, naming the locality in
which they settled Fairfield, the name of their hoine county in Connecticut.
Mr. Westcott died in 1702, leaving sons, Samuel, Daniel, Ebenezer, who were
among the founders of settlements in Salem and Cumberland counties. The
Westcotts were active in founding the First Presbyterian Church at Fairfield,
many of them serving as ministers, elders and deacons. All of the New Jer-
sey branch of the family trace their descent from Daniel Westcott through his
three sons, aforementioned.

The first of the family to settle in Media, Pennsylvania, was Henry West-
cott, born in Cedarville, New Jersey, died in Media, in October, 1907. After
completing his studies in the cominon schools of his home town, he learned the
trade of carriage builder, which occupation he followed for a number of years,
establishing a shop and factory in Media, whither he removed about the year
1870. Five years later he removed to a farm in Marple township, Delaware
county, Pennsylvania, where he engaged successfully in agriculture until 1883,
when his buildings, stock, implements and grain were totally destroyed by fire,
this proving a serious loss. Nothing daunted by this misfortune, he at once
set about repairing the damage. He remodeled another house which was on the
property, occupying it as a dwelling, erected a new barn and other buildings,
and continued his operations thereon, putting the property into excellent condi-
tion, continuing until failing health caused his retirement from active labor. He
then returned to Media, where he again engaged in the carriage building busi-
ness, which he followed until about two years prior to his decease, which oc-
curred in the year 1907. He was an active member of the Presbyterian church,,
devoting his time and means to its welfare, and a staunch and earnest Republi-
can, although never seeking or holding public office, preferring to devote his
time to his other interests. He was a man of the highest integrity and upright-
ness of character, honored and esteemed by all who knew him, and had he so
chosen could have had any position in the gift of the people. He married Mary
Stewart, born in Ridley township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, a devoted
member of the Baptist church, whose death occurred January 18, 1912, and
whose body was interred beside that of her husband in Media cemetery.

Walter S. Westcott, son of Henry and Mary (.Stewart) Westcott, was
born in Media, Pennsylvania, January 18, 1873. He spent several years of his
early life on the farm in Marple township, and his education was acquired in
the public schools of Cedar Grove and Media. Completing his studies at the
age of twelve years, he at once sought employment and secured work as an
operator with the Media Telephone Exchange. Later he became an office boy
for George Darlington and Horace Manley, attorneys remaining for one year,
and then entered the employ of William Campbell, proprietor of a grocery and
feed store, remaining four years, receiving a salary of one hundred dollars
yearly. Having obtained as thorough a knowledge of the grocery business as

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was possible under the circumstances, he spent a year in Philadelphia as man-
ager of a grocery establishment, returning to Media at the expiration of that
period of time. He then became outside collector and solicitor for the "Dela-
ware County Record," serving in that capacity for six years, during which time
he became well known as a perfect encyclopedia of information concerning
Delaware county, its road, villages, farms and people. He then engaged in the
grocerv business in Media, continuing in business until May, 1912, when he
disposed of the same, having been elected county treasurer the previous No-
vember, taking ofifice, January i, 1912. His market, to which he. later added a
meat department, was located on the corner of State and Orange streets. He
was highly successful in this enterprise, receiving an extensive pati'onage
which increased in volume and importance with each passing year. In .August,
1912, Mr. Westcott leased the Charter House, in Media, which under his cap-
able management has taken on a new lease of life, Mr. Westcott and his wife
doing all in their power to promote the comfort of their many guests and pa-
trons. There is no bar connected with the house, hence all their efforts are di-
rected to insuring clean rooms, good and comfortable beds, wholesome and
well cooked food, and every little attention which goes to make up an ideal
hotel. Mr. Westcott is a loyal Republican, active and prominent in local poli-
tics, and aside from the office of county treasurer, which he is filling to the sat-
isfaction of all concerned, he served for three years on the Republican county
committee. He is public-spirited and enterprising, and every movement in his
community which has for its object the betterment of the place finds in him a
hearty supporter. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, to
which he contributes liberally of his time and means.

Mr. Westcott married, on Thanksgiving Day. 1896, Clara J., daughter of
Hubert J. Riley, of Chester, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. They are the
parents of one son, Milton Riley, born August 16, 1898. Mrs. Westcott is a
member of the Episcopal church, and a helpmate to her husband in the broad-
est sense of the word.

An almost lifelong resident of Media, Mr. Westcott has there met his re-
verses and scored his successes. Known to more people than any other man
in the county, probably, he has been honored by them with the most important
office in their gift. From bovhood to the present he has lived an active, ener-
getic life, and by his own honorable exertions and moral attributes has
carved out for himself, affluence and position. By the strength and
force of his own character, he overcame obstacles which to others less
hopeful and less courageous would see unsurmountable, difficulties but
serving as an incentive to greater efforts. He is as well liked as well known,
and numbers his jiersonal friends by the hundreds and his acr|uaintances l)y the
thousands.

The Fronfields were early settlers of Montgomery county,
FRONFIELD Pennsylvania, and there Dr. iM-onfield's father, Joseph M.

Fronfield, was born. He was a miller and farmer, holding
the town offices of school director and justice of the i)eace for many years.
He was a member of the Episcopal church, while his wife Eliza (Rogers)
Fronfield, was a member of the Society of Friends (Hicksite), and of high
standing in the society. Joseph W. Fronfield died in March, 1897; his wife
died in April, 1892; and both arc buried in Oakland Cemetery, West Chester.
J. Harvey Fronfield was born in Phoenix ville, Chester county. May 31,
1859. He nrejiared for college in the ]niblic schools, finished the course, and
was graduated in 1876. He then entered the University of Michigan, taking a

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course in chemistry. Then he taught in the pubhc schools of Chester county
for five years, but abandoned that profession and began the study of medicine
in the office of Dr. Isaac Massey, of West Chester. He next entered the Medi-
cal Department of the University of Pennsylvania, whence he was graduated
M. D., class of 1883. Dr. Fronfield began to practice in Chester county near
White Horse, continuing there for five years. In the spring of 1888 he located in
Media, where he has since been in continuous practice for a period covering a
quarter of a century. His large practice, both medical and surgical, is general
in character, and his reputation as a skillful physician and surgeon, rests on
his many years of successful treatment of difficult cases. Dr. Fronfield is a
member of the American Medical Association, Pennsylvania State Medical
and Delaware County Medical societies, having served as president of the
county society. He also belongs to the Masonic order, the Independent Or-
der of Odd Fellows and the Spring Haven Country Club. Outside of his
private practice Dr. Fronfield has many public engagements. He is surgeon
for the Pennsylvania railroad, physician to the county jail, and examiner for
many insurance and fraternal organizations. In political faith he is a Democrat,
and he is an interested observer of public affairs.

Dr. Fronfield married, June g, 1887, Frances A., daughter of William H.
and Anna (Taylor) Pyle, of West Chester. Their only child, Marian, is a
graduate of Media High School, Swarthmore Preparatory School and Swarth-
more College. Mrs. Fronfield is a member of the Woman's Oub, and inter-
ested in the social life of Media. The family home is at the corner of Second
and Jackson streets, where Dr. Fronfield has his offices.

The name Allison occurs quite frequently among the Scotch-
ALLISON Irish, who settled in the southwestern part of Chester county,

Pennsylvania, from 1718 to 1740. Perhaps the most influential
person of the name, during the early period, was Rev. Francis Allison, D. D.,
born in 1705, in county Donegal, Ireland; educated at the University of Glas-
gow, Scotland : came to Pennsylvania in 1735 ; licensed as a Presbyterian min-
ister, 1735; soon afterward installed over the church in New London. Chester
county, remaining fifteen years: located in Philadelphia in 1752; was in charge
of an academy there : became vice-provost of the college, now University of
Pennsylvania, on its establishment, 1755: was professor of moral philosophy;
also assistant pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia; Yale
College conferred on him the degree of Master of Arts in 1756, and the L^ni-
versity of Glasgow that of Doctor of Divinity, 1758. It is said he was the
first clergyman in this country to receive the degree of D. D. He married
Hannah, daughter of James Armitage of New Castle. Delaware ; his death oc-
curred November 28, 1779.

The name was for many years a very prominent one among Philadelphia
matuifacturers, made so by the famed car builders. Murphy & Allison, suc-
ceeded by the still more noted W. C. Allison & Sons, and the Junction Car
W^orks and Flue Mill. The founder of this business, William C. Allison, was
born of Quaker parentage in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1817. When
six years of age his father died, and at ten years he was left an orphan, de-
pendent upon his own efforts. He obtained an education and a trade before
he was nineteen years of age, for at that age he established in business on P)road
street, near Vine, as a wheelwright and wagon builder. Hardly had he become
well established when the panic of 1837 occurred and made his undertaking a
more difficult one. He struggled along until 1841, when he was obliged to surren-
der along with many an older Philadelphia industry. But perhaps this failure

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was a blessing as it brought forth his latent strength and energy, and while it left
him penniless, it proved the man. He soon regained the lost ground and after
discharging every obligation against him, found himself with an established
reputation for integrity, that he ever afterward upheld. At about this time
there was a demand from railroads for rolling stock, he turned his attention to
car building. Having no blacksmith shop, he was obliged to depend on a neigh-
bor for iron work. This was John Murphy, with whom he later, in 185 1, en-
tered into partnership for the manufacture of cars, under the firm style Mur-
phy & Allison. They soon had a flourishing business and were in fact for
many years the only car builders in the state of Pennsylvania. They furnished
most of the work for the large transportation companies between Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh and for the West Chester road and the Germantown & Norris-
town railroad. After the completion of the Pennsylvania railroad and the al-
teration of the state road by which the termmus was fixed on ^^larket street,
Philadelphia, the firm of Murphy & Allison erected extensive shops on Market,
west of Nineteenth street, which they equipped with the most perfect machin-
ery for car building then obtainable. The demand for cars of all kinds was
enormous and the enlarged shops were run to fullest capacity. It was there
that the first really comfortable passenger cars were built, and the first sleep-
ing car constructed. An era of street car extension was then at hand and the
firm enlarged their business by entering into the manufacture of street cars.
In 185G they bought the Girard Tube Works on the Schuylkill, at Filbert street
wharf, and added the manufacture of butt welded gas and steam pipes to their
car building operations. There were but two other plants similar to the
Girard in the whole country, and the demand for pipes was enormous. In
May, 1863, their car building plant at Nineteenth and Market streets was de-
stroyed by fire, entailing a heavy loss upon the firm as they had on hand an
immense stock of material to be used in government contracts, as well as large
railroad orders, on which they could not, of course, make deliveries, but within
a fortnight they had extemporized a plant and were doing their best to meet
the demands being made on them. They leased for a time the large buildings
in West Philadelphia at Thirty-first and Locust streets, belong to the Archi-
tectural Iron Works Company, and within two months they were again building
cars. About this time they began the erection of a very large plant, later
known as the Junction Car ^^'orks and Flue Mill, covering ten acres in West
Philadelphia, between the tracks of the West Chester and Philadelphia and the
Connecting railway. This was during the dark days of the civil war and the
prospects were far from bright, but they persevered, and in 1864 occupied the
new works conceded to be the largest and best equipped in the country at that
time. The plant had a capacity of two passenger coaches, six city passenger
cars and thirty-five freight cars weekly, was run to full capacity. In 1866
they discontinued the building of passenger cars, but added a new branch, the
making of lap welded iron tubing for boiler flues and for oil well purposes, the
demand for both then being immense. The amount of business done was enor-
mous, particularly in the oil region, where the Allison tubing has gained the
highest reputation. The line required the erection of large additional buildings
and machinery, requiring nearly a year to complete and in the meantime the
firm was dissolved by the death of Mr. Murphy. A reorganization was quick-
ly effected, however, by the introduction of the two sons of William C. Alli-
son, J. W. and Thomas EUwood Allison, both of whom had been for several
years associated with their father in the varied business of Allison & Murphy.
They were now admitted as partners, the firm becoming William C. Allison &
Sons. The buildings were completed and a most prosperous business conducted
imtil July 25. 1872, when the fire fiend again exacted tribute, destroying almost

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the entire plant with its acres of buildings. The insurance of three hundred
thousand dollars, did not cover the actual loss, without taking into considera-
tion the great loss from interruption of business. The firm again returned to
their old quarters at Thirty-first and Locust streets, and there with inferior
facilities managed to continue manufacturing. Meanwhile they again rebuilt,
erecting more complete and more substantial buildings, and on May i, 1873,
occupied their new works and resumed business on a more extended scale than
heretofore. At the height of their prosperity, fifteen hundred men were em-
ployed, fourteen acres were occupied, more than seven acres of which were
covered with roofed buildings, and a train of twenty freight cars produced
each day. Over three miles of railroad tracks traversed the grounds on which
the company used their own locomotives, while a business of from five to six
millions of dollars was annually transacted in eighteen separate and distinct
departments. An idea of the magnitude of their business may be gained froiu
the fact that the works annually consumed twenty iriillion feet of lumber, sev-
enteen thousand tons of wrought iron, eight thousand tons of cast iron, four
hundred thousand pounds of brass, six hundred and seventy-five feet of tin,
eighty thousand gallons of oil, twenty thousand car axles, forty thousand car
wheels, fifteen hundred tons of bolts, nuts and washers, and five thousand kegs
of nails, with equally enormous amounts of raw material and supplies of a
varied nature. In addition to all their other industries, the firm in 1874 built
a large wharf on the east side of the Schuylkill, above the South street bridge,
capable of loading four vessels and several canal boats at the same time. Their
old plants connected with their jilant at Thirty-second and Chestnut streets,
and their lines, included besides those mentioned, lumber by the cargo, iron
works, forgings, bridge work and contractors supplies. The Allison boiler tub-
ing was rated so highly among engineers that in a few years no salesmen were
employed, the demand being so well established. William C. Allison continued
at the'head of the business until his death, November 30, 1891, after an active
business connection of over half a century. From the little wagon shop of
1837 he rose through sheer merit, energy and undaunted courage, to the head
of the then largest concern of its kind in the State. He established a new in-
dustry— car building — in his State, and left an impress on the tube industry
that neither trusts nor competition can ever efface ; a selfmade man and one
who, in every particular, was a credit to the city and State that claimed him
as a son.

Thomas Ellwood Allison, son of William C. Allison, was born, reared,
lived and died in the city of Philadelphia. He was well educated and early in
life became associated with his father, then junior member of the firm of
Murphy & Allison. He was employed in the various departtuents, and on the
death of Mr. Murphy, in 1866, he was so well qualified to assume large respon-
sibilities, that he was admitted, with his brother, as a partner, the firm re-or-
ganizing as William C. Allison & Sons. He bore with his father and brother
the burdens of the immense business, and proved most competent. He could
not, however, continue under the load of responsibility, and March 23, i88t, he
died from pneumonia. His father continued as president until 1891, when he
was succeeded by Frank Ross Tobey, the Allisons retiring. Thomas Ellwood
Allison married Florence Gregory, born in Philadelphia, who still survives him.

T. Ellwood Allison, only and posthumous child of Thomas Ellwood and
Florence (Gregory) Allison, was born in Philadelphia, June 29, 1881. He was
educated in the Hill School at Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and at the University
of Pennsylvania and is now a resident of Delaware county. Pennsylvania, with
offices in Media. He is largely engaged in handling Delaware county real estate
and is one of the energetic, useful young capitalists of that section. He is in-
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terested in piililic affairs, is generous and philanthropic in disposition and al-
ways willing to assist in those enterprises that promise to improve conditions
in his community. He is a member of the Masonic order; Phi Delta Theta
fraternity: a Republican in politics, and both he and his wife are members of
the Episcopal church. He married, June i, 1905, Eleanor K., daughter of Ed-
mund B. and Emily (Bailey) Aymar, of New York City and Philadelphia, re-
spectively. Children: T. Ellwood (2), Aymar K., and Eleanor M. Allison.
The family home is a beautiful mansion in Wallingford, Delaware county.

Work well performed may not always bring a visible reward to

SMITH the doer, but in the present instance the reward has followed

closely. A faithful teacher, A. G. Criswell Smith was elevated

to the liighest educational position under the public school system and for

twenty-six years has made Delaware county schools the paramount interest of

his life.

A. G. Criswell Smith was born near Cochranville, Chester county, Penn-
sylvania, September 16, 1853, son of Jesse Jackson and jMary M. Smith. He
was educated in the public schools of West Fallowfield township, Chester
county, at Hebron Hall in Cochranville and in a private school kept in his
father's house, known locally as the "Smithsonian Institute." He did not take
kindly to his father's occupation as farmer, but in 1873 began teaching, his first
school being in Sadsbury township, Lancaster county. Feeling the need of
better equipment for the teacher's profession, which he had decided to perma-
nently follow, he resigned his school in March and entered Millersville State
Normal School, whence he was graduated in June, 1876. The next year he
taught a school in East Donegal township, Lancaster county, then two years
in Highland township in Chester county. He resigned the latter position in
March, 1879, to accept the principalship of the Lansford borough schools in
Carbon county. He continued there, gaining experience and reputation until
1881, when he was elected principal of public schools in Media and moved to
that borough. After four years of successful service there he was elected
principal of the schools of Lower Chichester township in Delaware county and
in 1885 entered upon the duties of that position. He was not, however, long
allowed to continue, as in May, 1887, he was elected by the school directors of
Delaware county, superintendent of public instruction for a term of three
years. So well did he fill this position that he was again elected in 1890 and
has been reelected each succeeding three years until in 1914 he will complete
his ninth term as the able head of the county public school system.

With an ardent love for the profession of teaching, Air. Smith would
have risen, to perhaps greater heights, but it can safely be questioned whether
in any other field he could have been more genuinely useful. He has grown
with the schools of the county ; has led his teachers to higher planes of effi-
ciency; inspired school boards with a spirit of progressive interest that has re-
sulted in modern school buildings, modern equipment and modern methods in
every department. The work accomplished by Mr. Smith, through his school
boards and teachers is fully set forth in the chapter on education in this work.
He has proved "the right man in the right place" and all unite in his honor.
Besides his deserved prominence in his own county, he has a reputation state-
wide and is well know in educational circles through his work at national
educational conventions. He has not been a man of one idea but has taken
active interest in other departments affecting the public good. He has for years
been a director of the Media Loan and Savings .\ssociation, serving at one time
as its treasurer. He is a member of the Media Club and was a former treas-

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iirer and governor of the club. He is a volunteer fireman and has held the
highest civic honor Media can bestow, that of chief burgess.

He is a member of the Masonic order : is past master of George W.
Bartram Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, in which he was made a Mason
in February, 1882; is past high priest of Media Chapter, Royal Arch Masons;
past thrice illustrious master of Philadelphia Council, Royal and Select Mas-
ters and past puissant master of the Grand Council of Pennsylvania ; past emi-
nent commander of St. Alban Commandery, Knights Templar, of Philadelphia.
In Scottish Rite Masonry Mr. Smith has attained the highest honor that can be
bestowed in that rite. He secured the fourteenth degree and is a past thrice
potent master of Philadelphia Lodge of Perfection ; is past sovereign prince
(i6th degree) of De Joinville Council, Princes of Jerusalem, and Commander
in Chief of Philadelphia Sovereign Consistory, Sovereign Princes of the Royal
Secret (32nd degree). In T903 he secured the highest degree obtainable in
American Masonry, that of Sovereign Grand Inspector General 33rd degree
Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. At that time no other man had been honored
with this degree — perhaps as yet there is no other in the county. This degree
conferred upon him by the supreme council, held in Boston September 16,
1903, is never conferred except for valuable service rendered the order and
cannot be applied for, the Supreme Council selecting those who have earned
such distinction. Mr. Smith is also an Odd Fellow and a past noble Grand of
Kossuth Lodge.

He is a life-long member of the Presbyterian Church, having in early life
joined the Faggs Manor congregation. He is now a member of the Media
Church : has served as trustee, treasurer, member of sessions, clerk and sup-
erintendent of Sunday school. He has represented the church as commission-
er to the state synod and at the general assembly of the church. He has also
been active in county Sunday school work, serving upon the executive commit-
tee of the County Sunday School Association.

He married (first) September 9, 1879, Ada M. Davis, daughter of John
and Hannah E. Davis. She died in August, 1885, leaving two sons : Norman
Davis, born April i, 1882, now a practicing physician in Rutledge, Delaware
county ; H. Ross, September 6, 1884, now a teacher of mathematics in South-
ern High and Manual Training High schools of Philadelphia. Mr. Smith
married (second) December 8, 1887, Alice A., daughter of Isaac and Phoebe
Green, of Edgemont, Delaware county. Mr. Smith maintains his residence at
Media, but his time is largely spent visiting the different schools under his
supervision.

The Jack family, originally French Huguenots, escaped from
JACK France to Ireland, later coming to this country prior to the Revolu-
tion, in which one of the two Jack brothers served. The family
were associated with the growth and development of Chester county and Eas-
tern Pennsylvania and were people of prominence and wealth.

Josiah Jack, father of Dr. Louis Jack, was born in Chester county, was
there educated, grew to manhood, married and became a contractor and build-
er. About 1840 he moved to Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he continued
in the same business until 1849, then joined a party of gold seekers, crossed the
plains to California, where he remained eighteen years. He returned East in
1867 totally blind from a disease of the eyes. In the meantime his family had
returned to Chester county, where he joined them, dying soon after his return.
His wife, Elizabeth (Foster) Jack, died in 1869, leaving six children, two hav-
ing died in infancy.

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Dr. Louis Jack, eldest child of Josiah and Elizabeth (Foster) Jack, was
born in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 26, 1832, and is the
last survivor of his immediate family. He was a lad of about eight years
when his parents moved to Beaver county, settling in the town of Rochester,
where he attended the public schools and Beaver Academy. At age of nineteen
years he came to Philadelphia to begin the study of dentistry, a profession
upon which his ambition had decided. He entered the Philadelphia Dental
College and in 1854 was graduated wnth the degree of D.D.S. He at once
began practice, choosing Philadelphia as a location and there remained three
years. In 1857 he located in Germantown, wdiere he practiced seven years,
then returned to Philadelphia where he continued in active practice until
1908, then retired after a continuous practice of fifty-four years. After grad-
uation he was private coach and tutor in the college for two years until the
demands of his practice consumed all his time. He rose in his profession,
wrote and delivered many addresses in the various professional societies to
which he belonged and was a recognized exponent of advanced dentistry and
anaesthetics. He belonged to the City, Stale and National Dental Societies
and served a term as president of the State Society. He still retains a lively
interest in matters pertaining to the profession in which he was so long a prom-
inent figure. Flis friends were legion outside his profession, his culture,
learning and genial nature winning and holding the friendship of men of
similar tastes. He is a Republican in politics, and in religion is a member
of the Church of the New Jerusalem. (In March 15, 1909, he left the old
Philadeljihia home and took up his residence in that delightful suburb of
Media, Moylan Park, his home being one of the most attractive in that locality.

Dr. Jack married (first) December 25, 1855, Thankful, daughter of Sam-
uel Corbus, of Beaver county, Pennsylvania. Children : Arthur G., of Ches-
ter, Pennsylvania ; Elizabeth, married Giarles C. Shoemaker, of New Mexi-
co; L. Foster, now a dentist in Philadelphia; Mary Margaret, married Owen
Shoemaker, of Philadelphia: Anna C, married Dr. Frank R. Smith, of Balti-
more, Maryland. The mother of these children died September 16, 1867. Dr.
jack married (second) July 20, 1870, Caroline, daughter of Charles and
Rachel Shoemaker, of Baltimore, Maryland. Charles Shoemaker was a teach-
er in select schools for many years ; a member of the Society of Friends-
(Hicksite) and resided until his death in Baltimore; children by second mar-
riage : three who died in infancy and Charles Shoemaker Jack, now a practic-
ing dentist of Philadelphia, but residing in Media.

Full of years and honors, Dr. Jack is spending his latter years in the en-
joyment of his beautiful country home and in the knowledge of a life well
spent. The success of his sons in the same profession is most gratifying to
him and should their fame ever eclipse that of their honored father, he will be
loudest in his congratulations.

Dr. Charles Shoemaker Jack, son of Dr. Louis Jack, was born at
JACK the family residence, No. 1533 Locust street, Philadelphia, Sep-
tember 4, 1874. His boyhood was spent at Arden farm near Media,
obtaining his preparatory education in the public schools, Penn Charter and
Dclancy Academy in Philadelphia, a graduate of the latter institution, class of
189^. lie then entered as a student the college department of the University
of Pennsylvania, whence he was graduated, class of 1897. He began the prac-
tice of dentistry at 1533 Locust street, Philadelphia. He is a member of
the National, State and City Dental Societies, and in political faith an inde-

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pendent Republican. His clubs are the Racquet of Philadelphia, the Rose Tree
Hunt of Media and the Spring Haven Country of Wallingford.

Dr. Jack married, June 4. 1902, Mary Miller Lewis, born in Media,
Pennsylvania, January 22, 1874, and now resides in the same house in which
she was born. " She is the only child of George Miller Lewis, born in Spring-
field township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, died in INIedia, November 2,
1904, a member of the stone quarrying firm of Leiper & Lewis. He married
Sarah Brooke, who survives him, aged sixty-three years, a daughter of H.
Jones and Jemima Elizabeth ( Longmire) Brooke. George M. Lewis was a
son of John Reese and Nancy (Miller) Lewis. Children of Dr. Charles S.
and Mary M. Jack: Sarah Lewis, born October 13, 1905: Mary Miller, J^Iarch
II, 1910.

The Taylor family, represented in the present generation by
TAYLOR William' Taylor, a member of the Delaware county bar, suc-
cessfully engaged in the practice of his profession in Media,
where he is well known and highly esteemed, is one of the old ones in the
state of Pennsylvania, and has been prominent in professional life, a number
of the members of the family having, been closely identified with the public
affairs of the communities in which they have resided.

(I) William Taylor, son of Israel Taylor, was born in Aston township,
Delaware county, Pennsylvania, on a farm where Wawa is now situated. He
was engaged in farming in Edgemont township, on "Castle Rock" farm, as the
old homestead was called, where he died in his eighty-sixth year. He was an
active worker in the interests of the Republican party, and served his com-
munity as county supervisor and as school director. He and his wife were
members of the Society of Friends. He married Mary Marshall. Children:
Caleb M., of whom further: William H., married Eliza Malin : Anna M., mar-
ried Joshua E. Hibbcrd : Eliza, died young. William H. is now deceased.

(II) Caleb Marshall, son of William and Mary (Marshall) Taylor, was
born in Willistown township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, August 23, 1837.
He was reared in Edgemont township, and was educated in the public schools,
and at Foulkes' Boarding School, Gwynedd, Montgomery county, Pennsyl-
vania. He now resides in West Chester, where for the past twenty years he
has been engaged in surveying and conveyancing. He has been firm in his
allegiance to the Republican party, and for many years served as school direc-
tor in Edgemont township. Mr. Taylor married Susan Wilson, born in White
Marsh township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, daughter of Benjamin
and Ann (Wilson) Jones, the former, who died at the age of seventy-six years,
having been a farmer. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor: Anna, married Wil-
liam P. Davis; Eliza, died in infancy; Wilson J., went west, where he died
May 26, 1909; George Maris, who died at the age of twenty-one years; Wil-
liam, of whom further ; J. Hibberd, married Lydia W. Foulke ; Caleb Marshall
Jr., married Jane Bentley.

(III) William (2),' son of Caleb Marshall and Susan Wilson (Jones)
Taylor, was born in Edgemont township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, Oc-
tober 17, 1875. His early years were spent in Edgemont townshi]), where he
attended the public schools, and he was also a pupil in the Friends' School,
Newtown Square, and in the George School, Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
from which he was graduated in the class of 1896. .\fter clerking for a few
years he took up the study of law in the office of Isaac F. Johnson, under
whose competent preceptorship he was prepared for admission to the bar of

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his native county, and since the year 1903 he has been engaged successfully in
independent practice in Media, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. His success
has been largely due to his own efiforts and abilities, and his standing at the
bar is of recognized credit. Public-spirited to a noteworthy degree, he is ever
foremost in the advocacy and support of every movement that tends to ad-
vance the best material welfare of his borough, or that is calculated to promote
the common interests of the community at large. Personallv he is a man of
profound legal understanding and marked intellectual strength, coupled with
qualities and attainments that render him a pleasant companion and which
have served to make him many lasting friendships both in professional and
social life. He has taken an active part in the councils of the Republican party,
and has been a member of the Republican county committee for the past two
years. His fraternal affiliations are as follows:' George W. Bartram Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a past master; Media Chapter^
Royal Arch Masons; Media Club. He and his wife, as well as his parents,
are members of the Society of Friends.

Mr. Taylor married, June 6, 1906, Ellen Williams Haines, born in New-
town township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, August 17, 1878, daughter of
Amos W. and :Martha H. (Williams) Haines, the former of whom was born
in New Jersey, died in Media, Pennsylvania, and the latter was born in \Miite
Marsh township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and they were the par-
ents of three children: Charles, died young; Ellen Williams, mentioned above;
Hannah W., married :\Iaurice C. Alichener. Amos W. Haines farmed for
several years in Newtown township, and later was a merchant in Aledia. con-
ducting his business under the firm name of Haines & Williams. Children of
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor : Haines Marshall, born June 27, 1908 : \Mlliam Jr., Sep-
tember 25, 1909; Eleanor Williams, January i, 1912.

No name perhaps is better known in our country, certainlv not in
JAYNE Pennsylvania, than that of Jayne, through their long connection
with the ministry, medicine and science. The family was founded
in Connecticut by William Jayne, born in Bristol, England, from whom the late
Dr. Horace Jayne descended through his son, William (2) Jayne, born in
Connecticut, where his grandson, Ebenezer, was a Baptist minister and the
father of Dr. David Jayne, founder of the world famous Jayne lemedies.

Rev. Ebenezer Jayne was educated for the ministry of tlie Baptist Qiurch,
and in addition to his eminence in his holy calling was the author of a Baptist
hymn book and of various polemical essays.

Dr. David Jayne, son of Rev. Ebenezer Javne, was born in Alonroe county,
Pennsylvania, July 22, 1799, died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 5,
1866. He spent his early life in Pennsylvania and New York, obtaining his
early education in the public schools. After graduating from the University
of Pennsylvania he practiced his profession in Salem. New Jersey, where his
father was minister of the Baptist Church, and later in Philadelphia, about
1830 he began to manufacture and sell on a large scale the cough medicine
he had prescribed in his own practice, now known as Jayne"s "Expectorant."
From the profits derived. Dr. Jayne began the erection "of a large building for
office purposes in Philadelphia, commencing in 1849 and before his death had
erected several large buildings of marble and granite that bore his name. He
is said to have been the first manufacturer to publish almanacs as an advertising
medium and these he printed in all the modern languages of Europe and Asia,
<!ven including some of the minor dialects of India. He possessed wonderful

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capacity, combining with the skill of a trained physician, the qualities necessary
to the executive management of his large business. In political faith he was a
Whig, later a Republican, and in religion adhered to the Baptist Church. He-
was thrice married ; his third wife, Hannah Fort, born in Burlington, New-
Jersey, being the mother of Dr. Horace Jayne, Bertha, who died in infancy,
"and a' son Henry La Barre, born in 1857, now an attorney of Philadelphia, who
married Elizabeth Matthews of Boston and resides at No. 1035 Spruce street.
Mrs. Hannah (Fort) Jayne died in Philadelphia, May 15, 1904.

Dr. Horace Jayne, second son and third child of Dr. David and Hannah
(Fort) Jayne, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1859, where
his early life was spent. He prepared in private schools, was graduated from
the University of Pennsylvania, A. B., class of 1879, then entering the medical
department of the University, was graduated ]\I. D., class of 1882. He went
to Europe the same year and continued during 1883 the study of biology at
the University of Leipsic and at Jena, under the great scientist, Heckel. Re-
turning to the United States, he studied at Johns Hopkins University, 1883
and 1884. During his college years, Dr. Jayne won honors; was junior orator
of his class, and vice-president of the Franklin Scientific Society and in the
medical school was awarded the Henry C. Lea prize for the best graduation,
these also taking the Anomaly prize.

In 1883 he began his long connection with the University of Pennsylvania
as an instructor, being first appointed assistant instructor in biology. In 1884
he became professor of vertebrate morphology, continuing until 1894; secre-
tary of the faculty of biology from 1884 to 1889: director of Wistar Institute
of .\natomy and Biology from 1894 to 1905, and dean of the college faculty
from 1889 to 1894. He was an authority on human and mammalian anatomy
and the author of many works of a scientific nature, including "Monstrosities
in North American Coleoptera," "Revision of the Dermeotidae of North
America," "Notes on Biological Subjects," "Origin of the Fittest,"' "Mammal-
ian Anatomy" (1889) and numerous contributions to the scientific journals.

He was a Fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Philadelphia,
and ot the American Association for the Advancement of Science ; was a mem-
ber of the American Philosophical Society; The Philadelphia Academy of
Natural Science ; The Society of American Naturalists ; The American Ento-
mological Society ; The American Academy of Political and Social Science ;
The Franklin Institute of Philadelphia: a trustee of Drexel Institute; a direc-
tor of ilie Academy of Music of Philadelphia, and president of the Free Li-
brary of Wa'linglord. He was contributing editor of "The Journal of Mor-
phology," "The Anatomical Record" and "The Journal of Exp. Zoology." His
clubs were the University and Rittenhouse of Philadelphia, botii of which he
served as treasurer.

Dr. layne married, October 10, 1894, Caroline Avgusta Furnc:.^, born
January 3, 1873, died June 23, 1909, daughter of Horace Howard Furness,
Ph.D., LL.D., L. D. D., the greatest of modern ShaK-es])crian scholars ; chil-
dren : Kate Furness, born July 29, 1895 ; Horace Howard Furness, June 9,
1898, both attending private schools in Philadelphia.

Dr. Jayne, who was eminent in the world of science, was a most kindly
approachable man, numbering as his most devoted friends those of lowly life
who served him with a willingness that can only come from unselfish regard.
He held the honorary degree of Ph.D., conferred by Franklin and Marshall
College in 1893. He died July 9, 1913.

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The Leedom family, of wliicli Jo.se])h B. Leedom of Media,
LEEDOM Delaware county, Pennsylvania, is a member, were among the
pioneer settlers of the State in various sections, and their en-
ergy contributed greatly to its prosperity.

(I) John Leedom, who was born in 1 Sucks county, Pennsylvania, settled
in Merion township, Montgomery county. Pennsylvania, where he was engaged
in farming, and there his death occurred in 1842'. Two of his brothers, Daniel
and Edward, settled in Delaware county, in the same state, and founded the
homestead in Upper Darby. John Leedom married Elizabeth Bond, and had
children: Charles: Joseph B., see forward; John; Elizabeth: Samuel; Esther;
Ruth Anna.

(II) Joseph B., son of John and Elizabeth (Bond) Leedom, was born in
Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, in March, 1796. died in March, 1864. He
was brought up on a farm, and engaged in farming operations until the year
1828, at which time he became identified with the milling industry, operating a
saw and grist mill on Darby creek, in Haverford townshi]x Political matters
interested him to a certain degree, and he was a fairly influential factor in the
local councils of the Whig party, and later in those of the Republican party.
His religious affiliations were with the .'Society of Friends, to which his ances-
tors had also belonged, and he was an elder in the Hicksite meeting house.
Mr. Leedom married Mary Maris, who died in August, 1865, at the age of
seventy-nine years, a daughter of Elisha Worrell, of Springfield township,
Delaware county, Pennsylvania. Children, all deceased except Joseph : Myra
W,, married Charles M. Worrell; John, married Hannah Worrell; Maris ^^'.,
married Elvira Clark ; Joseph, see forward.

(III) Joseph, son of Joseph B. and Mary Maris (Worrell) Leedom, was
born in Haverford township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, January 2, 1827.
His early years were spent on the homestead farm, his elementary education
being acquired in the public schools, this being su]iplemented by attendance at
the Friends' .School conducted by Joseph Faulk, in Montgomery county. He
learned the milling trade under the personal supervision and direction of his
father, succeeding him in this business and becoming associated with his broth-
ers in a partnership. Later he operated the grist mill independently. He pur-
chased a farm near Manoa, Haverford township, in 1868, and up to the pres-
ent time has been engaged in farming. He has been a staunch upholder of
the principles of the Republican ])arty and, while of a modest and retiring dis-
position, has had a number of public offices thrust upon him. For a period of
twenty years he served as a member of the school board ; was treasurer of the
West Chester turnpike for twenty years and director of the poor, thirteen
years. He and his wife are members of the Hicksite Friends' Church, the
Haverford Meeting House, which \\'illiam Penn was accustomed to attend
when he came out from Philadelphia. He married, in 1852. Emily, daughter
of Jonathan and Naoma (Parsons) Pyle, the former a stone mason in Haver-
ford, where he died at the age of eighty-four years. Mrs. Leedom was born
August 30, 1826, and is still in the enjoyment of excellent health. Tonathan
Pyle and his wife had children: Rebecca, married Lewis Worrell: William,

married Susan ; Thomas, married Elizabeth Moore; Emily, married

Mr. Leedom, as mentioned above; Phoebe, died unmarried: .A-nna, married
Hebbert Barrett. Mr. and Mrs. Leedom had children: .Amanda R., who died
untnarried at the age of twenty-one years ; \\'illiam P., is a farmer in Haver-
f<M-d, and married Louisa Enoch, and had two sons, Harry T. and Ehvood B.,
the latter deceased; Joseph B., sec forward; George Touman, dietl at the age
of sixteen years ; John L., is a farmer in lT])])er Darby, and married Elizabeth

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Hart ; Walter L., deceased, married Zaidee Thomberry, and had Emily Pru-
dence. Mary T., Dorothy.

(IV) Joseph B. (2), son of Joseph and Emily (Pyle) Leedom, was born
in Haverford township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, April 25, 1858. He
attended the public schools of his native township, and resided there until he
had attained the age of thirty-five years. Upon the completion of his educa-
tion he was apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade, and hom that branched
out into the contracting line in which he was engaged in Haverford from
1886 until 1892. In the latter year he came to Media, having been appointed
to the office of clerk in the office of the recorder of deeds, John H. Kerkin,
then served in the same capacity under Dr. Young. From 1898 until 1904
Mr. LeeJom was assistant postmaster of Media, Harriet Gault being postmis-
tress. In 190.1, undt r .\. J. Dalton, he entered upon his office as deputy pro-
thonota'-v, an office he is still filling in a very efficient and capable manner.
He has always been a staunch sujiporter of the Republican party, and his re-
ligious faith is that of the Baptist denomination. He is a member of the fol-
lowing organizations : Cassia Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Ardmore,
Pennsylvania; ^ledia Republican Club; Media Fire and Hook and Ladder
Company, of which he has been the treasurer for a long period of time.

Mr.' Leedom married, October 14, 1885, L. Emma, born February 11,
1863, daughter of Charles B. and Mary (Haskins) Tyson, of Newtovvn town-
ship. The former, who is a farmer, was born in Middletown township, while
his wife was a native of Chester county, and they had children : Elsworth, un-
married, is a salesman in New York, where he also resides ; L. Emma, men-
tioned above: IMary H., lives in Media, married George Regester, a general
agent; William, unmarried, lives in Morristown, Pennsylvania; Lucy, unmar-
ried, lives in Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Leedom have had children: Mary
Ethel, born August 14, 1886: Joseph, Jr., born April 12, 1888; Ira T., born
in November, tSqi, died June i, 1896: Anna W., born November 22, 1904.

This family has been identified with some of the most im-
PARLETTE portant interests of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, and its

various members have always shown a public spirit in all
matters concerning the welfare of the community in which they have lived,
which has been highly commendable. The name would indicate that this fam-
ily is of French origin, and they are probably descended from the French
Huguenots, many of whom sought and found refuge in this country.

(I) George W. Parlette was born near Baltimore, Maryland, March 7,
1807, and died in South Media, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, in 1888. He
was a farmer by occupation, and the greater part of his life was spent in Har-
ford county, Maryland. He married Ariel Standeford and they had children :
Elizabeth, born December 25, 1837, died July 31, 1862; David Oliver, born
February 25, 1839, died in 1912: Dennis Standeford, born April 25, 1840;
George W., born May 23, 1842, lives in South Media; William Henry, see
forward ; Hannah Ann, born January 2, 1846, now deceased ; Zachariah Tay-
lor, and Winfield Scott, twins, born May 19, 1847, W. Scott, deceased: James
W., born March 19, 1849; Cordelia S., born July 11, 1850: Claudius Richard,
born January 28, 1855. Mrs. Parlette died in 1893. She and her husband were
members of the Methodist church.

(II) William Henry, .son of George W. and Ariel (Standeford) Par-
lette, was born in Harford county, Maryland, March 18, 1843, ^nd died in
South Media, Pennsylvania, in November. 1882. His childhood was spent in
Harford county, and it was there that he learned his trade as a wheelwright.

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About 1870 he located in \^'ilmington, Delaware, and lived there about teiv
years. He then removed to South Media, Delaware county, Pennsylvania,
where he was identified with his trade until his early death. ' He had' a shop
at Hinkson Corners, which was destroyed by fire in 1881. He then estab-
lished a shop in Media, on the same site and in the same building as the present
post office, where he carried on his business until his death. Mr. Parlette
married Margaret, born in Wilmington, Delaware, 1850, died in Philadelphia,
1907, a daughter of Benjamin Franklin AlcDaniel, a millwright in Lee's Mills,
A\'ilmington, Delaware, where he died in 1856. She had one brother, Benja-
min Franklin McDaniel, Jr., who lives in Wilmington. Children of Mr. and
Mrs. Parlette: Frank M., unmarried, lives in Philadelphia; William P., un-
married, lives in Media; H. Leslie, see forward; Willard A., married, lives in
Philadelphia ; May, died in infancy.

(HI) H.' Leslie, son of William Henry and Margaret (McDaniel) Par-
lette, was born in Wilmington, Delaware, March 19, 1877. He was a very
young child when his parents removed to Media, Delaware county, Pennsyl-
vania, and he there attended the public schools. He completed his education'in
Upper Providence School No. i. He commenced his business career at the
early age of eleven years becoming clerk in a grocery store, a position he re-
tained for one year. He then worked two years in the mills at Rose Valley and
at the age of fourteen years began an apprenticeship in a blacksmith's shop in
Media where he remained seven years and then entered the employ of J. W..
Moyer & Company, who were engaged in the manufacture of Overhead Tram-
rail Systems. He remained with this concern for a period of four years, at
which time they went out of business. He then established himself in Wash-
ington, District of Columbia, later making his headquarters in Baltimore, Mary-
land, and after he had completed all of his contracts in and around that city^
he shipped his equipment to Media, Pennsylvania, opened a factory there in
1905, and has since been located in that place. Some of the important con-
tracts he has been called upon to engineer have been Cuba ; South America ;
Baltimore ; Washington, District of Columbia ; Racine, Wisconsin ; Houston,
Texas ; Charleston, West Virginia ; Hartford and Bridgeport, Connecticut ;
Concord, New Hampshire. The goods are now made in Media and shipped
all over the country, being used in abattoirs, factories, etc., wherever heavy
shifting is done. In political matters Mr. Parlette favors the Republican
party, and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church.

Mr. Parlette married, February 4, 1903, Elizabeth, born in Manayunk,
Pennsylvania, April 3, 1876, a daughter of Llewellyn Clevenger, Sr., a native
of Philadelphia, who died in South Aledia, October 11, 1907; he was a carder
in a woolen mill, and married Mary Smith, who was born in Shrewsbury,
York county, Pennsylvania. They had children: Elizabeth, mentioned above;
.Vlgernon, married Mamie Wetzel; L. M., married Edith Harrison Black;
Oliver, married Mae A'laridith ; Albirdic. (lied unmarried; Annie; John; Lou-
ise; Lettie. Mr. and Mrs. Parlette have had children: H. Leslie, Jr., born'
March 31, 1904; Elizabeth, born December 3, 1905; Llewellyn, born August 2,.
1907; William H., born December 28, 1908; Robert W., born January n, 1910.

From North of Ireland ancestry comes John B. Robinson,
ROBINSON eminent lawyer, state senator and L^nited States marshal,

now a resident of Media, Pennsylvania. He is a grandson
of General William Robinson, a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, the
first mayor of .Allegheny City, after its corporation (now Pittsburgh, North
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Commissioner in 1842, a man thoroughly respected and honored. He is said
to have been the first white child born north and west of the Ohio river, and
died 1868.

W'ilHam O'Hara, son of General William Robinson, was a leading lawyer
of Pittsburgh and, in 1844. was United States district-attorney for the West-
ern District of Pennsylvania

John Buchanan, son of William O'Hara Robinson, was born in Allegheny
City, Pennsylvania, May 23, 1846. He attended the private schools in Pitts-
burgh, entered Western University, finishing at Amherst College. In 1862
he attached himself to Captain Riddle's company of the 15th Pennsylvania
Emergency Regiment, and in 1864 enlisted in the active service. But the
family already had two sons at the front, one of whom. Captain William'
O'Hara Robinson, was killed at the battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864,.
and through the influence of his grandfather. General Robinson, John B. was
released from service, much against his wish. As compensation he was ap-
pointed a cadet of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, by Congress-
man Thomas Williams, and sworn into service for eight years. He was grad-
uated four years later in 1868, and was engaged in active sea duty until 1875,
when he resigned, having risen to the rank of lieutenant. During his naval
experience he visited nearly every country. He was three times in Europe,
• sailed around the world in the flag ship "Colorado," flying the pennant of Rear
■Admiral Rodgers. He was in Japan at the time of the American expedition
to Corea, in which Lieutenant McKee and a number of sailors and marines
lost their lives in the attack on the Corean forts located along the Hong river.
In that same year, 1871, in company with Lieutenant Chipp (afterward lost
with the Jeannette Polar expedition) Lieutenant Robinson was on the United
States steamer "Monocacy," commanded by Captain McCrea, engaged on the
hydrographic survey of the Yang-tse river. In the same year, as navigating
officer of the United States sloop of war "Idaho," commanded by Captain J.
Crittenden Watson, he went through the exciting dangerous experience of a
typhoon, which nearly sunk the "Idaho," although at anchor in Yokohama
harbor. While in Japan, Lieutenant Robinson was one of a company of
United States naval officers accorded an interview with the hitherto rigidly
exclusive Mikado of Japan, the interview having been arranged by Sir Henry
Parkes, K.C.B., British minister to Yeddo, in defiance of precedent. In
.August, 1871, Lieutenant Robinson, with a party of .American officers, made
the ascent of Fieji-Yama, the famous mountain peak of Japan, and accur-
ately measured its height by instruments. Returning to the United States
he served in 1873 on the Great Lakes on the steamer "Michigan," and in the
fall of that year was ordered to New York as watch officer on the "Juniata."
Later he sailed in the "Juniata" under sealed orders which proved to be to
proceed to Santiago de Cuba and peremptorily demand the surrender of
American citizens seized on the "Virginius" by the .Spanish authorities. ( )n
January I, 1875, ^.iter eleven years service, Lieutenant Robinson retired from
the naval service, his resignation having been handed in the previous year.

He returned to Pennsylvania and began the study of law under John G.
Johnson in Philadelphia. In 187G he was admitted to the Philadelphia bar.
and in 1878 removed to Delaware county, where he was admitted to the bar of
that county, and in the same year was admitted to practice in the Supreme
Courts of Pennsylvania. He advanced rapidly in his profession, and as senior
counsel for the defence in the case of Samuel Johnson, a colored man, charged
with the murder of John Sliarpless, he won a state-wide fame. This is one of
the celebrated cases in Pennsylvania reports and was heard on appeals through
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this case with sucli ability and pertinacity argued with such eloquence, that he
saved the hfe of his client. Along with the practice of his profession Mr.
Robinson has carried a burden of official political responsibility. In 1884 he
was elected to the state legislature from Delaware county, was re-elected two
years later, and prominently mentioned for speaker. He was in the thick of
the fray in the House, making many noted speeches, particularly his anti-dis-
crimination speech, his speech against Governor Pattison's veto of the indigent
soldiers' burial bill, and his speech in favor of an increase in the length of
school terms, which resulted in passing the bill. In 1888 he was a candidate
for renomination to the House, Ijut was defeated. In the following campaign
he was on the stump for his successful rival, and later was engaged bv the
Republican National Committee as a speaker in New York, Connecticut and
New Jersey. In 1889 he secured the nomination for state senator from the
Ninth senatorial district, winning the honor on the first ballot over Jesse M.
Baker, James Watts Mercur and Geoffrey P. Denis. In this contest he was
antagonized by the liquor interests and by those controlling federal patron-
age. He led a successful fight, and as the "People's Candidate" completely
changed the complexion of the old time Re])ublican rule in the county, also
establishing himself as a leader in state politics. He won over his Democratic
competitor by 1559 majority, and served with great honor as senator. JMr.
Robinson is one of the most trenchant and vigorous political leader-writers in"
his state, and both pen and voice have often spoken in aid of great
reformatory measures. Staunchly Republican, he is not so partisan as to
smother independence, nor is he in the slightest degree a demagogue. He has
opposed men and measures in his own party and has always had the support
of the voters of his district in a large degree. As a speaker he is logical and
•convincing, often rising to the heights of true eloquence. He has delivered many
memorable addresses on "Memorial Day" in different cities, and one yet spoken
of in praise was delivered at the reunion of the veterans of the 97th Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers in November, 1889. He has also gained success as a writer.
While in the naval service he wrote a series of brilliant letters for the "Com-
mercial Gazette" of Pittsburgh, and has since been a frequent and welcome
contributor to the leading New York and Philadelphia journals. In 1881-82
he was chief editorial writer for the "Delaware County Gazette," of Chester,
then owned by August Donath In the winter of 1880, Mr. Robinson made
his first essay on the lecture platform, beginning a career of success that
brought him into prominence as a lecturer

Mr. Robinson is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows:
the American Protestant Association : Knights of Pythias ; Order of Chosen
Friends ; Knights of the Golden Eagle ; Improved Order of Red Men ; Inde-
pendent Order of Mechanics: Bradbury Post, No. 149. Grand Army of the
Republic, of which he was elected commander in 1884; and holds member-
ships in various other societies. A man of fine natural talents, developed in
contact in political and professional life with the best association, blessed with
a comprehensive education greatly e.\'teiidcd by foreign travel, Mr. Robinson
has used his gifts wisely and well. He illustrates in his own life the peculiar
characteristics of the best birthright of the best type of American citizen, the
ability to succeed in political and professional life without resource to trick-
ery. After a public and professional life of nearly forty years, Mr. Robinson,
' from the heights of success, can truly say that every step of his way has been
honestly won, and that principle was never sacrificed for sordid gain. Since
1901 he has held the position of United States marshal in the I'liiladclphia
District.

Lieutenant Rubinson nijirried in St. Louis, Missouri, October 29, 1874.

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Elizabeth Waddingham, daugliter of Charles L. Gilpin, then of St. Louis,
Missouri, granddaughter of Mayor Charles Gilpin, of Philadelphia, a lineal
descendant of Joseph Gilpin, of Dorchester, Oxfordshire. England, who came
to Pennsylvania in 1696. settling in Birmingham. Delaware county. Joseph
Gilpin was of the sixteenth generation from Richard de Gueylpin. who had a
grant in the reign of King John (1206) of the estate of Kentmore. in the
county of Westmoreland, England. By the union of Mr. Robinson and Miss
Gilpin there were seven children born, four of whom survive: Mrs. Elizabeth
Wyckoff, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Mrs. Adele Gilpin Miller and Mrs.
Helen Robinson Anderson and Miss Mildred Robinson, the three last named
of Media, Pennsylvania. These children through their mother trace through
twenty-one recorded generations of Gilpins to the days of Magna Charta.
The family home of the Robinsons, the "Gayley." is in Media. Pennsylvania.

Besides the before named offices held by Mr. Robinson, he was appointed
by President McKinley, May ist. 1900, L'nited States marshal for the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania, was reappointed in 1905 by President Roosevelt,
and again reappointed in 1912, by President Taft, and served until December
1st, 1913, when he was succeeded by Frank S. Xoonan. a Democrat appointed
by President Wilson, in flagrant violation of all civil service reform and his
own civil service professions. During the time Mr. Robinson was marshal,
he was elected a national delegate to the Republican Convention in 1908, which
nominated Mr. Taft for president. Of other offices held by Mr. Robinson
was the presidency of the Republican League of Clubs of Pennsylvania, dur-
ing the years 1891-1802 and 1893, succeeding the first president of the league,
Hon. Edwin S. Stuart. He has been a candidate for minor offices, among
those for lieutenant-governor of the State in 1S94, being defeated for the nom-
ination, although electing ninety-seven delegates against the combined oppo-
sition of all the prominent leaders of the party in the commonwealth. He was
an unsuccessful applicant for the position of assistant secretary of the navy
In 1897, the president, Mr. McKinley, appointed Theodore Roosevelt through
cinnati, Ohio.

During Mr. Robinson's service in congress he was on the Columbian
Exposition Committee and the Naval Committee, and twice was a member, by
appointment of the speaker, to the board of visitors to the Naval Academy
at Annapolis, Maryland. In 1896 in this position he was president of the
the influence of Mrs. Bellamy Storer, one of the Longworth family of Cin-
board, and delivered the annual address at the commencement of the graduat-
ing class. His public record. State and National, covers a period of over forty
years, and he is yet, although a private citizen, one of the most active and in-
fluential of the Republican leaders of the county of Delaware, and the state
in whigh he resides.

This branch of the Brown family was for many years seated in
BROWN Yorkshire, England, and while on a visit to the old family home,

Arthur Brown occupied the seat in church that for fifty years
had been his grandfather's. This old gentleman, Benjamin Brown, never left
his native shire, both he and his wife living there until a good old age, leaving
issue.

George Brown, son of Benjamin Brown, was born in Yorkshire, England,
October 21, 1831, and there received in private schools of high degree, a liberal
education. He became a woolen manufacturer of England and on coming to
the United States, established in the same business in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
where after a successful business life he yet resides aged eighty-three years.

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He espoused the Tory cause in England and in Lancaster became a supporter
of the Republican party, serving as city councilman. His wife, Esther Beard-
sal, was the daughter of a Yorkshire woolen manufacturer; children: Thom-
as, married .Mary Horrtn-k and resides in Mount Joy, Lancaster county; Ar-
thur, of whom further ; Walter, married Izella Garside ; Sarah, married Jo-
seph Battye, whom she survives; Benjamin, married Annie Henry; Emma,
married John Zellers ; George, married Annie Keller ; Annie, married .\braham
Shelley, whom she survives ; Elmer, married Sarah Heilig, deceased ; Lily, died
unmarried. The living all reside in Mount Joy, Lancaster county. The mother
died in Philadelphia, aged thirty-eight years, a member of the Established
Church of England ; Mr. Brown is a vestryman.

Arthur Jjrown, son of George and Esther (Beardsal) Brown, was born in
Yorkshire, England, August 25, 1857. He was brought to this country when
an infant by his parents, who after a brief residence in Trenton, New Jersey,
moved to L'pper Darby township, Delaware county, thence to Mount Joy, Lan-
caster county, Pennsylvania. Arthur Brown began his education in the public
schools of Upper Darby at age five years, continuing and finishing at the Epis-
copal academy, Juniper and Locust streets, Philadelphia. He began working
in his father's woolen mill, continuing until thoroughly mastering the details of
woolen manufacture. He then in association with his brothers, Thomas and
Walter, founded a corporation known as (ieorge Brown's Sons, establishing
their mills in Gcrmantown, Philadelphia, where for four years they continued
successful manufacturers of woolen goods. They then moved to Mount Joy,
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where their main plant is now located. They
established a branch mill at Lenni, Pennsylvania, which is under the direct
management of Arthur Brown.

Mr. Brown is a member of George W. Eartram Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons ; is a Republican in politics and both he and his wife are members of
the Episcopal Church.

He married Anna Brown, born in Philadelphia, August 18, 1861, daugh-
ter of John Brown, a retired farmer, now living at Drexel Hill, Delaware coun-
ty, and his wife, Anna Fryburg. They had issue: Anna, wife of Arthur
Brown ; Eliza, married Charles Drewes and resides at Darby, Delaware coun-
ty. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have five children, one daughter and four sons:
Anna S., Maurice, Lawrence, Edwin, John.

Harry P. Ottey, engaged in business as a book and job printer in

OTTEY Media, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, is a man of many-sided

ability and versatility in business and social life. His services have

been appreciated in financial affairs as well as in general business, and be has

taken a prominent part in all matters tending to the public welfare.

Albin Pyle Ottey, his father, was born December 28, 1839, and died Oc-
tober 4, 1912. He was one of the earliest volunteers at the outbreak of the
civil war, serving in Company A, First Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserve Vol-
unteer Infantry, from 1861 to 1864, and retired from the service with his
health impaired by the hardships and dangers through which he had passed.
From 1867 until 1882 he held the position of clerk in the Delaware County Fire
Insurance Company, then established himself in the shoe business, and was
afterwards tax collector. He married Jane Smedley Phillips and had children :
Harry P., whose name heads this sketch; Albin Lewis, who lives in Media;
and married Julia German, of Philadelphia ; William Rupert, lives in West
Chester, and married Sarah Pancoast.

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-ceived his general education in the pubHc schools of his native town, and then
commenced the study of law under the preceptorship of V. Gilpin Robinson.
but never took the examination for admission to the bar. In 1882 he became
associated with his father in the shoe business which the latter established, and
continued his connection with this until January, 1894. In the meantime,
however, he had established himself independently in the job printing business,
and, when he had placed this upon a secure footing, devoted his entire time and
attention to the printing business. In this he has been eminently successful
and has a fine establishment at No. 31 West State street, Aledia. Since Octo-
ber, 1912, he has filled the office of notary public of the First National Bank
of Media. His political affiliations are with the Republican party, and he will
be a candidate for the office of tax collector at the next Republican primaries.
He is an active member of the Media Fire and Hook and Ladder Company,
No. I, in which organization he is one of the most energetic workers. His re-
ligious connection is with the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Media, and
he is a member of the Media Club and of the Sons of Veterans, in which order
he has filled all the chairs, and is now holding the office of past commander.

Mr. Ottey married in Media, September 18, 1893, at the parsonage of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church, the Rev. Henry Wheeler, D. D., officiating,
Ida Pancoast, daughter of John S. and Sarah B. (Briggs) Braden, and they
have one child : Albin Pyle, Jr., born June 3, 1902. The untiring diligence and
application of Mr. Ottey have made him a most efficient and serviceable citi-
zen. His clear mind and remarkable tenacity of purpose have enabled him
to discharge the varied duties which he has been called upon to perform with
distinction and ability, and his career most forcibly illustrates the possibilities
which are open to a man who possesses sterling business qualities and knows
how to make the best use of the opportunities which are presented.

There are many names so closely connected with the steel in-
SCHOEN dustry in the United States that they are credited with the in-
ventions that forced the industry into the front rank of Amer-
ican enterprises. In reality they were merely the managerial heads, and in most
instances men without mechanical skill or ability. A notable exception is
Charles T. Schoen, inventor, patentee, owner, and manufacturer, of the Schoen
pressed steel system of car construction, and father of the pressed steel car,
BOW in use on every railroad of any importance in the Ignited States and on
many foreign roads. His connection with the construction of pressed steel
cars has not only been in a supervisory capacity, but in the beginning of the
manufacture of pressed steel parts in Philadelphia, Mr. Schoen was one of the
four workers in his shop, drawing the hot plates from the fire side by side
with the others, and it is his proud boast that he "could do the same today."
To invent and to bring into existence such a great business as the manufacture
of pressed steel cars has become would satisfy even an extraordinary man, but
not Mr. Schoen, who, seeing the inadequacy of the cast iron car wheel for the
high speeds and heavy loads of modern railway service, developed a forged
and rolled steel car wheel, now in general use on engine trucks and tenders,
passengers and freight steam railway cars, elevated, subway and street cars.
So to Mr. Schoen's creative genius and mechanical ability our country owes an
entirely new business of vast proportions. He is a real "captain of industry,"
a title gained not by manipulation, governmental favor, or lucky association,
but by virtue of genius, courage, brain, muscle and hard work. A pleasing
feature of Mr. Schoen's life is the fact that all his hopes for the success of
the pressed steel car and the forged steel wheel have been realized during his

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life-time. Nowhere can he go hy rail bin he Hstens to the chcking
and humming of wheels invented by himself, bearing to their destina-
tion cars also of his own invention, both, perhaps, of his own man-
ufacture. To this he adds the thought that he has more nearly insured the
safety of life, increased the pleasure of travel, and added to the wealth of his
country. These are the rewards that daily and hourly come to the kindly
hearted, great man, who, upon dropping the cares of a large business, has
sought amid the rural beauties of Delaware county a home for his declining
years.

Charles T. Schoen is a son of Henry Casper and Emmeline (Robinson)
Schoen, of the State of Delaware, who had other sons, William, Henry H., and
James Allen. He was born in the state of Delaware, December 9, 1844, and
at the ])resent date is in his sixty-ninth year. When he was four years of age his
parents moved to Wilmington, Delaware, which was his home until 1878. There
he obtained his education and there learned, under his father's instruction, the
trade of cooper. At the age of eighteen years he had saved enough money to
attend Taylors Academy, at the same time working four hours daily in the
shop. He read, studied, and worked in Wilmington in 1865, a key to his suc-
cess being found in such mental and physical activity as the story of his youth
indicates. In 1865, being then married and ambitious, he sought a wider field
than Wilmington furnished, going to Philadelphia, where he worked at his
trade. This brought him into relation with Taylor and Gillespie, sugar re-
finers, the latter l.'ecoming h\z esjiec-al frienii. Desirous of establishing in bu •.'-
ness for himself he entered into a contract with Mr. Gillespie to supply his
firm with molasses barrels. Thus at the age of twenty-one years he was mar-
ried and owned a business emjiloying twelve men. He continued in successful
business for a time, but through a bad debt failed. Not discouraged, in com-
pany with a friend he went West, arriving in Chicago early in the morning,
their combined cash capital amounting to seventy nine cents. Before night he
had secured work at his trade, but after two months returned to P^hiladelphia.
Soon after his return he secured a position with Charles Scott as manager of
his car spring works, at a salary of twelve dollars per week. He took a great
interest in his new work, determining to become, sooner or later, a partner in
the business. He lived on five dollars a week, sending the balance to his wife
in Wilrnington. Soon he was receiving fifteen, then eighteen dollars weekly,,
and at the end of a year demanded an interest in the business. Mr. Scott flatly
refused, but later changed his decision by giving Mr. Schoen fifteen hundred
dollars a year salary and a one-fifth interest. This amounted at the end of
the first year to about seventeen thousand dollars. The second year Mr.
Schoen made several improvements and took out some patents for the firm
that netted a profit of thirty-five thousand dollars. He then demanded and
received a one-third interest in the firm.

Being in Washington one day with several hours to spare he visited the
railroad yards and while looking over the construction of the freight cars was
impressed with the feasibility of using pressed steel for the different parts,
then made of cast iron. He studied out the problem and soon took out his first
patent on a pressed steel stake pocket. This he followed with others, all in his
own name, considering pro]ierly that as they did not affect the car spring busi-
ness of his own firm, that the patents were his individual property. This
caused a rupture that led to Mr. Schoen's withdrawal from the firm. Speaking
of this period in 1900, he said : "I had saved sixty thousand dollars, so in 1888,
after I had withdrawn from the spring business, I started in the manufacture
of pressed steel. My shop was only fifty by one hundred feet and there were-
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company, my son. who is a director, another man. and myself. I drew the hot
plates from the furnace and handed them to my nephew and my son. who at
that time were mere lads. I could do the same to-day. We kept right at
work, the business grew, and in a short time we were making many parts of
pressed steel for wooden cars. I paid strict attention to business, as a man
must do to succeed, and in a short time we enlarged the plant and employed a
number of men. Then I engaged my brother, who has since died, as sales-
man."

He had organized as the Schoen Pressed Steel Company, and manufac-
tured only under his own patents. In 1889 he moved his business to Pitts-
burgh, establishing his plant at Schoenville, near that city. At this time, 1890,
his payroll consisted of but fourteen names, men and boys. He had been
constantly at work perfecting his designs for an entire pressed steel car and
after going to Pittsburgh continued in this work until he had it completed and
entirely covered with patents. The entire number of patents issued to Mr.
Schoen on cars and car parts is about one hundred and twenty-five, this number
including a graduated car spring, invented while connected with the Scott Car
Spring firm. He continued manufacturing steel parts for some time, in the
meantime seeking to interest railroad officials in an entire pressed steel car for
freight service. In 1897 there was a rumor afloat that the Pittsburgh, Besse-
mer & Lake Erie Railroad was to change hands. Mr. Schoen saw in this an
opportunity and asked for an order for the pressed steel cars. He thus tells
the story :

"I immediately set at work on a drawing and worked like a beaver. When
the new interest gained control I was persistent in my efforts to get the order."
A part of the work may be inferred from the following letter.

