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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Pagb
Residence of Morris L. Hallowell Frontispiece
ann longstreth hallowell 20
morris l. hallowell 24
hannah penrose hallowell 28
Joshua longstreth hallowell 38
SARAH C. FRALEY HALLOWELL 42
Charles Hallowell 44
Elmira R. Stephens Hallowell 44
Amanda E. Hallowell 51
William Penrose Hallowell 55
Residence of William Penrose hallowell 57
Richard price hallowell 59
Residence of Richard Price Hallowell 60
Brevet Brig. Gen. Edward Needles Hallowell 63
Col. Norwood Penrose Hallowell 70
Residence of Col. Norwood Penrose Hallowell 72
Charles Morris Walton 76
Maj. James Morris Walton 81
4 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Page
VVII.I.IAM PENROSE HALLOWELL, 3D (9-II6) 114
coat of arms of the longstreth family 116
the longstreth homestead 132
Joshua Longstreth 136
Coat of ar,v\s of the Penrose Family 145
William Penrose 158
ANNAH Norwood Penrose 160
annah Norwood Penrose at the age of about 17 162
The PENROSE Homestead 167
Thomas Norwood Penrose i6g
Norwood Penrose 175
THOMAS neall Penrose, medical inspector, U. S. N. 181
Mary Hathaway Needles 207
RuBENAH Williams 214
Catherine Dougherty 218
PREFACE
PREFACE
In presenting this volume to the several members
of the Hallovvell family belonging to the branch of
which the author is a member, he wishes to impress
upon their minds that he does not claim for it any
literary merit, but merely in a plain, matter-of-fact
manner has attempted to record the names, marriages,
births, and deaths, in succession from the earliest
ancestor who emigrated to this country, down to the
present time, 1893, together with a few reminiscences,
incidents, memoirs, etc. To those who have never
made genealogy a study, this may seem a compara-
tively easy task. From the outset the compiler is met
with an array of careless errors and omissions on the
part of some of the Recorders of "Ye olden time."
These mistakes occur more frequently in the dates of
deaths, etc. For example, an old record would state
that a death occurred on a certain day of the month,
whilst on the tombstone another date would be given.
In every instance where a difference has been found,
either in the name or otherwise, a search has been
instituted and, where it was possible, the correction
6 PREFy4CE
made. The writer does not claim to be infallible, but
the statements set forth in this record are as correct
as can be made with the data he had to compile from.
For the interest manifested and assistance ren-
dered by his mother, Hannah Penrose Hallowell, many
thanks are due. To Sarah Catherine Fraley Hallowell,
for kind words of encouragement and numerous rem-
iniscences of by-gone days, the author is especially in-
debted. For much valuable information and assistance
in making researches, correcting errors, etc., Joseph M.
Truman, Jr., Recorder of the monthly meeting of
Friends, held at Race Street, Philadelphia, is entitled
to much credit, for which a grateful acknowledgment
is hereby tendered to him. That the perusal of the
pages of this book may prove interesting, not only to
the present but to the generations to come, and that
some one may be found willing to continue his labors
after he is at rest, is the sincere desire of
\v. P. H.
Pliiladclpliij, jiJi nioiitli ist, i8g^.
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
THE name of Hallowell is an ancient one. Just when,
where, and how it originated the author's limited
opportunities do not permit his finding out. It is written
that a Captain Benjamin Hallowell fought under Admiral
Nelson in the Battle of the Nile, in the year 1798, and
was one of his most trusted officers. He was as ec-
centric as he was brave, in the Battle of the Nile he
commanded the Swiftsiire, seventy-four guns. In that
action the French Admiral's ship. Orient, was blown up.
Part of the Orient's mainmast was picked up by the
Swiftsiire. "Captain Hallowell" writes Robert Southey
in his life of Nelson, "ordered his carpenter to make
a coffin of it. The iron as well as wood was taken from
the wreck of the same ship. It was finished as well and
handsomely as the workman's skill and materials would
permit, and Hallowell then sent it to the Admiral with
the following letter: — 'Sir, I have taken the liberty
of presenting you a coffin made from the mainmast of
L'Oriejit, that when you have finished your military
career in this world you may be buried in one of your
trophies. But that that period may be far distant is the
earnest wish of yoursincere friend, Benjamin Hallowell.'
8 INTRODUCTION
"An offering so strange, and yet so suited to the
occasion was received by Nelson in the spirit with
which it was sent. As if he felt it good tor him, now
that he was at the summit of his wishes, to have death
before his eyes, he ordered the coffm to be placed
upright in his cabin. Such a piece of furniture, how-
ever, was more suitable to his own feelings than to
those of his guests and attendants ; and an old favorite
servant entreated him so earnestly to let it be removed,
that at length he consented to have the coffm carried
below ; but he gave strict orders that it should be
safely stowed, and reserved for the purpose for which
its brave and worthy donor had designed it."
Captain Hallowell's father came to this country,
but returned to England from Hallowell, Maine. An-
other member of the family changed his name to
Boylston, and lived in Boston on the fortune which
came with the name.
in Sabine's "Loyalists of American Revolution "
we read as follows: —
"Robert Hallowell of Boston. Comptroller of
the Customs, in office early in life ; and Collector of
the Customs at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, before the
age of twenty-five. He arrived at Boston, from Lon-
don, in 1764, and entered upon his duties as Comp-
troller. The next year a mob surrounded his elegant
house in Hanover Street, tore down his fences, broke
his windows, and forcing the doors at last, destroyed
INTRODUCTION 9
furniture, stole money, scattered books and papers,
and drank of the wines in the cellar to drunkenness.
"When the port of Boston was shut, June ist,
1774, he removed his office to Plymouth. In 1775 he was
an Addresser of Gage ; and the year following, with
his family of five persons, he accompanied the British
Army to Halifax, in 1778 he was proscribed and ban-
ished. He went to England and settled at Bristol.
The executor of his own father, and of his wife's
father, he came to the United States in 1788 and in
1790, on business. In 1792 he moved to Boston with
his family, and lived in the homestead, Batterymarch
Street, which because of his mother's life interest had
not been confiscated. He was kindly received by
former friends, and became intimate with some distin-
guished Whigs. In 1 8 16, infirm and failing in health, he
went to Gardiner, Maine, to reside with his son, and
died there April, 1818, in his seventy-ninth year. His
wife was Hannah, daughter of Dr. Sylvester Gardiner.
"Benjamin Hallowell, a brother of Robert, was
also Commissioner of the Customs. In early life he
commanded a small armed vessel. The Commissioners
were extremely obnoxious ; and when Mr. Hallowell
accepted in addition the office of Mandamus Councillor,
he became an object of special indignation. In July,
1776, he sailed for England in the ship, Aston Hall.
While at Halifax he said in a letter, ' If I can be of the
least service to either Army or Navy, 1 will stay in
10 INTRODUCTION
America until this Rebellion is subdued.' It appears
from another letter that he frequently tendered himself
to the Commander-in-Chief, without success."
It is highly probable that neither Robert nor
Benjamin Hallowell, on account of their habits and
professions, was a connection of those ancestors whose
names are recorded in this volume. Our earliest
knowledge of the latter is that they were Quakers,
hailing from Nottinghamshire, England, about the year
1682, settling first at Darby, Pa., and afterward
moving to Abington, Pa., where a large percentage of
their descendants have always made their home. At
this date (1893) Abington's population is largely made
up of Hallowells. From the records of the monthly
meeting of Friends (Hicksite branch) there is little to
be learned respecting them further than the dates of
marriages and deaths, and that in the grave-yard
adjoining the meeting-house,
" Each in his narrow cell forever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
"The breezy call of incense-breathing morn,
The swallow twitt'ring from the straw-built shed,
The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,
No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
" For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn,
Or busy housewife ply her evening care ;
No children run to lisp their sire's return.
Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
INTRODUCTION ii
" Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield,
Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke:
How jocund did they drive their team afield !
How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke !
* * * * »
" Far from the madd'ing crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learned to stray ;
Along the cool sequester'd vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way."
Some few of their descendants have found spiritual
comfort in worshipping with other religious denomina-
tions, but the majority have remained steadfast in the
faith of their forefathers, that of Friends or Quakers.
As far as can be ascertained, the Hallowells were
anti-slavery in their views, although it is said that
some of them did hold slaves. It is more than proba-
ble they were merely bound or indentured servants.
In politics, as a rule, they were Whigs and in later
years Republicans. Occasionally one will be met with
who advocates Free Trade and other false doctrines,
emanating from out the "Rum, Romanism and Re-
bellion" party. These instances are exceptional,
however.
12 INTRODUCTION
YOUR LEGIONS OF ANCESTORS
[Fi'om the PhilaJclphia Pirss.]
F^ID you ever stop to think how many male and female
-*— ^ ancestors were required to bring you into the world? Let
us reason together on this subject and see if we cannot prove it
to be a most curious and interesting theme to write and talk
about. First, it was very necessary that you should have a
father and a mother— that makes two human beings. Each of
them must have had a father and a mother, that makes four more
human beings. Then, again, each of these four had a father and
a mother, making eight more representatives of God's greatest
handiwork. So we go on back to the birth of Christ, or through
fifty-six generations in all. The result of such a calculation,
which can be made in a few minutes, will show that 139,235,017,-
489,534,976 births must have taken place in order to bring you
into this world. Yes, you who read these lines. All this, too,
since the beginning of the Christian era, not since the beginning
of time, by any means. According to Proctor, if from a single
pair for 5,000 years each husband and wife had married at 21
years of age and there had been no deaths, the population of the
earth would now be 2,199, 9i5. followed by 144 ciphers. Verily,
the human mind shrinks from contemplating such immense
numbers.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
13
JOHN AND MARY SHARPE HALLOWELL
1. John and Mary Sharpe Hallowell emigrated to
Darby, Pennsylvania, from Hucl<no\v, Parish of Sut-
ton, Nottinghamshire, England, bringing a Quatcer
certificate dated 12th month 19th, 1682. (Mary was
a daughter of Thomas Sharpe.) They afterward re-
moved to Abington, Pa. It is presumed that John
Hallowell was an agriculturist. The records of the
Abington meeting show that he was twice married.
His first wife's name was Sarah, by whom he had one
son.
2-A* John, born in England, 12th mo. 8th, 1672.
The date of his marriage with Mary is not given.
They had nine children :
2-1 Sarah, born in England, 12th mo. 26th, 1677.
2-2 Thomas,
2-3 Mary,
2-4 John,
2-5 Elizabeth,
2-6 Hannah,
2-7 Samuel,
2-8 Benjamin,
2-g Jane,
" ist mo. 6th, 1679.
Qth mo. i8th, 1681.
America, 2d mo. loth, 1685.
" ist mo. 7th, 1687.
" icth mo. 12th, i68g.
" 2d mo. 25th, 1692.
" loth mo. 31st, 1694.
8th mo. 17th, 1696.
*See Note No. 9, Appendix
34 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
THOMAS HALLOWELL
2-2. Thomas Hallovvell, son of John (\) and
Mary Hallovvell, born in England, ist month 6th, 1679 ;
died 12th month 14th, 1734. Married at Darby, Pa.,
in 1702, Rosamond Till, who died 6th month 13th, 1745.
They lived at Abin^zton, Pa.
Ten children :
3-10 John, born ist mo. iith, 1703.
3-11 Mary, " gth mo. 7th, 1705.
_, 3-12 Thomas, " 3d mo. 27th, 1706. '■^
3-13 William, " 6th mo. ist, 1707.
3-14 Rosamond, " 5th mo. 24th, 1709.
3-15 Elizabeth, " 12th mo. 14th, 171 1.
3-16 Sarah, " ist mo. 15th, 1714.
3-17 Thomas, 2d," 3d mo. 12th, 1715.
3-18 Samuel, " 3d mo. 12th, 1717.
3-ig Joseph, " gth mo. 23d, 1719.
Thomas and Rosamond Till Hallowell's remains
were interred in Friends' burying-ground at Abington.
Their daughter, Elizabeth Hallowell, born 12th month
14th, 171 1, married at Abington, 8th month 26th, 1730,
Daniel Dawson, hatter at Abington. They removed
to Philadelphia, taking certificate from former to latter
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 15.
meeting, dated 5th month 31st, 1742, for themselves
and daughter Deborah. Abington records, as copied
for the Pennsylvania Historical Society, say John
Dawson, wife, and daughter Deborah, but Philadel-
phia meeting records show that it was Daniel who was
received on this certificate.
Daniel Dawson made a will, dated nth month
23d, 1744, and proved 3d month 3d, 1745, disposing
of a good estate of houses, etc. The record is that
he died 3d month ist, 1745.
They had seven children :
Mary, Daniel, 2d,
Daniel, Rosamond, married Green,
Deborah, Mary, 2d, " Thomson.
James,
i6 THE HAI.LOIVELL FAMILY
WILLIAM HALLOWELL
3-13. William Hallovvell, son of Thomas (2-2)
and Rosamond Till Hallowell, was born 6th month ist,
1707; died 8th month 23d, 1794. He was a brother to
Elizabeth Hallowell, who married Daniel Dawson.
(See 2-2.)
His first wife was Margaret Tyson, who died 4th
month 4th, 1752, aged 43 years, i month and 17 days.
Interred in Friends' burying-ground at Abington.
Children :*
4-A Thomas, 4-G David,
4-B Rosamond, 4-H Mary,
4-C Matthew, 4-I Isaac,
4-D William, 4-J John, 2d,
4-E John, 4-K John, 3d,
4-F R\near, 4-L Joshua.
The dates of births of the above-named children
are to be found in the records of Friends' meeting at
Abington.
The records of Abington monthly meeting show
that Agnes Shoemaker, second wife of William Hallo-
well, was born 3d month 19th, 17 16, and died 3d month
*See Note No. 9, Appendix
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 17
31st, 1782, aged 65 years, 10 months and i day, and
was interred in Friends' burying-ground. Married at
Abington, 1754.
Agnes Shoemaker was a daughter of Peter Shoe-
maker, whose family came from Cresheim, Germany,
and settled at Germantown in 1683.
Peter Shoemaker's brother George also settled in
Germantown ; his wife was named Sarah, daughter of
Richard Wall, or Wain. Peter and George Shoe-
maker's father was named George, who died at sea.
Children of William and Agnes :
4-20 Daniel, born 12th mo. i8th, 1754.
4-21 Caleb, " nth mo. 21st, 1756.
4-22 Joseph, " 5th mo. ist, 1759.
4-23 Sarah, " 7th mo. 12th, 1761.
l8 THE H^LLOIVELL FAMILY
CALEB HALLOWELL
A-2.\. Caleb Hallowell, son of William (3-13)
and Agnes Shoemaker Hallowell, was born nth month
2ist, 1756; died ist month 6th, 1829.
First wife, Priscilla Tyson.
Second wife, Mary Waterman, married 7th month
26th, 1792, daughter of Isaac Waterman.
Third wife, Mary Child.
Caleb and Priscilla Tyson Hallowell's marriage
certificate, now in possession of Susan Morris Hal-
lowell 1 7-50), reads as follows :
"Caleb Hallowell, of the Township of Cheltenham,
County of Philadelphia, Province of Pennsylvania,
farmer, son of William Hallowell, of the same place,
and Priscilla Tyson, daughter of Rynear Tyson of Ab-
ington Township, County and Province aforesaid,"
The marriage took place at Abington meeting-
house, loth month 15th, 1778.
Rynear Tyson's wife was a daughter of Isaac
Cleaver, married loth month 14th, 1760. His father's
name was Peter Tyson.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY ig
From the foregoing we learn that at this date
(1778) Philadelphia county embraced a large part, if
not all, of what is now Montgomery county. It was
not until the year 1784 that Montgomery county was
organized. Bucks county, which adjoins Montgomery,
was one of the original counties formed by William
Penn in 1682.
Children of Caleb and Priscilla Tyson Hallowell :
5-24 Charles Tyson, born 2d mo. 28th, 1780; died
7th mo. 3d, i82g. Married Ann Longstreth,
10th mo. 9th, i8c6.
5-25 Chalkley, born 12th mo. i8th, 1781. Married
Susan Fisher.
Children of Caleb and Mary Waterman Hallowell ■/•'
5-A Isaac, born 5th mo. 14th, 1793. Married Louisa
Rush.
5-B Abigail, born 5th mo. 21st, 1796; died in her
1 6th year.
5-C Agnes, born 12th mo. 23d, 1799; died 5th mo.
23d, 1870. Married John Smith.
5-D Mary, born 12th mo. ist, 1805. Married Joshua
W. Pusey, 5th mo. 5th, 1831, who died 2d
mo., 1835.
5-E Jane Shoemaker, born 7th mo. 26th, 1807 ; died
3d mo. 2ist, 1878.
There-appears to be no record of Caleb Hallowell's
third marriage, to Mary Child. No children.
*See Note No. 9, Appendix.
20 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
CHARLES TYSON HALLOWELL
5-24. Charles Tyson Hallowell, son of Caleb
and Priscilla Tyson Hallowell, was born-'' 2d month
28th, 1780. Married loth month gth, 1806, at Friends'
meeting-house, Abington, Montgomery county, Pa., Ann
Longstreth, born 2d month 12th, 1784 ; died of general
debility, 5th month 26th, 1868, at her residence. No.
1807 Spruce street, Philadelphia. Her remains were in-
terred in the lot of her son, Morris L. Hallowell, South
Laurel Hill. She was a daughter of Joseph Longstreth,
who was born loth month nth, 1744; died 5th month
i8th, 1803; buried at Horsham; married 4th month
i6th, 1772, Susannah Morris, born 7th month 23d, 1746;
died 8th month 28th, 1814; was daughter of Joshua and
Mary Morris, of Abington. They settled in Southamp-
ton township, Bucks county, Pa., near the old home-
stead. It was on Joseph Longstreth 's premises that
Fitch, the inventor, first tried his steamboat.
Charles Tyson and Ann Longstreth Hallowell made
their home in Jenkintown, Montgomery county, Pa.
His trade was that of a carpenter. He received the
*See Note No. 4, Appendix
m> *.. 1
Ann Longstrkth Hali.owkll.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 21
appointment of Postmaster, and in connection with
this, opened a place of business for the sale of general
merchandise, such as is mostly found in country stores.
Jn those days no stocl< was considered complete with-
out having a plentiful supply of whisky on hand.
There is no record to show how many years he con-
tinued in business at Jenkintown, but his conscience
not approving of selling spirituous liquors, somewhere
about the year 181 2 he moved with his family to Phila-
delphia, and became an importer of China and India
silk goods; his store and residence being one and the
same, located on Front street below Arch street.
An old directory, published in the year 181 1, does
not mention him, but in i8i3we find the name of
■Charles Hallowell, storekeeper, No. 13 Church alley,
and again in 18 19, Charles T. Hallowell, merchant. No.
125 High street, residence No. 13 Church alley (same
as before). In 1820 his residence is given as Eleventh
street below Arch street. It is safe to presume that it was
about the year 1812 when he moved to Philadelphia.
He made a voyage to Canton, China, which was
.looked upon at that date as a great undertaking, as it
required six months to make the voyage out, and the
same to return. A quaint looking little clock, now in
possession of his grandson, Charles Eugene Hallowell
(7-70;, which he presented to his wife before starting
•on one of his journeys, is still in good preservation,
.and keeps, even at this date, fairly good time.
22 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
He died of consumption, at his residence, 7th month
3d, 1829. His remains were interred in Friends
Western burying-ground. Race and Sixteenth streets,
Philadelphia.
Nine children :
6-26 Priscilla, born gth mo. i8th, 1807 ; died 5th mo.
gth, 1808.
6-27 Morris Longstreth, born 8th mo. 14th, iScg;
died 6th mo. i6th, 1880.
6-28 Caleb, born 5th mo. 31st, 181 1 ; died 12th mo.gth,
1846, at his mother's residence, No. i City
Row, nth street above Race street, west side,
interred at Friends' burying-ground, Fair Hill,
Philadelphia. Unmarried.
6-29 Susannah Morris, born 3d mo. i8th, 1813 ; died gth
mo. 25th, 1846. Married William Walton.
6-30 Maria, born 7th mo. 28th, 181 5 ; died 3d mo., 1816.
6-31 Samuel Longstreth, born ist mo. loth, 1817 ; died
4th mo. 27th, 1864. Married.
6-32 Joshua Longstreth, born 3d mo. 31st, i8ig; died
7th mo. 25th, 1873. Married.
6-33 Charles, born 7th mo. 31st, 1821 ; died ist mo.
2d, 1864. Married.
6-34 Ann, born 2d mo. 23d, 1824; died icth mo., 1824.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 23
CHALKLEY HALLOWELL
5-25. Chalkley Hallowell, son of Caleb (4-21 )
and Priscilhi Tyson Hallowell, was born 12th month
1 8th, 1 78 1. Married Susan Fisher.
Nine children :
6-35 John, went to California when very young, and
lias not been heard from since 1866.
6-36 Samuel.
6-37 Caleb W., married Mary Morris Tyson.
6-38 Daniel Albert, married Catherine Josephine Monell.
6-39 Amanda Emily, married Thomas Worthington
Sweney.
6-40 Chalkley, unmarried, died of Cholera, at Louis-
ville, Ky.
6-41 Frank, unmarried, died from effects of going in to
swim when overheated.
6-42 Henry, unmarried, died of consumption.
6-43 Edwin.
All of the above-named children, with the excep-
tion of John, are known to have died.
24 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
MORRIS LONGSTRETH HALLOWELL
6-27. Morris Longstreth Hallowell, born 8th
month 14th, 1809, was a son of Charles Tyson (5-24)
and Ann Longstreth Hallowell. His birthplace was
Jenkintown, Montgomery county, Pa., a beautiful
post village situated on the Old York road, about
nine miles north of Philadelphia, The house in which
he was born has long since been destroyed ; a store
erected on its site stood on the west side of the main
street of Jenkintown, opposite to an old hostelry kept
by Cottman. It is still standing.
Morris Longstreth Hallowell was educated at
Friends' school at Westtown, Chester county, Pa.
(Entered 7th month 21st, 1821.) His father died when
he was nineteen years of age, leaving him almost the
sole support of a mother, several brothers, and a
sister. Succeeded to his father's business, that of
China and India silk goods importer. Later formed a
co-partnership with William Ashbridge under the firm
name of Hallowell & Ashbridge, importers and jobbers
of silks and dress goods. Wm. Ashbridge retiring, the
firm name became Hallowell, Walton & Co., and upon
Morris L. Hallowell.
THE HALLOIVELL h'AMlLY 25
the death of William Walton was changed to Morris L.
Hallowell & Co. McElroy's directory of 1837 has Hal-
iowell, Ashbridge & Co., and in 1838 Hallowell, Walton
& Co., which is about the date of the change. This
was the foundation of that great house whose business
extended throughout the entire West and South, and
which stood pre-eminent for its liberalit)' and progress-
ive spirit in all that tended to advance the interests of
Philadelphia. The establishment of a line of first-class
steamships to ply to Charleston and Savannah was in a
large measure due to the efforts of Morris L. Hallowell.
It is said on most excellent authority that \.\\q first meet-
ing to organize the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
was held in the parlors of his residence. No. 1417 Filbert
street, within a few feet of where the Broad Street Sta-
tion now stands; but there are no minutes on the books
of the Company to verify this statement. For some
time he served as one of its directors, throwing his
heart and soul into building up — what it now is — the
greatest and best managed railroad in the world.
The Bank of North America, the oldest national
banking institution in the country, claimed him as one
of its directors for many years.
Elected. Term of Office Ended.
loth month 12th, 1843. loth month 8th, 1846.
loth '* 15th, 1849. lOth " nth, 1852.
ist " 2d, 1854. ist " 5th, 1857.
I St " 2d, i860. ist " 7th, 1862.
26 THE HALLOU/ELL FAMILY
The organization of tlie Bank took place in nth
month, 1781. The Ordinance of Incorporation passed
by Congress, 12th month 31st, 1781, commencing
operations on ist month 7th, 1782. Unlike other
institutions of its kind throughout our country, the
word "National" does not appear on its circulation,
simply " The Bank of North America," exception being
made by Congress, at the time the National Banking
Act was passed, for the reason that its charter had
been granted by a United States Congress.
The records of the Religious Society of Friends, of
which he was a member, show that at one time he
took an active part in its temporal affairs.
1844: Was one of a committee on necessitous
circumstances.
1844-8: Was assistant clerk of Race street monthly
meeting.
1844: Appointed on a committee to confer with
the other monthly meetings in regard to the subject
of education, which resulted in the establishment of
Friends' Central School.
1845-49: One of a committee in charge of same.
1845: Appointed trustee of meeting-house prop-
erty.
1847: Was proposed as accounting warden, or, as
Friends termed it, treasurer ; but declined.
Nor did Morris L. Hailowell confine his efforts in
doing good within the boundary lines of his own city;
THE HALLO l-V ELL FAMILY 27
constant appeals being made to the generosity of liis
firm to aid in works of charity, etc., throughout the
South and West. It was mainly due to their efforts
that the sum of thirty thousand dollars was raised for
the relief of the sufferers at Norfolk, Va., at the time
that city was visited 0855) with yellow fever. It may
not be out of place to record the fact here that this
Christian act was repaid''^ by a number of the "first
families of Virginia" residing at Norfolk, by mobbing,
with the intention of hanging, T. Russell Dawson, a
junior member of the firm ; and again, at Atlanta,
Ga., some of the "best citizens'' attempted the same
act of violence on the person of Col. Thomas W.
Sweney, another member, solely because the views
entertained by Morris L. Hallowell and some others
of the firm, on politics and slavery, did not coincide
with their own.
in 1861 the Rebellion for the perpetuation of
slavery broke out in all its fury, and the wholesale
repudiation by the Southern merchants of the debts due
Northerners forced the house of Morris L Hallowell &
Co. into liquidation ; the work of a lifetime was swept
away, as it were, in a night. Dismayed, but not
entirely disheartened, they set to work to reorganize
their concern under the same firm name at 615 Chest-
nut street. Some years later Mr. Hallowell resigned
and went to New York, there entered into co-partner-
*See Reniinisceuce No. 5, Appendix.
28 THE H^LLOIVELL FAMILY
ship with his son, Col. Norwood P. Hallowell (7-48), as
wool commission merchants.
Returned to Philadelphia about the year 1870, and
in 1873 established the banking house of Hallowell &
Co., at No. 33 South Third street. Was elected a
member of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, gth month
3d, 1874. On 4th month 13th, 1875, his partner,
Charles Hallowell (7-62), died. Mr. Hallowell con-
tinued in the business the remainder of his life. After
over half a century of toil and of doing good to others,
living out in its fullest sense the maxim laid down by
the late Hon. Joseph R. Chandler, "that it is the
whole duty of man to live for his fellow-man," Morris
L. Hallowell passed peacefully to rest on 6th month
1 6th. 1880, aged 71 years. His death was caused by
Bright's disease. The funeral took place from Media,
Delaware county, Pa. His remains were interred at
South Laurel Hill, Philadelphia.
So far reference has been made to Morris L. Hal-
lowell only as a business man and public-spirited
citizen. His beautiful home life another pen more able
than the writer's must portray.
On 1st month 5th, 1831, he married Hannah Smith
Penrose, daughter of William and Annah (or Hannah)
Norwood Penrose, of Philadelphia. The marriage took
place at Friends' meeting-house, situated on Cherry
street, below Fifth street. The building is now used
for salesrooms by the firm of Horstmann & Sons.
Hannah Penrose Halloweel.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 29^
William and Annah (or Hannah) Norwood Pen-
rose, parents of Hannah Smith Penrose, were married
at Boston, Mass., 12th month 22d, 1795. William
Penrose was born gth month 6th, or i6th, 1768; died
of consumption, 12th month ist, 1816, son of Thomas
and Ann Dowding Penrose, married 7th month 7th,
1757-
Annah (or Hannah) Norwood Penrose was born
nth month 28th, 1778 ; died of bilious fever 7th month
7th, 18 17, daughter of and Abigail Norwood,
of Boston, Mass.