Skibo C.\stle, July 5, 1898.
DE.^K Mr. Schoen — Many thanks for tlic Ijeautiful illustrations of your great work.
I am watching the steel car question with deep interest and just because I am so anxious
that it should prove a success, I am not without any anxiety.

If your steel cars are to displace wooden cars you take your place with the few
great benefactors. We now boast of Pittsburgh's Westinghouse and Brashear, and I hope
we are to add a third name ere long.

Wishing you deserved success and with renewed thanks,

.\lwavs very trulv vours,

(Signed) ANDREW C.A.RNEGIE.
To Charles T. Schoen, Esq.,

President Schoen Pressed Steel Co.,
Pittsburgh, Pa.

•"Finally I got the order, not for twenty but two hundred cars. Then
the railroad people thought that if they were to order any they might as well
plunge, so the order was increased to six hundred cars. The problem that
then confronted me was how to fill the order. I had not the facilities for
building even one car, and the money involved was six hundred thousand
dollars, but I had the pressed steel works for making parts and I had plenty of
energy. We started in the old shop and kept enlarging. At length we aver-
aged one car a day, then two, three, four, and finally, eight, .^t the end of
nine months the order was filled and a five hundred thousand dollar plant had
been erected over the heads of the workmen.

"Where is the next order to come from? I asked myself. If the railroads
don't take hold of this I shall be ruined. I hardly slept until after arguments
and exemplifications I had secured an order from the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
Railroad, an order for one hundred and fifty cars. Then came one from the
Pennsylvania Railroad for two hundred, closely followed by one from the
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Pitsburgh & Western Railroad for five hundred cars. I had saved the day.
Then I broke down in health and was wafted away to Bermuda for six weeks'
rest."

The capital required to finance these large operations was secured by the
organization of the Pressed Steel Car Company, which took over the property
of the Schoen Pressed Steel Company and the one hundred and twenty-five
I)atents issued to Mr. Schoen. The capital of the new company was twenty-
five million dollars, JNlr. Schoen retaining a very large interest and becoming
president of the company, his nephew vice-president, his son a director.

Orders flowed in and within one year the company had four million dol-
lars worth of untouched orders upon its books. In 1898 the Fox Pressed
Steel Company was absorbed. A plant was erected in .A.llegheny which in 1900
was turning out forty cars daily ; the Pittsburgh plant was building sixty cars
daily ; and thirty thousand tons of steel was being used monthly. This large
business naturally attracted the attention of the Carnegie interests, who were
only prevented from building a rival plant by a contract for steel for a period
of ten years, involving a sum of one hundred million dollars. The value of the
steel car for all forms of heavy freight service was soon demonstrated and in
the year 1900 the company had not only these works at Pittsburgh in full oper-
ation, but also one at Joliet, Illinois. They employed nearly ten thousand men
and were doing an annual business of thirty millions of dollars, with Mr.
Schoen constantly at work in the direction of a still more general application
of the all steel pressed system to special cars of passenger type. In 1902 he
resigned from the presidency of the company, also from the board of directors
and sold practically all his stock in the compariy. At that time, the Pittsburgh,
Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad, his first custoiner, had bought four thousand,
three hundred all steel cars of the "hopper" and "gondola" types, the Penn-
sylvania, nine thousand, while every leading railway of the country was rap-
idly adding all steel freight cars to their equipment. Sales had also been made
abroad and in 1900 Henrik von Z. Loss, a noted engineer, presented the claims
of the Schoen Pressed Steel system on car construction to the International
Railway Congress in Paris. Mr. Schoen's connection with the company ceased
in 1902, but he had seen the fruition of his hopes in the adoption of the "all
steel" car to every branch of the railway service.

For four years he had devoted himself to experiments in solid forged and
rolled steel wheels for railroad cars, both passenger and freight, expending in
experiinenting, patents, etc., one and a half million dollars of his own money.
He finally perfected his invention and erected a large plant for the manufac-
ture of solid forged and rolled steel wheels, under his own patents. The value
of the all steel car to the railroads had so impressed the railroad officials that
when he announced a new wheel superior to the ones they were using they
immediately responded with orders. The value of the wheel is so great that
it is to-day'in use on steam and electric roads everywhere in the L^nited States,
Europe and Africa. The Schoen Steel Wheel Company, Ltd., have a plant in
Leeds, England, in which Mr. Schoen is largely interested, and which manu-
factures wheels under his patents. The following relating to steel wheels is
from his old friend of early pressed steel car days :

Skibo Castle, July 11, 1908.
My De.\r Mr. Schoen— I have faith in your prediction. You have proved a true
prophet before. Nothing like steel.

Very truly yours.

(Signed) .\NDRE\V CARNEGIE.
Charles T. Schoen,

101 Arcade Building,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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In 1907 he sold his plant and patents to the United States Steel Corpora-
tion and retired to his estate in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, leaving upon
the annals of steel manufacturing and railroading a name and a record that
even time cannot efiface. Without a falter he placed reputation and wealth
upon a conviction that could only be the fruit of a master mind. He con-
quered obstacles that would have appalled many, and mankind is his debtor.
Certain it is that but few men have lived to see the results of their ambitions,
perseverance and brains, as plainly and to as great an extent as has been the
lot of Air. Schoen.

After his retirement from the steel wheel manufacturing business. Mr.
Schoen retired to his estate in the beautiful Rose Valley of Delaware county,
where in 1903 he had purchased the Osborne farm of seventy-five acres, on
which was water power and the ruins of an old woolen mill. He tore down the
old farm house and on its site erected "Schon Haus," a beautiful modern
country gentleman's mansion. With the instinct of a true husbandman he
planted extensive orchards and otherwise improved on a liberal basis. In
1908 he bought Todmorden farm of two hundred and ten acres, the Levis
farm of forty-four acres, later purchasing fifty-one acres from the Rose Val-
ley Association, combining all under the name "Rose Valley Farms." He
has either built or repaired all the buildings thereon, and otherwise added to
the beauty and attractiveness of this most charming rural locality.

The term "retired" in Mr. Schoen's case only means that he has turned
to other forms of activity. In 1909 he built on the old waterpower on his es-
tate a mill for the manufacture of that "giant in power" but "miser in fuel,"
the Feps carburetor, and of flexible metallic hose for conveying under high
pressure and heat, steam, water, oil, air, etc., made in brass, bronze, or steel.
These articles are manufactured by the Schoen-Jackson Company, Mr. Jack-
son being his son-in-law. The name Feps is coined from the first letters of the
four cardinal features of the new carburetor, F for flexibility, E for economy,
P for power, and S for speed. The plant is equipped with the most modern
machinery and has a capacity of ninety thousand carburetors yearly as well as
a testing laboratory for motors and carburetors, probably the most perfectly
equipped in the United States. Mr. Schoen has built for his private use. as
well as that of the Schoen-Jackson Company, a stone office building of
quaint and beautiful design. This is ostensibly his working place, but the cares
of business have long ago been laid aside or placed on younger shoulders, and
the office is rather his resting place than his place of business, although the af-
fairs of Schoen-Jackson are vigorously prosecuted by the junior partner, who
profits by the experience and advice of his senior. An item of interest in Mr.
Schoen's life is the fact that he was one of the first men in this county to carry
a large amount of life insurance.

Mr. Schoen and his wife are members of the Park Avenue Methodist
Episcopal Church of Philadelphia. He is a Republican in politics, and in 1912,
was prominently mentioned as a candidate for Congress. He is a member of
the Union League and the Manufacturers' Club of Philadelphia, the Lawyers'
Gub of New York, the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh, and many railroad and
manufacturing associations.

Mr. Schoen married, in 1864, Lavinia J., daughter of James and Mary
North, of Wilmington, Delaware. Children: i. Edwin A., who died at the
age of thirty-seven years ; he was associated in business with his father from
his boyhood to his death, being the son alluded to as receiving the hot plates
from the father in the little shop in Philadelphia ; he married Mary Louise,
daughter of Senator Charles A. Porter, and he left a son, Edwin (2). 2.
Elsie, married Martin Hawley McLanahan, of Philadelphia, and resides in

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Rose Valley ; they have a son, Alexander, now in college. 3. Emeline, married
Dr. Reuben Held, of New York City: they have a son, Charles Johnson.
4. Lenore, married M. R. Jackson, junior iiartner in the Schoen-Jackson Com-
pany ; their residence is a handsome country mansion at the upper end of Rose
Valley; their children are Lenore and Jane.

The foregoing record of the principal events in the life of one of Ameri-
ca's great business men. may properly close with his own words, uttered to a
friend in 1900:

You ask me if I had any inspiratinn ? I think Smiles' Httle book, "Self-Help," which
I read when a boy. sowed within me the germ of ambition. I am a great believer in a
young man having self-confidence. He will then undertake almost anything, and will
grasp opportunities which he would otherwise be too fainthearted to undertake. Modesty
ill a young man is becoming, and a modest young man may have energetic powers in a
high degree. Of course to a great e.xtent we are creatures of circumstance even after
we have done the best we can. I never had n day of despair in my life, and I think that
what you are pleased to call my success has been entirely due to my innate determination
and pluck.

Resting in a thicket of old pine and spruce trees, on a knoll in the beauti-
ful Rose \'alley below Moylan, "Schon Haus," the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles T. Schoen, could have no more appropriate title than that which has
been given it from the quaint tongue of the Nord Deutsche. "Schon Haus"
and "Rose \'alley Farm" on which it stands, form a combination of mansion
and country gentleman's estate that is distinctive and delightful. The house, a
gem of architecture, was originally built in 1862, and remodeled in 1904 for
Mr. Schoen by his son-in-law. Martin Hawley McLanahan, who also designed
and built many of the houses in Rose \'alley. The house belongs to no single
one of the old schools of architecture, but the best of many schools has gone
to make the "House Beautiful." P.uilt of stone and plaster and topped by a
red tiled roof with far-])rojecting eaves, its air of substantiality impresses one
as it is seen from the drive through the stately evergreens which surround it.
No detail of the landscape gardener's art that could add to the general attrac-
tiveness has been overlooked in laying out the grounds. One most interesting
and beautiful feature is the pergola leading from the quaint water tower to
the main house, which, in the varying seasons, is covered by the clustering
blooms from which the valley derives its name. Another is the old-fashioned
flower garden, a riot of color, reached through a rose arbor. The orchards, al-
ready in bountiful bearing, contain four thousand trees, planted ten years ago,
classed as among the best apple orchards in the state. There is an orchard on
each of the three original farms comprising Rose Valley, covering in all about
one hundred acres. "Schon Haus" is never closed and within is a perfect ex-
ample of the exquisite taste that makes for home comfort, with its massive
furniture, unique wood carving, sculpture, and many works of art.

No visitor ever leaves "Schon Haus" without first looking over the
"farm," of which the owner is justly proud. Over four hundred acres are in
a perfect state of cultivation, well stocked with valuable farin animals. As one
listens to the various bits of history connected with his live stock, it is hard to
lealize that this gentleman farmer is the man who was decorated with the Le-
gion of Honor by the French government for having by his inventions "re-
duced the cost of railroad transportation" for the entire world.

Tn one corner of the garden is a sun dial made from a huge steel car
wheel, bearing the mimbcr one hundred and two, one of the first two hundred
wheels manufactured by Mr. Schoen under his own patents. "It represents
to me some of my early struggles" says this quiet, unassuming owner of the
"House Beautiful."

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Son of a native born manufacturer of Delaware county, Mr.
RHODES Harry W. Rhode? has also spent his entire life within the con-
fines of that county, beginning business life as clerk and rising
to his present position at the head ot Media's only Title and Trust Company.

Harry W. Rhodes was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1865,
son of William K. and Lydia (Cummins) Rhodes, both born in Delaware
county of old and prominent families. William K. Rhodes was for many years
a contractor and brick manufacturer. later in life joining with his brothers,
John B. and Samuel Rhodes, in manufacturing enterprises. He was a Dem-
ocrat in politics, but although influential in party and business, never accepted
public office. He died in October. 1S87, his wife in 1893— both buried in the
cemetery of Calvary Church, at Rockdale.

Harry W. Rhodes was educated in the public schools and Gilbert Acad-
emy, finishing his studies in Chester high school. He began his business career
as clerk in the office of the Robert Wetherill Company, at Chester, remaining
with that company three years. He then entered the clerical service of the
First National Bank, of Chester, continuing three years, then accepted a posi-
tion with the newly organized Chester County National Bank, at ^Media. After
four years with that, now well known institution, he assisted in the organiza-
tion of the Media Title and Trust Company and was elected in 1892 its secre-
tary and treasurer. The trust company began business in 1891, Mr. Rhodes
continuing as its secretary and treasurer until May 14, 1908, when he was
chosen president to succeed George Drayton, deceased. Mr. Rhodes brought
to his high position a valuable banking experience of nearly twenty-five years,
seventeen of which had been as a high official of the institution, of which he
is now the honored head. The trust company maintains a general banking and
savings department as well as title, trust, real estate and safe deposit depart-
ment. The company has been a very successful one and shows by its annual
report a most flattering condition, surplus and individual profits exceeding its
capital stock of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. The officers
and directors of the company are men of high standing and in his official ca-
pacity, Mr. Rhodes shows ability as a wise conservative financier. His is the
wisdom born of experience and knowledge of true banking and trust company
operations, as well as of the general laws governing all financial transactions.
The condition of this company but reflects the wisdom of its management. He
has also other business interests that show a like prosperity.

Mr. Rhodes is a Democrat in politics, and as an active interested citizen,
not as a politician, has served his borough as school director and in other pub-
lic capacities. He is a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities,
and one of the organizers and a charter member of the Spring Haven Country
Club. He is a member of the Episcopal church, of Rockdale.

Mr. Rhodes married, June 5, 1902, Anna L., daughter of John B. and
Ann (Warren) Rhodes, of Delaware county. The family home is at Moylan,
Delaware county, where they are prominent in social life.

The Tylers of the United States are descended from an ancient
TYLER English family, the ancestor coming to England in the train of

William the Conqueror and fighting at the battle of Hastings in
1066. For six hundred years thereafter the family throve and spread to other
parts of England. Abciut 1685 three brothers Tyler came to America, one set-
tling in New England, one in X'irginia— the ancestor of President John Tyler,
and William, who came to West Jersey about 1688, and purchased a large tract
of land on the north side of Monmouth river, of John Champney, said tract

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being a part of the two thousand acres that John Fenwick deeded in 1676 to
James and Priscilla (Fenwick) Champney. Mr. Tyler had married in Eng-
land, about 1676, Johanna Parson. They had four cliildren born in England
and the followmg certificate given by his friends in England, shows conclusive-
ly his place of residence and standing:

"Whereas VVilliam Tyler of Walton in Somerset, yeoman, intends to transport him-
selt .and family into the province of Pennsylvania in America if the Lord will, and has
desired a certificate on his behalf. We, therefore, whose names are subscribed do hereby
certify that the said William Tyler hath professed the truth for several years past and
that we do not know but that his conversation hath been answerable to his profession
and that we do know that he hath been ready and willing to contribute to the service of
truth, as opportunity hath offered and occasion required, and that as to his dealings with
the world, he has been punctual and of good report as far as any of us know or have
heard, and we know nothing of debts or other entanglements on his part but that he
may with clearness, prosecute his intended voyage. In testimonv whereof we have here-
unto subscribed our hands." Dated the "eleventh dav of seventh month called September
in the year 1685," (signed by fourteen men).

It is evident that Johanna died a short time after their arrival in the Fen-
wick colony. His second wife was named Elizabeth. William Tyler was a
farmer and also operated a tannery. He made his will in second month, 1700,
m which he bequeathed a large landed estate to his sons. There appears no
reliable record of his death, but family belief is that it occurred in 1701. Chil-
dren of first wife, all born in England': i. Marv, at Welton, in the county of
Somerset, nth month, 1677: married Abel, son of Samuel Nicholson; children:
Sarah, Rachel, Joseph, William T., Ann, John, Ruth and Samuel. 2. William
(2), of further mention. 3. John, born "5th month, 1682, inherited from his
father, eight hundred acres in the lower^ part of Alloways Creek township.
Salem county, New Jersey, together with other lands in the same township.
He married Hannah, daughter of Samuel Wade, and had a son, Benjamin,
whose son. Job, was a noted stock raiser. He exhibited a prize ox in Philadel-
phia, weighing two thousand one hundred and sixty-five pounds. This fact so
filled the Salem folks with local pride that for many years the bank of Salem
carried the impress of the Tyler ox on their one dollar bank notes. 4. Johan-
na, born 1684, married Jonathan Waddington. Children of William (i) Ty-
ler by his second wife, Elizabeth: 5. Catherine, born 13th of 5th month, 1690.
6. Philip, 6 mo., 1692, married Elizabeth Denn. 7. Elizabeth, iC^4, married
William Murdock.

(II) William (2), eldest son of William (i) Tyler and his first wife,
Johanna Parson, was born in Walton, county of Somerset, England, 5th of 7th
nio., 1680. .At the death of his father he was twenty-one years of age, and to
him was left the Champney property of four hundred acres. His father had
such confidence in him, that in his will it was directed that he have charge of
the younger children and he was left executor of the will. .-\s executor, he
received through Elias Osborne, of England, agent of his uncle, Thomas Par-
sons, of Philadelphia, a considerable sum of money from England.

William (2) Tyler, married Mary .Abbott, a sister of George Abbott, the
emigrant. A short time before his death in 1733, he made a will and left the
plantation on which he lived to his son, William '(3) Tyler, other lands to oth-
er sons, moneys to his daughters, and to his wife, Mary, and daughters, Edith
and Rebecca, all his personal pro]ierty, after his funeral expenses and just
debts were paid, to be equally divided, al.so his wife, :\Tary, one-half of his best
mansion house to dwell in, a!^o the keep of a horse and cow as long as she
lived there. Children: i. William (3), born 2nd of 5 mo., 1712, executor of
his father's estate and heir to the homestead — he, however, to pay his sisters,
Edith and Rebecca, fifty pounds in four years. He married Elizabeth, daugh-

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ter of Joseph and Sarah Thompson, and Hved where Allowaystown is now lo-
cated. 2. Edith, born 24th of nth mo., 1714: married Samuel Thompson,
who was also an executor of the will of his father-in-law. He was a son of
William, and grandson of Andrew Thompson, who came in 1677. 3. Rebecca,
born 29th of 3rd mo., 1716, married William, son of Samuel Abbott, of Elsin-
borough. 4. ^lary. born i6th of ist mo., 1718. 5. James, born 30th of 12th
mo., 1720. He married Martha Simpson, and in 1745 built a brick house on
the Alloways Creek homestead. He died, aged eighty years, leaving two chil-
dren, James and Ruth. 6. Samuel, of whom further.

(Ill) Samuel, youngest child of William (2) and Mary (Abbott) Tyler,
was born 26th of loth mo., 1723, died at Salem, New Jersey, 26th of 11 mo.,
1778. He was about ten years of age when his father died, and when nearly
eighteen he apprenticed himself to Benjamin Acton, of Salem, to learn the
tanning business. An indenture found among his papers, dated 1741, signed
Samuel Tyler and witnessed by his mother, ^larv Tyler, specified that he was
to serve four years. Soon after the expiration of his term he sold the Allo-
ways Creek farm, inherited from his father, and bought of Rebecca Edgil, of
Philadelphia, the property at the upper end of Salem, on what has since been
known as Tyler street. In the deed for this purchase, dated 1746, the house is
called "a new brick house." Samuel Tyler carried on the tannery business in
.Salem for many years, living to see all his children grow to maturity.

In 1751 he married Ann, died 23rd of 2nd mo., 1777, daughter of John
(2), and granddaughter of John (i) Mason, the emigrant. Children: i. Wil-
liam (4), of whom further. 2. John, born 7th of 9 mo., 1755. He located in
Salem, New Jersey, where he bought a property on Eourth street, built a
dwelling house, in which he and his sister, Mary, resided. He carried on a
tanning business all his life and became quite wealthy. Late in life he joined
the Society of Friends in whose mode of worship he had been educated. He
never married and died in 1825. Said a contemporary at the time of his
death: ".\n honest man is gone." 3. Mary, born tith of 8th mo., 1756, never
married and spent her life of forty-eight years with her brother, John. 4.
Samuel, born in 7th mo., 175B; was a farmer, his property adjoining his boy-
hood home. He married a widow, Grace Acton, daughter of Peter ,\mbler, of
Mannington ; children : i. Ann, married Mark Smith, ii. Elizabeth, married
John Miller, of Gloucester county. New Jersey, several times member of the
New Jersey legislature, and a judge of Gloucester county. 5. Rebecca, born
in 6th mo., 1764; she never married and lived in deep retirement with her
brother, John; at the death of her aunt, Mary Mason, and of her sister, Mary
Tyler, Rebecca inherited a considerable amount of money. She built a house
on Broadway, Salem, where she lived several years, then moved to Gloucester
county, spending her last years with her niece, Elizabeth IMiller; she died in
1843, aged seventy-nine years.

(IV) William (4), eldest son of Samuel and .Ann (Mason) Tyler, was
born 3rd of nth mo., 1752. He was twenty-six years of age when his father
died, his mother dying the year previous. According to the law at that time he
was, as the eldest son, entitled to all the landed estate. He was not, however,
unmindful of his brothers and sisters, but assigned to each a share of their
father's property ; a maternal aunt, Mary Mason, became housekeeper for the
family and all remained at home until the marriage of William (4) Tyler,
when the family departed, William continuing at the old home. His first wife.
Beulah Ridgway, whom he married in 1792, lived but a short time after their
marriage. He married (second) in 1796, Catherine, daughter of Hugh Low,
of Philadelphia. Hugh Low was the son of English parents, members of the
Society of Friends, who came from England to Philadelphia, when he was a

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child in arms. William (4) and Catherine lived together for twenty-seven
years. He was a man of retiring disposition, of few words, honest and impar-
tial in his dealings with his fellows. She was considered a discreet, sensible
woman with a warm affectionate disposition ; was devotedly pious, sprightly in
character and anxious that her children might be brought up right and that
they might become good, useful, worthy citizens. Possessing abundant means
and holding assured positions in the regard of their community, their lives were
spent in quiet happiness. He died after an illness of two weeks in 1823 in his
seventy-second year, she died 23rd of 3rd mo., 1825. Children all born in
Salem, New Jersey: i. John JMason, born 28th of 5th mo., 1797. He was
adopted by his uncle, John Tyler, whom he succeeded in business. He mar-
ried, in 1832, Dorothea Graham Hoskins, of Radnor, Pennsylvania, daughter
of Joseph and Mary (Graham) Hoskins; children: Catherine Low. born
1833, and William Graham Tyler. 2. Hannah Gillespie, born 30th of 8th mo.,
1798; married, in 1818, Clement Smith, of ]\Iannington, son of William Smith,
and a lineal descendant of John Smith, of Smithfield ; child : ^^'illiam Clement
Smith. 3. Hugh Low, of further mention. 4. Mary, born 21st of nth mo.,
1801, a remarkably intelligent and gifted woman: died unmarried. 5. Wil-
liam (5), born i6th of 9 mo., 18c/): after arriving at manhood he made an ex-
tended tour of the western states, located in Philadelphia in 1832 and estab-
lished in the leather business, becoming prosperous. He and his sister, Mary,
maintained a home until 1847, when he married Ann, daughter of Enos Paint-
er, a farmer and large land owner, in Delaware county, Pennsylvania : chil-
dren: William Enos, born 1848, died 1873; John J., born in 185 1.

(V) Hugh Low, second son of William and Catherine (Low) Tyler, was
born in Salem, New Jersey, 20th of 3rd mo., 1800. He was a prosperous
farmer until 1850, when he moved to Delaware county, Pennsylvania; his w'ife
having inherited a valuable farm from her father at his death. This farm,
"Blue Hill," had been originally deeded by William Penn to a Miller, the emi-
grant ancestor of William Tyler. The Tyler farm, on which they had lived
since marriage, was sold when the}- moved to Delaware county, that property
having been in the Tyler name for more than one hundred years. Hugh Low
Tyler li\'eci the life of a gentleman farmer in Delaware count}' for tliirtv-
three years, dying March 2. 1883, honored and respected. He married, in
1835, Mary Shippen Miller, who died at Blue Hill in November, 1872, daugh-
ter of George and Mary (Levis) Miller, of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, he
an extensive landowner. Children: i. William Levis, born in 1836, died in
1872, unmarried. 2. George M., of whom further. 3. John Edgar, born in
1842, who met his death by fire, his clothes catching afire as he was burning
leaves in November, 1890. He married Anna Hicks. Hugh Low Tyler, his
wife, and his children were all members of the Society of Friends.

(VI) George Miller, second son of Hugh Low and Mary Ship]x-n (Mil-
ler) Tyler, was born in Salem, New Jersey, in 1838, died in Media, Pennsyl-
vania, May 14, 1908. He attended ])rivate schools in Salem until he was
twelve years of age, when his parents moved to the Miller farm, at Blue Hill,
Delaware county, Pennsylvania. He there attended ])ublic school, the private
school of Aaron Ivens in Media, also taking a course at Haverford College, but
not graduating. His farm at I'.lue Hill, in Copper Providence townshfp, claimed
his attention diu-ing his active years, but he finally retired to Media, his home
until death. He served in the Civil War in the Twenty-ninth Regiment Penn-
sylvania \"olunteer Cavalr\-. He was an independent in ])olitic^, serving his
township two terms as school director. He married Emma Weaver, born in
Philadelphia, still living (1913). daughter of Jacol) Weaver, who in company
with his hrother-in-law. Henrv \ ;ilkmar, was in the stove business at Third

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and Spruce streets, Philadelphia, for many years. A stove made by this firm
and sold in Media years ago, is still in good condition, after forty years service.
Jacob Weaver married Caroline Valkmar, who bore him two daughters : Em-
ma, married George M. Tyler ; Caroline, died unmarried in 1897. Children
of George M. and Emma Tyler: i. William P., of whom further. 2.
Frank, born April 30, 1870, died in the ?\Hlitary Hospital at Santiago, Cuba,
October i, 1898, while in the military service of his country, unmarried. 3.
Mary, twin of Frank, now residing at Blue Hill, unmarried. 4. Louellen,
born December, 1879, resides at Blue Hill, unmarried.

(\'II) William Preston, eldest son of George Miller and Emma (Weav-
er) Tyler, was born at Blue Hill, Upper Providence township, Delaware coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, April 14, 1868. His early life was spent at the Blue Hill
farm, where he attended the public school in Media, then entered Friends Se-
lect School at Fifteenth and Race streets, Philadelphia, later attended Short-
lidge's Academy in Media, finishing his student life at Swarthmore College.
During vacation periods he assisted his father in farming operations, and from
1885 to 1888 was with him in Maryland, where his father owned a farm of
three hundred eighty-six acres. In 1888, William P. journeyed to Florida, in-
tending to there establish in orange culture. During the years until 1892 he
was not actively engaged, except for a period of nine months with the Westing-
house Electric Company. In 1892 he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania
railroad as clerk in the master carpenter's office, continuing seven years. Since
that time he has been inspector of bridges for the same company. Mr. Tyler is
a Democrat in politics but has never accepted public office.

He married, November 15, 1902, Sarah L. Evans, born in Chester, Penn-
sylvania, daughter of John Hickson Evans, born January 12, 1825, died in
Chester, September 17, 1883, a cabinet-maker and undertaker, also a practical
farmer and land owner. He married Sarah Lowe, born February 17, 1842, in
Chester, died June 23, 1905: children: Virginia, married Samuel Harrison;
Lewis, married Grace Robinson ; Mabel, married William Allen : Charles L.,
married Grace Pennell ; Sarah L., married ^^'illiam P. Tyler; Harry, married
Margaret Maris; Elizabeth, married E. Shirley Borden; Helen, married
Charles R. Cotton. Children of William P. and Sarah (Evans) Tyler: George
Miller, born May 10, 1904; John W., October 23, 1906.

The family home of the Tylers is in Media, Pennsylvania, where they
have resided since June 22, 1903.

The family history of Colonel Jose])li Williamson Hawley,
H.-\WLEV ex-president of the First National Bank of Media, Pennsyl-
vania, is an unusually interesting one, dating back to the end
of the seventeenth century. According to the records kept by Benjamin Haw-
ley, the ancestor of the Chester county family, we have the following account :

"My Father's Name was Thomas Hawley. Citizen and Guiimake.r, London, in the
Parish of Olive Old Jewry at the corner ne.xt Coleman Street and Lothbury. My mother
was Frances Malin of a village called Paulus Perry (Alias Potters Perry). Northampton-
shire, by whom he had ten children, five sons and five danghters. whose names being
worked on a sampler were

Thomas and Anna. Thomas and Mary.
Frances. Snsannah and Sarah.
Joseph and Thomas and little Benjamin.
Thomas and I'Vances had these children ten.

I was born on the 5th day of tlie 8th month called October in the year of onr Lord
'70,3. Old Style. My Mother departed this life on the loth day of the 7th Mo. (called

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September), in the year 1714, old style, in the 52nd year of her age and was buryed in
the grave yard belonging to the Parish church of Olive Old Jewry. My Father lived in
widowhood until sometime in the Month called January 1717-18. My sister Mary kept
his house during his widowhood. He departed this Life in the month aforesaid in the
63rd year of his age and was buryed in the same grave with my mother. My sister
Mary being left whole and sole Executrix of his last will and Testament, she put me out
apprentice to John Hosey of Channel Row, Westminster, citizen and gunmaker of
London, with whom I staidc until the month called July 1722. Then I left him and went
on board the Britania, snow. John Head master, bound for >Ladeira and Philadelphia.
We had a long passage and suffered much for want of Provisions and water. We were
becalmed some weeks and several died for want. I think it was reckoned when we made
the land of Virginia we had not eight pounds of Bread and Beef on board for sixty
persons. Our captain went with some hands ashore to seek water and provisions but
could get no water to bring off, but shot four hogs, a sheep and hawk, thv.- hawk I had for
my share. We buried four at sea, one upon Cape May, another at Philadelphia who died
coming up the river. William Passmore and Tertulain Johnson were two of the Passen-
gers that I had some knowledge of. I stayed on board till the vessel was loaded and
went out, and then myself and two or three more of the servants whose time were not
disposed of were put on board another ship belonging to the same owners, where we
staid till she was loaded and went out. which was some time in January, 1722-3. Myself
and another, which was all that was left of the servants, was sent down to George Ash-
bridge's in Goshen, for him to dispose of our time. There I had a severe fit of sickness
and kept my bed for two weeks. Mary .-\shbridge was as good to me as if I had been
her own son. Some time in the 12th month (called February) it pleased the Lord to
Restore me to my health again and about the latter end of the first month (called March)
1723, I came to live with John Willis the younger, in Thornbury Township, where I staid
till my 5 years servitude was expired, which was the 12th of the 9th Mo. (called Novem-
ber) 1727."

It may be explained that his first leaving home was without the knowledge
or consent of his master, and that to obtain his passage he sold his services for
five years after his arrival in Pennsylvania. It is even said that he changed
his name to avoid detection.

Benjamin Hawley was married on the 5th of March, 1730. to Dinah Ga-
biter, daughter of Jolin Gabiter, of the parish of Giles-in-the-Fields, London.
In September, 1735. he made a voyage to liis native land and spent the winter
there, and on his return rented a plantation in the forks of Brandywine (West
Bradford), till 1743. when he removed to East Bradford and followed farm-
ing until 1757. He next taught school two years in Birmingham, and thert
went again to England to look after an estate left him by his sister, Susanna
Arrowsinith. Returning to America near the close of 1759, he made his
home with his son, Benjamin, at times, and taught school at Birmingham in
the intervals. His wife died 11 mo. 26, 1761, in her sixty-third year, and on
the 20tli of .^Ih month, 1763, he was married at Birmingham Meeting to
Catharine Hillborn. He continued to teach school until 1769, when he made
a third voyage to the place of his birth. .\ few of the last years of his life
were spent in the home of his son, Joseph, in West Bradford, where he died
7 mo. 29, 1782, and was buried at Birmingham Meeting. His widow died 5
mo. 13. 1789, aged ninety-three years and three months.

By his first wife he had six children: i. Benjamin, born November 18,
1730: died 10 mo. 2(\ 1815: see forward. 2. Mary, born October 3, 1732;
married Hugh Kirgan. 3. Joseph, born March 21, 1735: married Elizabeth
Siiackman : died 11 mo. 21, 1817. 4. William, born September 17, 1737; died
6 mo. 2, 1826; married Hannah Taylor, Elizabeth Evcnson and Plicbe Hoopes.
5. Susanna, born March 28, 1740: died 7 mo. 21, 1770; married Christopher
Nupher. 6. John, born March 11, 1743: probably died young. The births of
the above children were entered in a Bible, printed 1599, which was given to
the father by his sister, Mary Hawley. February 13, 1735-6. Benjamin Haw-
ley was admitted to membership with Friends at Birmingham, 3 mo. 10, 1763.
Benjamin Hawley Jr. was admitted into membership at Bradford Meet-

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ing. I mo. 15, 1756, and was married there. 4 mo. 22, 1756, to Mary, daughter
of Robert Johnson, of East Bradford, said to have been from England, and
Katherine (Knott) Johnson, his wife. They settled on his farm in East Brad-
ford, just across the Brandywine from his brother, Joseph. They had four-
teen children: i. Caleb, born 4 mo. 23, 1757: married Hannah Battin, 5 mo.
30, 1782. 2. Thomas, born 12 mo. 6, 1758; died 4 mo. 17, 1781, unmarried.
3. Joseph, born 6 mo. 6, 1760: died 10 mo. 5, 1856; see forward. 4. Robert,
born 3 mo. 28, 1762; married Patience Yearsley, 11 mo. 21, 1787. 5. Rachel,
born 8 mo. 3, 1763; married Arthur McCann. 6. Hannah, born 4 mo. 7,
1766; unmarried in 1807. 7. Mary, born 9 mo. 2, 1767: married John Ingram.
8. Lydia, born 2 mo. 28, 1769: died 12 mo. 28, 1770. 9. Susanna, born 9 mo.
II, 1770; married Elisha Davis, 12 mo. 12, 1793. 10. Tamer, born 5 mo. 2,
1772; married Joshua Hicklin, 12 mo. 17, 1801. 11. Rebecca, born i mo. 9,
1774; died 3 mo. 18, 1859, unmarried. 12. Dinah, born i mo. 18, 1776; mar-
ried John Hicklin, 5 mo. 21, 1801. 13. Benjamin, born 5 mo. 18, 1777; died
8 mo. 17, 1857; married Deborah Hoopes. 14. Phebe, born i mo. 14, 1779;
died 2 mo. 11, 1782. The mother of these children died 4 mo. 27, 1822, in her
eighty-ninth year.

Joseph Hawley, the third child, was married, 5 mo. 23, 1798, at Nantmeal
Meeting, to Rebecca Meredith, born 8 mo. 10, 1766, died 6 mo. 12, 1851, daugh-
ter of Simon and Dinah (Pugh) Meredith, of Coventry. They settled in
Uwchlan township, and Joseph died at Lionville in his ninety-seventh year,
having been blind for several years. They had children: i. Mary, born 3
mo. 2, 1799; died unmarried, 8 mo. 27, 1821. 2. Simon, born 4 mo. 6, 1801 ;
died 7 mo. 26, 1863. He married Mary Lewis. 3. Benjamin, born 4 mo. 13,
1803; died 7 mo. 27, 1850. He married Alary Beitler. 4. Joel, see forward.

5. Jesse, born 2 mo. 14, 1806; died 10 mo. 6, 1887. Married" Esther Meredith,
and had : Jesse G., deceased, who was the proprietor of the Reading "Eagle."

6. Dinah, born 10 mo. 30, 1808; married, 2 mo. 17, 1830, Charles Moore, and
had a son : Henry J., who was engineer of the city of Pittsburgh at the time
of his death, 1872.

Joel Hawley, son of Joseph and Rebecca (Meredith) Hawley, was born
10 mo. 7, 1804: died 4 mo. 8, 1883. After his marriage he was a merchant in
Lionville, Uwchlan township. In 1871 he was elected an associate judge of the
courts of Chester county for a term of five years, and was the last person to
hold that position, the office being abolished by the new constitution. He and
his wife retired to West Chester, where their deaths occurred but a few hours
apart, and they were buried in one grave at Oaklands Cemetery.

Joel Hawley married, 12 mo. 11, 1833, Catharine B. Williamson, who died
4 mo. 7, 1883. Children : Hannah Mary, who married Levi C. Griffith, of Ox-
ford : Joseph Williamson, see forward ; Samuel W., married Ellen Lewis and
lived in Media.

Colonel Joseph Williamson Hawley, son of Joel and Catharine B. (Wil-
liamson) Hawley, was born in Lionville, Chester county, Pennsylvania, July
14, 1836. His early boyhood was passed in the public schools and in the coun-
try store owned by his father. His further education was received in the
schools of Jonathan Cause and Dr. Franklin Taylor, and at the West Chester
Academv, then under the charge of Professor William F. Wyers, A-Ir. Haw-
ley spent one year at each of these schools, and in the interim taught two
years in the public schools. At the close of the term with Professor Wyers, the
latter offered him the position of assistant teacher, which was accepted, and he
remained in that institution until i860, when he received the appointment of
paying teller in the National Bank of Chester county, and at once entered upon
the duties of that position. He was thus engaged during the early part of the

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civil war. when President Lincoln called for troops to repel the rebel army
which, under General Lee, was advancing into Pennsylvania. His patriotism
aroused, he obtained permission from the board of directors to recruit a com-
pany of soldiers to aid in the protection of the state. In ten days the required
number of men, one hundred, were enlisted, met at Downingtown, and organ-
ized by the election of Joseph W. Hawley as captain, Allen M. Davis as first
lieutenant, and Charles W. Roberts as second lieutenant, and immediately
afterward took train for Camp Curtin, at Harrisburg, where Captain Hawley
and the other officers received their commissions August 12, 1862, from Gov-
ernor A. G. Curtin.

Captain Hawley's company was one of the first ten to arrive at Harris-
burg. and these were formed into the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regi-
ment. Pennsylvania \'olunteers. The regiment, under command of Captain
Hawley, was transported to Washington, where it became a part of the Army
of the Potomac, then in motion to meet General Lee's army moving northward.
On August 16, Captain Hawley received from Governor Curtin his commis-
sion as colonel, and he led his regiment into the battle of Antietam on Septem-
ber 17, 1862, being placed in position at the extreme right of the line. By nine
o'clock in the morning the regiment was under a heavy fire in what is known as
the "Bloody Cornfield," where it lost many killed and wounded. Among the
latter was Colonel Hawley, who received a bullet in his neck, and was carried
of? the field to the Miller house, but, as that building was within range of the
enemy's heavy guns, the wounded were carried back into the woods and finally
conveyed to Boonsboro. After being sufficiently recovered. Colonel Hawley
was removed to his home in Lionville. The bullet still remains imbedded in
one of the bones of his neck. Upon recovery, Colonel Hawley rejoined the
regiment at Harper's Ferry, and served with it imtil it was honorablv dis-
charged, May 17, 1863.

Returning to his duties with the Bank of Chester county. Colonel Hawley
remained but one day. when the governor of the state called for additional
troops to repel a second invasion which General Lee was then projecting north-
ward. In one day one thousand troops were raised in Chester county and for-
warded to Harrisburg the same night. The Twenty-ninth Emergency Regi-
ment was formed partly from Delaware county men, and on June 19, 1863.
Colonel Hawley was again commissioned colonel. He was assigned to the
command of a brigade consisting of his own and two New York regiments,
and to him General Couch conunitted the protection of the bridges of the Penn-
sylvania railroad against their threatened destruction. Upon the retreat of
Lee from Gettysburg, Colonel Hawley was ordered to follow and harass his
rear, and he moved with such celerity that he reached the Potomac the day
previous to Lee's crossing, and his troops engaged in a slight skirmish at Clear
Spring.

Returning to his home, Colonel Hawley resumed his duties in the bank,
where he remained until January i, 1864. On that date the First National
Bank, of West Chester, was organized and, being offered a more liberal salary,
he accepted a similar position in this. On February i, he was invited to assist
in the organization of the First National Bank, of Media, which was opened
March 21, 1864, witli Colonel Hawley as cashier, a position he held until the
death of its ]>residenl. Thomas J. Haldeman, in 1894, when Colonel Hawley
was chosen to fill the vacant office. This he did to the great benefit of the in-
stitution until his resignation from office October i, 1906, since wliich time he
has lived a retired life. The name of Colonel Hawley appears among the di-
rectors of a number of other institutions, in all of which he has taken an active
part. ( )ne of hi^ favorite fields of nsefulne^s is the Hnuse of Refuge, at Glen

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Mills, of which he has been a director and one of the most hberal and zealous
patrons and friends for many years.

Colonel Hawiey married, October fi. 1864, Anna, daughter of Levis and
Ann ( Mcllvain) I\Iiller, of Media. They had one child : i\Iary Miller, born
April 14, 1868, married, November 15, 1893, Justice AL Thompson, of Phila-
delphia.

The Kreeger family, which has been prominent in Philadel-
KREEGER phia and vicinity for the last half century, traces its ancestry
to a long line of German forbears, who in their native coun-
try belonged to the class upon which rests the entire superstructure of German
prosperity and prominence ; upon which is based her military and mercantile
prowess ; and which has raised Germany to the height of a leading world pow-
er. Many of the traits conspicuous in these ancestors remain in the family to
the present day and have made the three American generations prominent in
their dififerent spheres of life.

(I) Charles August Kreeger. the immigrant ancestor of the family, set-
tied in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, upon his arrival in this country, and imme-
diately established a grocery and provision business, which he personally con-
ducted and which proved highly remunerative, owing to his good business qual-
ities and management. He married Henrietta Dubeoron, who bore him five
children, namely: i. Wilhelmina, married Henry Schulke ; resides in Philadel-
phia. 2. Henrietta, married John Culp ; both are now deceased. 3. Edward
Charles, married Sallie Pancoast ; both are now deceased. 4. Theodore E., of
whom further. 5. Albert John, resides in Cynwyd. Montgomery county, Penn-
sylvania; married (first) Clara B. Hag}-, deceased ; married (second) Margaret
C. Evans, deceased. The father of these children died July i, 1894, the mother
died August 8, 1894.

(H) Theodore F. Kreeger. son of Charles August and Henrietta (Du-
beoron) Kreeger, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 2, 1848, died
in Norwood, Pennsylvania, October 2, 1907. He obtained his early education
in the public schools of Philadelphia, his studies being interrupted by the out-
break of the civil war, in which he entered and served with the Thirty-third
Pennsylvania X'olunteer Militia and Battery I, Third Pennsylvania Volunteer
Heavy Artillery, discharging his duties with promptness and efficiency. After
the war he engaged in the manufacture of paper boxes, under the firm name of
Kreeger & Connolly, which business is still conducted by his estate. He was
a member of the school board of Ridley township for fifteen years. He was a
prominent member of the Lutheran Church, holding the office of elder. He
married (first) Martha J. Roberts, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Feb-
ruary 22, 1847, died at Norwood, Pennsylvania, March 27, 1890, daughter of
Robert and Sarah (Davis) Roberts, the former named of whom was killed in
the Mexican war. and the latter named was born in Philadelphia, February
23, 1816, died there, October 28, 1871. He married (second) Emma Davis,
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 31, 1851, daughter of Michael and
Amelia Davis, both deceased. Mrs. Kreeger .survived her husband, and resides
at the homestead, Norwood. Pennsylvania. Children of first wife: i. Theo-
dore F., died in infancy. 2. Theodore F., of whom further. 3. Charles
Strouse, married Maude C. G. Seger : children: Martha J. R. and Dorven
Theodore: they reside in California. 4. William R., married Elsie M. Tor-
pey ; resides in Philadelphia. 5. Lillian C, resides at the old homestead, Nor-
wood. 6. H. Allan, also resides at tlie old homestead.

(HI) Theodore F. Kreeger, son of Theodore F. and Martha J. (Roberts)

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Kreeger, was born in Philadelphia, Fenns^vlvania, July 20, 1871. He attended
the public school at Norwood, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, and was grad-
uated from the Ridley Park high school in the class of 1887. After graduation
he entered the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, which he
served in various capacities for twenty-five years, resigning his railroad posi-
tion to accept the office of Register of Wills and Clerk of the Orphans" Court
of Delaware county, to which offices he was elected in 191 1. He is a Republi-
can in politics and has been actively connected with the political organization
of his locality ever since attaining his majority. He has been auditor of Ridley
township, and for ten years was a school director of the borough of Norwood,
serving nine years as secretary and one year as president, declining re-election
the following term. He has been for seventeen years a member of the Dela-
ware County Republican Executive Committee, being treasurer for fourteen
years of that time. He is a director of the Norwood Building and Loan Asso-
ciation. He is affiliated with several fraternal and social orders, among them
being Prospect Lodge, No. 578, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he has
been secretary for twenty years ; Chester Lodge, No. 488, Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks; Chester Castle, Knights of the Golden Eagle; Nor-
wood Assembly, Artisans' Order of Mutual Protection ; Norwood Fire Com-
pany, No. I ; Young Men's Republican Club of Chester ; the Chester Club,
and the Republican Club of Media.

Mr. Kreeger married, October 7, 1896, Emma A. Smythe, born at Wilkes
Barre, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, February 8, 1873, daughter of James
C. and Mary Elizabeth (Hay) Smythe, who were the parents of three other
children, namely: Anna Elizabeth, married William A. Halleck ; Maud, mar-
ried H. K. Von Hottenstein ; Claude M., married Anna Padburg. James C.
Smythe was born in Wales, died in Mexico, aged forty years ; he was a coal
operator. His wife was born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, now deceased.
Child of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore F. Kreeger : Martha Marion, born Novem-
ber 2, 1897, a student at Friends Central School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Kreeger, his wife and daughter are members of Immanuel Lutheran
Church of Norwood, Pennsylvania.

The name of McClenachan, which has been known in
McCLENACHAN this country since the middle of the eighteenth cen-
tury, is probably of Scotch or Irish origin, although
the earliest bearers of it in this country, came here from England.

(I) William McClenaclian, the immigrant ancestor of the family, came
to this country about 1759, with his brothers and a sister, namely: John, Blair
and Anna. They were of the Presbyterian faith. William McClenachan mar-
ried and had children : William, see forward ; John ; Anna ; and Robert. He
came as a missionary of the Presbyterian Church and settled in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, where he formed a church which was the first of that faith in
that city.

(II) William (2), son of William (i) McClenachan, was born in Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in mercantile business. He also
was a Presbyterian. He married Anna .Stewart.

(III) George B., son of William and Anna (Stewart) McClenachan,
was born in Philadelphia, where he was a bookkeeper. He was a member of
the Presbyterian Church. He married Isabella Kerr, born in Philadelphia,
May 25, 1802. They had one child, George B.

(IV) George B. (2), son of George B. (i) and Isabella (Kerr) Mc-
Qenachan, was born in Philadelphia, December 20, 1826. His occupation was

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that of cooper and gauger. During the Civil War he was a member of the
Union Corps for a short period of time, but was incapacitated for further ser-
vice by a gun shot wound received in his hand. His pohtical affiliations were
with the Republican party. In religion he is a member of the Presbyterian
Church. Mr. McClenachan married at West Farms, New York, September
I, 1857, Mary Booth, born at West Farms, June 28, 1840, a member of the
Episcopal Church. They have had children : W. I. Blake, see forward ;
George Booth, born in Philadelphia, July 19, i860; Samuel Clark, also born
in Philadelphia, December 19, -1862.

(V) W. I. Blake, son of George B. and Mary (Booth) McClenachan,
was born in West Farms, Westchester county, New York, July 3, 1858. His
education, which was a practical one. was acquired in the public schools of
Philadelphia, whither his parents had removed, and in Becks' Quaker School.
Under the able supervision of his father, he learned the trade of a cooper and
guager, but abandoned this about 1885, and engaged in the real estate business.
His career has been intimately connected with the public matters of the State
of Pennsylvania, as the following record shows. He was Deputy Recorder of
Deeds from January i, 1890, to 1898; in the Department of Internal AfTairs,
Harrisburg, from 1899 to 1901 ; and Deputy Recorder of Deeds since 1901.
In the field of real estate he has been one of the leaders in progressive meth-
ods. On a fourteen acre tract of land in Lower Chichester township, he built
between thirty and forty modern two-story houses, making a great improve-
ment in that section, and he has named it McClenachan Terrace. He is also
one of the directors of the Delaware County Building Association. Mr. Mc-
Clenachan has always been a staunch supporter of the principles of the Re-
publican party, and in religion he is a member of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. Fraternally he is associated with L. H. Scott Lodge, No. 352, Free
and Accepted Masons of Chester, and Chester Lodge, No. 488, Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks.

Mr. McQenachan married (first) in Philadelphia, August i, 1883, Ella
B., daughter of John W. and Mary Barry: he married (second) in Philadel-
phia, October 9, 1909, Elizabeth, born in Belfast, Ireland, daughter of Wil-
liam and Orcilla E. Hollywood. Children, all by first marriage: Ella Barry,
born May 5, 1884, was graduated from the Chester High School, and is a
school teacher ; William Blake, born March 13, 1886, was also graduated from
the Chester High School, and is now a lawyer: Mary Booth, born May 15,
1888, was graduated from the West Chester Normal School, and is a school
teacher.

The name of Flounders is in all probability of English
FLOUNDERS origin, and bearers of it have been settled in Pennsylvania

for some generations.
(I) William L., son of Edward Flounders, was born in Edgemont town-
ship. Castle Rock, Pennsylvania, where he was educated in the common school
of that section. This was a round school house, the one room being three-
cornered in shape. Upon the completion of his education he found employ-
ment with a butcher, and was engaged in the provision trade from that time
until he formed a connection with the Baldwin Locomotive Engine Works,
where he became the foreman of a gang of men. In politics he was a Repub-
lican, and in religious affiliation, a Methodist. He married Eliza Worrell, a
member of the Baptist Church. She is a daughter of James Worrell, a farm-
er on the Rose Tree road in Upper Providence, who died at the age of seventy-
six years. Mr. Worrell married Mary Newson, and they had children : Eliza-

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beth : Eliza and Penrose, twins: May: and Hannah. Mr. and Mrs. Flounders^
had children, of whom the last four named are now deceased: W. Howard,
see forward; Ada Mae, Weldon S.. Clyde ;\I., Charles B. J., Ella, Edward,
Sarah. Penrose.

(II) W. Howard, son of William L. and Eliza (Worrell) Flounders,
was born in Edgemont township. Castle Rock, Delaware county, Pennsylvania,
January 30, 1881. He was one and one-half years of age at the time his par-
ents removed to Media, Pennsylvania: he attended the schools of that town.
His first position after leaving school, was as a clerk in a grocery store, a
business with which he was identified for a period of seven years. Having by
this time accumulated a considerable capital, Mr. Flounders decided to estab-
lish himself in business independently. He had made careful and shrewd ob-
servations as to what would be apt to be the most profitable, and finally opened
a store which- he called "The Candy Shop" which is well and luxuriously
equipped in the most modern manner as a candy and ice cream store. The
successful results he has already achieved attest to the wisdom of his decision.
It is one of the most prosperous places of business in the town, and in all prob-
ability will have to be enlarged in the near future. Mr. Flounders, who takes
a lively interest in all athletic sports, has been manager of the Media Base
Ball Team for one season. In his political affiliations he is Republican, but as
yet has never aspired to public office. He and his wife are members of the
Methodist Church, in whose interests they are active workers.

]\Ir. Flounders married, June i, 1904, Adeline Lewis, who was born in the
city of Philadelphia. She is" the daughter of Henry Smith Lewis, who was
born in Philadelphia, where he was a stationary engineer, and died in Chester
at the age of fifty-six years. Mr. Lewis married Esther Wilkinson, who was
born in Media, and died in Chester, in 1910, at the age of seventy-six years.
They had children as follows, the last two now deceased: Mary May, Eliza-
beth'. Lavinia, Alice Laura, Adeline, mentioned above: William, Ellen.

Joseph Lewis, grandfather of Mrs. Frances D. (Lewis)
TWADDELL Twaddell, of West Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, was born in

Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and was engaged in farming
after his removal to Newtown township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. He
married Elizabeth, daughter of Caleb Yarnall. in 1788, and both died at their
homestead in Newtown, their deaths occurring one week apart. Their chil-
dren were: Caleb Y. ; John P., a physician: James J., of whom further;
Joseph ; Eliza ; Reuben E. : all deceased.

Tames J. Lewis, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Yarnall) Lewis, was born
in Newtown township. Delaware county, Pennsylvania, April 13, 1803, died in
the same town. May 19, 1883. He was a selfmade man in the best and highest
sense of the word. Public-spirited to a degree, the value of his counsel was
appreciated at its true worth. It was largely owing to his instrumentality that
the county seat of Delaware county obtained its present favorable location.
He was a member of the State Legislature, and served as a Director of the
Poor for many years. His political affiliations were with the Republican party.
He married Lydia D., born November 25, i8og, died March 18, 1871, daugh-
ter of William and Anna Crawford, January 12, 1831. William Crawford, a
farmer of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, was the son of David and Lydia
(Lloyd) Crawford, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, who were married in Old
Christ Church, Philadelphia, on the 12th day of August, 1756. Anna Craw-
ford was the daughter of Benjamin and Frances Davis, of Radnor, Delaware
county, Pennsylvania. The children of James J. and Lydia D. Lewis were:

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Frances D., of whom further ; Eliza Emily, deceased, married J. P. Twaddell ;
Anna Crawford, deceased ; iMary Davis.

Frances D., daughter of James J. and Lydia D. (Crawford) Lewis, was
She married, June 4, 1856, Dr. Lewis Henry Twaddell, born in West Philadel-
born in Newtown township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, October 30, 1831.
phia, Pennsylvania, July 22, 1828. Not wishing to follow his profession, he
was farmer and was greatly interested in the raising of fine cattle, and was the
first person to import a cow from the Island of Jersey into the state of Penn-
sylvania, and this breed of cattle have now become world famous. His father,
John Pawling Twaddell, was born near Chadds Ford, Delaware county, Penn-
sylvania, was an iron merchant in Philadelphia, and lived in that city until his
death in 1844. In 1825 he married Lydia B. Lewis, born in what is now West
Philadelphia, died there, January 20, 1886. Their children were : Dr. Lewis
Henrj', George W., Thomas P., Emma L. Children of Dr. Lewis Henry and
Frances D. (Lewis) Twaddell: Anna Crawford, Ellen W., Lucy G., Frances
L., Mary L., Horace G., a sketch of whom follows this in the work.

Horace G. Twaddell, whose beautiful home is one of the
TWADDELL show places of Springfield township, Delaware county,

Pennsylvania, is a member of a well known family of that
section of the country. His parentage will be found in the sketch which
precedes this.

He was born in West Philadelphia, June 13, 1871, and his personal inter-
ests have always centered in his native state. His elementary education was
acquired in the public schools of West Philadelphia, and this was supple-
mented by attendance at Pierce's Business College, at the corner of Ninth
and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia. Upon the completion of his education he
was engaged in building operations for a period of seven years, then took up
farming, locating in Nether Providence, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, and
was thus successfully occupied for a period of sixteen years. He then pur-
chased a farm of fifty acres in Springfield township, on which his present
home is situated. The location is an ideal one, on very high ground overlook-
ing the new short line trolley from Sixty-ninth street to Media. He has made
many improvements since locating here, and his residence is a most commo-
dious one, equipped with all the conveniences which are necessary to the mod-
ern idea of solid comfort. He is Republican in politics but has never cared to
hold public office. Mr. Twaddell married, December 16, 1896, Adelaide J.
Selfridge, born in Bethlehem, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania. She is the daugh-
ter of General James L. Selfridge, also a native of Lehigh county, who was
president of the Lehigh Navigation Company, and whose death occurred in
Philadelphia in 1894. He married Emma Butler, born in Philadelphia, and
had children : James L. Jr., married Julia Todd ; Harriet, unmarried, resides
in Media ; Adelaide J., see above ; Franklin B., deceased. The mother resides
in Media. Mr. and Mrs. Twaddell have an only child, Crawford L., born
March 12, 1898. They are members of the Presbyterian church at Swarth-
more, and Mr. Twaddell is a member of the Rose Tree Fox Hunting Club,
and has had charge of the race meetings for many years. He is a man of
warm sympathies, liberal in his charities, and his benefactions are bestowed
without ostentation. Cordial in his manner and of unbounded hospitality, Mr.
Twaddell has numerous and sincere friends, and his upright life has earned
him the respect and esteem of all who know him.

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The Smith family, represented in the present generation by
SMITH James H. Smith, an active and prominent citizen of Lima, is one
of the oldest and most honored in Delaware county, and it has
been conspicuous in its many generations for men of sterling character and
capability of a high order, which has been the means of bringing to them af-
fluence, position and friends.

The first ancestor of the family of whom we have definite information
was John Smith, who received an original grant from William Penn for seven
hundred acres in Edgemont township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, which
was gradually divided among his descendants down to the time of the father
of J. Harvey Smith.

James Smith, a descendant of the above named John Smith, was born in
Edgemont township, Pennsylvania, there spent his life and died. He married
Mary Pyle and among their children was Joshua, of whom further.

Joshua Smith, son of James and Mary (Pyle) Smith, was born in
Edgemont township, Pennsylvania, November 8, 1801, died November 26,
1873, in the same place. He was a farmer. He married Hannah Worrall
Broomall, born January 6, 1806, died March 18, 1867, daughter of Daniel and
Sarah (Worrall) Broomall, and granddaughter of David and Martha Broom-
all. Children : Sarah Ann, born April 24, 1825, died August 2, 1901 ; Mary
Jane, born September 23, 1827; James Monroe, of whom further; Eliza Pyle,
born in 1832; Hannah B., born in 1834; Mattie, born December 18, 1837, mar-
ried Joseph P. Yarnall ; Americus X'espucius, born in 1840 ; Lydia Emma,
born March 30, 1843, died August 29, 1854; Wesley Worrall, born Alarch 18,
1846. Mr. Smith wa> a Whig in oolitic;;.

James Monroe Smith, son of Joshua and Hannah W. (Broomall) Smith,
was born in Edgemont township, Pennsylvania, May 5, 1830. He was reared
in his native township, and educated in the public schools and Unionville Acad-
emy, Chester county, which was under the principalship of Milton Durnall.
Foi nine years, from 185 1 to 1800. he taught school in Edgemont, Thornbury,
Middletown and Upper Providence, and then returned to the homestead farm
and assisted in the cultivation of it imtil 1878, when he was appointed steward
of the alms house, which position he held for five years, resigning on account
of the death of his wife. He then made his home with his brother on the
homestead farm, remaining until 1889, but was not engaged in active business,
devoting considerable time to traveling. He served as president, superintend-
ent, member of board of directors, secretary and treasurer of the Cumberland
Cemetery Association, was justice of the peace for thirty-seven years in
Edgemont and Middletown townships, was a member of the Home Guard,
but never in action, and in 1908 was elected director of the poor, which posi-
tion he held until his death. He was a member of the Sons of Temperance,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Improved Order of Red Men, Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons and Mark Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. He mar-
ried (first) March 14, 1861, Anna Laura Pyle, born August 30, 1835, died June
28, 1862; (second) April 19, 1866, Mrs. Elizabeth Ashbridge Green, born
September 22, 1831, died May 12, 1881, daughter of John and Elizabeth Wood,
the former named having been engaged in the powder business in state of
Delaware, where he died ; he and his wife were the parents of six children :
James, Aaron, John Jr., Elizabeth A., Mary and Sarah. Children of James
Monroe Smith; i. Anna Laura, born November i, 1867; married, June 4,
1890, David A. Vernon, son of David A. and Annie Jane (Bacon) Vernon;
children ; May Elizabeth, born May 13, 1891 ; David Ashbridge, October 18,
1892; James Monroe, June 15, 1896; Clinton Wesley, August 24, 1898; Annie
Alma, June 12, 1900; Forrest Larnize, in 1903. 2. James Harvey, of whom

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further. James Monroe Smith died in Middletown township, November 26,
1910, mourned by all who had the honor of his acquaintance.

James Harvey Smith, son of James Monroe and Elizabeth A. (Wood-
Green) Smith, was born in Edgemont township, Delaware county, Pennsyl-
vania, August 4, 1869. He spent his early life there on the homestead farm,
attended public school until twelve years of age, then Lock Haven Normal
School, from which he graduated in 1888: then Lafayette College, of Easton,
Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1894 ; then Ohio Wesleyan Uni-
versity, of Delaware, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1898; then matricu-
lated in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, entering the Medical
Professional School, where he studied for three years, but on account of ill
health was forced to leave before his graduation. He then spent one year as
reporter on the "Morning Republican," of Chester, giving entire satisfaction
in the performance of his duties. In 1900 he was elected jury commissioner
and served three years, was appointed deputy prothonotary and deputy clerk
of the court in 1902, in which capacities he served until 1913, when he was
elected to the offices of prothonotary and clerk of the court, his nomination for
office being without opposition, this fact being an eloquent testimonial of his
qualifications for the position. His political beliefs have always been in har-
mony with the principles of the Republican party, being secretary of the Re-
publican Executive Committee of Delaware county for a period of eleven
years, and he has co-operated with the organization since attaining his major-
ity. He is secretary and treasurer of the Cumberland Cemetery Company;
president of Media Republican Club, and a member of the following organ-
izations : George W. Bartram Lodge, No. 298, Free and Accepted Masons, of
Media ; Chapter, No. 234, Royal Arch Masons, of Media ; Tammanade Tribe,
No. 149, Improved Order of Red Men, of Edgemont township ; Edgemont
Council, No. 833, Independent Order of American Mechanics ; Chester Lodge,
No. 488, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Qiester Aerie, No. 159,
Fraternal Order of Eagles; Chester Lodge, Forest No. 21, Tall Cedars of
Lebanon; Chester Lodge, No. 285, Royal Order of Moose; Alpha Boat Club,
West End Boat Club of Chester, and several other social and political organ-
izations.

Mr. Smith married, August 22, 1893, Grace Estelle Hoskins, of Berwyn,
Chester county, Pennsylvania, daughter of William Henry, of Aston township,
and Sarah Elizabeth (James) Hoskins, of Upper Providence township, the
former named a carpenter and builder, still living in Berwyn. Children of
Mr. and Mrs. J. Harvey Smith : Minerva Ella, born June 19, 1895, and
Beatrice Manilla, born August 13, 1898, at the time General Dewey entered
the harbor at Manila Bay, died August 7, 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are
members of the Methodist Episcopal church, taking a keen interest in the
work of the various societies connected with it, and are equally prominent in
the social life of the community.

Born in the neighboring State of Delaware, and a Pennsyl-
ROBINSON vanian by adoption, yet the boyhood of V. Gilpin Robinson
was spent in localities far remote from those states. But from
the age of fifteen years he has been a resident of Delaware county, Pennsyl-
vania, and since 1900 a leading member of the Philadelphia bar.

Mr. Robinson is a son of Jacob F., and a grandson of Joseph Robinson,
of English ancestry, both native born sons of the state of Delaware. Joseph
Robinson was well known in Wilmington and Philadelphia, especially in ship-
ping circles, he having been owner and operator of a line of packets plying on

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the Delaware between those cities for many years. This Hne, known as Rob-
inson's Packets, was an important one and was a favorite passenger and freight
line of that day. He died in 1818, leaving a large family of children.

Jacob F., eldest son of Joseph Robinson, was born in Wilmington, Dela-
ware, there he was educated, married, and spent the earlier years of his man-
hood. Later he moved to the state of Indiana, thence to Paris, Bourbon coun-
ty, Kentucky, but on the outbreak of the Civil War returned east, settling in
Philadelphia. Later he moved to Chester, Delaware county, Pennsylvania,
where he died in 1867. His wife, Rebecca Ellen Little, was born in York,
Pennsylvania.

Vincent Gilpin, eldest of the five children of Jacob F. Robinson, was born
in Wilmington, Delaware, August 21, 1851. He accompanied the family in
their travels through Indiana, Kentucky and Pennsylvania, obtaining in vari-
ous schools a good English education. At the age of sixteen years his father
died and he became the head of the family.' His first position was as clerk in
the office of O. F. Bullard, prothonotary of Delaware county, with offices in
the court house at Media. Here he obtained his ambition to become a lawyer
and two years later he resigned his clerkship and began study under the pre-
ceptorship of Edward A. Price, a capable lawyer of the Delaware county bar.
He passed the required examination, and on August 26, 1872, being then twen-
ty-one years of age, he was admitted to the bar. He at once began practice
in Media, continuing with Mr. Price for one year, then and until 1883, contin-
uing in practice alone. He quickly took a leading position at the Media bar,
and in 1S75 was elected district attorney of Delaware county, and in 1878 was
re-flccted. In 1876 he applied for and was admitted to practice at the Phila-
delphia bar, and from thai date has been in continuous practice in the Phila-
delphia and Delaware county courts, as well as all State and Federal courts of
the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In 1883 he formed a law partnership
with Horace P. Green, practicing until 1892 as Robinson & Green. After this
partnership was dissolved, Mr. Robinson continued to practice law in Media
until about 1894, when he became a member of Rich, Robinson & Boyer, of
Philadelphia, having offices at .Sixth and Chestnut streets. This firm dissolved
about 1895, and Mr. Robinson has been alone in practice ever since, and is
now located in the Stephen Girard Building. He has had a very successful
career as a lawyer, being especially strong in trial cases. He has been promi-
nentlv connected with important will cases, and has been uniformly successful
in his legal contentions. Perhaps his most notable case was the Letitia Robin-
son will case, tried in Media by Mr. Robinson, associated with his former law
partner, Mr. Green. This, one of the celebrated cases of Pennsylvania courts,
was begun on October 9, 1901, the verdict not being rendered until November
i6th following. The case was bitterly contested, and the victory brought Mr.
Robinson well deserved congratulation. He is learned in the law, carefully
prepares for his legal battles, and is most skillful in the application of his
knowledge.

A Republican from his youth, he was the youngest candidate ever pre-
sented for the office of District Attorney in Delaware county. His re-election
was a deserved recognition of the value of his services to the county as pros-
ecutor, and but for his youth he would have followed his second term by be-
ing elected county judge. He took active part in Delaware county poHtics dur-
ing his residence in Media, serving as secretary of the Republican County Com-
mittee, and sitting as delegate to many conventions of his party. In Novem-
ber, 1910, he was elected representative for the Second Delaware Legislative
District, serving on the committees on judiciary general, judiciary local, mili-
tary pensions and gratuities, public health and sanitation, and railroads. In

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1879 he began his long connection with the Pennsylvania National Guard. He
was commissioned in that year major and judge advocate, served in various
offices until July i, 1895, when he resigned as aide-de-camp with the rank of
captain on the staff of Brigadier General John W. Schall, commanding the
First Brigade.

Mr. Robinson has not confined his activity entirely to his profession, but
is interested officially with the Rittenhouse Trust Company of Philadelphia,
of which he was vice-president and solicitor, and he is also director, solicitor
and one of the incorporators of the Media Title and Trust Company. He is a
member of the Masonic order, belonging to George W. Bartram Lodge, No.
298, Free and Accepted Masons : Aledia Chapter, No. 234, Royal Arch Ma-
sons, of which he is past high priest : and is a thirty-second degree Mason of
Philadelphia Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. In religious faith
he is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and has served Christ
Church. Media, many years as a vestryman, and has held the same position af-
ter moving to Philadelphia, in St. James Church, Twenty-second and Walnut
streets. He is a member of the National, State and County Bar Associations,
and of many clubs and organizations, including the L^nion League. Lawyers
and Young Republican of Philadelphia, and the Historical Society of Penn-
sylvania. He is fond of travel, and his days "off duty" each year are
usually spent in touring the United States. Europe, China. Japan, or some oth-
er country whose history and people he wishes to become more familiar with.
This gives one a fair idea of Mr. Robinson's character ; he never does any-
thing solely because he will gain pleasure from the doing, but all his trips
and vacations are planned with the double motive, pleasure and benefit. He is
genial, friendly and generous, delights in association with his fellows ; sees
the good there is in men, and is always willing to "lend a hand" in any good
work. He is held in the highest esteem by his brethren of the bar and has
many friends.

He married, November 17. 1874, Sallie M. Baker, who died in 1883.
daughter of J. Mitchell Baker, of Chester county, and sister of Captain Jesse
M. Baker, a law student under his brother-in-law, Y. Gilpin Robinson, dis-
trict attorney of Delaware county, and a major in the United States service.
On December 5, 1894, Mr. Robinson married A. May, daughter of Dr. John
Whartenby, a well known Philadelphia physician ; she died February 8, 1902.
On July 16, 1908, he married Mary A. Kent, daughter of Thomas Kent, a
manufacturer of Clifton Heights, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. The fam-
ily home is at Clifton Heights, Delaware county.

The Daltry family, of which John Lewis Daltry, of Media,
DALTRY Delaware county, Pennsylvania, is a representative, is of Eng-
lish origin, the father of Mr. Daltry having come to this coun-
try about the middle of the nineteenth century.

James Daltry was born in Oldham, England, January 21, 1841, died in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 3, 1893. Until the age of eighteen
years he lived in England, where he was educated, then decided to come to the
United States. At first he lived in Philadelphia for a time, then removed to
St. Clair, where he found employment as a fireman at a furnace. Later he
took up mining in Schuylkill county, at which he continued until the strike
of 1874-75, when he removed with his family to Philadelphia, and the remain-
der of his life was spent in that city and Chester. He obtained a position
with the Frog & Switch Company of Philadelphia, and with other railroad
supply companies. He was a Republican in politics, but never held public

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office. Mr. Daltry married, October 14, 1866, Winifred Phillips, born in
Wales, July 4, 1844, and now living in Philadelphia, daughter of a miner in
Schuylkill county. Mr. and Mrs. Daltry had children : i. John Lewis, of whom
further. 2. Jennie, now deceased, was the wife of Thomas AI. iMudford, a
machinist, and lived in Philadelphia. 3. Alice, died at the age of two years.
4. James, died when he was about thirty-three years of age. 5. Paul, a
molder, married Margaret Vogel : lives in Philadelphia. 6. Elwood, engaged
in the insurance business ; married Mabel Spence ; lives in Philadelphia. The
father and mother of these children were members of the Primitive Metho-
dist church.

John Lewis, son of James and Winifred (Phillips) Daltry, was born in
St. Clair, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1868. The early years
of his life were spent in St. Clair, but he attended the public schools of Phila-
delphia, where he acquired an excellent and practical education. The first
position he occupied in his business career was that of messenger boy at Wan-
amaker"s. In 1881 he became an employe of the factory of the Frog & Switch
Company, where he worked at intervals for a period of twelve years. He
next entered the employ of Mr. Roach, the well known ship builder, and fol-
lowing this engagement was connected with work on the Chester lines of the
car trolley system. His duties, during the period he was with this company,
were varied and interesting, and his work took him in all directions from
Chester. In 1897 Mr. Daltry accepted a position under the County Commis-
sioners, remaining until December, 1907, when he was transferred to the pro-
thonotary's office at Media, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, where he is still
engaged. In political matters he is a Republican, and his religious adherence
is given to the Baptist denomination. He is a member, and has filled all chairs,
of the Order of Independent Americans, and the Improved Order of Red
Men, also a member of the Patriotic Order Sons of America and Command-
trv of same.

Mr. Daltry married, October 18, 1888, Clara E. Blizzard, born in
Chester, April I, i8')8. da ighter ot \\illiam and Elizabeth (Donaldson) Bliz-
zard, the former a lumber sorter, and stdl living at the Soldiers' Home, in
Hampton Roads, at the age of seventy-five years. Mrs. Daltry had sisters and
brothers: i. Mary, deceased, married George S. Brod. 2. Thomas, died in
early youth. 3. Frank Black, a pipe welder in Youngstown, Ohio ; married
Agnes Pollock. 4. Lillian Price, lives in Chester ; married Dr. F. L. Hamil-
ton, now deceased. 5. Harry, lives in Camden. Mr. and Mrs. Daltry have
had children, i. Lewis C, born August i, 1889; a clerk in Chester, where he
also lives; married Edna L. Pollock, and has two children: Louis C. Jr. and
Arthur Holmes. 2. James, born February 19. 1891 ; lives in Media and works
in a pattern shop; married Bertha E. Habersett. 3. Harry, born February
25, 1896. 4. Paul, born February 6, 1898. 5. Lillian, born July 23, 1904.
6. Jack, born December 23, 1906. 7. Frank, born .\ugust 16, 1908.

As superintendent of the Springfield Water Works, A. B.
CHEYNEY Cheyney is in charge of one of the most compact, complete and

best equipped water supply systems to be found anywhere. The
main building of the plant and pumping works is located near Springfield,
Delaware county, on Crum Creek, where the works were first established ; the
old ])lant having been superseded by the {^resent works. The buildings, of
tasteful design, are buih of dressed stone and surrounded by carefully kept
grounds. The machinery is of the most modern and wonderful construction,
and consists of four engines, one capable of pumping five million gallons of

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water daily, one of two and a half million gallons, one of two million gallons,
one of two million six hundred thousand gallons — four thousand eight hun-
dred and fifty horse power being necessary to drive these monsters. The
Springfield \\'ater Company controls the water rights of the district with pow-
ers to prevent pollution of the sources of supply. The system includes five res-
ervoirs and two stand-pipes, that supply the towns of Delaware county within
a radius of ten miles from the central station at Springfield. There the water
is impounded in a large settling basin, with a capacity of ten million gallons,
then passed through thoroughly modernly constructed sand filters to the sup-
ply reservoir, thence the gigantic pumps force it into the mains, clear, pure
and wholesome to the homes of the consumers. A daily analysis of the water
is made by a chemist, under the direction of the state board of health, and
every precaution made to insure absolute purity. The officials of the com-
pany are : Joseph H. Keen, president ; Bayard Hodge, secretary ; George
Bunting, treasurer ; H. P. Keen, general superintendent operating department ;
J. W, Ladoux, chief engineer; Arthur B. Cheyney, superintendent of the
Springfield Works ; George ]\Iitzky, division superintendent.

Arthur B. Cheyney, son of Charles B. M. and Sallie (Hall) Cheyney, was
born in Bethel township, Delaware county, January 25, 1865. His early edu-
cation was obtained in the public schools, after which he entered Drexel Insti-
tute, Philadelphia, from which he was graduated electrical engineer. After
graduation he was retained in the service of the institute as electrical engineer
for three years, going thence to a similar position at the Warden Power Build-
ing, in Philadelphia, remaining two years. After two years in the same capac-
ity at the Mutual Life building, Philadelphia, he became officially connected
with the Springfield Water Company, and in December. 1898, was ajipointed
to his present position, superintendent of the Springfield Works, a position he
most efficiently fills.

Mr. Cheyney is a Republican in politics and both he and his wife are mem-
bers of the Presbyterian church. He married (first) Clara Maxwell, (second)
in June, 1897, Margaret, daughter of Emil and Margaret (Love) Le Claire.
By the first marriage Mr. Cheyney has two children.

Originally of a Lycoming county family, Mr. William Harvey
SWANK Swank came to Delaware county about 1886. He is the son of
of John R. Swank, born near Shamokin, died at Pennsville,
Pennsylvania, in 1891. He was a wheelwright by trade, an ardent Democrat
and a member of the Lutheran church. His wife, Catherine Bussler, born in
Lycoming county, died in Pennsville: children: Edward, deceased: Henry, de-
ceased; Jeremiah; John; Jam.es: William Harvey (of whom further); Kate;
Regina, (deceased) ; Clara and Mary.

William PL Swank was born at Hartley Hall, Lycoming county, Pennsyl-
vania, April 8, 1862. He was educated in the public schools, finishing at the
County Normal School at Muncy. whence he was graduated with honor after
a special course. He engaged in teaching in Lycoming county, continuing for
several years, then coming to Springfield township, Delaware county, where
he has been engaged in teaching in the public schools. His record as an edu-
cator is of the best, the schools over which he has presided showing a marked
efficiency in scholarship and attendance. During his thirty-six years as an in-
structor^ I\Ir. Swank has missed but one day of a regular school session, a
most remarkable record and one showing his devotion to his chosen profes-
sion. He is one of the oldest teachers in point of service in Delaware county,
and is there thoroughly appreciated and highly respected, both as teacher, citi-

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zen and neighbor. He is a member of Cassia Lodge, No. 273, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons of Ardmore : Rose Tree Lodge, No. 275, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, of which he is a past noble grand.

Mr. Swank married in 1891, Ella, daughter of Samuel F. and Mary Eliz-
abeth (Leech) Pancoast, of an old Delaware county family. Children: Mary;
.Seth Ellsworth; Samuel Levis; Elizabeth: Martha: Laura and Ella, wife of
William Harvey Swank ; child : Viola. The family attend Friends' Meeting.

.-\mong the citizens of Lansdowne may be mentioned the
UNDERHILL name of Frederick S. Underbill, who belongs to that class
of men who are worthy of the respect and esteem of their
fellows, men who labor earnestly to build up our commerce and manufactures,
who give employment and labor to others, and whose efforts tend to im-
prove the section in which they reside.

Frederick S. Underbill was born in Montreal, Canada. November 12,
1865, son of John and Annie (Ireland) l^nderhill, who were born in Man-
chester, England, and Belfast, Ireland, respectively. They left their native
lands prior to their marriage, which took place in IMontreal. Canada, where
they resided until the year 1871, when they removed to Philadelphia, Pennsjd-
vania, and there he established in business as an optician, a profession he
studied in early life, and he continued along that line until his death in the
year 1877, survived by his wife, whose death occurred in 1910. aged about
seventy years. They were members of the Episcopal church, and Mr. Under-
bill was a member of the Benevolent Order of Buffaloes. Their family consisted
of four children; Clara, deceased; Frederick .S., of whom further; Morley,
deceased : John P., a lumberman, resides in Evergreen, North Carolina.

Frederick .S. Underbill attended the public schools in the neighborhood
of his home, and later, in order to supplement the knowledge thus gained,
was a pupil in the night school of the City Institute. Being deprived by death
of his father when he was only twelve years of age, he was early thrown upon
his own resources, beginning his career at that time by engaging as office boy
for the Baldwin Locomotive Works, remaining with them for four years, dur-
ing which time he was promoted from time to time until he became assistant to
the manager of the extra parts department. He then secured employment
with George I. McKelway, a chemist, remaining with him for three years. He
then became a manufacturer of umbrellas at No. 905 Vine street, Philadel-
phia, which business he disposed of after conducting it successfully for sev-
eral years, and then engaged as stenographer with Thomas Potter, Sons &
Company, serving in that capacity for some time. In 1888 he became asso-
ciated with James Strong & Company, lumber dealers, with whom he re-
mained for ten years, during which time he gained a thorough knowledge of
the business in all its details, and then felt competent to engage in business
on his own account, entering into partnership with R. Wyatt Wistar, under
the firm name of Wistar & Lhiderhill, conducting a wholesale lumber business.
A few years later a Mr. Nixon was admitted as a member of the firm
and the name was then changed to Wistar, LTnderhill & Nixon, which still
obtains. They have a mill in South Carolina and assembling yards in West
Virginia and Nashville, Tennessee, and from these they ship to the Middle
Atlantic and Eastern States, also to Canada, and having connections through-
out the entire United States are capable of filling orders of all kinds expedi-
tiously and efficiently. They make a specialty of hardwoods, having an ex-
tensive supply constantly on hanfl from which they fill their many orders
for this article. They have about twenty-five experienced men constantly

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on their payroll, and also give employment to many others when the necessity
arises. The members of the firm are men of the highest integrity and of un-
questioned business ability, and the large degree of success which has attended
their efforts is the natural sequence of events.

Mr. Underbill is prominent and active in business circles, and has been
chosen by his fellow business men to act as president of the Lumber Exchange
of Philadelphia, president of the Philadelphia Wholesale Lumber Dealers'
Association, and first vice-president of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso-
ciation, trustee of National Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association, in all of
which he is serving at the present time, and is also first vice-president of the
American Lumber Trades Congress and vice-president of the American For-
estry Association. He has served as school director of Lansdowne, where he
has resided since 1893, when at home, being elected on the Republican ticket.
He has attained prominence m the Masonic Order, affiliating with Washing-
ton Lodge, No. 39 : LTarmony Chapter, No. 52 ; Pennsylvania Commandery,
and Lulu Temple.

Mr. LTnderhill married, November. iSSfi, Hannah W. Dukes, a native of
Tuckahoe, New Jersey, daughter of Captain John M. Dukes, a sea captain.
Mr. and Mrs. Underbill have no children of their own, but they have adopted
as their f)wn two nieces and two nephews, namely : Rosalind W.. A. Morley,
Arthur B., Alma C. The young men are now in the senior and freshman
■classes, respectively, at Pennsylvania State College.

Prior to the arrival of William Penn, came Daniel Walton to
WALTON Pennsylvania, where he founded the family of Walton so well
and favorably known in Eastern Pennsylvania. He vv'as one of
four brothers: Nathaniel. Thomas, Daniel, and William, who arrived in New
Castle early in 1675. all young and unmarried men. From New Castle they pro-
ceeded along the Delaware in search of a place for settlement, carrying their
whole stock of farming and cooking utensils on their backs. While there is a
statement made that they settled at Byberry in 1675 and bestowed that name
in honor of their English home, the statement is controverted and later author-
ities state they settled there in 1682. which would make their arrival coinci-
dent with that of Penn. The four Waltons were sons of William Walton of
Oxhill, in the county of Warwick.

Daniel Walton, one of the four sons, was a well-to-do, res-
pected member of the Society of Friends, and lived a long and useful life. He
married Mary Lamb in 1688. died 1719, leaving six sons and a daughter, Mary.

Daniel (2) Walton, the second son of Daniel (i) Walton, married Eliz-
abeth Clifton, and spent his life in Byberry, a farmer and a Friend.

Daniel (3) Walton, only son of Daniel (2) Walton, married Ann Knight
and settled on the homestead farm in Byberry, where he died in 1776.

Daniel (4) Walton, eldest of the two sons of Daniel (3) Walton, settled at
Sandyford, near Philadelphia. He married Mary Woolens.

Charles D. Walton, son of Daniel (4) Walton, was a resident of Philadel-
phia. He married Henrietta F. Spittall.

Charles Spittall Walton, son of Charles D. and Henrietta (Spittall) Wal-
ton, was born in Philadelphia, April 16, 1862. He was educated in the city
schools, entered the University of Philadelphia, whence he was graduated
Bachelor of Science, class of 1882, having taken the mining engineering
course. He early in his business career became connected with the leather
manufacturing house of England, Walton & Company, successors to England
and Bryan, the original founders of the house, prior to the civil war. Begin-

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ning in an inferior position, Mr. Walton has advanced through successive
step? to the presidency of the company. He has been successful as an up-
builder of trade and during his connection with the company as executive, their
business has largely increased. The company is now erecting a large addition
to their building at Third and \'ine streets, which will, when completed, give
them greatly increased facilities for handling their constantly increasing busi-
ness. He has other large and varied business interests ; is president and direc-
tor of the Central Trust and Savings Company ; treasurer and director of the
Tanners [Mutual Fire Insurance Company: director of the Union National
Bank ; the National of the Northern Liberties ; the T'idelitv Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Company ; the Employers Indemnity Company and the American Bap-
tist Publication Society. In all these comjianies he takes active official interest
and is a prominent factor in shaping their business course.

He is a member of the Baptist church, an active helpful member and one
who by personal effort and example promotes the growth and extends the in-
fluence of his church. He is deeply interested in the work of the Young Men's
Christian Association. During the campaign for funds to erect the new associ-
ation building on Broad street, Philadelphia, he not only gave liberallv person-
ally, but entered into the campaign with all his energy aiid was very helpful. He
is a director of the Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association, and in
every department of the Christian work of the association has aided by freely
giving of his time and business sagacity. In political faith he is a Republican,
and for the past thirteen years has served as treasurer of the school board of
Wayne township, Delaware county, where he is now erecting a magnificent
country seat.

Through the Quaker emigrant. Daniel (i) Walton, Charles S. Walton
obtains membership in the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania ; his clubs are
the L-nion League and Manufacturers of Philadelphia.

Mr. Walton married. May 1 1, 1887. Martha, daughter of Thomas Y.
England. She is also a devoted member of the Baptist church, and co-oper-
ates with her husband in his Christian work ; children : Thomas E. ; Martha ;
Charles Spittall (2) and Joseph W.

The name of Furness, known wherever the English language
FURNESS exists in printed form, is worthily borne in the present by
\\' alter Rogers Furness, Horace Howard (2) Furness and
William Henry Furness, M. D. They are sons of Horace Howard (i) Fur-
ness, the world famous Shakespearean scholar and author; grandsons
of Rev. William Henry Furness, the equally eminent Unitarian divine, anti-
slavery advocate and author : great-grandsons of William, born March 3, 1767,
died April 8. 1836, and Rebecca (Thwing) Furness, of Medford, Massachu-
setts, great-great-grandsons of John, of Boston, born September 3, 1733, died
May 24, 1810, and Ann (Hurd) Furness, and great-great-great-grandsons of
Jonathan and Elizabeth (Millikcn) l-'urness. Jonathan Furness, of distin-
guished English ancestry, died in Boston in .April, 1745, married September 16,
1731, Elizabeth Alilliken, a sister of Mary Milliken, wife of his brother, Benja-
min.

Rev. William Henry Furness was born in Boston, Massachusetts, April
20, 1802, son of William and Rebecca (Thwing) Furness. He was a graduate
of Harvard College in 1820, studied theology at the School of Divinity, Cam-
bridge, and from 1825 to 1875 was pastor of the First Unitarian Church of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He as then made pastor emeritus and practically
retired from the ministry; during the next twenty-one years he preached fre-

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quently in various I'nitarian pulpits. He died in Philadelphia, January 30.
1896, at the great age of ninety-four years.

Harvard College conferred upon him in 1847 the degree of D.D., and
Columbia in 1887, that of LL.D. Dr. Furness belonged to the extreme hu-
manitarian school of Unitarian thinkers. He maintained the essential historic
truth of the Scriptures and accepted most of the miracles of the New Testa-
ment, accounting for them by the moral and spiritual forces of the Saviour,
whom he considered an exalted form of humanity. In his writing and preach-
ing, his constant endeavor was to obtain the historical truth and develop the
spiritual ideas relating to the life of Christ. He took an active interest in the
anti-slavery movement and ''wrought mightily" in the cause, both from the
pulpit and in the practical form of personal assistance to escaping slaves. In
1845 he became editor of an annual called the "Diadem," holding that position
three years. He published between 1835 and 1866: "Remarks on the Four
Gospels," "Jesus and His Biographers," "Domestic Worship," "A History of
Jesus," "Discourses," "Thoughts on the Life and Character of Jesus of Naza-
reth," "The Veil Partly Lifted Jesus Becoming Visible," "The Unconscious
Truth of the Four Gospels," "Jesus," "The Power of Spirit ^Manifest in Jesus
of Nazareth," "The Story of the Resurrection Told Once More," "Verses,
Translations and Hymns." His translations from the German are numerous ;
his translations of Schiller's "Song of the Bell" being considered the best in
the English language. He married in 1825, Annis Pulling Jenks.

A worthy son of the old divine followed his honored father in the public
eye, Horace Howard Furness. Ph.D., Litt.D., LL.D. He was born in Phila-
delphia, November 2, 1833, died in his native city, August 13, 1912. He was
a graduate of Harvard University 1854, spending the following two vears in
Europe. On his return he began the study of law and in 1859 was admitted
to the bar. An unfortunate loss of hearing prevented his following his chosen
career and altered his whole course of life and slowly cut him ofif from the
pleasures he loved most, music and dram.a. But it only altered his career and
.in another field he won imperishable honors. Barred by his deafness from
being a soldier, when he offered himself in 1861, Dr. Furness joined the San-
itary Commission, and in this service saw many of the battle fields of the civil
war, ministering to the sick and wounded. After the war he returned to Phil-
adelphia and began the work that later made him famous, his variorum edition
of Shakespeare, which is accepted m America, England, and by Shakespearean
scholars everywhere as the standard work of its kind, supplementing, as it
does. Malone's edition of 1821, with the results of Shakespearean study and
investigation during the last half of the nineteenth century and the first decade
of the twentieth. He published the first volume of the variorum edition,
"Romeo and Juliet." in 1871, and was at work on the sixteenth volume "Cym-
beline," at the time of his death. During the last seven years of his life he
was assisted by his son, Horace Howard (2), who completed his father's un-
finished work.

The first volume of the series was immediately greeted with warm ap-
preciation by the leading critics of America and England, and as each new vol-
ume appeared at intervals of from two to three years, it was enthusiastically
welcomed by scholars and critics. As the work progressed. Dr. Furness slight-
ly modified his manner of treatment, especially in the matter of the main text.
In the earlier volumes he constructed a text for himself by collation and com-
parison with others, giving other readings in his notes. This system he aban-
doned, and gave the main text, that of the first folio, pure and simple, with all
its errors and difficulties, the subsequent readings being given at the foot. A
reviewer in Blackwood's Magazine wrote in 1890 : "In what is called the

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Variorum Edition of Shakespeare, America has the honor of having produced
the very best and most complete edition, so far as it has gone, of our great
national poet. For text, illustration (happily not pictorial), commentary and
criticism, it leaves nothing to be desired. The editor combines with the pa-
tience and accuracy of the textual scholar, an industry which has overlooked
nothing of value that has been written about Shakespeare by the best German
and French, as well as English commentators and critics : and what is of no
less moment he possesses in himself a rare delicacy of literary appreciation
and breadth of judgment, disciplined by familiarity with all that is best in the
literature of antiquity as well as of modern times, which he brings to bear on
his notes with great effect." In the course of his work. Dr. Furness accumu-
lated a collection of Shakespearean material unequalled elsewhere in America.
He was a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, and took time from his im-
portant work to prepare the article on "Homoeopathy" in the American edition
of the "Encyclopedia Eritannica," also serving on the "Seybert" commission
for investigation of modern spiritualism. The University of Halle conferred
upon him the honorary degree of Ph. D. ; Columbia University, L.H.D. ; Har-
vard University, I-L.D.. and Cambridge, England, Lilt. D. He also was a mem-
ber of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, and of the Academy of Arts and Letters.

Dr. Furness married Helen Kate Rogers, who died October 30, 1883,
daughter of Evans Rogers, a wholesale hardware merchant of Philadelphia
and New Orleans. He died in Philadelphia in 1869, aged seventy-four years.
His wife, Caroline Augusta Fairman, bore him two children: Fairman, and
Helen Kate, wife of Dr. Horace Howard Furness. Mrs. Furness published
a "Concordance to Shakespeare's Poems ; an index to every word contained
therein," intended as a supplement to Mrs. Cowden-CIarke's concordance to
the plays published in 1873. This work of Mrs. Furness has been accepted as
a standard work. Both Dr. and Mrs. Furness were members of the Unitarian
church. Their children were : Walter Rogers, mentioned below ; Horace
Howard, mentioned below ; William H., mentioned below : Caroline Augusta,
deceased, married Dr. Horace Jayne.

While the foregoing outlines the lifcwork of Dr. Furness. there is another
side to his character, the human one, that has been most beautifully dwelt
upon Ijy the novelist. Owen Wistcr, in a memorial published in the "Harvard
Magazine" of December 12, 1912, from which the following extracts are
taken :

"In August in the days that followed the sudden and quiet death of Dr. Furness,
amid international comment and huiient that learning must now do without the world's
greatest Shakespeare scholar, an unexpected voice spoke in verse. It came not from a
colleague, a fellow academic, a man of letters, it was not a tribute to fame; the touching
lines were written by a waiter at a club and he told only of his personal sorrow and of
how he had lost and would miss a friend who had been like no one else. Nothing in the
many columns of appreciation printed about Dr. Furness throws upon him a more
revealing light. The waiter's verse must have been read with nods of silent assent by
engineers and firemen in their cabs, by signalmen at their crossings, by conductors of
street cars, by an unnamed and unknown company of workingmen and women all over
Philadelphia and its neighborhood. These had loved the deaf old editor of the New
Variorum, because to their call for assistance he had never been deaf; to their halls,
schools and associations he had been wont to come and read Shakespeare in his beautiful
silvery voice and thereby draw gate money into the purses they needed to fill. Similarly,
when some corner stone was to be laid, some library opened, tablet unveiled, anniversary
connnemorated, he had given himself lavishly to the occasion, journeying forth from his
chosen seclusion, ear trumpet and manuscript in bag. to deliver the requested and care-
fully pondered speech. * * * Creature of books anil of tongues ancient and modern,
thougii he was, never did his learning come between him and the unlettered; in those
speeches by corner-stone or tablet, the genial kindness, the tender sympathy and the

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excellent sense which radiated from his words, found their direct way home to the
hearers, and so the large motly scattered army that these had grown to be, was made one
by a single throb of grief at the news that he would never speak to them again, and never
again would they smile and warm up at the sight of that quaint, courteous figure in black
clothes and silk hat, along with the lawyer's bag wherein was the ear trumpet. It wasn't
merely that Dr. Furness always handed up the morning paper to the engineer or fireman,
as he walked by their locomotive, halted in Broad street station at the end of its suburban
run. — some other passengers do this kindly act ; his paper went up into the cab, accom-
panied by a smile or word in which twinkled something, something particularly his own.
This same winning quaintness seemed to sparkle in his very gesture when he twisted
up and whirled the afternoon's paper to the flagmen at the crossing. By the same con-
juring fellowship were the hearts of every sort of human being opened to him; he learned
oddities of thought and fact from beggars, peddlers and people on ferry-boats. To the
conductors on the street cars he talked, and in the streets his figure was so marked, so
well known, that often the glances of passersby, who were unknown to him, followed
him with a sort of smiling atifccfion, as much as to say: 'There goes our Dr. Furness.'
Children, too, became absorbed in him. directly he began to pour out for them his delight-
ful fancy. Two months before his death he went to Boston to be pall bearer at the
funeral of Professor Goodwin. Inveterate in his dislike of Pullmans, he shared a seat
in the crowded car with a mother and baby, Italians, whom the conductor wished to
remove. Dr. Furness stopped him, and during the several hours they journeyed together,
he played with the baby and kept it amused. Beside the garden walk in front of his glass
enclosed porch was built a small platform, where in days of snow the birds came by habit
to find the seed always kept in store for them. Before going to his morning's correspond-
ence, he seldom forgot to make sure that the platform was well sprinkled with seed and
often he stood enjoying the sight of the feathered breakfast party. He rejoiced in all
animals, domestic or not, his favorite bird being (I think) the crow, whose wild call
enthralled him and whose social gifts, when tamed, endlessly interested him. He knew
when best to plant flowers and vegetables and how best to buy a cow. To sec him going
about his garden or farm yard giving directions, one might easily have supposed this to be
his chief knowledge and concern. Indeed a stranger could have talked with him for a
day and never guessed he was an editor. Shakespeare had shut him in from nothing,
but rather opened to him everything the more. He followed the daily news, politics,
science ; our best American modern writing he completely enjoyed. He said to a friend
upon a recent occasion, when their common bereavement induced confidence : 'When I
found I was going to be deaf, I determined it shouldn't spoil my temper.' He used to
thank his deafness for saving him from all the tiresome empty words the rest of us
had to endure ; but this was part of his game of making light of it. At his own table
(where tiresome words were uttered by none unless by some unusual visitor) it was
plain how often he wanted to catch the back and forth of the talk, and when the not rare
hilarity burst out to him visibly, he would begin to laugh, too. and often demand 'what
is it? what on earth is it?' And when the joke or the story was told through the ear
trumpet — how he joined then! Some people do not laugh well. Dr. Furness laughed
with a whole soul, musically and contagiously. I am sure this cheered him often in his
struggle through dark ways. He could tell anecdotes at his own expense until he and
the listener would be rocking helplessly, tears of mirth coursing down their cheeks.

"Though he sallied forth from it, his library was his lair, his treasure house, his fit
frame and his fittest hour was the deep of the night. With stillness in the garden trees
and in the house. In the winter perhaps best of all, with the white snow and the tree
rising dark from it — shut in safe beneath the walls of books, pictures and relics, the
ceiling light shining down upon his silvered head, and here and there a light falling upon
some open volume, some pile of manuscript he was correcting at the request of a friend,
then was the time to listen to him. to be alone with him in the stillness. So in his sweet
voice the old editor would sing the folk-tune that he had caught on the plains of Castile,
sixty years before, ere his deafness had come upon him, and then it would be bedtime
for the listener and Shakespeare time for the editor — that work (in later years) was done
between the hours of midnight and two, three or four. The morning was given to his
heavy correspondence and to reading the books, pamphlets and manuscripts, which
importunate authors loaded upon him. If the listener happened to return to the door,
and standing there stole a last good night look back into the room, there at its far end,
beneath the walls of books, sat the editor bending over his page, the many volumes to be
consulted standing before and around him, the light streaming down upon the round
silvered head. Yes. the gods loved him, .Ariel and Puck stayed with him to the end. and
ah! by his nativity was he brother to Beatrice, for then was a star danced and under
that was he born."

Walter Rogers, eldest son of Dr. Horace Howard and Helen Kate

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(Rogers) Fiirness, was born in Philadelphia, June 7, i8C)i. He spent his
early years in Philadelphia and Wallingford, Pennsylvania, prepared in pri-
vate schools, entered Harvard I'niversity, whence "he was graduated A.B.,
class of 1883. He followed the profession of architect for a few years, then
returned to his private estate. He is a member of the Masonic 'order, and
of the Rittenhouse, Racquet, Country and Gun clubs of Philadelphia. He is a
Republican in politics, and both he and his wife are members of the Unitarian
church. He married, June 2, 1886, Helen Key Bullitt, born in Philadelphia,
February 26, 1867. daughter of John C. Bullitt, born in Louisville, Kentucky,
died m Philadelphia, aged seventy-nine years, an eminent attorney. His wife,
Terese Laughorn, also born in Louisvil'le, bore him thirteen children, among
them being: William C, married Louisa Horowitz; Therese, married [ohn
Coles of the United States navy; Logan M.. married Maria Stockton Brown;
Juha D., married (first) Frank M. Dick, (second) .A. Haller Gross; lohn c'.
(2), married Edna Dever ; Rev. James F.. married ALirgery Emmons. Children
of Walter Rogers and Helen Key (P.ullitt) Furness : i. Helen Kate, born
May 18, 1887; married Wirt Lord Thompson, member of the banking firm of
Brown Brothers & Company, and resides in Abington, Pennsylvania : 2. Fair-
man Rogers, born January 6, 1889, unmarried, now (1913) in St. Petersburg,
Russia, as member of the diplomatic corps of the United States government."
The family home is at Wallingford, Pennsylvania.

Horace Howard (2) Furness was born in Philadelphia, January 24,
1865. second son of Dr. Horace Howard and Helen Kate (Rogers) Furness.
He prepared in private schools in Philadelphia and at St. Paul's School, Con-
cord, New Hamp,shire, and entered Harvard l^niversity, whence he was
graduated A. B., class of 1888. He then entered the department of music of
the LTniversity of Pennsylvania and after a three years' course was granted a
certificate of proficiency in 1891. From 1891 to 1901 he was instructor in
physics at the Episcopal Academy. Locust and Juniper streets, Philadelphia.
then until his father's death, associated with his honored father as co-editor
of the variorum edition of Shakespeare, and completing the unfinished work
after the latter's death. He is a member of the American Philosophical So-
ciety; the Franklin Institute and the Shakespeare Society of Philadelphia.
His clubs are the Rittenhouse, Merion, Cricket and Racquet of Philadelphia;
his college fraternity. Delta Phi. In political views, he is a Republican, and in
his religion. Unitarian. He married in Philadelphia, in May, 1901, Louise
Brooks, daughter of William Davis Winsor. Their residence is at No. 2034
De Lancey place, Philadelphia.

Dr. William Henry (2) Furness, third son of Dr. Horace Howard and
Helen Kate (Rogers) Furness, was born at the family home in Wallingford.
Delaware county, Pennsylvania, August 18, 1866, and there still resides. His
early life was spent in Wallingford and Philadelphia, preparing for college in
private schools. He entered Harvard University in 1884, whence he was
graduated A. B., class of 1888. He cho.se the profession of medicine, entered
the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, receiving his de-
gree of M. D., class of 1891. He spent some time in the University Hospital
and at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, but is especially distinguished as a
traveler and writer. He has made six trips around the world, dwelling in
many out-of-the-way places, gathering material for his literary work. He is
a member of the American Philosophical Society ; the Societe de Geographic
of J'aris; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London, and the .An-
thropological Society of Great Britain. He is the author of "Home Life of
Borneo Head Hunters ; its Festivals and Folklore ;" "Uap, the Island of

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Stone Money," and of many monographs of the American Philosophical So-
ciety. His clubs are the Rittenhouse and Oriental of Philadelphia.

Dr. Furness has never married, but maintains his residence in the
family mansion at Wallingford, situated in the midst of spacious grounds,
made beautiful by the landscape gardener's art. He is devoted to his literary-
work, and has many interesting experiments being wrought out at his country
home. One of his theories is that the ape, monkey and chimpanzee can be
taught a great deal beside useless tricks, and in carrying out his theory,
he has two orang-outangs and a chimpanzee, in an apartment in his green-
house, that he has taught most marvelous things, and which seem to bear out
his theory that they possess an intelligence that can be taught to think and
speak.

Several years ago the Horace Howard Furness Free Library was found-
ed, and has occupied a room in the public school building in Wallingford. In
his will. Dr. Horace Howard Furness left a bequest to this library of five
thousand dollars, on condition that its name be changed to the Helen Kate
Furness Free Library. This condition was accepted and an exclusive free
library and readingroom will be erected on the grounds included in the Fur-
ness estate, owned by Dr. Wiliam Henry Furness, and donated by him for
the librarv site.

The Hamiltons of this record spring from John Hamilton,
HAMILTON born in county Tyrone, Ireland. November 5, 1822. He

attended the public schools of his native parish and worked
on the home farm until he was eighteen years of age. In 1840 he came
to the United States, settling in Philadelphia, where he learned the trade of
boxmaker, but later journeyed to Olean, New York, and worked at farming
for a time. On returning to Pennsylvania, he farmed for a while in Bucks
county, then returned to Philadelphia, where he was employed until 1874,
when he located in Chester, establishing a box factory. This he successfully
operated until 1902, when he retired, with a competence, to his present resi-
dence on West Broad street, Chester. He is a Republican in politics, but has
never accepted public office. He married in Philadelphia, Margaret Arm-
strong, born in county Tyrone, Ireland, in 1823, daughter of .Mexander Arm-
strong, a road supervisor under the Crown in Ireland, who died there, and his
wife Sarah, who died in Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1899, aged ninety-five years.
Children: i. Alexander R., born in Olean, New York, in 1857; settled in
the South, operating a sawmill at Norfolk, \'irginia, for many years, and
there died. 2. Thomas M., born in Philadelphia, in January, 1861, now
cashier of the Delaware County Bank; married Ida Howard, and resides in
Chester. 3. James M., see forward. 4. Elizabeth, born June 6, 187 1, in
Philadelphia; married Charles T. Vance, a mining company auditor, and re-
sides at San Luis in the Accacia Valley, California. 5. Sarah, born in Jan-
uary, 1874, at Philadelphia, a graduate of Dr. Sargent's School, and is a
teacher of physical culture, residing in Chester at the family home. She is a
woman of great energy and a leader in the live progressive movements in her
city. 6. Margaret, born in Chester, in 1876: married John M. Broomall, of
Media, Pennsylvania.

James M. Hamilton was born in .Spinnerstovvn, Bucks county, Pennsyl-
vania, September 11, 1864. He attended the public schools of Philadelphia
and Chester until he was fifteen years of age, then began business life in his
father's box factory, located on Front street, near Franklin street, Chester.
He continued his father's valued assistant until 1902, when he bought the bus-

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iness, .Mr. Hamilton Sr. retiring. The business in 1893 had been greatly-
enlarged, by the addition of a planing mill, for the manufacture of sash, blinds,
doors and interior wood finish. The business has been successfully conducted
along these dual lines and the tirm is known as one of the prosperous manu-
facturing concerns of Chester. Of strong Republican principles, Mr. Hamil-
ton has been for the past fifteen years in opposition to the regular party or-
ganization in Delaware county, and true to the fighting spirit of his race, has
had a leading part in the constant warfare between the two elements in his
part}', but has never been driven from the fight to free his party from the
domination of those who would use the organization for selfish ends. In igo2
he was a leader in the organization of the Lincoln party, and was the candi-
date of that party for the office of sherifif of Delaware county. In the three-
cornered fight that followed, Mr. Hamilton was defeated by about six hundred
votes, but had the satisfaction of having fought a good fight and establishing
a spirit of independent political freedom in the county that will never die. He
remained as chairman of the Lincoln party county committee for three years.
but in 1904 supported Theodore Roosevelt for the presidency. In 191 1 he
was again a candidate for sheriff, but again the forces opposed to him were
too strong. In 1912 he was the nominee of the Republican party for mayor of
Chester. This resolved itself into one of the bitterest political fights ever known*
in the city, and while there were political principles involved, it virtually nar-
rowed down to a temperance issue and an attempt to unseat a powerful or-
ganization that was closely allied with the state leaders. ]\Ir. Hamilton was
defeated, but his opponents will long bear scars of the fight. He was in charge
of the campaign of Mr. McDade against Judge Johnson, for judge of Dela-
ware county, but the judge running on both the Keystone and Democratic
tickets, triumphed. On February 6, 1912, Mr. Hamilton was appointed post-
master of Chester, an office which came to him unsolicited. He has taken an
active interest in the Chester Fire Department, having been for thirty years
a contributing member of Franklin Fire Company, and for ten years was in
active service, never in that time being absent from a fire in the city. He is
a member of Chester Lodge, No. 48S, Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, has filled all the chairs and is now exalted ruler ; is also venerable
consul of Chester Camp, No. 5808, Modern Woodmen of America.

Mr. Hamilton married, .'-September 15, 1887, in Chester, Pearlla V. Val-
entine, born there in 1866, daughter of Thomas Valentine, a former businesss
man of Chester, now deceased, and his wife Margaret Williams. Through
maternal lines, Thomas Valentine was a descendant of John Morton, a signer
of the Declaration of Independence. Children, all born in Chester : Thomas
v., born in July, 1888, now in business with his father; Norman A., born ifr
January, 1891, now with the Automobile Car Manufacturing Company, Phil-
adel])hia; Itasca, born in 1894, now a student at Sargent School of Physical
Culture, Boston ; Wayne, born in 1898, now a student at Chester High School ;
Vernon, born January 31, 1901 ; Gordon L., born in April, 1909.

Matthias Treat, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England and
TRE.\T died in Wethersfield, Connecticut, July 8, 1662. He is thought

to have been a nephew or near relation of Richard Treat Sr.
No trace has been found of him in England. He was made freeman. May 21,
1657. In the Connecticut colonial records he appears as a party in several
law suits from 1646 to 1649. He lived in Wethersfield on the east side of
Broad street, on the old .Samuel Boardman place, and later he lived on the
west side of Sandy lane. The inventory of his estate was dated September

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16, 1662. He married, about 1648. Hilary, daughter of Richard Smith, of
Wethersfield. She married (second) before 1676, Anthony Wright, of Weth-
ersfield; he was a member of the first troop of cavalry; he died in 1679; he
was appointed administrator of Matthias Treat's estate, after his marriage with
Mary (Smith) Treat. Children, born in Wethersfield: Henry, mentioned
below; Susanna, born about 1651 : Richard, about 1655; Elizabeth, about
1657 ; Abigail, about 1659 : Dorcas, about 1662

(H) Henry, son of IMatthias Treat, was born in Wethersfield about
1649, died in East Hartford, Connecticut. In September, 1662, he was thir-
teen years of age, and lived in Hartford, whither it is thought he moved about
1661. He signed a petition, March 14, 1673-74. at Marblehcad, Massachu-
setts, for a general town meeting to be held on the sixteenth of the month.
The inventory of his estate was dated September 5, 1681. Three administra-
tors were appointed on his estate September 7, 1681, to dispose of the prop-
erty for the best interests of the children. On June 5, 1710, Henry Burnham,
of Wethersfield, was appointed administrator of the estate by the court of
probate. He married, about 1673, Sarah, daughter of Edward Andrews, of
Hartford. She owned the covenant in the First Church of Hartford, March
15, 1695-96. She was alive in 1714. Children, born in East Hartford: Sarah,
born about 1674; Matthias, mentioned below.

(HI) IMatthias (2), son of Henry Treat, was born at East Hartford,
about 1676, died there October 26, 1726. In 1704 he signed the petition to
the general court for the permission to pay the minister's tax on the west side
of the Connecticut river, and on the east side, but the petition was not granted.
On May 4, 1707. he owned the covenant of the First Church of Hartford.
The inventory of his estate was dated October 26, 1726, and his widow and
Abraham Warren, of Wethersfield, were granted administration on his estate
by the court of probate, March 7, 1726-27. He married, about 1700, Hannah

. Children, born at East Hartford: IMatthias, mentioned below ; Henry,

born about 1707.

(IV) Matthias (3), son of Matthias (2) Treat, was born about 1705
in East Hartford, died there about 1766, in the part called Hockanum, where
he lived. He married, about 1750, Mrs. Dorothy (Buckland) Bidwell, who
died December, 1797, daughter of Daniel and Esther Buckland. Children,

born at East Hartford : Matthias, mentioned below ; Mary, married

Raymond; Theodore, born August 15, 1754; Esther, born 1755, baptized Au-
gust 31, 1755 ; Russell, born 1758, baptized April 23, 1758.

(V) Lieutenant ]^Iatthias (4) Treat, son of Matthias (3) Treat, was
born at East Hartford about 1750, was baptized there December 3, 1750, died
June 15, 1827, aged seventy-six, at Hockanum, East Hartford. He served
in the revolution as private in Captain Jonathan Woll's company, and marched
to Boston at the time of the Lexington Alarm in 1775, receiving pay for six
days' service. From January 7, 1778, until after March 7, 1778, he was a
private in Captain Roswell Grant's company, in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Obadiah Johnson. They were stationed in Rhode Island. In 1794 he
was a lieutenant in the militia. He married, December 20, 1778, Tryphena
Risley, who died April 5, 1822, aged sixty-one, daughter of John Risley, of
Hartford. Children, born at East Hartford: Tryphena, born April 11, 1780;
EHzabeth, November 18, 1781 ; Clarissa, January 18, 1784; Olive, October 29,
1786; Matthias, July 28, 1789; Sylvester, September 8, 1792; Oliver, men-
tioned below; Henry, May 8, 1798.

(VI) Oliver, son of Lieutenant Matthias (4) Treat, was born at East
Hartford, .May i, 1795, died in Westfield, Massachusetts, January 21, 1875.
He and his wife were adtnitted members of the First Church of Hartford,

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October, 1820, and dismissed in 1833. He engaged in business at Hartford,
wiieii twenty-one years old. and had a good fortune when he was thirty-seven
years of age, but lost it at that time by unfortunate business ventures. He
moved to \\ estfield in 1833, and lived there the remainder of his life, a inan
respected for his honor and integrity and true Christian spirit. He married
daughter of Ekazar Porter. He married (second) October 9, 1834, Statira
.\dams, at Southwick, Massachusetts, where she was born February 19, 181 1,
died at Westfield. February 10, 1861 (see Adams MI). He married (third)
October 11, 1862, in Alontville, Massachusetts, Almira Phelps, who died at
Westfield, March 25, 1867, daughter of Benajah and Sarah (Newton) Phelps.
He married (fourtli) October. i8()/. Mrs. Mary Orville Bridges. Children
by first wife, born in East Hartford: i. Oliver Porter, born February 9,
1817. died March 28, 1871 ; married, May 12, 1840, Emeline Stedman. 2.
George, borii October 27, 1821, died November 24, 1856; married, December
20, 1844, Sarah Antoinette Johnson. 3. Mary Elizabeth, born November 22,
1827: married, October 13, 1853, Edward M. Dewey. Children, born in West-
field by second wife: 4. Ellen Louisa, born October 25, 1838, died September
II, 1849, in Westfield. 5. Edward Adams, born November 2/. 1845; married
(first) November 22, 1870, Clara Jane Tirrell, (second) June 5, 1883, Joseph-
ine \'alentine. 6. Frederick Howard, mentioned below. 7. Anna Frances, born
February 8, 1834. died September 18, i8qo. at East Weymouth, Massachu-
setts; married, starch 18, 1874, William H. Pratt, and had children, born at
East Weymouth; .\nna, May 2, 1881, died same day; Anna Treat, Septem-
ber, 1890.

(\TI) Frederick Howard, son of Oliver Treat, was born March 4, 1851,
in Westfield, Massachusetts. He attended the public schools in his native
town and the Westfield Academy. He then becatne engaged in the dry goods
business at Westfield, continuing for four years. In 1871 he entered the em-
ploy of Cofiin, Altemus & Company, with offices and warehouses in Philadel-
phia, New York, Boston and Baltimore. He built up a large western and
southern business. He continued with this firm for a period of twenty-four
years. In 1888 he formed an alliance with Clarence P. King in building and
operating electric street railways, from Wilmington to Delaware City, Phanix-
ville to .Spring Citv. They purchased control of the Pottsville railway, and
built large extensions to different points around Pottsville : they also pur-
chased control of the railways of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and made large ex-
tensions ; they purchased control of the Washington, Alexandria & Mount
Yernon railway and the Washington. Arlington & I-"alls Clnn-ch railway and
combined them into the Washington- Yirginia Railway Company. They pur-
chased the Schuylkill Haven Gas & Water Plant, the Consumers Gas Com-
pany of Atlantic City, and built the New Jersey Gas Company of New Jer-
sey, with 240 miles of mains.

In 1896 his connections with Coffin, .\ltemus & Company were severed.
Mr. Treat then entered into partnership with Harman Wendell, under the
firm name of Wendell & Treat, for the development of real estate and sub-
lU'han prtjpertv about the cities of Pliiladelijhia, New York and Washington,
D. C. They built the towns of Wayne, St. Davids, Devon and Wynnewood.
They are also building a town at Essex Fells, New Jersey, having about one
thousand acres of land : Bradley Hills, four thousand acres of land near
Washington, is now being built by them, and Rosemont, near Washington.
Mr. Treat is at the present time president of the Washington L^tilities Com-
pany of Washington, D. C. ; president of the New Jersey Gas Company;
president of the Pottsville Gas Company ; vice-president of the Wayne Title
&. Trust Company; vice-president of the Fidelity Storage & Warehouse Com-

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pany ; director of the Eastern Light & Fuel Company ; United States Trust
Company of Washington, D. C, and Bradley Hills Land Company. He is
a member of the Union League of Philadelphia, Merion Cricket Club, Com-
mercial Club of Washington, D. C, and the St. Davids Golf Club. He is a
commissioner of Radnor township, Pennsylvania. In politics he is a Republi-
can. He is affiliated with the Sons of the Revolution, and a prominent member
and trustee of the Radnor Presbyterian Church of Wayne, Pennsylvania.

He married at Peoria, Illinois, October 24, 1878, Mary Lucie Day, bom
at Brattleboro, ^^ermont, daughter of Lucius L. and Elizabeth L. (Farr) Day.
Children: i. Howard Day, born July 21, 1879, died May 7, 1883. 2. Her-
bert Adams, born at Philadelphia, September 14, 1882; married Edith P.
Ball, daughter of Joseph A. Ball, of Boston, Massachusetts ; children : Edith
Adams, born August 24, 1909, New York ; Anne MacPherson, born March
12, 1912, New York. 3. Frederick Howard, born March 31, 1887. 4. Mary
Lucia Day, born in Philadelphia, January 2, 1890: married Dr. William Arm-
strong De Witt, son of William F. De Witt, of Troy, Pennsylvania, August
28, 1912.

(The Adams Line)

(I) Statira (.Adams) Treat was a descendant of Henry Adams, the emi-
grant ancestor of the Adams family of .America, from which sprang Presi-
dents John and John Ouincy Adams. Henry .\dams, of Braintree, Massa-
chusetts, arrived in Boston with eight sons and a daughter. The date is "fixed at
1632 or 1633. The name of his wife is not known, but the belief is that she re-
turned to England with her son John. Henry Adams died in Braintree, Oc-
tober 6, 1646, and was buried two days later. President John Adams erected
a monument to this ancestor, his great-grandfather in the churchyard of the
old church at Ouincy with the inscription: "In memory of Henry Adams,
who took his flight from the Dragon persecution in Devonshire, England, and
alighted with eight sons near Mount Wollaston. One of the sons returned to
England, and after taking time to explore the country, four removed to Med-
field and two to Chelmsford. One, only, Joseph, who lies here at his left
hand, remained here : an original proprietor in the township of Braintree."

President John Adams was a descendant of this seventh son, Joseph,
who was his great-grandfather. Joseph (2), his grandfather, Deacon John,
his father, who married Susanna Boylston ; President John, their son, was of
the fifth American generation. The line of descent to Statira (Adams) Treat
is through Lieutenant Thomas, the second son.

(II) Lieutenant Thomas Adams, son of Henry Adams, of Braintree, was
born in England, 1612. He came with his father, but moved with his brothers,
Samuel and John, from Braintree to Concord, Massachusetts, in 1646.
Thomas and Samuel settled later in the west part of the town of Chelmsford.
He was chosen chief sergeant of the military company in 1659, but the county
court refused to confirm him on account of his religious views — later he mod-
ified his position sufficiently to permit his confirmation. He was chosen en-
sign in 1678 and lieutenant in 1682, in the company of which his brother
Samuel was captain. He held other important offices, including selectman and
representative to the general court. He died in Chelmsford, July 20, 1688.
He married in 1642, Mary Blackmore, who survived him until March 23,
1694, aged eighty-two years, the mother of eleven children.

(III) Samuel, sixth child and fourth son of Lieutenant Thomas Adams,
was born in Clielmsford, 1652-53. He was a millwright ; moved to Qiarles-
town, Massachusetts; ihcnce to Canterbury, Connecticut, where he died No-
vember 26, :727. He was elected. May 31, 1699, a member of the first board

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of selectmen in Canterbury and was prominent in that town. His wife, Mary,
died in Canterbury, March 28, 1718. He is said to have had twelve children,
five of whom died young. His will was made and signed with his mark,
August 7. 1727, and names but two sons, Henry and Thomas.

(IV) lienry (2), second son of Samuel Adams, was born in Chelms-
ford, [Massachusetts. He married Sarah, daughter of Richard and Rebecca
(Davis) Adams; she was born March 8. i''i83. died April 16, 1753. Children:
Two sons and two daughters.

(Y) Ahaziah, second son and youngest child of Henry (2) Adams, w^as
born in Canterbury, Connecticut, January 22, 1715. His wife Eleanor, died
June 19, 1748-40. Children: One son, Thomas, and four daughters.

(VI) Susanna, third daughter of Ahaziah Adams, was born in Canter-
bury, April 20, T742, died in South Canterbury, January 18, 1843. She mar-
ried, April 5, 1764, Dr. Timothy Adams, born September 5, 1742, son of Isaac
and Eleanor (Fassett) Adams: seven children, five sons and two daughters.

(VII) Timothy (2), youngest child of Dr. Timothy (i) Adams, was
born in South Canterbury, Connecticut, May i, 1779. His first wife, Patty,
died January 27, 1804. He married a second wife, who was the mother of
Statira Adams, wife of Oliver Treat (see Treat VI). This family resided
at Southwick, Connecticut.

The Temple family, who settled in Pennsbury township,
TEMPLE Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1714, are of ancient English
lineage, the family seat being in Atford, Wiltshire, England,
the descent tracing from Sir William Temple.

(I) The emigrant ancestor, William Temple, born in 1700, came to Penn-
sylvania from England in 1714. leaving home when but a boy on account of
his stepmother, with whom he could not live pleasantly. His father also at-
tempted to influence him in a religious matter, which added to his discomfort.
On his arrival in Pennsylvania he went to live with Joseph Bunton, of Ken-
neth. In 1725 he married and founded a home in Pennsbury, Chester county,
where his children were born, and where he owned a good farm. He was a
member of the Society of Friends. He married, January 18. 1725, Hannah
Taylor, born March 16, 1700, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Haines)
Taylor, both of Berkshire, England : children : Thomas, of whom further.
Hannah, born September 14, 1727, married Isaac Miller; Susannah, Septem-
ber 9, 1730, married William Seal ; William, February 3. 1733, died unmar-
ried; Elizabeth, January 22, 1735, married Benjamin Hutton ; Lydia, May 2,
1737, married Caleb Seal; Sarah, December 25, 1740, married John Pyle;
Alice, September 17, 1743, married Benjamin Jones; Benjamin, December 3,
1745, married Hannah Jones.

(II) Thomas, eldest son of William and Hannah (Taylor) Temple, was
born in Pennsbury township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, October 10, 1725,
died July 21, 1808. He was a Friend; a farmer of Pennsbury; a justice of the
peace and a member of the assembly. He married, March 16, 1751, Jane
Brinton, died April 27. 1799, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Peirce) Brinton,
granddaughter of William (2) and Jane (Matcher) Brinton, and great-grand-
daughter of William (i) and Ann (Bagley) Brinton, Friends who came from
England in 1684. Children : Joseph ; William, married Alice Lownes ; Thomas ;
Mary; .Samuel; Caleb, married Rachel Broomall ; Edward Brinton. of whom
further; Jane, married Samuel Bettle.

(III) Edward Brinton, son of Thomas and Jane (Brinton) Temple, was
born in Pennsbury township. Chester county, Pennsylvania, June 8. 1769, died

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there June 6, 1853. He came into possession of the original homestead farm
in Pennsbury, for which a deed was given under WilHam Penn's signature
and seal. This document is yet preserved in the family. He was a Friend,
and in poHtical faith a Whig. He married Sidney Hill, born at Lima, Penn-
sylvania, and resided on a farm, later purchased by the state. She died in
Pennsbury, March 9, 1847, aged sixty-one years, eight months and seventeen
days. Child: Norris, of whom further.

(IV) Norris, only child of Edward Brinton and Sidney (Hill) Temple,
was born in the old homestead in Pennsbury, Chester county, Pennsylvania,
May 2, 1808, died in Edgewood, in the same township, March 23, 1872. He
was a farmer all his life, a Friend and a Whig — later a Republican. He mar-
ried Susan L. Smith, born November 12, 1806, died in West Chester, Penn-
sylvania, November 13, 1891. Children: i. Edward, born September
28, 1834; married, December, 1862, Mary Jane Gunton, died with-
out issue. 2. Charles, of whom further. 3. George B., born September 9,
1838; married, in April, 1862, Lydia P. Marshall. 4. Sidney, born November
4, 1840, died unmarried. 5. Mary Ann, born January 11, 1842, died unmar-
ried. 6. Jane Bettle, born March 15, 1846, the only survivor. Susan L.
(Smith) Temple, was a daughter of John M. and Ann (Rowan) Smith, mar-
ried January 25, 1778. They had three other children : Mary, born December
28, 1780, died 1863, married George Ehrich ; Phoebe, born December 22, 1783,
married, December 7, 1805, William Jones; William, born May 5, 1786, died
unmarried, September 22, 1849.

(V) Charles, second son of Norris and Susan L. (Smith) Temple, was
born at the old homestead in Pennsbury township, Chester county, Pennsyl-
vania, April I, 1836, died in Concord township, Delaware county, Pennsylva-
nia, March 31, 1892. He was educated at Friends' Boarding School at West-
town, Chester county, Pennsylvania, and was a carpenter and builder by trade
until his marriage. He then moved to Concord, Concord township, Delaware
county, where he bought a farm of one hundred acres and there devoted
himself to general and dairy farming. He was progressive and followed the
modern system of crop rotation and dairying. He led a busy and useful life,
winning the esteem of a large acquaintance. He was a member of the Society
of Friends, and a Republican in politics. He married, March 4, 1869, Phil-
ena, daughter of Thomas and Emily (Paxson) Marshall (see Marshall VI)
of Concord township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, the former a farmer;
Emily Paxson was a daughter of Jacob and Mary Paxson, of Montgomery
county, Pennsylvania. Children: i. Mary M., born March 28, 1870, died
April 6, 1870. 2. Edward Brinton, of who further. 3. William Paxson,
born June 15, 1873; married, November 6, 1905, Mary Griffith Baldwin; one
child, Sarah Baldwin Temple, born October 31, 1912. 4. Horace, born No-
vember 10, 1874; married, April 29, 1907, Elizabeth Paul Fleming. 5. Jacob
Paxson, born November 18, 1880; married. May 10, 1902, Ada Underbill.
Since the death of her husband, Philena (Marshall) Temple has resided with
her son, William Temple, at the homestead in Concord township; by recent
purchase an adjoining farm was added to the property, now the hoine of her
son, Horace Temple. In addition to farming and dairying they have built
large mushroom houses and are actively engaged in that business.

(VI) Edward Brinton (2), eldest son of Charles and Philena (Mar-
shall) Temple, was born August 28, 1871, in Concordville, Delaware county,
Pennsylvania. He was educated in private schools at Concordville, and at
Swarthmore College, from the engineering department of which he was grad-
uated in 1891. Immediately after leaving college he entered the employ of
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assigned to duties on an engineer corps in making surveys and inspecting con-
struction work. Among the large pieces of work on which he was employed
were the extension of the Filbert Street Elevated Railroad, the erection of the
new Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, and the Delaware River Railroad and
Bridge Line. In 1897 ^Ii"- Temple was transferred to the drafting department
in Broad street Station and later was made assistant engineer. In 1901 he was
given charge of that department and the preparation of the plans for the stone
arch bridges and the masonry plans for steel bridges. He remained in that posi-
tion until January i, 1905, when he was appointed assistant to the chief engin-
ci-r, and on .March I. upf), was promoted to the position of assistant chief
engineer, with offices at Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. He is a member of
the Franklin Insitute, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Amer-
ican Railway Engineering Association. He resides at Swarthmore, Pennsyl-
vania, and takes great interest in the college and borough affairs, and is pres-
ident of the Swarthmore National Bank. While at college, Mr. Temple played
on the football team, and took an active part in track athletics ; joined the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity, and is a member of the Society of Friends.

He married, October 17, 1895, Lucy T., daughter of William and Ellen
(Thorn) Bartram, and a direct descendant of John Bartram. the noted botan-
ist. Children: Charles, born November 19, 1896: Elizabeth Bartram, No-
vember 21, 1903.

(\T) Jacob Paxson, fourth son of Charles and Philena { Alar.shall) Tem-
ple, was born at Concordville, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, November 18,
1880. He attended Leggett's School, Concordville; Friends' Graded School,
West Chester; Swarthmore Preparatory School, from which he was gradu-
ated in 1898, and Swarthmore College, thus obtaining a thoroughly practical
education which prepared him for the activities of life. His first employment
was as rodman on the Pennsylvania Railroad, in the construction department,
entering the service in 1899. and attained the position of assistant engineer in
1906, in which capacity he is still serving (1913). In 1907 he gave his atten-
tion to dairy farming, purchasing a farm of two hundred and sixty acres at
Tauquy, Chester county, Pennsylvania, which he is still operating, meeting
with exceptional success. He is public-spirited and progressive, aiding to the
best of his ability in every movement for the development of the various
sections of the state in which he is interested, and performing well his duty as
a citizen, casting his vote for the candidate who in his opinion is best quali-
fied for office, irrespective of party affiliation. He is a member of the Hick-
site Branch of the Friends, and holds membership in the Chester County His-
torical Society, Crange, Chester County Farmers' Association, and the Del-
aware County ,\utomobile Club.

Mr. Temple married at Glen Head, Long Island, New York, May 10,
1902, Ada Underbill, daughter of Richard and Mary (Kirby) Underbill, the
former named a farmer. Children: Emily Marshall, born February 7, 1904;
Richard Underbill, February 3, 1906; Jacob Paxson Jr., January 24, 1909, the
two eldest attending Friends' Graded Schools of West Chester.

(The Marshall Line).