At the time of the birth of Hannah Smith Penrose,
2d month 2d, 1812 (wife of Morris L. Hallowell), her
parents, William and Annah Norwood Penrose, re-
sided at the corner of Water and Almond streets,
Philadelphia. This portion of the city at that period
was regarded as the "West End." The house has
long since been razed to the ground, and on its site a
sugar refinery now stands. From Almond and Water
streets, William and Annah (or Hannah) Norwood Pen-
rose moved to No. 242 Spruce street, below Seventh
street (now No. 628), where they resided the remainder
of their lives. Their remains are interred in Friends'
burying-ground, south-east corner of Arch and Fourth
streets, Philadelphia. The graves are nameless, as
was customary in Quaker burying-grounds.
Children of Morris Longstreth and Hannah Pen-
rose Hallowell, all born in Philadelphia:
30 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
7-44 Anna, born nth mo. ist, 18^1, at No. IC15 Race
street (old No. 365). Unmarried.
7-45 William Penrose, born 5th mo. i8th, 1833, at No.
1017 Race street told No. 367). Married.
7-46 Richard Price, born 12th mo. i6th, 1835, at No.
142 North Twelfth street. Married.
7-47 Edward Needles, born iith mo. 3d, 1836, at No.
142 North Twelfth street ; died 7th mo. 26th,
1871. Married.
7-48 Norwood Penrose, born 4th mo. 13th, 1839, at No.
422 North Sixth street (old No. 240). Married.
7-40 Emily, born ist mo. i8th, 1842, at No. 422 North
Sixth street (old No. 240). Unmarried.
7-50 Susan Morris, born 6th mo. 17th, 184;, at No. 422
North Sixth street (old No. 240). Unmarried.
,7-51 *Morris Longstreth, 2d, born 1st mo. 13th, 1847,
at No. 422 North Sixth street (old No. 240).
Died 2d mo. 13th, 1847, of cholera infantum.
The following tribute to the memory of Morris L.
Hallowell was published in the Evening Bulletin, 6th
month 17th, 1880:
"Morris L. Hallowell died at his summer residence near
Media, Pa., yesterday (June i6th, 1880), aged seventy-one years.
Born in Montgomery county, of the solid old Quaker stock that
has filled Eastern Pennsylvania with its most substantial popu-
lation, he has lived from early boyhood in Philadelphia a life that
has been full of honorable usefulness. For many years he was
the head of the great silk house of Morris L. Hallowell & Co.,
and was known far and wide for his enterprise, his business
ability, and his sterling integrity. Staunch to the principles which
♦Interred at Friends' burying-ground, Fair Hill, Philadelphia.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 31
he had inherited from his fathers, he refused to sacrifice them, as
so many others did, at the bidding of his Southern customers,
when their arrogance began to demand the surrender of political
opinion as the price of their patronage.
" Mr. Hallowell's brave answer stands as a shining page in
the bright record of his life, and as the perpetual rebuke of that
pitiful concession* to the South that preceded Philadelphia's
grand uprising in 1861. ' Where any one,' declared Mr. Hallowell,
for himself and his partners, 'presumes to demand, as a pre-
liminary to purchasing from us, that he shall know our opinions
upon Slavery or any other mooted question in religion or politics,
he shall be informed, as we now tell you, that he cannot purchase
from us for cash or upon any terms, until he shall have amply
apologized for the insult.'
"The war came, and the South assumed the shameful atti-
tude from which it has, as yet, made no general effort to relieve
itself, in the repudiation of its millions of just debts to Northern
merchants, and the Hallowells met the crushing blow like the
true men that they were, and at once faced their new responsibili-
ties with a noble patriotism, so pronounced as to win the admira-
tion of even the most severe of their co-religionists, while it fired
the enthusiasm of multitudes who witnessed the devotion with
which father, mother, and daughters sent their boys to the front,
while they themselves labored in season and out of season in the
cause of human liberty. One son took the high post of honor
at which Robert G. Shaw fell before Fort Wagner, in command
of the remnant of that wonderful black regiment, the Massa-
chusetts Fifty-Fourth, while another hurried from Harvard before
his graduation to lead its twin regiment, the Fifty-Fifty, and the
third enlisted in the same cause. With his sons thus fighting, as
they did, for the one great idea of human liberty, Mr. Hallowell
and his family, true to the foundation principles of their peaceful
* See Reminiscences Xos. 2 and 4, Appendix.
32 THB HALLOIVELL FAMILY
religion, but recognizing the practical duty of the times, as did
many others of our Philadelphia Friends, as paramount to all
theories of non-resistance, gave themselves heartily to the promo-
tion of the country's cause with a degree of self-sacrificing zeal
that has not yet been forgotten. Their home, that ' House called
Beautiful' in Oliver Wendell Holmes' happy phrase, became the
haven of rest and refreshment for wounded soldiers ; the army
hospitals were familiar with their efficient ministries, and the per-
sonal influence of Mr. Hallowell, so earnest in action, so kindly
in method, so unwavering in his faith in the cause and its success,
so untiring in self-sacrifice, was a moral force in this community
as great as any single personal force that entered into the aggre-
gate of Philadelphia's grand contribution to the war.
"After the war Mr. Hallowell removed for a time to New
York and engaged in business there; but he came back to Phila-
delphia, and has lived out his good and useful life here, where
he made his home in boyhood, honored and beloved by all who
knew him, rich in domestic happiness and in the esteem of his
"fellow- men."
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
"A Good Old Citizen Gone, in the death of Morris L.
Hallowell, yesterday, one of the old type of Philadelphia's emi-
nent merchants passed away. Growing up in a generation when
a large Southern trade was the ambition of all mercantile houses,
and the West was an undeveloped country, the Quaker firm of
Hallowell & Co. for many years divided with the house of Caleb
Cope & Co. the leading silk business of the city, South and
West, assisting, to a late day, with younger and more recent
competitors, to build up Philadelphia's influence and prosperity.
Genial in temper, progressive in thought, the Quakerism of Mr.
Hallowell was no bar to his furtherance of many enterprises, as
THE HALLOIV'ELL FAMILY 33
well in the arts as in charities, that grew with the city's growth.
Of indomitable energy and cheerfulness, even the business
reverses of the war did not dishearten him, and while conducting
and closing up the details of an extended and complicated busi-
ness connection, he was as actively engaged in furthering the
Union cause as almost any boy who wore the blue. He was on
very friendly terms with President Lincoln, and was almost Mr.
Lincoln's equal in pointed anecdote. Withdrawing from com-
mercial circles in this city, upon his removal to New York, at the
close of the war. the impress of his strong personality as a
merchant still remains in the memory of all who were associated
with him or came in contact with him in business life. Upright,
generous, ever ready to extend a helping hand to the weak and
the struggling, full of cheerful encouragement for all, he has left
behind him a record luminous with the motto of good will to
men." S. C. F. H.
A TRIBUTE TO HIS MEMORY FROM BOSTON.
The Boston Daily Advertiser savs : "When death takes a
good man whose deeds have not been limited to his friends and
neighbors, it is fitting that his worth should be widely known.
Such a man was Morris L. Hallowell, who died last month at his
summer home near Philadelphia. The newspapers of Philadel-
phia have borne testimiony to his merits in strong and loving
words. They have spoken of his enterprise, his integrity, his pub-
lic spirit, and his courage. It falls to the lot of few men to have
such words spoken over them as have been spoken over him.
But it is not simply a good citizen of Pennsylvania who has
gone. It is a man to whom Massachusetts owes a debt— a debt
which in the nature of things cannot be paid, but which may
at least be gratefully acknowledged.
34 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY .
"Mr. Hallowell was a merchant, and his Southern cus-
tomers were many. At tlie beginning of the war they owed him
very large sums, and these were almost wholly lost. His busi-
ness ties did not make him subservient to the South, nor an
opponent of the war. On the contrary, he was bravely outspoken
on all matters connected with slavery, and one of the truest of
Northern men when the war came. Not only did not fear of
losing his fortune affect his words and deeds, but actual loss did
not check the flow of his bounty. It did not make him feel that
he had given enough and need give no more. His house in
Philadelphia— in Dr. Holmes' phrase, the ' House called Beauti-
ful '—was thrown open to disabled officers with a kind and tender
welcome that no words can fully tell. There father, mother,
daughters vied with each other in lavishing every care and every
comfort upon those - and they were many— whom their roof
sheltered as they made their slow journey from the fields to their
Northern homes.
"Sometimes for days, sometimes for weeks, they gave their
house, their money, their own time, with utter self-denial and
self-forgetfulness, to their suffering guests, bestowing the same
hospitable office upon the strangers within their gates which they
bestowed upon their own gallant sons and brothers who came
home to them stricken with wounds and laid low with fever.
Such good Samaritans are rare, and the world is the poorer when
they leave it, as it is the better for their lives while they are with
us, and the men and women of Massachusetts should know that
they, and not only they, but the Jiuman race, have never had a
truer friend than the late .Wr. Hallowell, of Philadelphia."
THE HALLOH'ELL FAMILY 35
SUSANNAH MORRIS HALLOWELL
6-29. Susannah Morris Hallowell, daughter of
Charles Tyson (5-24) and Ann Longstreth Hallowell,
was born 3d month i8th, 18 13; died of consumption, gth
month 25th, 1846, at No. 1427 Filbert street. (The
house has since been altered and is now used as an
hotel.) Married 2d month 2d, 1831, William Wal-
ton, born 3d month 27th, 1808 ; died of consumption,
3d month 22d, 1844, at No. 450 Marshall street; son
of James and Achsah Croasdale Walton, of Byberry
township (now 23d ward), Philadelphia.
William Walton and Susannah Morris Hallowell
were married by Friends' ceremony at Friends' meet-
ing-house. Cherry street below Fifth street. Some
years later Friends sold this property to Horstmann &
Sons, who now use it for a salesroom. William's
and Susannah's remains are interred in Friends' bury-
ing-ground at Byberry.
They had six children, all born in Philadelphia ;
all died of consumption, and were interred in the lot of
their uncle, Morris L. Hallowell, South Laurel Hill
cemetery, Philadelphia.
36 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
7-52 Charles Morris, born nth mo. 15th, 1831 ; died
4th mo. loth, 1871, at 1807 Spruce street.
7-53 Lydia Thornton, born 8th mo. 7th, 1833 ; died nth
mo. igth, i860, at S. W. cor. Green and Har-
vey streets, Germantown.
7-54 Francis, born 7th mo. 14th, 1835 ; died 4th mo.
28th, 1857, at the residence of his uncle, M. L.
Hailowell (6-27), " Norwood," Chelten avenue
and Washington lane, Chelten Hills, Mont-
gomery county. Pa.
7-55 James Morris, born 7th mo. 12th, 1838; died 5th
mo. 25th, 1874, at Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
7-56 Annie Hailowell, born ist mo. 24th, 1841 ; died
nth mo. 3d, 1861, at 1807 Spruce street.
7-57 Elizabeth, born 4th mo. 24th, 1843; died 3d mo.
14th, 1866, at 1807 Spruce street.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 37
SAMUEL LONGSTRETH HALLOWELL
6-31. Samuel Longstreth Hallowell, son of
Charles Tyson ( 5-24) and Ann Hallowell, was horn ist
month loth, 1817; died 4th month 27th, 1864. Married,
1845, Elizaheth Chase ; resided m San Francisco, Cal-
ifornia, for a numher of years. His health failing, he
returned to Philadelphia, and died at his mother's
home, 1807 Spruce street. Interred at South Laurel
Hill, in M. L. Hallowell's lot.
They had four children, who made their homes in
California :
7-58 Caleb,
7-59 Elizabeth,
7-60 Kate,
7-61 Samuel, 2d, died in infancy in California.
38 THE HALLOU^'ELL FAMILY
JOSHUA LONGSTRETH HALLOWELL
6-32. Joshua Longstreth Hallovvell, son of
Charles Tyson (5-24) and Ann Longstreth Hallovvell,
was born 3d month 31st, 1819. He was not by any
means a dull boy when at school, but necessity com-
pelled his going out into the world to seek his fortune
when very young in years. At the age of about
twelve he entered the employ of Caleb Cope & Co.,
importers and jobbers of silks and dress goods, etc.
After years of patient industry and a conscientious
discharge of the responsibilities placed upon him, he
was admitted to an interest in the firm's business.
Some years afterward he dissolved his connection
with the said firm, and accepted an offer of a partner-
ship with the house of Morris L. Hallowell & Co., who
were in the same line of business as Caleb Cope & Co.
The firm of Morris L. Hallowell & Co. was the leading
house of its kind in the city of Philadelphia, and its
business extended throughout the entire West and
South. For years before the Rebellion, it suffered
greatly from persecution, not only from their competi-
tors at home, but also from their Southern customers.
Joshua L. Hallowell.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 39
on account of the views entertained by some of its
members on tlie subject of slavery. So intensely
bitter was the animosity that customers, when arriving
in the city, would be waylaid and solicited to boycott
the house of Morris L. Hallowell & Co., for the reason
that they were d — d Abolitionists.* As further evi-
dence of the hatred shown on the part of the South
towards this firm, one of the partners, Thomas W.
Sweney, when visiting Atlanta, Georgia, on business,
was mobbed and threatened with hanging if he did not
leave the town in a few hours. He complied with the
wishes of the citizens of Atlanta, returned North, and
when Fort Sumter was fired on, recruited the 99th
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and led it to the
front as its colonel. T. Russell Dawson, another
junior partner, was not only mobbed, in Norfolk, Va.,
where he had lived for years, but the crowd had the
rope with them to hang him. He being a Mason alone
saved his life. These acts of violence, together with
numerous other insults offered by the "Southern
Chivalry," caused the firm of Morris L. Hallowell &Co.
to publish in 1856 a letter, j which for straightforward,
manly sentiments has not its superior in the annals of
history. It was not written for the purpose of adding
fuel to the flames, but did succeed in "firing the
Southern heart " to a greater degree than ever.
*See Reiniuiscence No. 3. Appendix.
iSee Reminiscence No. i, Appeudi.x.
40 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
Joshua L. Hallowell was a thoroughly straight-
forward, conscientious man ; his views as to the moral
responsibilities of man were of the highest standard ;.
his name stands as a synonym for integrity. It was
said that he was so upright that he leaned backward,
and when he was mentioned for Collector of the Port
of Philadelphia, it was remarked by a friend that he
never would receive the appointment for the reason
that he was too honest. This expression — " too hon-
est " — was not meant to cast any reflection upon
the reputations of those who had held the office, or
those who in the future might do so, but merely used
as an extravagant phrase to express the high estima-
tion in which Joshua was held. He was closely identi-
fied with the old-school Abolitionists, such as William
Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, James and Lucretia
Mott,, cf ill., and many a slave was aided by him to
escape from bondagei'/j the "Underground Railroad."
Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion the whole-
sale repudiation by the Southerners of the debts due
Northern merchants forced into liquidation the firm of
which Joshua L. Hallowell was a member, it was
afterward reorganized, but the strain incident thereto,
together with close application to business from boy-
hood, made sad inroads upon his health, and when
obliged to retire from active life, he sought rest at
Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he died of conges-
tion of the brain, 7th month 25th, 1873, ^f the Dennis
THE HALLOU/ELL FAMILY 41
House, then known as the Dennis Cottage. His re-
mains were interred in Friends' burying-ground, Fair
Hill, Philadelphia.
Joshua L. Hallovvell's first wife wasTheressa Jones
Kimber (originally spelled Taressa, but at the time of
her marriage she changed it of her own accord to
T/zeressa), daughter of Emmor and Lydia Kimber, of
Philadelphia, born 9th month igth, 18 19; died of con-
sumption, 2d month 7th, 185 1. Interred in the Kimber
lot. Laurel Hill. They were married by Friends' cer-
emony, loth month 28th, 1841, at Friends' meeting-
house. Cherry street above Fourth street, Philadelphia.
The meeting-house property has since been sold to
Hortsmann & Sons, who use it for a salesroom.
Friends now hold their meetings on Race street above
Fifteenth street.
They had three children, all born in Philadelphia:
7-62 Charles, born 8th mo. 13th, 1842; died 4th mo.
13th, 1875, of consumption, at the residence of
his father-in-law, Hon. Thomas L. Jewett, No.
21 12 Walnut street, Philadelphia. Interred at
Friends' burying-ground at Fair Hill.
7-63 Edward Davis, born 5th mo. 8th, 1845 ; died of
consumption, 3d mo. 6th, 1865, at No. 1015
Race street, Philadelphia, interred at Fair
Hill, Friends' burying-ground.
7-632 Elwood Walter, born gth mo. 30th, 1850; died of
consumption, 4th mo. 21st, 1851. Interred in
the Kimber lot, Laurel Hill.
42 THE HAI.LOIVELL FAMILY
On 2d month 21st, 1855, Joshua L. Hallowell
married (2d wife) Sarah Catherine Fraley, born 7th
month 8th, 1833, daughter of the Hon. Frederick* and
Jane Cresson Fraley, at whose house, No. 1015 Race
street, the wedding took place. They were married
by Friends' ceremony in the presence of Hon. Robert
T. Conrad, who at that time was mayor of the city of
Philadelphia.
Four children :
7-64 Katherine, born 12th mo. 4th, 1855, at "The
Cedars," Chelten Hills, Montgomery county,
Pa. Married.
7-65 Jean, born 2d mo. gth, 1857, at No. 1015 Race
street, Philadelphia. Unmarried.
7-66 Frederick Fraley, born 3d mo. 8th, 1859, at No.
1015 Race Street, Philadelphia. Married.
7-67 Cresson, born 4th mo. igth, 1861, at No. 1015
Race street, Philadelphia; died 7th mo. 23d,
1868, at No. 1807 Spruce street, from an abscess
at the base of the brain, caused by a fall. In-
terment at Friends' burying-ground, Fair Hill,
Philadelphia.
Since the death of Joshua L. Hallowell, his wife,
Sarah Catherine Fraley Hallowell, has devoted herself
to journalism. In 1876 she became editor-in-chief of
The New Cent my for Woman, a Centennial newspaper
published only during the months the exhibition was
open. Its first number opened with date of May loth,
and its closing number, November loth. From it was
• Sec Memoir. Appendix.
Sarah C Kkai.ky Hai.i.owf.i.l.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 43
named the New Century Club, the woman's club
which now (1892) has five hundred members. The
newspaper was almost entirely conducted by women.
Even the steam engine which ran the press had a
woman for engineer. The printing press was an ex-
hibit and a loan. The only man that was connected in
any way with it was the pressman who carried the forms
to the press; and although a woman was found who
had prepared herself for such work, its owners would
not permit her to do it, fearing she might damage the
machinery. Compositors, reporters, correspondents,
and editors were all well paid. The Executive Com-
mittee was very proud of the exhibit, and appropriated
the sum of five hundred dollars per month towards its
maintenance.
On July 8th, 1877, Mrs. Hallowell was honored by
being tendered the position of Associate Editor of the
Public Ledger, and for sixteen years has fulfilled the
responsible duties of that office in a manner that stamps
her to be a woman of very high order of ability. At
this date (1893) she still holds the position above men-
tioned, together with that of editor-in-chief of the
literary bureau.
44 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
CHARLES HALLOWELL
6-33. Charles Hallowell, son of Charles Tyson
(5-24) and Ann Longstreth Hallowell, was born 7th
month 31st, 1 82 1. Died of congestion of the brain,
I St month 2d, 1864, at his residence, north-west cor-
ner Thirty-second and Spring Garden streets, West
Philadelphia. His remains were interred in the lot of
his brother, Morris L. Hallowell, South Laurel Hill.
Married ist month 7th, 1847, by Friends' ceremony,
Elmira Rebecca Stephens, born 4th month 4th, 1826,
daughter of William and Mary Sophia Stephens, of
Philadelphia.
William Stephens was a prominent citizen. He
was County Commissioner, and County Treasurer of
Philadelphia in 1839, ^^i*^ served terms in both these
responsible offices.
Charles Hallowell entered the business arena as a
clerk in a silk goods jobbing house. At the age of
twenty-one years he went with the firm of Martin &
Co., to learn practically the trade of a hatter. After
accomplishing this, which he did most thoroughly, he
founded the house of Bacon & Hallowell, November,
Charles Hallowell.
Elmira R. Stephens Hallowell.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 45
1846, manufacturers and wholesale dealers in hats. In
December, 1853, William Bacon withdrew from the
concern. Mr, Hallowell continued the business for
some years afterward, under the firm name of Charles
Hallowell & Co.
Six children, all born in Philadelphia :
7-68 William Henry, horn 3d mo. 7th, 1848; died of
congestion of the hrain, gth mo. 12th, 1849.
interred in M. L. Hallowell's lot, South Laurel
Hill.
7-69 Horatio Stephens, born nth mo. nth, 1849; died
7th mo. 7th, 1864, from injuries received by a
fall from a tree. Interred in M. L. Hallowell's
Lot, South Laurel Hill.
7-70 Charles Eugene, born ist mo. 13th, 1852. Un-
married.
7-71 Louis Henry Stephens, born nth mo. nth, 1854;
died ist mo. 26th, 1889, of typhoid fever. In-
terred at Woodland cemetery. Married.
7-72 Henry Howell, born 2d mo. 28th, 1857. Unmarried.
7-73 Samuel Williams, born ist mo. 30th, i860. Married.
46 THE HALLOIVELL h'AMlLt:
CALEB W. HALLOWELL
6-37. Caleb W. Hallowell, son of Chalkley
(5-25) and Susan Fisher Hallowell, was born 1815;
died ist month 21st, 1857, of consumption. Interred
at Laurel Hill cemetery.
Married 6th month nth, 1840, Mary Morris Ty-
son, born loth month 2d, 1820, daughter of Hlisha
Tyson, of Baltimore, and Sarah Saunders Morris, of
Philadelphia.
Children of Caleb W. and Mary Morris (Tyson)
Hallowell, all born at Philadelphia:
I Francis Perot, born ist mo. 31st, 1841 ; died 8th mo.
12th, 1885. Married, 5th mo. 15th, 1868, Sarah
Albina Aldrich, of Livermore Falls, Maine. One
child, May.
• 2 Morris, born nth mo. 27th, 1842. Resides in Cali-
fornia. Unmarried.
3 Lewis Morris, born 12th mo. icth, 1844. Married
Harriet Cordelia Ha\vley,who died ist mo., 1878,
daughter of George T. Hawley, of Boston. Two
children, George H. and Harriet Hawley. Lewis
Morris Hallowell's business career began as a
boy with George D. Parrish, dry goods commis-
sion house, of Philadelphia. After two years'
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 47
experience with this firm he commenced the study
of mechanical engineering, and afterward archi-
tecture, in which profession he is now engaged.
4 Sarah Tyson, born 12th mo. 7th, 1846. Unmarried.
Assistant Director of Fine Art Department of
World's Columbian Exposition.
5 Marshall Tyson, born 3d mo. 22d, 1852. Married
Josephine Peacock, of Chicago, 111. Two chil-
dren, Wm. Caleb and Florence.
6 Elizabeth Perot, born nth mo. 20th, 1853. Married,
icth mo. 15th, 1874, Edward D. Clarke, of Chi-
cago, 111. Elizabeth died 2d mo. 28th, 1883, at
Pemberton, N. J. Interred at Mount Holly,
N. J. Two children, Adele and Elizabeth Perot.
WAR RECORD OF FRANCIS PEROT HALLOWELL
Enlisted at the age of twenty. Second Lieuten-
ant of Company 1, 99th Regiment Pennsylvania Vol-
unteers, from ist month i8th, 1862, until 9th month
12th, 1862.
Third Assistant Engineer, U. S. N., 9th month,
1863, until 4th month, 1867. Honorably discharged.
Surgeon General's Department, Washington, D.
C, 8th month, 1882-1885.
Died 8th month 12th, 1885, at Washington, D. C.
Interred in Arlington cemetery- with military honors.
CIVIL SERVICE
Postmaster at Millington, III., from 1874 to 1877.
48 THE HALLOIVBLL FAMILY
WAR RECORD OF MORRIS HALLOWELL
Enlisted 5th month 26th, 1861, at the a.^e of nine-
teen, for the full term of service ; 6th month 4th, 1861,
was commissioned First Sergeant in Company H, ist
Regiment California Volunteers (71st Regiment Penn-
sylvania), Col. E. D. Baker. Honorably discharged
2d month 25th, 1863, at Mt. Pleasant Hospital, Wash-
ington, D. C, for disability incurred in line of duty.
Re-enlisted in Company F, 20th Veteran Regiment
Corps, and honorably discharged at the expiration of
the War.
WAR RECORD OF LEWIS MORRIS HALLOWELL
Enlisted at the age of seventeen. Private Com-
pany H, ist California Volunteers ijisi Pennsylvania),
Col. E. D. Baker; but was not mustered, owing to
there being a surplus of recruits.
Private Company K, 95th Regiment Pennsylvania
Volunteers.
Corporal Company K, g5th Regiment Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers, 1862. Honorably discharged, loth
month, 1863, on account of disability resulting from a
wound received at the battle of Malvern Hill, 7th
month ist, 1862.
Elected a member of Post 2, Department of Penn-
sylvania, Grand Army of the Republic.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 49
The following is a list of the principal engagements
in which he participated :
Siege of Yorktown, Gaines' Mill,
West Point, Savage Station,
Fair Oaks (Reserve), Glendale,
Mechanicsville, Malvern Hill,
Gettysburg.
50 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
DANIEL ALBERT HALLOWELL
6-38. Daniel Albert Hallowell, son of Chalkley
(5-25) and Susan Fisher Hallowell, was born 2d month
3d, 1822; died of consumption, 8th month 20th, 1870.
Interred at Brooklyn, N. Y. Married 6th month 4th,
1846, at St. Philip's Church (Episcopal), Philadelphia,
Rev. Dr. Edmund Neville officiating, Catherine Joseph-
ine Monell, born 3d month 16, 1826, in the city of New
York, daughter of John I. and Catherine Monell.
Four children, all born at Philadelphia:
1 Catherine Monell, born 6th mo. 13th, 1847; died 7th
mo. igth, 1847- Interred at Philadelphia.
2 Thomas Sweney, born 7th mo. gth, 1849; died 7th
mo. i8th, 1868. Interment at Philadelphia.
3 Samuel Day, born gth mo. 24th, 185 1 ; residence
Brooklyn, N. Y.
4 John Franklin, born Qth mo. 14th, 1857; married
8th mo. 15th, i8gi, in Chicago, III., to Cath-
erine Cline. One child, Catherine Josephine,
born at Chicago, III., 7th mo. ist, 1892.
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AMANDA EMILY HALLOWELL
6-39. Amanda Emily Hallowell, daughter of
Chalkley (5-25 ) and Susan Fisher Hallowell, was born
about the year 1821 ; died 6th month i8th, 1859, ^^
"Norwood," Chelten Hills, Pa., the residence of her
cousin, Morris L, Hallowell, in whose lot in South
Laurel Hill cemetery her remains were interred. She
married by Friends' ceremony, Thomas Worthington
Sweney, at her above-named cousin's city residence.
No. 422 North Sixth street (old No. 240). Her mar-
riage certificate has been lost, but it is thought it was
the year 1846 when the marriage took place.
Thomas Worthington Sweney, son of Thomas and
Elizabeth Sweney, was born at West Chester, Chester
county. Pa., 5th month 22d, 1812 ; died 4th month 7th,
1872, and was buried beside his wife in South Laurel
Hill.