(!) Mrs. Philena (Marshall) Temple descends from John Marshall,
from Elton in Derbyshire, England, who settled in Darby township in 1687.
It is believed that previous to this he lived in Blockley township, Philadelphia
county. He was married, 10 mo. 19, 1688. at Darby Meeting to Sarah Smith,
theirs being the first marriage solemnized in Darby Friends Meeting House.
She was a sister of Thomas Smith, an early settler in Darbv, coming from
Croxton, Leicestershire, England. John Marshall obtained sixty-four acres

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of good land on Cobb's creek in Upper Darby in 1689 and one hundred and
fifty acres adjoining to the southward in 1692. He took an active part in the
aflfairs at Darby Meeting, at which he was an overseer, and in the township
filled various offices. He died 9 mo. 13, 1729. His widow survived him until
5 mo. 16. 1749. Children: i. John, born 6 mo. 16, 1690. died 8 mo. 14, 1749;
married (first) Joanna Passchall, (second) Widow Elinor Shenton. 2. Will-
iam, born 2 mo. 11, 1692, died 1727; married ^lary Sellers. 3. Thomas, of
whom further.

(H) Thomas, son of John and Sarah (Smith) Marshall, was born 12
mo. 10, 1694, died about 1740. He settled on a farm in Concord township,
just south of Concordville, where he successfully farmed until his death. He
married, 2 mo. 24, 1718, at Concord Meeting, Hannah Mendenhall, born 6
mo. II, 1696. died about 1770. daughter of Benjamin and Ann (Pennell) Men-
denhall. In 1727, Thomas Marshall erected the house on his farm, yet occu-
pied by his descendants. His widow. Hannah, married (second) Peter Grubb.
an ironmaster, whom she survived several years. Children of Thomas Mar-
shyll : I. Ann, born 9 mo. 18, 1719: married Francis Hickman, 2. Sarah,
born II mo. 4, 1721. died young, 3. Benjamin, born 11 mo. 1722: mar-
ried Hannah Underwood. 4. Moses, born i. mo. 22. 1725, died young. 5.
Thomas, of whom further. 6. Martha, born 10 mo. 28, 1729, died 10 mo.
13, 1804. married William Levis. 7. Hannah, born 2 mo. 23, 1733: married
John Way. 8. John, born 11 mo. 22, 1734 or 35, died about 1815; married
"Hannah Jones. 9. May. born 6 mo. 4, 1738: married Caleb Janic-.

(HI) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (il and Hannah (Mendenhall)
Marshall, war born 7 mo. 26, 1727, died about i7''io. He inherited one-half
his fathei 's lands and settled thereon, but died while still a young man. He
married. 8 uo. 19. 1752, at Concord Meeting, Edith, daughter of Nathaniel
and Esther (Metcalf) Newlin, who survived him, marrying (second) Sam-
uel Schofield, of Bucks county. Pennsylvania, and with her children moved
to her husband's farm in Bucks. Children of Thomas (2) Marshall: i.
E.sther, married Thomas Allibone. 2. Hannah, died young. 3. Thomas, of

whom further. 4. Phoebe, married (first) Ste])hen , (second 1 Joseph

Heston.

(IV) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2) and Edith (Xewlin) Marshall,
was born in Concord. Delaware county, Pennsylvania, 12 mo. 8, 1766, died
there 8 mo. 13. 1844. In 1773 he accompanied his stepfather to Bucks county,
later learning the tanner's trade near Uwchlan, Chester. On coming of age
he became owner to the paternal farm in Concord. Delaware county, where
he established a tan yard. He married (first) at Concord Meeting, 4 mo. 21,
1779, Mary Grubb, born 3 mo. 25, 1756, died 11 mo. 24, 1791, daughter of
Samuel and Rebecca (Hewes) Grubb, of Pennsbury township, Chester coun-
ty, Pennsylvania. He married (second) 8 mo. 12, 1795, Margaret, daughter
of William and Ann Swayne, of East Marlborough ; no issue by second mar-
riage: children by first marriage: i. Edith, born i mo. 16, 1780: married. 5
mo 6, 1S02. Isacher Schofield. 2. Samuel, born 2 mo. 2. 1782, died 1786.
3. Thomas, born 6 mo. i, 1784: married 11 mo. 20. 1805. Sidney Hatton. 4.
Rebecca, born 7 mo. 16. 1786. died 7 mo. 3. 1828: married Jesse Chandler.
5. Samuel, of whom further.

(V) Samuel, youngest son of Thomas (3) and Mary (Grubb) Marshall.
was born 3 mo. 24, 1789, died 8 mo. 27, 1832. He carried on the tanning
business, established by his father at the old homestead in Concord, until his
death. He married, 11 mo. 25, 1812. at Londongrove Friends Meeting, Phi-
lena Pusey. born 5. mo. 24, 1794, died 12 mo. 30. 1842, daughter of Ellis
and Abigail (Brinton) Pusey, of Londongrove. Surviving her husband. Phi-

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lena Marshall married (second) Samuel Wollaston, of Wilmington, Delaware.
Children of Samuel Marshall: i. Margaret, born 7 mo. 29, 1813, died 6 mo.
10, 1896; married Morris Palmer. 2. Ellis P., born 10 mo. 22, 181 5, died
7 mo. 20, 1892; married (first) Anna Bartram, (second) Mary Scarlett; he
owned the old homestead. 3. Thomas, of whom further. 4. Samuel, born
11 mo. 24, 1820; president of Marshall and Illsley Bank, Milwaukee, Wi-
consin; married (first) Elizabeth Grubb, (second) Emma Hager. 5. Nathan.
born 2 mo. 20, 1823, died 9 mo. 6, 1825. 6. William, born 12 mo. 15, 1825,
died I mo. 19, 1826. 7. William Pusey, born 12 mo. 21, 1826, died 10 mo. 17,
1901 ; he was a director, vice-president, and from March 27, 1895, president
of the National Bank of Chester County ; vice-president of the Dime Savings
Bank; trustee of the West Chester State Normal School, and for twenty-four
years served on the board of prison inspectors; he married Frances Lloyd
Andrews. 8. Henry, born 2 mo. 28, 1829, died unmarried 12 mo. 1854. 9.
Edward Statileo, born 10 mo. 5, 1832; married Sarah Thompson Johnson.

(VI) Thomas (4), son of Samuel and Philena (Pusey) Marshall, was
born 8 mo. 26, 1818, in Concord township, at the old Marshall homestead,
died 8 mo. 22, 1880; married Emily Paxson, and they were the parents of
Philena Marshall, now widow of Charles Temple. (See Temple V).

The ancestry of the Stackhouse family is traced back
STACKHOUSE in England to 1086, and in America to 1682, at which

time Thomas Stackhouse, and his uncle, also Thomas
Stackhouse, came here. The elder Thomas Stackhouse was born at Stack-
house, a village near Settle, Yorkshire, England, about 1635. He and his
wife, Margery (Heahurst) Stackhouse, arrived at New Castle, Delaware, 10
mo. 27, 1682, and settled on a tract of land on the Neshaminy creek, in the
section now known as Langhorne, Middletown township, Bucks county, Penn-
sylvania. His wife died 11 mo. 15, 1682, a short time after their arrival at
their new home, and this was one of the first burials at Middletown. Thomas
Stackhouse married (second) at Middletown Meeting, i mo. 1702, Margaret,
widow of Christopher Atkinson, and settled at Bensalem township, where he
died in 1700 in his seventy-first year. His will was proved 9 mo. 2, 1706, and
as no children are mentioned it is presumed that he left none.

(I) Thomas Stackhouse, nephew of the Thomas Stackhouse in the pre-
ceding paragraph, and great-grandson of the Benjamin Stackhouse who wrote
the Stackhouse Bible in 1617, is supposed to have been twenty-one years of
age when he arrived in this country, which was probably in the year 1682.
He died 4 mo. 26, 1744, and was buri'ed at Middletown. He represented Bucks
county in the colonial assembly of the province, 171 1, 1713 and 1715, and was
re-elected the following year but refused to serve. Mr. Stackhouse married
(first) at Middletown M'eeting, 7 mo. 27, 1688, Grace, born i mo. 14, 1667,
died 8 mo. 8, 1708, daughter of Robert and Alice Heaton ; he married (sec-
ond) at Falls Meeting, i mo. 1, 171 1, .'\nn, widow of Edward Mayos; she
died 5 mo. 6, 1724; he married (third) at Wright&town ^vleeting, 8 mo. 1725,
Dorothy, widow of Zebulon Heston, who survived him. Children of first
marriage : Samuel, John, Robert, see forward ; Henry, Grace, Alice, Thomas,
Joseph, Benjamin. Children of second marriage: Isaac, Jacob, Ann, Sarah,
Isaac. There were no children by the third marriage.

(II) Robert, son of Thomas and Grace (Heaton) Stackhouse, was born
9 mo. 8. 1692, and died in 178S at the advanced age of ninety-six years. He
removed with his family to P.erwick, on the Susquehanna river. Pennsylvania,
where he resided up to the time of his death. He married Margaret Stone

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and had children: Thomas, Joseph, James, see forward; Grace, Benjamin.
Alice, William, Robert, who was killed by a fall from his horse in 1788, at
which time he was forty-eight years of age.

(Ill) James, son of Robert and Margaret (Stone) Stackhouse, was born
II mo. II, 1725 or 1726, died 5 mo. 16, 1759, and his remains were interred
at Arch street cemetery. He married Martha, born 4 mo. 27. 1722, died
6 mo. 24, 1806, daughter of Samuel and Mary Hastings. Children : IMar-
garet, Hastings, Mary, Amos. jNlartha, James, Amos, see forward: William.

The Hastings family trace their ancestry back to the year 1843, when
"Hastings the First," a sea king or pirate Norman chieftain, invaded France
and after plundering the provinces of the Louvre, returned to Denmark or
Norway. The following year he entered the Seine, approached as far as
Paris, and returned to his own country laden with the spoils. In the year
893 he appeared off the county of Kent, England, and entered the Thames,
but was defeated by Alfred the Great, who made prisoners of his wife and
two sons and only restored them to him upon the condition that he depart
the kingdom. It is claimed by the author of "Pictures of Hastings," that the
town of Hastings, near the sea coast, where the battle of Hastings occurred,
was named in honor of this Danish pirate. In the year 1200, Henry, Lord
Hastings, married Adama, daughter of David, Earl of Huntington, and
brother of William, King of Scotland, who, dying without issue, John Hast-
ings, son of Henry Hastings, became a competitor for that crown with John
Balliol and Robert Bruce. In the early records of Chester county. Pennsyl-
vania, the name of Henry Hastings as a juror is found as early as September
13, 1681. and as the ship "John and Sarah," from London, and "Factor."
from Bristol, did not arrive until the twelfth of the fourth month following,
it is supposed that the Hastings family, who owned a large tract of land on the
Delaware river between Chester and Marcus Hook, were a part of the New
Haven colony that settled on the Delaware about 1640. Joshua Hastings, sup-
posed to be a son of Henry Hastings, resided in the neighborhood of Chester,
represented the county in the colonial assembly, and removed to Philadelphia
about 1700. Two sons survived him. John and Samuel; John married Grace
Stackhouse, daughter of Robert Stackhouse, and their son Samuel Hastings
married Alary Hill, who bore him a daughter, Martha, who became the wife
of James Stackhouse.

(I\') Amos, third son of James and Martha (Hastings) Stackhouse, was
born 5 mo. 4, 1757, died 4 mo. 5, 1825. He married, i mo. 14, 1779, Mary,
born 7 mo. 9, 1763, died 7 mo. 15, 1841, daughter of John and Susanna
Powell. Children : Susanna, Hastings, Martha, Powell, see forward ; Esther,
Martha. James, Samuel. Amos. Robert, Robert, Mary, John.

The earliest ancestor of the Powell family of whom there is authentic
tecord was William Powell, who signed with John Woolston and two hundred
and ten other Friends the Yearly Meetings' epistle of the 7 mo. 1692, against
George Keith. Robert Powell, presumably a brother of William Powell,
came in the ship "Kent," 6 mo. 16, 1677, O.S., and settled near Burlington,
West Jersey. Among the children born to Robert Powell and his wife Pru-
dence, was a son, John Powell, who married Elizabeth Woolston. They were
the parents of six children, the youngest of whom was Isaac Powell, who mar-
ried Elizabeth Purdey, and their eldest son, John Powell, by his marriage
to Susanna Bryan, became the father of four children, the eldest of whom
was Mary, who became the wife of Amos Stackhouse.

(V) Powell, son of Amos and Mary (Powell) Stackhouse, was born at
Mount Holly, New Jersey, 3 mo. 21. 1785. died 12 mo. 27, 1863. He was a
young lad when he was brought to the city of Philadelphia, where he learned

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the trade of cabinet making. Later he became a pattern maker, and finally
a foundryman. He built a foundry in Coates' alley, above Front street, and
conducted his Ijusiness there very successfully until he retired in 1840, at
which time he installed his son Amos in it. His death occurred at his home
at Nos. 256-8 North Front street. He was a staunch supporter of Quaker
tenets and frequently preached to his fellow Friends. He married, i mo, 31,
1809, Edith, born i mo. 16, 1787. died 11 mo. i, 1865, daughter of Charles
and Mary (Taylor) Dilworth. Children: i. Charles D., born November i,
1809: married, November 27, 1834, Alice Meredith. Children: Joseph I\L,
born November 28, 1835, ^i^d January 18, igoi : Dilworth, born November
12, 1837, now residing on the old homestead: Pennell, born December 17,
1839, resides in Middletown township, near Lima: Kate M., born April 5,
1846, died April 16, 1882: Charles D., born May 6, 1850, died December 8,
1876. 2. Emfen, see forward. 3. Joseph D.. married Sarah Shaw and had
children : Powell, Rebecca and Alexander. 4. Powell, died young. 5. Powell,
was in the real estate business, and died in Philadelphia. He married Emily
Townsend and had children : Myra, Julia W., Samuel T., Clara and Edith D.
6. Amos, a lumber manufacturer and dealer, died in North Carolina. He
married (first) Rebecca Shaw, and had a son, Ellison: he married (second)
.\nna Williamson, and had children : Elizabeth, Rebecca, Anna Mary and
Thomas W. ; he married (thir.d) Anna Myers, and had children: Amos and
Charles. 7. Sarah D., married (first) Franklin, son of David Townsend, of
West Chester. Pennsylvania: (second) Abram \'andervoort, of Williams-
burgh, New York, and had one son : Abram. 8. Susan L., married Daniel J.
Morrell, and had one daughter : Anna S. 9. Anna D., never married. 10.
Dilworth. 11. Llewellyn.

James Dilworth, the pioneer ancestor of the Dilworth family was a min-
ister and, accompanied by his wife, Ann (Wain) Dilworth, their son William,
and a servant man by the name of Stephen Sands, came from Thornlev. in
Lancastershirc, England, in the ship "Lamle,"' of Liverpool, Captain John
Teach, and arrived in the Delaware river, 8 mo. 1682. He settled in Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, and his death occurred i mo. 3, 1698. William, son-
of James and Ann (W^aln) Dilworth, married Sarah, daughter of Richard and
Elizabeth Webb, and their eldest son. James Dilworth, married Lydia,
daughter of George and Lydia Martin. Among the children born of this
union was a son, Charles Dilworth, who married at Trinity Episcopal Church,
Oxford township, i mo. 27, 1765, Mary, daughter of John and Sarah Taylor.
Eight children were the issue of this union, one of whom, Edith Dilworth,
became the wife of Powell .Stackhouse.

(VI) Emlen, son of Powell and Edith (Dilworth) Stackhouse, was born
in Philadelphia. He married and settled on the farm which was the Meredith
homestead, on which his wife was born and which came to her bv inheritance.
He was of a quiet and retiring disposition, and never held public office, al-
though he was a staunch supporter of the Republican party. Like all of his
family he was a member of the Society of Friends. He married Catherine,
a daughter of Joseph Meredith, who was brought to Delaware county from
Montgomery county, where he was born. He married and bought a farm of
two hundred acres in Edgemont township, and he and his wife were mem-
bers of the Society of Friends. They had children : Alice, who married
Qiarles D. Stackhouse. and occupied a part of the family homestead, and
Catherine, mentioned above. Emlen and Catherine (Meredith) Stackhouse
had children: i. Edith, married James Yarnell, and died in Edgemont
township. 2. Sarah, is now the widow of Levis Baker, and lives in West
Chester. 3. .Mice, married James Bailey, born in Chester county, Pennsyl-

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vania, now lives retired in West Chester. 4. Martha, died unmarried at the
age of fifty years. 5. Meredith, died in young manhood. 6. Anna, married
Henry Hoopes, retired from business and now resides in West Chester. 7.
Ella, unmarried, resides in Johnstown. 8. Susan, is the widow of Dr. Web-
ster Loman, and lives in Johnstown. Pennsylvania. 9. Emien, see forward.
10. Mary, died unmarried.

(VII) Emlen (2), son of Emlen (i) and Catherine (Meredith) Stack-
house, was born in Edgemont. Pennsylvania. He was educated in the public
schools of Howellville, and was brought up on the homestead farm. At the
age of sixteen years he left home to go to Willistown. Chester county, Penn-
sylvania, where he remained four years, learning the milling and lumber bus-
iness thoroughly. He then returned to his home and there managed the farm
for a period of ten years. After his marriage he rented a farm which he cul-
tivated for a period of three years, after which he went to Haverford, where
he rented an old-fashioned saw and grist mil! on the Merris Leedom estate,
which he conducted successfully for six years. Alarch i, 1893, he came to
Lansdowne and established himself in the coal and feed business on Burmont
avenue, and has been identified with this since that time. He is a strong sup-
porter of the Republican party, and his religious affiliation is with the Quakers.
He married, March 2, 1883. Ida. born in Chester county. Pennsylvania, daugh-
ter of Levis and Phoebe (Hall) Rogers.

While a branch of the Cooper family settled in Chester county,
COOPER Pennsylvania, in 1675. the ancestors of this branch settled
first in New England, where William Cooper, an English emi-
grant, took part in King Philip's war. Later he came to New Jersey, where
he owned a iract of land where now in part stands the city of Camden. His
seven sons settled in the now states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland
and Georgia. One of these sons was the ancestor of James Fenimore
Cooper, the noted author, and from another sprang James Cooper, grand-
father of Thomas \'. Cooper, the patriotic journalist of Delaware county,
Pennsylvan'a.

James Cooper, born at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was the son of a revo-
lutionary soldier, who was an orderly under Washington ; was promoted lieu-
tenant, and after the war settled in Pittsburgh. When Lafayette visited
Pittsburgh in 1824. Lieutenant Cooper had the distinction of being the oldest
revolutionary soldier present at the reception given the distinguished French-
man. James Cooper, son of Lieutenant Cooper, lived to the wonderful age
of nniety-ninc years, but even this was almost equalled by one of his sons,
Major Samuel Copper, who lived to be ninety-seven years of age, and at the
age of seventy-seven years entered the military service of his country during the
war betwcen'the Nortli and the South. He was also the author of the Scott-
Cooper system of military drill long in use in the L'nited States army.

Dr. j. W. Cooper, another son of James Cooper, was a skillful physician,
residing at diiifercnt times in New York, Philadelphia and Chester, Pennsyl-
vania, the latter city having been his home for more than a half century. Dr.
Coo])er commanded a company of militia, the Pennsylvania Blues, and with
his company took; active part in suppressing the Anti-Catholic riots in Phila-
delphia in 1844. He married Henrietta Fields, of Hagerstown. Maryland,
who bore him seven children.

Thomas \'. Cooper, son of Dr. J. W. and Henrietta (Fields) Cooper,
was born January 16, 1835, in Cadiz, Ohio, where for a short time only his
parents resided, and died in Media. Pennsylvania. December 19. 1909, the

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result of an accident. He obtained a good English education, learned the art
of typesetting and printing before he was twenty years of age, and in 1855
founded, i;i association with Dr. D. A. Vernon, the "Media Advertiser."
The following year the name was changed to the "Media Advertiser and
Delaware County American," and in 1859 the present title, "Delaware County
American," was adopted. From 1855 until his death, a period of fifty-four
years, Mr. Cooper was connected editorially with the "American," excepting
the civil war period, when he was in the field, there striving as a soldier to
uphold the cause he had advocated as a journalist. He was at the time of
his death one of the very few editors in Pennsylvania who, with pen and type,
aided in creating the sentiment that brought the Republican party into being,
and advocated the election of the candidates of that party in 1856, and for a
half a century thereafter continued unfailingly to support the same party. Mr.
Cooper was an alternate delegate to the Republican Convention of i860 that
nominated Abraham Lincoln for the presidency, and voted the delegates of
his congressional district for Mr. Lincoln, whose nomination was assured
by the withdrawal of Simon Cameron and the releasing of the Cameron
delegates.

On April 19, 1861, the 26th Pennsylvania Regiment passed through Bal-
timore, en route to Washington and, while not suffering from mob attack so
severely as the Massachusetts regiment, had rather an unpleasant experience.
Shortly afterward Mr. Cooper enlisted in Company C of that regiment, serv-
ing three years with the army of the Potomac, in victory or defeat, the great-
est army ever assembled in this country. He was mustered out with the 26th
Regiment in front of Independence Hall, June 14, 1864. The battle flags of
the regiment are inscribed with the names of many of the historic battles
of the war betv.'een the states: Yorktown, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Savage
Station, White C )ak Swamp, Malvern Hill, Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville (where they lost one hundred men), Gettysburg (where they
lost two hundred and sixteen men, and withstood a desperate charge), the Wil-
derness and Spottsylvania Courthouse (where they captured two pieces of ar-
tillery). In all his glorious career Mr. Cooper bore a part, escaping the
perils of war and returning to Media in safety.

He at once repurchased his interest in the "Americaft," and never again
laid down the pen or its editorial management until he joined his Great Com-
mander. As his sons came of age they were admitted to the business, which
was conducted until his death as T. V. Cooper & Sons and is so continued in
behai*^ of the estate. To these sons much of the business detail was commit-
ted, but the editorial page was never surrendered, although from 1869 until
his death, Mr. Cooper was continuously in the 'service of state or nation.
In 1869 he was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Assembly, was defeated
in 1871, and re-elected in 1872. In 1873 he was elected state senator, re-
elected continuously imtil 1889, and in 1878, was president of the
senate. In 1889 he was appointed by President Harrison, collector of the
Port of Philadelphia, serving four and a half years. During this period he
collected without the loss of a single dollar, the immense sum of $80,000,000.
In i(>X) he was again elected to the House of Assembly, and in i<)02 w^as re-
elected. During his long term as a legislator he served on many committees,
held imi)orlant chairmanships, and exerted personally and through the col-
umns of the "American," a deep influence on legislation and party policies.
From 1881 to 1889 he was chairman of the Republican State Central Com-
mittee, and in 1902, its treasurer. He was always a strong figure in party
councils and conventions ; had always the courage of his convictions, a born
leader, yet always open to the advice of his associates, but not easily swerved.

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He was one of the old school of politicians who won his way with men with-
out resort to the brutal tactics of the modern "boss," a term that implies none
of the qualities of real leadership so richly possessed by Thomas V. Cooper.
He was a believer in Methodism as a church of strength and power, his fam-
ily, however, being Episcopalians. He was a member of George W. Bartram
Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons, and of Bradbury Post. Grand Army of the
Republic. Mr. Cooper married, in 1858, Ada F. Turner, who died in 1901,
daughter of Frederick Turner, the publisher, of Philadelphia. Children:

1. Ada S. T.. married W^illiam T. Dickenson, and has Ada Virgina.

2. Frederick T. Cooper, born .September 14, 1865 ; educated in the pri-
vate school of Miss Mary Walters, and Shortlidge's Academy at Media, and
began newspaper work with the "Chester Evening News," later was admitted
to partnership with his father in the management of the "Delaware County
American," and is now senior partner of the firm of T. V. Cooper & Sons, in
active management of the "American," concededly the largest, most modernly
equipped and successful of all Pennsylvania county weeklies. Its patronage is
phenomenal, the paper going into nearly every home of Delaware, one of the
richest counties in Eastern Pennsylvania. Mr. Cooper is a member of the
Sons of Veterans and of the Media Fire Department. He married, in 1890,
Elizabeth A. Field, and has a son, Thomas V.. a midshipman in the United
States Navy.

3. Percival A'. Cooper, born November 13. 1867; educated in Shortlidge's
Academy and Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, later taking post-graduate
courses there and at the University of Pennsylvania in chemistry. For ten
years he was a partner with Mr. Dickenson in Media and Morton, Pennsyl-
vania, in the drug business. In 1898 he was admitted to the firm of T. V.
Cooper & Sons, and has ever since been connected with the publication of the
"American." He is an enthusiast on the subject of fine poultry, and is an
expert authority on many of the fancy breeds. He was appointed justice of
the peace, May 6, 1906, by Governor Pennypacker, and has twice been elected
to that office by the people. He ntarried, April 29, 1897, Emily J. Beale, and has
a son, Donaldson B., born December 16, 1898. Mr. Cooper is a member of the
college fraternity, Zeta Phi: Brookhaven Grange, No. 731, Patrons of Hus-
bandry, and the Sons of Veterans ; he is a Republican in politics, and a mem-
ber of the Methodist Episcopal church.

4. Thomas \". Cooper Jr. was born .April 19. 1874: educated at Short-
lidge's Academy, and the LIniversity of Pennsylvania. He was early inducted
into the newspaper business with his father and brothers, and is now junior
member of T. V. Cooper & Sons. He married Adia R. Hitner, of Norris-
town, Pennsylvania.

5. Nina Virgina Cooper, born July 29, 1877, deceased ; married William
Ashmead Dyer, treasurer of the Cambridge Trust Company, of Chester.

6. Susan T. Cooper, born in June, 1880. married William E. Rice, of
Philadelphia.

The Cooper brothers are all experienced newspaper men and, trained under
the eye and direction of their honored father, have continued the business of
T .V. Cooper & Sons most successfully, and have kept the "American" in the
front rank of countrv weeklies, setting an example of real worth to papers
of much greater pretentions.

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At tliis juncture, in a volume devoted to the careers of repre-
I'ALMER tentative' citizens of Delaware county. Pennsylvania, it is a
pleasure to insert a brief historj' of Samuel Palmer, who has
ever been on the alert to forward all measures and enterprises projected for
the good of the general welfare and who served his home city of Chester in
the capacity of fireman for a period of twenty-nine years, of which he was fire
chief for three years and first assistant chief three years. He retired from the
office of chief of the Eelton Fire Company of Chester in 1905, and since that
time lias been devoting his attention to the brick manufacturing business, in
wiiich line of enterprise he has been interested for forty years.

T'hc Palmer family traces its genealogy to old English stock. The name
Palmer originated during the Crusades, when pilgrims to the Holy Land who
carried jjalms with them came to be known as "Palmers." It was at that time
that people began to realize the significance of surnames, and Palmer was
adopted by those who had recently returned from the Crusades and who had
been known by that name during their pilgrimage. It has been ascertained by
students of the origin of names that people of the present day bearing the
cognomen Palmer are descended from an ancestry that dates back to the Cru-
sades. Thus it is certain that the l^almer family of this sketch is of ancient
English lineage, and that it is likewise old in America may be seen when it
is stated that the founder of the family in this country came over in the "May-
flower," in 1620, he having been of old Quaker stock. From New England
representatives of the name removed to Pennsylvania, and in this state oc-
curred the birth of Aaron Palmer, the date of which was April 13, 1792. He
gained distinction as a manufacturer of shell combs in the city of Philadel-
phia, where he resided at the time of his demise. November 24, 181 1, was
solemnized his marriage to Susannah Denney, who bore him the following
children: Samuel, mentioned in the following paragraph; Thomas, died in
infancy; John, achieved remarkable success as a butcher and meat man in
Philadelphia ; Parmelia, married John Ward, of Camden, New Jersey ; and
Mary Jane and Caroline, both died young.

Samuel Palmer was born in Frankford, Pennsylvania, December 28, 1815.
He was educated in the pulalic schools of his native place and in his youth
entered upon an apprenticeship to learn the trade of shell combmaker in the
factory of his father in Philadelphia. As a young man he taught school for
several terms and eventually he learned the trade of brickmaker. In 1850 he
located at Chester, Pennsylvania, and here was foreman of a brick yard for
Pierce Baker for several years, at the end of which he purchased the brick
yard referred to and continued to conduct the same with increasing success
until his death, September 21, 1864. He married Margaret News, a daughter
of William and Catherine (Morrison) News, of Philadelphia. He and his
wife were devout communicants of the Catholic church in their religious faith,
and in politics he was a stalwart Democrat, holding a number of important
local offices. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer had the following children: Eleanor,
married Henry Goodman, a brick manufacturer in Philadelphia, they are both
deceased; Caroline, married Michael Cast, likewise a brick manufacturer, and
they are both deceased; Kate, is the widow of Captain James Dougherty, who
was killed on a boat, she lives in Philadelphia, where she did mission work
for many years; Susan, died as the wife of John Moore, who was a prominent
oil man in Chester ; Ann Eliza, died tmmarried ; Margaret, is single and main-
tains her home in Philadelphia ; John and Thomas, both deceased ; Samuel, is
the immediate subject of this review; William, deceased; and Elizabeth, who
is the widow of Edwin Hawkins, and resides at Philadelphia. Mrs. Palmer
was summoned to eternal rest September 21, 1896. In 1864, after her bus-

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band's death, she bought a brick yard at Palmer and Ward streets, in Chester,
and with the assistance of her sons, conducted the same for several years, sub-
sequently renting it. Mr. Palmer was a valued and appreciative member of
the time-honored Masonic order, and he was well known and highly respected
throughout Delaware county, as was also his wife.

Samuel Palmer, son of Samuel and Margaret (News) Palmer, was born
at Chester, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, August 2, 1852. He attended the
public schools of his native place in his boyhood, and at the tender age of eight
years began to work in his father's brick yard. After reaching manhood he en-
gaged in the brick manufacturing business on his own account, and he has
been engaged in that line of work for the past forty years. In 1887 he be-
came a driver tor the Felton Fire Company of Chester, and continued as such
until 1899, when he became assistant fire chief for the city of Chester. From
1902 to 1905 he gave most efficient service as chief of that fire department, and
during that time he wrote and had published a complete history of the com-
pany. Once, as a driver, he met with an accident, being thrown from a fire
wagon that was going at full speed. He landed on the ground at Second and
Hays streets, and was run over by an eighty hundred pound engine. That he
was not killed remains a miracle to this day, but he was only laid up a short
time and recovered completely from his injuries. In 1905 he retired from his
position as fire chief and is now devoting his undivided attention to business
matters. He owns the old Palmer homestead in Chester, the same being lo-
cated at 2404 West Third street, and he owns considerable other real estate
in Chester, part of which is located on the corner of Palmer and Fourth streets.

In 1877 Mr. Palmer was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Lawrence, a
native of New Jersey, where her birth occurred. Nine children have come to
bless this union, and following are their names with brief data concerning each
one: Margaret and Mary, both at the parental home: Samuel Jr., a pipe
cutler in the Sun Oil Works of Chester; as is also John, who married Lottie
Roberts : Aaron, likewise in the employ of the Sun Oil Works, living at home ;
Harry, engaged in business at Chester : William, a blacksmith by trade : Cath-
erine and Ella, both at home.

Mr. Palmer had been a member of tiie Felton Fire Company of
Chester since the time of its organization, and he is likewise connected with
the Keystone Fire Chiefs' Association of the State of Pennsylvania. Although
not an office seeker or a politician in any sense of the word, he gives an un-
swerving allegiance to the princi])lcs and policies for which the Democratic
party stands sponsor, and is ever ready to do all in his power for the progress
of his home community. He is a man of sterling integrity of character, and
one who has always been on the level in his business dealings. His connection
with the fire department of Chester has been fraught with many thrilling ex-
periences, and he is very graphic in his narration of them.

This branch of the Smith family has been native to the city of
SMITH Philadelphia for several generations, while by intermarriage with

the Woodwards, they connect with one of the oldest Quaker fam-
ilies of Chester county, Pennsylvania. The Woodward descent is from Robert
Woodward of Rockland Manor, New Castle county, Delaware, and Birming-
ham township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, through his son Richard Wood-
ward, who married in 1706, Mary, only child of Henry Nayle of Thornbury.
Thomas Woodward, maternal grandfather of William C. Smith, of No.
6014 Market street, Philadelphia, was a lineal descendant of this Richard
Woodward. He was a prosperous farmer and stock broker, lived his entire

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life in Chester county, both he and hi? wife being respected members of the
Society of Friends.

William C. Smith, paternal grandfather of William C. (2) Smith, was a
prominent farmer and land owner of the now West Philadelphia district, a
local leader in politics, and for many years a member of the school board.
He was a member of the Baptist church, and one of the strong men of the
day. He married Mary Hoffman.

William H. Smith, son of William C. and Mary (Hoffman) Smith, was
born in West Philadelphia, in September, 1847, '^^^'^ ™ September, 1874. He
was proprietor of a feed store on .Si.xth street, Philadelphia, also operating an
extensive dairy business. He married Tacy D., daughter of Thomas Wood-
ward, of Chester county; she wa*; born February 28, 1850, in Chester county,
and now resides at No. 6035 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, a second time wid-
owed, her second husband was Samuel Crider.

William C. (2) Smith, only son and child of William H. and Tacy D.
(Woodward) Smith, was born in Philadelphia, March 23, 1872. He attended
the public schools, passing through the intermediate and grammar schools, fin-
ishing his studies at Pierce's lUisiness College, Philadeljihia, whence he was
graduated January 7. 1888. He then entered the employ of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, continuing until 1893. He then established a floral business
at .Sixty-first and Market streets, Philadelphia, erecting a greenhouse and oper-
ating successfully until 1908, when he began building operations in West Phila-
delphia. Since that time he has been one of the leading factors in the devel-
opment of that magic section of Philadelphia, his improvements covering the
section of Sixty-first and Chestnut, and extending to Market street. He has
in addition to his extensive building operations in West Philadelphia, also
aided in the development of the nearby section of Delaware county, and has
extensive interests on the New Jersey coast. Although a young
man in point of years, he is a man of good judgment, great
energy, and does not know the meaning of the word failure. He is quick
to discover an opportunity and has the courage to seize upon and convert it
to profitable uses. He was the prime mover in the organization of the Hadr
dington Title and Trust Company in 191 1, his being the first subscription re-
aiclcd in the dc\-elo])inent oi the nearby section of Delaware county, and has
most capably filled that responsible position. This company now firmly estab-
lished and prosperous, is located on the corner of Sixtieth and Market streets,
Philadelphia. W'hether he be considered as financier, business man or citizen,
Mr. Smith justifies in his life the high regard in which he is held, and so
thoroughly has he proven his ability whenever tested, that the word "success-
ful" must be given him.

He has not neglected liis duties as a citizen, while engaged in the business
battle of life, but has ever been kindly alive to his responsibilities. Ardently
Republican, he is a leader in his district, is a member of the Twenty-seventh
Ward and Forty-si.xth Ward Republican Clubs, and for five years represented
his ward in Philadelphia Common Council, rendering important service. He
is a member of the Ma.sonic Order, belonging to Fernwood Lodge, No. 543 ;
University Chapter, No. 246 ; .St. John Commandery, and Lulu Temple. He
is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Mr. Smith married, October 10, 1894, Katherine, daughter of Allan Van
Leer, of Philadelphia. Children : Kathr\n and Emina V^. While the family
home is yet in Philadelphia, Mr. .Smith has recently purchased a suburban
home on Eagle road, just f)ff the West Chester pike, near Manor Post Office,
Delaware county, which in the near future will become his permanent home.

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A native of Delaware county, Pennsylvania. Dr. Richard
D.W'ISON Young Davison has here spent the major portion of his life
thus far. Since 1900 he has been engaged in the work of his
profession, that of veterinary surgeon, at Alorton, where he is held in high
esteem by all with whom he has come in contact. He was born at Morton,
Tuly 5, 1866. and is a son of Joseph Davison, a sketch of whose career appears
"elsewhere in this work. Dr. Davison spent the early years of his life at Morton,
to whose excellent public schools he is indebted for his preliminary educational
training, which was later effectively supplemented by more advanced study in
Philadelphia, where he was graduated in the Friends' Central High School
and in the Pierce College of Business. In 1884, at the age of eighteen years,
he entered the employ of William Brockie. agent for the .\llan Steamship Com-
pany of Glaig.--,v, Scotland, at Philadelphia, and he remained with that con-
cern for several years, doing general office work. Subsequently he went to
Galveston. Texas, and there became superintendent of the Elder-Dempster
Steamship Company, retaining that position until 1896, when he returned to
Morton. In the following year he was matriculated as a student in the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, in which he was graduated as a member of the class
of 1900, duly receiving the degree of Doctor of \'eterinary Surgery. He in-
itiated the active practice of his profession at Morton, and here is regarded as
one of the finest veterinary surgeons in Delaware county. He manifests a deep
and sincere interest in political f|uestions. and gives an earnest support to
Republican principles, believing that the platform of that party contains the
best elements of good government. He does all in his power to promote the
general welfare of his home community, and 's regarded as a man of mark in
all the relations of life.

July II. 1895, was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Davison to Josephine
Camille Goddard, who was born in the city of Philadelphia, in 1870. Dr. and
]\Irs. Davison are devout communicants of the F'rotestant Episcopal church
of Morton, and they are popular in connection with the best social affairs of
this city. They are the parents of the following children : Richard Young Jr.,
born June 18, 1896: Helen Josephine, born June 13. 1898: Xelson .Milca. born
July 4, 1899; Clara Blanch, born .\ugust 30. 1900. died September 30. 1901 ;
Ernest Claude, born December 20, 1901 ; Camille, born July 13, 1903: Lewis
Drexel. born January 14, 1905; .-\da Halliday, born March 14, 1907: William
Halliday, born .April 20, 1911 : Carra Miles, born September 16. 1913.

Mrs. Davison is descended from a sterling old .American ancestry that
dates back to the seventeenth century. Giles Goddard, who died in 1729,

married Mary . and to them was born a son. William, the date of

whose nativity was August 4, 1678. He married. October 29, 1697, Ellis Fair-
field, and they had a sen, John, born April 5, 1707. married November 10,
1735. Lydia Polum. Lemuel, son of John and Lydia Goddard. was born in
T739. married Tuly i, 1762, Nancy Kingston, who bore him a son, John, born
in 1779, married, September 16, 1807, Mary Peed. Rev. Kingston Goddard,
LL.D.. son of John and ^lary (Beed) Goddard. was born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, .April 20, 1814. The Church of Atonement, at Seventeenth and
Sumner streets. Philadelphia, was erected for him and he was a pastor of the
same for many years preceding his demise., which occurred October 24. 1875.
He was a man of broad mind and unusual intelligence, and in his religious work
accomplished a remarkable ainount of good for humanity at large. He married.
December 3. 1836. Susan Mathilda Leamon. whose birth occurred July 16.
1814: she died at Bergen Point. New Jersey. .August 25, 1889. aged ?eventy-five
years.

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(Leamon) Goddard, was born March zj, 1839. As a young man he decided
upon the niechcal profession as his Hfe work, and in order to prepare for that
Hne of enterprise entered the University of Pennsylvania, in the medical de-
partment of which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He
gained distinctive prestige as a physician and surgeon in Philadelphia, where
he was for many years assistant surgeon in the United States Army & Navy
Hospital, .\lthough not a politician in any sense of the word, he was a staf-
ward Democrat in his ])olitical convictions. June 4, 1863, was solemnized
his marriage to Helen \an Syckle, who was born in Philadelphia, April 8,
1841, a daughter of Elijah and Sarah Belinda (Smith) \'an Syckle. the former
of whom was born August 16, 1788, and died in Philadelphia, February 11. 1855
and the latter of whom was born .April 28, 1799, and died in Delaware county,
Pennsylvania, h'ehruary 19, 1891. All the children born to Mr. and Mrs.
\'an Syckle are deceased. To Dr. and Mrs. Kingston Goddard were born the
following children: Kingston Stanley, born April 25, 1864; Walker Herbert,
born November 20, 1865 ; Helen Belinda ; E. Claude, born September 5, 1868.
mairied, September 13, 1889, Jane Blanche Crump; Josephine Camille, is the
wife of ]^r. Davison, as noted above; Elwood \\'ilson, born September 2. 1873,
married Catherine Stillwcll ; Helen Marguerite, born October 21, 187^ married
1-rank H. Hadlev.

The one governmental institution, in which all have an iiUerest
HALL and almost a shaie. is the post office, that department nearest the
people, and the only one in which they are brought in daily per-
sonal contact, ^^'hen the guardian of the ]ieople's correspondence adds to an
official importance a pleasing personality, and conducts the office in an efficient
yet friendly manner, the post office becomes the most popular and important
public place in the comnnuiiiy. For five years Swarthmore has felt that its
post office was one of the best conducted in the county, and in this belief de-
partmental records are in accord.

Caroline E., daughter of David T. and Caroline (French) Barr, was born
in Philadelphia, November 16, 1858. She was educated in the Friends' School
in Germantown. being a graduate of the class of 1878. She married in Ger-
mantown Friends fleeting, William J. Hall, now deceased, son of Thomas
Heston and Lydia (Harlin) Hall, the former for many years a i)rominent
railway official; children: Margaret C, born August 3, 1888, -married Paul
Freedley, a inechanical engineer and resides in Swarthmore; Thomas Heston,
born June 6, i(;oo; David Burr, born April 19, 1902, died December 16, 1904;
Gladys Cunningham, b(jru February 17, 1904.

In 1907, j\lrs. Hall was appointed postmistress of Swarthmore by Presi-
dent Roosevelt, an office she most capably filled for five years, being re-ap-
pointed by President Taft. Her administration of the office gave entire satis-
faction to the patrons, and also won the commendation of the post office de-
partment at Washington. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Woman's
Club of Swarthmore, and is a communicant of the Episcopal church.

For the greater part of a (|uarter of a cenrury Major
STACKHOL'SE Powell Stackhouse, of ^\■allingford, Delaware county.

Pennsylvania, was president of the Cambria Iron Com-
pany, one of the most important industries of the state. The entire record of
his connection with the iron industry extends well over a half a century, and
<luring this ])eriod he was in constant activity until his retii-ement about three

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years ago. The ancestry of Major Stacklioiise has been of the Quaker de-
nomination on both sides of the family, since it first came to America in the
early colonial days. The direct line is as follows :

(I) Thomas Stackhouse was the American ancestor. (II) Robert, his
son. (Ill) James, son of Robert. (IV) Amos, son of James.

(V) Powell, son of Amos Stackhouse, was a pattern maker and foundry-
man. He married Edith, daughter of Charles and Mar)' Dilworth, and they
had children : Charles Dilworth ; Emlen, who was the father of Mrs. W. B.
Lowmin, wife of Dr. V,' B. l.owman, of Johnstown ; Joseph Dilworth, see for-
ward : .Sarah Dilworth ; Amos ; Susan, married Daniel J. Morrell : Anna Dil-
worth : Dilworth, died at about the age of two years: Llewellyn, died in in-
fancy : and Powell.

(VI) Joseph Dilworth, son of Powell and Edith Dilworth Stackhouse,
was born in Philadelphia. He married Sarah Phipps Shaw, and had children :
Powell, see forward : Mary Shaw, died in infancy ; Rebecca Shaw, married
Dilworth Stackhouse, and lives near Gradyville, Delaware county, Pennsyl-
vania ; Alexander Shaw, deceased, married Margaret Maley.

(VII) Powell (2), son of Joseph Dilworth and Sarah Phipps (Shaw)
Stackhouse, was born in Philadelphia, July 16, 1840. This review is taken in
part from the very excellent one written of Mr. Stackhouse in "The Iron
Trade Review." by B. S. Stephenson. Half a century ago they held to the
homely belief that the successful career must have a foundation of broad,
practical experience. That was why, at the age at which the modern youth
is still wrestling with the problems of the preparatory school, young Stack-
house had completed his education and was securing his first insight into iron-
making. His first viewpoint was from the rear of the counter in the com-
pany's store at Johnstown ; a year later it was a more advantageous place — a
clerk's desk in the office of his uncle, Daniel J. Morrell, then managing partner
of Wood, Morrell & Company, the lessees of the Cambria Iron Works, where
he had charge of the cost accounts of the firm. Five years as storekeeper and
clerk ; then two years in active service in the civil war, a rigorous- schooling
in the command of men : a considerable term as superintendent of the com-
pany's real estate department, its woolen mill and brick yard : seven years as
assistant general superintendent of the rapidly growing works; three years on
the newly developed Superior ranges as general agent for the Republic Iron
Company ; then in turn general manager, comptroller and vice-president — these
were the steps by which Mr. Stackhouse fitted himself for the presidency of
the Cambria Iron Company, made vacant in 1891 by the death of Edward
Y. Townsend. Seven years later, when the Cambria Steel Company was or-
ganized, he was elected to the presidency of this company. The life of Mr.
Stackhouse has been so closely identified with the history of the Cambria Iron
& .Steel Companies that a review of the one must necessarily include the other.

The actual beginnings of the company date back to 1842, when George S.
King & Company built the Cambria furnace. Very shortly thereafter an in-
terest was secured in this property by Dr. Peter Shoenberger, through whose
efforts three neighboring furnaces were built in the next five years. These four
— Cambria, Benscreek, Millcreek and Blacklick — operating with charcoal fuel
on the thin veins of native ore, formed the basis of the Cambria Iron Company,
which was organized in September, 1852, with Dr. Shoenberger as president.
The company was capitalized at one million dollars, and plans made for ex-
tensive building operations. Early in 1853 four coke furnaces and a rolling
mill were commenced, and were completed within the year. The first iron
rail, however, was not turned out until July 27, 1855. While the capitaliza-
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new comjiany soon became so cri])])led by lack of working capital, tbat it had
been leased to the firm of Wood, Morrell & Company before Mr. Stackhouse
came to the works. Johnstown was conceded to be the iron-making center
of Pennsylvania, which even at that time dominated this industry. The hills
beli'nd the furnaces yielded a plentiful supply of coal and ores, and the firm
was in a fiourishing condition. At the close of the civil war, Mr. Stackhouse
lesnmcd his duties with the Cambria Iron Company as its real estate agent,
and then for a period of two years, was the superintendent of a subsidiary
concern, the Johnstown Manufacturing Company, which operated a brickyard
and a woolen mill. He was not yet thirty years of age when he was appointed
assistant general manager of the Cambria Works, a position he held until the
commencement of 1874, when he went to Marquette, Michigan, as general
agent of t'"^ Republic Iron Company, of Michigan. Three years later he re-
turned to ± ennsylvania, and settled in Wallingford, where he has resided since
that time. Mr. Stackhouse was in charge of the Cambria Works in 1878,
during the absence of the geneial manager, Danie! J. Morrell, and continued
in that capacity until his appointment, the following year, to the office of
comptroller of the company, with offices in Philadelphia. In 1884 he suc-
ceeded Dr. Charles Stewart Wurtz as vice-president of the company, and in
1891 became president, In i8g8 he was elected president of the Cambria Steel
Company, which is in operation at the present time. He is also connected in
an official capacity with the Mahoning Ore and Steel Company, the Penn Iron
Alining Company, the Republic Iron Company, the Manufacturers' Water
Company, the American Coal Products Company, and a number of others.

The military' career of Mr. Stackhouse, as prepared by J. M. Swank, is
as follows: "In 1861, as a member of the Johnstown Zouave Cadets, under
the command of Captain John M. Power, Mr. Stackhouse responded to the
call of President Lincoln for seventy-five thousand troops, immediately follow-
ing the fall of Fort Sumter. He was mustered into the United States ser-
vice at Camp Curtin, April 20, 1861, as second corporal. Company K, Third
Regiment Pennsylvania \'olunteers. On the expiration of his three months"
enlistment,' he returned to his employment at the Cambria Iron Works. In
July, 1862, Mr. Stackhouse aided in recruiting a company of infantry, the
command of which was tendered to and accepted by Abram Kopelin, of which
con']:)any Mr. Stackhouse was elected second lieutenant, and wvs mustered into
the I'nited States service on /Kugiist 5, 1862, at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, for
a terru of nine months. On August 21, 1862, he was promoted to first lieuten-
ant, an.i with that rank commanded the company from the latter part of No-
vember to the termination of his enlistment. Shortly after his return to Johns-
town, upon Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania, which culminated in the battle
of Gettysburg, the comjiany was reorganized under his command, joined an
emergency batallion formed in Johnstown and went to the front, but was not
mustered in. On Mr. Stackhouse's return to Johnstown, in 1863, he was
placed in charge of the real estate department of the Cambria Iron Company,
the lease of Wood, Morrell & Coiupany having expired in December, 1862.
In September, 1864, he recruited a company, of which he was made the cap-
tain, which was mustered into the I'nited States service September 19, 1864,
at Camp Cadwallader, I'hiladelphia, as Company F, One Hundred and Ninety-
eighth Regiment Penn.sylvania 'Volunteers, commanded by Colonel Horatio G.
Sickel, a reorganization of the Third and Fourth Pennsylvania Reserves. This
regiment was organized under the auspices of the Union League of Philadel-
phia, and was also known as the Sixth Union League Regiment. On May i,
1865, Captain Stackhouse was promoted senior major, vice E. A. Glenn, who
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commanded one batallion of the regiment prior thereto and until it was mus-
tered out at the camp of the organization on June 4, 1865. While in the United
States service. Major Stackhouse participated in the marches and actions of
those commands and was commended by the commanding officials on several
occasions.

While Mr. Stackhouse is a staunch supporter of Republican principles in
political matters, he has never had the desire to hold public office, holding the
opinion that he was best serving the interests of the community by devoting
his time and attention to increasing her materia! prosperity along business
lines. He is a member of the Union Eeague, the Springhaven Country Club
and the American Steel Institute, being vice-president of the latter organiza-
tion. His religious affiliations are with the Society of Friends, in whose creed
he was raised, while his wife is a member of the Presbyterian faith.

Mr. Stackhouse married (first) in December, 1863, Lucinda E., daughter
of Evan and Lucinda H. Roberts. Mrs. Stackhouse died in Johnstown, Penn-
sylvania, in September, 1866. Mr. Stackhouse married (second) in Johns-
town, in August, 1868, Genevieve R., daughter of George W. and Nancy M.
Swank, who died in March, 1875: he married (third) September 11, 1879,
Lucinda M. Buchanan, born in Ebensburg, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, De-
cember, 1852. She was the daughter of John S. Buchanan, born in Blair
county, Pennsylvania, a merchant there ; he married Katherine J. Roberts,
born in Cambria county, Pennsylvania, and had children : E. Blair ; Harry
M., deceased ; Frank M. ; Charles P., deceased ; John L., deceased ; Edward
R. ; Robert L., deceased : Sanderson M., died in infancy ; Lucinda M., who mar-
ried Mr. Stackhouse; Anna V. Mr. Buchanan and his wife and one son were
drowned in the Johnstown flood. Mr. and Mrs. Stackhouse have had chil-
dren: I. Daniel Morrell, born May 5, 1866; is living in Johnstown, and mar-
ried, January 18, 1893, Katherine E. Benkert, and has children: Mary, de-
ceased ; Rebecca ; Josephine, deceased : Powell ; Daniel Morrell Jr., and Kath-
erine. all born in Westmont, Pennsylvania. 2. Sarah P., married Willard A.
MacCalla, and lives in Philadelphia ; children : Powell S. and Helen A. 3.
Powell, deceased. 4. Powell Jr., married Grace \\'orth and lives in .San An-
tonio, New Me.xico; child: Worth, deceased. 5. Genevieve R., married William
Chalfant, and lives in West Chester, Chester county Pennsylvania : children :
Genevieve S., deceased ; Elizabeth D. ; Jane D. ; William and James
S. 6. Lucy B., married Benjamin A. Thomas, and resides in Philadelphia:
children : Benjamin A. : Lucinda B. and Powell S. 7. Katharine R., married
Bevan .Aubrey Pennypacker. and lives in Philadelphia : child : Samuel W.

The Wallace family which is represented at the present time
WALLACE in Swarthmore, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, by B.

Holmes Wallace, distinguished in educational circle-, was
resident in the state of New York for some generations. It is most probable
that they came originally from Scotland, as many of the characteristics of that
country are to be observed in various members of this family.

(I) Moses Wallace was well known as a contractor in the city of Ro-
chester, New York, having been born there, and dying in the same city at the
age of seventy-five years. He married, and had children, as follows: James
Eaton, see forward : Abigail, married Samuel Wood : .Amanda, married Mason
Gibson ; Lydia, married Dell Budd. The eldest child, whose name is not
given, and Abigail, are no longer living.

(II) James Eaton, son of Moses Wallace, was born in Rochester, New
York, where he also attended the public schools. After his graduation he mat-

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riculated at the University of Rochester, whence he was graduated with
honor in 1873. Taking up the study of theologA', lie became a minister of the
Methodist denomination, and he is now preaching and teaching in Mexico
City. He is seventy years of age. He married Amanda Perry Hohnes, who
was born in Palmyra, New York, and died in West Chester. Pennsylvania,
in 1903. She was a Presbyterian, and a daughter of John Abner Holmes,
whose death occurred in Hemlock, New York, and who was for many years
a railroad conductor on the New York Central and the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul railroads. ]\Ir. Holmes had children: Amanda Perry, mentioned
above ; Alida, unmarried : Charlotte A., now deceased, married Dr. Frank
Becker ; Nellie G.. married P. R. Plass. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace had children :
B. Holmes, see forward; Charlotte Elizabeth, unmarried: Jesse Moak. mar-
ried Pauline Jennings : Haldon Herkimer, married : Archibald Ramsay,
married.

(HI) B. Holmes, son of James Eaton and Amanda Perry (Holmes)
Wallace, was born in Rochester, New York, July 8, 1874. His earlier years
were spent in his native city, where he attended the public schools, and he also
attended others in several of the towns of western New York. He was a
student at the University of Rochester, where he was graduated in the class
of 1901. The same year he commenced teaching, and his record along this
line has been as follows : Trenton, New Jersey, one year ; West Chester,
Pennsylvania, three years ; Trenton, New Jersey, two years ; Swarthmore,
Pennsylvania, seven years : and during this time he spent four years as a
graduate student in the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Wallace is now the
principal of the graded and high school at Swarthmore, as well as lecturer
on education in Swarthmore College. He is a member of the Rochester
Chapter of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, and has been president of this
society. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church.

Mr. \\'allace married, August 6, 1002. the only daughter of Colin W.
Cross. Mr. Cross is a leather and belting merchant, and resides in Rochester.
Mrs. Wallace was born in East Newark, New York. Her mother is no
longer living. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace have children : Donald Holmes, born
in West Chester. June 29, 1903: and Margaret Cross, born June 21, 1907. at
Trenton, New Jersey. Mr. Wallace has a wide and well-establ'shed reputa-
tion as an educator, and has been the means of introducing a number of ideas
which have been proved to have a true, practical value. He is most thorough
in his methods, and has not alone gained the affection and respect of his pupils,
but has also earned the esteem of his colleagues.

One of the oldest Roman Catholic congregations in Pennsyl-
F.ARRELL vania is that of St. Denis, of Haverford township, their

111 'Use of worship being the first of that faith erected in Del-
aware county. The first gatherings of what is now the St. Denis congrega-
tion, were held at the home of Dennis Kelley, near the present Penfield rail-
road station. There were but few worshippers at first, but their number in-
creased, and two years later, in 1S25, the present site was selected and the first
steps taken to erect a house of worship. Dennis Kelley, a wealthy woolen and
cotton manufacturer, who may be called the founder of St. Denis, donated the
site, and was the largest contributor to the building fund, and the church
members at that time were being employed in his mills on Cobbs Creek The
original building was small, plain and unpretentious in appearance, but after
a few years was remodeled and enlarged, presenting a most pleasing appear-

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ance. both within and without. In the cemetery, beside the church, which it
antedates, rest the ashes of the founder. Dennis Kelley.

Services were at first conducted at .St. Denis by missionary priests from
Philadelphia, until 1853. when the church became the spiritual charge of the
Fathers of the Order of Saint Augustine, and has ever since continued under
the direction of the Augustinian Fathers. The present church edifice was erected
about 1852, and enlarged in 1873, and in 1903 the beautiful stone parsonage
was added to the church property. The congregation meanwhile became a
large and prosperous one, the membership reaching over one thousand souls,
when the creation of a new parish at Ardmore somewhat decreased that num-
ber. The cemetery lying on both sides of the road, near the church, and older
than the church itself, is the resting place of many of the congregation who
bore the burden of its upbuilding. Many priests have served the congrega-
tion some of whom later rose to high position in their church, .\mong these
may be named: Bishops Kendrick O'Hara, O'Connor and Galberry, and the
good Father Saurin, founder of Notre Dame University.

Rev. John J- Farrell, the present efficient pastor of St. Denis, was born
in Philadelphia. November 2. 1865. His early education he obtained at the
public schools, finishing at high school. He then prepared for the ])riesthood
at \'illanova College, under the direction of the Augustinian Fathers. He was
ordained in Philadelphia, in 1895. His first official charge was at Atlantic
City, New Jersey, where until 1906 he was assistant pastor of St. Nicholas'
Church. He was then appointed pastor in charge of St. Denis, of which he
has since been the spiritual head. Under his care the parish has maintained
its leading position, all departments of its work being prosperous and useful.
A devoted priest. Father Farrell has won the love and respect of his people,
while those in ecclesiastic authority repose in him the greatest confidence.

Although a native of the neighboring state of Maryland. Professor
HULL William Isaac Hull has been long identified with the educational

interests of Delaware county, as ])rofessor c.f history and inter-
national relations at Swarthmore College.

William Isaac Hull, son of Thomas P>urling and Mary (Dixon) Hull,
was born in Baltimore. Maryland, November 19, 1868. He prepared for
college in public and private schools, entered Johns Hopkins University,
whence he was graduated A. R. 18S9, Ph. D. 1892. He also studied abroad
in the universities of Berlin, 1891. and Leyden. kjoj and 1908. He was
associate professor of history and economics. i8()2 to 1894. Joseph Wharton;
professor of history and political economy from 18(^4 tn 1904. and from 1904.
professor of history and international relations, in Swarthmore College. In
1896 and 1897 Professor Hull was sui)crintendent of summer charities, New
York : examiner in hi.story for college entrance examining board, 1900 to 1905.
In addition to his standing as an educator. Professor Hull is the author of
"Maryland. Independence and the Confederation," ( 1891 ) : "Hand-book of
Sociology," with W. H. Tolman, 1893; "History of Higher Education in Penn-
sylvania," 1902 : "The Two Hague Conferences and Their Contributions to
International Law," 1906; "The New Peace INIovement," 1910: "A History of
Quakerism in Holland," 1914. He is a director of the World Peace Foundation
of the American Peace Society, and of the Pennsylvania Arbitration and
Peace Society. He is a member of the American Historical Association, the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania History Club, American So-
ciety of International Law. His college fr.aternities are : Phi Beta Kappa and

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Beta Tlieta Pi. He is a member of tlie Society of Friends and in ])oliliraI
faith, an independent Republican.

Professor Hull married, December 27, 1898, Hannah Hallowell Clothier,
of Wvnnewood, Pennsylvania, danghtci" of Isaac H. and Mary Clapp (Jack-
son) Clothier, of Philadelphia. His father was a grain merchant, a member
of the city council and a judge of the .Appeal Tax Court of P)aItimore. Chil-
dren of Professor Hull; Mary Clothier, Ixirn May 16, 1900: Elizabeth Powell,
born January I, 1904.

The Bonsall family, members of which have been active fac-
BONSALL tors in the develojiment and improvement of various sections
of the .state of Pennsylvania, principally in Philadelphia and
Delaware counties, was first represented in this country by Richard Bonsall,
who settled in Delaware county, Penns}'lvania, in 1682, a member of the
Friends Meeting. The generations in order were: Richard, TScnjamin, Rich-
ard, Edward Home, Isaac, Edward Plorne (2), Jeremiah, Edward Home
(3), Edward Home (4).

Jeremiah Bonsall, grandfather of Rev. Edward Home (4) Bonsall, was
bom in Germantown, Pennsylvania, May 28, 1825, died in Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania, in 1892. He .spent his life in the city of Philadelphia, was a con-
veyancer by occupation, a Friend in religion, a Republican in politics, and a
man of prominence and influence in the community. He married Margaret
Fimister Hutchinson, an Episcopalian in religion, whose death occurred in
Philadelphia, in 1907. Children: Lydia Mcllvain, deceased; Robert Hutchin-
son, a resident of Philadelphia ; Edward Home, of whom further ; Henry,
deceased ; William Herbert and .Spencer, twins, both deceased ; Elizabeth
Paxon, deceased.

Edward Home (3) Bonsall. son of Jeremiah and Margaret F. (Hutchin-
son) Bonsall, was bom in Philadeliihia. Pennsylvania, November 19, 1859.
He was reared in the city of Philadelphia, educated in its public schools, and
was a lawyer by profession, engaged in active practice in Philadelphia, achiev-
ing a large degree of success. In addition to his professional duties, he served
as second vice-president of the Commonwealth Title, Insurance & Trust Com-
pany, second vice-president of Land Title & Trust Company, and member of
board of directors of Land Title <*l: Trust Company and Philadelphia Com-
])any for (luaranteeing Mortgages. He is a Republican in ]iiilitics. and has
served in the capacity of burgess of Glenolden, Delaware cuuntw l^ennsylvania.
He is serving as rector's warden of St. Matthew's Protestant Episcopal Church,
of Philadelphia, in which he and his wife are active members. He married Han-
nah Rodney Tunnelle. born in Lewes, Delaware, daughter of George and
Elizabeth (.Stockley) Tunnelle, who were the parents of six other children,
namely: Jane Albertson, deceased, who was the wife of the Rev. George L.
Wolfe; Albert S. Tunnelle, of Philadelphia; Mary Paynter Tunnelle, of
Glenolden ; .Anne E., wife of Joseph P. Wintringham. of Brooklyn, New York;
Emmeline, wife of Edwin R. Clemence, of Merion, Montgomery county, Penn-
sylvania ; Hannah Rodney Tunnelle. George Tunnelle, father of these chil-
dren, was an importer and merchant of Millsboro, Delaware, and died in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1863. Mr. and Mrs. Bonsall are the parents
of two children: I-jlward Home, of whom I'lutlier; Rodney Tunnelle, born
.August 19, 1893, student at University of Pennsylvania, class of T914, re-
sides in Glenolden, Pennsylvania.

Rev. Edward Home (4) Bonsall. son of Edward Home (3) and Hannah
Rodney (Tunnelle) Bonsall, was born in Philadel])hia, Pennsylvania, .August

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14, 1888. " He was a student in the Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia, class of
1905 ; Harvard University, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts,
1909; Philadelphia Divinity School, class of 1912, from which he received the
degree of P.achelor of Divinity, 1913- During his divinity school course he
served at Holy Communion Chapel, Twenty-seventh and Wharton streets,
Philadelphia, as lay reader, also in charge of boys' work, and on June 2, 1912,
was appointed minister-in-charge of Church of the Atonement, Morton. Del-
aware county. Pennsylvania, and St. Stephen's Church, Clifton Heights, and
is still in charge of these two parishes. A firm and zealous minister of the
Protestant Episcopal church, he is also a man of liberal views and broad senti-
ments, is an earnest student and fluent speaker, and being a man of pleasing
personality, is esteemed and respected by all with whom he is brought in con-
act. Politically his affiliations are with the Republican party, and he holds
membership in the Harvard Club of Philadelphia.

He married, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 4, 1912, Elizabeth
Katherine Hubbard. B. A., Wellesley. 1911, born in Cambridge, ]\larch 17,
1890, daughter of Phineas and Lucinda Ann (Reed) Hubbard, who are the
parents of three other children, namely: Henry R. Hubbard, married Mabel
Hubbard; Mary C, married John M. Dick: Edward L. Hubbard. Phineas
Hubbard is a native of New Hampshire, a linen merchant, residing at the
present time (1913) in Cambridge. Massachusetts, and his wife is a native of
Canada.

The family of which Zachariah R. Scholl. a prominent business

SCHOLL man of Philadelphia, is a member, is of German extraction, the

pioneer ancestor. Frederick Scholl, emigrating thither from

the Province of Palatine in the year 1728. settling in Bucks county.

Pennsylvania, where he spent the remainder of his days, his influence for good

being felt in the entire community.

(H) George Scholl, third son of the pioneer ancestor, was born in Bucks
county. Pennsylvania, and there lived and died. He gave his attention to the
cultivation of the land, and he and members of his family took an active part
in the revolutionary war, performing their part in a valiant manner. He
married Anna Maria Shunk. and among his children was Jacob, of whom
further.