One child :
Hannah Hallowell Sweney, born 4th mo. 8th, 1847;
married 2d mo. i6th, 1874, at the Church of the
House of Prayer, Newark, N. J., the Rev. Hannibal
Goodwin, Rector, officiating, Jesse Garrett, born in
52 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
Willistown, Chester county, Pa., yth mo. gth, 1834,
son of David and Anna Garrett. Jesse and Han-
nah H. Garrett had one child, Christina Hallowell
Garrett, born 7th mo. 5th, 1876, in Lower Birming-
ham, Delaware county. Pa., at the residence of
Deborah Brinton, a sister of her father.
MILITARY RECORD OF THOMAS W. SWENEY
Colonel of the ggth Regiment Pennsylvania Vol-
unteers.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 53
ANNA HALLOWELL
7-44. Anna Hallowell, daughter of Morris Long-
streth (6-27) and Hannah Penrose Hailowell, was born
nth month ist, 1831, at No. 1015 Race street (old No.
365). Unmarried.
Her life has been devoted to philanthropic and
educational work. The Philadelphia Society for Or-
ganizing Charity, and other benevolent corporations
enjoyed for years the advantages of her wise counsel
and executive ability. For ten years she was chair-
man of the Committee of Visitors for Philadelphia
county, for the Board of Public Charities, and in 1891
became President of the Advisory Board of Women,
of the Drexel Institute.
When in 1877 the Society for the Collegiate in-
struction of Women secured from Harvard College the
establishment of examinations for women, she became
the Secretary for the Philadelphia Centre, and con-
tinued in the position until the local Committee dis-
solved in 1881.
She was the founder of the free kindergartens in
the city of Philadelphia. The maintenance of the
54 THE HALLOl^ELL FAMILY
same was for several years by voluntary contributions,
when in 6th month gth, 1881, an organization to carry
on the work was incorporated under the title of the
Sub-Primary School Society. The opening of one
kindergarten after another continued, until the Society
had thirty-two free kindergartens in different parts of
the city under its management, into which were gath-
ered nearly one thousand children between three and
six years of age. The experiment was so full of
promise to the public welfare that city Councils felt
justified in appropriating to the Board of Public Educa-
•tion the sum of five thousand dollars to secure a fair
trial in adjusting it to the public school system. This
step proved eminently satisfactory, and at an annual
meeting of the Sub-Primary School Society, held
ist month 20th, 1887, a formal transfer of the free
kindergartens was made to the Board of Public
Education.
On I2th month 6th, 1887, Anna Hallowell was
honored by the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas
in an appointment to represent the Seventh School
section in the Board of Public Education, being the first
woman ever appointed in this city.
In January, 1893, she was appointed to the third
term of service.
Wll.I.lAM I'. IlAl.l,<i\VKi.l,.
First Lieutknant and Adjutant,
55TI1 Rkg. Mass. Vols.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 55
WILLIAM PENROSE HALLOWELL
7-45. William Penrose Hallovvell, son of Morris
L. (6-27) and Hannah Penrose Hallowell, was born
5th month i8th, 1833, at No. 1017 Race street (old
No. 367), Philadelphia.
Married by Friends' ceremony, 5th month 29th,
1856, Elizabeth Corhit Davis, daughter of Isaac
Roberts* and Lydia Corbit Davis, at whose resi-
dence, "Chelton," Cheltenham township, Montgomery
county. Pa., the wedding took place.
Elizabeth was born 3d month 6th, 1835, at No.
619 Arch street, Philadelphia ; died 12th month 25th,
1876, at her residence, south-west corner of Old York
road and Juniper avenue, Cheltenham township, Mont-
gomery county, Pa. Interred in Isaac R. Davis's lot.
North Laurel Hill cemetery, Philadelphia.
Children :
8-74 Morris Longstreth, 3d, born 5th mo. ist, 1857.
Married.
8-75 Isaac Roberts Davis, born 8th mo. 7th, 1859.
Unmarried.
*See Note No. 2, Appendix.
56 THE HALLOIVEI.L FAMILY
8-76 William Penrose, 2d, born nth month 30th, 1863.
Married.
William Penrose Hallowell's second wife was Mary
M. Dewey, born 6th month 19th, 1848, at Castleton,
Rutland count}-, Vermont.
They were married 4th month 27th, 1881, at No.
3208 Race street, Philadelphia, by the Rev. George
Bringhurst, Rector of the House of Prayer rEpiscopal),
Branchtown, twenty-second ward, Philadelphia.
No children.
The business career of William P. Hallowell was
a chequered one ; his tastes were of a mechanical
turn, but fate so ordered that, with the exception of a
few years, his life was spent as a merchant, and as a
banker and broker.
On lea\'ing school (1848) he entered the employ
of Evans & Guillou as a "bundle boy," remaining
with them until 1850.
We next find him in the merchandise department
of Morris L. Hallowell & Co., and later as an assistant
clerk in the counting-room of the same firm.
On ist month ist, 1854, he became a partner of
the house of Guillou, Walton & Co., importers and
jobbers of linens and housekeeping dry goods, at
No. 333 Market street. Mr. Walton retiring from
business, the firm name was changed to Guillou, An-
derson & Co., and on 3d month 23d, 1857, William P.
Hallowell dissolved his connection with them. About
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THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 57
the year 1859 o"" ^^^^ he was admitted to an interest
in the firm of Morris L. Hallowell & Co., where he re-
mained until the breaking out of the war.
He enlisted in the army, but on account of physi-
cal disability, caused from exposure was obliged to
resign after a very short term of service. He then
devoted several years to learning the art of printmg,
and about 1870 established the "Cheltenham Press,"
in Cheltenham township, Montgomery county. Pa.
Notwithstanding the plant was located beyond the
city limits, the enterprise proved a success. From a
very small beginning it increased rapidly. The diffi-
culty of obtaining skilled workmen who were willing
to reside in the country was a great drawback, and the
Typographical Union also indirectly contributed to the
annoyances daily met with where labor is employed.
The ownership of the "Cheltenham Press" was
transferred on 7th month 5th, 1873, to one, Henry S.
Volkmar, who moved the machinery, type, etc., to
Philadelphia. The building was afterward converted
into a coach-house and stable. It is still standing in
good preservation on the property, formerly the resi-
dence of William P. and Elizabeth D. Hallowell, south-
west corner of Old York road and Juniper avenue,
Cheltenham township, Montgomery county, Pa.
Third month, 1868, was elected for a term of five
years a Justice of the Peace for the county of Mont-
gomery, state of Pennsylvania, but declined serving.
58 THE HALLOWELL FAMILY
Fifth month 13th, 1875, William P. Hallowell pur-
chased a seat at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and
commenced business as banker and broker with his
son, Morris L, Hallowell, Jr., under the firm name
of Wm. P. Hallowell & Co.
In 1880 this firm was dissolved by reason of its
junior member moving West with hi^ family, making
his home permanently at A\inneapolis, Minnesota, in
the year 1881.
Wm. P. Hallowell continued in the business until
ist month 28th, 1887, when failing health made it
imperative for him to retire from the cares of an
active life.
MILITARY RECORD
PriN'ate Company A, ist Regiment of Artillery,
Pennsylvania State Militia, Captain Henry D. Landis.
Mustered gth month i5tlT, 1S62, and served as infantry
during the first rebel raid into Pennsylvania.
First Lieutenant and Adjutant 55th Regiment Mass-
achusetts Volunteers, 5th month 19th, 1863. Partici-
pated in the siege of Charleston, South Carolina,
summer of 1863.
Honorably discharged 2d month 25th, 1864, on
account of physical disability.
Second month 3d, 1886, elected a companion of the
first class of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of the United States, Commandery of the State of
Pennsylvania. Insignia No. 4412.
RiCHAKD 1'. HAI.LOWKI.L.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
59
RICHARD PRICE HALLOWELL
7-46. Richard Price Hallowell, son of Morris
L. (6-27) and Hannah Penrose Hallowell, was born at
No. 142 North Twelfth street, Philadelphia, 12th month
i6th, 1835. He was named for Richard Price, a highly
esteemed citizen and intimate friend of his parents,
who married Lydia Longstreth,''' a first cousin of
Richard's father.
Married loth month 26th, 1859, '^Y Friends' cere-
mony, Anna Coffin Davis, born 4th month 21st, 1838,
daughter of Edward M. and Maria Mott Davis. The
marriage took place at the residence of Anna's grand-
parents, James and Lucretia Mott,t "Roadside,"
Cheltenham township, Montgomery county, Pa.
Children, all born at West Medford, Mass.:
8-77 Maria, born 8th mo. 22d, i860. Portrait painter.
Unmarried.
8-78 Penrose, born loth mo. 28th, 1862; died 4th mo.
28th, 1872, at the residence of his great-grand-
parents, James and Lucretia Mott, from peri-
tonitis following a fail. Interment in Edward
M. Davis's lot at Laurel Hill.
* See Note No. 6, Appendix.
tSee Note No. 5, Appendix.
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8-79 James Mott, born 2d mo. 13th, 1865.
8-80 Lucretia Mott, born 12th mo. 8th, 1867.
8-81 Francis Walton, born 8th mo. 12th, 1870.
Richard P. Hallowell was educated at Haverford
College, Delaware county. Pa. Was enrolled as a
student in the year 1849. Entered the business arena
as a clerk in the house of Morris L. Hallowell & Co., No.
333 Market street, Philadelphia. In obedience to his
convictions on the subject of slavery, h.is connection
with this firm was of short duration, their trade being
principally with Southerners. We find him next in the
employ of Hanson Robinson & Co., wool commission
merchants. Commenced business on his own account
about the year 1856, on South Front street, Phila-
delphia, hi 1857 went to Boston, Mass., and there
organized the firm of Hallowell & Howland. In 1865
formed a co-partnership with George W. Coburn,
under the firm name of Hallowell & Coburn, for the
transaction of the wool commission business. Upon
the death of Mr. Coburn, which took place 4th month
2d, 1890, the style of the firm was changed to Hallo-
well & Donald, and is at this date one of the leading
houses of its kind in Boston.
He was one of the directors of the National Bank
of Commerce, of Boston, Mass., from ist month 13th,
1880, until nth month 5th, 1884; on this date he was
elected Vice-President, filling this office until 4th month
30th, 1886.
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In early youth Mr. Hallowell espoused the cause
of liberty, devoting his time and means toward the
extermination of slavery; in 1858 was elected a
member of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, and
numbered amongst his warmest friends, Wendell Phil-
lips, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, James and Lucretia Mott,
and many others; the last-named, James and Lucretia
Mott, were grandparents of Richard's wife.
At the time John Brown was officially murdered
(i2th month 3d, 1859,) ^^^ Harper's Ferry by Governor
Wise, et al., of Virginia, Richard P. Hallowell, with a
few chosen friends, went south to procure his "body,"
in order to convey it to its last resting place. North
Elba, Adirondacks, N. Y. Although Mr. Hallowell did
not shoulder a musket when the war broke out, he did
a far greater service by aiding in the recruiting of those
world-renowed regiments of colored men, the 54th and
55th Massachusetts Volunteers. He was also treasurer
of the recruiting fund. His efforts to procure justice
for the men on the question of pay were arduous, but
in the end were crowned with success.
He has the honor of having been one of Wendell
Phillips's famous "body-guard " in the early days of
the war, when free speech was still dangerous in the
state of Massachusetts.
Whilst devoted to his business, the cares and
responsibilities of which are many, he finds time to
indulge his tastes for literary pursuits, hi 1883 he
62 THE H ALLOW ELL FAMILY
published a work entitled "The Quaker invasion of
Massachusetts," and later "The Pioneer Quakers."
Besides these, he has contributed many interesting
articles for newspaper publication. His wife also is
gifted with a ready pen, having in the year 1884 pub-
lished " The Life and Letters of James and Lucretia
Mott." A number of articles written by her have
appeared from time to time ; an especially interesting
one was published in Harpers' Weekly of 4th month
23d, 1892, entitled "An Episode in the life of James
Russell Lowell." She is also an artist of no small
ability.
Richard P. and Anna D. Hallowell took up their
residence loth month 28th, 1859, two days after their
marriage, at West Medford, Massachusetts, where they
have lived ever since. The house is situated at the
south-east corner of High and Auburn streets. Origi-
nally it was a tiny dwelling ; during the summer of 1869
they enlarged it, and on the tenth anniversary of their
wedding day (Toth month 26th, 1869) re-occupied it.
Col. Edward N. Haii.i iwell
BKEVKT BRK;. GEN. U. S. V.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 63
EDWARD NEEDLES HALLOWELL
l-Al . Edward Needles Hallowell (Brevet Gen.
U. S. Volunteers), son of Morris L. (6-27) and Hannah
Penrose Hallowell, was born nth month 3d, 1836, at
No. 142 North Twelfth street, Philadelphia.
He was named for Edward Needles, President of
the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, husband of Mary
Hathaway Needles,* a valued friend of William and
Annah Norwood Penrose, parents of Edward's mother.
Edward Needles Hallowell before the war was
a stock and note broker. Gold street, Philadelphia.
His country demanding his services to aid in crushing
out slavery, he gave up civil pursuits for that of a
soldier. At the end of the Rebellion he was admitted
to an interest in the firm of Hallowell & Coburn, wool
commission merchants, of Boston, Mass., retaining this
position up to the time of his decease. He was
strongly identified with the Anti-Slavery Society, and
worked strenuously in aiding many slaves to escape
from bondage. In 1859 ^^ '^^s elected a member of
the Pennsylvania Abolition Society. 'Twas he, to-
*See Memoir, Appendix.
•64 THE HALLOW ELL FAMILY
gether with a friend, Edward M. Davis, Jr., who, under
cover of night, drove from Philadelphia to "Nor-
wood,"* the residence of Morris L. Hallowell (6-27),
at Chelten Hills, Daniel Dangerfield, a celebrated slave,
whose trial in our courts created intense excitement.
His master claimed that under the Fugitive Slave Act,
Daniel should be remanded to bondage. The ruling of
Commissioner Longstreth, before v/hom the case was
tried, was favorable to Daniel, for the reason that the
description of the slave advertised for, varied a quar-
ter of an inch in height from the prisoner at the bar.
As before stated, the feeling both for and against
the return to slavery of Daniel Dangerfield was
intense. The streets around the court room were
crowded by a mob, the colored people outnumbering
the whites, which, although quite orderly, was not in
a humor to be trifled with. Procuring a carriage with
a rope attached thereto, they placed Daniel within and
dragged him in triumph through the thoroughfares.
As it was feared that he would be recaptured, he was
hidden, it is stated, in an old tomb in a grave-yard in
the southern part of the city until night, when he was
taken to "Norwood," where he remained secreted
until the excitement was somewhat allayed. Other
.agents of the "Underground Railroad" then removed
him beyond the reach of slave-drivers of the South
.and copperheads of the North.
* See Note No. 3, Appendix.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 65
On 2d month 2d, 1869, Edward Needles Hallowell
married Charlotte Bartlett Wilhelma Swett, born 2d
month 8th, 1843, daughter of Charlotte Bartlett and
the late William Gray Swett. They were married by
Friends' ceremony at the residence of her mother, at
Belmont, Mass., and made their home in what is known
as the Pierpont House, situated on the east side of
Mystic street, north of High street, West Medford,
Mass. It was in this house that Gen. Edward Needles
Hallowell died, 7th month 26th, 1871, of a disease*
supposed to have been contracted when in the service.
Two children, both born at the Pierpont House,
West Medford, Mass.:
8-82 Charlotte Bartlett, born ist mo. 22d, 1870.
8-83 Emily, born 6th mo. 5th, 1871.
MILITARY RECORD
Private, 4th Battalion, New England Guard. Gar-
risoned Fort Independence, Boston Harbor, from 4th
month 26th, 1861, to about 5th month 25th, 1861.
First Lieutenant, Volunteer Aid-de-Camp to Major-
General John C. Fremont, loth month 18th, 1861, to
1 2th month i6th, 1861.
Second Lieutenant 20th Massachusetts Infantry,
ist month i ith, 1862.
First Lieutenant 20th Massachusetts Infantry, i ith
month 1 2th, 1862.
*See Note No. i, Appendix.
66 THE HALLOli^'ELL FAMILY
Captain 54th Massachusetts Infantry, 3d month
6th, 1863.
Major 54th Massachusetts Infantry, 4th month
17th, 1863.
Lieutenant-Colonel 54th Massachusetts Infantry,
5th month 31st, 1863.
Colonel 54th Massachusetts Infantry, 7th month
i8th, 1863.
Breveted Brigadier-General U. S. Volunteers, 6th
month 27th, 1865, for meritorious services.
Mustered out with the regiment at Boston, Mass.,
at the close of the war, 8th month 20th, 1865.
Elected 12th month ist, 1868, a companion of the
first class of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of the United States, Commandery of the State of
Massachusetts. Insignia, No. 958.
Died at West Medford, Mass., 7th month 26th,
1871. Interment at Mt. Auburn cemetery, Watertown,
Mass.
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67
Commonwealth of
Massachusetts
Headquarters, Boston, July 27, 1871.
GENERAL ORDER NO. 5
Brevet Brigadier-General Edward N. Hallowell,
Aid-de-Camp to his Excellency the Governor and
Commander-in-Chief, died in West Medford, Mass.,
July 26th, 1871. The Commander-in-Chief in respect
for his character as a gentleman and a citizen, and in
recognition of his devotion to duty as a soldier, his
distinguished services as Colonel of the 54th Regiment
of Massachusetts Volunteers, together with his valuable
assistance rendered as a member of his Staff, orders
that his death be officially communicated to the Militia
throughout the Commonwealth. •
Major-Generai B. F. Butler, commanding Division
M. V. M., is charged with the promulgation of this
order.
By order of his Excellency William Claflin, Gov-
ernor and Commander-in-Chief.
(Signed,) JAMES A. CUNNINGHAM,
Adjutant-General.
68 THE H^LLOIVELL FAMILY
EDWARD NEEDLES HALLOWELL.
{^Boston Transcript.'\
"The death of General Edward N. Hallowell, at West Med-
ford, Mass., is another sad proof that the casualties of the cruel
war are not yet ended, and that brave men are still falling, as
truly as if finding their graves on the battle field. The disease
which ended the life of this gallant soldier, faithful citizen, and
true-hearted, honorable man, was contracted in the army; where
his services were as arduous and dangerous as they were
unwearied. Gen. Hallowell belonged to a well-known, thoroughly
loyal, and philanthropic Philadelphia family, and was one of three
brothers who joined the army in obedience to their convictions as
to what the cause of humanity and liberty demanded of their
manhood.
" Having served as staff officer in the West and as Captain
in the 2cth Massachusetts Infanty, he left Boston in 1863 as
Lieutenant-Colonel of the 54th Regiment, and, after the death
of Colonel Robert G. Shaw, at Fort Wagner, commanded that
corps until the close of the contest. He was breveted for his
meritorious services. He took up the sword, as did many others,
at the behest of cherished principles and in behalf of the Union
and an enslaved race: war being a strange work he engaged in,
as bound in his conscience. When the victory for the right was
won, he gladly became a civilian again, with an unsullied record
of brave deeds.
"Gen. Hallowell's name and career are identified with the
familiar and proud story of the first colored regiment that left
Massachusetts to assert the ability of a wronged people to show
themselves worthy of confidence among the staunchest defenders
of the Republic. In early manhood he has been taken away
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 69
from kindred and friends, who will most affectionately honor and
cherish his memory, alike for the virtues that won so much esteem
and love in private life, and the entire devotion with which he
responded to the call upon him to live and to die for his country."
No farther seek his merits to disclose.
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
(There they alike in trembling hope repose).
The bosom of his Father and his God."
70 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
NORWOOD PENROSE HALLOWELL
7-48. Norwood Penrose Hallowell, son of Morris
L. {6-27) and Hannah Penrose Hallowell, was born at
No, 422 North Sixth street (old No. 240;, Philadelphia,
4th month 13th, 1839.
Married ist month 27th, 1868, by Friends' cere-
mony, Sarah Wharton Haydock, born ist month 22d,
1846, daughter of Robert and Hannah Wharton Hay-
dock,* at whose residence, No. 212 east 12th street,
New York city, the wedding took place.
Six children, all born at their residence, "Nod-
debo," situated on the west side of Mystic street, south
of High street, West Medford, Massachusetts:
8-84 Anna Norwood, born 3d mo. 20th, 1871.
8-85 Robert Haydock, born 6th mo. 30th, 1873.
8-86 Norwood Penrose, 2d, born 7th mo. 3d, 1875.
8-87 John White, born 12th mo. 24th, 1878.
8-88 Esther Fisher, born 3d mo. 21st, 1881.
8-89 Susan Morris, born 12th mo. igth, 1883.
Norwood P. Hallowell graduated from Harvard
College, class of 1861. He immediately enlisted in
* See Xote No. 7, Appendix.
Col. N<ikw(i(.)I) p. Hali.owkll.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 71
the service of his country, to aid in the suppression
of the Rebellion and the extermination of slavery ;
remaining in the service until forced, by reason of
wounds, to resign from a military life.
His business career commenced in the year 1864.
From ist month to 6th month he was employed in the
commission house of Watts, Crane & Co., New York;
and on 6th month ist formed a co-partnership with his
brother, Richard P. Hallowell, for the transaction of
the wool business in that city, at No. 35 Broadway.
Fifth month ist, 1866, the firm of Hallowell Bros,
dissolved, and was reorganized under the style of Hal-
lowell, Prescott & Co., and, later, as Hallowell & Co.,
in partnership with his father, Morris L. Hallowell.
hi 1869 he moved his residence to West Medford,
Mass., and established himself in Boston as a wool
broker and commission merchant. On ist month 23d,
1891, he was elected President of the National Bank
of Commerce, of Boston, Mass. First month ist,
1892, retired from the wool business.
He is a member of the religious society of Friends ;
when moving to New York, he transferred his rights
from Philadelphia to the monthly meeting of Friends
of New York city. The certificate bears date of 8th
month, 1866,
During an emergency at Swarthmore College, Del-
aware county. Pa., he filled, for a few weeks, the chair
of history in that institution.
72 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
Asa public speaker, he handles his subject intel-
ligently and in an interesting manner.
MILITARY RECORD
Private 4th Battalion, New England Guard. Gar-
risoned Fort Independence, Boston harbor, from 4th
month 26th, 1 86 1, to about 5th month 25th, 1861.
First Lieutenant 20th Massachusetts Infantry, 7th
month loth, 1861.
Captain 20th Massachusetts Infantry, nth month
26th, 1 86 1.
Lieutenant-Colonel 54th Massachusetts Infantry,
4th month 17th, 1863.
Colonel 55th Massachusetts Infantry, 5th month
30th, 1863.
Resigned nth month 2d, 1863, on account of dis-
ability resulting from a wound received at the battle
of Antietam.
He was also wounded in the side at Glendale,
Va., 6th month 30th, 1862.
The following is a list of some of the engage-
ments in which he participated :
Ball's Bluff, Va., loth month 21st, 1861.
Siege of Yorktown, Va., 4th month ist, 1862, to
5th month 5th, 1862.
Fair Oaks, Va., 5th month 31st, 1862.
Savage Station, Va., 6th month 29th, 1862.
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Glendale (White Oaks Swamp), 6th month 30th,
1862.
Malvern Hill, Va., 7th month ist, 1862.
Chantilly, Va., gth month ist, 1862.
Antietam, Md., 9th month 17th, 1862.
Siege of Charleston, S. C, summer of 1863.
Elected, ist month 2d, 1884, a companion of the
first class of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of the United States, Commandery of the State of
Massachusetts. Insignia No. 3054.
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EMILY HALLOWELL
7-49. Emily Hallowell, daughter of Morris
Longstreth (6-27) and Hannali Penrose Hallowell, was
born ist month i8th, 1842, at No. 422 North Sixth
street (old No. 240). Unmarried.
She has always been especially interested in edu-
cation, and occasionally taught in an irregular and
interrupted way, until with Frances E. Case, she
opened in the spring of 1879, ^^ No. 1334 Spruce street,
and later at 1527 Pine street, Philadelphia, a school
for girls. This has continued successful for a number
of years, and has done its part in the preparation of
girls for college.
THE HALLO IV ELL FAMILY 75
SUSAN MORRIS HALLOWELL
7-50. Susan Morris Hallowell, daughter of
Morris Longstreth (6-27) and Hannah Penrose Hallo-
well, was born 6th month 17th, 1845, ^t No. 422 North
Sixth street fold No. 240). Unmarried.
Her tastes, though of a decidedly domestic turn,
have not prevented her from devoting much time to
works of philanthropy. When the Philadelphia Society
for Organizing Charity was started, she served for
several years as one of the women visitors in the
seventh ward ; she also was a member of the Board
of Managers of the Children's Aid Society and Bureau
of Information of the State of Pennsylvania, from the
year of its incorporation, ist month 27th, 1883, until
the winter of 1891-2.
76 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
CHARLES MORRIS WALTON
7-52. Charles Morris Walton, son of William
and Susannah Morris (6-29) Walton, of Philadelphia,
was born nth month 15th, 1831, at No. 1017 Race
street (old No. 367). He was unfitted for an active
business life, having inherited the disease (consump-
tion) which caused the death of not only his parents,
but all of his brothers and sisters.
For a few years he was a member of the firm of
Guillou, Walton & Co., organized ist month ist, 1854,
importers and jobbers of linens and housekeeping dry
goods, No. 333 Market street, Philadelphia. His taste
was more literary than mercantile, so that when retir-
ing from business, he devoted his time to preparing
himself to enter Harvard College as a student. He
passed the necessary examination and was admitted to
the class of 1861. An amusing, and one might truly
say remarkable, incident occurred one evening when
he was "cramming" for college. His cousin, Norwood
P. Hallowell (7-48), was also preparing himself to enter
Harvard. They would spend their hours for study at
Charles's liome, rendering assistance to each other as
Charles M. Walton.
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far as was possible, and often declaiming in a loud tone.
One of the house servants was a poor, half-witted,
ignorant colored girl, who, on the evening in question
(it was late), suddenly appeared in her robe de nuit
before "Caius" and "Balbus," the classic names
of Charles and Norwood, and recited a quantity of
Greek she had heard them "spouting" to each other
as their lesson.
The New England climate, together with close
application to study, soon proved too great a strain on
his constitution, and he was reluctantly forced to
relinquish his college course and seek a more congenial
clime, A sojourn in Italy and the southern part of
France was tried in the hope of benefiting his health,
but with no permanent good result. It was on this
memorable voyage that Charles Dickens — "Boz" —
was a fellow passenger, and the intercourse which Mr.
Walton had with him suggested his writing an article
which will be referred to later.
A very dear friend, and connection by marriage,
writes of him as follows:
"Charles M.Walton was a born journalist, al-
though he did not discover it until he had nearly done
with life. The last winter he was with us, he took
the greatest interest in writing for the New York
Tribune. A well-written sketch from his pen, entitled
'With Dickens Aboard,' was published by Lippin-
cotts in their Magazine. Another one of his articles.
78 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
'The Old and the New,' appeared in a Boston period-
ical, but this was not until after his death."
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Charley Walton,
as we were wont to call him, were extremely congenial
friends. It was a colored valet of the last-named that
the Doctor mentions under the sobriquet of "Huckle-
berry," in an article that appeared in the Atljulk
Monthly or Harpers', entitled "My Search After the
Captain."
The following incident in his life and that of his
sister Elizabeth, or "Bessie," as she was always
called, will not be out of place here:
They attended a course of lectures on Physical
Culture, given by Dr. Dio Lewis, in Boston, Mass.,
and also became pupils at his Gymnasium, where the
Swedish system of light gymnastics was taught. After
becoming proficient, both in theory and practice, they
taught several classes very successfully in Philadelphia.
On one occasion Charles appeared before a large and
fashionable audience on the platform at Concert Hall,
Philadelphia, and practically illustrated in an admirable
manner all of Dr. Dio Lewis's lecture. This was
about the year i 860-61.