(HI) Jacob Scholl. son of George .Scholl. was born in Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, in 1797, where he was reared and educated, completing his edu-
cation in Philadelphia institutions. Later in life he removed to Perry county,
same state, where his death occurred in 1847. He was a minister in the Ger-
man Reformed church, his circuit comprising the churches in Perry county,
and these duties he performed in a highly creditable manner. L'nder the wise
guidance of this devout man the churches prospered both spiritually and finan-
cially. During the earlier years of his ministry he was sent by his church
on a missionary tour of \"irginia and the Carolinas, and made the journey on
horseback, as was the custom in those days. His wife. Catharine (Shaffer)
Scholl. a native of Perry county, Pennsylvania, bore him a number of chil-
dren, among whom was Alfred C, of whom further, and William, a cabinet
maker, now residing at I.'rbana, Ohio.

(1\") .Alfred C. Scholl, son of Jacob and Catharine (Shaffer) Scholl,
was born in Perry county. Pennsylvania, December 25, 1844. After com-
pleting his studies in the common schools, he learned the trade of milling,
and for some years successfully conducted a mill at Center, Perry county,
Penn.-ylvania : later he engaged in the milling business at New l^ingston.

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Ciiniherland county. Pennsylvania. During the progress of the civil war he
tnlisted in the Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry, and -served for nine months under
General Kilpatrick during General Sherman's famous "March to the Sea."
In this service he displayed the heroic nature inherited from his forefathers,
who also fought in defense of their country. Subsequently, having lost a
lower limb, in a self-sacrificing effort to save a fellow man from injurv and
possible death, which unselfish act saved the other but incapacitated himself
for life, and made it necessary for him to discontinue his chosen trade, he
turned his attention to the painting and decorating business, in which he is
still engaged, conducting his operations in Landisburg, Pennsylvania, his
present place of residence. He is a Democrat in politics, and he and his wife
are members of the Bethel church. On October 19th, 1865, he married Sarah
Anne Rice, born in Perry county, Pennsylvania, March i8th, 1846, daughter
of Zachariah aiid Nancy (Landis) Rice, of German descent, he a Ignited States
tnail contractor and carrier residing in Perry county. Zachariah Rice was the
grandson of Zachariah Rice, who was born in Germanv 1731. and emigrated
to this country about ijso: marrying Appolonia Hartman, and livino- for
many years at Pikeland, Chester county, Pennsylvania. It is of record that
these noble patriots rendered direct personal aid to the sick and wounded sol-
diers fluring the dark days of the American revolution, and familv historians
claim that the great ^^^ashingto^ dined in their home immediately following
the battle of P)randywine. To Zachariah and Nancy (Landis) Rice were born
nine children, namely: Samuel, deceased; James, a cotton planter in North
Carolina: William, deceased: Jesse, deceased; Sarah Anne, wife of Alfred
C. .Scholl ; Henry, deceased ; Joseph, deceased ; Zachariah, deceased ; and Ellen,
wife of Jacob Kling, residing at Landisliurg, Pennsylvania. Children of Mr.
and Mrs. Sclioll : Zachariah Rice, of whom fiu-ther ; Tolbcrt Tncob, cashier of
the Second National Bank, IMechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Nancy Landis
married Dr. J. G. Fickel. resides in Carlisle. Pennsylvania : Ellen, married
John Zeigler, now deceased, resides in Carlisle ; Florence, resides at home ;
Clara, married .Arthur L. Reeser, resides in Rochester, New York; Stan'ey.
a school teacher in the schools of Cumberland countv, Pennsvlvania : and'
Henry C. and Mary A., both deceased.

(V) Zachariah Rice Scholl, son of .Mfred C. and Sarah .Anne (Rice)
Scholl, was born in Landisburg, Perry coimty, Pennsylvania, December 13,
1866. He attended the public schools of his native town until sixteen years
of age. then served an apprenticeship at the trade of horseshoer and black-
smith under Mr. P. B. Mvers. of Aleclianisburg, Pennsvlvania. and for one
year thereafter served as journeyman. He then went ^^>st in order to see
the country, and ascertain if the opjiortunities for work were better there
than in the East. For one year and nine months he worked at his trade in
the silver mines of Colorado, after which he came East and became instructor
and demonstrator of horseshoeing at the University of Pennsylvania in Phila-
delphia, continuing in that position fdi- iliree years. In 1893 he established a
horseshoeing shop at No. 3813 Market street. Philadelphia, and has continued
the management of the same ever '=ince, giving regular emplovment to several
men, who perform the manual part of the labor, he superintending the work.
Being recognized as an authority and exjiert in his line of work, people l)ring
their liorses long distances to receive attention and proper care. .Mr. Scholl
is a Royal Arch Mason, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal church, botli being officially recognized therein. On December 2,
irp3, 1\Tr, .Scholl completed the erection of a fine Ijrick building located on the
Westchester pike, adjoining the University of Pennsylvania observatory. I'pper
Darby township, Pennsylvania, which home is thoroughly modern in every

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detail, well adapted to the needs and comfort of its inmates, and here he has
resided ever since, winning and retaining the good will and esteem of all with
whom he comes in contact — either in business or social life. He is justly rec-
ognized and known as one of nature's real noblemen, and therefore truly rep-
resentative of his splendid line of forbears.

Air. Scholl married, December 2. 1903. Laura Ledyard, born in Staten
Island. New York, November 12. 1869, daughter of John W. and Eleanor
Ledyard. now residents of Philadelphia, their home being located on the
corner of Thirty-ninth and Filbert streets, the former named being a hatter
by trade. Mr. and Mrs. Scholl have one child. Cornelius, born September 5,
1906.

Americans are beginning to realize the moral as well as the
LUNGREN historical significance of genealogical foundations. A nation
which relies upon the record of its homes for its national
character cannot atiford to ignore the value of genealogical investigation as one
of the truest sources of patriotism. The love of home inspires the love of
country. There is a wholesome influence in genealogical research which
cannot be overestimated. Moreover, there is a deep human interest to it.
Representatives of the name of Lungren have been prominently associated
with public and commercial ])rojects in Pennsylvania since the latter part of
the eighteenth century. The name is an old and honored one in what is
now Delaware county, and through marriage it is linked with several of the
most prominent of the old colonial families.

Charles Howard Lungren, whose name initiates this article, is a direct
descendant of John Liuidgren, a native of Smoland, Sweden, where his birth
occurred April 30, 175 1. John Lundgren grew up and was educated in Sweden
and at the age of twenty years he embarked for America. The boat in which
he took passage was shipwrecked on the Atlantic ocean, off the P.ritish coast,
and after several days of exposure and privation young John Lundgren, with
numerous other passengers, was picked up from the wreckage by a passing
vessel and carried to Liverpool, England, where he was cared for by the
authorities until he fully recovered from sickness due to cold and shock.
LTndiscouraged by his first disaster at sea, his health permitting, he again em-
barked for the English colonies in America, arriving in Philatlelphia in 1772.
He located at the Falls of the Schuylkill, in a Swedish colony, many of his
countr)-men having previously immigrated to Pennsylvania. .\t this time he
dropped the "d" in his name and his descendants have since carried the cogno-
men of "Lungren."

April 30, T777. John Lungren married Sarah (larrett, born December
12, 1749, a daughter of Morton and Ann Garrett and granddaughter of Garrett
and Regina fHuling) (larrettson, the latter of whom dropped the "son"
from their name shortly after their arrival in .\merica from Sweden,
in the early part of 1700. Mr. Lungren became a papermaker and by
an act of the ContinentEil Congress, July 19, 177^1, he, with all other
papermakers of Pennsylvania, was excused from military services. In
1779 he was registered as a taxable inmate of Concord township, Ches-
ter county (now Delaware county), being employed in the Wilcox
Paper Mill on the west branch of Chester creek. This was the second paper
mill built in Pennsylvania, it having been erected in 1727, and called Ivy ^lill.
and in it was made for one hundred years all the paper used for continental
and national government paper money. In 1781 Mr. Lungren located on Darby
creek in L'pper Darby township, wliere he worked in the paper mill of William

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Levis, on the site now known as Afldmghani. In 1782 he was assessed in
the Effective Supply Tax, in Northern Lilierties in Philadelphia, one pound,
six shilhngs and five pence on a paper mill at the Falls of the Schuylkill which
he and Daniel Sowers had leased and in which he retained an interest until
April 20, 1784. He purchased a paper mill site and fifty-three acres of land
from Mark Wilcox, April 20, 1785, retaining this property until December 30,
1795. when he disposed of it to \\'illiam Levis. This mill site was on Ridley
creek in L'i)per Providence, and was for many years known as "Bancroft's
L'pper liank."

lanuary 2, 1797, Thomas Griffith, of Aston township. Delaware county.
Pennsylvania, conveyed to John Lungren, a papermaker of Upper Providence.
a tract of eighty acres of land for the sum of three hundred and sixty-five
pounds, this transaction including certain rights for a mill to be erected by
John Lungren for the manufacture of paper. On the same day Jonathan Pen-
nell. of the borough of Chester, conveyed to John Lungren, for forty silver
follars, all right-s adjoining or abutting on ^[iddletown township for the pur-
pose of effectually completing and making firm and stable the mill dam to be
used in connection with the paper mill mtended to be built by John Lungren.
The above mill site was on Chester creek in Aston township, and in the erec-
tion of a stone paper mill and dam in 1798. a stone dwelling house. "The
Mansion." in 1799, another stone dwelling house in 1815. a second stone
paper mill in 1815, and tenements for seventeen families, by 1822. the present
town of Lenni had its beginning. The Lungrens (father and sons) manu-
factured paper at the above place until 1823. in which year the entire place
was sold to William IMartin. who named the mill site "Lenni Mills."

After a long and useful career John Lungren died ]\Iarch 3. 1816. His
cherished and devoted \\'ife. whose maiden name was Sarah Garrett, died May
1, 1818. Roth are buried in the Old Swedes (Gloria Dei) church yard in
Philadelphia. They were vigorous examples of the sturdy, pioneer life of Penn-
sylvania in its early days, and they bequeathed to their descendants tliose ster-
ling, upright characteristics that make American citizens of to-day so eminently
reliable and progressive. Six children were born to John and Sarah Lungren,
as follows. I. William, born May 10. 1778. died July 29. 1846; was the
grandfather of the subject of this review, and further data concerning his life
will be detailed in a succeeding paragra]ih. 2. John, born October 8. 1780.
died, unmarried, November 14, 1807. 3. Elizabeth, born January 12. 1783,
died February 7. 1836: she married (first). Joseph Black, (second), \\'illiam
Turner. 4. Charles, born November 3, 1785: married Susannah Hemphill;
died in 1861. 5. Samuel, born September 27. 1787: married Margaret Effin-
ger; died January 28. 1858. fi. Sarah, born October 7. 1790; married Dr.
Nathan Hayes : died September 10, 1850.

William and Charles Lungren. both sons of John Lungren. mentioned
above, inherited their father's mill at the time of his demise, in 1816, and they
continued to operate the same until 1823, when they disposed of it. In that
year William Lungren removed to a paper mill on Elk creek, in Chester coun-
ty, and thence to Muddy creek in York county. His mill at the latter place
passed to his sons. Edwin and Alfred. For several years following 1833 he
was proprietor of the Black Horse Inn on the West Chester pike in Upper
Darby township. Delaware county. He removed to Philadelphia in 1841. and
in that mctro|)olis his death occurred July 29. 1846. He married. February
14. 1799. llamiah James, daughter f)f Joseph and Mary (Engle) James.
of Upper Providence, and a great-granddaughter of Alorgan and Elizabeth
(Prytherch) James, who were married "^■e first day of the eleaventh month in
the year iCk)4, at the meeting-house in RachuM." The ancestors of Hannah

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fjames) Lungren were Quakers in the early colonial days of Pennsylvania.
Her great-great-great-grandparents were Richard and Jane (Petty) Wood-
ward, who were married in England. September 10, 1674. Their son Edward
married, March 24, 1705, Abigail Edge, daughter of John and Jane Edge, of
Providencetown, Chester county, Pennsylvania, The daughter of Edward and
Abigail Woodward, by name Abigail, married, October 23, 1730, INIoses \'er-
non, son of John and Sarah (Pyle) A'ernon. Abigail \'ernon, daughter of
Moses and Abigail \'ernon, born March 25, 1738, married December 6, 1753,
at Providence Meeting, Frederick Engle, son of Frederick and Ann Engle,
she died October 4, 1826. Mary Engle, daughter of Frederick and Abigail
Engle, born September 28, 1756, died January 31, 1818; she married, February
4, 1773, at Middletown fleeting, Joseph James, son of Samuel and Joanna
(Paschall) James. Following are data of the children born to Joseph and
Alary James: i. Samuel, born January i, 1774, died July 28, 1823; married
January i, 1791, Eleanor W'orrall, born May 16, 1772, died August 22. 1821.
2. Frederick, born March 30, 1775, died July 31, 1843; married, November
30, 1797, Rebecca Starr, born March i, 1776, died October 15, 1853. 3. Abi-
gail, born October 29, 1776, died August 20, 1823 ; married, June 9, 1796,
Aquilla Starr, born July 29, 1771. 4. Hannah, born in 1778, died June 22,
1817; married, February 14, 1700. William Lungren, whose name forms the
caption for this paragraph.

Following are the children born to William and Hannah (James) Lun-
gren: I. Edwin, born February 14, 1800, died August 8, 1827; married, in

1821, Eliza Frame, born February 6, 1800, and who died Jaiuiary 13, 1873.

2. Ferdinand, born February 20, 1801, died October 29, 1882: married, June
14, 1838, Susan Armstrong, born February 20, 1810, died January 14, 1880.

3. Alfred, born April 24, 1802, died March 27, 1879; married, in 1827, Hulda
Frame, born October 21, 1803, died March 15, 1844. 4. Emily Ann, born
January 29, 1805, died July 2, 1877; married, Alay 11, 1826, Samuel Conn,
born January 26, 1802. died May 19, 1872. 5. John Charles, born June 26,
1809, died September 21, 1888: married, January 14, 1830, Eliza Cameron,
born December 25, 181 1, died April 15, 1892. 6. \\'illiam Palifox, born July
24, 1811, died October 23, 1837; married, October 2. 1833, Rebecca Lynah.
7. Hannah, born December 31, 1812. died January 13, 1813. 8. Han-
son K., born December 30, 1813, died October 2, 1854; married May

4. 1843, Lucy A. Brooks, born January 22. 1825, died February 9, 1902.
9. Garrett, born August 31, 1815, died March 29, 1892; married, March 25,.
1858, Adaline Wiser, born August 28, 1828, died February 8, 1877. 10.
Charles Hemphill, father of the subject of this sketch, mentioned below.

For his second wife William Lungren married Jane Dix Smith, the cere-
mony having been performed May (S. 181Q. She was born August 3. 17^4,
died November 24, 1871, daughter of .Samuel and Elizabeth (Dix) Smith,,
of Upper Darby township. Five children were born to this union, as follows :
I. Hannah E., born August 31, 1820, died March 7, igoi ; married. August i,
1848, Samuel Carter, who died May 2, 1864. 2. Henrietta J., born April 30,

1822, died May 21, 1880; married, February 16, 1847. Tracey E. Waller, bom
in August. 1816, died November 20. 1S72. 3. Sarah J., born March 2, 1825.
died April 12, 1903: married, June 19, 1867, William T. Fosque, born May
21, 1822. died November 22. 1881. 4. Samuel S., born August 22, 1827, died
March 7. 1892: married, in 1848, Mary C. Schwartzwelder. and for a second
wife wedded Mary F. Farrar, in June. 1875. 5. Henry H. G.. born January
21. 1836. died October 19. 1874: married May 2j. 1858. Annie D. Ivory, born
August 17, 1832, still living in 1913.

Charles Hemphill Lungren. youngest child of William and Hannah

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(James) Lungren, was born at Lenni, Pennsylvania, May 23, 1817. Losing
his mother in early infancy, he was reared to maturity by an uncle and aunt,
Charles and Susannah (Hemphill) Lungren, for whom he was named. He re-
ceived but meagre educational training in his youth, and it was not until his
ninth year that he was able to attend school regularly. At the age of sixteen
years he entered upon an apprenticeship to Coleman Sellers & Son, machinists
and locomotive builders at Cardington, in Upper Darby township. He re-
mained with the above concern until 1837, and for many years following that
(late was engaged in erecting sugar mills in Cuba and Trinidad. In 1852
he went to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, remaining in the Far
West for two years. In 1854 he attained efliciency as a watch-casemaker. In
1868 he was honored by his fellow citizens with election to the office
of alderman in the city of Philadelphia. He voiced his political views
as follows: "Independent in politics: do my own thinking and vot-
ing, and am in favor of the Republican party and its form of government."
In 1878 he became a real estate agent in I'hiladelphia, and that city continued
to represent his home until his death, November 16, 1897. He was overcoine
by the heat, August 2, 1887, and he never fully recovered from the effects of
that shock. Through extensive travel and study, Mr. Lungren developed a
very keen intellect. He was well versed on all kinds of topics, talked well and
interestingly and everywhere commanded the unalloyed confidence and esteein
of his fellowmen. His death was universally mourned in his particular com-
munity, and his memory will long remain green in the hearts of his loyal
friends.

January 14, 1 84 1, Mr. Lungren was united in marriage to Eleanor Shields
Fratne, born September 2, 1817, died June 28, 1905, daughter of Robert and
Martha (Philips) Frame, of Binningham township, Delaware county. (Im-
mediately following this paragraph is a brief sketch of the Frame family).
In her girlhood days Mrs. Lungren became a member of the Brandy wine
Baptist Church, being baptized in the Brandywine creek. She continued in full
fellowship in the several churches of that denomination with which she united,
and was a quiet, unobtrusive Christian, working for the cause of Christianity
continuously, ever regular in her duties, attendance and contributions for the
welfare of her chosen church. Mr. and Mrs. Lungren were residents of No.
86 Andrew street, Hamiltonville, now 3624 Walnut street, Philadelphia, at
the time of their resjiective deaths. Three children blessed the unicm nf Mr.
and Mrs. Charles H. Lungren, namely: i. Edwin Frame, born November 2,
1841 : married, Decemljer 31, 1868, Emily .S. Eckert, born September 24, 1845.
2. Emma Dallas, born January 12, 1845; unmarried. 3. Charles Howard,
of this sketch.

By 1699 John Chalfast was located on a tract of land in the '"Manor of
Rocklaiids," now Birmingham township, Delaware county. Pennsylvania. He
requested a warrant for this land on the 22d of the tenth month. 1701. His
son Robert was granted the patent for the same on the first day of the tenth
month, 1714. Knbert Chalfast had a daughter, Ruth, who married Nathan
I'rariie prior to the year 1750. Mr. Frame was born in England and he and his
wife had the following children: Robert, James, John and Thomas. Robert
Frame, the first born of the above, was a native of what is now Delaware
county, where his birth occurred, February 20, 1750. He died May 13, 1817.
His wife, whose maiden name was Eleanor Shields, was born August 26,
1762, died May 19, 1820, daughter of James and Margaret Shields. Robert
and Eleanor Frame resided on a part of the tract mentioned above, which he
inherited from his mother, and they reared a large family of children, i. Mar-
garet, born February 2. i7Sr. died April 19, 1851 ; married. December 14.

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1806. William Smith, born February 13, 1760, died May 9, 1824. 2. Ruth,
born February 8, 1783, died January 31, 1864: married, in 1809. John Craig,
born June 20, 1773, died February 15, 1849. 3. Mary, born ]May 5, 1785,
died February 3, i860; married Thomas Hickman, born in 1781, died March
14, i860. 4. Eleanor, born January 14, 1788, died April 9, 1815, unmarried.
5. Elizabeth, born .April 3. 1790, died August 18, 1871 : married Enos Miles,
born October 3. 1786. died May 18. 1840. 6. Robert Jr., born :March 3. 1793.
died February 10, 1871 ; married, October 6, 1814, Martha Philips, born Feb-
ruary 9, 1794, died iNIarch 28, 1870. 7. Rebecca, born .August 22. 1795, died
February 2, 1796. 8. Rachel, born January 21, 1797, died January 22, 1797.
9. Orpha, born May 3, 1798, died February 2, 1849: married, in 1816, John
F. Engle, born in 1797, died June 29, 1874. 10. Jane B., born March i, 1801,
died March 4, 1838, unmarried. 11. Sarah, born June 28, 1804, died January
2, 1876: married Absolom Ditterbine, born in April, 1799, and died .August
7. 1866.

Robert Frame Jr. was born in Birmingham township, Delaware county,
Pennsylvania. Alarch 3, 1793, and in that locality he resided during the entire
period of his life. He grew up in close identity with the Brandywine Baptist
Church, being baptized in that faith in 1821. He devoted a long life to the
service of God, holding many offices in the Baptist church. January 25, 1829,
he was appointed a justice of the peace by Governor .Andrew Shultze for
district No. 2, of Delaware county, then covering the townships of Aston,
Bethel, Birmingham, Concord, Thornbury and Upper Chichester. He held
that appointment until 1840, when he was elected tn the same office for Bir-
mingham, being continuously re-elected thereto until 1870, when he declined
to further serve in that capacity on account of old age. The records of the
Brandywine Baptist Church say : "He bore his afflictions with Christian forti-
tude and died full of faith in the hope of a glorious immortality." In the same
records his wife is mentioned as "A most estimable Christian woman, a real
mother in Israel." j\Irs. Frame's maiden name was Martha Philips, born Feb-
ruary 9. 1794, died March 28, 1870. Prior to 1500 her ancestors were known
by the cognomen "Philip" and the "s" was added to the name in that year by
Meredith Philips. The progenitors of the Philips family in America were
Joseph and Mary, who came to Chester county, Pennsylvania, from the parish
of Eglyswen, Pembrokeshire, Wales, in 1755. Their family consisted of four
sons, David, John, Josiah and Joseph. They all attended the Great \'alley Bap-
tist Church until 1771, when they joined in the formation of the Vincent Baptist
Church. During the revolutionary war the above sons were officers in the
Second Company, Seventh Battalion Chester County Militia, Colonel William
Gibson commanding — David, as captain, John, first lieutenant, Josiah, second
lieutenant, and Joseph, ensign. Joseph Philips, father of the above illustrious

sons, was born in 1716, died May 18. 1792. His marriage to Mary ,

occurred in Wales: she was born in 1710, died December 26, 1792. Following
are brief data of their four children: i. David, born March 26, 1742, died
March 5, 1829: married Mary Thomas, who died October 31, 1840. 2. John,
born in 1745, died May 22, 1790, married Margaret Davis. 3. Josiah, born
March 29. 1751. died March i, 1817: married (first) October 15, 1772, Martha
Edwards, born April 16, 1747, died January 7, 1784: married (second) Sep-
tember 25, 1787, Sarah Thomas, born January 24, 1758, died January 23,
1845. 4- Joseph, born November i, 1754, died .September 3, 1832: married
Mary , born July 20, 1746. died January 28, 1817.

Josiah Philips, the third of the above sons, settled on the old homestead
in Chester county. He was a man of deep piety and fidelity to conviction.
His home was ever open to the man of God, and the fugitive slaves were

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always assisted in their i)assage northward hy him, an underground raihvay
station having been established in his barn. He and his second wife. Sarah
(Thomas) Philips, were the parents of eight children, as follows: i. Joseph,
born July 17, 1788. died July 21, 1825; married Rebecca Dennison, born July
29, 1786, died June 3, 1840. 2. Owen, born September 7, 1789, died August
18, 1871 ; married, in 1814. Rachel Evans, born in 1790, died in 1868. 3.
Martha, born January 14, ijyi, died February 12, 1792. 4. Isaac, born
September 17, 1792, died May 15. 1794. 5. Martha, born February 9, 1794,
died March 28. 1870: married. October 6. 1814. Robert Frame Jr., as noted
in preceding paragraph. 6. Mary, born July 29, 1795, died December 14,
1866; married. January 1. 1814, John Tustin, born March 4, 1789, died Feb-
ruary 25. i860. 7. Sarah, born .-Vpril 18, 1797, died April 19, 1854: married,
January 23, 1818, Nathaniel Miles, born July 10, 1795, died November 19,
i8(V). 8. Hannah, born April 6, 1802, died March 17, 1900; married (first)
December 17, 1820, Jacob Still, born July 2, 1794, died October 31, 1831 :
married (second) December 17, 1833, Eber Eaches, born April i, 1802, died
March 9, 1880.

Robert and Martha (Philips) I'rame became the parents of eleven chil-
dren: I. Sarah P., born July 3, 1815, died June 26. 1875, unmarried. 2.
Eleanor S., born September 2, 1817, died June 28, 1905: married, January
14, 1841, Charles H. Lungren, father of the subject of this sketch. 3. P.
Miles, born September 1, 1819, died August 10, 1901 : married, October 17,
1844. Sarah Ann Smith, born February 23, 1819, died February 19, 1893. 4.
Margaret T., born April 16, 1822. died February i, 1884: married, April 6.
1846, Joseph Perkins, born March 17, 1812, died December 10, 1888. 5.
Mary, born October 27, 1824, died December 27, 1826. 6. Martha P., born
December 3, 1826, died January 6, 1827. 7. Joseph E., born January 9, 1828,
died October 24. 1907: married. January 23. 1851. Hannah Taylor, born .Vu-
gust 14, 1830, living in 1913. 8. Martha J., born April 6. 1830, died March
23, 1909; married, January 27, 1853. John O. Taylor, born February i, 1828.
died August 29, 1902. 9. \'ernon T., born May 17, 1832, died August 24,
1832. 10. Hulda T., born April 26, 1834, living in 1913 ; married. May 10,
1855, Edmund H. Smith, born November 30, 1831. also living. 11. F. Marion,
born September 14, 1839, died December 10, 1904: married, June 22, 1865,
Mary Grubb. born July 17, 1839, living in 1913.

I'Vom the foregoing it may be seen that Charles Howard Lungren is
descended from a staunch old pioneer ancestry, many of his forebears having
been frontiersmen in the colonial days of the Keystone commonwealth.
From them he has inherited that sterling integrity of character which is mani-
fest in all his business and private dealings. He was born at No. 3624 Walnut
street, Philadelphia, I'ennsylvania, March 28. 1855. His early educational
discijiline was obtained in the Newton. Crammar School of Philadelphia,
through the various divisions of which he ])assed. graduating therefrom June
28, 1872. He launched into business life as a partner in a hardware concern,
the same being known as S. V,. Miller & Company, with offices in Philadelphia.
His partner, Samuel li. Miller, died in 1876. and the store was closed up.
Mr. Lungren then Ijecame an exchange clerk in the Centennial National Flank,
at their Centennial branch, during the Centennial F.xposition in 1876. In 1880
he entered the employ of the .\llison Manufacturing Company, remaining with
that concern for the ensuing six years, at the expiration of which he entered
the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in the accounting depart-
ment with the auditor of merchandise traffic, and has so continued to the pres-
ent time (1913). The family home was maintained in West Philadelphia until
the summer of 1891. when removal was made to Swarthmore. in Delaware

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county, where the family have since resided. Altliough not an office seeker in
any sense of the word, Mr. Lvmgren is an independent RepubHcan in his pohti-
cal adherence, and is ever on the alert to do all in his power to forward the best
interests of his home community. He is a man of his word, and as such is
highly respected by all with whom he has come in contact.

October 5, 1880, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lungren to Rebecca
Checkwood Allen, the ceremony having been performed in the parsonage of
the Herean Baptist Church; at Philadelphia, the Rev. Edgar M. Levy. D. D.,
officiating. Airs. Lungren was born at No. 41 North Thirty-eighth street,
Philadelphia, f^ennsylvania, December 28, 1858. The paternal grandparents
of Airs. Lungren were Joseph and Isabel (Lowden) Allen; their son William
was her father. William Allen was born June 23, 1820, died Eebruary 15,
1898. As a youth and with the consent of his mother he became a sailor.
Subsequently he enlisted in the United States navy as ship's carpenter, and
he was aboard the frigate "Constitution" (Old Ironsides) on her last cruise
around the world. He was mustered out of the naval service at Boston, Mas-
sachusetts, in 1848, and in that year came to Pennsylvania, locating in Philadel-
phia, where he became a rigger of the derricks of many of the large stone
buildings. Later he became a stonecutter. He married, July 12, 1849, Julia
G. Hopson, born August 11, 1827, died May 21, 1913, daughter of William
and Rebecca (Checkwood) Hopson, and granddaughter of Peter and Cath-
erine (Miller) Hopson, of Philadelphia. William and Julia G. (Hopson)
Allen had eight children, as follows: i. Joseph C, born June i, 1850, died
March 6, 1908; married (first) February 9, 1878, Emma O. Dell, born
December 19, 1854: died May 21, 1890; married (second) January 14, 1903.
Ellen S. Schatlfer. 2. William H., born February 6, 1852, died July 15, 1834.
3. Catherine, born May 13, 1854; married, July 1, 1875, Charles J. I'ugh,
born March 19, 1851. 4. Sarah A., born September 4, 1856; married, March
15, 1877, Louis D. Sloan, born June 16, 1855. 5. Rebecca Checkwood, Mrs.
Lungren. mentioned above. 6. Eleanora P., born May 21, 1861, died June
25, 1888; married, June 16, 1881, John C. Dell, born September 5, 1852. 7.
Margaretta, born January i, 1864: married, in January, 1883, Robert A.
Stewart, bom May 22, 1862. 8. George H., born January 23, 1867: married,
August 13, 1890, Caroline S. Laager, born June 3, 1872.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Howard Lungren have eight children, namely: 1.
Allen, born December 21, 1881 : married, November 15, 1905, Alary B. Crow-
ther, born May 17, 1885; he received a good public school education and is
now an elevator constructor, his home being in the vicinity of Svi'arthmore :
his wife is the daughter of Charles Henry and Emma M. (Boyer) Crowther,
of Alorton, Delaware county, Pennsylvania ; children of Allen and Alary B.
Lungren: Frances Marion, born November 3, 1906, died January 17, 191 1;
Eleanor Shields, born July 15, 1912. 2. Rebecca C, born February 2, 1885 ;
was educated in the public schools and Bank's Business College ; married,
Alay 5, 1909, Dr. William A. Raiman, born .-\ugust 10, 1879, son of August W.
and Minnie Raiman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 3. Marion Frame, born
June 29, 1887, died July 23, 1887. 4. Helen, born Augu.st 21, 1889; was edu-
cated in the public schools of Swarthmore; married, December 2, 1913, Godwin
F. K. Werliin, born June 19. 1888, son of Louis and Metta K. (Kyster) Wer-
Kin, of Prospect Park, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. 5. Emma Dallas,
born January 22, 1892 ; is a student in Swarthmore College, being a member of
the class of 1914. 6. C. Howard Jr., born June 22, 1894, is a student in the
Banks Business College at Philadelphia. 7. William Hemphill, born June 18,
1896; is a student in the Williston Seminary, at Easthampton, Massachusetts.
8. Frances Alarion, born Alav 12, 1900, died Tamiarv 11. 1902.

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In the records of the Society of Friends in Xew Jersey, the
ATKINSON name Atkinson has ever been prominent since the founding
of the branch herein traced by John Atkinson. He was a
native of \'orkshire, England, living for many years in Newby, but in 1659
moving to Thurscross, in the same county. He was among the earliest con-
verts to the faith expounded by George Fox and bore with a strength born
of strictest piety, the persecution of the Crown. Of his children, two sons
came to J'cnnsylvania. John, died Alay 2, 1688. without issue, and Thomas,
of whom further.

(H) Thomas, son of John Atkinson, was born in Newby, Yorkshire.
England, prior to 1660, died in Bristol township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania.
October 31. 1687. In 1678 he was registered in Sandwich, in the parish of
.Adtlingham, county '^I'ork, where there is record of his marriage. For the
three followin'g years there is no authentic record of his residence, but in
1 681 he came to \^'est Jersey and presented a certificate from the Beamsley
Meeting. The following year he moved to Bristol township, Bucks county,
and became a member of the Ne.shaminy Meeting, subsequently joining the
Meeting at Falls. He became a prominent man in the county, a minister of
the Society of Friends, one of the largest and most prosperous landowners in
the county, and for many years a member of the Assembly and Justice of the
Berks County Court. On June i, 1685, he was a member of the first grand
jury impaneled in the county. So exemplary was his life, so varied his activi-
ties, and so noble his character, that after his death the Philadelphia Meeting
I)ublished a lengthy "Testimonial" written by his wife, a most unusual action
among that sect, such strict believers in humility and the perfect equality of
man.

Thomas Atkinson married. June 4, 1678, Jane Bond, who survived him
and married (second) < k'tober 11, 1688. William Bliss, of Falls township,
Bucks county; children: i. Isaac, born March 2, 1679, at Sandwich in the
West Riding of Yorkshire, England, died in Bristol township, Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, a cordwainer. yeoman, and landholder, married June 23, 1708,
.Sarah, daughter of Richard and Margery (Clows) Hough. 2. William, born
in Burlington county. West Jersey, died in Bristol, Pennsylvania, October 29,
1749. He was an active politician and held a number of important ofifices,
coroner of Bucks county for nine terms between 1721 and 1740, a member of
the county committee for twelve years, collector of excise, and served two
terms as common councillor of Bristol. He married, (first) at Falls Meet-
ing, Mary, daughter of Richard and Margery (Clows) Hough, a sister of
the wife of his brother Isaac, (second) at Bristol Meeting. Margaret, daugh-
ter of Henry and Mary Baker. 3. .Samuel, of whom further.

(Ill) Samuel, youngest of the three sons of Thomas and Jane (Bond)
Atkinson, was born in Bristol township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, July 17,
1683, died in Chester township, Burlington county (or Xewton township
Gloucester comity), West Jer.sey, February 21, 1775. He was a contractor all
of his active life and in 1714 moved from Bucks county to West Jersey, tak-
ing a certificate from l^alls t(j Chesterfield Meeting. On November 5, 1719,
lie presented a certificate from Chesterfield to Xewton JNIeeting. where prob-
ably the rest of his life was spent, although tradition states that his latter
years were spent at the home of his son, Samuel, in Chester township. He
married, September 12, 1714, at the home of his bride (although the wedding
was conducted by the Chesterfield Meeting), Ruth (Stacy) Beakes, daughter
of Mahloii and Rebecca (Ely) Stacy and widow of William Beakes, both
of Nottinghain township, Burlington county. West Jersey. Children of Sam-
uel and Ruth .Vlkinson : I. Thomas, married .Susanna, daughter of Thomas

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and Alariha (Earl) Shinn. She descended from John and Jane Shinn, the
emigrants, through Thomas and Mary (Stockton) Shinn. 2. Samuel, of
whom further. 3. Rebecca, married (first) Thomas, son of Thomas and
Deborah (Langstaff) Budd and grandson of \\'illiam and Ann (Clapgut)
Budd; (second) Thomas Say, M. D. 4. Ruth, married as the second wife,
Joshua, son of Joseph and Hannah (Hubberstie) Bispham, and grandson of
John and Mary (Bastwell) Bispham, of Bickerstaffe, West Derby, Lancashire,
England.

(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) and Ruth (Stacy-Beakes) Atkin-
son, was probably born in Chester township, Burlington county. West Jersey,
died there in October, 1781. He was a farmer all his life and amassed what
was for those days a comparatively large fortune. His will was dated May
3, 1780, and proved by affirmation October 29, 1781. his executors being his
son, Stacy, his sons-in-law. Moses Kempton and Joshua Newbold, and his
friend, Jacob Hollingshead. He married Ann Coate ; children: i. William.
2. Elizaiieth. married Aloses Kempton. 3. Stacy. 4. Rebecca, married Josh-
ua Newbold. 5. Samuel, of whom further. 6. Sarah. 7. ^ilahlon. 8. Beu-
lah.

(V) Samuel (3) third son of Samuel (2) and .Ann (Coate) Atkinson,
was born in Chester township. Burlington county. New Jersey, died in Spring-
field township, same county in 1804. His will, dated January 4, 1802. was
proved at Mount Holly, March 9, 1804. He married Elizabeth . Chil-
dren of Samuel and Elizabeth Atkinson : John ; Isaiah, of whom further ;
Caleb ; Josiah : Samuel ; Esther, married Joseph Rogers ; Keziah, married Ben-
jamin xAtkinson ; Mary, married John Atkinson ; Hope, married Clement
Rockhill; Elizabeth; Ann.

(VI) Isaiah, second son of Samuel (3) and Elizabeth Atkinson, was
born in Springfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey, and died there
in 1845. In his will, written February 17, and affirmed at Mount Holly, Oc-
tober 25, 1845, he named his wife, Sarah (Eldridge) Atkinson, and his chil-
dren, William E. ; George Washington, of whom further ; Elizabeth : James
E., died in Jacksonville, New Jersey ; Evan, died in the West ; and Rachel,
married Enoch Hollingshead, and died in New Jersey.

(VII) George Washington, second son of Isaiah and Sarah (Eldridge)
Atkinson, was born in Springfield township, Burlington county. New Jersey,
in 1804, died intestate in the same county, in 1865. He was a Democrat in
politics, a follower of the faith of the Society of Friends, and lived as a
farmer on the old homestead. He married, Anna, daughter of Miles and
Sarah (Simmons) King, who died in 1903, aged eighty-seven years, having
survived her husband thirty-eight years. Miles King was a descendant of
German ancestors, a wheelwright and wagon-maker of Jacksonville. Sarah
(Simmons) King was of English family and was a women of exceptional
strength of mind and purity of character. She was a preacher of the Orthodox
Quaker faith, inspired and earnest in her teachings. The death of both oc-
curred in Jacksonville, New Jersey. Children of Miles and Sarah King: i.
Charles, a farmer, spent his entire life in New Jersey. 2. Anna, of previous
mention, married George Washington Atkinson. 3. Samuel, a partner of his
father until his death. 4. Mary Ann, married Nathan Aaronson, and died
in Columbus, New Jersey. 5. Elizabeth, died unmarried in Jacksonville. Chil-
dren of George Washington and Anna (King) Atkinson: i. Miles King, a
farmer, died at Jacksonville, New Jersey, in 1893, aged sixty-four years. 2.
Edith, married Samuel E, Rogers and lives in Mount Holly, New Jersey. 4.
Budd, a builder, married Mary Garwood and lives in Berwyn, Pennsylvania ;
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old homestead, married Ellen Rogers, and had two children, Wallace L. and
Iloward. 6. John, of whom further.

(\111) John (2), youngest child of (Jeorge ^Vashington and .Vnna
( King) .Atkinson, was born on the home farm in Springfield township, Burl-
ington county, New Jersey, March 12, 1850. He attended the public schools
of Springfield township, the well known Charles Aaron school at Mount
Holly, and for one year a school conducted under the auspices of the Presby-
terian denomination at Hightstown. After completing his education he
learned the mason's trade in I'liiladelphia and in 1872 established in indepen-
dent building operations, confining himself strictly to mason work, in which
he has since continued. He is now one of the oldest established mason con-
tractors in the city and has performed work nn such structures as the Broad
street station of the Pennsylvania railroad in Philadelphia, the Bourse build-
ing, Drexel Hall at the German Hospital, and many other edifices housing Phil-
adelphia's banks, mercantile establishments, and industrial plants. He is a
member of the Masons and Builders .Association of Philadelphia, the Brick-
layers Company of Philadelphia, which he served as president, and is a char-
ter member of the West Jersey Society of Pennsylvania, also of the Builders
Exchange of Philadelphia, of which he was an organizer. A Democrat in
national politics, Mr. Atkinson acts independently in all local matters and in
iQii was elected a commissioner of Haverford township on the Re])ublican
ticket, an office for which he has refused to be a candidate for re-election. He
is a member of the Llanerch Citizens" Association and was one of the organiz-
ers and its first president. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows is the only
fraternity in which he holds membership, belonging to Lodge No. 223. Like
his family for the past seven generations, Mr. .Atkinson has been an adherent
of the tenets of the Society of Friends and belongs to the Philadelphia Month-
ly .Meeting of the Hicksite branch nf the Society of Friends at Fifteenth and
Race streets, Philadelphia.

He married, October 5, 1881, .Anne H., daughter of Watson Welding, of
Bro<jklyn, Xew York: children, all born in Philadelphia: i. William, born
July, 1882, died February, 1910. 2. Roger, born May 12, 1884. a builder of
Phila(lel]5hia. 3. Edith, born March 11. 1889, married Robert R. Blank, of
Philadelphia, and resides in Llanerch. They have one son, Robert R. Jr. 4.
Dorothy, born November ii, 1893. 5- Richard, born February 5, 1897.

.^ince 1894, Air. Atkinson has resided in Llanerch. the demands of busi-
ness ])reviously necessitating his residence in Philade!])hia. The founder of a
flourishing and lucrative business who has prospered in his chosen calling, he
holds high rank among his fellow townsmen, holding besides their respect for
his achievements, their liking and regard.

In June. i(>S^. thirteen families from Crefield. on the Rhine,
COX.ARl) bade farewell to the fatherland and started on their long jour-
ney to .America, via London. They had been preceded by
Francis Daniel Pastorions, who had been charged with the duty of finding
home lands within the Province, then lately granted by the English King to
\\'illiam Penn. On July 24. these colonists embarked at London in the ship
"Concord" 500 tons. William Jeffries, master, and after a voyage of seventy-
two days, landed at Philadel])liia. ( )ctober 6. 1683.

This historic ])arty known in Pennsylvania history as the "(lermantown
Colonists," ]3rocured through their agent, Pastorious, a large tract of land not
far from Penn's seat of government, to which they gave the name (iernian-

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town, which name is yet retained, although the tract has long been included
within the corporate limits of the city of Philadelphia.

Among these thirteen German colonists was one whose name is variously
written in public and private records and by himself both "Kunders" and
"Kunrad." In Penn's charter of Germantown, signed and granted August 12,
1689, he is named as Dennis Conrad and was one of the founders and first
burgesses of Germantown, later one of its most worthy citizens and the found-
er of a numerous and influential family.

Dennis Conrad was also known in the Westphalia tongue as Thones Kun-
ders. this becoming in the Saxon, Deimis Kunrade or Conrad. A more recent
genealogist of the family says that : "Thones Kunders was frequentlv known
as Dennis Conrad or Conrades" and further states that : "After this time the
name Kunders fell altogether into disuse, his descendants calling themselves
according to fancy — Conrad, Cunrad, Conrads, Cunnard, Cunard, Conrod,
Conard and Conrad. Alany latter day branches have. used the surname Con-
ard. The children of Thones Kunders were seven in number, the first three
born in Crefield, Germany, the others in Germantown, Pennsylvania : Cunrad,
born May 17, 1678, died 1747, married Anna Klicken : Matthias, born Novem-
ber 25, 1679 or 1680. married Barbara Tyson and died 1726, leaving seven
children, all of whom adopted the name Conard — four of the children were
sons who married and left issue: John, born June 3, t68i, died 17(^5: Ann,
born May 4, 1684 (said to have been the first child born in Germantown) mar-
ried Leonard Streepers ; Agnes, born September 28, 1686, married Samuel
Powell ; Henry, born December 16, 1688 or 1689. married Catherine Streepers ;
Elizabeth, born February 30, 1691, married Griffith Jones.

From Thones Kunders springs Charles Wilfred Conard, of Lansdowne
and Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. His ancestry touches many of the prominent
families of Philadelphia through intermarriages, including the Shoemaker and
Baldwin families.

Charles Wilfred Conard. son of Thomas P. and Rebecca S. Conard. was
born at No. 316 North Thirty-third street, Philadelphia, January 15, 1872.
His father born January 20, 1840; his mother in March, 1843. He was edu-
cated in the Friends' Select School. Philadelphia, chose the profession of law,
entered the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, from whence he
was graduated LL.B., class of 1893. He was admitted to the bar in the same
year and has since continually been in practice with offices at No. 1 1 18 Chest-
nut street. He is a member of the Society of Friends. Pennsylvania Bar As-
sociation, Delaware County Bar Association, Philadelphia Bar Association.
In politics he is an Independent and has warmly supported the reform move-
ment in Delaware county.

Mr. Conard married in ii)02, Mary E., daughter of Charles Gleave and
Anna Margaret (Taylor) Ogden. granddaughter of John (2) and Hannah
(Worrall) Ogden. great-granddaughter of John (i) and Sarah (Crozier)
Ogden, great-great-granddaughter of Stephen and Hannah (Surman) Ogden
— "married by a priest" — and great-great-great-granddaughter of David Og-
den, who came from England, an unmarried man in company with William
Penn in the "Welcome," 1682. He brought a certificate from Friends in Lon-
don II mo. 21 day, 1681-82, of which a memorandum was kept by Friends in
Philadelphia. He settled first in Philadelphia, later in Chester county, where
he found a young woman, Martha Houlston, daughter of John and Ann Houl-
ston, of Edgemont, also Friends. The following is a record of the proceedings
taken before they could unite their fortunes : "At a mo'ths meeting Chester ye
4th of nth moth, 1685. David Ogden of ye afore.sd. countv & Martha Holston
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meetings it being ye first time, Jolm Boiter and Robert Burrow are desired by
ye meeting to inquire cone : his clearness & Elizabeth Malin and ffrances Bar-
net to inquire cone : her clearness & so to report to ye next meeting." Later
they were given permission to marry, after which they settled on two hundred
acres in j\Iiddleto\vn, where David Ogden died 8 mo. 22, 1705, leaving nine
children of wliom Stephen was the ninth born 11 mo. 12, 1705, three months
after his father's death. The widow, Martha, married (second) in 1710,
James Thomas. Child of Charles W. and Mary E. (Ogden) Conard : Mary
B., born 1907. The family home of the Conards since 1880 has been at Lans-
dowiie where C. \Mlfre(l Conard and familv now reside.

The Darlington family of Chester and Delaware coun-
DARLINGTON ties, Pennsylvania, is among the pioneer families of that
section of the state.

(I) Thomas Darlington, of East Bradford, Chester county, Pennsylvania,
married Hannah .

(II) Jesse, son of Thomas and Hannah Darlington, married. 1789, .Amy
Sharpless. They had children: Martha, married Eli D. Pierce; Rhoda. mar-
ried Isaac Hewes; Mark; Samuel: Edward, twin of Samuel, see forward;
Benjamin ; Joshua ; Thomas : Jared : Amy, married Samuel Palmer.

(III) Edward, son of Jesse and xAmy (Sharpless) Darlington, was born
in Middletown township. Chester county. Pennsylvania, September 17, 1795.
His education was acquired in the common schools of the day. and at the age
of seventeen years he himself engaged in teaching in the schools in Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, and devoted his evenings and every spare moment to
reading law under Samuel Edwards, Esq., until he was admitted to the bar
of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, April 9, 1S21. Three years later, April,
1824, he was appointed deputy-attorney-general for the county of Delaware,
continuing in this office until 1830. He was elected as a member of congress
by the Whig party in 1832, and in 1834 was elected to the same office as an
Anti-Mason ; in 1835 '^^ '^^''^s re-elected again as a representative of the \Vhig
party, and thus served in the twenty-third, twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth
congresses. In 1851 he was elected district attorney of Delaware county, serv-
ing in this office until 1854. While in congress he was serving at the same
time as Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Henry A. Wise, of Virginia. John C.
Calhoun, of South Carolina, Buchanan and Muhlenberg, of Pennsylvania,
and other noted men of the day. He removed from Chester to Media in 1851,
opening an office in the new court house in the new county seat, and took up
his residence in a new brick building which had been erected bv Dr. George
Smith on the east of the court house square. There he resided until \?fo,
when he removed with his family to the "Orchard property" on the Provi-
dence road. Media, their residence being the new house erected by his son-in-
law, Joseph R. Morris, who died while it was being built. Later this property
was purchased by his son, George Eyre Darlington. Edward Darlington re-
sided on this property until his death. The new county seat of Media was
incorporated in 1849. and in 1851 when Mr. Darlington first came there it
was but siKirsely settled. It had very few street improvements at that time,
and Mr. Darlington was counsel and adviser of the Board of the County Com-
missioners for many years, and was active in all measures tending toward the
improvement of the section. Edward Darlington married, .\pril 26, 1827,
Ann Preston, born at Chester, Pennsylvania. July 4, 1804. daugliter of Pres-
ton and .Arabella (.-\shmead) Eyre. Children of Edward Darlington were:

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A\'illiani Graham Darlington ; Arabella D., married Joseph R. Morris, and
had two children ; and George Eyre Darlington.

(IV) George Eyre Darlington, son of Edward and Ann Preston (Eyre)
Darlington, was born at Chester, Pennsylvania, August 20. 1832. His early
years were spent in his native town, and he there attended public and private
schools : later he was sent to the Litiz Academy, in Lancaster county, Penn-
sylvania. He studied law in the office of his father in Media, and was ad-
mitted to the bar of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1856. He was
a very young men when he served a three years' term as district attorney of
Delaware county. In January, i8qq, he was appointed referee in bankruptcy
for Delaware county, and he is still an incumbent of this office at the present
time (1913). June 16, 1906, his fellow members of the bar in Delaware coun-
ty celebrated his fiftieth anniversary of admission at the club house of the
Rose Tree Fox Hunting Club: on this occasion Mr. Darlington was presented
with a handsome silver loving cup. appropriately inscribed. He had been the
first secretary of the Rose Tree Club, being in office from 1857 to 1873 ; had
served as chairman of its board of directors from 1887 to 1902, when he was
elected vice-president, and to the presidency in 1907. He had been an active
fox hunter for more than thirty years. He and his wife occupied the Orchard
house in ]\Iedia, in which his father lived, until their removal to his present
residence on Front street, ^Fedia, opposite and south of Court House Square,
where he erected hi? new law offices.

Mr. Darlington married, April 16, 1884. Ella, daughter of Francis and
Mary B. Carpenter, of Philadelphia. He has been a member of the L. H.
Scott Lodge, Free and .Accepted Masons, since 1861. and has passed through
all its chairs. In 1873 he made an extended tour of the L^nited States, spend-
ing considerable time in the states of California, L^'tah. Iowa and Illinois. In
1903 he went to Europe with his wife, leaving New York oh an Atlantic trans-
port passenger and freight steamer, which carried a large number of cattle
and horses. They were landed in the Thames river, below London, and then
made an extended toiu' of England, .Scotland. France and Switzerland. Re-
turning by the steamship. "!\linnehaha." of the same line, which took a more
northerly course, and had a rough passage the entire way.

L^pon the outbreak of the civil war in t86i Air. Darlington was en-
gaged in the practice of law in ATedia. and in 1862 he joined a Chester com-
pany for state defence, under Captain William Thatcher. .After the battle of
.Antietam he visited the scene of this conflict with John G. Dyer, to look u]) the
Pennsylvania Reserves in which Captain Samuel A. Dver was serving. There
thev witnessed a grand review of the troops on the field, by President Lincoln
and General McClellan. saw them ride along the lines of soldiers and heard
the hearty cheering of the men. .A grand review of the great .Army of the Po-
tomac was witnessed by him at Fairfax .Seminary, A'irginia, before it took the
line of advance. In 1863, upon the invasion of the north by Lee's Confederate
army, he joined Company G. of the Grey Reserves Regiment, at Philadel-
phia, and went as a private to Harrisburg for the defense of the state. From
there, with the brigade, composed of the Grey and P>lue Reserve Regiments.
and a State A'olunteer Regiment, they marched to Carlisle and were present at
the shelling of the town by Fitzhugh Lee's troops and the burning of the
L'nited States barracks by them on the night of July i. During his service
he was promoted to the rank of corporal, sergeant, and then first sergeant.
and was honorably discharged in Philadelphia at the expiration of his term of
service.

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The surname Hopkins was Hopkvns in England in tlie six-
MOPKINS tcenth century and earlier. It is an ancient family of Uxford-

shire, where in 1567 John Hopkyns was a civil officer in Cov-
entry. From the armorial bearings of the Wyckhanis of Swelclifife, county of
Oxford, and those of the Hopkins family of ( )ving, it is conjectured by Burke
that in earlier times a bond of relationship existed between the families. In
confirmation of the belief there is found in Sibford Gower, in Swelclifife par-
ish, a small estate which is charged with a quit rent of one hundred pence,
that tradition has assigned to the late owner, as the nineteenth John Hopkins,
who had successively and lineally inherited it without intervention of any
other christian name than John. .As this estate joins immediately to Warwick-
shire, it may fairly be assumed that the family of Hopkins in Coventry and in
Swclcliffe descend from a common ancestor. A branch of the family is also
found in the north of Ireland.

( I ) John Hopkins, immigrant ancestor, is believed to have been a relative
of Stephen Hopkins, who came in the "Mayflower," from the fact that he had
a son, Stephen, and other names in the family indicate relationship. John
Hopkins was a proprietor of Cambridge, m the Massachusetts Bay Colony as
early as 1634. He was admitted a freeman. March 4, 1635, and must have
been a church member and Puritan to have been admitted. Prior to 1636 he
moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where he was one of the original proprietors,
liis home lot being in what is now East Park. He was a townsman in 1640, a
juror jn 1643, died 1(154. He left a widow, Jane, who married (second) Na-
thaniel Ward; children: .Stephen, of whom finiher : Bethia. born 1^35, and
])erhaps others.

(II) .Stephen, son of John Hopkins, the emigrant, was born in Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts, in 1634, and lived in Hartford, Connecticut, from child-
hood. He was adnlitted a freeman there in 1637. was a commissioner in 1668
and 1672. died October, 1689. He married Dorcas, daughter of John Bron-
son, of Farmington : children: Stephen, married November 17. 1686, Sarah
Judd : John, of whom further ; and others.

(III) John, son of Stephen and Dorcas (Bronson) Hopkins, was born
in 1660, died November 4, 1732. He settled in Waterbury, Connecticut, build-
ing a mill on what is now Baldwin street, and becoming known throughout the
locality as the "miller of M'aterbury." He married (first) Hannah Strong,
died May 3, 1730, and (second) Sarah : children: daughter, born De-
cember 22, 1684, died in infancy; John, born March 29, t686; Consider, born
November 10, 1687: Ste])hen, born November ig, 1689. died January 4, 1769;
Timothy (of further mention) ; Samuel, born December 27, 1693; Mary, born
January 27, 1696; Hannah, born .April 23, 1699, baptized at Woodbury. May
23. I7<>3. twin of Hannah, died in infancy; Dorcas, born February 12, 1705.

(IV) Timothy, son of John Hopkins, of \\'aterbury. Connecticut, was
born in Waterbury, November 16. 1691, died there February 3. 1749- He be-
came a person of great influence, serving at various times as constaljle, select-
man, grand juror, moderator of the town meeting, lield the office of justice of
the jx'ace eight years, and re])rescnted his town many times in the general
court. He married, in June. 1711;. Mary Judd, and had issue, including sons.
Samuel and Mark. His .son. Rev. Samuel Hopkins, liorn in 17JI. was the
celebrated divine whose theological doctrines created a new epuch in New
England religious development.

(\') Mark, son of Timothy IIo|)kins. was born at \\';Uerl)ury, Connecti-
cut. September \Ck 1731). died .-it White Plains. \'cw N'nrk, (\-tober 2. I77''^-
He was a graduate of ^ale College, a lawyer, and the first of that (irofession
in Berkshire countw Massachusetts. He was eminent in his profession, an

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ardent patriot, serving as colonel of the First Massachusetts Regiment
of infantry, but died ere the struggle for liberty had fairly begun. He mar-
ried, in 1765, Electa, daughter of Rev. John and Abigail (Williams) Sargent.
and granddaughter of Colonel Ephraim Williams, the founder of Williams
College. Alark Hopkins left issue, including a son. Archibald.

(VI) Archibald, son of Mark and Electa (Sargent) Hopkins, was born
at Great Barrington. Massachusetts. March 23. 1766. died at Stockbridge.
Massachusetts. 1830. .'Ml of his mature years were spent at Stockbridge. en-
gaged in farming. In him were all the qualities of sturdy independence de-
rived from his ancestors, and he was an American gentleman of rugged
worth. He was a captain of cavalry in the state forces. He married, in 1800.
Mary, daughter of Isaac and Hannah (Higley) Curtis, of Stockbridge. Massa-
chusetts.

(VII) Mark (2), son of Archibald and Mary (Curtis) Hopkins, was born
in Stockbridge. Massachusetts. February 4. r8o2. died at Williamstown. Massa-
chusetts. June 17. 1887. He obtained an excellent education in his earlv youth and
was especially prepared for col'ege by his uncle, Rev. Jared Curtis, then prin-
cipal of .Stockbridge .Academy, also attending Lenox .Academy for a time. Fin-
ishing his preparatory work, he decided to teach school for a time before en-
tering college. This he did. and in 1821 he matriculated at Williams College,
founded in ly^S by Colonel Ephraim Williams, graduating as valedictorian of
the class of 1824 with the degree B. A. The following year he became a tu-
tor at the college, at the same time having entered the medical school at Pitts-
field, then in a flourishing condition. In the autumn of 1827 he resumed his
medical studies, graduating M. D. from Berkshire Medical School in 1820.
and in 1830 prepared to begin practice in New York. .At this time, however.
Dr. William .A. Porter, professor of moral philosophy and rhetoric at Williams
College, died, and the vacant chair was offered to Mr. Hopkins, which after
some hesitation he accepted. Thus began the connection which was to last for
over half a centurv and which was to be productive of such great and endur-
ing results. In 1833 he was licensed to preach by the Berkshire Association,
and in 1836, despite the fact that he was but thirty-four years of age. he was
chosen to succeed to the presidencv of the college in the place of President
Griffen. resigned, a tribute to his lofty character and scholarly attainments.
For thirtv-six vears he remained at the head of Williams College, and raising
that institution to a higher state of efficiency and prosperity. Many were
the positions of influence and trust offered him during these years, but he re-
mained faithful to his ahiia iiwfrr, giving it in his whole-hearted. simi)le man-
ner, the best of his time and labor. Possibly never before in the history of
education has there been such fellowship and companionshi]i between a teacher
and pupils as that which existed between Mark Hopkins and the undergrad-
uates of Williams College. He was their friend, confidant and advisor, the
sympathizer of their sorrow and the sharer of their joy. The humblest stu-
dent felt his infltience. and left college strengthened and inspired by his
friendship and example. .A predominating characteristic was his quiet de-
termination. In 1868. during his absence, a serious rebellion broke out among
the students against the faculty. Upon his return, a few masterly determined
words and a short conference with the leaders of the malcontents restored
harmony, which his consummate tact rendered permanent. In his declining
years it was a source of great pleasure to him to receive letters from the alum-
ni of the institution, many of whom declared that they owed their present
high stations in life more to the quiet earnestness of his teaching than to any
other one factor, since the lessons they had learned at a mother's knee. As a
philosopher, he was one of the acutest thinkers the new world has ever pro-

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duced and it is a matter of regret that his absorbing duties as tlie head of a col-
lege left him so little time to formulate to the full the philosophical system of
which he was the foimder. Many of his philosophical lectures are used as
texts in the teaching of to-day. Harvard and Dartmouth Colleges honored him
with the degrees M. D. and D. D., while the universities of New York and
Harvard gave him the degree LL.D. He was also a member of the American
Academy of Science and president of the A. B. C. F. M. He married Alary,
daughter of Major Lvman and Louisa (Rossiter) Hubbell.

(Vni) Mark (3). son of Mark (2) and Mary (Hubbell) Hopkins, was
born in 1852, and married, in 1876, Lucy R. Parsons, born 1858. died 1884. Mr.
Hopkins is a very prominent artist in Paris, France, where he makes his home.
He is a Republican in politics. Children : Mark and Georgeanna.

(TX) Mark (4), son of Mark (3I and Lucy R. (Parsons) Hopkins, was
born at Williamstown, ]\Iassachusetts" in 1877. He attended Harvard Univer-
sity, class of 1902, but has devoted his life to agriculture and kindred branches
in various parts of the country. He operated a large ranch in the west, de-
voted to stock raising, and since the autumn of 1912 has been a land owner of
Delaware county. He purchased the property in Marple township known as
the Pratt farm, an estate that had been in the Pratt name since the original
deed from William Penn in 1683 until its sale to Mr, Hopkins, The part
bought hv Mr. Hojjkins embraces 136 acres, and here he has entered exten-
sively into pigeon and poultry raising for the metropolitan markets. His
flock oi pigeons numbers more than three thousand birds, confined in quarters
specially constructed. His poultry yards are also extensive and conducted
with all the skill of the modern fancier. The house, one of Delaware county's
historic homes, is being restored and the grounds surrounding it made most
attractive. ^

Mr. Hopkins married, in 1904. Gwladys, daughter of Walter Crosby, of
New York City; children: Mark (5), and Gwladys,

DeForest Willanl was born in Newington. Ilartford county,
WILL.\RD Connecticut, ;\larch 23, 1846, and died at his home in Lans-

downc, Delaware county. Pennsylvania, October 14, 1910. He
was the son of Daniel H. and Sarah 'Maria (Deming) Willard. who were
both descended from ancestors closely identified with the Cdlonial history of
New England. Dr. Willard could trace his ancestry directly to Major Simon
Willard. the founder of Concord, JMassachusetts (1632), two of whose de-
scendants were presidents of Harvard College. His preparatory education
was received at the Hartford High School and he entered Yale College in 1863.
From there he went to the medical dejiarinKnt of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, from which he graduated in 1867 with the degree of Doctorof Medi-
cine. He received the degree of Doctor of I'hilosophy from the University in
1871, and the honorary degree of pilaster of Arts from Lafayette in 1882.

Dr. Willard early selected surgery as his branch of medical practice, and
during the civil war, prior to his graduation, served under the auspices of the
United States Sanitary Commission at City Point and Petersbiu-g, Virginia,
as acting surgeon, and in 1867-68, was resident physician at the Philadelphia
Hospital. At the university he was demonstrator of anatomy from 1867 to
1870: quiz master of surgery and anatomy from 1868 to 1877: demonstrator
in surgery, assistant surgeon in Professor .\gnew's clinic and as.sistant sur-
geon in the surgical dispensary of the Universary Hospital from 1870 to 1877;
and attending orthopaedic surgeon to the University Hospital from 1889 tc
1910. The chair of orthopaedic surgery was created by the University for

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Dr. Willard, and held by him from 1889 to the time of his death in 1910. He
was patron of the Ashhiirst Surgical Society from 1900 to 1910; chairman of
the surgical section of ^he American Medical Association ; president of the
American Surgical Association in igoi : president of the American Orthopae-
dic Association, 1890; of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, 1893-94;
vice-president of the Medical Alumni Association in 1905 and president in
1907; president of the ^Medical Board of the Presbyterian Hospital, 1901-07;
vice-president of the orthopaedic section of the International Medical Con-
gress, Berlin, 1890; chairman of the orthopaedic section of the Philadelphia
College of Physicians, 1894 ; curator of the Philadelphia Pathological Society,
1868-71 ; pathologist of the Presbyterian Hospital, 1872-81 ; out patient sur-
geon of the Presbyterian Hospital, 1873-76 ; surgeon to Howard Hospital,
1877-81 ; organizer and surgeon in chief of the Widener Memorial Industrial
School for Crippled Children, 1898; consulting surgeon of the Phoenixville
Hospital, 1903-10; surgeon of the Presbyterian Hospital, 1876-igio; consult-
ing surgeon of the Atlantic City Hospital, igoi-io; of the Seashore Children's
Hospital, Atlantic City, 1902-10; of the Cermantown Hospital, 1902-10; of the
Jewish Hospital, 1904-10; of the Municipal Hospital, 1908-10; of the Home
of Incurables, 1881-1910; of the New Jersey Training School for Feeble
Minded. 1883-1905; of the Haddock Memorial, 1901-10; Founder of the Mid-
night Mission, 1868-1900; assistant medical director of the United States
Centennial Exhibition. 1876; Mutter Lecturer of the Philadelphia College of
Physicians, 1893 ; visiting surgeon of the Lincoln Institute, 1870-73 ; of the
Educational Home. 1873; assistant physician of the Lying-in-Charity. 1872-77;
professor of anatomy and physiology at the Wagner Institute (if Science, 1870-
75; Fellow of the American Orthopaedic Association, of the American Sur-
gical Association, of the American Medical Association, of th.e Philadelphia
Academy of Surgery, of the Philadelphia County IMedical Society, of the
Pennsylvania State Medical Society, of the Philadelphia Pathological Society,
of the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society, and of the Lehigh Valley Medical As-
sociation. He was council of the Philadelphia College of Physicians for twelve
years and censor of the Philadelphia County Medical Society for five years.
He was a member of the General Alumni Society ; a member of the Medical
Alumni Society, its president in 1907 and a member of its Executive Commit-
tee for twenty years. He was a member of the Board of Managers, Univer-
sity Hospital, 1892-1906; of the board of trustees, Pennsylvania Training
School for Feeble-lNIinded, 1893-97; o^ *he board of managers. Midnight Mis-
sion, 1868-1910; of the board of managers. Union Benevolent Association,
1 883- 1 903 ; member of the Academy of Natural Science. 1876-78: of the New
England Society, 1881-1910; of the Founders and Patriots, Philadelphia.
1906-1910; manager of the Young Men's Christian Association, 1875-78: dele-
gate to the International Medical Congress, Berlin, 1890: to the American
Congress of Physicians and Surgeons ; to the Pan-.\merican Medical Con-
gress, 1893 ; to the International Medical Congress. Philadelphia. 1876 ; to
the International Medical Congress, Washington, 1883 ; vice-president of the
International Congress of Tuberculosis, Washington, 1908; charter member
of the Alpha Mu Pi Omega medical fraternity; and honorar\' member of the
Alpha Omega Alpha fraternity.

Dr. Willard was never known to neglect any of the many offices and posi-
tions he filled in his long and busy career. He was a voluminous contributor
to medical literature and his book on the "Surgery of Childhood" represents
the mature judgment of an exceedingly large and ripe experience in surgical
practice. It is generally conceded that judgment is even more essential to a
surgern than 1 iterative skill, but Dr. Willard possessed both and added to a

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rare inherited ami cultured judgment, a marvelous skill in surj^ical techni(|ue.
Among the university sludei'ls he was beloved because of his high ideals and
the two great themes of his addresses to his graduat'ng classes were "charac-
ter building" and "faithful service." In his last public address, delivered three
weeks before his death, at the opening of the one hundred and forty-fifih ses-
sion of the Medical School, he concluded his discourse with these words . "Let
me give you in conclusion just two mottoes to memorize, even if you forget
all else of this hour — surgically, be clean without, morally, be clean within."

Dr. Willard was married, in 1881, to Flli/cabeth M. Porter, a daughter of
the Hon. William A. Porter, granddaughter of Governor D. R. Porter and
great-granddaughter of General Andrew Porter. To them was born one son.
Dr. DeForest Porter Willard.

Of ancient English lineage. Dr. Harry M. Armitage, of
ARMITAGE Chester, is of the fourth American generation of his branch

of the .\rmitages. He descends from George Armitage,
who. born and married in England, came to the LTnited States in 1840, set-
tling in Pennsyh'ania. He died in Philadelphia about 1850, aged fifty vears.
?Te married Hamiah Ibotson of English birth and reared a large family.

(II) John, son (if (leorgc and Hannah (Ibotson) .\rmitage, was born
i'l luigland in i8j(), died in Richmond, \'irginia, in 1909 (or 191 1 ). He was
a lad of fourteen year-, w lu-n larought by his parents to the L^nited States,
where he led a long, useful and honorable business life. He resided in Phila-
delphia, Maryland, Chester and Richmond, carrying on during his active life,
a successful roofing business. He was for a long time engaged in business in
Chester, as a contractor and manufacturer of roofing materials, first alone,
then admitting his son, George Armitage. They finally dissolved, the father
raking the Richmond branch of the business, moving there and continuing un-
til his death in 1(509. He married in 1853, Caroline \\'elch, born 1823, died
.\ugust 15, 1892: children: George L. (of whom further); Charles E. and
\\'illiam C., both now of Richmond, X'irginia, where they continue the niofing
business, established by their father.

(III) (jeorge L., eldest son of John and Caroline (Welch) .\rmitage.
was born in Hartford county, Maryland, .\ugust 2, 1855. In i8r)0 his parents
moved to Chester. Pennsylvania, where he was educated in the public school.
In 1 87 1, he took a course and was graduated from Crittenden's Business Col-
lege, becoming his father's assistant in the roofing business. Later he was ad-
mitted a partner and for many years John Armitage & Son continued one of
the successful contracting and manufacturing firms of Chester. They were
manufacturers of building i)ai)er and roofing materials, also contractors for tin,
slate and slag roofs of all sizes or dimensions. The firm enlarged their busi-
ness by the establishment of a branch in Richmond. \'irginia, where the elder
,\rmitagc moved in 1882, continuing as head of the Chester lousiness until
i8Sf), when the firm dissolved, George L. retaining the Chester business, his
father taking the Richmonfl branch. George L. Armitage continued along the
same lines until I(p<^ when he closed out in Chester and located in Savannah,
Georgia, where lie is now in successful business as a member of the Savannah
Roofing Company. While in Chester, both he and his wife were active mem-
bers of the Madison Street .Methodist E!)isco])aI Chtu'ch. and in jxilitical faith
he is a Republican.

He married, June id. 1881, Mary ^^'. Marshall, of Chester; children:
.Mal)el M.. engaged with the Delaware Count\' Trust Company, of Chester;

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Harry Marshall (of whom further), and George L. (2), now a medical stu-
dent.

(I\') Dr. Harry Marshall Armitage, eldest son of George L. and Mary
W. (Marshall) Armitage, was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, May 11, 1886.
He was educated in the Chester public schools, and is a graduate of the high
school, class of 1904. During his vacations he worked with his father and be-
came thoroughly familiar with all details of the roofing business. He decided-
upon the profession of medicine, entereil the medical department of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, and received his degree of M. D., class of 1908.
During the years 1908 and 1909, he was interne at Chester Hospital, then es-
tablished in general practice at Chester, making, however, a specialty of sur-
gical cases. He has taken post graduate courses at the University, where he
has also been engaged as an instructor. He thoroughly understands the mod-
ern treatment of disease, by tnedical or surgical means and has a well estab-
lished, growing practice in the city of his birth. He is a member of the Amer-
ican Medical, Pennsylvania State Medical and Delaware County Medical So-
cieties, and of the fl. C. Wood Medical Society of the University of Penn-
sylvania, taking active interest in all and using them as a means of keeping in
closest touch with all latest medical thought, discovery or experience. In
1909 he was elected pathologist at Chester Hospital and in 1912. a member of
the surgical staff. Dr. Armitage is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, the Modern Woodmen of America, and maintains his home and offices
at No. 400 East Thirteenth street. Chester. He is unmarried.

From Scotland, at an early date, came the ancestors of the Macks
MACK of this record, settling in Pennsylvania. William Mack, great-
grandfather of Raesly S. Mack, of Chester, Pennsylvania, owned
a farm on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware river, opposite Belorden,
New Jersey, and an island in the river known as Slack's Island. He married
Rachel Gulick, whose father was proprietor of a hotel near Winchester, \'ir-
ginia.

William (2) Mack, son of William (i) Mack, was born in Mount Bethel,
Northampton county, Pennsylvania. August 2, 1806, died in Tunkhannock,
Pennsylvania, March 16, 1892. He located at Richmond, Pennsylvania, where
he was engaged in business as a carriage builder. He was a Democrat in poli-
tics until 1861. then joined the Republican party, with wdiich he was ever after-
ward affiliated. In religious faith he was a member of the Methodist Episco-
pal church. He married, March 22, 1832, at Easton, Pennsylvania, Rachel,
daughter of William and Anna (\'an Sickle) Everett and granddaughter of
Asa and Sarah Everett and of James and Sarah Van Sickle, the latter of near
Belvidere, Xew Jersey: children: Miriam Brown, born January 10, 1833, de-
ceased; Sedgwick Rusling. born June 13, 1835, now living in Tranquility;
Hannah Everett, born December 8, 1836, died July 21. 1906: Mordecai Stokes,
born November, 1838, deceased: Russell Little (of whom further): Newton
Heston, December 5, 1843; Eveline Raesly, born April 10, 1847, died in in-
fancy: Robert Geary, born February 17, 1851, died in infancy.

Russell Little Mack, son of William (2) and Rachel (Everett) Mack,
was born in Richmond, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1841. He learned the car-
riage builder's trade, settled in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, where two of his
children were born, then located in Wellsboro. Pemisylvania. About 1870 he
established the Wellsboro Carriage Works, which he conducted successfully
for eighteen years, .-\fter an active busy life as a carriage builder and busi-
ness man, he now lives in Wellsboro, retired. He is a member of the Metho-

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dist Episcopal church. Mr. Mack married in Pliiladelphia, January 2, 1870,
Jo-sephine Illrick, born at Richmond, Pennsylvania, July 22, 1845, daughter of
Samuel and Harriet (Kressler) Illrick of Richmond, granddaughter of Chris-
topher and Susan (13radt) Illrick, both born in Germany; maternal grand-
daughter of John and Mary (Seidl) Kressler; children: Minnie M., born in
Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, November 24, 1870, graduate of Dickinson Col-
lege at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and later at the Massachusetts College of Osteo-
pathy at Boston, now teacher in [Dickinson Seminary at Williamsport, Penn-
sylvania; Edgar Illrick, born in Tunkhannock, August 25, 1872, now a book-
keeper of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania ; James Bryant, born in Wellsboro, Oc-
tober 22, 1875, now professor in the University at Oscaloosa, Iowa ; Everett
William, born in Wellsboro, September 3, 1879, now a clothing merchant of
Wellsboro, married May Smith, of Wellsboro ; Raesly Seidl, of whom further ;
Josephine Penelope, born in Wellsboro, September 22, 1S84, resides at home.

Dr. Raesly Seidl Mack, youngest son of Russell Little and Josephine
(Illrick) Mack, was born in Wellsboro, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, Febru-
ary 7, 1882. He was educated in the public schools and graduated from the
high school at Wellsboro, class of 1900. He then entered the Massachusetts
College of Osteopathy whence he was graduated class of 1902. He began
practice in the same year and is well established in successful practice at No.
114 E. Broad street.

In politics he is an Independent and is an attendant of the Methodist
Episcopal church. He belongs to the Masonic Order, affiliated with the Ches-
ter Lodge No. 226, Free and Accepted Masons : Philadelphia Consistory, .^.n-
cient Accepted Scottish Rite, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree,
and Lulu Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Philadelphia. His professional
societies are the .-Xmerican, Pennsylvania State and Philadelphia County Os-
teopathic .Associations; his social club, the Penn of Chester. Dr. Mack is un-
married.

Of the third generation of his family in the United States,
COULTER David Coulter traces descent to James Coulter, the first of

the family to make Delaware county his home.
James Coulter, born in county Donegal, Ireland, lived in Shoemakerville
(now Irvington) Delaware county, where he died. He brought with him wife
and children, the former Margaret McClay, dying in Chester at the great age
of ninety-seven yeai's. James Coulter worked in the Shoemakerville quarries
all his life and reared his children to habits of industry and thrift. Children,
all born in county Donegal, Ireland: James, born 1836, died in March, 1911,
at Muncy, Pennsylvania, a successful manufacturer, jjresidcnt of the Murray
Woolen Mills ; Eliza, born 1837, now residing in Chester, unmarried ; Thomas
(see forward) ; Robert, born 1841, deceased; Lucy, born 1844, died in Ches-
ter; William, born 1846, a quarry superintendent for many years with Leiper
and Lewi.s — now superintendent of a mine and quarry in Virginia.

Thomas Coulter, second son of James and Margaret (McQay) Coulter,
was born in county Donegal, Ireland, in 1839, died in Chester, Pennsylvania,
February 20, 1902. Fie was but a boy when his parents came to Delaware
county, Pennsylvania, where he attended school and worked in the quarries at
.Shoemakerville (Irvington) in his early manhood. \\'hen the war broke out
between the states of the North and South, he enlisted in the Union army,
serving three years, securing an honoralilc discharge at the close of his term
of enlistment, .'\fter the war he settled in Chester and for thirteen years was
proprietor of the William Penn Hotel, noted in that city. He married .\nn

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Jane Creighton, born in Quebec, Canada, who survives him a resident of Ches-
ter ; children : Margaret, married Adrian \'. Covert, now residing at Richmond
Hill, Long Island, sales agent for the American Agricultural Chemical Com-
pany; Adela R., married Rev. John W. Morgan, a minister of the Baptist
church, now located at Madison, Wisconsin ; Catherine B., resides in Chester
with her widowed mother ; Frank, now teacher of manual training in the
Orange. New Jersey, high school, married Mary Thompson : Lydia C. mar-
ried David G. Brown, who is connected with the Chicago. Milwaukee and St.
Paul Railroad Company, residing in Chester; David (see forward).

David Coulter, youngest child of Thomas and Ann Jane (Creighton)
Coulter, was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, at the William Penn Hotel on
Edgemont avenue, December ii, 1883. He was educated in the public schools
of Chester, a graduate of the high school in 1900. In July of that year he
entered the employ of the American Steel Casting Company, remaining with
that corporation four years. In 1904 he accepted a position with the Chester
Steel' Casting Company and in 1906 returned to the old plant of the American
Steel Casting Company, but operated then by their successor, the American
Steel Foundries. During these years he had gained an intimate knowledge of
the steel casting business and understood its details so well that in April, 1907,
he formed in association with A. G. Lorenz, the Keystone Steel Casting Com-
pany of which Mr. Coulter was secretary, treasurer and until September, 191 1,
also sales manager. He then retired from the company and became sales man-
ager for the Taunton Crucible Company of Taunton. Massachusetts. In May,
1912, he returned to Chester and organized the Economy Iron Works Com-
pany with Charles K. Shaw and William Dougherty, locating their plant at
Fifth and Pusey streets, Chester. This company was organized for the pur-
pose of manufacturing coal fired house heating boilers and gas fired steam
boilers under the patents taken out by William Dougherty, the inventor. The
company is prospering, the value of these boilers having been fully demon-
strated in the short time they have been upon the market. The partners are
men of practical, mechanical and executive ability and fully alive to modern
methods of manufacture and sale. Mr. Coulter's experience covers both de-
partments and he is fully capable of either executive or selling management.
He is a young man of great energy and since leaving school at the age of sev-
enteen years has been continuously employed in the steel business in some ca-
pacity. He is an Independent in politics and a member of the Protestant Epis-
copal church. He is unmarried.

A descendant of a family long seated in England, Philip Walk-
WALKER er is, with the single exception of his youngest brother, Abner,
the only member of his family to seek a home in the United
States.

He traces his descent from John Walker, a soldier of the Crmiean War,
who was rewarded for his militarv service with a government pension. He
was born in Heanor, England, in 1802, died there in 1878. By trade he was
a stocking weaver, working on a hand loom. He and his family were mem-
bers of the Church of England; children: Joseph, yet residing in Mansfield,
Derbyshire, England; John (2) (of further mention); Sarah, married a Mr.
Elliott and resides on their farm in New Zealand ; Bessie, married a Mr. Wat-
son, whom she survives; William, died in Heanor, England.

John (2) Walker, son of John (i) Walker, was born in England in 1833,
now both he and his wife residents of Heanor, Derbyshire, England. He was
a contractor in the coal mines until 1896 when he retired. His wife was Mary

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Ann Eggleshavv, born in England in 1833: both now aged eighty years are in
good heahh and active members of the Church of England. In politics he has
always been a strong Tory and has been a member of many lodges and socie-
ties, political, social and beneficial : children, all born in England : Arthur, mar-
ried a Miss Watson and resides in Derbyshire, a coal miner; Jeremiah, resides
in Long Eaton. Xottinghamshire. England, a lace maker; John, resides in
Heanor, England, a coal miner; Herbert, resides in Derbyshire, England, a
coal miner; Philip (of further mention); Sarah, married John Jackson, a
weaver and resides in Heanor ; Ambrose, resides in Nottinghamshire, Eng-
land, a moulder; Isaiah, resides in Heanor. a coal miner; Abner, came to the
I'nitcd States and is employed by his brother, I'hilip, in Chester.

Philip Walker, fifth son of John (2) and Mary Ann (Eggleshaw) Walk-
er, was born in Xottinghamshire, England, January 29, i8b8. He attended
school until he was thirteen years of age, then began working in the coal
mines of the neighborhood. Later he obtained employment in a foundry as an
apprentice and there remained until he became an expert moulder. At the
age of nineteen years in 1887, he came to the United States, landing in New
York, came at once to Philadelphia, begmning his residence in that city in
April, 1887. Ifl the month of May following he located in Chester, and the
day following. May 29. he began work at his trade in the old Chester Steel
Works. He remained in that emi)loy six years, then established a bottling bus-
iness at No. 233 Edgemont avenue, removing three years later to No. 211 and
No. 213 on the same avenue, where he yet remains in business. He is the only
licensed bottler in Chester and has a large building devoted to the needs of
his business. He is a Repulilican in politics and a member of the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks; the Loyal Order of Moose; the Owls; the Im-
proved Order of Red Men ; the Heptasophs ; the Knights of Pythias ; the
Foresters of America and the Fraternal Order of F^agles. He has business
interests outside his bottling works and is a director of the Steel Castings Corn-
pan v. iif Chester.

He married in Chester, June 2(). 1891, (iertrude Smith, born in Columbia,
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania ; children, all born in Chester ; John, died in
infancv; .\bner, born December 9. 1893, educated in Chester high school and
now a student in Pierce's I'.nsiness College. Philadelphia; Mildred, born in
May, 1895, a student in e'hester high school; Dorothy. December 8. 1899;
Philip (2), September, 1902; (iertrude, February, 1904.

According t<i well established tradition the Paddock family
PADIXXK came from Wales, but lived for a time in England, prior to

the emigration to .\merica. Robert Paddock, the first of the
name of whom we have record, lived in Plymouth, .Massachusetts, in 1634, and
is believed to have been a rcMdent there as early as 1630. He died in Ply-
mouth, Inly 25, 1050, aged not over sixty-seven years. His widow Mary sold,
December '3, 1650, her "hoiise. garden plot and shop, situate in Plymouth in
the South "street" and "3 acrc^ of upland lying in the Newfield" to Stephen
Wood, on the condition that <he was to live there until the first of the fol-
lowing March. Children: Robert, who lived in Dartmouth; Zachariah, of
whom further; Marv. born July 27. 1634. married William Palmer; .Alice,
married. May 7, 1663. Zachai-iah. son of Sanuiel Eddy, the Pilgrim; Susanna,
married November 30, iCif)5. .John Eddy, brother of Zachariah. and died March
14, 1670; lohn, born 1643. was brought up by Thomas Willett. <if Plymouth.
and became one of the first settlers of Swansey. and married Ann.i Jones. No-
vember 21. i'')73. These children are ])nibal)ly iml in order of birdi.

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(II) Zachariah, son of Robert Paddock, the emigrant, was born at Ply-
mouth in 1640, died at Yarmouth. Massachusetts, May i, 1727. He was a
landowner, town surveyor and juryman. He married, in 1659 Deborah bears,
who survived him. He left "of his own posterity forty-eight grandchildren
and thirty-eight great-grandchildren." and of the latter "no less than thirty
descended from his second son." "He obtained the character of a righteous
man" and his widow at the age of eighty-eight years was well reported for
her good works." Children: Ichabod. born February 2. 1661 , Zachariah,
of whom further; Elizabeth, August i, -1666 ; John May 5. 1669, Robert, Jan-
uary 17, 1670; Joseph, September 12, 1674; Nathaniel, September 22, 1677,

Tudah, September 15, 1681. , ^^ , , .- ^ r> a

(ill) Zachariah (2). son of Zachariah (i) and Deborah (bears) Pad-
dock was born in Yarmouth "'about the middle of April," 1664, and died April
8 1718. By his will dated April 5, 1718, he disposed of a large and varied
estate, one item in the inventory being "a negro man valued at fifty pounds.
He left his widow, Mary, ten pounds in money, the eastern end ot the house
a horse "which she brought with her." a cow, ten sheep, one swine, etc and
made provision that she should be thus supplied dtirmg her hfe. Hi_s first
wife. Bethiah Hall, daughter of Deacon John Hall died March /,\70/. He
married (second) July I9, 1708, Mary Thatcher, of Yarmouth. Children all
Eut wo by firs7if^e: Debor/h, born April 2. 1685; Ichabod, of whom further;
Ehzabeth, February 11, 1690; Zachariah. November 10. 1692 ; James, Decem-
ber 2! 1604- Peter, May 27, 1697; Bethiah, May 25, 1699; Mary, July 10,
1701 \hn, May 21, 1703; David August 12, 1705: PrisciUa. February 29,
^07; Hannah, "about the middle of August," 1709; Anthony, Februavy ^.
1711. Some of the members of this family were engaged in the whaling busi-

"'''"(IV) Ichabod, son of Zachariah (2) and Bethiah (Hall) Paddock, was
born in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, June 1, 1687, died August 5,J750. He and
WswHe were both active members of the First Church in Middleborough
2e7e thev settled. She was Joanna Faunce, daughter of Elder Faunce, and
granddaughter of the Pilgrim." John Faunce. Children, the ^-^ ^v^. b"- -
Yarmouth: Bethiah. born September 21, 1713, c'^ed in infancy; Pnscil a Octo-
ber i, 1715, married Thomas Savery ; Jane, August 1717, married Gleon
Bradford •. Joanna. June 15, 1719. carried Louis Harlow, Epl";|nm- .^^^
17-1 marred Sarah Bradford: Thomas, of whom further; Zachaiiah. 1 eb
nJryTo 1725; Patience. November 6. 1727: James. Aprd n. 1730. married
and left issue.^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^'^^'''tr^'ler^

in Middleborough, Massachusetts. May 5. I723- He married. December 3,

747 Hannah! da ighter of William Thomas, gentleman. In religion he wa
a Quaker "He w^as of middling stature, dark complexion, good flesh and
SeSh a sedate and discreet man." They moved to the town of Holland,
MSsachusetts where most of their children were born, and where he died up-
warrU of eiWtv years of age. Their children were: William, born m Mid-

leioroth November s, 1748; Ichabod. born in Middleborough, March 28,
I7<i Hannah, born in Middleborough. June 11. 1752: Joanna, born m Mid-
rllPho'rouah Februarv 27. 17SS: Thomas, of whom further ; Sally, born in Hol-

aid ZafhaSh rorni;;"H;il5nd. about 1758; Mary, born in Holland ; Nancy,
born in Holland; Stephen, born in Holland, May 25 1766; Charity, born m
HoSand, November 13, 1772. Of these all but one lived to be over seventy
vears of a^e Zachariah died of miallpox in the Revolutionary army.
- 7VI) Vhomas (2), son of Thomas (i) and Hannah (Thomas) Paddock,
was born in Holland. Massachusetts, about 1756; died at Little Lakes, New

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York, December 25, 1823, of apoplexy. He was remarkable for manly pro-
portions and uncommon strcngtii, and was of good mental capacity and general
culture. He married, in 1780, Elizabeth Lewis, of Hopkinton, Rhode Island,
born November 28, 1762. They lived first in Bennington, \ermont, where
five of their children were born. They then moved to Warren, New York.
Mrs. Padtlock died in lliiighamton, New York, ninety-six years of age. They
liad thirteen children, of whom eight lived to maturity. Four of them: Ben-
jamin Green, of whom further; Thomas, Zachariah and Solomon became
Methodist ministers.

(VH) Rev. Benjamin Green Paddock, son of Thomas {2) and Eliza-
beth (Lewis) Paddock, was born in iiennington, \"ermont, January 24. 1789,
died in Metuchen, New Jersey, October 6, [871. He became a minister in the
Methodist Episcopal church at an early age and lived a long life of usefulness,
which is told in a book, "^Memoir of Rev. B. G. Paddock," by his brother,
Zachariah. He married (first) Sophronia Perry, niece of Commodore Oliver
11. Perry, born in Boston, Massachusetts, April 20, 1794, died at Canton, New
York, in her forty-second year. He married (second) Sophy Scott. The
children, all by first marriage, were: William H. P., of whom further; Mary
Elizabeth, born in Cooperstown, New York, jNIay 13, 1819, married Rev. T. T.
ISradford, died in Metuchen, New Jersey, in July, 1904; Francis Asburv, born
in CooperstowH, New York, 1821, died in New York: Delia Anna, born in
Auburn, New York, February 21, 1824, married Dr. Horace Lathrop, died in
Cooperstown, New York, in September, i8yi ; Benjamin Case, born in Louis-
ville, New York, April 2, 1825, a merchant, lived and died in New York;
Sophronia Sophia, born in Potsdam, lived to the age of eighty-five years, un-
married; Zachariah, born in Cazenovia, New York, 1829, died in infancy;
Wilber Fisk, born in Cazenovia, New York, 183 1, became a minister in the
Episcopal church, spent his life mainly in and near Philadelphia, died in Den-
ver, Colorado; George Leys, born in Cazenovia, died in infancy.

(Vni) Rev. William H. Perry Paddock, eldest son of Rev. Benjamin
Green and Sophronia (Perry) Paddock, was born in Canandaigua, New York,
during his father's ministry as an itinerant Methodist preacher. May 15, 1817,
died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 2, 1872. He was a man of high edu-
cation, obtaining his classical education in Cnion College, New York, and then
preparing for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church at a theological
institution of learning in Virginia. He was regularly ordained to the minis-
try nf that church and served as rector of churches in both New York and
Pennsylvania. After his marriage in New York state he continued there four
years, then located in Pennsylvania, where as assistant to Bishop Potter he
was largely engaged in mission work and in the establishment of new churches,
principally in the northwestern part of the state. During the civil war he
served as chaplain in the Union army, and was stationed at Fort Delaware,
where he contracted the disease from which he died in 1872. He was a faith-
ful servant of God and a useful minister of the Gospel.

He married, in Utica, New York, December 29, 1840, Laura Stewart,
who survived him. .She was born in Louisville, New York, June 4, 1821, died
in Philadelijhia, December 21, 1879, daughter of William and Rachel (Rock-
well) Stewart, old residents of Butternuts, New York, where Mrs. Stewart
died. William .Stewart, a wool merchant, died in Trenton, New Jersey. Chil-
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart: Horatio, died in Lockport, New York: Laura,
married Rev. William H. P. Paddock. Children of Rev. and Mrs. Paddock: i.
Laura Lusetta, died in infancy. 2. Mary Stewart, married Alfred Nesmith,
and resides in Philadelphia. 3. William Francis, a veteran of the civil war,
now a real estate dealer in Philadelphia. 4. Frederick Leighton, of whom

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further. 5. Charles De Long, died in infanc}-. 6. George Henry, a civil en-
gineer, died in Philadelphia in 1899. 7. Alice Eliza, died aged sixteen years.
8. Horatio Stewart, died while a college student in Philadelphia. 9. Edward
James, a florist, died in Cleveland. Ohio. 10. Joseph Hill, a mining engineer,
died in Connellsville. Pennsylvania. 11. Benjamin Perry, a physician of
Cleveland, Ohio, deceased. 12. Sophia Wilkins, died unmarried in Denver,
Colorado. 13. Alfred Russell, a civil engineer, now residing at Farmdale,
Ohio.

(IX) Frederick Leighton, second son and fourth child of Rev. William
H. Perry and Laura ( Stewart) Paddock, was born in L'tica, New York, April
29, 1846. He was educated in the state of Delaware, choosing the profession
of civil engineer. While still at his studies in 1864 a call was made to oppose
a Confederate raid into Maryland, and he enlisted in the Seventh Delaware, in
which regiment he served six weeks. In 1866 he was professionally engaged
on work at Fort Delaware. He then went to Philadelphia, and was connected
with the Fairmount Park surveys as assistant engineer, and with the Centen-
nial Exhibit as principal assistant engineer and on other engineering under-
takings. In 1880 he went \\'est and was employed in railroad building and
other professional work. Returning east again he became connected with the
Norfolk and Western railroad as resident engineer. In 1883 he returned to
Philadelphia and was employed by the city as principal assistant engineer of
survey on new water supply. After completing this he returned to the Nor-
folk and Western railroad as division engineer on the West Virginia exten-
sion, and remained with them until 1888. when he became associated with the
Flat-top Coal Land Association, continuing as chief engineer of that company
until his retirement in 1899. In the latter year he moved to Delaware county,
Pennsylvania, purchasing land in Haverford township, where he erected a
beautiful country mansion, his present home. Mr. Paddock has practically
disposed of his business interests, although he retains his directorship and
holdings in the Powhattan Coal and Coke Company, operating in the Pocahon-
tas region of West Virginia. He is a member of the Engineers' Club of Phil-
adelphia and the Masonic order; is a Republican in politics, and both he and
his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church.

Mr. Paddock married, December 22, 1880, Jeannie S. Lathrop, of Coop-
erstown, New York. Children: i. Winifred Lathrop. born in Delaware
county, October 7, 1885 ; a graduate of the Baldwin School, Bryn Alawr. 2.
Mildred, died in infancy. 3. Frederick, died in infancy. 4. Bettine Stewart,
born December 6, 1893, a graduate of the Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr.

The Worth family is one of the old families of Pennsylvania
WORTH and has been located in what is now Delaware county, since the

year 1682. The earliest American ancestor was Thomas (i)
Worth, who came from England in the year mentioned. He was born in Eng-
land in 1649 and resided in Oxford. Nottinghamshire, from whence he started
for America, April 21, 1682, arriving here about four months later. He was a
man of education, and among the treasures brought from his English home,
was a Bible published in 1639 by Robert Barker. In this Bible he had written
in clear and beautiful penmanship, his family record. He settled in Darby,
later moved farther up the township, where he owned a farm. He was of
higher educational attainment than his neighbors, which fact brought his ser-
vices into frequent requisition as scribe and adviser. In 1685 he married and
in 1697 represented Chester county m the provincial assembly. He married
Isabella Davidson, who came from Darby, England ; children : John, born June

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9, 1686, married Catherine Ormes; Thomas (2), of whom further; Sarah^
born July 28, 1691, died at the age of five years.

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i) and Isabella (Davidson) Worthy
was born in Chester, now Delaware county, Pennsylvania, January 4, 1688.
He inherited from his father two hundred and twenty acres of farm land in
Darby township and in 1738 three hundred and fifty acres in East Bradford
township from the children of his brother, John Worth, this latter being a
part of the estate which they received from their grandfather. Thomas (i)
Worth, the emigrant. In 1749, Thomas (2) was commissioned a justice of the
peace and of the court of common pleas, holding this office through successive
re-appointments until within a few years of his death. He was a lifelong
member of the Society of Friends and was buried in the churchyard of the
Bradford ^ileeting House, 12 mo. 22, 1778. He married Mary Fawcett, born
9 mo. 25, 1697, daughter of Walter and Rebecca (Fearne) Fawcett; children;
Samuel, of whom further; Susannah, born January 12, 1720, died unmarried;
Lydia, born September 2-2, 1721, married April 19, 1744, George Carter; Re-
becca, born April 23, 1723, married in 1742, Jonathan Vernon; Hannah, born
November 12, 1724, died unmarried; Ebenezer. born June 8. 1726, married in
1770, Margaret Paschall ; Joseph, born July 18, 1728, died unmarried; Mary,
born September 17, 1729, married June 3, 1756, John Lewis.

(III) Samuel, eldest son of Thomas (2) and Mary (Fawcett) Worth,
vvas born January 25, 1718, died December 31, 1781. He became a prominent
farmer of West Bradford and was a leading member of the Society of
Friends. He married (first) in Birmingham >.leeting, October 27, 1744, Eliza-
beth, daughter of George and Elizabeth Carter, of East Bradford. He mar-
ried (second) at Bradford JMeeting, April 30, 1778. Jane, widow of John Buf-
fington, and daughter of Jonathan and Mary Thatcher. Children of first wife:
John, of whom further; Thomas, born December 11, 1747, married Ann Buf-
fington ; Joseph, born Alarch 2, 1755. died unmarried; Elizabeth, February 13,
1759, died unmarried.

(IV) John, eldest son of Samuel Worth and his first wife, Elizabeth
Carter, was" born October 5, 1745, died October 17, 1790. He resided in Mor-
tonville and for many years owned and operated a mill there. On April 11,
1789, he was commissioned a justice of the peace and of the court of common
pleas for the district composed of Pennsbury, East and West Bradford, New-
lin and East Fallowfield townships. He married Mary Bentley, born Decem-
ber 15, 1754, daughter of George and Jane Bentley, who survived him until
December 20, 1830; children: Thomas, born April 28, 1774, married .Annie
Williamson; Elizabeth, born May 20, 1776, married Jacob Marshall; Ebenezer,
born .April 10. 1778, married Margaret Perry; Samuel, born December 6, 1779,
married (first) Sarah .Armet, (second) Beulah Paschall; John (2), of whom
further; George, bom January 13, 1785, rharried (first) Lydia Jefifries, (sec-
ond) Martha Keech ; Emnor, born March i, 1787, married Rebecca Travilla ;
Benjamin, born August 5. 1788, married Phoebe Taylor. Father, mother and
all the children were members of the Society of Friends.

(V) John (2), son of John (i) and Mary (Bentley) Worth, was born
in West Bradford lownshij), Chester county, Pennsylvania, about two miles
south of Marshallton, June 25, 1782. died January 16, 1878. He learned the
carpenter's trade, settling one-half mile south of Marshallton, later moving to a
farm near Romansvillc, where he conducted general farming on a large scale.
He was an influential member and elder of the Society of Friends and greatly
esteemed in his community, which he represented for twenty-five years as
county commissioner. He married Lydia Carpenter, born February 10, 1785,

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died October 15, 1866, daughter of William and Rachel Carpenter. John
Worth continued to reside on his farm at Romansville until he died at the
great age of ninety-six years and is buried in the graveyard of the Friends
Meeting House at Romansville. Children: i. William C, born December 14,
1805. He married Phoebe Romans of Romansville, residing there a few years
after his marriage, then moving to a farm at Andrews Bridge ; later about 1840,
to a farm on the Octoraro ; children: i. John Carpenter, born October 14,
1830, married Mary Galloway, ii. George R., born July 14, 1832, never mar-
ried, iii. Charles Mortimer, born July 17, 1833, never married, iv. H. Smith,
born March 3, 1836, married (first) Phoebe R. Brinton, (second) Emmeline
Wilson. V. Lydia Maria, born August 13, 1838, married Samuel Holmes, vi.
William Harrison, born December 19, 1840, married Louisa Boice. vii. Al-
bert R., born September 18, 1843. married Letitia Bayer, viii. David R., born
June 22, 1846, never married, ix. Samuel E., born August 4, 1849, rnarried
Jeavie Smith. 2. Sheshbazzar Bentley, born December i, 1807, died in Coates-
ville, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1874, a leading iron manufacturer of Coates-
ville, Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Sharpless, a descendant of John
and Jane (Moor) Sharpless, founders of the Sharpless family of Pennsyl-
vania. Children : i. John Sharpless. now president of the Worth Brothers
Company of Coatesville, unmarried, ii. William Penn, secretary and treas-
urer of the Worth Brothers Company, married Caroline Hallowell. 3. Rich-
ard J., born December 20, 1809. He was a farmer, owning a good farm on the
Octoraro creek, which he later sold in order to purchase a part of the old
homestead, upon which in 1848 he built a house and barn. He married Sophia
Jeffries: children: i. Bennett J., born December 21, 1838, married Margaret
Joy. ii. Rachel J., born August 9, 1840. married Henry K. Harlan, iii. Lydia
H., born September 3, 1842, married (first) W. T. Marshall, (second) Abiah
G. Hoopes. iv. Mary E., born October 7. 1844, married W. Garrett Taylor.
v. Annie M., born December 19. 1846, married Frank W. Wetherell. vi. John
R., born February i. 1849, never married, vii. Thomas, born December 25,
1852, married Prudie Eddy. 4. Samuel Armet, of whom further. 5. Rachel
Ann, born February 28, 1814. married John White. 6. John D., born March
16, 1816. He was a merchant at Embreville. then at Doe Run, later establish-
ing in the lumber business at West Chester, Pennsylvania. He married Eliza-
beth M. Pyle : children : i. Margaret C, born .August 4, 1856, died in infancy.
ii. Herbert P., born March 2, 1861, married Caroline H. Jackson. 7. Lydia
Maria, born June 26. 1818, never married. 8. Elizabeth M., born August 11,
1822, married Jacob S. Wickersham : children: i. J. Howard, born .\pril 17,
1852, never married, ii. ^Lary R.. January 7. 1856, never married, iii. Isabel
R.. married Joseph P. Leedom.

John and Lydia Worth, the parents of these children, were both members
of the Society of Friends, he the head of the Meeting.

(VI) Samuel Armet, son of John (2) and Lydia (Carpenter) Worth,
was born at the home farm. November 20, 1811. He was educated at the
Friends school for boys, kept by Jonathan Goss. He was interested in iron
manufacture for many years, but always retained his love for the soil. He was
manager of the Joppa Iron Works on the Gunpowder river, twelve miles
from Baltimore, from 1841 to 1846. He then moved to the ]\Iartic Iron
Works, seven miles from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he lived until 185 1.
He then moved to a farm at Romansville, Chester county ; then bought a farm
at Spruce Grove, Lancaster county, on which he lived from 1852 until 1868.
Then he bought a forge at Deer creek. Maryland, and engaged in the iron
business there about ten years. He then returned to his farm at Oxford for
about three years. He retired in 1875 and moved to ^^'est Philadelphia, where

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he resided until his death in 1899. He was a director of a bank in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania ; in politics a Whig and Republican. He married Hester Ann
Hoopes of Embreville in 1840, daughter of Joshua Hoopes, a farmer and mill-
er, owning a grist mill on Brandywine creek, at which he died in his ninety-
seventh year. Children of Samuel A. Worth: i. Emma Matilda, married, in
1862. Bordley S. Patterson. 2. Edward, of whom further. 3. Alary Eliza-
beth, married Samuel E. Dickey.

(\'II) Edward, second child and only son of Samuel Armet and Hester
Ann (Hoopes) Worth, was born at the Joppa Iron Works. Maryland, of which
his father was then manager, March 26, 1843. His father, in 185 1, bought a
grist mill and farm on the Octoraro creek, which was the home of Edward
Worth until January 17, i860, when he entered the employ of his uncle, Shesh-
bazzar, who was operating rolling mills at Coatesville, Pennsylvania. He was
educated in private schools and for three years attended the Union high school
at Union. He served during the civil war in an emergency cavalry regiment,
which service took him into the state of Virginia; was engaged at the battle
of Gettysburg, receiving a serious wound in that battle that left him with a
limp as a reminder of the days of carnage, now happily past. Since 1887 Mr.
Worth has been president of the Kaolin and Feldspar Company of Brandy-
wine Summit, the largest concern in the country grinding feldspar exclusively,
owning their own mines and operating their own mills. The original plant
w-as started by William S. Alanley. now deceased, and on Alarch 25, 1887, was
incorporated as the Brandywine Summit Kaolin and Feldspar Company, with
Edward W'orth, president, and Joseph P. Rogers, secretary and treasurer.
When incorporated, the business of the company was washing china clay for
potters' use and grinding feldspar used in the manufacture of all sorts of table-
w-are and fine china, etc. The clay washing department was soon discontinued
and the feldspar grinding department developed to its present large propor-
tions, after the discovery of the largest feldspar mine in the country near Elam,
Pennsylvania, now owned by the Kaolin and Feldspar Company. The imme-
diate pmijerty covers one hundred and thirteen acres with mills and railroad
sidings, besides the properties at Chester Heights, of twenty-eight acres : Elam,-
eighteen acres : Nottingham township, Chester county, four hundred and forty-
two acres, and the Pilot property in Cecil county, Maryland, twenty-nine acres.
Feldspar in its natural state is difficult to mine and extract, but the company
has taken from its Elam mine or quarry, ground it into merchantable form and
marketed one hundred and fifty thousand tons of this valuable mineral. They
operate their mills day and night : employ on an average one hundred men and
in the twenty-six years Mr. \\'ortli has been at the head of the company, he has
never had a strike or serious disagreement with his men. To the management
of this valuable enterprise. Mr. Worth has given himself entirely for twenty-
six years and to him is due the continuous prosperity and solid financial stand-
ing of the company. He has ]iroved a wise executive and cai)able business
man. highly esteemed by his associates and ranking high in the commercial
world. He is a member of the Episcopal church and in political faith is a Re-
publican. He is interested in all that concerns the public good ; is a humane,
thoughtful employer and a loyal entcq^rising, valuable citizen of the state he
risked his life to defend from the invader.

He married (first) February 20. 1867, Rebecca Hayes, daughter of Dr.
Samuel Hayes and Lydia (Clark) Harry, of Chester county, where Dr. Harry
was a practicing physician for many years ; there he died leaving issue : Dr.
Samuel (2); Jesse: Washington .Atlee : Victoria Ann. married Charles Wol-
laston : Lydia Maria, married Benjamin McCord : Rebecca Hayes, married
Edward Worth. Edward \\'orth married (second) February 17, 1897, Sarah

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Fookes Wright of Laurel, Delaware, daughter of Turpin Wright, of Seaforth^
Delaware, a man of extensive inherited interests, and his wife, Jane Fookes,
both living. Children of Edward Worth and his first wife, Rebecca Hayes
Harry: i. Samuel Harry, born March 26, 1868, married in 1891, Mary
Strong. 2. May, born January 31, 1871, married Horace Fox. 3. Grace,
born June 17. 1873, married Powell Stackhouse Jr. 4. George, born August
26, 1876, married Sarah Reed ; children : Rebecca, Elmore May, George Ed-
ward. The family home of the Worths is at ]\Iedia. Delaware county, where,
in a beautiful residence, friends are warmly welcomed and hospitably enter-
tained.

This name, which has been made familiar in Delaware coun-
DICKESOX ty, Pennsylvania, by the Doctors Dickeson. both father and
son, was first borne in this country by Thomas Dickeson,
who came from England to Xew' Jersey as one of the original Fenwick Com-
pany, and there founded a family which has ever since been resident in the
state of Xew Jersey. From him sprang the Doctors Dickeson, of Delaware
county.

Dr. William T. W. Dickeson was born in Woodbury, New Jersey, at the
Woodbury homestead, in 1828, and died in jNIedia. Delaware county. Pennsyl-
vania, early in the morning of February 21. 1012. His preparatory education
was an excellent one, and he subsequently became a student at the University
of Pennsylvania. He had prepared for the profession of civil engineering,
and had attained some prominence along that line, having made important
surveys of coal and copper properties in Xorth Carolina, and of coal lands in
Sullivan county, Pennsylvania. His ambition and taste, however, were for a
medical career, and in furtherance of that ambition he took instruction in
pharmacy from Dr. Grafe, of Philadelphia, and later took a course in the pro-
fession of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was
graduated with honor in the class of 1849. -^t the age of twenty-four years
he was appointed professor of agricultural chemistry at the Wagner's Free In-
stitute of Philadelphia. Xot long after he had been graduated he opened a
drug store in Philadelphia, which he conducted very successfully until the
outbreak of the civil w'ar, when he enlisted. He received an appointment as
assistant surgeon of the Xinety-ninlh Regiment Pennsylvania \'olunteers. and
was later appointed surgeon, with the rank of major, of the Fourth Regiment
of Pennsylvania Reserves. He continued in the service until this momentous
conflict was ended, then returned to Pennsylvania, settling in Media, Delaware
county, where the remainder of his life was spent. He established himself in
the private practice of medicine and surgery, a course which was continued
uninterruptedly until 1906. and in connection with this he conducted a phar-
macy in Media until 1889. wiien he turned over the drug business to his son,
Wiliiam E. Dickeson. Ph. G.

Dr. Dickeson remained a student throughout his life. All the time which
he could spare from his large practice was spent in scientific research, travel
and study. He made no specialty of any particular line, but his genius and
talents enabled him to accomplish much in various fields of medical science.
He was a student of the languages, of geology, mineralogy, archaeology and
art — in his later years becoming greatly interested in. and a collector of an-
tiques. His vacations, generally spent in travel, were utilized in adding to his
fimd of information concerning one or the other of these studies. As a phy-
sician and surgeon he held high rank, and during all the long years of his
practice in Delaware county, held the patronage of the best families of that

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section. He was a member of the American Medical, the State Medical, and
the Delaware County Medical societies ; the American Geological Society ;
Delaware County Institute of Science: Bradbury Post, Xo. 149, Grand Army
of the Republic ; and of George F. Bartram Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, of which he was an honored past master. In all these bodies he took a
deep interest, and in all he was held in the highest esteem.

Dr. Dickeson married (first) in 1835. Eunice, daughter of Judge Burch-
ard, of Philadelphia, and (second), in 1862, Emily M. J,, youngest daughter
of Jacob Snider, of Philadelphia, who was the inventor of the "Snider Rifle,"
and of raised type to be used in the instruction of the blind. She was born
May 12, 1841, Children by the first marriage: i. William Eunice, twin, born
May 13, 1856, died in igio. He was a chemist, and was for twenty-two years
the analytical chemist in the custom house at Philadelphia. 2. Jabez Burch-
ard. twin, born May 14, 1856, died at the age of forty-one years. He was a
promising young lawyer and a highly respected man. He was a member of
the Delaware County Bar .\ssociation, and practiced his profession in Media.
By his second marriage Dr. Dickeson had the following named children : 3.
Thomas Wilson, died at the age of eighteen months. 4. Morton Phelps, see
forward.

Dr. Morton Phelps Dickeson, son of Dr. William T. \\'. and Emily M, J.
(Snider) Dickeson, was born in Media, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, Octo-
ber 8, 1864, He obtained his primary and intermediate education in the
Friends' School in his birthplace, later entering Shortlidge's Academy, His
professional education was secured at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy,
from which he was graduated in the class of 1886, and at the Medico-Chirur-
gical College of Medicine, from which he was graduated in the class of 1888,
with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, the highest class honors in the award
of the institution having been presented to him. He remained eight months as
resident physician, having previously had charge of the college dispensary.
Subsequently he was appointed prosector to Dr. William H. Pancoast, profes-
sor of anatomy at the college, and also served as assistant in the department of
bacteriolog)-. In 1888 he severed his professional connection with the college,
and in April of that year located at Glen Riddle, and established himself in
the jiractice of his profession there. In 1906 he returned to Media and there
took up the practice of his father. In the quarter of a century which has just
elapsed, Dr. pickeson has broadened and developed as a surgeon and physi-
cian until he stands in the foremost ranks of the medical profession. He has
a large practice, both in Delaware county and in Philadelphia, and possesses
the entire confidence of the public by whom his skill and integrity are unques-
tioned. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the State and
County Medical societies, and was a member of the State Board of Medical
Examiners for a period of ten years. He has been a member of the State
Board of Health for nine years ; is an ex-president of the alumni of the Med-
ico-Chirurgical College, and he belongs to the Philadelphia Medical Club.
He is also interested in the Burmont Specialty Company, of Delaware county,
a corporation formed for the manufacture of chemical specialties, and he is
the .supervising chemist. In 1907 Dr, Dickeson established a ])rivate sanitar-
ium, which has been very successful, and which necessitated the purchase of
additional i)r<)])erty in 1913. He is a past state councilor of the Junior Order
of American Mechanics, has served as state councilor for a period of six
years, and is now a member and secretary of the finance committee of the
National Council of that order. He also belongs to the Independent Order
jf Odd Fellows, Both he and his wife arc members of the Episcopal church

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and interested in charitable works of all kinds. In political faith he is a Dem-
<)crat, interested in township affairs, but is entirely devoted to his profession
jnd has never accepted public office, other than serving six years as school
director.

Dr. Dickeson married, September 21, 1907, Alice Smith, a daughter of
Philip and Harriet (Dodd) Baker, of Oxford, Chester county, Pennsylvania,
an old and prominent family of the county. .'Vt an early age she commenced
the study of music with H. Ogelsby. of Chester, Pennsylvania, and at the
age of twelve years showed such remarkable talent as a performer on the vio-
lin, that she obtained a scholarship and entered the Spruce Street Conservatory
of ]\Iusic, where she was at first a pupil of Gustave Hille. and subsequently of
Herman Cosman, and under the instruction of the last named artist, and ac-
companied by him and his wife, she went abroad, and was accepted as a pupil
of Anton Veteck, at that time concert master of the Philharmonic of Berlin.
She was also fortunate enough to study under the famous Eugene Ysaye for
several months. She was elected a member of the Paris Academy of Alusic,
and is one of the only three American girls who ever achieved that distinction.
She followed the profession of music as a solo violinist from 1897 until
the time of her marriage, with an unprecedented amount of success. She is
known throughout the country and in Europe as a violinist of great talent
and a masterly technique, and her style has been compared very greatly to her
■credit with that of her celebrated teacher, Eugene Ysaye. She is a member
of the W'oman's Club and chairman of the music committee.

Rev. William Boyd, son of \\'illiam Boyd, who came to America
BOYD from Scotland in 1850, was born in Philadelphia. February 5.
1852, and was for many years a minister of the Presbyterian
church. Rev. Boyd married Annie E. Culver, born in Philadelphia, died in
1890, leaving three sons : i. William Fairview, born in Glenmoore, August
21, 1877, now traveling auditor for the United Gas Improvement Company of
Philadelphia, residence Lansdowne. 2. Andrew Culver (of further mention).
3. Albert Barnes, born in Glenmoore, Pennsylvania, April 18, 1881, now elec-
trical engineer with the Diamond Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio.

Andrew Culver Boyd, second son of Rev. William and Annie E. (Culver)
Boyd, was born in Glenmoore, Chester county. Pennsylvania. ]\Iarch 23, 1879.
He was early educated in the public schools of Camden, New Jersey, prepar-
ing for college at Eastburn Academy, Philadelphia, entering Princeton Univer-
sity, whence he was graduated A. B., class of 1900. Choosing the profession
of law, he entered the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, whence
he was graduated LL.B.. class of 1903. He was admitted to the Philadelphia
bar in June. 1903, to the state and federal courts of the district in the same
year and to the Delaware county bar in 1904. He is well established in gen-
eral civil practice, giving but little attention to the criminal branch of his pro-
fession. He is solicitor for the Lansdowne school board and for the two build-
ing and loan associations of the county. He is a member of the state and
county bar associations ; George W. Bartram Lodge No. 298, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, Media, and is a communicant of the Presbyterian church. In
college athletics he was especially interested in base ball and foot ball, a love
he has not outgrown. In political faith a Republican, he has always been ac-
tive, was for years a member of Lansdowne borough council ; is an ex-presi-
dent of the Lansdowne Republican Club and a frequent delegate to party dis-
trict and state conventions.

He married, October 19, 1907, Eliza G. Gross, born Januarv 16. 1885,

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in Kutztown. llerks ciuiiily, I'eniisylvania, dan.^iiUT of William ami Laura
(Wanner) Gross. Children: Mildred Culver, jjorn July 29, 1908: Andrew
Culver Jr., December 8, igog.

In April, 1893. Rlr. Boyd moved to Lansdovvne where he has a beautiful
home at Xo. 120 North Lansdowne avenue. Hi'; law offices are at No. 806-
807 North American Building, Philadeljjhia ; his practice being before the
courts of that citv and of Delaware county.

The world instinctively pays deference to the man whose snc-
T.\\"L()R cess has been worthily achieved and whose prominence is not
the less the result of an irreproachable life than of natural tal-
ent- and acquired ability in the field of his chosen labor. Dr. Horace Furness
Taylor occupies a position of distinction as a representative of the medical
profession at Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, and the best evidence of his capa-
bility in the line of his chosen work is the large patronage which is accorded
him. It is a well known fact that a great percentage of those who enter busi-
ness life meet with failure or only a limited measure of success. This is us-
ually due to one or more of several causes — superficial preparation, lack of
close application or an unwise choice in selecting a vocation for which one is
not fitted. The reverse of all this has entered into the success and promi-
nence which Dr. Taylor has gained. His equipment for the profession has
been unusually good and he has continually extended the scope of his labors
through the added efficiency that comes through keeping in touch with the
marked advancement that has been made by the members of the medical
fraternity in the last decade.

Dr. Horace Furness Taylor was born at Wallingford, Delaware county,
Pennsylvania, July 29, 1881, and he is a son of Alillard Fillmore and Hettie
Carpenter (Fitch) Taylor, the former of whom is now deceased and the lat-
ter of whom i? residing at Westtown, Pennsylvania. Millard Fillmore Tay-
lor was a son of David and Elizabeth (Simmons) Taylor, natives of West-
town, Chester county, this state, where they passed their entire lives. David
Taylor was a carpenter by trade and in addition to building he conducted a
general merchandise business in his home town. He and his wife were de-
vout members of the Presbyterian church. They were the parents of seven
children, concerning whom the following brief data are here incorporated :
Millard Fillmore, father of the doctor: (ieorge S., a native of West Chester,
Pennsylvania, is there city registrar and a member of the board of health :
Anna J., is the wife of Henry Cox and they maintain their home at W'est Ches-
ter; Frank, is a jilumber by trade and lives at West Chester, Pennsylvania;
Fred, is a farmer in New Jersey ; Llewellyn, is a contracting plumber and ha?
his headquarters at West Chester: Laura, is the wife of T. Illdum, of Chester.
Pennsylvania.

Millard h^illmore Ta\'lor was burn in C/hester county, Pennsylvania.
March 12, 1856. He grew to maturity and was educated in his native place
and after his marriage he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, for which concern he worked in all thirty-seven and a half years.
He was station agent first at Wallingford. whence he was transferred to Up-
land and thence to W^esttown, in which latter jilace his demise occurred Febru-
ary 2, 1910, aged fifty-four years. He was a staunch Republican in his politi-
cal faith and in a fraternal wav was a valued member of the Imjiroved Order
of Red Men. His religious views were in harmony with the tenets of the
Methodist Episco])al church, of which his wife is a zealous member. Mr.
Taylor married Hettie Carpenter Fitch, who was born in Chester county,.

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Pennsylvania, February 21, 1854, and who is a daughter of Thomas and Alary
Fitch, natives of Marshallton, Pennsylvania. Mr. Fitch was a teamster and
a farmer and he resided on a farm near Marshallton for a period of forty-
four years. He and his wife were both Quakers. He died at Westtown in
1899, aged sevei>ty-nine years, and she passed to eternal rest in 1882. There
were three children in the Fitch family, namely : Hettie Carpenter, mother of
the doctor ; Hannah, who is single, lives at West Chester ; and Mary, widow of
Elwood Brinton, lives in Philadelphia. After the demise of her husband Mrs.
Taylor succeeded him in his position as station agent at Westtown, Pennsyl-
vania, and she continues as such at the present time, in 1913. Two children
were born to Mr. and Mrs. Taylor: Dr. Horace Furness. the immediate sub-
ject of this review^ : and John Wyeth. who is deceased.

To the public schools of his native place Dr. Horace Furness Taylor is
indebted for his preliminary educational training, which included a course in
the Friends' High School, West Chester, Pennsylvania. In 1898 he was grad-
uated in the Swarthmore Preparatory School and in the fall of that year was
matriculated as a student in the University of Pennsylvania, in the medical
department of which famed institution he was graduated as a member of the
class of 1903, duly receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He received
his initial experience as a physician and surgeon as an interne in the Chester
County Hospital, where he remained for six months, at the expiration of which
he entered the Chester Hospital, where he remained for an equal period of
time. In 1904 he entered upon the independent practice of his profession at
Punxsutawney, in Jefferson county, remaining there for three months and go-
ing thence to Toughkennanion, Pemisylvania. in which latter place he was lo-
cated for two months.

March 14, 1904, marks the advent of Dr. Taylor at Ridley Park, in Dela-
ware county, where he bought ou*. the practice of an old and established phy-
sician and where he has since maintained his professional headquarters. Dur-
ing the early part of his residence here his work was confined to a general
medical practice, and later he began to branch ofif into surgery also. He has
met with unqualified success both as physician and as surgeon, having accom-
plished several almost miraculous cures. February 10. 1910, he opened up a
private hospital on the old Joseph IJurk property at Ridley Park but by 1913
his practice had grown so extensive that he was forced to seek more spacious
headquarters. In the latter year he erected a modern hospital directly oppo-
site his old place ofi business. This building is thirty-six by seventy feet in
lateral dimensions and is three stories high. It contains thirty beds and re-
quires the aid of a staff of seven nurses. The institution is known as the
Taylor Hospital and from the time of its inception it was a charitable concern
to a certain degree. Dr. Taylor standing the charity, but in 191 3 it received
recognition from the state and now has a state fund for its charity patients.

Dr. Taylor is coroner's physician and is a member of the Ridley Park
board of health. In connection with his medical work he is a valued and ap-
preciative member of the Delaware County Medical Society and of the Phila-
delphia Medical Club. Although not a politician nor an office seeker, he is a
stalwart Republican in his political convictions and is a member of the Dela-
ware County Republican Committee. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with
Prospect Lodge, No. 578, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons : with Broad
Race Consistory, at Philadelphia ; and with Lulu Temple, Mystic Shrine.

October 12, 1904, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Taylor to Miss
Katherine Grace Manly, a daughter of Charles Manly. Dr. and Mrs. Taylor
have one son, Horace Howard -Furness Jr., whose birth occurred January 22.
igio.

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The professional career of Dr. Taylor excites the admiration and has won
the respect of his contemporaries, and in a calling in which one has to gain
reputation by merit he lias advanced steadily until he is acknowledged as the
superior of most of the members of the profession in Delaware county, hav-
ing long since left the ranks of the manv to stand among the successful few.

The ancestral seat of the Brighton family of Delaware coun-

IjRIGHTC )X ty, Pennsylvania, was Spaulding, Lincolnshire, England,

where Thomas, the father of the American emigrant, spent

his entire life. He was a contractor and did a great deal of work, draining and

reclaiming the waste marsh lands of the locality. Both he and his wife were

life-long members of the church of Eng-
land. He died in 1900, aged eighty-
four years. He married Mahala Brad-
ford, died in 1906, aged eighty-one
years. Children: i. Edward, a farm-
er of Old Leak, England : married Pol-
ly Burgess. 2. Betsey, deceased : mar-
ried 7\ichard Hunt. 3. Sarah Ann, de-
ceased ; married John Gray. 4. Thom-
as, deceased ; married Amy . 5.

Polly, deceased : married Charles Malt-
by. 6. George, deceased : a hotel-
proprietor : married Agnes Donaldson.
7. Mahala, deceased: married Benja-
min Britton. 8. Abram, of whom
further. 9. Samuel, married Elizabeth
Bailey. 10. Lourina, deceased ; married
John Smith : have a son living at St.
Davids, Nebraska. 11. Maria, de-
ceased, married Walter Wiley. 12.
William, deceased; a farmer. 13. Rose,
deceased : married Alfred Flowers. 14. Charles, a minister of the church of
England : broke down bis lieahh in cluirch service and died aged twenty-
three years.

(ill .\bram, son of Thomas and Mahala (Bradford) Brighton, was born
in Spaulding. Lincolnshire, England, January 31, 1858. He had little oppor-
tunity as a boy to attend school, and began to earn his own living when twelve
years of age, working on ibe farm of Thomas Dennison. After four years at
farm labor he became a coachman in Spaulding. After his marriage he was
proprietor of the hotel in S]>aulding fur four years, also managing the "White
Horse" hotel in Boston, England, until 1883, when he immigrated to America.
He settled in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, and for one year tried farming,
giving this u]) in favor of the livery business, which he conducted in Media,
Pennsylvania. After two years he moved to LIpland, where he was employed
by John P. Crozer for eight years. In March, 1893, he came to Chester, where
for eight years he conducted a restaurant and for twelve years was proprietor
of a hotel. He has since sold the Ijusincss but still retains possession of the
pro])erty. In 1913 he sold a valuable piece of farm land in Middletown town-
shi]), Delaware county. Since leaving the hotel business be has acquired con-
siderable real estate, including his own home on West Fifth street, Chester.
In 1900, Mr. Brighton sent for his nephew, Edward Brighton, and secured for
him a position. Benefitted by this op]iortunity, Edward has risen steadily in

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business life and is now a merchant of Norwood, Pennsylvania. In 1900 an-
other of the family, Samuel, came to the United States and is employed by his
brother, Edward. In politics, Mr. Brighton is a strong sympathizer with the
Republican party. He holds membership in Lodge No. 488, Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, of Chester : Knights of Pythias, of Media ; and the
Foresters, of Chester. Both he and his wife are members of St. Paul's
Church, of Chester. For his steady and rapid rise in life, Mr. Brighton can-
not be given too high praise or too hearty congratulation. Coming to a strange
land he had every obstacle before him, with the further handicaps of a lack of
funds and ignorance of the customs of the country. It is greatly to his
credit that at the present time he is a retired business man of competent for-
tune, liked and respected for the equalities that have raised him from obscurity
to prominence. Perhaps the greatest factor in his success has been the gentle
encouragement and never-failing faith of his wife, Jane Laughton, whom he
married September 3, 1879, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Drayton)
Laughton, of Hibelstow, Lincolnshire, England ; he was a farmer and died in
1893, both were members of the Church of England. Children of George and
Elizabeth Drayton : Jane, of previous mention, married Abram Brighton ; Ja-
cob William, deceased, married and had issue: Polly, deceased; James, lives
in Newcastle, England; Charles, lives in Soxelby, England; Sarah, lives in
England ; Harry, lives in Media, Pennsylvania ; Samuel, lives in England.
Children of Abram and Jane (Laughton) Brighton; i. Mary Ann Laura,
married Joseph Johnson, a commission merchant, of Chester ; son, Abram. 2.
Minnie I\Iarie, married Clarence Cooper, a commission merchant, of Chester,
son, James Branghton. 3. Roslyn, married George Scholerterer, superinten-
dent of the Fayette Brick Works of Chester ; daughter, Jane Laughton.

William C. Alexander, a prominent member of the bar of
ALEXANDER Delaware county, and active in political and community

affairs, is a native of that county, born in Thornbury, No-
vember 12, 1870, son of Thomas B. and Maggie C. Alexander. His youth was
clouded with sorrow and misfortune. He was only five years old when his
father met his death in an accident on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad.
Of her two children — William C. and Bertha — the widowed mother had lost
the latter at the age of seven months, only a month prior to the death of the
father. In order to support herself and her only remaining child, she became
a nurse, and heroically struggled along, keeping her son in school until he
was eleven years old, when, overborne by her labors and being in ill health,
she was obliged to relinquish her profession and take up her home with her
father, William Cloud, her son going to live with an uncle. G. Pear.^on Cloud, on
his farm in East Goshen township, Chester county. Here her young son earned
riis board and clothes and schooling in the country school. He enjoyed the
favorable advantage of having for teacher during a portion of this time, W.
Roger Fronefield, now a leading member of the Media bar, to whom he is in-
debted for much of the best formative influences of his early years, and
who subsequently became his warm personal friend and law preceptor.

In his young manhood Mr. Alexander was for a time a student in the
famous West Chester Normal School, and became so excellent a scholar that
he served acceptably for two terms as a teacher in the Kennet township
schools. He subsequently completed a course in Prickett's Business College,
Philadelphia, after which he secured employment with the John M. Rowe Son
& Company in the capacity of shipping clerk, later relinquishing the position to
enter the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as clerk in the trans-

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portation department at Broad street, Philadelphia, and where he remained
for six years. Meantime he gave his evenings to the study of law, under his
former school teacher, Mr. Fronefield. and, as he progressed, he gave up his
railroad position and became assistant to the recorder of deeds of Delaware
county, under Recorder Thomas D. Young. The latter work was more in line
with his ambition, also affording him greater opportunity for his law studies,
and on March 2d, 1897, he was admitted to the bar of Delaware county, and
at once entered upon practice in Media, his jiresent residence, and where his
abilities have brought to him a large and influential clientele. He was for
some years solicitor for the Directors of the Poor of Delaware county. He is
a Republican in politics.

Air. Alexander married. May 7, 1892, Mae F., daughter of John D. and
Mary E. Erisman, her father a florist, of Kennett Square. Children : Beatrice
Zadie, born November 22, 1893, and Jay Cooke, born May 13. 1905.

The Taylor family of Pennsylvania which boasts of Bayard
T.AYLOR Taylor, the noted American author, among its members, traces

its descent from Thomas Taylor, of Wales, and who, according
to the record left by Ruth Woolens, written when she was eighty-four years
of age, had five sons : Stephen, Job, Joel, William and John.

(II) John, son of Thomas Taylor, married, in 1769, Dinah Bailey: chil-
dren: Job, Stephen. William (of further mention), Rachel, married

Pierce; Elizabeth, married Mendenhall : John Levi, Hannah, Mary,

Joel, Abner ; Lydia. married Pierce ; Reuben : Sarah, married Richard

Taylor.