Charles Morris Walton was endowed by nature
with an affectionate, gentle disposition ; as a conversa-
tionalist was delightful to listen to. His friends were
numerous; and those who still survive him cherish his
memory with fond endearment.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 79.
On 4th month loth, 1871, he entered into rest at
the residence of his grandmother, Ann Longstreth
Hallovvell, No. 1807 Spruce street, Philadelphia.
His remains were interred in the lot of his
uncle, Morris L. Hallowell (6-27), South Laurel Hill,
Philadelphia.
MILITARY RECORD
Member of Company A, ist Regiment of Artil-
lery, P. S. M., better known as Landis's Battery.
During the rebel raid (1863) into the State of Penn-
sylvania, he accompanied the battery to the front, and
was under fire at Carlisle. It is highly probable that
if his health had permitted, he would have enlisted for
the full term of service, as did his brother. Major James
M. Walton (7-55), of the 54th Regiment, Mass. Vols.
Infantry.
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FRANCIS WALTON
7-5A.. Francis Walton, son of William and
Susannah Morris (6-29) Walton was born 7th month
14th, 1835.
Was a student at Haverford College, Delaware
county, Pa. (Enrolled 1848. ) Entered the dry goods
commission house of Hacker, Lea & Co., Philadelphia,
and later was in the employ of Bacon, Price & Co.,
shippers and miners of coal, Pottsville, Pa. His failing
health made it necessary for him to give up an active
business life when very young. He died of consump-
tion 4th month 28th, 1857, at " Norwood," Washington
Lane and Chelten avenue, Chelten Hills, Montgomery
county. Pa., the residence of his uncle, Morris L,
Hallowell (6-27), in whose lot at Laurel Hill, Philadel-
phia, his remains were interred.
Maj. James M. Walton.
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JAMES MORRIS WALTON
7-55. James Morris Walton, son of Susannah
Morris Hallovvell (6-29) and William Walton, of Phil-
adelphia, was born 7th month 12th, 1838; died of
consumption, 5th month 25th, 1874, at Pittsfield, Mass.
Interred in the lot of his uncle, Morris L. Hallowell,
South Laurel Hill, Philadelphia. Married nth month
28th, 1867, by Friends' ceremony, at the residence of
her mother, New York city, Mary Forster Collins,
daughter of Rebecca and the late Isaac Collins, for-
merly of Philadelphia. Rebecca Collins died 4th month
30th, 1892, in New York city.
Mary Forster Collins was born 3d month ist, 1843,
in the Parish of Stoke, Newington, London, England.
Two children :
S-Qi Elizabeth, born loth mo. 25th, 1868, New York city.
8-92 Ernest Forster, born 4th mo. 5th, 187 1, New York
city. Graduated from Haverford College,
Delaware county, Pa., class of iSgo. Civil
Engineer at Colorado Springs, Colorado. Was
obliged to give up his profession on account of
impaired eye-sight ; returned to the East, and
is now Eastern Agent for the Wickes Refrig-
erator and Cold Storage Company.
82 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
James M. Walton was a graduate of Haverford Col-
lege. (Class of 1856.) Commenced his business career
as a coal merchant — Birchall & Walton, at Ogontz,
formerly Shoemakertown, Montgomery county, F'a.
Dissolved his connection with Wm. Birchall, and
studied law in the office of Peter McCall, Esq., of Phil-
adelphia. Was admitted to practice at the bar about
the year 1862. in 1863 he enlisted in the 54th Regi-
ment, Massachusetts Vols. Infantry, as First Lieuten-
ant ; remained in the service until the close of the war.
Upon his return to civil life, purchased a member-
ship in the New York Stock Exchange. He shared the
same office with Chase & Higginson, New York city ;
this was from the autumn of 1867 to 1871. His health
breaking down, he retired from business and took up
his residence at Pittsfield, Mass., where he entered
into rest 5th month 25th, 1874.
James M. Walton had a birthright membership
in the religious society of Friends, commonly called
Quakers. When moving to New York he transferred
his right from Philadelphia to the monthly meeting of
Friends held in New York city. The certificate bears
date of 5th month 20th, 1868. He was elected a
member of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society in 1859.
MILITARY RECORD
Third month 19th, 1863. First Lieutenant 54th
Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers Infantry.
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Tenth month 7th, 1863. Captain 54th Regiment
Massachusetts Volunteers hifantry.
Seventh month nth, 1865. Major 54th Regiment
Massachusetts Volunteers Infantry. Honorably dis-
charged, 8th month 20th, 1865, at the close of the
war.
Tenth month, 1864, was Acting Provost Marshal.
First and 2d months, 1865, Acting A. D. C,
Northern District, Department of the South.
Third and 4th months, 1865, Provost Judge,
Savannah, Georgia.
Fifth month, 1865, Acting Judge Advocate, North-
ern District, Department of the South.
84 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
CHARLES HALLOWELL
7-62. Charles Hallowell, son of Joshua Long-
streth (6-32) and Theressa Kimber Hallowell, was born
in Philadelphia, 8th month 13th, 1842.
Married ist month 21st, 1869, Belle Jewett, born
at Cadiz, Ohio, 7th month 2d, 1846, daughter of the
Hon, Thomas L. and Ann Haines Jewett. The mar-
riage took place at the residence of her parents, Steu-
benville, Ohio, the Rev. Charles C. Beatty (Presby-
terian) ofificiating.
Charles Hallowell was elected a member of the
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, 7th month 28th, 1873.
In the year 1873, ^^ formed a co-partnership with
his uncle, Morris L. Hallowell (6-27), under the firm
name of Hallowell & Co., bankers and brokers. No.
33 South Third street, Philadelphia. At the time of
his death he was still a member of this firm, in gth
month, 1862, when the rebels invaded the States of
Maryland and Pennsylvania, and the battle of Antie-
tam was fought, he shouldered his musket and went
to the front ; his health, however, would not permit
him to enlist for the full term of service. Died of con-
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 85
-sumption, 4th month 13th, 1875, at the residence of
his father-in-law, Hon, Thomas L, Jewett (formerly of
Steubenville, Ohio), No. 21 12 Walnut street, Philadel-
phia. His remains were interred in Friends' burying-
^round. Fair Hill, Philadelphia.
Children :
8-93 Thomas Jewett, born 12th mo. 28th, i86g, at Steu-
benville, Ohio. Resides in New York city
(1892), and is president of the Holbein Com-
pany.
8-94 Belle Jewett, born 8th mo. 21st, 1874, at No. 21 12
Walnut street, Philadelphia, and died of whoop-
ing cough at the same place, 5th mo., 1875.
Interred at Friends' burying-ground, Fair Hill,
Philadelphia.
86 THE HALL014/-ELL FAMILY
KATHERINE HALLOWELL SHOEMAKER
7-64. Katherine Hallowell Shoemaker was born
1 2th month 4th, 1855, daughter of Joshua Longstreth
(6-32) and Sarah Catherine Fraley Hallowell. Married
4th month 27th, 1882, Robert Shoemaker, Jr., born
ist month i8th, 1858, son of Benjamin Hallowell and
Susan Trump Shoemaker, of Germantown, Philadel-
phia.
They were married by the Right Rev. Wm. Bacon
Stevens, Bishop of the Diocese of Eastern Pennsyl-
vania, at the residence of the bride's grandfather, the
Hon. Frederick Fraley, No. 2017 DeLancey Place,
Philadelphia.
Katherine was born at "The Cedars," corner
of Chelten* and Juniper avenues, Chelten Hills,
Montgomery county, Pa. This property passed into
the hands of Robert Shoemaker, uncle of Kath-
erine's husband, who made it his home until the fall of
1892, when he sold it to Wm. L. Hlkins, of Phila-
delphia.
* See Note No. S, Appendix.
THE HALLO H' ELL FAMILY 87
Two children, both born at Primrose Lodge, which
stood at the south-east corner of Chew and Mill streets,
Germantown, Philadelphia:
8-95 Frederick Fraley, born 8th mo. 8th, 1886.
8-96 Mary Lippincott, born ist mo. 26th, li.
88 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
JEAN HALLOWELL
7-65. Jean Hallowell, daughter of Joshua
Longstreth (6-32; and Sarah Catherine Fraley Hallo-
well, was born 2d month gth, 1857, at No. 1015 Race
street (old No. 365). Unmarried.
Like her mother, she has devoted her life to liter-
ary pursuits. For a number of years she has been
assistant literary editor of the Public Ledger, Philadel-
phia. Her wide knowledge and excellent judgment
make her an authority in her literary reviews.
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FREDERICK FRALEY HALLOWELL
7-66. Frederick Fraley Hallowell, son of Joshua
Longstreth (6-32) and Sarah Catherine Fraley Hallo-
well, was born 3d month 8th, 1859, at No. 1015 Race
street, Philadelphia; was married 7th month 26th,
1887, by the Rev. Aaron Rittenhouse, at the Fletcher
Methodist Episcopal church, in West Philadelphia, to
Mary Elizabeth Hunter, born 5th month 26th, 1866,
daughter of James and Margaret Devine Hunter, of
Philadelphia. They have resided at Wayne, Delaware
county. Pa., since 6th month, 1888.
Children :
8- ICO Nancy Sterett, born at Wayne, Delaware county,
Pa., gth mo. nth, 1888.
8-101 Margaret Hunter, born at Wayne, Delaware
county, Pa., 5th mo. 5th, 1890.
8-102 John Guy, born at Wayne, Delaware county,
Pa., 7th mo, nth, 1892. His surname, "John,"
is for a brother of his mother; "Guy" is
after another brother, Thomas Guy Hunter,
who was named for an ancestor, the founder
of Guy's Hospital, London, England.
90 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
Frederick Fraley Hallowell was educated at Dr.
Faires's Classical Institute, in Philadelphia, and en-
tered the University of Pennsylvania gth month, 1874.
From Qth month, 1875, until 7th month, 1876, he was
in the employ of Hallowell & Co., bankers and brokers,
of Philadelphia. Later, commenced the study of law
in the office of Joseph C. Fraley, Esq,, and was
admitted to the bar 6th month 8th, 1880. Ninth month,
1884, was elected Assistant Treasurer of the Schuylkill
Navigation Company, and in 1887 was elected Secre-
tary of the same corporation. Resigned both of the
above positions 2d month, 1889, and formed a connec-
tion with the American Pig Iron Storage Warrant Com-
pany, of New York. Resigned this latter employment
for the purpose of organizing the Wayne Title and
Trust Company, of Wayne, Delaware county, Pa.,
which was incorporated 2d month loth, 1890. Was
elected Secretary and Treasurer, which position he
held until 5th month, 1893, when he resigned to
accept a position with the Western Savings Fund,
Philadelphia.
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CHARLES EUGENE HALLOWELL
7-70. Charles Eugene Hallowell, son of Charles
(6-33) and Elmira Rebecca Stephens Hallowell, was
born ist month 13th, 1852. He was named for his
aunt, Mrs Eugene Robinson (Stephens) Hutton.
After leaving school, in 5th month, 1865, he en-
tered the employ of his uncle, William A. Stephens,
remaining with him until gth month, 1868, when he
secured a position with the firm of Macdowell & Wil-
kins, bankers and brokers, at 148 South Third street,
in nth month, 1873, this firm was forced into liquida-
tion from the effects of the financial crisis of that year.
Taking a liking to the printing art he embarked in the
printing and publishing business, at 121 South Third
street, under the firm name of Hallowell & Co., his
partner being Mr. Wilkins of the former firm of Mac-
dowell & Wilkins. in 9th month, 1876, they removed
to 125 South Third street, where Mr. Hallowell con-
tinues to carry on the business under the same firm
name.
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LOUIS HENRY STEPHENS HALLOWELL
7-71. Louis Henry Stephens Hallowell, son of
Charles (6-33) and Elmira Rebecca Stephens Hallowell,
was born nth month nth, 1854; died of typhoid
fever, ist month 26th, 1889, at his resi"dence. No. 802
North Twenty-first street, Philadelphia. The funeral
took place from his mother's house. No. 3335 Walnut
street. Interment at Woodland Cemetery.
Married 4th month 28th, 1881, at the Church of
the Transfiguration, Woodland avenue below Thirty-
fourth street. West Philadelphia, the Rev. Samuel E.
Smith officiating, Mary Anna Bartholomew, born 5th
month ist, 1856, at Syracuse, New York, daughter of
John and Martha Bartholomew.
Children :
8-103 Elmira Stephens, born 1st mo. 27th, 1882, at No.
3335 Walnut street.
8-104 Louis Stephens, Jr., born loth mo. 14th, 1883, at
No. 3335 Walnut street.
8-IC5 Clarence Gottschalk, born 4th mo. 10th, 1886, at
Sharon Hill, Delaware county, Pa. Named
for Clara Gottschalk Peterson, sister of Louis
Moreau Gottschalk, the celebrated composer.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 93
Louis Henry Stephens Hallowell was a student at
Andalusia College, Andalusia, Pa., and finished his
education in the public schools of Philadelphia. On
leaving school he entered the counting-room of Will-
iam Sellers & Co., machinists.
In the year 1875 h^ went with the firm of Stuart,
Peterson & Co., manufacturers of stoves and hollow-
ware.
This firm, of which he was a fourth owner, was
incorporated as "The Stuart & Peterson Co.," 7th
month 1 2th, 1886. In 1887 ht; was elected Secretary
and Treasurer of the corporation, which position he
held at the time of his death.
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HENRY HOWELL HALLOWELL
7-72. Henry Howell Hallowell, son of Charles
(6-33) and Elmira Rebecca Stephens Hallowell, was
born 2d month 28th, 1857, at No. 718 Arch street.
He was named for an intimate friend of his father, the
late Henry C. Howell, who was Sheriff of the city of
Philadelphia from 12th month 5th, 1864, to i2ih
month 2d, 1867.
Henry Howell Hallowell was a student at Anda-
lusia College, Andalusia, Pa. He also attended the
Public Schools of his own city.
On 6th month 23d, 1873, when but sixteen years
of acre, he entered the employ of the Penn Mutual
Life hisurance Company, of Philadelphia, as a junior
clerk ; promoted to assistant auditor and then became
auditor, and he now holds the responsible position of
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer of the said Company.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 95
SAMUEL WILLIAMS HALLOWELL
7-73. Samuel Williams Hallowell, son of Charles
(6-33) and Elmira Rebecca Stephens Hallowell, was
born I St month 30th, i860, at Philadelphia. He was
named for Samuel Williams, a valued friend of his
father.
Married 6th month i8th, iSgo, at St. Andrews
(Episcopal) Church, Eighth street above Spruce street,
the Rev. Dr. Sidney Corbett officiating, Sallie Hinton,
born ist month 31st, 1869, at Brooksville, Mississippi,
daughter of Dr. Rufus King and Anna Barbara (Ham-
bright) Hinton.
Third month nth, 1876, entered the employ of
J. Gladding & Co., blank book manufacturers. No. 32
South Fourth street. This firm's successors were C.
H. Sherman & Co., of No. 403 Market street, for whom
he assumed the responsibility as manager.
Dissolved his connection with C. H. Sherman &
Co., and on ist month, 1884, became general manager
of the well-known printing and publishing house of
Hallowell & Co., No, 125 South Third street, Phila-
delphia.
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Seventh month, 1888, he was elected a director of
the Stuart & Peterson Co., stove and hollow-ware
founders, of Philadelphia; and in nth month, 1889,
was elected President of this same corporation.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 97
MORRIS LONGSTRETH HALLOWELL, 3d
8-74. Morris Longstreth Hallowell, 3d, son of
William Penrose (7-45) and Elizabeth Corbit Davis
Hallowell, was born on the seventh day of the week,
5th month ist, 1857, at the residence of his grand-
parents, the late Isaac Roberts and Lydia Corbit
Davis, "Chelton," Cheltenham township, Montgomery
county. Pa. He was married ist month gth, 1879, =^t
Holy Trinity Church, Walnut and Nineteenth streets,
Philadelphia, by the Rev. Dr. Wm. N. McVickar, to
Jane Dalzell Picot, daughter of Charles J. and Jane
Dalzell Picot, of Philadelphia, born 3d month 2gth,
1862, near Media, Delaware county. Pa., at the resi-
dence of her grandparents, the Rev. Alvin Hallett and
Jane Dalzell Mercer Parker.
Morris was educated at Swarthmore College, Del-
aware county. Pa. Entered there as a student the
first year the college was opened (nth month, 1869).
His eye-sight became impaired from close application to
study, which unfortunately prevented his remaining
until his class graduated.
98 THE H^LLOiyELL FAMILY
He commenced his business career in the office of
Hallovvell & Co., bankers and brokers, Third street,
Philadelphia. Resigned his position with them, and
formed a co-partnership, 5th month, 1875, '^^''^1"' l^is
father under the firm name of Wm. P. Hallowell & Co.,
bankers and brokers. In 1880 he turned his attention
to agriculture, and cultivated a large wheat farm situ-
ated in the Red River Valley, North Dakota. In the
year 1881 he settled with his family in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, where he has since resided. He was
elected (1892) Secretary and Treasurer of the Itasca
Warehouse Company.
Children :
9-1 10 Elizabeth Davis, born 12th mo. nth, 1879, ^t the
residence of her grandmother, Mrs. Jane Dal-
zell Picot, Oak Lane, 22d ward, Philadelphia,
died 9th mo. 28th, 188 1, of cholera infantum,
at the Judd House, Sixth avenue South, and
Fifth street, Minneapolis, Minn. Interred at
Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis.
9-111 Morris Longstreth, 4th, born 3d mo. 2cth, 1881,
at the residence of his grandmother, Mrs. Jane
Daizeil Picot, Oak Lane, 22d ward, Philadel-
phia; died 7th mo. 20th, 1881, of cholera
infantum, at Atlantic City, New Jersey. In-
terred in the late Isaac R. Davis's lot. Laurel
Hill cemetery, Philadelphia.
9-II2 Morris Longstreth, 5th, born 2d mo. 4th, 1888, at
No. 916 Fourth avenue South, Minneapolis.
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ISAAC ROBERTS DAVIS HALLOWELL
8-75. Isaac Roberts Davis Hallovvell, son of
William Penrose (7-45) and Elizabeth Corbit Davis
Hailowell, was born first day, 8th month 7th, 1859, ^"^^
the residence of his grandparents, the late Isaac Roberts
and Lvdia Corbit Davis, "Chelton," Cheltenham town-
ship, Montgomery county. Pa. He received his educa-
tion partly at the Cheltenham Academy, and later was
a student at Friends' Central High School, Race street
above Fifteenth street, FMiiladelphia,
Commenced his business career with Peter Wright
& Sons, shipping merchants, Philadelphia. On 8th
month 26th, 1881, he joined his brother at Minneapolis,
Minnesota, where he now resides. Unmarried.
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WILLIAM PENROSE HALLOWELL, 2d
8-76. William Penrose Hallowell, 2d, son of
William Penrose (7-45) and Elizabeth Corbit Davis
Hallowell, was born on the second day of the week, i ith
month 30th, 1863, at No. 210 Tulpehocken street,
Germantown, Philadelphia. Ninth month, 1883, went
to Minneapolis, where he now resides.
Married 6th month 5th, 1888, Agnes Hardenbergh,
born in Chicago, 111., 12th month 22d, 1863, daughter
of Charles Morgan and Mary Lee Hardenbergh, of
Minneapolis, Minn. The marriage ceremony was per-
formed by the Rev. Dr. Thomas D. Wells, at St.
Mark's Church (Protestant Episcopal), Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
Entered Swarthmore College, in the preparatory
department. Class B, fall of 1878, and was admitted to
the Freshman Class, 9th month 15th, 1880. Elected
the scientific course, making mechanical engineering a
special study. Passed examination for Senior Class,
but on account of his eye-sight failing he was obliged
to give up study within one year of graduating. This
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was a bitter disappointment, changing, as it did, his
plans for his life's work.
Children :
9-116 William Penrose, 3d, born 4th mo. 14th, 1891, at
No. 1568 Hennepin avenue, Minneapolis. Bap-
tized, 6th mo. 19th, 1892, by the Right Rev.
Elisha S. Thomas, of Kansas, at the residence
of Charles Morgan Hardenbergh, Lake Min-
netonka, Minnesota.
Fifth month ist, 1892, admitted to a one-half
interest in the firm of H. W. Armstrong & Co., whole-
sale and retail coal merchants, of Minneapolis, Minn.
I02 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
MARIA HALLOWELL
8-77. Maria Hallowell, daughter of Richard
Price (7-46) and Anna Davis Hallowell, was born at
West Medford, Mass., 8th month 22d, i860. Un-
married.
She has inherited from her mother a talent for
art, portrait painting being her specialty. Her work is
of a high order.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 103
JAMES MOTT HALLOWELL
8-79. James Mott Hallowell, son of Richard
Price (7-46) and Anna Davis Hallowell, was born at
West Medford, Mass., 2d month 13th, 1865. He was
named for his great-grandfather, James Mott. Gradu-
ated from Harvard College, class of 1888. During the
last six months of his college career he did considerable
work as college reporter iox Xhe Boston Daily Advciiiscr
and the Evening Record ; his object being to gain an in-
sight into journalism as a profession.
\n the fall of 1888 he entered the Harvard Law
School.
Fourth month ist, i88g, entered the employ of
the Ludlow Manufacturing Company, Ludlow, Mass.,
with their home office in Boston. The output of the
mills was twine, marline, webbing, and gunny cloth,
employing about 800 to 1,000 hands. His first work
was that of a day laborer, but he rose, step by step,
until he received the appointment of overseer of the
freight and shipping department, in 2d month, i8go,
went into the home office, Essex street, Boston, re-
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maining there until 4th month, 1891, when he entered
the employ of Hallowell & Donald, wool commission
merchants, of Boston, Mass.
In 4th month, 1892, he re-entered the Harvard
Law School, and passed the examination of 1891-92.
Tenth month 13th, 1892, entered the law offices of
Stickney, Spencer & Ordway, of New York city.
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LUCRETIA MOTT HALLOWELL
8-80. Lucretia Mott Hallowell, born at West
Medford, Mass., 12th month 8th, 1867, daughter of
Richard Price ('7-46) and Anna Davis Hallowell.
She was named for her great-grandmother, Lucre-
tia Mott.
Studied the two years' course and passed the Kin-
dergarten and High School examination, and is a
qualified Kindergarten teacher. She taught during the
winter of 1891-92 a school of poor German Jews and
Italians, at North End, Boston, but without pay.
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FRANCIS WALTON HALLOWELL
8-81. Francis Walton Hallowell, son of Richard
Price (7-46; and Anna Davis Hallowell, was born at
West Medford, Mass., 8th month 12th, 1870. He was
named for Francis Walton (7-54) a first cousin of his
father.
Graduated from Harvard College, class of 1893.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 107
CHARLOTTE BARTLETT HALLOWELL
8-82. Charlotte Bartlett Hallowell, daughter of
Edward Needles (7-47) and Charlotte Bartlett Hallo-
well, was born at West Medford, Mass., 3.30 P. M. on
seventh day, ist month 22d, 1870.
She is deeply interested in the study of languages,
and reads both French and Italian fluently. At pres-
ent she is studying Dante, under Professor Marsh,
at the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women,
better known as "The Harvard Annex."
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EMILY HALLOWELL
8-83. Emily Hallowell, daughter of Edward
Needles (7-47) and Charlotte Bartlett Hallowell, was
born at West Medford, Mass., 6th month 5th, 1871.
She was named for her aunt, Emily Hallowell
(7-49)-
Emily is devoting much time to the study of
music. She has a remarkably fine soprano voice
which has been trained under the direction of highly
competent teachers, both in Florence, Italy, and in
Boston. She is a member of the Boston Symphony
Chorus.
THE HALLOM/'ELL FAMILY 109
ANNA NORWOOD HALLOWELL
8-84. Anna Norwood Hallovvell, daughter of
Norwood Penrose (7-48) and Sarah Wharton (Hay-
dock) Hallowell, was born at "Nbddebo," West Med-
ford, Mass., 3d month 20th, 1871.
She was a student at the Society for the Collegiate
Instruction of Women, class of 1893, better known as
"The Harvard Annex."
The Harvard Annex has been in existence for
twelve years. It was successful from the start,
although it has never been under the government of
the College authorites, and has conferred certificates
instead of degrees upon its graduates.
At a recent meeting (1893) of the officers of the
Harvard University Annex for Women, President
Elliot announced that he was ready to accept this institu-
tion as a part of the College. When this is carried
out it will make the third New England College to
which women have been granted an entrance within
a brief period. The other two institutions are Yale
College and Brown University.
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ROBERT HAYDOCK HALLOWELL
8-85. Robert Haydock Hallowell, son of Nor-
wood Penrose (7-48) and Sarah Wharton (Haydock)
Hallowell, was born at " Noddebo," West Medford,
Mass., 6th month 30th, 1873.
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NORWOOD PENROSE HALLOWELL, 2d
8-86. Norwood Penrose Hallovvell, 2d, son of
Norwood Penrose (7-48) and Sarah Wharton (Haydock)
Hallowell, was born at "Noddebo," West Medford,
Mass., 7th month 3d, 1875.
112 THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
JOHN WHITE HALLOWELL
8-87. John White Hallowell, son of Norwood
Penrose (7-48) and Sarah Wharton (Haydock) Hallo-
well, was born at "Noddeho," West Medford, Mass.,
i2th month 24th, 1878.
He was named for John Corlies White,* an inti-
mate friend of his parents ; an artist by profession,
who resided in New York city.
* See Memoir, Appeudix.
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY 113
ESTHER FISHER HALLOWELL
8-88. Esther Fisher Hallowell, daughter of
Norwood Penrose (7-48) and Sarah Wharton (Haydock)
Hallowell, was born at " Noddeho," West Medford,
Mass., 3d month 21st, 1881.
Esther was named for her great-aunt on her
mother's side, Esther Fisher Wharton Smith, wife of
Benjamin R, Smith, of Germantown, Philadelphia.
114
THE HALLOIVELL FAMILY
SUSAN MORRIS HALLOWELL
8-89. Susan Morris Hallowell, daughter of Nor-
wood Penrose (7-48) and Sarah Wharton (Haydock)
Hallowell, was born at " Noddebo," West Medford,
Mass., i2th month 19th, 1883. She was named for
her aunt, Susan M. Hallowell. (See 7-50.)
9-116
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LONGSTRETH BRANCH
OF THE
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THE LONGSTRETH BRANCH OF THE
HALLOWELL FAMILY
\_Compilcd partly from fJie Daicson Family Record']
The Longstreth arms are described in Burke's
General Armory of England, as follows: "Argent. A
chevron gules, between three escolop shells sable.
Crest, two rose bushes, the flowers white and red
intertwined." The red rose was the emblem of the
House of Lancaster, the white of the House of York,
After the Wars of the Roses, the intertwining of the
flowers was indicative of the union of these houses.
The name was variously written — Longstreth,
Longstroth, Longstreth, and L^Tngsteroth. Longstreth
is now the generally accepted orthography. For no-
tices of the name and family, see Whitaker's History
and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven ; Fuller's
Worthies of England, Yorkshire, etc.
Coat of Arms
OF TIIK
LONGSTRETH FamII.V
THE LONGSTRETH FAMILY 117
BARTHOLOMEW LONGSTRETH
1. Bartholomew Longstreth was born in Long-
stroth Dale, Deanery of Craven, Yorkshire, England,
8th month 24th, 1679. He was a great-grandson, on
his mother's side, of John Stroth, who commanded a
troop under the Duke of York, in the War of the
Roses. At the close of the war he was rewarded b_\-
Henry Vll for his valor.
The father of Bartholomew was named Christo-
pher. At the christening of the son, it is said that the
father and god-father not agreeing as to a name, the
officiating priest christened him in honor of the saint
(Bartholomew) on whose day he was born.