(III) William, son of John and Dinah (Bailey) Taylor, died at Hockes-
sin. September 4, 1829. He and his wife were members of the Society of
Friends, of which sect he was a preacher. He married, 1798, Anne Mercer,
died at Fairville (now Mendenhall), Pennsylvania, October, 1857. Children:
I. Samuel, born June 3, 1799; married Mary Cloud. 2. Job, born December
27, 1800: married Susan Yeatman. 3. Elisha, born September 27, 1802. 4^
William, born May 4, 1804: married (first) Elizabeth Hood, (second) De-
borah Bye. 5. Elizabeth, born August 24, 1805 : married Caleb Sharpless. 6.
.Amos, born .\pril i, 1807. 7. Sarah, born October 13, 1808: married Wil-
liam Woods. 8. Isaac, born .\pril 20, 1810: married Letitia Davis. 9. Han-
nah, born March 21, 1812; married Joseph R. Mendenhall. 10. Lydia. born
October 13, 1814: married Dutton Ottley. 11. Ann, born December 20, 1817;
married (first) Benjamin Sharpless, (second) Hugh Passmore. 12. David
Wilson (of further mention), y. Jesse, born October 3, 1820; married, Oc-
tober 20, 1844, Hannah Mendenhall. 14. Ruth, born June 16, 1822: married
Theodore W'oolens.

(IV) David Wilson, son of William and Anne (Mercer) Taylor, was born
at Hockessin, Delaware, February 10, 1819, died there October 22, 1895. He
spent his early years at the family home, leaving when he was nineteen years
of age and traveling extensively through the west. Returning east, he pur-
chased farms in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia and New Jersey, succes-
sively, following the farmer's occupation until his death. In politics he was a
Republican, but never held any public office. He and his wife were members
of the Society of Friends. He married, December 30, 185 1, Elizabeth Jane,
born January 17, 1824, died at Willowdale, Chester county, Pennsylvania,
daughter of John, a farmer of Chadds Ford, and Margaret (Hannum) Pyle.
Children of David Wilson and Elizabeth Jane (Pyle) Taylor: i. Newton
Pyle, born January 19, 1853. 2. Pusey Phillips (of further mention). 3.

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William, born December 22, 1857, died in infancy. 4. Martha W., born Sep-
tember 21, i860; married, March 10, 1880, Sharpless Nathan Cox, born Sep-
tember 21, 1847; children: Elizabeth Taylor, born May 14, 1882; Isaac Gar-
rett, August 16, 1884, married March 17, 1909, Amy W. Eastman, and had a
son, Carroll, born December" 19, 191 1; Taylor Mitchell, born November 17,
1886; Lydia Hannah, born January 28, 1888; Wayne S., born March 16, 1890;
Howard Newton, born July 24, 1892; Sharpless Nathan (2), born October 14,
1893 : Ruth Woolens, born February 26. 1896 ; Alice Benjamin, born March
27, 1897; Mabel Adalaide, born February 19, 1899. 5. Levis Walter, born
June 16, 1864; married, February 26, 1896, Lillian Croues.

(V) Pusey Phillips, second child and son of David Wilson and Elizabeth
Jane (Pyle) Taylor, was born at Centreville, Delaware, October 23, 1855.
Here his early years were spent, but upon arriving at mature age he pur-
chased the property of William Twaddell, whose ancestors were of revolution-
ary fame. The farm of two hundred and twelve acres, surrounded on nearly
all sides by Brandywine creek, whose meanderings give it a natural boundary
far more beautiful, serviceable and enduring than any of human making. In
front of his home is the meeting place of Pennsylvania and Delaware, so that
from the front porch one may look into Chester and New Castle counties. Up-
on the estate are the ruins of an old powder mill used during the revolution.
The Twaddell forbear who owned the property at the time, could not, in ad-
herence to the pacific principles of his faith, that of a Friend, manufacture
powder to be used in such a cause, but consummated a very effective compro-
mise with his conscience, by which he turned over the mill and all its appli-
ances to a neighbor of less severe belief. The dwelling in which Mr. Taylor
lives is of stone, erected over one hundred and fifty years ago, of old colonial
architecture. Mr. Taylor owns many fine cattle, and conducts an excellent
dairy. He also specializes in the raising of wheat and potatoes. Both he and
his wife are members of the Brandywine Baptist Church. Politically he is an
Independent, and has never held office.

He married, December 23, 1891, Mary A. Turner, of Pleasant Hill, Dela-
ware county, daughter of William, born in Manchester, England, April 16,
1837, and Mary C. (Walker) Turner. William Turner was a son of Abram
Turner, a cotton manufacturer, and Margaret (Ryder) Turner, of Manches-
ter, England, who had two children: William (of previous mention), mar-
ried Mary A. Walker; and Richard Thomas, unmarried, died June. 191 1.
Children of Pusey Phillips and Mary A. (Turner) Taylor: i. Margaret Fla-
ville, born at Mermaid, Delaware, November 5, 1892. 2. William F., born at
Hockessin, Delaware, February 15, 1894. 3. Bayard L., born in Hockessin,
Delaware, February 7, 1896. 4. Walter Chandler, born in Walnut Green,
Delaware, May 23, 1898. 5. Frederick Ervin, born in Kennett Square, Penn-
sylvania, February 28, 1900. 6. Philip Pusey, born in Chadd's Ford Junction,
October 18, 1904. 7. Newell Converse, born in Chadds Ford. "Windtryst,"
October 23, 1908.

The family founded by Cornelius Corssen, a French Protestant
CORSON who fled from France on the same vessel that brought Henri

de La Tourette, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, has
numbered many eminent physicians. Perhaps the best known in our own day
was Dr. Hiram Corson, now deceased, the foremost champion of his time for
the right of women to practice the medical profession. Dr. Hiram Corson
was a brother of Charles Corson, the grandfather of Dr. Susan R. Corson, of
Lansdowne, all tracing their descent from Cornelius Corssen, who settled on

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Staten Island, Xew York, where his will was probated in 1693. The line of
descent is through Benjamin, first, second and third; the first Benjamin, son of
Cornelius, the emigrant settling in Bucks county in 1726, bringing a son, Ben-
jamin (2), who married in Buck's county, Maria Suydam : their son, Benja-
min (3) married Sarah Dungan. Both the Corsons and the Dungans were
wealthy, as wealth was estimated in those days and had agreed that each should
give the young couple "as much as the other" towards their "setting out," but
a dispute arose between the families, with the result that neither family gave
anything, the newly-weds beginning life on a rented farm in Dubhn town-
ship, then in Philadelphia county.

Joseph Corscn, son of Benjamin (3) Corson, was born in Dublin town-
ship, March 15, 1764, married, in 1786, Hannah Dickinson and had eleven
children, including Dr. Hiram 1 of previous mention), and Charles, grand-
father of Dr. Susan R. Corson.

Charles Corson, third son of Joseph Corson, was born January 22, 1801.
He married Sarah Egbert and they for more than forty years lived on their
large farm in Lower Providence township, Montgomery county, Pennsyl-
vania. He was intensel}' opposed to slavery, his house being a station on the
"underground railway" and many a slave was forwarded from there to more
northern points and freedom. His sixth child was John Jacobs.

John Jacobs Corson was born January 5, 1839, died in Norristown, Penn-
-sylvania, in 1912. He was a successful business man, real estate dealer, law-
yer and financier of that city for many years and a man of high character. He
married. .April 8. 1872, Rebecca Pawling Frcedley, born in Norristown in
1847, daughter of Plenry Freedlew and a great-granddaughter of Joseph Heis-
ter, a former governor of Pennsylvania : children ; Nellie, Pathologist in Dr.
Ludlum's Sanitarium in Philadelphia: Dr. Susan R. (of further mention):
.Alice, a noted artist, who for three consecutive seasons held a scholarship in
the Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia ; John J., a real estate dealer in Nor-
ristown: Henry Freedley, also in the real estate business in Norristown; Paula,
married Kenneth Patton, now Llnited States Consul at Rome, Italy ; Russel, a
law student at the llniversity of Pennsylvania ; Dorothy, yet a student.

Dr. Susan R. Corson, second child of John Jacobs and Rebecca Pawling
(Freedley) Corson, was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, August 26, 1876,
.After a course in public and preparatory school, she entered Swarthmore Col-
lege, whence she was graduated B. S., class of 1897. The love of the medical
profession was in her blood and encouraged by the achievement of so many
Doctors Corson of the past, she entered the Woman's Medical College of
Phikidelphia, from whence she was graduated M. D., class of 1901. After
spending a year in the Woman's Hospital in Philadelphia, she located in Lans-
downe in 1902 and began the (private practice of her profession. She is, in
addition to her large general practice, attending physician to Miss Brewster's
school for backward children and to the Church Home for Children at Angora,
Pennsylvania. .A v.-oman of culture, energy and ambition. Dr. Corson has
worthily upheld the family name and justifies in her own career, the long and
arduous fight made by her great uncle. Dr. Hiram Corson, for woman's recog-
nition by the medical profession.

In 1912, Dr. Corson erected a home at Garrettford, Delaware county, but
continues her ofifice at No. 8 East Baltimore avenue, in Lansdowne.

DELAWARE COUNTY -},■]

Prior to 1830, Ernest and Adyessha Hilton, born and married
HILTON in Germany, came to Pennsylvania, settling in Lycoming coun-
ty, where Ernest Hilton died prior to 1843, leaving his widow
with four daughters and a son, George. The widow came to Philadelphia with
her children in 1843, but when the cholera became epidemic in the city the
family was broken up, the children being sent to different places to avoid the
dread disease. Becoming thus separated in early life the children grew up as
strangers, losing all trace of one another.

George, only son of Ernest and Adyessha Hilton, was born in Lycoming
county, Pennsylvania, in 1835. He was eight years of age when his mother
came to Philadelphia with her children. When the family was broken up he
was placed under the care of John Justice, a farmer, owning Sweet Brier
farm, now a part of Fairmount Park, Pliiladelphia. He was an inmate of the
Justice home about five years. He was then thirteen years of age, a strong
and hearty boy, very desirable and useful help on a farm. From the age of
thirteen to seventeen years he worked for Henry Cochsperger, a truckman and
farmer. He had never received wages for his labors with these men, board
and clothes being his only compensation. Pennies that fell in his way were
carefully hoarded, and of these he had seven hundred carefully stored away
on which to begin life. With this sum, and his nine years' experience at farm-
ing, he left the Cochsperger home, finding employment with Mrs. Betsey Grov-
er, who owned a farm of sixty acres. He took charge of this farm and caused
it to yield so satisfactorily that he remained with Mrs. Grover until her death
five years later. He then came to Delaware county, engaging with William
Gardner, then owning the Bullock farm. He remained with Mr. Gardner five
years, when he was stricken with typhoid fever. In 1859 he was placed in
charge of a farm owned by a Mr. Damon. This farm, then in Darby township,
is now included within the corporate limits of the borough of Darby. After
seven years of successful management of the Damon farm he entered the em-
ploy of William Jackson, a farmer, living on the Chester road. In i86g he be-
came manager of a farm owned by Henry Sloan, continuing until the death of
Wr. Sloan in 1874. Mr. Hilton then rented the property, converting it into
a truck farm and disposing of his products in the Philadelphia markets. He
continued there, prospering abundantly, for eighteen years, when he retired
from active labor, having spent forty-nine years, from 1843 ""t'' 1892, in ac-
tive work as a farmer. In the latter year he erected his present comfortable
home in Darby borough at Fifth and Greenway streets, where he has continu-
ously resided since its completion. He is also the owner of seven other dwell-
ings in the borough. The earnings of his years of toil have been judiciously
invested, and his store of wealth has grown from the seven hundred pennies
of his boyhood to an ample competence for his old age. His life has been
well spent and he is rich in the esteem of his many friends and acquaintances.
A Republican in politics, he has served eighteen years as member of the bor-
ough council. iWso has been a director for seventeen years of the King-
sessing Building and Loan Association of Paschall.

Mr. Hilton married, May 3, 1858, Mary Ann Cain, born in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, April 14, 1838, daughter of John Cain, born in England, a car-
penter, and his wife, Mary Ann Adams, who died in Darby in 1904, aged sixty-
six years. Their children : Robert, Edward, John, Emma, deceased, and Mary.
Children of George and Mary Ann (Cain) Hilton: i. Martha B., born Janu-
ary 27, 1859; married William J. Wright: children: Harry E. and George
H. 2. George W., born June 27, i860; married Catherine Simons; children:
William J., George W. (2), Anna, Garrett and Grace. 3. John C, born April
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II, 1862, died July 7. 1903: married Mmina Kurtz; children: Mattie W. ; Mary
A., married Charles Stuart, of Philadelphia.

The Lukcns were among the earliest settlers in Germantown,
LUKENS now a part of the city of Philadelphia. Jan Lucken was the first
of whom we have record. He was one of the thirteen heads
of families who arrived in Philadelphia, October 8, 1683, as passengers on the
"Concord," William Jeffries, master, after a voyage of almost eleven weeks.
Some were from Germany and some from Holland, and it is not known with
certainty from which of these two countries Jan Lucken came. His wife,
j\lary, doubtless newly married, accompanied him. They were ]\Iennonites at
the time of their arrival, but at a later date became identified with the Friends.
His name became Anglicized to John, and in time Lucken passed into Lukens.
John Lukens and Arnold Clinken were appointed overseers of the German-
town Meeting, i mo. 25, 1706, and he was frequently a representative thence
to the quarterly meeting. By occupation he was a weaver. His will is dated
8 mo. 9, 1741, and was proven January 24, 1744. His widow died in 1742 at
the age of eighty-two years. Children: i. Elizabeth, born 7 mo. 28, 1684,
married, 1717, Edward White. 2. Elsje (Alice), born 5 mo. 10, 1686, mar-
ried, 1706, John Conrad. 3. William, born 12 mo. 22, 1687-8, married about
10 mo. 1710, Elizabeth, daughter of Reynier Teison (Tyson). 4. Sarah, born
7 mo. 19, 1689. 5. John, born 9 mo. 27, 1691, married, 1711, JMargaret Kus-
ter. 6. Mary, born 11 mo. 18, 1693, married, 1712, John Gerrit (Jarrett). 7.
Peter, born i mo. 30, 1696, married, 1719, Gainor Evans. 8. Hannah, born
5 mo. 25, 1698, married, 1716,^ Samuel Daniel, son of Francis Daniel Pastorius.
9. Mathias, born 8 mo. 13, 1700, married, 1721, Ann Johnson. 10. Abraham,
born 7 mo. 16, 1703, married Mary Marie and Elizabeth Walker. 11. Joseph,
born 9 mo. 3, 1705, married, 1728^, Susanna Marie. The family traced in this
review is directly descended" from the pioneer ancestor, Jan Lucken, but it is
somewhat difficult to ascertain accurately through which son this descent is
traceable.

(I) William Lukens, who was probably born in Montgomery county,
Pennsylvania, owned an excellent farm there in Horsham township, and died
on his homestead. He was a devout member of the Society of Friends. He
married and had a number of children, of whom those who grew to maturity
were : Jacob ; Jonathan, see forward ; Charles.

(H) Jonathan, son of William Lukens, was born on the farm of his fath-
er in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. He was the owner of a small farm
there on which he resided many years, but at the time of his death he was liv-
ing with his daughter, Mary Ann Hutchinson. He married (first) Sarah Kin-
derdine, and had: i. William P., see forward. 2. Joseph, died in 1897 on a
farm in Ridley township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania ; he married Mary
Paul Worrall. 3. Mary Ann, deceased, married George Hutchinson, who died

in Indianapolis, Indiana.. Mr. Lukens married (second) , and had

children : 4. John, who was starved to death at the Andersonville Prison dur-
ing the civil war. 5. Charles, died in Philadelphia. 6. Edwin, lives in ?\Iacun-
gie, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania. 7. Elwood. died in infancy.

(Ill) William P., son of Jonathan and Sarah (Kinderdine) Lukens, was
born in Horsham township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and died July
3, 1900. He received a common school education and was brought up on the
farm, and commenced to assist in its cultivation at the usual age at which farm-
ers' sons commenced at that time. He removed to Ridley township, Delaware
county, Pennsylvania, about 1868, his wife owning some property there, and

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spent the remainder of his Hfe there. He was a member of the Society of
Friends but his wife was not a member of any denomination. Active in the af-
fairs of tlie Repubhcan party, he was honored with public office, and served
a considerable time as supervisor of the township. He was a man of great influ-
ence and prominence in the community, and was known for his public spirit, and
for his liberal response in all matters of charity. He married Mary Worrall Par-
ry, born in Ridley township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, and died in Octo-
ber, 1905. Children: i. Edith P., died young. 2. J. Parry, see forward. 3. Eliz-
abeth, married B. Frank Compton, and lives in Ridley township. 4. Sarah K.,
married William W. Downing, and lives in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. 5. Wil-
liam, see forward. (See Worrall line forward).

(IV) J. Parry, son of William P. and Mary Worrall Lukens, was born
in Horsham township, Delaware county, .Pennsylvania, June 8, 1854, and his
early years were spent there. After attending the Friends' School for a time
he became a pupil at the Chester Academy, from which he was graduated with
honor. His first business position was as a clerk in a store at Leiperville. now
Crum Lynne, in 1874. The following year in association with his uncle, Jo-
seph K. Lukens, he purchased the interests of Mendenhall & Johnson, the firm
name being changed to J. K. & J. P. Lukens, and this partnership was in force
until November, 1877. In association with B. Frank Compton he purchased
the large store of B. F. Pretty at Upland, Pennsylvania, having sold his inter-
est in his previous business to J. K. Lukens. The new enterprise was operated
under the firm name of Lukens & Compton, and was continued thus until 1890.
when Mr. Lukens purchased the interest of his partner, conducted the business
alone for two years and then sold it in the spring of 1892 to B. Frank Comp-
ton. He removed to Wissahickon and was employed by A. & P. Roberts in
the Pencoyd Iron Works for one year, when he purchased a grocery, meat and
provision establishment at Ardmore, but sold this again in 1896. He then be-
came the agent for a western concern which manufactured sewer pipes and
fire clay products, and later became the eastern agent of the American Sewer
Pipe Company, which was in existence from 1900 to 1912. During this time
he was gradually establishing himself in independent business along the line
of these products and in 1912 resigned his position as agent. Since that tune
he has been in business on his own account. Mr. Lukens has also been consid-
erably interested in real estate matters. In 1897 he purchased the Wood-
Lynne Coal, Feed and Material Yard, which he conducted alone for a period
of two years, then for three years as the senior partner in the firm of Lukens
& Lewis. He sold this business in 1903 to his partner, Lewis C. Lewis. He
still retains his interest in a large amount of property in Chester City in the
borough of Upland and in Ridley township. He has lived in Ridley township
since 1897, and since 1905, upon the death of his mother, he has resided on
the old Worrall homestead, the residence on which was erected in 1768. At
that time it was considered one of the finest and best homes in Delaware coun-
ty. Mr. Lukens had this dwelling thoroughly repaired in 19 13, but retained
all the colonial features and relics, simply modernizing it by the introduction
of gas, water, electric light, heating, etc, and it is now the most commodious
and best equipped house of its kind in the county. It is situated on a large,
rectangular plot of ground of twenty-seven acres, bounded on three sides by
Fairview road, Bullen's Lane and Crum creek, and has one of the best springs
in the county. In political matters Mr. Lukens gives his allegiance to the Re-
publican party, and he and his wife are members of the Baptist church. He
is a member of L. H. Scott Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Chester,
Pennsylvania. Mr. Lukens married, October 2, 1889, Irene S. Compton, born

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in \'alley Forge, Pennsylvania, died February 7. 1909. They have had chil-
dren : I. Mary Worrall, born January 5, 1891, was graduated from Ridley
Park High School. 2. William Penn. born September 20, 1894; was graduated
from the Ridley Park High School, and then went to Swarthmore College, and
was graduated from the department of engineering of that institution. He is
now employed in the model room of the Chalmers' Auto Company, Detroit,.
■Michigan. 3. Edith W., born June 18, 1896; at Ardmore, Pennsylvania; she
was graduated from the West Chester Normal School in June, 1912.

(IV) William, son of William P. and Mary Worrall Lukens, was born
in Horsham, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. He was educated at the
Gilbert Academy ; he then engaged in general mercantile business, being in the
employ of an older brother at Upland, Pennsylvania. In 1889 he became an
employe of H. S. Burbank & Com.pany, of No. 16 North 8th street, Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania, as a traveling salesman, his territory covering Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland, New Jersey, West Virginia and Delaware. At the end of thir-
teen years with this concern he formed a connection with George C. Batcheller
& Companv, covering the same territory, and has been associated with this
firm up to the present time. For the past few years Mr. Lukens has been
actively engaged in real estate matters, the main field of his operations being
Ridley township and Chester, Pennsylvania. He is also the proprietor of the
Russell House at Thomasville, Georgia, and spends the greater part of each
winter there. His religious affiliations are with the Society of Friends. He
is a member of the L. H. Scott Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons, of Chester,
Pennsvlvania. The home of Mr. Lukens is a beautiful old stone house, built
in 1794 by his maternal great-grandfather, William Worrall. It is surrounded
by fifty acres of the old Worrall homestead. Mr. Lukens married. July 15,
1896, Lila H. Willie, born in Lloyd, JelTerson county, Florida, and they have
had children: i. James Willie, a student in the Ridley Park High School. 2.
Elizabeth Parry, a student at the same institution.

(The Worr.ill Line).

(I) Peter Worrall, a native of Cheshire county, England, purchased, ■
March 21, 1681, of William Penn, five hundred acres of land in Marple town-
ship, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. He cleared and improved this and, in
1699, conveyed one hundred and sixty acres of it to his son, Peter.

(II) Peter (2), son of Peter (i) Worrall, the immigrant, died at an ad-
vanced age in 1749.

(III) Jonathan, son of Peter (2) Worrall, was an orthodox Quaker. In
1752 he purchased one hundred and fifty acres of land in Ridley township,
Delaware county, Pennsylvania. He married, 1727, Mary Taylor, who was a
daughter of an early provincial legislator.

(IV) William, son of Jonathan and Mary (Taylor) Worrall, was born
December 29, 1730, died December 23, 1826. He had nine brothers and sis-
ters, of whom four lived to more than ninety years, and one attained the ad-
vanced age of one hundred and four years. He built a large stone house on
the land purchased by his father in Ridley township, and so excellent was the
construction of this, that it is still in use by some of his descendants. He also
built the first barn in that section of the country, and people came from far
and wide to see it. During the time of the revolution, the British were destroy-
ing millstones wherever they could. AVilliam Worrall's neighbor, a miller,,
came to him for advice as to how he could protect his millstones. Mr. Wor-
rall advised him to bring them to him and he would conceal them in his hay-
mow ; this was done and the ruse was a decided success, the stones being saved.

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Later the British were quartered on the farm, and }vlr. W'orrall was in great
alarm lest they discover the millstones, as they were using the hay for fodder,
but they remained undiscovered, as the troops were called to the battle of
Brandywine before a sufficient quantity of hay had been used. The county
treasurer brought the public funds to Mr. Worrall, and he buried them under
the path which led from his house to the barn. Before the stone residence
was built they lived in a log cabin and some of its doors with latch strings are
still in use. and they are still "hanging out." The locks on some of the doors,
which were sent from England, had been put on upside down, and they are
used in this condition up to the present time. Mr. Worrall was a Quaker, but,
although it was against the belief of this denomination to enter into warfare,
his brother Jacob took part in the battle of Trenton against the Hessians. Mr.
Worrall married Phoebe, daughter of Nathaniel and Ann Grubb, of Grubb's
Mills, Chester county, Pennsylvania : Nathaniel Grubb was for ten years a
member of the continental congress.

(V) Nathaniel, son of William and Phoebe (Grubb) Worrall, was born
August 14, 1769, died in January. 1836. He married Mary, daughter of Jona-
than and Edith (Daws) Paul. Children of Nathaniel and Mary (Paul) Wor-
rall : I. Edith Paul. 2. Jonathan. 3. William. 4. Phoebe. 5. Eliza. Edith
Paul Worrall married Jacob Parry and had children: Mary Worrall. Eliza-
beth and Phoebe Ann. Mary Worrall Parry married William P. Lukens (see
Lukens).

Cornelius McCullough, of Lansdowne, Delaware coun-
McCULLOUGH ty, Pennsylvania, a highly respected citizen of that place,

descends from honorable, hardworking Irish forbears.
The family for many generations has been settled in county Donegal, Ireland,
and there the name McCullough stands for integrity, uprightness and energy.
The I'nited States, especially Pennsylvania, has been enriched by the emi-
gration of a part of it to these shores, since by its coming the members have
added to the wealth of the country by their labor.

(I) John McCullough, father of Cornelius McCullough, was born m
county Donegal, Ireland, and died in 1904, in Lansdowne, Delaware county,
Pennsylvania, by being run over by a train on the Pennsylvania railroad. He
early began to fight life's battles, as his parents had a large family and he was
among the eldest. After his marriage in Ireland he decided to come to the
United States, and in 1869, he emigrated, landed in Philadelphia, and settled
at Summit Hill, Pennsylvania. Eor a time he was forced to accept any kind
of work that was offered him, and was employed in the coal mines. He later
sought and received employment with the Pennsylvania railroad, remaining
with that company for twenty-six years. He lived, in the meantime, at Stock-
ton and Kellyville, now Burmont. Pennsylvania. Before his death he moved
to Lansdowne. where he eventually met with the accident that caused his
death. Both he and his wife were members of the Roman Catholic church,
and the Catholic Total Abstinence Society, for twenty-nine years, and to the
Kellyville Society for some years. They were devout. God-fearing people,
and reared their children in the faith of their fathers. He was a staunch
Democrat, and after securing his naturalization papers, he voted with and
worked for the party. He was one of the best known and most liked men in
his line of work, and his death was regretted alike by his company and fellow
laborers. He married, in county Donegal, Anna Dougherty, born there, and
died in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, in 1905. Children: i. Patrick, born in
county Donegal, Ireland : superintendent of the Charles Gilpin Construction

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Company ; resides in Philadcliihia. 2. James, born in county Donegal, house
painter in Lansdowne. Pennsylvania. 3. Anna, born in county Donegal, mar-
ried James Shane, of Lake View. Pennsylvania. 4. Mary, born in county
Donegal, widow of John Milloy, resides in Philadelphia. 5. Sarah, born in
county Donegal, married Frank Bonner, died in iSqq. 6. Cornelius, of whom
further. Two children died young in Ireland.

(IT) Cornelius McCullough. son of John and Anna (Dougherty) AIc-
Cullough, was born February 14, 1876, in Stockton. Pennsylvania. He re-
ceived his education in the St. Charles School at Kellyville, Pennsylvania, and
on leaving entered the employ of a silversmith in Philadelphia, where he
learned thoroughly the manufacture of silverware and jewelry cases, in both
of which he became expert and artistic. For three years he was thus engaged,
giving his employer the greatest satisfaction. He then engaged with Gara,
McGinly and Company to study practical architecture and roofing. So highly
were his services appreciated that he remained in their employ for eleven years.
In June, 1900, he opened up in the same line of business for himself, at Lans-
downe. Pennsylvania, and met with such un]irecedented success that he was
emboldened to add metal v/ork to his output. In this line he has had the
greatest success, much bevond his most sanguine expectations. He keeps a
force of fifteen experts constantly employed, and does a large and ever increas-
ing business in Philadelphia and the suburbs, with about forty per cent, of the
output going to Philadelphia. This is due to his sharp oversight of his plant,
to his determination to succeed and his effort to reach new patrons. He is
one of the progressive citizens of Lansdowne, and since locating there has as-
sisted in building up its industrial fame. In politics he is independent, voting
for the man he thinks best suited to the office. He has served four years as
building inspector for Lansdowne and three years as chief of its fire depart-
ment. Like his forbears, he is a Roman Catholic, and he and his wife are mem-
bers of the St. Philomenas Church. He is a Knight of Columbus, standing
high in its councils : a member of the Order of Elks and of the Catholic Total
Abstinence Society, and belongs to the Master Sheet ]\Ietal Workers, one of
the important labor organizations of the state of Pennsylvania. He married,
October t6, 1902. Anna M. Brown, a native of Lansdowne, and daughter of
Michael Brown. Children: i. Francis. 2. Cornelius. 3. Anna. 4. William.
5. Marie.

The English family of New Jersey has long been settled in
ENCLLSH that commonwealth. Behind it lies a long and interesting his-
tory of persecution and resistance, of daring and accomplish-
ment that reads like a romance from the pen of Sir W^alter Scott or James
Fenimore Cooper. An ancestor was a co-religionist of John Bunyan, the in-
spired .shoemaker, and only escaped imprisonment with him by leaving Eng-
land for Scotland, and sailing thence for the Low Country, where in a measure
liberty to worship as one pleased was granted. After a time he v\'ent to Swit-
zerland, remained there for a year or two. but a desire to see his own country
once more, his family and early friends again, drew him to his native land.
For many years thereafter the English government offered a reward for his
apprehension, claiming that he had incited to riot members of the various
Baptist congregations. This was never proven, and as he continued to elude
the vigilance of the corrui)t officers of the law, he was not taken. The judg-
ment was finally suspended a few months before his death. Among his de-
scendants was John English, who emigrated to America in 1680. He landed
in New York, there settled, farmed, married and died. One of his sons, Wil-

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liani. moved to the Colony of New Jersey, and is supposed to have founded
that branch of the English family. He married in New Jersey, into a Baptist
family, farmed, reared a large family, died and is buried in the state, or col-
ony, as it was at that time.

(I) William English, a direct descendant of John English, the English
emigrant, was born in Xew Jersey, near Camden. He received such educa-
tional advantages as the times afforded, and attended a good school in New
York City for a term or two. Returning to Xew Jersey he engaged in farm-
ing and subsequentlv became a large land owner. He died in New [ersey at
the age of fifty-five. He was a well known man in his day, and one who was
well liked by his neighbors. His was a high order of intelligence, and on this
account he had great influence with his neighbors. He never held any politi-
cal place, but could have done so had he expressed the least wish, or even the
willingness to have accepted office. He was a Republican in principle, holding
that that party saved the Union during the days of 1860-1865. Like his for-
bears, who suffered for the sake of their consjpiences, he was a member of the
Baptist faith, as was his wife, and supported his church in every way in his
power. He married ]\Iargaret Burr, born in New Jersey, a distant connection
of the TUirr family from which the historic character, Aaron Burr, sprung.
Children: 1. Samuel, dead. 2. John, dead. 3. Adelaide, married Charles
Hopkins. 4. Mary, dead. 5. W. Frank, of whom further.

(II) \V. Frank English, son of William and Margaret (Burr) English,
was born in 1857, near Mt. Holly, New Jersey. After receiving his education
in the Femberton, New Jersey, public school, he entered, at the age of seven-
teen, the em]jloy of .Strawbridge and Clothier, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
and remained with them for thirty consecutive years. He received promotion
and a higher salary each year until he was at last made general manager. This
important post he held several years before he resigned to accept a fine posi-
tion with the Tabbard Inn Book Company. He was with the latter company
for some time. He then organized the Keystone Fibre Company, with a plant
at Chester, Pennsylvania. Of this he was elected president and general man-
ager immediatelv after its incorporation. These positions he held with credit
to himself and profit to the company until his health failed, when he resigned.
He disposed of his interests in 1910, retired from active participation in the
larger aiTairs of life, and now lives in his own home on West Baltimore ave-
nue, Lansdowne, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. In 1887 he moved to Lans-
flowne, and has since resided there. He erected two double houses on West
Baltimore avenue, and besides these he owns an old and historic house on
Phunstcd avenue. He supports the Republican party with his vote. Under
that party he served, first as councilman, then burgess, and later as president
of the town council ; he has ahvay< been actively ititerested in borough affairs
and politics. He was a director of the Clifton National Bank from its organ-
ization until recently, when he resigned. Since he became a citizen of Lans-
downe he has been connected with every movement that was for the upbuild-
ing of the place, and has largely contributed to its industrial and commercial
growth. He and his wife are'members of the Methodist Episcopal church in
Lansdowne, and he assisted in erecting the present edifice in which services
are held, and has been a trustee of the same for twelve years. In 1884, he
married Helen Cowperthwaite, born in Camden, New Jersey, a daughter of
Samuel S. E. and Amanda (Myers) Cowperthwaite. He was born in Cam-
den and she in Pemberton, New Jersey, and both descend from old English
stock long planted in New Jersey. He was a real estate dealer during his
latter years, but in his young manhood he was in the mercantile business.

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Children of Mr. and Mrs. English: i. Helen, educated in Swarthmore Pre-
paratory School and at Drexel. 2. W . Frank Jr.. a contractor. 3. Herbert
C, a student in the Lansdowne High School. '

John P. Gallagher, a worthy citizen of Lansdowne. Dela-
G.\LL\('fHER ware county, Pennsylvania, is a fine example of what

energy, pluck and a quick mind will accomplish for a man
in this country, especially in Pennsylvania. He is of the first generation born
on .American soil, but yields to no one in hi^ allegiance to the flag and to the
institutions of this country.

(I) Neil Gallagher was born in county Donegal, Ireland, and died, in
1899, in Kellyville. Delaware county, Pennsylvania. His education was re-
ceived in the public and parochial schools of his native place. In 1848, while
vet a young and unmarried man, he emigrated to the LTnited States, with the
laudable determination to better his condition, and located in Delaware county.
With that unshakable persistence for which the Gaelic race is known, he quick-
ly adapted himself to the new conditions surrounding him, overcame obstacles
and made opportunities overlooked by others. After his marriage, which oc-
curred shortlv after taking up his residence in the Ignited States, he moved
to Kellyville, Delaware county, where he was a dain.'man for thirty-five years.
He was one of the best known and most universally liked men in his particular
line of endeavor, made so by his close attention to business, his willingness to
accommodate his patrons, his unfailing good humor and keen, though kindly,
Irish wit. .After qualifying for citizenship in the L^nited States and receiving
his credentials, he aligned himself with the Democratic party, and thereafter
voted with it and worked for it when the occasion arose. He never held, nor
desired, ofifice, contenting himself with assisting in placing the best man in it as
he saw it. He and his family were devoted adherents of the Roman Catholic
church, a faith inherited through a long line of Irish ancestors which upheld
the church at any and all times. He was a bright member of the Catholic To-
tal Abstinence Brotherhood, having a record of fifty years as a consistent ad-
herent of its rigid rules. When he departed from Ireland in 1848 he left be-
hind Margaret Haggerty, born in county Donegal in 1832, who promised that
she would join him in the new country as soon as he could make a home for
two. She came in 1849, and they were married immediately flfter she landed.
The two young people moved to Kellyville, Pennsylvania, where they estab-
lished a home, lived, and where he died. She lives at the present time (1913)
in Lansdowne, at the ripe old age of eighty-one, surrounded by her children
and many friends that she made in the days of her young womanhood. Chil-
dren: I. Alary, at home with mother. 2. Edward, a dairyman in Lansdowne.
3. Charles, died in 1912. 4. Susan, died aged twenty-eight years. 5. Theresa,
unmarried, at home. 6. John P., of whom further. 7. Sarah, unmarried,
makes home with brother, John P. 8. Joseph, connected with automobile
garage in Chester. Pennsylvania. <). Maggie, died aged six. 10. James, pro-
prietor of automobile garages in Chester and Lansdowne. 11. F>aruard. con-
nected with garage in Chester.

(II) John P. Gallagher, son of Neil and Margaret (Haggerty) Galla-
gher, was born March 14, 1865, corner of Baltimore and Lansdowne avenues,
Lansdowne. Delaware coimty, Pennsylvania. .After attending the parochial
school, and the public school, in Kellyville and Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania.
he was brought face to face with the proposition of self support. Looking
about for employment he decided upon a trade, and consequently learned that
of brick laying. In this he worked for fifteen years, becoming an adept, and

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there is scarcely a modern house in Lansdowne that is not the work of his deft
hands. For one year he was engaged in business for himself as contractor,
during which time he achieved a quick success. In 1907 he was offered, and
accepted, the position as superintendent of the Lansdowne branch of the ex-
tensive James garage interests. The present garage was transformed from
a carriage shop in 1906 to its present use to meet the ever growing demand
for the handling of motor cars and automobile supplies, and was the first es-
tablished in Delaware county. Mr. Gallagher is thoroughly at home in the
business, being of a natural mechanical turn of mind, and he handles with facil-
ity the Buick, Oakland and Metz cars which his firm sells to the public. In
the selling line he is invaluable, possessing as he does all of an Irishman's
persuasiveness, combined with a determination to give the utmost satisfaction
in every case. There is also a repair shop attached to the garage, and the sup-
plies kept are such as are found in all large cities in places of the kind, which
comes under Mr. Gallagher's immediate supervision. Long since he estab-
lished himself in the friendly regard of bis fellow townsmen, and after becom-
ing superintendent of the James Garage Company he has been brought in close
contact with them, their admiration for his business ability has increased, and
he stands today one of the substantial men of the community. Since reaching
his majority he has voted with the Democratic party, but has never held nor
aspired to any office in the gift of his fellow citizens. With his wife he is a
member of the Roman Catholic faith, and he is a Knight of Columbus and a
member of the Catholic Total Abstinence Brotherhood. In 1903 he married
Rose Murray, born in Ireland, the daughter of Michael Murray. Children:
I. John. 2. Francis. 3. Mary. 4. James. 5. Rose.

The Lukens family, which came to this country from Wales,
LUKENS is one of the old and substantial ones of Pennsylvania, and
numbers among its representatives some of the leading men of
the state.

(I) Levi Lukens came to Delaware county, Pennsylvania, from Ply-
mouth, Montgomery county, in the same state, and engaged in the business of
tanning and currying on the Seller's property on West Chester road, where
he was located for many years. He then purchased the Ashurst property on
the Line road, and cultivated it as a farm. He married Mary Jones, and their
children were: i. Elizabeth, born 8 mo. 3, 1788: married Townsend Cooper
and had children: Joseph, Sarah, Levi, Mary and Joanna H. 2. Sarah, born
3 mo. 4, 1790: married Benjamin Pauling, and had children: Jesse, Elizabeth,
Maggie and Mary, who all lived to advanced age. 3. Xathan, see forward.
4. Ann, born i mo. 26, 1794. 5. Hannah, born 12 mo. 23, 1795; married Wil-
liam Bryan, and had children : Elizabeth, Mary Ann and Lewis Bryan. 6.
Norris, born 6 mo. 26, 1798: was unmarried and died in an accident. 7. Mar-
garet, born 4 mo. 5, 1800, married Jehu Jones; had no children. 8. Clement,

born 3 mo. 31, 1802; married Pauline ; no children. 9. Lewis, born 3

mo. 15, 1804: married Ann Smith and had children: Norris Jones, Elizabeth
Moore and Mary Jane. 10. Gibson I., born 3 mo. 2, 1807. 11. Mary R., born
5 mo. 15, 1809; married Townsend Cooper, the former husband of her de-
ceased sister, Elizabeth, and had six children, of whom four died in early in-
fancy, the others being: Elizabeth and Margaret. 12. Sarah, born i mo. 20,
181 1, (it is hardly probable that this daughter was named .Sarah, as the first
Sarah was still living). 13. Abraham, born 4 mo. 11, 1814.

(II) Nathan, son of Levi and Mary (Jones) Lukens, was born 11 mo. 27,
1791. in Haverford township, near the .Ashurst farm. He was educated in

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the common schools of his township, assisting his father wlien there were no-
school sessions, and at a suitable age engaged altogether in farming. He pur-
chased a small farm to which he added, little by little, until it comprised three
hundred acres which he kept in a fine state of cultivation. It was located in
L'pper Darby township, and Mr. Lukens made many improvements on his
property which have greatly increased the value. The present home of his
son, Levi, is on a part of this land. He became a man of influence and promi-
nence in the community, and was an ardent supjwrter of the Republican party.
In addition to his agricultural work he ran teams to Pittsburgh, which was also
a profitable form of business. He was a member of the Quaker denomination,
while his wife was affiliated with the Episcopal church. He married Sarah
Xavlor Lincoln, and bad children : Levi, see forward : Elizabeth L.. married
John Levis, deceased, and now lives on the township line road.

(III) Levi, only son of Nathan and Sarah Naylor (Lincoln) Lukens,
was born on the old Butler place in Upper Darby township, and attended
school at the old Stone school for a short time ; he was then sent to a private
school at Norristown, and subsequently to the Pine Grove School at West
Chester. When he had attained his majority, his father turned over to him
the farm, and he cultivated a tract of one hundred and seventy-five acres,
making a si)ecialty of dairy farming. While formerly he conducted all opera-
tions himself, he now leaves a responsible part of this business in the bands of
his son, John Shaffner Lukens. The farm is fitted up in every particular in a
most modern and up to date manner, and the residence is one of the finest in
the county. Mr. Lukens has lived in his present home for more than half a
centurv. He sold fifty acres of his homestead about 1903, and this is now the
delightful suburb of Observatory Hill. For years Mr. Lukens has been a
leader in his township, and was one of the men who were instrumental in get-
ting the present railroad facilities for the community. In 1863 Mr. Lukens as-
sisted in raising a company of infantry and was out for six weeks, being at-
tached to the Sixteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was
made second lieutenant of this company under Captain Amos Bonsall, of Cop-
per Darby township. Upon his return Mr. Lukens resumed his agricultural
work. Mr. Lukens married Mary E.. daughter of John and Alary E. (Aletz-
ger) ShaiTner. of Lancaster City, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Shaffner died Novem-
ber 8. 1897. Mr. Shafifner was one of the leading wholesale merchants of
Philadelphia and was a man of great influence in his day. He was the head
of the firm of Shaffner & Zeigler. He died in 1870, having retired from active
business about six years prior to this event. Levi and Mary E. (Shaffner)
Lukens had children: i. Laura, born December 31, i860, died in infancy. 2.
Nathan, born May 28, 1862; married Grace A'andever, and has had children:
Shafifner, born June 12, 1897; Nathan, September, 1898; Donald, June, 1900;
Benjamin Vandever, January 7, 1003. Nathan Lukens was a merchant at
Coatesville for a number of years, and then at Collingswood, New Jersey,
where he died, June 8, 1913. 3. IMary. born June 24, 1864, now deceased. 4.
John .Shaffner. see forward. 5. George, born Januarv 17, \Sfiq. 6. Kate
Estelle. born February 27, 1875.

(IV) John Shaffner, son of Levi and Mary E. (. "shaffner) Lukens. was
born January 29, 1867. He was educated in the Friends' Central Higli School
and at Pierce's Business College, from which he was graduated in 1884. He
took charge of the dairy farm of his father and continued in liis management
of it until the fifty acres were sold off, which have now become Observatory
Hill. Since that time he has had charge of the general farming industry, and
has been decidedly successful in his management. He gives his earnest sup-
port to the Republican party but has ne\er asjjired to public office. His relig-

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ions affiliation is with the Episcopal church. Mr. Liikens married, September
23, 1896. Elizabeth Courtney, and they have had children as follows: Mary
Lindell, born July 13, 1897; Levi Courtney, born July 24. 1899: Elizabeth,
November 12, 1902; Marguerite, January 8, 1906.

In the days of William Penn came the Pancoasts to Phila-
PANCOAST delphia and there founded a family illustrious in the history
of the state. The present family in Springfield township,
Delaware county, of which Samuel L. Pancoast is representative, count but two
generations in that township, Seth Pancoast, grandfather of Samuel D., having
been first a farmer of Marple, although he died in Springfield, aged eighty-
seven years. Seth Pancoast married Margaretta Levis, descendant of another
old family and had issue: Margaretta; Levis; William; Samuel P., see for-
ward; Henry and Seth (2). The mother of these died in Springfield township
aged eighty-six years ; all were members of the Society of Friends.

Samuel F. Pancoast was educated in the public schools of Springfield
township, became a successful, prosperous farmer and died on his estate there
in 1890. He was a Republican in politics and a birth-right member of the
Society of Friends. He married (first) Elizabeth, daughter of John Leach, a
blacksmith and hotel keeper of Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, and his
wife, Catherine Cokenspiger. John Leach had issue: Elizabeth; John, de-
ceased ; Isaac ; Charles ; William ; George, deceased ; Margaret ; Catherine, de-
ceased ; Sarah; Hettie. Samuel F. Pancoast married (second) Ellen B. Sloan.
Children by first wife : Mary, married Isaac Lewis ; Ella, married William H.
Swank; Seth (3), married Minnie R. Revnolds ; Samuel L., of whom further;
John, deceased ; .Xnnie, deceased ; all members of the Society of Friends. Chil-
dren by the second wife: Elizabeth; Malachi ; Mattie and Laura, the two last
named deceased.

Samuel L. Pancoast, second son of Samuel F. Pancoast and his first wife,
Elizabeth Leach, was born in Springfield township, Delaware county, Pennsyl-
vania, in 1869, and there his earlier life was spent. He was educated in the
public school and until seventeen years of age he was a farm worker. In 1886
he began an apprenticeship at the blacksmith's trade with Charles J. Evans of
Springfield township, continuing his full term and becoming an expert smith.
He located in Broomall, Marple township, after serving his time securing em-
ploying with Charles Dickinson, with whom he worked two years, he then es-
tablished his own shop and business, which he successfully continues, having
his place of business on the lot in the rear of his residence. He is highly re-
garded as a smith and as a good citizen. He is a Republican in politics and
has served his town in important positions. He has been township treasurer
eight years; assessor seven terms and is now, 1913, serving his ninth term as
collector of taxes. He is a member of the Society of Friends and is past
master of Accacia Lodge, No. 273, Free and Accepted Masons.

Mr. Pancoast married, .-\pril 18, 1895, Elvira Leedom, born at Leedom's
Mills, Delaware county, in 1873, daughter of Maris W. Leedom, born in Dela-
ware county, in 1825, a miller; his wife, Elvira Clark, was born in Chester
county, Pennsylvania, in 1826, died 1887. Maris W. Leedom had issue: i.
Elwood, died in infancy. 2. Sarah, married Henry Lobb and has: Ridge-
way, Bessie, Francis, Florence, Evans, Harry. 3. Ridgeway, married Mary
Sauter and has: Maris, Hanman, Harry, Francis, Bessie, died in infancy, Hor-
ace, Marsden. 4. Mary W., married B. Hayes Anderson and has : Edward,
Hayes, Elvira, Elizabeth, Mary, Helen, died in infancy, 5. Elvira, married
.Samuel L. Pancoast (of previous mention); children: Helen, Maris Leedom,
died in infancy, Samuel F., Mary Elizabeth, Seth Ellsworth.

748 DELAWARE COUNTY

The Forwoods came to Pennsylvania from the state of Dela-
FORWOOD ware, coming from England about the year 1700, and from

them spring the Forwoods of Pennsylvania, Alabama and
Virginia. Maternally, Dr. Jonathan Larkin Forwood descends from John
Larkin, who settled in Maryland, where in 1682, before the coming of Penn,
he became owner of a large tract of land in Cecil county.

Dr. Jonathan Larkin Forwood, son of Robert and Rachel (Larkin) For-
wood, was born in West Chester, Chester county, Pennsylvania, October 17,
1831. His parents moved to the state of Delaware a few years after his
birth, and there he grew to youthful manhood. He had few opportunities to
attend school, three months in the winter being about all the farmer boy of
that day could expect. Pnit education is not necessarily dependent upon
schools ; the lad thirsted for knowledge, and he secured it by studying far into
the night, and so improving every oj^portunity that at the age of eighteen he
was able to pass a teacher's examination. When nineteen years of age, he dis-
covered by a mere chance that teachers were needed in a school in Montgom-
ery county, PennsNlvania. Without imparting his intention to any one. he
made the journc}- to Eagleville, Pennsylvania, passed a satisfactory examina-
tion and was awarded by the directors the school at Evansburg. He was noti-
fied of his appointment late in the evening. As his school would not open for
several weeks, he decided to return home for a time. He was twenty-three
miles from Philadelphia, and there was no conveyance to that city. With
another school applicant he made the journey thither that night, on foot, reach-
ing Philadelphia at daybreak on Sunday. There he took a stage for Darby,
from thence walking to Chichester, Delaware county, where his parents then
resided. When the time came to cpLO his school, he left home with his few
belongings. Pie taught until the following spring at a monthly salary of $25,
saving sufficient luone)- to lake a si.mmer course at Freeland College. By
teaching a class in geometry and paying all the money he could procure, he
remained at Rockdale until 1854. He then applied for the position of teach-
er in the Springfield Central School in Delaware county, and taught there
successfully until 1855. One of the school directors. Dr. Charles J. Morton, be-
came interested in him. and learning that he cherished an ambition for a pro-
fessional life offered him office instruction and the use of his medical library.
This was the turning point in his career, and for the first time his path shoiie
clear and bright. But his medical education had yet to be accomplished, and
while friends had been providentially raised up there were years of hard
work and privation yet to be encountered. He taught faithfully during the
winter, studying medicine at all available hours, and in the spring of 1855 was
rewarded with a silver cup as a testimonial — a relic which is today one of his
most highly prized possessions. In the fall of 1855 he entered the medical
deijartment of the I'niversity of Pennsylvania, with just sufficient means to
carry him through a single term. It was suggested to him that his money
would go further in a more humble college, but he decided that his profes-
sional education would be his sole capital, and he determined to obtain his med-
ical degree from an institution of first importance. \\'lien his means were ex-
hausted, he again returned to the school room, teaching at Middletown. Dela-
ware county. In the sumiuer of 1856 he won a I'niversity scholarship, which,
with the money he had saved, carried him through until' the spring of 1857,
when he was graduated with honors in the seven branches of medicine, re-
ceiving from the Lhiiversity of Pennsylvania the degree of M. 1).

Dr. Forwood at once located in Chester, Pennsylvania, and there his life
of great usefulness has been passed. As soon as he secured a foothold, he be-
gan to give especial attention to surgical cases — a department of his profes-

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sion that had been neglected by the resident physicians. In 1858 he per-
formed a leg amputation — the first in Chester for fifty years. He rapidly ac-
quired confidence in himself, and performed many difficult operations, includ-
ing lithotomy — one rarely performed outside medical colleges and by surgical
professors. He became famous as a surgeon, even before the present modern
methods became general, and gained both fame and substantial reward. In
1864, when the ^Municipal Hospital in Philadelphia was burned, the board of
health transferred its work to the Lazaretto in Delaware county, and Dr. For-
wood was requested to take charge of this temporary hospital until the new
buildings were completed, to which he acceded. In 1863, after the fearful bat-
tle of Gettysburg, he was called to the assistance of the government in the
hospital at Chester, and there performed important 0]ierations, including am-
putation at the hip joint. Several of his cases are reported at length in the
magnificent "Medical and Surgical History of the War."

Throughout the course of his half century of practice in Chester Dr. For-
wood has been a prime leader in his profession, and many of his surgical
cases have been of such unusual interest and so successfully treated, that they
have been reported in full in the leading professional journals. While sur-
gery has been his chief specialty, he has neglected no phase of his profession,
and whether a case required skillful diagnosis and medical treatment, or the
more heroic treatment of the surgeon, he is equally well qualified. He has de-
voted much time and special study to gynaecology, and has a reputation in that
department that extends far beyond local limits for his most successful record
of cases. He has performed four successful caesarian operations upon one
woman, while his minor operations, in themselves difficult, are numbered by
the hundred. When the Chester General Hospital was built Dr. Forwood was
appointed chief surgeon and has held that position for 24 years, and in its
various departments, his surgery has kept up with all modern methods, and his
reputation in this department is widely known. He is held in high esteem
by his brethren of the profession, and with them is associated in the .\merican
Medical .'\ssociation ; the Pennsylvania State !\Iedical Society ; the Delaware
County Medical Society, of which he is president ; the Physicians Association
of Delaware county ; the Medical Club of Philadelphia ; and has been a dele-
gate to the International Surgical Congress. He has been chief of staff of the
Chester Hospital from the time of its building, twenty-four years ago, and
through his efforts it has reached the highest standard. He is also a member
of the Pennsylvania State Quarantine Board, the National P)Oard of Trade,
the Alumni Society of the University of Pennsylvania, the Academy of Nat-
ural Sciences, the American Congress of Surgeons, and of the International
Congress.

Dr. Forwood was one of the leading Democrats of Delaware county until
1886, when he diflPered with his party on the tariff question, and since then has
afniijted with the Republican party. In 1867 he founded the "Delaware Coun-
tv Democrat," and although the Democratic county committee declared that a
partisan i)aper could not be sustained, by untiring energy he created Mich en-
thusiasm that it was not only made a financial success, but became one of the
most outspoken, fearless and unflinching Democratic organs in the state. In
the same vear Dr. Forwood was elected councilman from the middle ward of
Chester, served on the street committee, and for more than three years was its
chairman. He took a leading part in council proceedings, and in the spring of
1872 was elected mayor, after the most exciting municipal campaign ever
known in the city, on account of the large Republican majority to be overcome.
He was re-elected mayor in 1873, and again in 1882, and in face of the fact
that the city was normally Republican. He was again elected mayor in 1886.

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In 1874 he was the Democratic nominee for congress, and in 1876 he was an
elector on the Tilden and Hendricks state ticket. In 1880 he was a delegate in
the Democratic National Convention that nominated General Hancock for the
])residency. and also in the convention of 1884 which nominated Grover Cleve-
land for the same high office, and labored arduously for his election. In 1886
he broke away from the political friends of a lifetime, and has since taken no
active part in public aflfairs. He was a most able political leader, a powerful
and eloquent public speaker, and was held in high esteem in the councils of his
party.

Now long past the meridian of life. Dr. Forwood is still alert and active,
physically and mentally, and devotes his great skill to the alleviation of human
suffering with all the enthusiasm of his younger days, and with a broadened
humanitarianism growing out of wide experience. His life has been eminently
useful, and the half century he has given to Chester have been years of great
advantage to the city, and not a little of the material and moral good that have
come to it may be traced to his life example and earnest personal effort.

He married, November 15, 1864, in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. Catherine
A. DeSilver, daughter of R. Wilson and Catherine A. (McGlensey) Wilson.
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One child died in infancy. His wife is living
at the present time (1913).

For many years Richard S. Pomeroy has been connected
POMEROY with the upbuilding of Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, and he
has just reason to be proud of the fact that to his efforts can
be traced many a substantial enterprise or advancement contributing greatly
to the growth and prosperity of this section of the state. In every sense of the
word he is a representative citizen and a business man of marked capacity. It
is to the inherent force of character and commendable ambition and the unre-
mitting diligence of Mr. Pomeroy himself that he has steadily advanced in
the business world until he now occupies a leading place among the active and
enterprising men of Delaware county.

A native of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Richard S. Pomeroy
was born April 15, 1853. He is a son of John H. and Mary A. (Shields)
Pomeroy, the former of whom was born in England, in 1808, and the latter in
Ireland, in 1817. Air. and Mrs. Pomeroy each came to America separately
about 1835 and they located in Philadelphia, where they met and were event-
ually married. He was a plasterer by trade and spent most of his active career
in that line of work, achieving a fair success. He was summoned to the life
eternal in 1875, aged sixty-seven years, and his cherished and devoted wife
passed away in 1874, at the age of fifty-seven years. Both are interred in
Philadelphia. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Pomeroy : Joseph H.,
who is living retired from business cares in Philadelphia; John S., a contractor
by occupation and a resident of Ridley Park ; Richard S., the immediate sub-
ject of this review ; and David G., an insurance man in Philadelphia.

Richard S. Pomeroy was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia,
being graduated in high school in 1868. Soon after leaving school he became
a clerk in the offices of W. J. McCohan & Company, wholesale grocers, and he
has been connected with this concern during the long intervening years to the
present time, 1913. 'Ihrough various promotions he rose gradually to the po-
sition of a partner in the firm in 1884. In 1892 the company was incorporated
as the W. J. McCohan .Sugar Refining Company under the laws of the state
of Pennsylvania and Mr. Pomeroy was elected treasurer, a position he still
holds. He is now one of the oldest men in the company and has seen the same

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grow from meager beginnings to triple its size since 1892. In addition to his
interests in the above concern Mr. Pomeroy is a heavy stockholder and one of
the directors in the Francisco Sugar Company of New Jersey.

In his political affiliations Mr. Pomeroy is a stand-pat Republican. In
1884 he established the family home in Ridley Park, being one of the first
suburbanites to make his home in this delightful spot. After Ridley Park be-
came a borough, in 1888, he was elected secretary of the school board. Subse-
quently he became a member of the borough council and in 1897, at the time
of the demise of Mr. Kenney, the borough's first chief burgess, Mr. Pomeroy
was elected to fill the vacancy, holding the office of chief burgess for three
years. Mr. Pomeroy belongs to the Ridley Park Presbyterian Church and for
twenty-five years has been chairman of its board of trustees. In the time
honored Masonic order he is a member of St. Alban Lodge, No. 529, Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons ; Palestine Chapter, No. 240, Royal .A^rch Masons ;
Mary Commandery, No. 36, Knights Templar : and Lulu Temple, Ancient
Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

In 1875 Mr. Pomeroy was united in marriage to JMiss Josephine E. Knott.
a native of Baltimore, Maryland.

Mr. Pomeroy is a man of fine mentality and broad human sympathy. He
thoroughly enjoys home life and takes great plea.sure in the society of his fam-
ily and friends. His business career has been characterized by honorable and
straightforward methods and his public and private life have been exemplary
in every respect.

William Frazer Horton, an intelligent, successful and highly
HORTON respected citizen of Llanerch, where he has resided for many
years, winning for himself the confidence and respect of his
fellow townsmen by his integrity of character and the honorable manner in
which he conducts his business affairs, is a native of Radnor township. Dela-
ware county, Pennsylvania, born February 28, 1869, a descendant on the pa-
ternal side of an English ancestry and on the maternal of a Welsh ancestry,

John Horton, grandfather of William F. Horton, was born in England,
from whence he came to this country in young manhood accompanied by his
two brothers, one of whom located in New York, the other in the west, and he
in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, settling on a farm consisting of one hun-
dred and ten acres located in Newtown township, where he spent the re-
mainder of his days. He served in local offices, being elected on the Republi-
can ticket, was a member of St. David's Episcopal Church, as was also his
wife, and their remains were interred in the graveyard connected therewith.
He was a soldier of the war of 1812. He married Jane C. Lindsay, who bore
him four sons and three daughters, as follows: Andrew, Harry, Bernard V.,
Samuel, Elizabeth, Mary, Christianna, all deceased but Samuel, who resides in
Norristown, Pennsylvania, retired from active pursuits.

Bernard V. Horton, father of William F. Horton, was born in Newtown
township, Delaware county. Pennsylvania. He was brought up in that town-
ship, attended the common schools of the neighborhood, and upon attaining
manhood inherited a portion of the homestead on which he conducted his farm-
mg operations, which proved highly successful. Later he moved to Radnor
township, where he continued his farming operations, and subsequently moved
to Haverford township, purchasing a farm on Westchester Road, which he
cultivated and worked, and there his death occurred in the year 1894. He took
an active interest in the Republican party, and both he and his wife were con-
sistent members of St. David's Episcopal Church. During the civil war he en-

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listeil for a period of three years, but only served for about three months, ow-
ing to the cessation of hostihties. He married Hannah Green, born in New-
town township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, daughter of William Frazer
and Lydia Green, who were the parents of seven children : Rebecca, Rachel,
Hannah, Jennie, Mary, Elizabeth, Lewis; Jennie and Mary being the only sur-
viving members of the family at the present time (1913J. William F. Green

was born in Pennsylvania, and after his marriage to Lydia —, who was

born in Wales, having been brought to the United States in early life by her
parents, settled in Newtown township, where he was the owner of a small
farm, which he cultivated, and also followed his trade of butcher, from which
he derived a good livelihood. He remained there until his death, leading a
quiet and peaceful life. Air. and Mrs. Horton had two children: William
Frazer, of whom further, and Jennie, married Franklin Gettz, son of Charles
W. Gettz, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work, and they reside in
Marple township.

William F. Horton obtained an excellent education by attendance at the
Radnor township schools, the Marple township pay schools and Pierce's Busi-
ness College. He assisted liis father in his labors until he was about twenty-
six years of age, and then engaged in business on his own account, establish-
ing a milk route, and about the year 1900 he took up his residence in Llanerch
and has conducted a city milk route ever since, his patronage increasing year
by year, owing to the excellent quality of his product and the prompt service
they receive. Upon his removal to Llanerch he erected a substantial house on
the Coopertown Road, which he still occupies, and which is equipped with
everything needful for the comfort and well being of his family. He casts his
vote for the candidates of the Rei)ublican party, the principles of which he
fully approves, and has attained high rank in the Masonic fraternity, holding
membership in Cassia Lodge, No. 273 ; Montgomery Chapter, No. 262 ; St.
John's Commandery, and Lulu Temple.

Mr. Horton married, November 14, 1900, Margaret, daughter of David
Gettz. a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work.

John George Cjardner, a progressive and public-spirited citi-
GARDNER zen of Bryn Mavv-r, is a man of good business tact and judg-
ment, prompt and reliable in the performance of all obliga-
tions, and by the exercise of those characteristics which insure success in life,
industry, perseverance and enterprise, has attained a place of prominence in
business circles.

Richard Gardner, grandfather of John G. Gardner, was a native of Eng-
land, in which country he spent his entire life, honored and esteemed by all
with whom he had dealings for his trustworthiness and faithfulness. For the
long ])eriod of sixty years he served as builder and clerk of the works of Spen-
cer Lucy, now I^ord Lucy, whose estate was Chalcotte Park, situated near
Wellsbourne. He was an exceedingly competent man, faithful and conscien-
tious in the performance of his duties, and as a reward for his years of toil
was retired on a pension, a most fitting testimonial from his employer. He
lived to the great age of ninety-three, having well passed the allotted scriptural

age of three score years and ten. He married , who bore him

among other children: John, of whom further, and Robert who was a suc-
cessful architect and builder, who emigrated to the LTnited States, and erected
the V'endome Flotel in ISosion and a number of the buildings of Wellesley Col-
lege.

John (iardner, father of John (i. tiardner, was born in Stratford-on-

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Avon, England, there grew to maturity and was educated in the common
schools. Being very skillful in the use of tools, in fact, a natural born me-
chanic, he naturally turned his attention to that line of work upon arriving at a
suitable age to choose his life vocation, and learned the trades of gunsmith,
locksmith, bellhanger and blacksmith, building up an extensive trade, which
brought him good returns, and subsequently the business was conducted by his
eldest son, who assumed control, and he moved the shop to Birmingham, be-
lieving that the advantages for business were greater there than in the old loca-
tion. Mr. Gardner spent his entire life in his native land, his death occurring
there. For many years he served as justice of the peace, and always took a
keen and intelligent interest in local affairs. He staunchly upheld the princi-
ples and measures advocated by the Liberals, and served in the capacity of
warden of the Episcopal church. He married Elizabeth Mabley, born in
Stratford-on-Avon, England, daughter 'of Robert iMabley, who was a game
warden on the Chalcotte Park estate, serving as such for many years. Four
sons were born of this marriage, as follows: i. Garrad, who, by virtue of
being the eldest son. received his father's estate, and now resides in Birming-
ham. England, where he is ranked among the successful business men. 2.
Richard, who emigrated to the United States, and who immediately secured
the position of manager of the \'anderbilt Estate at Newport, Rhode Island, in
which capacity he has served ever since. 3. John George, of whom further.
4. Harry, who emigrated to Australia and is now a successful woolen mer-
chant in Adelaide.

John G. Gardner was born in Stratford-on-Avon, England, July 14, 185 1.
His educational advantages were obtained in the public schools in the neigh-
borhood of his home, and for seven years thereafter he served an apprentice-
ship at the trade of nurseryman and florist, becoming highly proficient during
this period of time. He then went to London and entered the employ of
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Kings Road, Chelsea, where he gained consider-
able knowledge about propagation, an important branch in that industry, and
he also acquired a practical knowledge of laying out landscapes and gardens.
His scope of activity being too limited to suit him, Mr. Gardner decided to
come to the United States and join his uncle, Mr. Robert Gardner, previously
mentioned, at Wellesley, Massachusetts, where he was erecting the college
buildings. This was in the year 1874, and six months later he returned to
England, there settled up his affairs, and returned to the United States. His
first work here was the laying out of an extensive new landscape at Newport,
Rhode Island, for Mr. Pierre Lorillard. He next secured employment on the
Rancocas Stock Farm in New Jersey for Mr. Lorillard, laid out the farm,
built game preserves and managed the gardens, also performed similar work
at Tuxedo Park, New York, for the same employer, and in all served him for
sixteen years, his work being highly satisfactory, as evidenced by the many
years he was retained in his service. He then laid out the Stoke Pogees, an
estate for Frederick and Morro Phillips at \'il!anova, near Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and afterwards established a nursery of his own in order to be
enabled to set out first class gardens without undue delay. In all he has laid
out sixty gardens on the main line between Philadelphia and West Chester,
none of these having a duplicate. In 1906 he removed to Haverford township
and purchased a farm consisting of twenty-two acres, located on Coopertown
Road, remodelled on old building, making of it a modern and comfortable resi-
dence, and has resided there ever since, his three sons being employed in the
business with him. He has gained a wide reputation for the excellence of his
work, to which he has devoted the utmost care and thought, and he well
merits the success which has attended his efforts. He is a member of the Epis-
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copal church, as is also his wife, and his political allegiance is given to the Re-
publican party.