He emigrated from Yorkshire, England, in 1698,
taking with him a letter from the Friends of Settle
meeting, in that shire, certifying, according to a practice
still in use in the society on the removal of deserving
■ members, to such facts as were calculated to commend
him to the confidence and fellowship of the brethren
among whom he expected to live. This commendation
and confidence his subsequent life fully justified. He
was one of the petitioners, among whom were nearly
ii8 THE LONGSTRETH FAMILY
all the leading men of Pennsylvania, who, about the
year 1700, when he could scarcely have more than
attained his majority, joined in a petition to the King
of England, praying that William Penn might not be
deprived of his government in the province. This
early act shows that even then Bartholomew Long-
streth was recognized as a man of some substance and
character. After his arrival in Pennsylvania, he worked
as a laborer until, by his frugal and industrious habits,
he had laid up about £400. He bought a tract of three
hundred acres of land on Edge Hill, in Moreland town-
ship, then in Bucks county, now Montgomery. On
this he settled and commenced its improvement, but
becoming dissatisfied, he sold the land, with the
determination of returning to England. While waiting
in Philadelphia for a passage home, he met with Thomas
Fairman, surveyor to William Penn, who induced him
to abandon his intention of leaving the country, and
from whom he purchased five hundred acres of unim-
proved land in Warminster township, in the county of
Bucks. He afterward purchased other tracts of land
in that neighborhood, and at the time of his death left
a large and valuable estate including more than one
thousand acres of land, and moneys at interest. When-
he first went into Warminster the country there was
a wilderness, without roads, and with only a cattle
path through the woods. His first house was of logs.
When he was better accommodated, he opened a store
THE LONG ST RET H FAMILY 119
in a part of his dwelling, which he continued to keep
for the accommodation of the neighborhood for some
years.
He was held in good esteem by members of the
religious society to which he belonged, and he was
frequently called on to settle estates, and to transact a
variety of public affairs. As supervisor of Warminster
he opened a portion of what is known as the York
road. He was charitable to the poor, who never, it is
said, left his door empty-handed; and he was, withal,
a man of great firmness of purpose, strength of mind,
and energy of character. He died very suddenly in
the road without previous illness, 8th month 8th, 1749,
and was buried in Horsham grave-yard.
Eleventh month 29th, 1727, he married at Horsham,
Pa., Ann Dawson, born in London, about 1705. Ann
Dawson was a daughter of John and Dorothy Dawson,
who are said to have come from London, England,
to America in 17 10. John Dawson's trade was that
of a hatter.
They appear to have been connected with the
society of Friends in England, but it is certain that
he, at least, did not ask to be received in membership
among Friends here for some years after their arrival.
The family tradition is that he had been unfortunate
in business in London. He was a resident of Moreland
township, Bucks county, now Montgomery, and kept
at Hatboro, in that township, a tavern called the
120 THE LONGSTRETH FAMILY
"Crooked Billet," carrying on also the hat-making
business. He removed to Philadelphia in 1740, or
earlier, and died in that city nth month 27th, 1742.
His widow, who was said to have been a member
of Abington meeting many years before her husband
united with it, seems to have retained her connection
with that meeting, and to have returned soon after her
husband's death to her former home or neighborhood.
Her remains are said to have been the first interred in
the Friends' burying-ground, belonging to Pikeland
monthly meeting, near Kimberton, Chester county, Pa.
Their children were :
1 John Dawson. 4 Sarah Dawson.
2 Ann Dawson. 5 Isaac Dawson.
3 Daniel Dawson. 6 Benjamin Dawson,
7 James Dawson.
It is a tradition that Batholomew Longstreth's mar-
riage with Ann Dawson was the result of "love at
first sight," under circumstances which, if not quite
romantic, were altogether befitting the times, and the
good, substantial men and women who founded Penn-
sylvania. While her father was building his house at
the "Billet," she acted as mason tender, carrying the
mortar on a board, and the stones in an apron of stout
cloth, whilst her father executed the masonry. While
she was so engaged, it is said that Bartholomew passed
by, "was smitten with her glowing charms and filial
piety, and then and there chose his wife." They were
THE LONGSTRETH FAMILY I2I
married at Horsham meeting-house, to which she rode
on a pillion behind her father, departing from it with
her husband, on his horse, in a similar manner. Tradi-
tion says that while she was busy talking with her
young friends, Bartholomew became impatient to take
his prize away, and summoned her in the broad speech
of Yorkshire with the inquiry : " Ann, art thou gooing,
or art thou noot?" According to the custom of the
times, but few even of Friends excepting, they em-
ployed slave labor, both in the field and in their
domestic affairs; some of their descendants remember
to have seen in the old homestead a mark on the wall
between the sitting-room and the kitchen, where had
been a small window, at which Ann was wont to sit
to watch her slave women at work in the kitchen.
Almost the last act of Bartholomew Longstreth's life
was to go into the fields to direct his negroes about
their work. Many of Bartholomew and Ann's de-
scendants, however, have been conspicuous for their
opposition to slavery, and the society to which they
belonged, at a very early day, made the holding of
slaves a subject of discipline, and, where persisted in,
a ground of disownment.
Ann had been a thrifty housekeeper and good
manager. An inventory of her estate, taken 2d month
1st, 1753, shows that it amounted, after deducting
all claims against it, to nearly £2,000, and included ser-
vants valued at £100.
122 THE LONGSTRETH FAMILY
They had eleven children :
2-1 Sarah, married William Fussell.
2-2 John, died in seventh year of his age.
2-3 Daniel, married first, Grace Micheiier ; second, Mar-
tha Bye.
2-4 Jane, died in infancy.
2-5 Jane, 2d, married Jonathan Coates.
2-6 Ann, married Benjamin Coates.
2-7 John, married Jane Minshall.
2-8 Elizabeth, married Joseph Starr.
2-9 Isaac, married Martha Thomas.
2-10 Joseph, married Susannah Morris.
2- 1 1 Benjamin, married Sarah Fussell.
After remaining a widow nearly four years, Ann
Dawson Longstreth married 6th month 7th, 1753, Rob-
ert Tomkms, who resided in Warrington township,
Bucks county. He is said to have wasted her fortune,
and to have subjected her to personal ill usage, in con-
sequence of which she left him and returned to her son
Daniel, at the old homestead. Thence she removed
to Charleston, in Chester county (now Phctnixville),
where her daughters Jane and Ann Coates resided.
Here she built a house for herself "on the hill by
Mason's tavern," and made it her home until 1775,
when she returned to her son Daniel, on the death
of his wife, Grace Michener. About the time of his
second marriage, 1779, to Martha Bye, she removed
again to Chester county, where she died 3d month
1 8th, 1783, age seventy-eight.
THE LONGSTRETH FAMILY 123
SARAH LONGSTRETH
2-1. Sarah Longstreth, daughter of Bartholomew
and Ann Dawson Longstreth, was horn nth month
8th, 1728-9; died gth month 21st, i8co. Married at
Abington, 8th month loth, 1751, William Fussell, born
1728-29, died 1803 or 1804. He was enrolled a mem-
ber of the 5th Battalion, 6th Artillery Company of
Chester county, but being a Quaker it is presumed he
rendered no service.
They had three children :
3-12 Susannah, married Aaron Dunkin.
3-13 Bartliolomew, married Rebecca Bond.
3-14 Solomon, unmarried.
124 THE LONG ST RE TH FAMILY
DANIEL LONGSTRETH
2-3. Daniel Longstreth, son of Bartholomew
and Ann Dawson Longstreth, was born in Warminster
township, Bucks county. Pa., on the 28th of April
(then called 2d month), 1732. When he was in his
eighteenth year his father died, leaving him the care
of a large family of brothers and sisters, to whom he
supplied, as far as possible, a father's place, fulfilling
his trust with good judgment and strict fidelity. He
was a man of fine presence and great firmness of mind ;
a Friend in principle as well as by profession ; a peace-
maker, often being called upon to settle differences
arising between his acquaintances and neighbors ; a
man of benevolent and sympathetic nature, frequently
interesting himself in behalf of the helpless and friend-
less; a man of integrity, possessing the public confi-
dence, being often selected as executor and adminis-
trator in the settlement of estates. He was a member
of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of
Slavery, and for bettering the condition of colored
people, his diploma bearing date 3d month 25th, 1793.
He inherited slaves with his father's estate, and
probably employed slave labor the greater part of his
THE LONGSTRETH FAMILY 125
life. Anna T. Rabb, daughter of Joseph Longstreth,
son of Daniel, refers to it in the following manner:
"Grandfather had a burying-ground for slaves along-
side of a lane running from the barn hear the chestnut
tree along Jesse Cleaver's lane. When 1 was small
my father took the fence away and ploughed down
the graves."
He adhered to peace principles during the Revolu-
tionary war, notwithstanding the difficulties of his
situation, being sometimes summoned to the head-
quarters of the army in his neighborhood, but receiving
respectful treatment from the commanding officers.
A company of soldiers was at one time quartered on
him, and the battle of "Crooked Billet" was fought
along the road in front of his homestead. For a time
his capacious garret became a place of safe-keeping
for the Hatboro Library, a library which, though one
of the oldest in the country, has still a flourishing ex-
istence.
He married at Abington meeting, 5th month 22d,
1753, Grace Michener, who was born in Moreland
township, 3d month 22d, 1729, and died at the home-
stead in Warminster, 4th month i6th, 1775.
They had nine children :
3-15 John. 3-ig Jonathan.
3-16 Martha. 3-20 Isaac.
3-17 Rachel. 3-21 Joseph.
3-18 Joseph. 3-22 Benjamin.
3-23 Jane.
126 THE LONGSTRETH FAMILY
Daniel Longstreth's second wife was Martha Bye,
married 2d month 2d, 1779, daughter of Thomas and
Elizabeth Bye; she liad no children. She died at the
house of Rachel Maris, her husband's granddaughter.
Daniel Longstreth died at the homestead in War-
minster, nth month 19th, 1803.
THE LONGSTRETH FAMILY 127
JANE LONGSTRETH, 2d
2-5. Jane Longstreth, 2d, daughter of Barthol-
omew and Ann Dawson Longstreth, was born nth
month 23d, 1735-6; died 5th month i6th, 1795. Buried
in Friends' burying-ground, Baltimore, Md. Married
4th month 22d, 1755, Jonathan Coates, of Phcenix-
ville, Pa., born iith month 17th, 1728, son of Moses
and Susannah Coates.
Eleven children :
3-24 Ann. 3-2C) Phebe, twin sister of Susannah.
3-25 James. 3-30 Keziah.
3-26 Hannah. 3-31 Grace.
3-27 Jonathan. 3-32 Isaac.
3-28 Susannah. 3-33 Jane.
3-34 Elizabeth.
128 THE LONGSTRETH FAMILY
ANN LONGSTRETH
2-6. Ann Longstreth, daughter of Bartholomew
and Ann Dawson Longstreth, was born nth month
3d, 1737-8; died 6th month 26th, 1824. Married 9th
month 23d, 1756, Benjamin Coates.
They resided at Phoenixville, Chester county, Pa.,
and were buried at Pikeland.
Children :
3-35 Jane. 3-37 Benjamin.
3-36 Susannah. 3-38 Tacy.
THE LONGSTRETH FAMILY 129
JOHN LONGSTRETH
2-7. John Longstreth, son of Bartholomew and
Ann Dawson Longstreth, was born in October (then
called 8th month) 25th, 1739; ^'^^^ 4tli month i6th,
1817, Married 1762, Jane Minshall, born ist month
5th, 1743; died 2d month 9th, 181 3, He was Justice
of the Peace, and a man of considerable influence.
Resided at Phoenixville, and had seven children :
3-39 Daniel. 3-42 Sarah.
3-40 Hannah. 3-43 Annie
3-41 John. 3-44 Moses.
3-45 Jane.
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ELIZABETH LONGSTRETH
2-8. Elizabeth Longstreth, daughter of Bathol-
omew and Ann Dawson Longstreth, was born 3d
montli 15th, 1741; died 6th month 28th, 1813. Buried
at Phcenixville, Married at Pikeland meeting, 6th
month 2 1 St, 1763, Josepli Starr, born 7th month 6th,
1741 ; died loth month ist, 1821 ; son of Joseph and
Rebecca Starr.
They had ten children :
3-46 Rebecca. 3-51 Sarah.
3-47 Ann. 3-52 John.
3-48 Elizabeth. 3-53 Benjamin.
3-49 Isaac. 3-54 Amy.
3-50 Joseph. 3-55 William.
THE LONGSTRETH FAMILY 131
ISAAC LONGSTRETH
2-9. Isaac Longstreth, son of Bartholomew and
Ann Dawson Longstreth, was born 12th month i6th,
1742-3; died 4th month 12th, 1817. Buried at Pike-
land. Married i ith month 1 5th, 1770, Martha Thomas,
born 5th month 20th, 1748; died at Hatboro, 12th
month 4th, 1790. Buried at Horsham. He was a
captain in the war for independence, and commanded
a company at the battle of "Crooked Billet."
Children :
3-55 Susannah, born at Hatboro, 8th mo. loth, 1771 ;
died at Greenway farm, near Darby, Pa., 3d
mo. 15th, 1856. She removed to Philadelphia
in 1795, and in 1797 entered into the wholesale
dry goods business with two of her cousins.
It is said she was the first woman who im-
ported dry goods into that city, in 181 5 she
removed to Greenway farm, and resided there
until her decease. She was remarkable for a
happy, cheerful spirit, which diffused its influ-
ence like genial sunshine upon all around her.
3-56 Elizabeth, married Richard Mather.
3-57 Isaac Thomas, married Mary Collins.
3-58 David, married Martha Ogden.
3-59 Charles, married Rachel Hunt.
132 THE LONGSTRETH FAMILY
JOSEPH LONGSTRETH
2-10. Joseph Longstreth, son of Bartholomew
and Ann Dawson Longstreth, was born loth month
nth, 1744; died 5th month iSth, 1803. His remains
were interred at Horsham. Married 4th month i6th,
1772, Susannah Morris, born 7th month 23d, 1746, and
died 8th month 28th, 1814; was daughter of Joshua
and Mary Morris, of Abington,
They settled in Southampton township, Bucks
county, Pa., near the old homestead. It was on his
premises that John Fitch, the inventor, first tried his
steamboat.
They had nine children:
3-60 Josiah, born 8th mo. ist, 1772; died at Abington,
3d mo. 6th, 1834. Married Sarah Dillin.
3-61 Charles, born 12th mo. 3cth, 1773.
3-62 Joshua, born 6th mo. 20th, 1775; died ist mo.
27th, i86g. Married Sarah Williams.
3-63 Mary, born 2d mo. 28th, 1777.
3-64 William, born 7th mo. 24th, 1778; died nth mo.
i6th, 1814. Married Sarah Rudolph.
3-65 Morris, born 8th mo. 7th, 1780; died 12th mo. 5th,
1803.
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3-66 Ann, born 2d mo. 12th, 1784; died 5th mo. 26th,
1868. Married Charles Tyson Hallowell.
3-67 Samuel, born gth mo. 28th, 1787; died 4th mo.
7tli, 1826. Married Sarah Redwood Fisher.
3-68 Thomas Mifflin, born gth mo. 17th, 17Q0; died
about 1848. Married Deborah M. Dempsey.
1 34 THE L ONGS TRE TH FJMIL Y
BENJAMIN LONGSTRETH
2-11. Benjamin Longstreth, son of Bartholomew
and Ann Dawson Longstreth, was born in September
(then called jth month) 17th, 1746; died 8th month
4th, 1802. Married Sarah Fussell, who died 4th month
23d, 1797. They lived at Phcenixville, of which place
he was the founder. He built the first iron works
erected there.
Twelve children :
3-69 Joseph, married Margaret McKee.
3-70 William Wilson, married Elizabeth Howell.
3-71 Benjamin, married Isabella Dennis.
3-72 Mary, married Robert Tea.
3-73 Ann. married first, Wm. Parrish ; second, Joseph
Sidney Keen.
3 74 Sarah, unmarried.
3-75 Samuel, went west when young, and never heard
from again by his family.
3-76 Elizabeth, married Isaiah Faxon.
3-77 Rachel Wilson, married David Oram.
3-78 Hannah, married Samuel Wilson.
3-79 Jacob, married Margaret Ditts.
3-80 George Field, married first, Sarah Wilkerson ;
second, Elizabeth Harlan, widow, whose maiden
name was Young.
THE LONGSTRETH FAMILY 135
JOSIAH LONGSTRETH
3-60. Josiah Longstretli, son of Joseph and
Susannah Morris Longstreth, was born 8th month ist,
1772; died at Abington, 3d month 6th, 1834. Married
Sarah Dillin, widow of Isaac Dillin (or Dillon), daughter
of Aaron and Susannah Fussell Dunkin. They lived
at Abington.
Two children :
4-81 Joshua, married Hannah Rudolph.
4-82 Josepii, married Sarah Rudolph.
136 THE LONGSTRETH FAMILY
JOSHUA LONGSTRETH
3-62. Joshua Longstreth, son of Joseph and
Susannah Morris Longstreth, was born 6th month 20th,
1775 ; died at his country residence, Barclay Hall, ist
month 27th, i86g, where he had lived since the year
1835.
Barclay Hall was situated on the west side of Tur-
ner's lane, above Ridge avenue. When Mr. Longstreth
first went there to reside it was considered some dis-
tance out in the country, but before his death the
streets of the city were opened to the property with
many houses erected thereon. Norris street, when
opened, ran through one of the rooms of the mansion.
Out of respect for Mr. Longstreth, the city authorities
desisted from doing this until after his death. He was
a m'ember of the religious society of Friends (Orthodox
branch) and, until prevented by old age, was regular
in attendance at their sittings.
His political views in early life were in sympathy
with the Whig party, and when the Republican party
sprang into existence, he became one of its steadfast
supporters.
Joshua Longstreth.
THE LONGSTRETH FAMILY 137
It is said that he never once missed polling his
vote for President, commencing with John Adams, to
the second election of Abraham Lincoln.
He married nth month gth, 1800, Sarah Williams,
born 1781; died at Barclay Hall, 3d month i6th, 1848;
daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth Williams.
Mr. Longstreth was for many years a prominent
dry goods merchant; his cousin, Susannah (3-55)
Longstreth, was a partner in the concern.
At one time he was engaged in the shipping busi-
ness between Philadelphia and Liverpool. He was a
director of the Philadelphia Bank, and other financial
institutions.
Three children :
4-83 Lydia, born 1801 : died 7th mo. 5th, 1843. Married
Richard Price.*
4-84 Elizabeth, born 3d mo. 4th, 1810; died gth mo. 2d,
1864. Married George Abbott.
4-85 Susan Morris, died in England, i860. Married
Francis Thompson, of Rawdon, Yorkshire.^
England.
* See Note No. 6, Appendix.
138 THE LONG ST RET H FAMILY
WILLIAM LONGSTRETH
3-64. William Longstreth, son of Joseph and
Susannah Longstreth, was born 7th month 24th, 1778;
died nth month i6th, 1814. hiterred at Friends' bury-
ing-groLind, corner Fourth and Arch streets, Philadel-
phia. Married Sarah Rudolph, who afterward married
Hampton.
William and Susannah had three children:
4-86 John Rudolph, married Julia .
4-87 Catherine, married first, Dr. Spackman; second,
Joseph Briggs.
4-88 George.
THE LONGSTRETH FAMILY 139
ANN LONGSTRETH
3-66. Ann Longstreth, daughter of Joseph and
Susannah Morris Longstreth, was born 2d month 12th,
1784; died 5th month 26th, 1868. hiterred in the lot
of her son, Morris L. Hallowell, South Laurel Hill.
Married, loth month gth, 1806, at Abington, Pa.,
Charles Tyson Hallowell, born 2d month 28th, 1780 ;
died 7th month 3d, 1829. Interred in Friends' Western
burying-ground, Seventeenth and Race streets.
Nine children :
4-89 Priscilla, unmarried.
4-90 Morris Z,ongstreth, married Hannah Smith
Penrose.
4-91 Caleb, unmarried.
4-92 Susannah Morris, married William Walton.
4-93 Maria, unmarried.
4-94 Samuel Longstreth, married Elizabeth Chase.
4-95 Joshua Longstreth, married first, Theressa Jones
Kimber ; second, Sarah Catherine Fraley.
4-96 Charles, married Elmira Rebecca Stephens.
4-97 Ann, unmarried.
140 THE LONGSTRETH FAMILY
SAMUEL LONGSTRETH
3-67. Samuel Longstreth, son of Joseph and
Susannah Morris Longstreth, was born gth month 28th,
1787; died near New Orleans, La., 4th month 7th,
1826, Married at Abington, nth month 14th, 181 1,
Sarah Redwood Fisher, born 1791 ; died nth month
i8th, 1827; daughter of Miers and Sarah Fisher.
Seven children :
4-98 Esther.
4-gg Sarah Redwood, married Dr. Isaac Parrish.
4-1C0 Helen G., unmarried.
4-101 Miers Fisher, married Mary F. Clapp.
4-102 Anna, married Robert K. Wright.
4-103 Lydia W., married John VVilmer.
4-104 Sidney Elizabeth, unmarried ; born 5th mo. i6th,
1825 ; died 4th mo. 6th, 1892.
THE LONGSTRETH FAMILY 141
THOMAS MIFFLIN LONGSTRETH
3-68. Thomas Mifflin Longstreth, son of Joseph
and Susannah Morris Longstreth, was born 9th month
17th, i/QO; died nth month loth, 1845. Married
Deborah M. Dempsey, born 12th month i8th, 1798;
died 8th m.onth loth, 1873.
Three cliildren :
4-105 Lydia Price, married Nicholas Baggs.
4-106 Thomas Mifflin, unmarried.
4- icy Elizabeth Abbott, married Rev. Leighton W.
Eckard ; resides at Chefoo, China.
THE
PENROSE BRANCH
OF THE
HALLOWELL FAMILY
Coat of Arms
OF THE
Penrose Family
THE PENROSE FAMILY 145
THE PENROSE BRANCH OF THE
HALLOWELL FAMILY
In the transactions of the "Harleian Society," Vol-
ume IX, is mentioned two families of Penroses ; one
is given in the old Cornish style of spelling, " Penros,"
and is dated 1620. Penrose is now the accepted
orthography. In this work the arms of the Penroses
are mentioned as bearing the Cornish colors ; that is,
ermine on a bend of blue.
Before the year 1531 the family bore in the field,
ermine with one bend of blue, charged with three roses
of gold. Crest, a trout, natant of gold. Motto:
Ubiqiic Fidelis. Subsequent to that date the field
was of white or silver, with three bends of black or
sable, charged with as many roses of gold. Crest, a
lion's head erased, collared red. Motto: Ubiqne Fidelis.
The Penroses of Ireland, a branch of the Pen-
roses of Penrose, bear the field of white or silver on a
bend of blue, charged with three roses of red. Crest,
a lion's head erased, of gold, collared red. Motto:
Rosa sine spida.
146 THE PENROSE FAMILY
Another branch of the family has for its crest a
boar's head. Motto: Ubiqiie Fidelis. An engraving of
this coat of arms on an old silver salver, is in the
possession of Mrs. Hannah Penrose Hallowell.
Again, in the year 1531, the arms are spoken of as
follows: Ermine on a bend of blue, three roses of gold.
Subsequently the family bore white or silver, three
bends of black or sable charged with as many roses of
gold. Crest, a trout natant of gold. Motto: Ubiqiie
Fidelis. (See plate.)
THE PENROSE FA MIL Y 147
BARTHOLOMEW PENROSE
1. Bartholomew Penrose, the earliest Penrose of
whom we have any knowledge, came to Pennsylvania
from England about the year 1700. He had a brother
Thomas, in England, who was a shipwright. There is
reason to suppose he was nearly related to an officer
who was in the British navy, named Thomas Penrose,
under Admiral Penn, the father of William Penn, the
founder of Pennsylvania.
Bartholomew Penrose was a sea-captain and a
shipwright, and a man of some means. He resided at
Philadelphia. His remains were interred in Christ'
Church grave-yard.
Married Hester Leech, daughter of Toby (Tobias)
Leech, a miller of Cheltenham township, formerly of
Philadelphia county, but now of Montgomery county.
Pa.
The old homestead of the Leech family is still
standing, on property now owned by John Thompson.
Bartholomew and Hester Leech Penrose had the
following named children :
148 THE PENROSE FAMILY
2-1 Bartholomew, married Mary Kirl, 5th mo. 2ist, 1737,
at Christ church, Philadelphia; whose daughter
Mar>' married Gen. Anthony Wayne.
V 2-2 A daughter Sarah, who married Richard Mather.
2-3 A daughter Dorothy, who married Isaac Shoe-
maker.
2-4 Thomas, who married Sarah Coats.
The Thomas Penrose referred to in the memoir
printed in this volume (see Appendix^, is undoubtedly
the person mentioned as having served under Admiral
Penn, although there is no documentary evidence to
verify it.
THE PENROSE FAMILY 149
THOMAS PENROSE
2-4. Thomas Penrose, the youngest son of Bar-
tholomew and Hester Leech Penrose, was born in 1709;
died nth nionth 17th, 1757. Married loth month 21st,
1731, Sarah Coats, born 1714; died 7th month 7th,
1777. She was a daughter of Jolin and Mary Coats,
of the Northern Liberties.
Thomas Penrose was a shipping merchant and
ship-builder, and a trustee of St. Peter's church.
Children :
3-5 Thomas, bom 1st mo. 22d, 1733-4; died nth mo.
28th, 181 5. Married Ann Dowding.
3-6 James.
3-7 Isaac, an ancestor of the Ash family.
*3-8 Samuel's descendants are supposed to be extinct.
3-9 Jonathan.
* Samuel Penrose associated himself with the First City
Troop as an active member on the day of its organization, nth
month 17th, 1774. His name stands seventh on the roll. Elected
an honorary member, 9th month loth, 1787. No date of his
death on the Troop's books.
150 THE PENROSE FAMILY
THOMAS PENROSE
3-5. Thomas Penrose, son of Thomas and
Sarah Coats Penrose, was born ist month 22d, 1733-4 ;
died nth month 28th, 181 5. Married 7th month 7th,
1757, Ann Dowding, born 9th month 7th, 1739; died
9th month 1 8th, 1809.
Ann Dowding was a daughter of Joseph Dowding
Jr., a lawyer, who came from Boston to Delaware
and married a daughter of Richard Richardson, The
Dowdings were in Boston from the middle of the 17th
century. One of them married a daughter of William
Paddy.
Thomas Penrose resided at the south-east corner
of Penn and Shippen streets. He was a ship-builder
and a shipping merchant, a man of wealth and full of
charity. For many years it was his custom to purchase
in the winter season two shallop loads of oak wood to
distribute to the poor. He was the first one to have
soup made in quantities for the needy, and would daily
superintend in person the serving it out.
THE PENROSE FAMILY 151
In early life he was a member of St. Peter's
Church (Episcopal), hut later joined the religious society
of Friends.
As before stated, Thomas Penrose was a ship-
builder and a shipping merchant. The following an-
ecdote, kindly furnished by one of his granddaughters,
Miss Mary E. Penrose, in reference to him and one of
his vessels, the TJiomas Penrose, is quite interesting:
" It was customary at that time to put a figure-head
on the bow, and it was proposed that a portrait bust
of himself should be the figure-head, as the vessel was
to bear his name.
"This did not meet with his approval. His friends,
not willing to give up the idea, engaged a celebrated
wood carver, who was also a friend of Mr. Penrose, to
pay him several visits; and who, without his knowl-
edge, took sketches of him, from which he carved his
likeness with his Quaker dress, painting it in the sombre
colors of that sect.
"The vessel was captured by the'French, who put
metal epaulettes on the shoulders and painted the figure
in gay colors to represent a French Admiral, thus trans-
forming a representative of peace principles into a son
of Mars."
The vessel was afterward taken by the English,
but what was the final fate of the good ship Thomas
Penrose is not known.
Children of Thomas and Ann Dowding Penrose:
152 THE PENROSE FAMILY
4-10 William, born gth mo. 6th, 1768: died 12th mo.
ist, 1816. Married Annah Norwood.
4- 1 1 Cliaries, born Qtli mo. i4tlT, 1776; died 6th mo.
24th, 1849. Interred in Christ Church burying-
ground, Fifth and Arch streets. Married Ann
Rowan.
4-12 Ann, married Dr. William Matthews, but had no
children.
There were other children, who died early; all
unmarried,
Thomas Penrose appears to have taken a promi-
nent part in establishing the independence of America.
The following interesting items were compiled from the
American Archives, Fourth Series, Volume I :
"At a meeting of two or three hundred of the
respectable inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia, at
the City Tavern, on Friday evening. May 20th, 1774,
where it was agreed :
"That a committee be appointed to correspond
with our sister colonies.
"That John Dickinson, Wm. Smith, D.D., Edward
Pennington, Joseph Fox, John Nixon, John M. Nesbit,
Samuel Howell, Thomas Mifflin, Joseph Reade, Thos.
Wharton, Jr., Benj. Marshall, Joseph Moulder, Thos.
Barclay, Geo. Clymer, Chas. Thomas, Jeremiah War-
ren, Jr., John Cox, John Gibson, and Thomas Penrose
compose a committee of correspondence until alteration
is made by a more general meeting of the inhabi-
tants.
THE PENROSE FAMILY 153
"That the committee be instructed to write to the
people of the city of Boston, that we truly feel for their
unhappy situation. That we consider them as suffer-
ing in the general cause. That we recommend to them
firmness, prudence, and moderation, and that we shall
continue to evince our firm adherence to the cause of
American liberty. That the above resolutions be trans-
mitted to the other colonies.
"That the committee be instructed to apply to the
Governor to call the Assembly of the Provinces.
"That they be authorized to call a meeting of the
inhabitants when necessary. A copy of these resolu-
tions was sent to Boston by Mr. Paul Revere ; also a
copy was transmitted to New York and most of the
Southern colonies." Page 341.
Again, on page 426:
"At a very large and respectable meeting of the
freeholders and freemen of the city and county of
Philadelphia, in the province of Pennsylvania, held
Saturday, June i8th, 1774. T. Willing and John
Dickinson, chairmen :
"Resolved. First, That the Act of Parliament for shut-
ting up the port of Boston is unconstitutional, oppressive to the
inhabitants of that town, dangerous to the liberties of the British
colonies, and that therefore we consider our brethren at Boston
as suffering in the common cause of America.
"Stvo;/J, That a Congress of Deputies from the several
colonies in North America is the most probable and proper mode
of procuring relief for our suffering brethren, obtaining redress of
154 THE PEhlROSE FAMILY
American grievances, securing our rights and liberties, and re-
establishing peace and harmony between Great Britain and these
colonies on a constitutional foundation.
" Third, That a large and respectable committee be appointed
to correspond with our sister colonies and with the several coun-
ties in this Province, in order that all may unite in promoting and
endeavoring to attain the great and valuable ends mentioned in
the foregoing resolutions.
''''Fourth, That the committee nominated by this meeting
shall consult together and, on mature deliberation, determine which
is the most popular mode of collecting the sense of this Province,
and appointing deputies for the same to attend a General Con-
gress ; and having determined thereupon shall take such measures
as they shall judge most expedient for procuring their Province to
be represented at this Congress, in the best manner that can be
devised for promoting the public welfare,
''"' Fifth, That the com.mittee be instructed immediately to set
on foot a subscription for the relief of such poor inhabitants of the
town of Boston as may be deprived of the means of subsistence
by the operation of the Act of Parliament, commonly styled the
Boston Port Bill. The money arising from such subscriptions to
be laved out as the committee think will best answer the ends
proposed.
''Sixth, That the committee consist of forty-four persons,
viz.: ***** (among them being
Thomas Penrose), to whose approved integrity, abilities, and
sincere affection for the interests of this immense Empire, their
constituents look up to for the most propitious events."
Again, on page 555, it appears that Thomas Pen-
rose was a member of the Pennsylvania Committee
of Deputies.
THE PENROSE FAMILY 155
It is Stated that in 1774 Thomas Penrose was a
member of the Philadelphia City Troop. This must
have been before he united with the religious society
of Friends.
In a history of the Troop, published on its Cen-
tennial Anniversary, nth month 17th, 1874, it is
written that Thomas Penrose was a member in 1799.
There appears to be no record on the books of his
election, resignation, or death.
156 THE PENROSE FAMILY
JAMES PENROSE
3-6. James Penrose, son of Thomas and Sarah
Coats Penrose, had an only son :
4-13 Clement Biddle Penrose, who was a Judge in
Missouri or Louisiana territory. He was tather
of Charles B. Penrose and other children, and
grandfather of Dr. Richard A. F. Penrose, Hon.
Clement B. Penrose, Judge of the Orphans'
Court of Philadelphia, and others.
THE PENROSE FAMILY 157
JONATHAN PENROSE
3-9. Jonathan Penrose was a son of Thomas
and Sarah Coats Penrose,
He was an ancestor of the Collins family. Elected
Sheriff of the county of Philadelphia, and served from
1797 to 1800.
The Philadelphia City Troop was organized nth
month 17th, 1774. Jonathan Penrose was elected an
active member the following 12th month. Elected an
honorary member, gth month loth, 1787. No record
of his death on the books of the company.
hi "Peter's" history of the Troop, mention is
made of Jonathan Penrose as being one of a party of
six who volunteered to venture within the enemy's
lines at Trenton, in order to obtain some information
much needed by the Commander-in-Chief, General
George Washington. When returning they surprised
a number of the enemy, capturing eleven of them,
whom they drove before them at the point of the pistol
into camp. General Washington complimented private
Penrose for this act of bravery.
158 THE PENROSE FAMILY
WILLIAM PENROSE
4-10. William Penrose, son of Thomas (3-5)
and Ann Dowding Penrose, was born gth month 6th,
1768; died i2th month ist, 1816, Married third day,
I2th month 22d, 1795, at Boston, Mass., Annah Nor-
wood, born nth month 28th, 1778; died 7th month
7th, 1817; daughter of "^^ and Abigail (or Abby)
Emmes Norwood. They resided in Philadelphia.
Children :
5-14 Thomas Norwood, born 5th mo. 27th, 1798; died
ist mo. 14th, 1869. Married 4th mo. 5th, 1817,
Jane Glading, born 6th mo. 8th, 1798; died
12th mo. i8th, 1859-60.
5-15 Abigail Ann, born 3d mo. 9th, 1800; died 8th mo.
2ist, 1801.
5-16 William, 2d, born 12th mo. 17th, 1801 ; died 9th
mo. 23d, 1802.
5-17 Ann Pinkerton, born first day, 4th mo. 15th, 1804;
died 6th mo. 28th, 1883. Married William V.
Anderson.
5-18 Abigail (or Abby) Norwood, born sixth day, 8th
mo. 22d, 1806; died 12th mo. 28th, 1846.
Unmarried.
* See Note No. lo, Appendix.
■Wiii.iAM Penrose
THE PENROSE FAMILY 159
5-ig Samuel Smith, born 6th mo. 6th, 1808; died 8th
mo. 14th, i8og, at Frankford.
5-20 Samuel Smith, 2d, born second day, 2d mo. 19th,
1810; died 7th mo. 8th, 1839. Married Re-
becca Widdifield.
5-21 Hannah Smith, born first day, 2d mo. 2d,
1812. Married Morris Longstreth Hailowell.
5-22 William, 3d, born third day, 3d mo. ist, 1814;
died fifth day, 6th mo. 23d, 1814.
5-23 Norwood, born seventh day, 3d mo. 2d, 1816;
died 9th mo. 6th, 1871. Married Josephine
Head, born 1817; died 7th mo. 7th, 1868;
daughter of Joseph and Anna F. Head. No
children.
William Penrose was an Episcopalian, and at one
time was a member of the choir at Christ Church.
Annah Norwood Penrose, his wife, was a member of
the Presbyterian Church, and assisted in the choir
services at the old Pine street Presbyterian Church.
Later in life both she and her husband resigned their
right of membership in their respective churches, and
through conviction became members of the religious
society of Friends.
\n her youth she was regarded as very beautiful
and a superior woman. Some old letters from friends,
in possession of her daughter, Hannah Penrose Hai-
lowell, bear ample testimony to this assertion.
It may not be out of place to quote an extract from
a letter written by Charity Rotch to her sister Hannah
Fisher, dated Hartford, Connecticut, 7th month 6th,
i6o THE PENROSE FAMILY
1807, which was kindly sent to Hannah Penrose Hal-
lowell by Deborah F. Wliarton :
" We have lately had the company of dear Cousin Mary
Morton and family, and Hannah Penrose; the latter a deeply
interesting woman, one who, I trust, will be useful in her day. We
look forward with satisfaction toward her return to us ; and 1
wish thou would inform Peter Barker that we feel indebted to
him for his kindness in introducing so precious a guest to our
house."
A letter written by Annah Norwood Penrose to
her Presbyterian friends, gives evidence of the spiritual
struggle through which she passed at the time of
separating from them. When it is remembered that
she was reared in the lap of luxury, had mingled in
gay society, and was fond of music and other worldly
pleasures, and that much self-denial and courage re-
quired to abjure them all and adopt the manner of
speech and simplicity of apparel customary among
Friends, we may realize in some measure the trials she
underwent for conscience's sake. In reference to this
subject a friend wrote as follows:
" The worldly-wise reasoner may call this testimony to
plainness and simplicity a little thing, an indifferent or unim-
portant punctilio. But the sincere seeker after truth learns to
regard these trials of our fidelity to principle', even in compara-
tively little things, as essential to the discipline of self-denial, and
finds in them the way of the cross; ' the narrow way that leads
to eternal life and peace.' "
Annah Norwood Penrose.
THE PENROSE FAMILY l6i
ANCESTRY OF ANNAH NORWOOD PENROSE
The records of the city of Boston are very incom-
plete and unreliable between the years 1700 and 1800.
it is to be regretted that there appear to be no papers
among the family archives to verify the following
statement. The author has therefore been obliged to
rely in a great measure upon information received from
some of her descendants.
Hannah Ingraham, daughter of Ingraham,
of England, married Samuel Emmes, an American sea-
captain. According to tradition it was a runaway
match.
Her father, disapproving of the alliance, disin-
herited his daughter, and placed in Chancery, for the
benefit of the fourth generation, what would have been
her portion of his estate.
Nearly the whole of the town of Leeds, England,
is built upon land owned by him. The estimated value
at this date (1893) of Hannah's share is over one
hundred millions of dollars, which is hopelessly lost to
her heirs.
Samuel and Hannah higraham Emmes had the
following named children. (Compiled from family
papers.)
1 Hannah, who married Samuel Smith. No children.
2 Maria, who married Stetson; had William,
Lydia, Anna, Abby or Abigail.
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3 Abigail (or Abby) married Norwood. There
appears to be no record of Abigail's (or Abby's)
husband's first name, furtlier than the records of
Boston mention a marriage of an Ebenezer Nor-
wood to an Abigail (or Abby) Emmes, 2d mo.
loth, 1773. The date of his birth is not to be
found ; from research it is thought that he was
a son of an English resident, and came to this
country in his youth, though there are facts that
might connect him with the Norwoods that were
at Lynn, and earlier at Gloucester.
Zaccheus Norwood was in Lynn in 1753, and it is
thought that Ebenezer may have been his son. The
records at the Probate office, at Salem, do not show
anything to verify this supposition.
There were also one or two branches of the
Eames or Ames family here early, and many of the
writers have confounded them with the Emmes, but
the names are entirely different. ■'' and Abigail
Emmes Norwood had the following named children :
1 John.
2 Samuel.
3 Abigail (or Abby).
4 Hannah. t
1 John is supposed to have died early, as there is no
further record of him.
2 Samuel married Mary Callender, and had the follow-
ing children: George, Abigail (or Abby), Samuel
S., John G., Elizabeth R.
*See Note No. lo, Appendix.
+ See Note No. ii, Appendix.
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Annah Norwood Penrose,
at the age ok about 1 7 years.
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Abigail (orAbby) married first, William Barnett ; and
second, Wlnthrop Harding. Children by first
marriage, William, Samuel S., Anna F., John
P. Children by second marriage, one son
named Wlnthrop.
Hannah, married at Boston 12th mo. 22d, 1795, Will-
iam Penrose, of Philadelphia. Children: (See
3-10, Penrose Family.)
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THE PENROSE FAMILY 167
CHARLES PENROSE
4-11. Charles Penrose, son of Thomas and Ann
Dowding Penrose, was born 9th month 14th, 1776;
died 6th month 24th, 1849. Married Ann Rowan,
daughter of Dr. John Rowan, of Salem, New Jersey.
Charles Penrose died at the old homestead, where
he was born and had lived all his life. The house
stood at the south-east corner of Penn and Shippen
streets, but has long since been razed to the ground in
order to widen Shippen street.
He superintended the construction of the U. S.
man-of-war Franklin, at the Philadelphia navy-yard
during the administration of Hon. William Jones as
Secretary of the Navy, 1812, or thereabouts.
Children of Charles and Ann Rowan Penrose :
5-24 Sally Ann, born loth mo. 26th, 1800; died 8th mo.
25th, 1803.
5-25 Harriet, born 2d mo. ist, 1803; died 2d mo. i6th,
1857. Married Isaac Webb Pennock. Two
children, Isaac and Annie, both unmarried.
5-26 Thomas, born loth mo. iQth, 1804; died 8th mo.
2ist, 1805.
1 68 THE PENROSE F/iMILY
5-27 James, born 7th mo. 21st, i8c6; died 8th mo. 3d,
1888. Married Marion Pennocl\.
5-28 Margaret Rowan, born 5th mo. 21st, 1809; died
5th mo. 29th, 1892. Married Abraham R.
Perkins.
5-29 Sarah, born 7th mo. 21st, 181 1; died ist mo., 1891.
Married Clement A. Buckley.
5-30 John Rowan, born 8th mo. 2cth, 1813; died 9th
mo. nth, 1869. Married Anna Maria Burton.
5-31 Anne Matthews, born nth mo. i6th, 1815; died 3d
mo. 24th, 1888. Married Washington Keith.
*5-32 Charles, born 4th mo. 17th, 1818; died nth mo.
22d, 1874.
5-33 Mary Elizabeth, born 8th mo. ist, 1820. Unmarried.
5-34 Elizabeth, born 5th mo. 27th, 1823; died nth mo.
8th, 1823.
*Charles Penrose, 2d (5-32), was elected an active membe
of the First City Troop, 5th mo. i8th, 1840— was transferred to the
non-active roll nth mo. 17th, 1849, on account of ill health.
Resigned 2d mo. 4th, 1867.
Thomas N. Penrose
THE PENROSE FAMILY 169
THOMAS NORWOOD PENROSE
5-14. Thomas Norwood Penrose, son of Will-
iam and Annah Norwood Penrose, was born 5th month
27th, 1798; died ist month 14th, i86g. Married 4th
month 5th, 1817, Jane Glading, born 6th month 8th,
1798; died I2th month i8th, 1859-60; a daughter of
James and Elizabeth Fife Glading, of Philadelphia. In
his youth he learned the trade of a tanner, but later
in life opened a pharmacy and remained in that busi-
ness until his death.
Children :
6-35 Armenia Palmer, born on fourth day, 2d mo. 17th,
i8ig. Married William E. Goodaie, 12th mo,
25th, 1849.
6-36 Annah, born on third day, 5th mo. 23d, 1820;
died 3d mo. 26th, i860. Married 5th mo. 23d,
1854, Joel Cook. Married second, 6th mo.,
1858, Martin H. Williams.
6-37 ElizabethGlading, born on sixth day, 12th mo. 27th,
1822; died 4th mo. 19th, 1853- Married loth
mo. 8th, 1840, Joel Cook.
6-38 William, 2d, born on first day, 4th mo. 4th, 1824;
died on fifth day, 6th mo. 17th, 1824.
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6-39 Abigail, born first day, 7th mo. gth, 1826. Married
nth mo. 14th, 1844, Ebenezer Chase.
6-40 Jane, born second day, gth mo. 15th, 1828; died
4th mo. 8th, 1890. Married nth mo. 9th, 1871,
William Heckman.
6-41 Mary, twin sister to Jane, born second day, 9th
mo. 15th, 1828; died second day, 4th mo. 7th,
1829.
6-42 Thomas Norwood, 2d, born 3d mo. 25th, 1831 :
died nth mo. 26th, 1831.
6-43 Mary Needles, born 12th mo. ist, 1832. Married
first, 9th mo. 24th, 1863, Wm. H. Weatherby;
second, 12th mo. 15th, 1878, Charles McCaul.
6-44 Thomas Neall, born 6th mo. 6th, 1835. Married
6th mo. 3d, 1863, Margaret Ann Stewart.
6-45 Sarah Rink, born ist mo. icth, 1838; died ist mo.
28th, 1841.
6-46 William, 3d, born fifth day, 6th mo. icth, 1841 ;
died ist mo. 24th, 1842.
THE PENROSE FAMILY 171
ANN PINKERTON PENROSE
5-17. Ann Pinkerton Penrose, daughter of Will-
iam and Annah Norwood Penrose, was born 4th month
15th, 1804; died 6th month 28th, 1883. Married 9th
month 22d, 1822, William V. Anderson.
6-47 Mary Ann.
6-48 Charles Penrose.
6-49 Emilie.
6-47 Mary Ann Anderson, daughter of Wm. V. and Ann
Pinkerton Penrose Anderson, was born 5th mo. 25th, 1828.
Married 4th mo. 22d, 1850, Jesse Williamson, of Philadelphia,
who died 5th mo., 1854. At the time of her marriage she dropped
the name Ann.
Two children :
1 William von Albade, born 3d mo. 20th, 18; i. Mar-
ried Lilly McLane. Three children: Loraine
Penrose, Jesse, Jr., and Basil Maturin.
2 Jesse Williamson, Jr., born 4th mo. 26th, 1853. Mar-
ried Sophie Thayer, daughter of Judge M. Rus-
sell and Sophie Watniough Thayer.
6-48 Charles Penrose Anderson, son of Wm. V. and Ann
Pinkerton Penrose Anderson, was born 3d mo. 5th, 1826; died
9th mo. 3cth, 1858. Married ist mo. nth, 1852, Mary Louisa
172 THE PENROSE FAMILY
Tete, born ist mo. 31st, 1827, daughter of Francis and Irma
Josephine Beylle Tete, of Philadelphia.
Children:
1 Francis Tete Anderson, born 12th mo. 7th, 1853.
Married first, Margaret A. Maguire. Francis
Tete Anderson's second wife was May Emily
Felt, born 5th mo. ist, 1870. They were married
6th mo, 23d, 1888.
2 William von Albade Anderson, born 9th mo. 7th,
1855; died loth mo. 25th, 1856.
3 Marie Caroline Tete Anderson, born and died loth
mo. 14th, i857-
6-4g Emilie Norwood Anderson, daughter of William V.
and Ann Pinkerton Penrose Anderson, was born 7th mo. igth,
1832. Married 6th mo. 7th, 1853, John McCallum Emory, born
7th mo. i8th, 1824.
Children :
1 Ann Penrose, born gth mo. 6th, 1854-
2 Harry Ogden, born 7th mo. 23d, 1856. Married loth
mo. 14th, 1884, Mary Laura Drake, daughter
of Col. Edwin L. and Laura Cecilia Dowd
Drake, of Guilford, Connecticut. Two chil-
dren, Marie Drake and Harry Ogden, Jr.
3 Ellen Harriet, born nth mo. 30th, i860. Married 3d
mo. 27th, 1883, Harry Anderson, born loth mo.
nth, 1855, son of Joseph and Emma Neil An-
derson. One child, Josephine Norwood, born
2d mo. 3d, 1884.
THE PENROSE FAMILY 173
SAMUEL SMITH PENROSE, 2d
5-20. Samuel Smith Penrose, 2d, son of Will-
iam and Annah Norwood Penrose, was born 2d montli
19th, 1810; died 7th month 8th, 1839, on board the U.
S. man-of-war Constitution. His remains were interred
at or near Macao, China, the vessel having made that
port for the purpose.
Married Rebecca, daughter of James and Hannah
Widdifield, of Philadelphia.
They had two children :
6-50 William, born 1830; died at Glen Ellyn, 111., gth
mo. 2cth, 1892. Married Katherine Mclntyre;
died at Germantown, Philadelphia, 3d mo. loth
i8q3, in the 55th year of her age. No children.
6-51 Ellen Widdifield. Married Henry Bently, of Ger-
mantown. One child, George.
174
THE PENROSE FAMIL Y
HANNAH SMITH PENROSE (HALLOWELL)
5-21. Hannah Smith Penrose (Hallowell), daugh-
ter of William and Annah Norwood Penrose, was horn
2d month 2d, 1812. Married Morris Longstreth Hal-
lowell. (See 6-27, pages 24 to 34.)
Children :
6-52 Anna. 6-56 Norwood Penrose.
6-53 William Penrose. 6-57 Emily.
6-54 Richard Price. 6-58 Susan Morris.
6-55 Edward Needles. 6-59 Morris Longstreth, 2d.
Norwood Pknkose
THE PENROSE FAMILY 175
NORWOOD PENROSE
5-23. Norwood Penrose, son of William and
Hannah Norwood Penrose, was born on seventh day,
3d month 2d, 1816, at No. 628 Spruce street (old num-
ber 242), Philadelphia, and died 9th month 6th, 1871.
Married Josephine Head, born i8i7and died 7th month
7th, 1868, daughter of Joseph and Anna F, Head. No
children.
Norwood Penrose was one of nature's noblemen,
beloved by all who knew him. He had a kind, gener-
ous temperament which drew about him a host of
friends, in early life he was a martyr to rheumatic
gout and was for a number of successive winters con-
fined to his room from it. A voyage to the West Indies
together with a residence there for a time resulted in
almost a permanent restoration to health, enabling him
to take an active part in the business world. For a
number of years he was a partner of the house of Joseph
B. Hanson & Co., tobacco commission merchants.
His death occurred very suddenly from congestion of
the brain. His remains were interred in his brother-in-
law's lot (Morris L. Hallowell), South Laurel Hill.
176 THE PENROSE FAMILY
MARGARET ROWAN PENROSE (PERKINS)
5-28. Margaret Rowan Penrose (Perkins)
daughter of Charles and Ann Rowan Penrose, was
born 5th month 21st, 1809; died 5th month 2gth, 1892.
Married 9th month nth, 1833, Abraham Robinson Per-
kins, who was a great nephew of the Mary Penrose,
who married Gen'l Anthony Wayne.
Children :
Sally Robinson, who married Levi Taylor Rutter.
Thomas Graham, died young.
Charles Penrose, who married Helen, daughter of John
A. Wright. He graduated A. M. from the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, and C. E. from Rens-
sellaer Institute, Troy, N. Y.
Graham, died young.
THE PENROSE FAMILY 177
SARAH PENROSE (BUCKLEY)
5-29. Sarah Penrose (Buckley) daughter of
Charles and Ann Rowan Penrose, was born 7th month
2ist, 1811; died ist month, 1891. Married 9th month
nth, 1833, Clement Adams Buckley.
The wedding of both Margaret (5-28) and Sarah
Penrose took place on the same date at the old home-
stead, corner of Penn and Shippen streets.
Children :
Anna Penrose, who married John Smith Newbold,
Daniel Penrose, unmarried. Graduated A. M. from the
University of Pennsylvania. He was a lawyer
by profession. When the war of the Rebellion
broke out he enlisted in the service of his
country as Captain in the 4th Regiment New
Jersey Volunteers Infantry. Was mortally
wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of
Gaines' Mills; died 7th mo., 1862, while in the
enemy's lines.
Clementina, died in infancy.
Emily Adele, married first, Edward Lowber ; second,
John W. Pepper.
178 THE PENROSE FAMILY
JOHN ROWAN PENROSE
5-30. John Rowan Penrose, son of Charles
and Ann Rowan Penrose, was born 8th month 20th,
1813; died 9th month 1 1 th, 1869. Married Anna Maria
Burton.
Children :
Eliza, who married William Cochran.
Anna, married first, John Ralston ; second, Francis Car-
penter Hooton.
Ellen, married first, Thomas Swann, son of the Governor
of Maryland ; second, Ferdinand Claiborne La-
trobe, Mayor of Baltimore.
Charles Henry, died young.
Walter Elliot, died nth mo., 1891. Married Emily-
Thompson, daughter of Lucius P. Thompson.
John Rowan Penrose was one of Philadelphia's
most prominent shipping merchants, and was for many
years the senior partner of the house of Penrose &
Burton.
THE PENROSE FAMILY 179
ANNE MATTHEWS PENROSE (KEITH)
5-31 . Anne Matthews Penrose (Keith) daughter
of Charles and Ann Rowan Penrose was born nth
month i6th, 1815; died 3d month 24th, 1888. Married
Washington Keith.
Children :
Charles Penrose, graduated B. S. from the University of
Pennsylvania. Studied law in the office of the
Hon. Clement Biddle Penrose, Judge of the
Orphans' Court, Philadelphia ; admitted to the
bar, nth month, 1877. He is the author of a
valuable genealogical work entitled the " Pro-
vincial Councillors of Pennsylvania and Their
Descendants." Married Elizabeth Harvey
Wister.
Sidney W. Keith, born 7th mo. loth, 1856. Unmarried.
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MARY NEEDLES PENROSE (McCAUL)
6-43. Mary Needles Penrose (McCaul ), daugh-
ter of Thomas Norwood and Jane Glading Penrose, was
born i2th month ist, 1832. Married gth month 24th,
1863, William H. Weatherby, who died ist month 25th,
1872.
Children :
Jane Elizabeth, born 2d mo. 2d, 1866; died nth mo. 7th,
1867.
Mary Needles, born ist mo. iQth, 1868. Professor of
English language in the Girls Normal School,
Philadelphia.
William Henry, born loth mo. 21st, 1871 ; died 5th mo.
2ist, 1872.
Mary Needles Penrose married second, 12th
month 15th, 1878, Charles McCaul. No children.
Thomas N. Penrose, M. D. Ph. D.
Medical Inspector, U. S. Navy.
THE PENROSE FAMILY l8l
THOMAS NEALL PENROSE
6-44. Thomas Neall Penrose, Medical Inspector
U. S. Navy, son of Thomas Norwood and Jane Glad-
ing Penrose, was born 6th month 6th, 1835. Married
6th month 3d, 1863, Margaret Ann Stewart, born 8th
month i6th, 1837, at Lewistown, Mifflm county. Pa.,
daughter of James and Mary Stewart, of Philadelphia.
Two children :
1 Thomas Norwood Penrose, born 3d mo. 26th, 1864.
Graduated from Yale College, Academic De-
partment, class of 1887, receiving the degree of
A. B.; and afterward entered the Law Depart-
ment of Columbia College, in New York city.
Graduated therefrom in 1889, with the degree of
LL. B., and was shortly afterward admitted to
the bar of New York.
2 Charles Williams Penrose, born nth mo. 3d, 1872.
After completing a course of study covering
four years, at St. Paul's School, near Concord,
N. H., of which the Rev. Dr. Coit is Head
Master, he entered Yale College, class of 1896.
Medical Inspector, Thomas Neall Penrose, was
named for the Rev. Dr. Thomas Neall, to whom his
parents were greatly attached.
i82 THE PENROSE FAMILY
He graduated from University of Pennsylvania,
Medical Department, class of 1858; and subsequently
received, also, the degree of Ph. D. from that Uni-
versity.