Mr. (Jardnc-r married Emily llridle, a native of E.xeter, Devonshire, Eng-
land, danghtcr of Richard Bridle ; she came to this country two years later
than her husband. Their children: i. George, conducts an auto garage in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; married Pearl Hoover; one daughter, Louise. 2.
Ethel, married (Jscar ]Murray, an electrician in Collingsdale, Pennsylvania ;
two children: Oscar and Pauline Booth. 3. Richard Neal, engaged in busi-
ness with his father ; married Mildred Caum. 4. Frederick, engaged in busi-
ness with his father; resides in Oakmont ; married Laura Reese; one son,
Frederick Aubrey. 5. Ernest, resides at home, unmarried. 6. Florence, edu-
cated in Banks Business College, now serving as bookkeeper for her father;
resides at home.

If those who claim that fortune has favored certain individ-
BARXETT uals above others will but investigate the cause of success and
failure, it will be found that the former is largely due to the
improvement of opportunity, the latter to the neglect of it. Fortunate en-
vironments encompass nearly every man at some stage of his career, but the
strong man and the successful man is he who realizes that the proper moment
has come, that the present and not the future holds his opportunity. The man
who makes use of the Now and not the To Be is the one who passes on the
highway of life others who started out ahead of him, and reaches the goal of
prosperity in advance of them. It is this quality in William Barnett that has
made him a leader in the starch industry in Delaware county, Pennsylvania,
where he has been interested since 1878, at which time he erected his present
starch factory. Prior to that time he was engaged in the same business in
Philadelphia and the long span of years tell the story of an eminently success-
ful business career due to persistent endeavor and the ability to turn every
opportunity to good advantage. Mr. Barnett maintains his home at Mount
Alverno, also the site of his factory, and here he commands the unalloyed con-
fidence and esteem of his fellow citizens, who honor him for his square busi-
ness methods.

The genealogy of the Barnett family in America dates back to the year
1800 at which time Thomas Barnett immigrated to this country from county
Tyrone, Ireland, and settled in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He
married and had three children: Thomas, Jr., mentioned in the following
paragraph ; Alexander, a ship carpenter by trade and a splendid mechanic, was
for many years a resident of Philadelphia ; and Rebecca,, who never married,
likewise lived in Philadelphia. All of the above children were born in Ire-
land.

Thomas Barnett Jr. was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, in the latter
part of the eighteenth century and he came to America in 1805, joining his
father in Philadelphia. He received but very meager educational training in
his youth but through extensive reading and close observation of customs and
people he developed a very keen intellect. As a boy he worked in a mill for a
number of years and eventually secured a position in a starch factory owned
by a Frenchman named Bartholomew. In the latter place he secured an excel-
lent business training and became so familiar with the ins and outs of the
starch manufacturing industry that he finally engaged in that business on his
own account. His first factory was located on Eighth street below Washing-
ton avenue, in Philadelphia, and later he removed to Ninth ;md Reid streets,
in which latter place he continued to be located until his demise, in 1865. He

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was a shrewd business man and built up a splendid industry, which has since
been continued by his son, WiUiam. of this notice. He was three times mar-
ried, (first) to Martha Gillespie, of New York; (second) to Sarah Walker,
of Ireland, who died in 1834; and (third) to Eliza Jane Heazzlitt, of Ireland.
By the first union there were three children : Margaret, Jennie and Maria. Five
children were born of the second marriage : Elizabeth, a resident of New York
City, she is unmarried; William, the immediate subject of this review; and
Sarah, who married James Harper and lived in Philadelphia, and two sons
died in infancy. To the third union were born eight children : Ella, is the
widow of Frank Hart and lives in Philadelphia; Mary, is the wife of George
McGee, of New York City ; Alexander, lives in New York City ; the other
five are deceased. Thomas Barnett was a devout member of the Presbyterian
church, and his second wife, Sarah Walker, mother of William, was a com-
municant of the Protestant Episcopal church.

William Barnett was born March 24, 1827, in Philadelphia, in a house
erected in 1812, below Eighth street on Washington avenue ; this house is
still standing, in 1913. He was educated in the subscription schools of his day
and when ready to launch upon his business career began to learn the starch
manufacturing industry under the able tutelage of his father. In due time he
became his father's partner in the business and after the latter's death, in 1865,
he continued to conduct the plant in Philadelphia until 1878. In that year he
purchased a tract of fifty-seven acres of land from Charles Burnly, the same
being located on the outskirts of Mount Alverno, in Delaware county. Later
he purchased an additional fifteen acres and on the above property erected a
starch factory which was ready for business in August, 1879. Here he has
since conducted a most profitable enterprise, doing business with the big job-
bers in Pennsylvania and neighboring states. He has a business office at
730-2 Broad street, Philadelphia, and his son, William Jr., looks after all mat-
ters connected with the same, while his son, Edwin S., manages the mill and
the farm. Mr. Barnett gives a general supervision to the business but his two
sons are so well trained in this line of enterprise that he is able to live practi-
cally retired. He has reached the venerable age of eighty-six years but is so
wonderfully well preserved that he seems almost twenty years younger. He is
well read and is exceedingly broad minded, and he has such an immense fund
of knowledge stored up in his brain that he is a very interesting talker.

February 27, 1854, Mr. Barnett married Miss Catherine Hanley, a native
of Philadelphia. She was a daughter of John and Margaret (Stephen) Han-
ley, the former of whom was born m the north of Ireland and the latter in
Philadelphia. John Hanley was a prominent dry-goods merchant in Philadel-
phia for many years prior to his demise. He and his wife had nine children,
as follows ; Rev. Toseph, was pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in
Philadelphia at the time of his demise ; Margaret, died in infancy ; Susan, is
deceased ; Catherine, married Mr. Barnett, and is deceased ; Anna Eliza, is
single and makes her home with the Barnett family in Mount Alverno ; Mary,
is the wife of William Dunbar, of Philadelphia ; Sarah, married (first) Dr.
Samuel Sharp, and (second) William H. Park, of Philadelphia; Harriet, is
the widow of J. C. Dunsmore and maintains her home in West Philadelphia;
Susan, is deceased. Mrs. Barnett was born February' 25, 1833, and she passed
to eternal rest June 8, 191 2, aged seventy-nine years. She was a woman of
remarkable character and was possessed of that innate spirit of kindliness
which fosters friendship and which greatly endeared her to all with whom she
came in contact. She was a devoted wife and mother and was the shining light
of the Barnett home. Her demise was mourned throughout Mount Alverno
and her memory will long remain green in the hearts of her adoring relatives

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and friends. She and her husband were very happy during the entire period
of their married life, never having a single quarrel or disagreement of any
description, and needless to say he is grief-stricken at her loss, as are also
their children. There were nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Barnett, con-
cerning whom the following brief data are here incorporated: i. Thomas,
died in infancy. 2. Margaret, is the widow of Dr. George S. Hull, a promi-
nent throat specialist, who died at Pasadena, California, August 28, 1902, hav-
ing gone to that city to improve his health : they had four children : Howard L.,
a physician and surgeon at Fort Carey, New York, married Sarah Buck ; Ida
Barnett, Marion Walter and Margaret Hanley. 3. William Barnett Jr., mar-
ried Grace Hoffman; they have three children. William (3), Sellers Hoffman
and Benjamin Hoffman. 4., 5. and 6. Alarion, Catherine and Howard, all
died in infancy. 7. Edwin Stephen, lives at home and is in business with his
father, as previously noted. 8. Sarah, is likewise at home. 9. Ella, is the
wife of Joseph C. Fergusson Jr., an optician of note who has his professional
headquarters on Fifteenth and Market streets in Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs.
Barnett reared their children in the faith of the Presbyterian church, his son,
William Jr., being elder and treasurer of the Middletown Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Barnett is a man of great philanthropy but there is a modesty and
lack of all ostentation in his work as a benefactor. In community affairs he
is active and influential and his .support is readily and generously given to
many projects forwarded for the betterment of the general welfare. His
genial disposition and the radiant cheerfulness which is ever emanating from
his personality have helped brighten the rugged path of those who surround
him. He is a grand old man and hi? exemplary life serves as a good example
to the younger generation of Delaware county.

The McCulloughs, originally from Scotland, settled in
-McCULLOUGH Ireland, during the lifetime of Allen, grandfather of

Allen McCuUough of Broomall, Delaware county, Penn-
sylvania.

-Vllen (i) McCullough, born in Scotland, emigrated to Ireland, where
he owned a farm which passed to his son, James AlcCullough, who there re-
sided all his life. James AlcCullough married Elizabeth Glenney and reared a
family.

Allen (2), son of James and Elizabeth (Glenney) McCullough, was born
on the old homestead in county .-\rmagh, Ireland, May 8, 1834, and there the
first twenty-one years of his life were passed. In 1857 he came to the United
States, arriving on the ship "Columbia," after an ocean passage of five weeks.
He at first made his home with his mother's brother, Robert Glenney, in Phila-
delphia, and through him obtained employment with Eli Lewis, of Newtown,
for whom he worked nearly two years, receiving as wages eleven dollars
monthly with board. He next employed with Milton Lewis, brother of Eli,
for whom he worked seven years. . He was thrifty, industrious and saving,
and at the end of his nine years with the Lewis brothers had accumulated suf-
ficient capital to equi]) and establish a milk route and business. He succeeded
in this enterprise, building up a route that consumed three hundred quarts
daily. He was then attacked by a severe illness that caused him the loss of
his milk business, but nothing daunted, he entered into the business of manu-
facturing sausage and scrapple, but did not long continue. He had -spent his
early life on a farm, and- now decided that his forte lay in agricultural work.
He rented a farm in Kad'ior township one year, then leased the old Crosby
farm near Media cemetery for one year, then moved to the "old George Lobb-

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estate," which he managed so well that at the death of Mr. Lobb, he was able
to purchase, the one hundred and sixty acres he was renting. This farm lo-
. cated on the Springfield roan near Broomall, was purchased by Mr. McCul-
lough in 1 87 1, ^^'hen he first rented the farm, it was comparatively unim-
proved and greatly impoverished, and barely could be made to produce suffi-
cient grain to keep the farm stock. By judicious fertilization and rotation of
crops, he has built up the soil and made his one of the most productive farms
in that section. He makes a specialty of dairy farming, keeping forty cows,
conducting his business along best modern lines. In his own life, Mr. Mc-
CuUough has proved a success and can look back with satisfaction over the
years that have intervened since he came to Delaware county, a farm hand. He
is a member of the Presbyterian church, and has long served the Broomall
church as trustee. In political faith he is a Republican.

He married, in 1864, Elizabeth Gordon, born in county Tyrone, Ireland,
coming to the United States at the age of sixteen years. Children : i. James,
born in May, 1865, died in infancy. 2. Elizabeth, born May 9, 1866, died
1868. 3. Sarah, born December g, 1867, married James Boyd. 4. Allen, born
August 9, 1869. 5. Anna Mary, born May 10, 1871, a teacher. 6. Hannah,
born March 31, 1873. 7. Emma, born February 17, 1875. 8. George L., born
November 19, 1877. married Elizabeth Savage. 9. Emma (2), born October
5, 1879. lO- Lydia, born December 5. 1880. 11. Melton, November 8, 1882.
12. Margie, November 19. 1884. 13. John Thomas. 14. Edith, January 15,
1889. 15. Louisa, March 25, 1892.

The grandfather of A. Henry Haas, of Chester, Pennsylvania, was
HAAS Heronius Haas, a soldier of Germany during the Napoleonic wars.
He was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, 1773, and died in his na-
tive land about 1858, a cabinetmaker and a member of the Roman Catholic
church. He married Magdalene Aid, also born in Wurtemburg, as were all
their children: Josephina, Andrew, Applena, Marion, George, Teresa, Sebas-.
tian and Conrad, all deceased, except Sebastian, Teresa living until 1912.

Sebastian Haas, the first of this family to settle in Pennsylvania, was
born in Wurtemburg. Germany, January 20. 1834, now living retired at No.
200 West Fourth street, Chester. He came to the United States in 1854, and
settled in Philadelphia where he worked at his trade of cabinet maker. The
following year he came to Chester, where for three years he worked for
James Hamson, later for John M. Broomall. While in the employ of Mr.
Broomall, he cut down the famous Penn tree that was associated with the
first arrival of William Penn at Chester. The present Judge Broomall had a
cane made from the old tree that is still preserved as a souvenir.

Sebastian Haas in 1876 established in the hotel business in Chester and
so continued until 1897, when he sold out. This hotel is now operated by his
son, A. Henry Haas. Formerly a Democrat, Mr. Haas has for several years
been a supporter of the Republican party, is a member of the Roman Catho-
lic church and the German Beneficial Society. He married Gertrude Ott,
born in Baden, Germany, March 16, 1832, died in Chester. October 3. 1876,
daughter of Maurice Ott of Baden, who died in the United States. Children
all born in Chester: Emil, now foreman for the Mitchell Seed Company in
Philadelphia, married Laura Derickson : Caroline, resides in Chester, unmar-
ried ; Gertrude, a teacher in Chester ; Louis, a confectioner of Chester, mar-
ried Sarah Schwartz; A. Henry (see forward).

A. Henry Haas, youngest child of Sebastian Haas, was born in Chester,
Pennsylvania. July. 27, 1870. He was educated in the public school, which he

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attended until he was sixteen years of age. His first occupation was as a boot-
black. His next business venture was as a bey of sixteen in the junk business,
driving a pair of goats which he had trained, hitched to a small wagon in which.
he gathered his purchases. He then sold newspapers for two years until 1889,
then became a driver for Philip Conlin, a coal dealer of Chester. He was then
in similar employment with Emil Haas until 1891, then worked in Roach's
Ship Yard until the latter part of 1892 : then with the Newport News Ship-
building Company until 1893 : then w^ent to \\''est Superior, Wisconsin, where
he worked in a ship yard, constructing "A^Hiale backs" for the lake trade until
1894: then with the Beaver Fibre Company of Germantown, Pennsvlvania,
then in various places for short periods; then in 1895 returning to Chester
where he worked for his father, then proprietor of the Franklin Hotel. He
again left home and until 1898 was employed on a farm, and on an oyster
boat. In 1898 he again returned to Chester 'and purchased the Franklin Hotel
from Conrad C. Houth. who but nine months previously had purchased the
hotel from Sebastian Haas. The Franklin is now located at No. 127 and 129
West Third street : is a three story building of twenty-five rooms, well patron-
ized, being the leading hotel beyond the west side.

IVIr. Haas is a Republican in politics ; has served as county committeeman,
but refused offers of county offices tendered him by his partv. He belongs
to the Foresters of America: the Loyal Order of Moose; the Owls; the Fra-
ternal Order of Eagles and the Improved Order of Red Men. He is unmar-
ried.

Four brothers from Wales settled in Gwynedd township in the
EVANS Welsh tract in 1698. There are many branches of the family and
from one of them sprang Jonathan Evans, son of an eminent rep-
resentative of the W'elsh emigrants and member of the Pennsylvania provin-
cial assembly. Jonathan Evans was a farmer on land originally deeded by
William Penn in Gwynedd township, Chester county. He and wife, Ann, left
issue including a son, Jonathan,

Jonathan (2) Evans, son of Jonathan (i") and .\nn Evans, lived for a
time in Gwynedd township, later moving to Springfield township, Delaware
county: he died in 1817, leaving a widow and children.

Joel Evans, son of Jonathan (2) Evans, was a farmer on the old Spring-
field township homestead. He married, in November, 1820, in Friends Meet-
ing, Springfield, Hannah Rhodes, and left issue including a son, Samuel.

Samuel Evans, son of Joel and Hannah (Rhodes) Evans, was born in
Springfield township, Delaware county, in 1840, died February 28, 1912. He
owned the old homestead, which he cultivated all his life. He was a man of
high character and one of the substantial men of the town. In religious faith
he was a member of the Friends' Society, and in politics a Republican.

He married, October 31, 1867, Annie T., daughter of Elisha and Marv
Ann (Clark) Taylor, of Scotch descent. She was born in Chester county,
Pennsylvania, in 1838, and survives her husband, residing on the old home-
stead with her son, Albert, who manages the farm, her unmarried daughter,
Ella, residing with them. Children of Samuel and Annie T. (Taylor) Evans:
Mary, married Charles Dickinson ; Ella, resides at home ; Caroline, married
Dr. John W. Merryman ; Albert, married Mabel Chaney. and cultivates the
home farm : P>ertha, married John Kirk.

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A resident of Marple township, Delaware county, since 1873,
MOORE Tliomas L. Moore entered into the Hfe of that community with
a spirit and energy that has won him tlie esteem of all who
know him, and few men are better known.

He is the son of Eli S. Moore, born in Brandywine, Chester county,
Pennsylvania, where he died in 1905, aged eighty years, and his wife, Anna
Maria Latch, born in iMarple township, Delaware county, where she died in
1872: children: Thomas L. ; John, married Bertha Miller; Benjamin, married
Emma Miller; Henry, died in 1906; Howard, died 1904.

Thomas L. Moore was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, October 10,
1855. He was educated in the public schools and remained with his parents
until seventeen years of age. In 1873 he came to ^larple township, securing
employment at the farm of Nathan W. Latch, which has ever since been his
home.' He continued in Mr. Latch's employ until after the death of the latter
in 1907, when he purchased the property. The farm consisting of seventy-
four and a half acres was purchased by Mr. Latch from John Grim, and at
that time the farm house was a one-story log structure. This Mr. Latch re-
placed with a modern dwelling, with barn and other improvements in har-
mony with the farm house. This property lies along the Rockhouse road in
Marple township, two and a quarter miles from Media and within easy ac-
cess of three trolley lines. Here Mr. IMoore conducts general farming opera-
tions along modern lines, causing the ground to yield liberal returns from his
skillful management. Fruit of all kinds abounds and prosperity shows in every
feature of the farm.

Not only is he a successful farmer, but in public affairs Mr. Moore shows
his interest and ability. He has served Marple township most efficiently in
various offices and given to each the same careful attention he gives to his
private afifairs. He was a collector of taxes three years, supervisor four
years, assessor three years, constable one year and is usually a member of
the election board. He is a Republican in politics and in religious faith a
Baptist.

Mr. T\Toore married (first) Elizabeth Latch, (second) Jennie Latch,
both daughters of Nathan W. Latch. Children of first wife: ]\Tabel. born in
1876: Nathan Eli, born 1877, married .-\nnie Worrall and resides at Rose
Tree, Delaware county.

Nathan W. Latch was born in Delaware county, and there died in 1907,
aged eightv-six years, a farmer all his life. He married (first) Sarah Ann
Farra, (second) Rebecca Braden, who died aged fifty-nine years. Children:
Elizabeth : Susan, married ?ilarshall Worrall : Rachel, married John Farra,
and Jennie.

The Platts of this record descend from Richard Piatt, who came
PL ATT from England to New Haven, Connecticut, in 1638, perhaps a

descendant of Sir Hugh Piatt, a noted agriculturalist of England
m the davs of Shakespeare and Bacon.

Richard Piatt was of New Haven and Milfnrd. where he was chosen a
deacon in 1669. He died in 1684, leaving something to each of his sons in ad-
dition to what they had already received. Pie left one of his heirs a legacy
"towards bringing up his son to be a scholar." To each of his nineteen grand-
children, he left a bible, showing how earnest were his christian principles and
that he regarded the bible as a precious legacy to his descendants. In August,
1889. at the commemoration of the settlement of Milford nearly three cen-
turies ago, his name was mentioned with honor, and among the coping stones

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of the bridge over the \\'ap-a-Waug. to perpetuate the memory of the early
settlers, one bears this inscription :

Deacon
Richard Plati

Obit 16S4
Mary his wife.

From Connecticut the family spread to various sections, Epenetus (i)
Piatt, son of Richard, appearing in Huntington, Long Island, in 1666.

Epenetus (2) Piatt, son of Epenetus (i) Piatt, was a member of the
Colonial Assembly and a man of prominence. His son. Dr. Zophar Piatt,
born 1705, died 1792, was a physician of Huntington. Long Island.

Epenetus (3) Piatt, son of Dr. Zophar Piatt,' was born in 1754. He was
a member of the New York legislature; the first judge of Suffolk county.
Long Island, and connected for many years with the New York custom house.

Dr. Epenetus (4) Piatt, son of Epenetus (3) Piatt, was a practicing phy-
sician in New York, where he died in middle age about 1825. He married a
Miss Warner and had issue : \\'illiam Epenetus, died unmarried : Martha, mar-
Rodman Appleby: Frederick A., see forward, and Caroline S., all members of
the Episcopal church.

Frederick A. Piatt, son of Dr. Epenetus (4) Piatt, grew to manhood in
Brooklyn, New York, where he was educated in the public schools. He be-
gan business life as a bank employee, continuing a banker all his life until his
retirement in 1870. He was for many years president of the Corn Exchange
National Bank of New York and wielded a strong influence in the banking
world. He died in Lakewood, New Jersey, in 1896. He married Alary Au-
gusta Hull, of Derby, Connecticut, daughter of Levi Hull, a brother of Com-
modore Hull of the United States Navy. Levi Hull followed the sea when a
young man but later became a farmer, dying in Derby in 1850. He married
Mary Wheeler, born in Connecticut and had issue : Mary .Augusta, married
Frederick A. Piatt ; Sarah L.. married Philip Gilpin, of New Haven, Con-
necticut: William, died aged twelve years. Children of Frederick A. Piatt:
Frederick, died in infancy: Isaac Hull, of further mention: Mary A., died
young. Mrs. Mary A. Piatt died in Brooklyn. New York, in 1890, aged sev-
enty years. The family were members of the Episcopal church.

Isaac Hull Piatt, son of Frederick A. and Mary .\ugusta (Hull) Piatt,
was born in Brooklyn, New York, May 18, 1853. He was educated at the
Adelphi and Polytechnic Institutes of Brooklyn, and Columbia College, pre-
pared for the law and in 1875 was admitted to the bar of the state of Alabama.
Jn 1877 he was admitted to the New York bar, later taking up the study of
medicine at Long Island College Hospital, whence he was graduated M. D.
in 1883. He also spent some time at St. Mary's Hosjiital and took a course
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. New York City. He practiced
medicine in Brooklyn until the autumn of 1886, then located at Lakewood,
New Jersey, practicing there for ten years as a throat and lung specialist. In
1897 ''c retired from practice and devoted himself to literary work and travel.
He made five trips to Euro])e, remaining abroad on one of these visits for
two years, alternating the seasons between Italy, France and England. He
was a devoted student of Shakes])eare and the author of "Bacon Cryptograms
in Shakespeare and Other Studies," published in 1905, and of the "Walt Whit-
man," in Beacon P)iographical Series. He was a member of the American
Climatological .Association : New York Academy of Medicine : the New
York Genealogical and Historical Society : the Historical Society of Pennsyl-

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vania ; the Society of the Cincinnati ; Sons of \^eterans : the Society of the
War of 1812, and was a communicant of the Episcopal church. His clubs
were the Medical and Art of Philadelphia, and the National Arts and Players
of New York City.

Dr. Piatt married, September 2, 1886, Emma Haviland, born in West-
chester county, New York, September 12, 1856, daughter of Aaron Griffin
Haviland. born in the same county, a farmer and stock breeder, who died in
1862, aged forty-two years. He married Elizabeth Carpenter Willets, born
in New York City, died in Brooklyn, in 1893: children: Anna Cramwell, died
unmarried : S. Willets. died unmarried ; John A., and Emma, now widow of
Dr. Isaac Hull Piatt. She is a member of the Society of Friends and resides at
Wallingford. Delaware county, Pennsylvania. Children of Dr. Isaac Hull and
Emma (Haviland) Piatt: Frederick Epenetus, born October 17, 1887, acci-
dentally killed just as he had reached the age of twenty-one years; Haviland
Hull, born April 6, i88g, a graduate in electrical engineering, but now devoting
himself to mechanical engineering; Philip Galpin, born December 27, 1890, a
poultry raiser at the home farm.

The Trimble familv of Delaware county. Pennsylvania, de-
TRIMBLE scends from James Trimble, born in Ireland, on midsummer
eve. June 24. 1707. He grew to boyhood in his native land,
but when twelve years of age came to the United States, locating finally on a
farm in West Bradford township, Chester county. Pennsylvania, where he be-
came one of the substantial and prominent men of that town. He died Jan-
uary 21, 1792, and was buried in the Friends grave yard in Marshallton. He
married Mary, a daughter of John and Mary Palmer, of Concord township,
who bore him seven children including William (of further mention) and
James. James, the second son. born February 28. 1739, spent his entire life
at Trimble's Mills (now Trimbleville) on the old homestead. He married.
January i, 1770, Mary, a daughter of Samuel and Jane Sellers. He died Sep-
tember 16. 1819. leaving a large family, descendants being found in both Ches-
ter and Delaware counties.

(II) William, eldest son of James Trimble, was a resident of Chester
county and in April, 1755, sat on a jury that decided some questions concern-
ing the Sharpless estate. He married and had a son, Samuel.

(III) Samuel, son of William Trimble, was a prosperous farmer of Con-
cord. Chester (later Delaware) county, and a member of the Society of
Friends. He married Jane Brinton and left issue.

(I\') Samuel (2), son of Samuel and Jane (Brinton) Trimble, was born
in Concord township, Chester county, in 1782, died at Concord Hill in the year
1843. He grew to adult years at the home farm and obtained an education in
the subscription schools maintained by the Society of Friends. After his mar-
riage he purchased a farm near Concord Hill, upon which he resided until
death, a prosperous, influential farmer. He was a member, elder and over-
seer of the Concord Meeting, Society of Friends (Orthodox), his wife also
being a member of that Meeting. He married Rebecca Alendenhall. born in
Concord, who survived him until 1876. After his death she continued the cul-
tivation of the farm and was a most successful manager. She was a daughter
of Stephen and Margaret Mendenhall and a direct descendant of the Men-
denhall family founded in Pennsylvania by Benjamin, who came with his
brothers, John and George, from England in 1682. George returned to Eng-
land and Benjamin settled in Chester county, in that part later set apart as
Delaware county. Stephen Mendenhall was a farmer, born 1750, died at Con-

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cord, December 9, 1809. Children of Samuel and Rebecca Trimble: John,
born in 1809, died the same year; Stephen M. (of further mention) ; Samuel,
born in 1812, died in 1824; Estlier, born in 1814, died in 1854: Margaret,
born in 1818, died in 1854: George \V., born in 1820, died in 1846; Samuel,
born in 1825. died in 1R54; Ann. born in 1827. married Dr. Martin, died in
1890.

(\") Stephen Mendcnhall. second son of Samuel and Rebecca (Men-
denhal!) Trimble, was born at Concord Hill, Delaware county. Pennsylvania,
in 1810. died in 1898. He was educated in the Friends'schools at Concord and
at Westtown. and remained at the home farm until 1834, when he moved to
Haverford, where he spent six years' on the Haverford College farm. In
1840 he purchased a farm in Chester township, Delaware, which he cultivated
until his death. He was an Orthodox Friend as was his wife, and in political
faith he was a Republican. He was an excellent farmer, thorough in his meth-
ods and caused the earth to [produce bountifully. He was a man of high char-
acter and one held in high esteem both within and without the Meeting.

He married 11 mo. 9. 1836, Lydia .Sharpless. iHirn i mo. 2, 1812, (laugh-
ter of John Sharpless (see forward). Children: i. John, born in Haverford
5 mo. 6, 1838, died 7 mo. 31, 1886, unmarried. He was a farmer and "an
esteemed member and overseer of Concord Monthly Meeting." 2. Rebecca,
born in Chester township, 5 nio. 22, 1840, married 3 mo. 3, i86g, Samuel
Bennington and moved to Wayne county, Iowa. 3. Dr. Samuel, born 2 mo. 26,
1843. graduate AI. D. University of Pennsylvania, a practicing physician of
Lima, Delaware county. He married, in 1870, Mary L. Evans; children: Jo-
seph Evans, John, Grace, died in infancy, and George Martin. 4. George,
born 7 mo. 12. 1845. died in 1889. unmarried. 5. William, born 8 mo. 19,
1847, succeeded his brother, John, at the homestead of their grandfather
Trimble, near Concord. He married in Concord Meeting, 5 mo. 4. 1887, Jane
Mendenhall, born 2 mo. 19, 1847, daughter of Jacob H. and Hannah W.
(Newlin) Mendenhall. 6. .Ann, b(irn 1 mo. 25, 1851. now residing at Moy-
lan, Delaware county, unmarried. 7. Plenry. born 5 mo.. 22. 1853, f'i'^d i"
1898. He was a graduate of Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, class of
1876. elected professor of analytical chemistry at the college in 1883, having
previously, 1876 to 1878, spent two years in special study of chemistry at the
University of Pennsylvania. He married at Moorestown, New Jersey, Mary
J. A\'arrington, daughter of Seth and Martha Newlin (Jenkins) Warrington;
daughters: Martha Warrmgton, Ruth A. and .Alice. 8. Ruth .\nna, born
9 mo. 8, 1855. died 2 mo. 27, 1876. unmarried. 9. Joseph, born 7 mo. 12. 1857,
now residing on the paternal homestead in Chester township.

Lydia (Sharpless) Trimble, mother of the foregoing, was a daughter of
John .Sharpless. born 9 rno. 31, 1778, died 3 mo. 12, 1854. He married in
1803 at Chichester IMeeting. Ruth Martin, born 10 mo. 17, 1780, died i mo.
17, 1878, at the great age of ninety-eight years. He was a well to do farmer
of Delaware county and an overseer of Chester Meeting, appointed in t8i6
and serving several years. He had children : Sarah, married Thomas Chalkley
Palmer: Elizabeth, married James Pennell ; George, married Hannah Larkin ;
Lydia (of previous mention) married Stephen W. Trimble; Sidney, married
Haydock Gangues; .Abigail, died in childhood: F.eulah, married Isaac Leeds;
Lewis, died in infancy: John, married Susan H. Pratt; Jane, married Charles
L. Warner. John .Sharpless was a son of Daniel (2) Sharpless. grandson of
Daniel (l) Shar])less, the son of John (2) Sharpless, son of John (i) .Sharp-
less. the emigrant ancestor from Cheshire. England, and his wife, Jane Moor.

John (2) Sharpless was born at P.lakenliall, Cheshire, England, in 1666,

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died near Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1749. He married, in 1692, at a Meet-
ing in John Bowater's house in Middletown township. Hannah Pennell.

Daniel Sharpless, youngest and ninth child of John (2) Sharpless, was
born at Ridley, Pennsylvania, 12 mo. 24. 1710-11, died at the same place 8 mo.
^7- ^77S- He married at .Springfield Meeting, in 1736, Sarah Coppock.

Daniel (2) Sharpless, youngest and fifth child of Daniel (i) Sharpless,
was born in Ridley, 4 mo. 12, 1751. died 6 mo. 20, 1S16. Pie married (first)
in 1775 at Newtown ]\Ieeting, Hannah Thomas. He married (second) at
Chichester Meeting, Sarah Reynolds.

John Sharpless, second son of Daniel (2) Sharpless, married as stated,
Ruth Martin, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Reynolds) Martin. She
was a descendant of Thomas and Margery Martin, who came from England
with four daughters in \(^?^S- -^ ^O"' ^Moses, was born to Thomas and Margery
Martin, after their arrival in Pennsylvania, who, in 1714, married Margaret
Baltin and lived in ^liddletown until 1737, then moved to Chester county,
where Moses Martin died. John, son of Moses Martin, was born i mo. 3,
1718, died II mo. 26, 1761. He was a carpenter and settled in Birmingham,
where he married Hannah, daughter of William and Sarah (Webb) Dil-
worth. George, son of John Martin, was born 6 mo. 9, 1754, died 7 mo. 19,
1825. He married, in 1776, Elizabeth Reynolds, born 3 mo. 13, 1754, died 3
mo. 26, 1818, daughter of Henry and Sarah Reynolds. They settled in Upper
Chichester, where Ruth, their third child, was born 10 mo. 17, 1780. She
married John Sharpless as stated.

Dr. Samuel Trimble, third child and second son of Stephen
TRIMBLE Mendenhall Trimble (q. v.) and Lydia (Sharpless) Trimble,
was born in Chester township, Delaware county, Pennsyl-
vania, 2 mo. 26, 1843. Pie was educated at Westtown Friends Boarding
School, in Chester county, and in 1864 began the study of medicine, entering
the University of Pennsylvania, whence he was graduated M. D. class of 1867.
He at once began practice, locating in Lima, Delaware county, where he con-
tinued in successful practice for thirty-seven years, until 1904, when he re-
tired from practice and moved to his farm in Newtown township, Delaware
county, Pennsylvania. There he remained in management until 1912, when
he sold his estate and purchased his present home near Lima, surrounded by
one and a half acres. Before entering the PTniversity, Dr. Trimble studied
medicine under Dr. George Martin, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, and a
memory of their life-long friendship is found in the home of Dr. Trimble, to
whom Dr. ]\Iartin bequeathed his library, which has been carefully treasured
and preserved. Dr. Martin was a son of George and Edith (Sharpless) Mar-
tin, and a nephew of Ruth (Martin) Sharpless, mother of Lydia Sharpless
who married Stephen Mendenhall Trimble. Dr. Martin was a well known
physician of Delaware and Chester counties, and also practiced in Philadel-
phia. During the war he was engaged in hospital work at Chester as a volun-
teer surgeon.

Dr. Trimble, during his long years of practice, gained high rank in his
profession and was one of the best known and most highly regarded physi-
cians of Delaware county. He was kind-hearted, sympathetic, and skillful in
treatment, winning the hearts of his patients as his remedies won them health
and strength. He is now living in honored, well earned retirement, with the
consciousness of duty well performed and a life well spent.

He married (first) 5 mo. 5, 1870, at Middletown Friends Meeting, Mary
L. Evans, born in Lancaster county, 6 mo. 20, 1848, died 3 mo. 7. 1904. It

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was immediately after her death that Dr. Trimble gave up his professional
practice and retired to his farm in Newtown township. He married (second)
a sister of his first wife, both being daughters of Isaac and Ann Evans, of
Middletown. Children, all by his first wife; t. Joseph Evans, born 3 mo. 3,
1 87 1, died 4 mo. 5, 1896. He was a student at Westtown Friends Boarding
School when taken ill and was sent to Colorado by his father, but never re-
gained his health. 2. John, born 4 mo. 2, 1873. 3. Grace, born 3 mo. 14,
1881, died in infancy. 4. George Martin, born 4 mo. 11, 1883: married Lillian
J. Garrett, of Media, 3 mo. 6, 1912: child: G. Martin, born 2 mo. 2, 1913.

The Ramseys are an old family of the state of Delaware, where
R.X.M.'^EY the grandparents of William T. Ramsey, of Chester, were born,
lived and died.

William Ramsey, father of William T., was born in St. Georges, Dela-
ware, and is now living in Chester, Pennsylvania, in general charge of boilers
and steam fitting at the Eddystone Print Works. He enlisted in a New York
regiment in tS6i, served three months, then enlisted in the navy, serving until
the close of the war between the states. He was honorably discharged and
is in receipt of a government pension, earned through faithful service to his
country. He is a Republican in politics and a member of the Improved Order
of Red Men. He married Elizabeth Johnson, born in Philadelphia, daugh-
ter of Isaac Johnson, deceased: children: Catherine, married -William B.
Sweeney and lives in Wilmington, Delaware; William T. (of further men-
tion): Robert, residing in Chester: Florence, a teacher of music in Chester.

William T. Ramsey, eldest son of William and Elizabeth (Johnson) Ram-
sey, was born in Philadelphia, January 8, 1873. He attended public school in
Eddvstone and Chester until he was fourteen years of age. He then became
messenger bov for the Eddystone Manufacturing Company, carrying mes-
sages, etc., between Philadelphia and Eddystone offices of the company. He
was promoted to higher positions, remaining with the company until 1901. He
then entered the employ of the Consumer's Ice Manufacturing Company in
Qicster and in 1908 became manager of that company, a position he most
capably fills. .Mr. Ramsey has always taken an interest in political afifairs and
has given much of his time and ability to the jniblic service of his city and
state. Elected as a representative, he has rejiresented the second ward of
Chester in common council for six vears, having been president of that body.
In 1912 he was the successful candidate of his party for the state house of
representatives, and is now serving his term of two years. Successful in busi-
ness and held in high regard by his townsmen, Mr. Ramsey has a career of
great usefulness before him. He is a proininent member of the Masonic
Order and holds the highest honors his lodge can bestow. He is a past master
of L. H. Scott Lodge, No. 352, Free and .\ccepted Masons : is high priest of
Chester Chapter, No. 258, Roval ,\rch Masons, and eminent commander of
Chester Commandery, No. 66, Knights Templar. He is also a Noble of Lulu
Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Philadelphia, and a member of Col.
Theodore Hyatt Council, Independent Order of .\mericans. also junior state
councillor of Pennsylvania state council of that order. He also belongs to
the Chester lodges and clubs, — Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, Frater-
nal Order of Eagles. Modern Woodmen of .America, Heptasophs, Alpha Boat,
West End Boat and Second Ward Representative clubs.

Mr. Ramsey married, June 14, 1898, in Chester, E\aline lUeacham. liorn
in Chester, daughter of Joseph C. and Sarah (Harrop) lileacham. Mr.
Bleacham is a cabinetmaker for the Stacey G. Glauser Company, and with

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his family resides at No. mo Potter street, Chester. Harold, the only child of
William T. and Evaline Ramsey, was born in Chester, August 15, 1901. The
family residence is at No. 11 17 Potter street.

The r^lelville family is one which has been in this country
:\IEL\'ILLE but a few generations, yet the influence of its various mem-
bers has been beneficially felt. They brought to this coun-
try, and transmitted to their descendants, the traits which have distinguished
the Scottish race from time immemorial. Traits which have enabled them to
rise to positions of distinction when combating obstacles which were almost
mvincible, and which would have overcome less sturdy and persevering indi-
viduals.

Andrew Alexander Melville was born in Scotland, and died there in
1887. He was a shoemaker by trade, and a staunch member of the Presby-
terian church. He married Jane Murray, and they had children : William, who
resided in Dunfermline, Scotland, was an inspector on the North British
railway in Scotland for half a century; Donald, see forward; George, Cather-
ine and Margaret, deceased.

Donald Melville, son of Andrew Alexander and Jane Melville, was born
in Helmsdale, Scotland, October 12, 1844, and died May 10, 1905. He at-
tended the public schools of his native town, and then learned the blacksmith's
trade and also that of a mechanic. Until he was twenty-five years of age he
worked at these two callings in Scotland, and then decided that America of-
fered better opportunities for advancement to a young man of his energetic
and ambitious disposition. He accordingly emigrated to this country and, up-
on his arrival here, made his home for a time in the city of Philadelphia. He
then settled in Keystone, Upper Darby township, and for many years worked
as a mechanic in some of the large plants in that section of the country. In
1878 he built the red brick house in Keystone in which his widow is residing at
the present time (1913). He was of a home-loving, thrifty nature, and at the
time of his death had acquired a considerable fortune. He was a member of
the Patterson Memorial Church, in Upper Darby, of which his widow is also
a member. His fraternal afhliations were with Lodge No. 227, Improved Or-
der of Red Men, and the Scotch Thistle Lodge; he was also a Mason and
member of Mitchell Lodge, No. 256. Politically he was a Republican.

Mr. Melville married (first) Elizabeth Stadler. born in Germany, who
came to this country in her early girlhood and died here in September, 1882.
He married (second) Janet Goodfellow, born in Mannwrs Lilliesleaf, Scot-
land, August 24, 1854, who came to this country as a young woman to join
her brother in Philadelphia. She is the daughter of James and Jessie Good-
fellow. James Goodfellow was a contractor, whose entire life was spent in
Scotland. He had extensive contracts for drainage work, excavating, building
foundations, etc. He died at the age of eighty-four years, while his wife
lived to the advanced age of ninety years. In addition to Mrs. Melville they
had children as follows : George, deceased, resided in Philadelphia ; Elizabeth,
married William Thomson ; John, was drowned at the age of twenty-eight
years ; Christina ; Helen, a school teacher in Scotland ; James, lives in Key-
stone, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Melville has made a number of trips across the
ocean, the last being in 1912, when she was accompanied by her step-daughter,
Elizabeth, and spent considerable time in her native land, re-visiting old
friends and old scenes. Mr. Alelville's children by his first marriage were :
Alexander, married Myra Weir and lives in Upper Darby township ; Margaret,
Clara and Elizabeth, living with Mrs. Melville. Children by the second mar-

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riage: James, born August 3, 1885: George, born June 29, 1887, both living
at home.

Joel B. Jones, deceased, for many years a well known and influ-
JONES ential resident of Garrettford, who enjoyed in an unusual degree

the unlimited respect and confidence of his fellow townsmen, was
born at Ilaverford, Upper Darby township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania,
May 1, 1864, died December 29, 1912.

(I) Paul Jones, the earliest known ancestor of the line here under con-
sideration, was a man of energy and thrift, of influence in his community, per-
forming well the duties which devolved upon him as son, husband and father.
Pie married Tacie Roberts, who bore him eight children, as follows: i. Tacie,
married Isaac Heston ; nine children, 2. Esther, married Lewis Yerkes ; four
children. 3. Susan, married Paul Frye ; three children. 4. Emily, married
William Warner Roberts ; one child. 5. William Davis, married Frances
Lockwood Lloyd ; one child. 6. Isaac T., married Mary Bowen ; one child.
7. Justis P., married (first) Mary Irving; one child: (second) Margaret
Yerkes. 8. Joel Davis, of whom further.

(II) Joel Davis Jones, son of Paul and Tacie (Roberts) Jones, was a
resident of Lower Merion, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, where he was
regarded as one of the substantial men, doing all in his power to promote the
growth and development of that section of the state, and the moral welfare

of the community. He married Hannah, daughter of Thomas and

(Jones) Price, and they had eight children, as follows: i, Amanda Price,
married Reuben Baily. 2. William Davis, of whom further. 3. Mary Thomp-
son, married William Francis Davis ; two children. 4. Lydia Warner, de-
ceased. 5. Isaac Thomas, married Mary Eastwick : two children. 6. Emily,
married George Williamson ; three children. 7. Paul, married Mary William-
son ; three children. 8. Edward, married Elizabeth Fornance ; four children.

(III) William Davis Jones, son of Joel Davis and Hannah (Price) Jones,
was born in Lower Merion, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, September 16,
1838. He received his preliminary education in the common schools in the
neighborhood of his home, and pursued advanced studies at Lower Merion
Academy. He assisted his father with the work of the farm, thereby gaining
a valuable experience and a strength that prepared him for the activities of
life. In 1861 he removed to Delaware county, Pennsylvania, and rented a
farm of sixty-five acres, which he operated for a period of seven years, and at
the expiration of that time rented the property of .\braham L. Pennock for
a period of twelve years, after which he purchased the Joseph Allen farm,
consisting of sixty acres, whereon he resided for the remainder of his days.
He was a man of progressive ideas, thorough and painstaking in his work, and
his well cultivated acres bore evidence of his ability as an agriculturist. He
was elected to the office of town auditor on the Republican ticket, in which
capacity he served for twenty-one years to the entire satisfaction of all con-
cerned. He belonged to the Society of Friends. He married Ann Louise
Baily, daughter of Joel J. Baily. Children: i. Joel B., of whom further. 2.
William Davis Jr., engaged in the coal and feed business ; resides at Ridley
Park, Delaware county, Pennsylvania : married Susan Kamp,

(IV) Joel B. Jones, son of William Davis and Ann Louise (Baily) Jones,
attended the common schools at Haverford, Pennsylvania, the Friends' Cen-
tral School and Pierce's Business College. He lived with his father until the
latter's death in 1905, then purchased the homestead, residing there until his
death. Late in life he devoted his attention to contracting, building public

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highways, and his work was satisfactory in every respect, being conducted ac-
cording to the most improved methods and in a most efficient manner. He was
a firm believer in the principles of Republicanism, took an active interest in lo-
cal politics, and for three years served as supervisor of state roads in Upper
Darby township, and for two years as township road commissioner. In 1907
he inaugurated the fire department in the village of Garrettford, .and enjoyed
the distinction of being its first president, in which capacity he displayed an
efficiency of a high order. He was a member of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, of Chester, Pennsylvania : the Junior Order of [Mechanics ; the
Knights of Pythias, and Knights of the Golden Eagle.

Mr. Jones married, March 29, 1888, Jane R. Alexander, born in Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania, April 14, 1859, daughter of John and Ellen (Flood) Alex-
ander, both of whom were born and died in Philadelphia, the former when
Jane R. was a mere infant, and the latter when she was two weeks old, and
she was taken by Nathan Garret and wife, of Garrettford. Pennsylvania, as
their adopted daughter, and grew up with them, receiving their love and care.
Children of INIr. and Mrs. Jones: J. Davis, died at the age of four months;
infant, deceased ; Isaac, died at the age of five weeks : Ann Louisa, born De-
cember 5, 1893, resides with her mother on the home farm. Both Mrs. Jones
and her daughter are cultured women, interested in all good works, and es-
teemed in the community for their many excellent characteristics.

Mr. Jones was a man of firm convictions, with superior executive ability
and sagacity of judgment, and was well fitted for the responsible positions
which he filled. He was a good son, a loving husband, a devoted father, and
strong and faithful in his friendships, and his demise was mourned by all who
had the honor of his acquaintance.

Among the many worthy descendants of William and Ann
GARRETT (Kirke) Garrett, of Upper Darby township, then Chester,
now Delaware county, Pennsylvania, (1684-1724) is Isaac
Price Garrett, present postmaster of Lansdowne, an office he has filled contin-
uously since 1897.

His descent from William and Ann Garrett, the Quaker emigrants from
Leicestershire, England, in 1684, is through their son, Samuel, (1672-1743),
and Jane (Pennell) Garrett: their son, Nathan, (1711-1802) and Ann
(Knowles) Garrett; their son, Thomas Garrett, (1749-1839) and his second
wife, Sarah Price; their son, Benjamin, (1791-1884), and Mary (Haines)
Garrett, the latter the parents of Isaac Price Garrett.

These progenitors were all residents of Chester and Delaware counties
save Benjamin Garrett, who prior to his marriage purchased and moved to a
farm in the state of Delaware. Benjamin Garrett was born in Upper Darby,
October 17, 1791, died April 4, 1884. He married Mary Haines, born August
18, 1803, died November 12, 1887. daughter of David and Alice (Cullifer)
Haines of West Chester. Sons, all born on the farm in the state of Delaware :
David Haines, January 2, 1843, married Sarah Martin and has Nellie S. ; Isaac
Price, of whom further ; Thomas Pugh, born June 30, 1846, married Caroline
Etherington, who died leaving Elsie and Marjorie.

Isaac Price Garrett, second son of Benjamin and Mary (Haines) Gar-
rett, was born in the state of Delaware, August 4, 1844. When five years of
age he was committed to the care of his uncle, for whom he was named. Isaac
Price, of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, with whom he remained until death re-
moved the relative who had bestowed upon the lad a loving care that equalled
that of a parent. He was educated in the public schools, finishing his studies

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with an advanced course in the Friends Boarding School at Westtown, Ches-
ter county. From the time he left school until 1889, the young man was en-
gaged in successful farming operations. In the latter year Mr. Garrett was
appointed cashier in the Philadelphia Customs House, under the administra-
tion of President Harrison, continuing in that position, enjoying the confidence
of his official superiors, four years and eight months. He continued his resi-
dence in Lansdowne, but engaged in the insurance business in Philadelphia un-
til July 7, 1897, when he was appointed by President McKinley postmaster at
Lansdowne. After four years of efficient service, Mr. Garrett was re-ap-
pointed by President Roosevelt for a term of four years beginning January 13,
1902. In 1906 the management of his office having been stronglv commended,
President Roosevelt again extended his term four years, and in 1910 Presi-
dent Taft again endorsed his conduct of the office by an appointment for an-
other term, expiring in 1914. His term of service- then will have covered the
entire period of seventeen years, 1897-1914. This represents, however, but one
detail of the public service of Mr. Garrett. In 1880 he was the successful
Republican candidate for the Pennsylvania House of Assembly, and again
in 1888 he was chosen to represent his district. During these four years of
service in the legislature, he served on important committees and was identified
with the legislation beneficial to his district and state. He served for years
as school director in LTpper Darby township, and on the board of education' of
the borough of Lansdowne, fifteen of these years being president of the
board. In purely local affairs he has held about every office in his town, and
such is his reputation for integrity and executive ability that in an active politi-
cal life of forty years he has never suffered a defeat at the polls. In educa-
tional matters his interest has always been deep and his service valuable. .\
firm believer in the value of the public school system to the youth of our land,
he has always aided and encouraged every movement in its favor and to him is,
in a measure, due the present efficiency of Lansdowne schools. Mr. Garrett
and family, like their ancestors, are members of the Society of Friends.

He married, November 12, 1868, .Sarah Emlen Bell, born July 30, 1846,
daughter of Chalkley and Mary (Emlen) Bell, of Bloomington. Illinois, but
prior to their removal there, residents of Chester county, Pennsylvania. Chalk-
ley Bell, born .-Xpril 16, 1821, died in 1892, son of Hughes and Sarah (Com-
fort) Bell. He married, April 14, 1842, Mary, daughter of James and Sarah
(Foulke) Emlen, then of Westtown township, Chester county. Their chil-
dren: I. James Emlen, deceased. 2. Walter Edwin, married .Sarah Flagg. 3.
Sarah Emlen, married Isaac Price Garrett, of previous mention. 4. Mifflin
Emlen, government supervising architect, appointed under both the Republi-
can president, Chester A. Arthur, and the Democratic president, Grover Cleve-
land. He married Susan Adelaide Van Hoff'. 5. Samuel K., deceased. 6.
George, died in infancy. 7. Arthur H.. married Delia Thatcher. 8. Charles
Emlen, married Ellen Wickham. Children of Isaac Price and Sarah Emlen
(Bell) Garrett: .\nnie Emlen, born ?ilarch 17, 1870; Charles Taylor and
Samuel Emlen, who both died in infancv.

This record deals with the life of a man born across the
H.AWTHORNE sea in historic Derry, Ireland, whose long life since his

eighteenth year has been jjassed in Pennsylvania. Born
of well-to-do parents, but early orphaned and his patrimony diverted from
him. John K. Hawthorne did not lose courage, but boldly sailed for the L^nited
States, where from the jienniless lad of eighteen he has become the affluent,
honored citizen of ripened years. Greater even than his financial success has

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been the high character he has estabhshed for honesty and integrity. Now
aged eighty-four years, Mr. Hawthorne is in good health, faculties unimpaired,
and rated high in the esteem of the community wherein he has spent so many
of those years. To few men in Delaware county has a greater span of years
been granted, and to none of equal years, has been given greater faculty to en-
joy the success won in earlier years.

John K. Hawthorne, to whom this record is dedicated, was born of Scotch
ancestors, both paternal and maternal, in Londonderry, or county Derry, about
nine miles from Londonderry, the capital of that county. He is the son of
Robert Hawthorne, who owned a farm in Derry, where his short life of
twenty-five years was passed. Robert Hawthorne married Nancy, daughter
of William Campbell, a large owner of town and grazing lands. Robert was
a son of William Hawthorne, a landowner and farmer of Derry, who had
two sons, Robert and John, the former owning a good farm, which he willed
to John K. Hawthorne. Robert died in 1834, aged twenty-five years; his wife
Nancy, died in 1833. They were the parents of two sons. John K. and Thomas.
The latter came to the L'nited States, locating at Elkington, Maryland, where
he became a well-to-do farmer and stockraiser. He died in 1855 or 1856.

John K. Hawthorne, eldest son of Robert and Nancy (Campbell) Haw-
thorne, was born in August, 1829. He was but five years of age when his
father died; his mother having died the preceding year. After the death of
his father, the lad naturally became the charge of his uncle, John Hawthorne,
who took charge of both the lad and the farm left to his eldest son by Robert
Hawthorne. The uncle used the property as his own, and denied the real
owner, his nephew, even the advantages of an education, although the farm
was a profitable one. He was sent to a paid teacher for three winter terms,
this being all that was allowed him. The lad endured the life under his uncle
until he was eighteen years of age, then he sailed for the United States, glad
to get away, even at the sacrifice of the farm left him by his father. On ar-
riving in Philadelphia, John K. was possessed of but six shillings, but he at
once found a job. Before the first week ended his employer borrowed his
small capital, got drunk and not only did not repay the six shillings, but did
not pay him for his week's work. But the lad who did not hesitate to cross
the ocean to a strange land, was not to be held down. He obtained a position
with Patterson & Hopper, grocers, becoming manager of their store, .\fter
six years of hard work and close economy he had saved a small capital, w-hich
he invested in a small grocery at No. 514 Fifteenth street, Philadelphia. He
there continued in business until 1866, when he erected a store building at No.
2042 Pine street, where he conducted a grocery and provision store, prospered
and accumulated a modest fortune. Port of this he invested in twenty-two and
a half acres of land in Haverford township, Delaware county, paying there-
for seven thousand five hundred dollars. This property which he yet owns is
valued at one hundred and ten thousand dollars, a most wonderful increase in
value. After purchasing this property he did not give up business, but con-
tinued until 1885, when he sold out and located on his farm in Haverford
township. He there has specialized in the breeding of full blooded swine, his
imported Berkshires, Red Jerseys and Chester Whites, being known wherever
swine breeders are found. He dealt largely, often having on his farm three
hundred and fifty of the choicest full blooded animals. He found a ready mar-
ket for all his stock, the demand in a short time exceeding the number he could
supply. While he had the usual supply of other farm animals, Air. Haw-
thorne has confined his efforts in breeding entirely to swine and the three
strains previously mentioned. He is a Republican in politics and, although

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reared in the Church of England, is a member of the Presbyterian church, lo-
cated at Fifteenth and Locust streets. Philadelphia.

Mr. Hawthorne married. June 22. 1848. Jane Knox, born in county
Tyrone, Ireland, died at the farm in Delaware county, December 24, 1905,
daughter of Samuel and Mary (Sayers) Knox. Her father died a young man,
his widow later coming with her children to this country, settling in Philadel-
phia. Children of Samuel and Alary Knox: i. Samuel (2). a contracting
bricklayer. 2. Jane, married John K. Hawthorne. 3. Matilda, married John
Cayan, a farmer of Havcrfonl township. Children of John K. and Jane
(Knox) Hawthorne: I. Matilda, horn July 12. 1849. ^^'^d in 1867. 2. William
A., born June 14, 1851. died July 7, 1852. 3. Anna B.. born .April 27, 1853;
married Charles Manley and resides in Media. Pennsylvania. 4. John C.,
born June 22, 1855, now a leading dry goods merchant of Carlisle, Pennsyl-
vania, and president of the corporation operating a large store. 5. Jane, born
June I, 1857; married Andrew C. Haines and resides at the corner of Xine-
reenth street and Erie avenue. Philadelphia. 6. Elizabeth, born June 13. 1859.
(lied November 13, 1871. 7. Mary B.. born September 5, 1861, resides with
her father. 8. Charles L., born December 18, 1863, died July 17, 1865. 9.
William A., born May 8. 1866, resides with his father. 10. Thomas, born
May 20, 1869, died 1892; was cashier with the Finley-Acker Company. 11.
Catherine, married a Mr. Treadway, a printer, and resides in New Rochelle.
New York.

A native son of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, John
BRITTINGH.AM T. Brittingham has been a resident of Chadds Ford
since early youth. Here he conducted a blacksmith
shop for a number of years and he has served his community in various posi-
tions of important responsibility. At the present time, in 1913, he is auditor of
Birmingham township and he is candidate for the local postmastership, of
which office he was incumbent during the Cleveland administration. He is
loyal and public-spirited in all that pertains to civic affairs and as a business
man is reliable and trustworthy in every respect.

October 22, 1851, occurred the birth of John T. Brittingham, the place of
his nativity being Brandywine Summit, in Birmingham township. Delaware
county.

His father, Eber Brittingham, was born at A'alley Forge. Pennsylvania.
February 26, 1824. His paternal grandfather owned the ferry at Valley
Forge prior to the erection of a bridge at that point. The latter was reared,
lived and died at Valley Forge. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary
Bartholomew, died at Charleston, Pennsylvania, in 187 1, aged eighty-eight
years : she was a Methodist, and she and her husband were the parents of the
following children : James ; .Ann. married David Glasby ; Eber. mentioned
further ; Joseph, never married : Robert, married Mary Ann McKeever. .All
of these children are deceased.

Eber Brittingham. father of John T. Brittingham, passed his boyhood
and youth at Valley Forge and attended the Concord public school. After
his sixteenth year he learned the trade of blacksmith and was identified with
that line of work during the entire period of his active career. His brother
Robert, was a soldier in the civil war, having enlisted for service in Company I,
Sixteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry. He participated in many important conflicts
marking the progress of the war and served for a period of four years. Eber
Brittingham died at Chadds Ford, November 11, 1908. He married Sarah
Ann McKeever. of Brandywine Hiuidrcd. Her father, John McKeever, was

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a farmer and teamster and he was the first man to haul a load of lime, sand or
stone for the construction of the Pennsylvania railroad's main line. He died
at Chadds Ford in 1880, aged eighty-nine years. He and his wife, who was
Susan Talley prior to her marriage, had six children, concerning whom the fol-
lowing brief data are here recorded : Charlotte, married Daniel Fawcett ; Han-
nah, remained single : Sarah Ann, married Eber P)rittingham, as already noted ;
Susan Talley is the wife of Cheney Smith and they maintain their home at
Chester, Pennsylvania ; Thomas, never married ; Margaret became the wife of
Jacob Pennell, steward of the Delaware County Home for many years. To
Eber and Sarah Ann (JNlcKeever) Brittingham were born seven children:
John T., he whose name forms the caption for this article : Isabella, married
Bayard Sharp: Mary, remained single as did also Joseph: Ella, married
Charley B. Walker: Eber E., born December 29, 1867, married Gertrude Rus-
sell : and Susan married Eugene Summeril. Of the above all are deceased
except John T., Ella and Eber E. The mother is still living, her home being
at Chadds Ford ; she is a Baptist.

John T. Brittingham accompanied his parents to Chadds Ford when he
was a mere child. He attended Beech Grove School Xo. 2, at Birmingham,
and after completing his education entered upon an apprenticeship to learn
the trade of blacksmith from his father. He has been engaged in that line of
work during the long intervening years to the present time, in 1913, and for
that entire period has been a resident of Chadds Ford. He is a Democrat in
his political convictions and during the Cleveland administration he was post-
master of Chadds Ford. He is candidate for the local postmastership at the
present time and he is also filling the office of township auditor. In Masonic
circles he is a member of Concord Lodge, No. 625, Free and Accepted Ma-
sons ; he is likewise affiliated with Centerville Lodge, No. 37, Independent Or-
der of Odd Fellows, and Winona Tribe, No. 75, Improved Order of Red Men.

November 2, 1876, Mr. Brittingham married Miss Josephine King, of
Upper Uwchland, Chester county, Pennsylvania. Her father, Plummer E.
King, was born at Locust Grove, in Chester county. He was a farmer for a
number of years and subsequently worked at the trade of cooper. He died
in 1892. His wife was Margaret Russell and she bore him seven children :
Sarah, married Bayard Burnett: Joseph, single: John; George, married Liz-
zie Henry ; Charles ; Elizabeth, married John Quird : and Josephine. Mr. and
Mrs. Brittingham became the parents of two children : Clarence F., born De-
cember 24. 1877, married Florence Gififord and they have one son. Jack Taylor,
whose birth occurred September 29, 1909 ; and Cornelia H., born May 8,
1886, is unmarried and resides at Chadds Ford. Mrs. Brittingham attended
the Baptist church: she was summoned to the life eternal February 29, 1912,
and her loss is universally mourned throughout Chadds Ford, where the cir-
cle of her friends was coincident with that of her acquaintances.

No name is better or more favorably known in Dela-
STACKHOUS ware county, Penn.sylvania, and vicinity, than that of the

Stackhous family. The ancestry of the family is traced
back in this country to the year 1682, and in England to the year 1086, and the
representatives of the family in the various generations have been men of ex-
cellent business ability and executive force, carrying forward to successful
completion whatever they undertake, no obstacle being too great for them to
overcome.

(I) John Stackhous, probably a lineal descendant of Thomas Stackhous,
the pioneer ancestor of the family, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania,

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January 4, 1793, died March 24, 1862. He engaged in agricultural pursuits^
conducting his operations first in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and subse-
quently in Cecil county, Maryland, where he lived on Big Elk creek. He mar-
ried Sarah Moon, born December 16, 1803. Children : John W., of whom
further: William David, born May 12, 1836, died May 7, 1843, ^g^d seven
years.

(IT) Julin W. Stackhous. son of John and Sarah (Moon) Stackhous,
was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, December 16, 1829, died October
6, 1910. He was brought up in the neighborhood of his birthplace, attended
its common schools, and being reared on a farm naturally gave his attention
to that occupation upon attaining a suitable age to begin the activities of life.
He was successful in his undertaking, owing to the fact that he was careful and
thorough in his work, progressive in his ideas, using every method to bring
about results. He and his wife were members of the Friends' church, and he
was a Republican in politics. He married Amanda M. Zane, born in Chester
county. Pennsylvania, December 19, 1829, died February 26, 1888. Children:
I. William W., born in New Garden township, Chester county, Pennsylvania,
a miller by occupation: married Lizzie AL Maxwell; child, Lawrence W. : they
reside at Glen Mills, Pennsylvania. 2. Frank J., of whom further.

(HI) Frank J. Stackhous, son of John W. and Amanda M. (Zane)
Stackhous, was born in' New Garden township, Chester county, Pennsylvania,
February 12, 1863. He attended the public schools of the neighborhood, as-
sisted with the labors of the farm during his early years, and at the age of
eighteen turned his attention to learning telegraphy, in which line of work he
became highly proficient, possessing a natural inclination and liking for that
special subject for many years. He became an operator at Landenberg Junc-
tion, Chester county, Pennsylvania, for the Pennsylvania railroad, continuing
as such for some time, and from December, 1886, until January 6, 1905, served
as operator and agent for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, the length of his
service denoting that his duties were discharged to the satisfaction of those
in control. In the latter named year he purchased the Chadds Ford Hotel and
grounds, the latter consisting of twelve and a half acres, a portion of which
is cultivated in order to produce fresh fruit and vegetables for the table, and
the remainder is tastefully laid out in lawn and flower beds, extremely pleas-
ing and attractive to the eye. There is a livery stable and garage connected
with the hotel, and everything about the premises is modern and up-to-date,
fully meeting the demands of the most critical and fastidious patron. The
Chadds Ford Hotel is one of the leading landmarks of this section of the state,
having been operated as a hostelry since 1737, and up to eleven years ago was
owned and operated by members of the Twaddell family, in whose possession
it was for many generations. Mr. Stackhous is an ideal host, ever ready to
contribute to the comfort and well being of his guests, who fully appreciate his
efforts by their constant patronage and by inducing new people to seek a shel-
ter there when in need of teinjiorary quarters. Mr. Stackhous is well informed
on the issues of the day, takes an active and personal interest in all borough
affairs that have for their object the advancement and improvement of the
community in which he resides, and casts his vote for the candidates of the
Republican party, but has neither time nor inclination for public office.

Mr. Stackhous married (first) February 16, 1885, Philena E. Cloud,
born in New Garden township, Pennsylvania, daughter of Edwin C. and
Elizabeth Cloud. No children. He married (second) January 10, 1905,
Lydia F. Ferguson, daughter of B. F. and Mary Ferguson, of Chester county,
Pennsylvania. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Stackhous: Amanda.
M. and Lydia F., died at birth, and Mary M. •'-

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