Upon the breaking out of the war he immediately
offered his services and, if necessary, his life, for the
preservation of the Union. He was in active service
throughout the whole period of the rebellion, with
the exception of a few months on sick leave, endeav-
oring to restore a shattered constitution caused by
hardships and cruelties of a rebel prison. Notwith-
standing this experience, his patriotism never faltered
for one moment, and with returning health he lost
no time in reporting for duty again. His record is
one that his family, friends, and country may justly
be proud of.
The following account of his services, though but
a brief outline, will be read with deep interest by all
who peruse this volume.
RECORD OF THOAUS NEALL PENROSE
Thomas Neall Penrose entered the Regular Navy,
I ith month nth, 1861,
On duty at Navy Yard, Washington, until 2d
month, 1862.
Second month, 1862, ordered to U. S. S. Harriet
Lane.
THE PENROSE FAMILY 183
Second month, 1862, passed the whole Une of bat-
teries on the Potomac river, engaging with the Cockpit
Point and Shipping Point Batteries.
Attached to Admiral David G. Farragut's Fleet,
and under the immediate command of Commander,
afterward Admiral, David D. Porter; attacked Forts
Jackson and St. Philip, guarding approaches to New
Orleans.
Fourth month i6th to 23d, 1862, fighting the forts.
Fourth month 24th, 1862, the fleet passed up the
river between the forts. The Division in which he
was, after a hot engagement with the forts and Water
Battery, within five hundred yards of Fort Jackson,
was ordered to return to protect the "Mortar boats."
Sixth month 28th, 1862, battle at Vicksburg, at
which time Admiral Farragut led his fleet past the
whole line of batteries there.
Numerous small engagements at different points
on the Mississippi river until c;th month, 1862.
Tenth month, 1862, engagement with the forts
guarding Galveston, Texas; capturing the place.
First month ist, 1863, severe engagement with
the Rebel army, at Galveston, driving them from their
position.
Afterward engaged single-handed the Rebel rams,
Bayou City and Neptune, sinking the Neptune. The
Bayou City, after the third attempt, succeeded in
"boarding" the f/j/T/V/ Lane in overwhelming num-
1 84 THE PENROSE FAMILY
bers. The commanding officer, the executive officer,
and all the deck officers of the Harriet Lane being
killed or wounded in this action, save one.
Prisoner of war at Galveston, Houston, and Nib-
letts Bluff, Texas.
Compelled to march ninety miles to Alexandria,
on the Red river, La. Then was placed in prison ship.
After release from rebel prison was ordered to
the U. S. S. Massachusetts, to convey the wounded
from the fleet off Charleston to northern hospitals,
visiting the fleet ever}' few weeks until the close of
the war.
Cruised in the West Indies, South America, Europe
(Mediterranean Squadron), Egypt, China, Japan,
Corea, East Indies, Spice Islands, Java, Africa, includ-
ing the islands of St. Helena and Cape de Verde.
Cruised in the Levant, visiting Constantinople
and Smyrna, in Turkey, and along the coast of
Syria. Travelled to Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Bethany,
Joppa, and several other places of interest in the
Holy Land, including the Garden of Gethsemane,
the Pool of Siloam, the Brook Kedron, the Holy
Sepulchre, etc.
While cruising on the China station ascended the
Yang Tse Kiang seven hundred miles, visiting the
ancient city of Nankin, and the ruins of the Porcelain
Tower, and the tombs of the Ming dynasty.
THE PENROSE FA MIL Y 185
SHORE DUTY
On duty at Navy Yards at Philadelphia, Washing-
ton, and Boston.
1880-81-82 was member of Board examining pro-
fessionally candidates for admission to Medical Corps
of the Navy, and Junior Medical Officers for promotion.
First month, 1872 to 1874, on duty at Naval Hos-
pital, Philadelphia.
Is now (1893) in command of the U. S. Naval
Hospital, Norfolk, Va.
DATES OF COMMISSIONS
Assistant Surgeon, nth month nth, 1861,
Passed Assistant Surgeon, 6th month 28th, 1864.
Surgeon, 5th month 28th, 1871.
Medical inspector, ist month 29th, 1890.
Elected a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of
the State of Pennsylvania, 5th month 7th, 1890. No.
of Insignia 7870.
1 86 THE PENROSE FAMILY
PENROSES OF ENGLAND
[^Compiled from Burke's Landed Gentry and Transactions
of the Harleian Society']
Penroses of Sithney county, England, traced back
six descents prior to 1620, a brancli of tlie Penroses of
Penrose, of which were Commodore Penrose and the
Rev. Thomas Penrose, the poet.
General Sir Charles Penrose, K. C. B., born
1821, entered the Royal Marines in 1837; Knight
of the Bath, 1867; Major-General, 1877; Lieutenant-
General, 1878; Knight Commander of the Bath, 1887;
General, 1879. Ser\'ed on the north coast of Spain
in the Carlists war, 1838-40; in the China war,
1841-42; in Japan, 1864-66.
Address: Peniee Villas, Stokes, Davenport.
United Service Club.
Arms: White or silver, three bends of black or
sable charged with as many roses of gold, crest a trout
natant of gold.
Motto: Ubiqiie Fidelis. (See plate.)
THE PENROSE FAMILY 187
PENROSES OF IRELAND
\_Compiled from Burke's Landed Gentry and Transactions
of the Harleiaji Society^
A branch of the Penroses of England removed to
Ireland at an early date, one branch settling in county
Waterford another in the county Wicklow. The family
settling in Waterford became connected by marriage
with the Randalls, Devonshires, Warrens, and Keans.
William Penrose, a merchant in Waterford, who
appears to be the head of that branch, is spoken of in
"Burke's Landed Gentry" in 1745.
Sir George Devonshire Penrose, son of William,
born 4th month 23d, 1822. Married first, to Mary,,
eldest daughter of Mr. Keiran Malloy, of King's county,
in 1850; she died 7th month i6th, 1883, and he married
Mary Gertrude, daughter of Jeremiah Dunne, Esq., of
31 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, nth month 26th, 1887.
Sir George was knighted in 1876, Justice of the
Peace for the county Cork; High Sheriff, in 1844,
Address: Greenville Place, Cork; Banagher,
King's county; Cork Club.
Arms: Silver on a bend of blue, three roses of
red; crest, a lion's head erased of gold, collared red.
l88 THE PENROSE FAMIL Y
PENROSES OF SHANDAGON
1. William Penrose, of Waterford, merchant; will
dated 1745. Married Margaret . Issue —
1 John, married Anne, daughter of Edward Campbell,
of Cork, and had —
1 Cooper, married Elizabeth, daughter of
John Dennis, of Cork.
2 William.
3 Anne, married Richard Pike, of Cork.
2 Samuel.
3 Francis, married Susan, daughter of John Pirn, and
had-
1 John.
2 Thomas.
3 William.
2. Samuel Penrose, of John's Gate, son of
William and Margaret; will dated 1764. Married Ann
Beale and had —
1 Samuel.
2 William.
3. Samuel Penrose, son of Samuel and Ann
Beale. Married, 1774, to Mary, daughter of George
Randall, of Barnhill, Cork, and had —
THE PENROSE FAMIL Y 189
1 Samuel.
2 George Randall, married Miss Pim, daughter of
Samuel Pim, of Waterford, and had —
I Abraham Devonshire, married Bridget, daugh-
ter of John Welstead, of Ballywalter, Cork,
and had —
I William, married Miss Percy, daughter
of Alexander Percy, of Ballerna-
more, county Leitrim, they had —
1 Elizabeth, married William
Hawkes.
2 Anne.
3 Sarah, married Saml. Hawkes.
4. Samuel Penrose, of Shandagon,son of Samuel
and Mary, born 6th month 24th, 1776. Married 6th
month, 1799, to Mary, daughter of John Hawkes, of
Sirmount, Cork, and had —
1 Samuel, born 1804, married Sarah, daughter of John
Welstead, of Ballywalter, county Cork ; he
died leaving one son, Samuel, who later was
succeeded by his son Samuel, the present head
of the family.
2 John, married Hester, daughter of Thos. Gallock,
of Elmglyn.
5. Samuel, the Rev., grandson of Samuel and
Sarah Welstead, born 1828. Married 1858, to Mary,
daughter of Henry O'Callahan. He is a magistrate of
the county.
The Norwood Family
THE NORIVOOD FAMILY 193
THE NORWOODS OF ENGLAND
\_Compilcd from Burke's Landed Gentry']
LINEAGE
This family derives its name from the manor of
Northwood Chasteners (since corrupted into Norwood ),
in Milton, and is of very ancient standing in Kent.
Sir Stephen De Northwood (son of Jordan de
Shepey, who lived temp Henry 11) obtained the above
manor as a grant from the Crown, and assumed the
name of De Northwood (also variously v/ritten in old
docum.ents Northwode and Norwode) from it. He built
a mansion there, v/here he and his descendants resided
for several generations.
He lived to a very advanced age, in reigns of
Richard I and John, and was succeeded by his son.
Sir Roger De Northwood served in the wars under
Henry 111 and Edward I.
Sir John De Northwood was summoned to Parlia-
ment among the Barons of the realm. He and his son
Sir John were present at the siege of Carlaverock,
Scotland, with Edward I, where he was knighted.
194 THE NORM^'OOD FAMILY
John De Northwood entertained Henry V, at Sit-
tingbourne, on his triumphant return from France,
John Norwood, as the name then (Henry \'ll
reign) began to be written, married Eleanor, daughter
of John Gifford, of Leckhampton, in Gloucestershire,
and in her right inherited the manor of Leckhampton.
He died in 1509, leaving male issue who resided at
Leckhampton, from whom that branch of the Norwood
family trace their descent.
Arms: Ermine, a cross.
Crest: On waves of the sea, ppr., a demi-lion
rampant, holding between the paws an anchor, flukes
upward.
Motto : Sub cruce vinces.
THE NORIVOOD FAMILY 195
THE NORWOODS OF LYNN AND GLOU-
CESTER, MASS.
{^Compiled from Bahson's Hisio)y of Gloucester , Mass., etc.,
by' Samuel Troth, Esq.l
Francis Norwood, according to a tradition in the
family, fled from England with his father, at the res-
toration of Charles 11.
His son Francis, came to New England and set-
tled at Lynn, hi the year 1663 he went to Glou-
cester, and settled at Goose Cove. He procured
several grants of land, the first dated 3d month i8th,
1664.
At the time of the settlement of New England
there was a family of Norwoods in the parish of
Leckhampton, about eight miles from Gloucester, in
England. According to the pedigree of this family,
one of them, named Francis Norwood, died 1682,
aged 82 years.
196 THE NOR^POOD FAMILY
1. Francis Norwood, died 3d month 4tlT, 1709.
Married lotli month 15th, 1663, Elizabeth Co'dum,
daughter of Clement Coldum.
to*
Children :
2-1 Thomas, born 12th mo. icth, 1664. Settled at
Lynn. Married 8th mo. 24th, 1685, Mary
Brown, daughter of Thomas Brown, of Lynn.
2-2 Francis, born 12th mo. gth, 1666. Married ist mo.
24th, 1653, Mary Stevens, born 6th mo. 13th,
1672; died nth mo. icjth, 1724; daughter of
James Stevens. Francis Norwood married
second, Qth mo. 12th, 1726, Mrs. Esther Foster.
2-3 Elizabeth, born 2d mo. 17th, 1669.
2-4 Mary, born 3d mo. 7th, 1672. Married Samuel
Sargent.
2-5 Stephen, born nth mo. 24th, 1674; died ist mo. 7th,
1703. Married Elizabeth ingleby, or Ingaelbe.
A daughter named Elizabeth.
2-6 Deborah, born cjth mo. 4th, 1677. Married ist mo.
15th, i6q6, Benjamin Haraden.
2-7 Hannah, born nth mo. 8th, 167Q; died 12th mo.
25th, 1679.
2-8 Joshua, born 2d mo. 27th, 1683. Married 9th mo.
25th, 1704, Elizabeth Andrews, daughter of
Ensign William Andrews, of Chebaso.
\j 2-9 Caleb, born 8th mo. 12th, 1685. Married Alice
Donnel, of York.
2-10 Abigail, born ist mo. 3cth, i6co.
THE hlORlVOOD FAMILY
197
2-1. Children of Thomas and Mary Brown
Norwood :
3-11 Francis. 3-14 Thomas.
3-12 Ebenezer. 3-15 Mary.
3-13 Mary.
3-16 Jonathan.
2-2. Children of Francis and Mary Stevens
Norwood :
3-17 Francis, born 4th mo. ist, 1695.
3-18 Mary, born nth mo. 3d, 1697.
3-19 Francis, born 12th mo. i6th, 17C0.
3-20 Lucy, born loth mo. 20th, 1703. Married 4th mo.
7th, 1729, Samuel Say ward.
3-21 Stephen, born 2d mo. 21st, 1706; died 3d mo.
i8th, 1711.
3-22 William (Captain), born '4th mo. 4th, 1708; died
2d mo. 4th, 1781. Married 5th mo. 30th, 1732,
Judith Woodbury, born 1710; died 7th mo.
19th, 1775.
3-23 Jonathan, born ist mo. 14th, 1712 ;' died 2d mo.
2ist, 1791. Married Elizabeth , born
1712; died loth mo. 2cth, 1775.
3-24 A son, born 4th mo. 3d, 1714 ; died4th mo. 3d, 1714.
3-25 Abigail, born 12th mo. i8th, 171 5. Married (pos-
sibly) Jeremiah Butman, or Bootman.
2-8. Children of Joshua-and Elizabeth Andrews
Norwood :
3-26 Elizabeth, born ist mo. 2d, 1706; died 9th mo.,
1775. Married ist mo. 30th, 1724, Ebenezer
Pool; died 5th mo., 1779.
ig8 THE NORIVOOD FAMILY
3-27 Joshua, born icth mo. i8th, 1707. Married Sarah
Goodrich, or Gutridge, or Aldrich. They had
, a son Solomon, baptized 2d mo. 8th, 1747, who
married twice and had seventeen children.
3-28 A daughter, born icth mo. 15th, 1709.
3-29 Sarah, born nth mo. loth, 1710.
3-30 Stephen, baptized 7th mo. 19th, 1713.
3-31 Hannah, born 3d mo. icth, 1715.
3-32 Mary, born 4th mo. 15th, 1717; died 3d mo., 1814,
aged ninety-seven years.
3-33 Susanna, born 2d mo. 26th, 1719; died 12th mo. 3d,
1726.
3-34 Francis, born 4th mo. 7th, 1721.
3-35 Abigail, born 3d mo. 28, 1723. Married 3d mo.
20th, 1743, Josiah Lane, born 3d mo. 29th,
1721 ; died 1776; son of James and Ruth
Riggs Lane.
3-36 Miriam, born 2d mo. 14th, 1725.
3-37 Susanna, born 2d mo. 24th,, 1727.
3-38 Rachel, born 12th mo. 27th, 1728.
3-39 Patience, born 8th mo. ;th, 1731. Married, 1750,
Samuel Wonson.
3-40 Caleb, born 1736; died 8th mo. irth, 1814. Married
first, Elizabeth Grover; second, Jerusha Story.
2-9. Children of Caleb and Alice Donnel
Norwood:
^-41 Elizabeth, born 7th m'o. 31st, 1709. Married about
173;, Jonathan Fellows.
3-42 Caleb, born 2d mo. ;th, 1712.
3-43 Abigail, born 3d mo. 8th. 1714. Married Francis
Marshall.
THE NORWOOD FAMILY ig9
3-44 Sarah, born 3d mo. 25th, 1715- Married Samuel
Gooding.
3-45 Gustavus, born 4th mo. 5th, 1719.
3-46 Alice, born 5th mo. 21st, 1721. Married
Gaines.
3-47 Deborah, born ist mo. 21st, 1727. Married Robert
Campbell.
3-22. Children of Captain William and Judith
Woodbury Norwood:
4-48 Judith.
4-49 William.
4-50 Mary.
4-51 James, born 5th mo. 5th, 1745; died 3d mo. nth,
1814. Married first, Susanna Norwood, daugh-
ter of Jonathan and Elizabeth Norwood ;
second, Judith Norwood, a sister of his first
wife, and who were his cousins.
3-23. Children of Jonathan and Elizabeth
Norwood :
4-52 Francis, born 2d mo. 9th, 1736.
4-53 Esther. Married Nathaniel Parsons.
4-54 Jonathan, born 3d mo. 28th, 1740. Children, Jona-
than, Zaccheus, and Abraham.
4-55 Elizabeth.
4-56 Susanna. Married James Norwood, her cousin, son
of William and Judith Woodbury Norwood.
4-57 Abraham.
4-58 Ebenezer, possibly married Abigail Emmes, daugh-
ter of Samuel and Hannah Ingraham Emmes ;
but of this there are grave doubts. (See 4-10,
William Penrose. 1
2C0 THE NORIVOOD FAMILY
4-;g Mary.
4-60 Gustavus, born 3d mo. 6th, 1752; died 3d mo. 6th,
1841, aged 8g, leaving children.
4-61 Samuel.
4-62 Judith, died young.
4-63 Judith. Married her cousin, James Norwood, son
of Captain William and Juditli Woodbury
Norwood.
4-64 Zaccheus Norwood for many years kept a hostelry
in Sangus. and after his death his widow mar-
ried Joseph Martin.
Jonathan and Zaccheus Norwood, sons of Jonathan and
Elizabeth, are said to have been drowned by the upsetting of
a boat off Folly Cove.
A Stephen Norwood was lost on a voyage to the Banks
of Newfoundland.
Dr. Jonathan Norwood was thrown from his horse 3d
mo. i8th, 1782, and died from injuries received. He was born
Qth mo. icjth, 1751; was a son of Zaccheus. He graduated
at Harvard College in 1771, and lived at Lynn, on the north
side of the Common. (See " History of Lynn," --by Lewis &
Newhall.)
3-40. Children of Caleb and Elizabeth Grover
Norwood :
4-65 Caleb, born 7th mo. 5th, 1762; died iith mo.
7th, 1824. Married first, 7th mo. i6th, 1781,
Jerusha Story, a daughter of his step-mother ;
second, 12th mo. i6th, 1816, Esther Gott.
4-66 Stephen. 4-68 John.
4-67 Elizabeth. 4-69 Rachel.
THE NORIVOOD FAMILY 201
Caleb Norwood married second, Jerusha Story.
Children :
*4-7o Francis (Major), horn 6tli mo. 23d, 1771 ; died icth
mo. 6t]i, 1823. Married iitli mo. ytli, 179^,
Lucy Pool, born 1776; died 12th mo. iitlT, 1844-
4-71 William, born Qth mo. igth, i774 ; died loth mo.
7th, 1867, aged 93.
*Francis and Lucy Pool Norwood liad a son, the Rev,
Francis Norwood.
APPENDIX
MEMOIRS, CORRESPONDENCE,
REMINISCENCES,
NOTES, Etc.
APPENDIX 205
MEMOIR OF THOMAS PENROSE, POET
Born 1743. Died 1779
[See Pages 147 and 14S]
[^Copied from CampbclV s Speciinois of the British Poets]
"The history of Penrose displays a dash of warlike ad-
venture which has seldom enlivened the biography of our poets.
He was not led to the profession of arms, like Gascoigne, by his
poverty, or like Quarles, Davenant, and Waller, by political
circumstances; but in a mere fit of juvenile ardor, gave up his
studies at Oxford, where he was preparing to become a clergy-
man, and left the banners of the church for those of battle. This
was in the summer of 1762, when the unfortunate expedition
against Buenos Ayres sailed under the command of Captain
Macnamara.
" It consisted of three ships : the Lord Clive, of 64 guns ; the
Ambuscade, o{ 40, on board of which Penrose acted as Lieutenant
of Marines; the Glona, of 38; and some inferior vessels.
" Preparatory to an attack on Buenos Ayres, it was deemed
necessary to begin with the capture of Nova Colonia, and the
ships approached closely to the fortress of that settlement. The
men were in high spirits ; military music sounded on board, while
the new uniforms and polished arms of the Marines gave a
splended appearance to the scene. Penrose the night before had
written and dispatched to his mistress in England a poetical
address, which evinced at once the affection and serenity of his
heart on the eve of danger. The gay preparative was followed
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by a heavy fire of several hours, at the end of which, when the
Spanish batteries were almost silenced, and our countrymen in
immediate expectation of seeinj; the enemy strike his colors, the
Lord Clivc was found to be on fire: and the same moment which
discovered the flames showed the impossibility of extinguishing
them. A dreadful spectacle was then exhibited. Men who had,
the instant before, assured themselves of wealth and conquest,
were seen crowding to the sides of the ship, with the dreadful
alternative of perishing by fire or water. The enemy's fire was
redoubled at the sight of their calamity. Out of Macnamara's
crew of 340 men, only 78 w ere sa\-ed. Penrose escaped with his
life on board the AmbusiaJc, but received a wound in the action :
and the subsequent hardships which he underwent in a prize-sloop,
in which he was stationed, ruined the strengh of his constitution.
He returned to England, resumed his studies at Oxford, and
having taken orders, accepted of the Curacy of Newburg, in
Berkshire, of which his father was the Rector. He resided there
for nine years, having married the lady already alluded to, whose
name was Mary Slocock. A friend at last rescued him from this
obscure situation, by presenting him with the Rectory of Becking-
ton and Standerwick, in Somersetshire, worth about £s^o a year.
But he came to preferment to late to enjoy it. His health having
never recovered from the shock of his American Service, obliged
him, as a last remedy, to try the hot wells at Bristol, at which
place he expired in his thirty-sixth year."
APPENDIX 207
MEMOIR OF MARY HATHAWAY NEEDLES
Born loth month 15th, 1788. Died 8th month 26th, 1873
[See Page 63]
Mary Hathaway Needles, wife of Edward Needles, for whom
Gen. Edward Needles Hallowell was named, was a native of New
Bedford, Mass. When she was a young girl her parents removed
to Canada, where her father died. Her mother marrying again,
Mary went to reside with a much beloved uncle. Captain Caleb
Hathaway, who resided at Philadelphia. It was whilst living with
him that she formed the friendship for Hannah Norwood Penrose,
wife of William Penrose, parents of Hannah Penrose Hallowell.
At the time of the death of Hannah Norwood Penrose, such was
the love entertained for her by Mary Hathaway Needles that, not-
withstanding the children were left with an abundance of worldly
means, she took under her own loving care Hannah and her
brother Norwood, the former five years of age, and the latter a
babe fourteen months old. Later she married Edward Needles.
Her love for Hannah and Norwood did not diminish, but took
them with her to her new home, and was a mother to them in
every sense of the word. So great was her devotion that even
her own children lived to be a number of years of age before they
realized the fact that " sister Hannah and brother Norwood " were
not bound to them by ties of consanguinity.
it is eminently fitting that a record of her life should be given
a place in this volume ; it would not be complete without it ; yet
to attempt to portray her beautiful character, so pure, so good,
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so noble, so sympathetic and loving, would result in failure. One
must have known her to appreciate her true worth. Such women
were rare even in her day. The world is better for her having
lived, and when she was taken from it she left a lasting impress
upon all those who had been so highly favored as to have come
within her influence.
The following tribute to her memory, written by a valued
friend. Prof. Thomas Baldwin, was published at the time of her
death in the Philadelphia f;vs5.-
MARY HATHAWAY NEEDLES
ANOTHER OF THE EARLY PIONEERS OF FREEDOM GONE
" There has not departed from our midst, witliin the knowl-
edge of the writer (now a more than forty years' adult resi-
dent of Philadelphia), a person of a more remarkable character
than the subject of this memoir. Of New England parent-
age, she partook largely of the firm and resolute support of
principle at all hazards, that characterizes the best minds of
that region. Though leading a strictly private life, she was ever
ready to assist by her services in forwarding any work of benev-
olence, no matter how disagreeable or unpopular the cause. A
person (not merely a woman) more devoid of any feelings of
fear the writer never met with— fear either of personal danger or
social censure in a cause she believed to be right. There have
been many heroes whose fame has been trumpeted to the four
quarters of the world, who had not a tithe of her quiet courage
and determined will to support the right, cost what it may.
When raging mobs have howled round her house threatening to
burn it to the ground if she did not yield up William Lloyd Gar-
rison ( often hers and her husband's guest), or Frederick Douglass,
she has stood firm and unmoved as could the firmest Roman
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of Rome's best day. In her the "colored people" always found
an unflinching friend in times when it cost something to support
that character; and many a panting fugitive from slavery has
found refuge within her home— a secure refuge, as far as her will
and courage could make it so -when the hounds of slavery were
close upon their track, aided by the servile police of those times.
Yet such was the admiration for her heroism and known purity
of purpose, that even pro-slavery men have offered more than
once to defend her house when threatened with mob violence.
Though not a relative of the deceased, and not even acquainted
with her till well advanced in manhood, the writer knew Mary H.
Needles thoroughly, and never did he know an individual more
indifferent to popular approbation or more independent in forming
her judgment (not without prejudices, it is true, as strong char-
acters never are) on great moral and political questions. A great
reader, she kept herself well acquainted with the important topics
of the times till within a few years of her death, which took place
on 8th month 26th, in the 86th year of herage. Well read in all the
better poets, she could quote largely from their pages, and 'In
Memoriam ' she nearly knew by rote, as in it she found solace
for her long and weary bereavement. Twenty-two years a
widow, longing to rejoin her husband, and subject to a large
share of the trials and cares incident to human life, she yet
expressed again and again, and through all her last sufferings,
the most perfect submission to the will of Providence. Eulogiums
on the dead are so indiscriminately given as to have little influence
on the living; but the writer is confident that but a small part of
the worth of this great private woman has been told or can be
told in a newspaper article. The writer leaves to her more able
friends, Wm. Lloyd Garrison and John G. Whittier, or some
other of her Abolition associates, to do her more ample justice
than can this."
210 APPENDIX
THE HON. FREDERICK FRALEY
[Father of Mrs. Sarah C. Fraley Hallowell. See Pages 42 and 43]
[Prepared by the Board of Directors of the American Fire Insurance
Company]
"Since the death of John Welsh, one of the directors of the
Company, and who, in his forty-six years of service as such, lived
out the longest term of any, there is probably not another living
Philadelphian who, in the amount and value of his public services
and the reverence with which he is regarded in the community, is
the peer of Frederick Fraley, the last survivor of the early secre-
taries of the American Fire Insurance Company, a position he
filled, like all he has occupied, with the most signal ability.
"Mr. Fraley was born in Philadelphia, in 1804, and is thus
in his eighty-ninth year. His ancestors on his father's side
were Swiss, and on his mother's English. He early studied law,
but determined upon a mercantile training. His first participation
in a public enterprise was in 1824, when, with several of the
leading mechanics and scientific men of the city, he took a prom-
inent part in founding the Franklin Institute, of which he has
since been one of the most active members and managers, and
for many years its treasurer.
"He was elected to Council in 1834, and it was during his
service in Councils in 1837, under the suspension of specie pay-
ments, and when the city was on the brink of insolvency, that
Frederick Fraley, as chairman of the finance committee, as a
means of relief, proposed the issue of certificates by the city,
APPENDIX 211
which at once relieved the embarrassment. The introduction of
gas-lighting in the face of great public opposition, and the subse-
quent organization of the Philadelphia Gas Bureau upon the
system still followed, was the result of his report, in 1835, as
chairman of the committee.
"In 1837 he was elected a member of the Senate of Penn-
sylvania, and took an active part in framing the laws needed to
carry the new Constitution into effect. The difficulty of this duty
was aggravated by the serious political complications which resulted
in what was known in Pennsylvania history as "The Buckshot
War," and he was personally present during the disturbances
which forced the memorable adjournment of the Senate. He
resigned from the Senate' in 1840.
"It has been in commercial life, however, and as a fman-
cier that Mr. Fraley has excelled. He was elected secretary of
the American Fire Insurance Company in 1840. In 1847 he was
elected president of the Schuylkill Navigation Company, which
caused his resignation from the American Fire. He declined re-
election as president in 1888. On the completion of the Girard
College building, he was elected one of the directors of the
Institution. In 1853 he was one of the committee that prepared a
plan for the consolidation of the city. He was also one of the
founders of the Union Club, and of its successor the Union
League; and since 1863 has been one of the trustees of the
University of Pennsylvania, in which he takes the greatest
interest. He' was elected president of the Philadelphia Board of
Trade in 1884, having been from an early period an active mem-
ber. He was selected as a delegate to the Commercial Conven-
tion which met in Boston in 1868, to organize a National Board
of Trade, of which he was unanimously elected president, and
has so continued ever since, having been elected January, 1893,
for the twenty-fifth time. It was Mr. Fraley's financial plan that
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was adopted, both by the city and congress, for carrying out the
Centennial Exhibition, and he was elected secretary and treasurer
of the Centennial Board of Finance in 1873, which raised the
necessary millions to carry out that project.
"in 1878 he was elected president of the Western Savings
Fund, and still continues in that office. He is also, and has been
for several years, president of the American Philosophical Society.
The Merchant's Fund, the Blind Institution, and the Apprentices'
and Mercantile Libraries, as well as other Philadelphia institutions,
have alii<e shared his attention and interest, and benefitted by his
valuable experience.
" it has been said by members of Congress who have
reason to know, that the recent defeat of the proposed silver
coinage legislation was due to Frederick Fraley more than to any
other man. It was a wonderful spectacle, that of this man, past
eighty years of age, standing throughout one long night session,
and appearing as bright as ever the next morning, before the
committee of the two houses in Washington, answering every
question and explaining every detail connected with coinage and
the financial history of the country since the start, without so
much as a note to guide him. Masses of figures, dates, fractions,
legislation were all set forth by him with all the accuracy and
facility of the written report of a Secretary of the Treasury."
APPENDIX 213
JOHN CORLIES WHITE
[Ske Page 112]
John Corlies White, an intimate friend of Norwood Penrose
and Sarah Wharton Halloweli, was born 7th month 5th, 1835;
died of consumption, at Brooklyn, N. Y., 7th month 8th, 1872.
He was graduated from Harvard College, class of i860. He
was an artist by profession, and resided in New Yorl\ city.
MILITARY RECORD
Private, yth N. Y. V. M., 4th month 19th, 1861.
First Lieutenant, i72d N.Y. Volunteers, 9th month ist, 1862.
Adjutant, ist N. Y. Volunteers, ist month i6th, 1863.
Discharged with the regiment, 6th month 30th, 1863.
214 APPENDIX
MEMOIR OF RUBENAH WILLIAMS
By Mrs. Sarah C. Fraley Hallowell
Rubenah Williams was born 2d month i8th, i8co, and is
still living, in hardy old age, while this memoir is being written,
nth month, 1892. She is now in her ninety-third year, and
though absence of memory occasionally shows itself, her physical
strength and cheerfulness are remarl<able. At the age of seven
years she came to live with Mrs. Charles Tyson Hallowell, then
a resident of Jenl\intown, Montgomery county. Pa. Rubenah, or
" Bena," as she is affectionately called, was born near Shoemaker-
town, now Ogontz, in a little house near the Bosler Mill property.
Her grandmother had been laundress to Lord Cornwallis, when
the British troops were quartered in that vicinity, and had for
many years in her possession the small copper i<ettle which boiled
the water for his tea. It was she who made the memorable
retort, when he told her he was going down to the South "to
mal<e an end of your George Washington." " No, he will make
an end of you and send you back again, Cob-Wallis!" The
events of Yorktown proved the truth of the rebellious washer-
woman's prediction -loyal to her native country, although to call
her a loyalist in those days, would have meant exactly the
opposite.
When the small child of seven came to make one of the Hal-
lowell family, according to the wholesome custom of the day,
she was of course promised "a trade," when she should attain
RuBENAH Williams.
APPENDIX 215
her majority at eighteen. She removed to Philadelphia with
them, when Mr. Hallowell extended his business, as a silk mer-
chant in Philadelphia, from the original country store in Jenkin-
town (he had first of all been a carpenter); and when he went as
" supercargo " to China, on several voyages, it was the young girl
" Bena " who assisted her mistress in rearing the large family of
boys, as devotedly as though she had been a born member of the
Hallowell family, and with a wealth of service and unpurchasable
industry, that has made her name a family motto for faithfulness.
When she was eighteen she was sent, according to the un-
written pledges of the day, to get her trade. She chose that
of tailoress, and was absent from the Hallowell house in the day-
time, for about eighteen months. This chronicler has always
thought she selected this trade because the numerous boys in the
Hallowell family, only one daughter living even to girlhood,
promised endless usefulness in the way of jackets and trousers.
At all events, when the trade was learned and after a few months'
trial of it in going out to sew for other people, "Bena" returned
to her beloved mistress and took up her duties as housekeeper at
the then liberal pay of $1.25 per week. She has, ever since, been
a part of the family, sharing its deepest interests and its pleasures.
She was particularly devoted to the orphan children of Susannah
Morris Hallowell and William Walton, whom the early death by
pulmonary disease of both their parents, gave into their energetic
grandmother's charge, and for whom Ann Hallowell and Rubenah
Williams faithfully carried out the parental care. When the only
surviving son of Susannah Morris Walton, James Walton (all
the children having lived past the age of twenty-one), removed
to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, from New York city, hoping to pro-
long his life in the famous air of the Berkshire Hills, "Bena"
departed from her aversion to new places, and made a long visit to
Berkshire, helpful as ever. She was at that time living with Mrs.
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Joshua Longstreth Hallowell, who had spent with her mother-in-
law, Mrs. Ann Hallowell, the several declining years of her life
in the Spruce street house, and to whom also " Bena" with her
untiring energies, undiminished by the flight of seventy-one years,
came as housekeeper, on her removal to De Lancey Place. Sub-
sequently Miss Williams went to live with Mrs. Morris L. Hal-
lowell, in South Eighth street, and afterward in Clinton street,
where she was surrounded with every comfort and placed upon
the " retired list," so to speak, for the first time in her active life.
After a number of years spent in this way, "Bena" with old
"Cassie," another retainer of the Morris L. Hallowell family, was
established in a comfortable house, kept by "Bena" Williams'
niece, on South Eleventh street, and where she still lives, although
"Cassie" has long since passed away.
Miss Williams is tall in figure and elastic in movement.
Her head has always been considered a very tine type of the
American ; a small head, well-balanced, with firmness and intel-
ligence its striking characteristics. Hers has been, indeed, the
faithful " service of the antique world, where service went for
honor, not for greed." It Is even a question whether the almost
heroic struggle of Ann Hallowell, in her earlier days of >'oung
widowhood, left when her eldest son of her large family of boys
was but nineteen, could have been as bravely and successfully
carried out, had it not been for this intelligent and devoted hand-
maiden. She helped "to bring up " not only her mistress' children
and grandchildren, but those younger grandchildren who were of
the same age as the great-grandchildren of Ann Hallowell, and
who, one and all, look back upon their childhood days with
" Bena" with the greatest love and honor.
"Bena's"one out-door avocation in later years, at least,
appeared to be the attendance at the Rev. John Chambers'
church ; a somewhat sulphurious style of preacher, in whose
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energy of Calvinism, the perfect liberality of " Bena's" mind in
respect to all views and conditions of men, must have found
refreshing contrast. She seldom came home from meeting without
stopping at the confectioner's to bring home "queen-cake" for
her " missus," as she always called Madam Ann Hallowell. To
this day you can reach " Bena's" heart in no surer way than to
carry her "queen-cake" and rock-candy. She has had for years
a troublesome cough, in the mornings, the senile cough so familiar
to physicians, and that she has lived well into her ninety-third
year, with no other cough treatment than an occasional teaspoon-
ful of old rye whiskey, shows that the temperate use of a pure
stimulant may be of great service to octogenarians and nonagena-
rians. She is still a remarkable example of cheerfulness and
vivacity in extreme old age ; a repository of family news ; and
her good recipes for cooking still sought after by those younger
members who remember her appetizing dishes at Grandma's
table. We all consider her a typical American of a class now
almost vanished from the scene; of good blood and quick intel-
ligence, finding perfect satisfaction in family life and in domestic
duties. By her intelligence made a highly honored member of
that family which she served, no born relation being more closely
knit to their affections; and by her good judgment frequently
consulted by her mistress, undoubtedly aiding to weather the trial
times, through which Ann Hallowell brought up her young family.
A partner, really, in family joys, triumphs, and troubles.
Such was domestic service in the elder day, and the long,
vigorous life of Rubenah Williams shows that the service part of
it was made easy by mutual sympathies and great respect.
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MEMOIR OF CATHERINH DOl'GHERTY
Catherine Dougherty, a native of county Derry, Ireland, em-
igrated to this country about the year 183Q. She became a
member of the household of Morris L. and Hannah P. Hallowell,
in the year 1840; and for forty-seven years was a devoted and
highly valued nurse and friend to each individual member of the
family until her death, which took place 2d month 22d, 1887, in
the seventy-third year of her age.
" Cassie," the name by which she was wont to be called,
was fond of relating the story, that when she was engaged by
Mrs. Hallowell as nurse for the children, she was told that she
might " come on trial," and that she had waited a life-time to fmd
out if she was satisfactory. Such devotion and fidelity as were
manifested by her are nowadays rarely to be found.
During a season of adversity, at the time of the breaking out
of the rebellion (1861), she entreated Mr. Hallowell to accept from
her the savings of her life-time, if it would in any way assist in
tiding over the troublesome days. Of course her wishes were
not acquiesced in, but it served to draw her still more closely to
the affections of the family.
She was unmarried ; a Protestant, and a member of the
Episcopal church.
In order to comply with the wishes of her sister, her remains
were interred in Woodland Cemetery, instead of in the lot of the
Hallowell familv in South Laurel Hill.
Cathkkink DorC.llKRTY
APPENDIX 219
MRS. HANNAH SMITH, OF BOSTON, TO JOSEPH
ANTHONY, ESQ., OF PHILADELPHIA.
"BOSTON, nth month gth, i7Q5-
" It is a long time since I intended to write a few lines to my
uncle's esteemed friend, Mr. Anthony, to mal<e some interesting
inquiries of Mr. Penrose, who has professed a tender affection
for my dear niece, Hannah Norwood ; but was prevented by a
severe nervous fever which has just left me, and am getting well
fast, for which 1 am extremely grateful.
" It was a request of my sister Norwood, by Mr. P.'s desire,
to ask some information of you through Mr. Smith. Mr. S. told
her he had no doubts of Mr. P., himself, he had behaved like a
gentleman at his house, was generous and manly as it respected
Hannah, and that any one that brought letters from you came
strongly recommended. We join him there; but after all, the
mother as well as the aunt would be better pleased to have it
confirmed by you ; for that purpose 1 was about to write you a
few lines. The welcome confirmation has come in the letter
received by Mr. S., entirely to our satisfaction, for which we all
join in sincere gratitude to you, my dear sir, for the kind interest
you so sincerely take now, and ever have taken, in all that con-
cerns us, ever since 1 had the pleasure of knowing you ; and
while I have life, I hope to retain the high sense of the many
obligations to you and your amiable family which I sincerely love;
please to offer my affectionate love to all of them.
220 APPENDIX
"How is my dear Mrs. Pollock? I have been anticipating a
visit from iier all the summer. I have trembled for the sweet girl;
my Hannah is, my dear sir, the counterpart of my dear Abby ;
sweet, gentle, accommodating disposition as ever a child was
blessed with. She will be a great acquisition to any family.
" We were very much pleased with the two young men ; if
either had the preference it was Mr. P.: but we did not think at
the time we should please him so nell. But how shall I part
with her? Ah ! there is the rub. But away with it ; many things
worse than that may happen to me ; if she is happy, 1 am satisfied,
"My dear Abby has two beautiful children, Samuel and Han-
nah Smith ; we are very happy in her and in her husband.
" Let me hope for your pardon for keeping you so long, but
permit me to wish you every blessing that so good a mind as
you possess can enjoy. My most affectionate love attend my
dear Mrs. Anthony ; I long to see her. With every sentiment of
esteem and gratitude,
"1 am your sincere friend,
"Hannah S.uith.
"to joseph anthony, esq."
APPENDIX 221
WILLIAM PENROSE TO THOMAS PENROSE
"Boston, Sunday, Dec. 27th, 1795.
"DEAR FATHER:
" Yours of the 1 3th inst. came duly to hand, to
which I should have earlier replied had not sundry avocations
relative to my particular situation prevented me.
"I have now to inform my dear parents that Tuesday last
finished my career of single life, an event very important and
which ought to be entered into with prudence and mature delibera-
tion, both which 1 believe have had every attention from me the
matter required; and if a good disposition, accompanied with
gentle manners and unaffected sincerity, are the necessary
requisites for the enjoyment of true happiness, I conceive myself
to have been very fortunate, as my dear partner is possessed of
those, as well as all other agreeable qualities necessary to our
mutual happiness. I shall not endeavor to prepossess you in
favor of a person still unseen, but leave her merits for you to
determine after we have the pleasure of appearing before you ;
an event in which we both anticipate the greatest possible pleasure.
" Mr. Smith yesterday received a letter from Mr. Anthony,
where I observe your anxiety for my return. 1 hope you will not
suppose any time has been unnecessarily spent here, for 1 do
assure you our friends here have considered my absence from
home and used every prudent exertion to hasten the time of my
departure; but there still remain sundry things to be done before
we leave here, and we are doing everything that lies in our power
222 APPENDIX
for that purpose. I cannot yet name the time for leaving, but
expect it will be in the course of ten or twelve days, of which 1
shall advise you in due time. 1 had once thought of getting a
conveyance in a private carriage; but my friends fear it would be
attended with many inconveniences on the road, and an uncer-
tainty of getting on should anything happen on the road. They
have therefore advised taking the mail stage in the beginning of
the week and pursuing the route without stopping until our arrival
at New York ; which will take from Monday morning 12 o'clock
until Saturday following 10 o'clock A. M., a distance of about
240 or 250 miles, which averages about 50 miles a day, and which
1 hope we shall easily accomplish, the weather being cool and not
so fatiguing as in the summer season.
" My dear ' girl ' desires her sincere love and duty to you both,
and all my friends, and wishes to assure you that however affect-
ing and disagreeable the parting with her friends and nearest
connections may be, she uses every means in her power to hasten
our arrival in Philadelphia, where 1 have no doubt (leaving her
parent and nearest connections behind her) she will find them
replaced in the affections of those she may find in my family.
" 1 have now to request you will make my most sincere
acknowledgments to Mr. Anthony for his unbounded friendship
and attention to me on this occasion, having experienced through
him all possible favors from his worthy friends in this place.
"We both unite our fervent wishes for his and their unin-
terrupted happiness; but language is too weak to express our
gratitude to him, and the will must be a substitute for the deed.
"Our Mother, with Uncle and Aunt Smith, join us in love to
you both, and hope to present you a daughter worthy your
acceptance in every respect. I am, dear father,
" Your most affectionate son,
"William Penrose.
"MR. T. PENROSE, 85 Penn street, Phila."
APPENDIX 223
WILLIAM AND HANNAH (OR ANNAH) NORWOOD
PENROSE TO THOMAS PENROSE
"Boston, January 7th, 1796.
"DEAR FATHER:
" It is with much concern I have observed several
post-days elapse without receiving any of your esteemed favors,
for which I cannot account ; and as there will but one mail arrive
previous to m\- departure, 1 have little expectation of hearing from
you until my arrival at New York; a long and very unpleasant
silence to me.
" In my last 1 informed you of my intention to take the mail
stage, which I have done, and now confirm my expectation of
leaving here on Monday next (the time mentioned in my last) for
New York, where (barring accidents) I expect to be on the Satur-
day following ; and, according to previous advice, where I hope
to fmd W. Cliffton, an event which will afford me ineffable
pleasure.
"I hope, dear father, my long absence from you w-ill be
excused, considering the importance of my present undertaking,
and the time necessary for accomplishing my errand. 1 do assure
you I anticipate inexpressible pleasure in again seeing my friends
and introducing to them my worthy companion, with whom I
hope she may enjoy every possible pleasure and satisfaction ; and
as nothing will be wanting on her part to accomplish this happy
event, 1 am certain it will be a time of mutual pleasure and hap-
piness to all of us.
224 APPENDIX
" We are now spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Smitii,
wiio take a great interest in our happiness and wiio have endeared
themselves to us by the most sincere and numerous acts of friend
ship, which I hope we may always have gratitude enough to
acknowledge, not only in expression, but by our actions.
" Please excuse me to W. Cliffton for not writing this post, as
it is the eve of my departure my time is engrossed making the
necessary arrangements.
"All our friends here join us in the most sincere love to you
all, which we have no doubt of your acceptance from them, as
well as from
" Your most affectionate children,
"WILLIAM AND H. PENROSE.
"MR. THOMAS PENROSE, No. 85 Penn street, Philad'a."
APPENDIX 225
THOMAS AND ANN PENROSE TO MRS. ABIGAIL
NORWOOD, OF BOSTON, Mass.
"Philadelphia, February 8th, 1796.
"Mrs. Abigail Norwood:
" I wrote you 6th of last month and
received yours of the 21st.
"Our dear children arrived home on the 22d, in good health.
Their arrival gave us much pleasure, and relieved us from
much anxiety.
"We are much pleased with your daughter Hannah, and
have adopted her as our own, and shall do all in our power to make
her happy. She has dined and supped with all our near relations
and friends; a number of ladies and gentlemen have visited her,
so that she now will have it in her power to return visits to whom
she wishes to make acquaintance.
" I find by your letter to has told your son Barnett to
James parting with your daughter and son so sudden might
be grief to you, but those are some of the many crosses we are
to meet whilst we are in this world of trouble.
"Accept, dear sister, our best wishes for your happiness both
in time and eternity.
"THOMAS AND ANN PENROSE."
226 /1PPENDIX
The following stanza was written by Hannah (or Annah)
Norwood, when but fourteen years of age, to her uncle, Samuel
Smith, Esq., of Boston, Mass.:
"BOSTON, April 12th, 1791.
"DEAR UNCLE:
" These Lines, dear Uncle, I to you present,
From real Duty, not as Compliment ;
That you may see, and plainly understand,
How by this time, I have improved my hand.
To me my Master has displayed much Skill,
And here's the Product of my hand and Quill ;
Should it but please you then, to whom 'tis sent,
1 hope my time has not all been misspent.
Then while 1 live. Sir, may I never cease,
To te your most Obed't, humble Niece.
"Hannah Norwood.
"MR. Smith."
APPENDIX 227
Reminiscence no. 1
THE LETTHR
[See Page 39]
" We have been informed by a large number of our Southern
customers that systematic and pertinacious efforts are constantly
made to deprive us of a portion of our trade, by appeals to the
prejudices of buyers on the score of unsound political sentiments
of some of the members of our firm.
" We therefore feel it a duty we owe to ourselves, and the
commercial community in which we reside, to declare publicly
that we have no apologies to make for our opinions, and that we
will continue, as ever, to hold and express just such sentiments
as our consciences and convictions dictate, without reference to
the supposed views of customers, and in especial contempt of that
class of dealers in our city who ' sell their principles with their
goods.'
" In this connection it is but justice to a large majority of our
Southern friends to state, that they thoroughly appreciate and
heartily despise that cringing servility which seeks gain by insin-
cere professions of devotion to Southern institutions, or in the less
manly, though more discreet, form of innuendoes as to a neigh-
bor's sentiments.
" If, after this, there are any who desire to know our views
before purchasing from us, we can best reply by embodying in
this note an extract from a letter written by us some months since,
which will explain itself :
"'The members of our firm, entertaining a wide difference
of views on various topics, and as many opinions on the Slavery
question as there are members of it, are fully united on one point,
namely: that where any one presumes to demand, as a prelim-
228 APPENDIX
inary to purchasing from us, that he shall know our opinions
upon Slavery or any other mooted question in Religion or Politics,
he shall he informed, as we now tell you, that he cannot purchase
from us for cash, or upon aiif terms, until he shall have amply
apologized for the insult.'
" MORRIS L. HALLOWELL & CO.
" PHILADELPHIA, 8th month 22d, 1856."
Reminiscence No. 2
A BID FOR SOUTHERN TR.ADE
See Page .,11
The firm of Lippincott & Co., publishers, of Philadelphia,
stood prominent among those wiio bid for the patronage of the
Southern trade at the sacrifice of principle, apparently not hesita-
ting even for a moment to ask themselves, "For what shall it profit
a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
There is a celebrated painting by the French artist, Ary
Scheffer, known as " Christus Consolator." It consists of figures
of the maimed, halt, and blind, the maniac, and the negro, grouped
about the figure of Christ. The negro is in a kneeling position,
WMth wrists manacled and arms extended in an appealing manner.
In the year 1845 Messrs. Lippincott & Co. published an
edition of the " Book of Common Prayer," used by the Episcopal
Church of America, and for a frontispiece inserted a wood cut, or
some similarly reduced copy of this picture, leaving out the figure
of the negro. Underneath the picture the title ''The Saviour.'''
In order to publish and circulate the " Book of Common
Prayer," it is necessary to secure the approval of the Church ;
this was done, and a certificate to this effect, signed by Bishop
Doane, was printed therein.
APPEhlDIX 229
The object of the publishers in mutilating the picture was
undoubtedly to secure a sale of their book in the slave states.
The Bishop's action in consenting to this has been severely criti-
cized, it is extremely doubtful whether he knew that he was being
made accessory to such a crime, supposing he was merely certi-
fying that the edition of the Common Prayer Book had been
compared by the standard book and, as the canon directs, was
permitted to be published accordingly.
it is true, however, that the book with the emasculated picture
continued in use without protest, so far as known, by the Bishop.
Without desiring to screen the Bishop from just censure or seem-
ingly to apologize for his part in the matter, the writer calls to mind
the fact that the various religious denominations, without an excep-
tion, were loath to tolerate any movement toward interfering
with the system of slavery ; even the Philadelphia yearly meeting
of the society of Friends took into serious consideration the pro-
priety of disowning one of its members, Lucretia Mott, on account
of her proclaiming from the gallery anti-slavery doctrines.
Reminiscence no. 3
DOUGHFACE TACTICS
[See Page 39]
As further evidence of the extent which some of the servile,
cringing, pro-slavery merchants carried their persecution against
those whose sympathies were enlisted on the side of liberty, and
who offered for sale in the market their merchandise, and not their
principles, the following will demonstrate. When it is remem-
bered the depth of moral degradation to which they lowered
themselves was for the sake of currying favor with their southern
customers, it is not so hard to realize the many difficulties with
230 APPENDIX
which our government had to contend in suppressing the rebellion, a
large percentage of its population in the North being composed of
such scum. As before stated in this volume, the house of Caleb
Cope & Co. was one of the leading ones in the city of Philadelphia.
A member of this firm was waiting on a customer from the south,
and for effect's sake, and also to assuie the southerner that he was
"sound " on the subject of slavery, called one of their buyers to
him and in a loud voice instructed him not to buy any goods of
Edward M. Davis (an importer) or any other d d Abolitionist.
Fortunately there happened to be an acquaintance of Mr. Davis
present, who quickl>' reported to him the conversation which had
taken place. Mr. Davis immediately went to Caleb Cope &
Co.'s, walked straight up to Mr. and his customer, and
spoke in substance as follows: "Mr. , 1 have been informed
that you have instructed one of your buyers not to purchase
goods of my tlrm because of my being 'a d d Abolitionist.'
is it true.?" There was a moment of embarrassment. It was
useless to attempt to deny it, for there were too many who had
heard him so express himself. He therefore was obliged to
acknowledge having done so. Mr. Davis then interrogated him
after this manner: "Suppose I offered you a lot of goods two per
cent, cheaper than you could purchase elsewhere; would you
buy them ? " Here was a dilemma ; for if he said no, his customer
might leave him, thinking he could buy the merchandise he needed
cheaper than the Copes could sell them, so reluctantly answered
in the affirmative. "Then," said Mr. Davis, "you would sell
your principles for two per cent." Amid the clapping of hands,
Davis walked out of the establishment, leaving the pro-slavery
Copperhead to his own reflections.
it is but just to the memory of that honored citizen, the late
Caleb Cope, the senior member of the firm v.hich bore his name,
that he would not have voiced the sentiments of his junior partner.
APPENDIX 231
The disgraceful incident narrated here occurred at a time when
Mr. Cope took but little active part in the business affairs of
his firm, leaving its management almost entirely to the younger
members.
Reminiscence no. 4
WAR ON DEFENCELESS WOMEN
[See Page 31]
The following will interest the generations to come, and fill
them with wonderment that such a state of affairs ever existed in
the city of Philadelphia, so noted for its loyalty.
The Anti-Slavery Society, the members of which were law-
abiding, peaceful Quakers, many of them non-resistants, were in
the habit of holding an annual fair; and when doing so would
stretch across Chestnut street a banner on which a fac-sinuL' of
the old Liberty Bell was painted, with the motto " Proclaim liberty
throughout the land and to all the inhabitants thereof." Upon
one of these annual occasions, a committee waited upon Alexander
Henry, who was then mayor of the city of Philadelphia, requesting
him to order the Liberty Bell banner taken down and the fair
closed, giving as their reason for wanting it done, that the said
Liberty Bell banner might offend their southern customers. With
humility and shame for the disgrace brought on the good name of
the city, the author is obliged to record that the so-called Hoiiorabh-
Alexander Henry, Mayor, etc., exceeded his authority by making
war on some fifty or more defenceless, peaceable Quaker ladies,
by acceding to this unreasonable and arbitrary demand ; their
only crime consisting in their belief in what they read in the
Declaration of Independence, "That all men are born equal," and
furthermore, in their right to liberty of thought, action and speech.
232 APPENDIX
Reminiscence no. 5
GRATITUDE IN THE EXTREME
[See Page 27]
The mercenary, inhuman, and ungrateful spirit which actu-
ated these representatives of the "Southern Chivalry," the
"Flower of the Southern Confederacy," etc., could not be better
exemplified than by the following incident which actually occurred.
The phraseology is that of the author, but the substance can be
verified by many Philadelphians who are yet living: "For, and
in consideration of the great Itrroism displayed on the part of John
Black, a colored man and slave, by jeopardizing his life by remain-
ing in Norfolk, Va., during the yellow fever epidemic, and render-
ing invaluable service in burying the dead, permission is hereby
granted, and passes issued to the said John Black, a slave, to visit
the north for the purpose of soliciting subscriptions of money
sufficient in amount to be applied toward the purchase of his
Freedom. ' '
The thought never entered their craven souls to grant this
hero a boon which rightfully belonged to him.
NOTE No. 1. Aneurism of the aorta, the cause of the
death of General Edward N. Hallowell, is a rare disease, and it
may be said to be invariably fatal ; very few cases of recovery
being on record. It is generally due to some diseased condition
of the internal coat of the great blood-vessel. Its more or less
rapid development may be influenced by a strain. This was no
doubt the case with General Hallowell, basing our opinion on the
following:
When in command of the Post on Morris Island, S. C, he
was returning one evening from the front. A few hundred yards
APPENDIX '233
of the route was exposed to the Rebels' fire. In order to cover the
space quickh", he put his horse into a full run. Unfortunately
the animal plunged into a mire of quicksand from which there was
no escape. The horse sank, but the velocity with which he had
been going threw General Hallowell from out the saddle some
distance beyond the treacherous spot, straining his back severely.
The horse was much valued on account of its having been
owned by Col. Robert G. Shaw, of the ?4th Massachusetts Vol-
unteers, who was killed in the assault on Fort Wagner, yth month
i8th, 1S63. (See page 65.)
NOTE No. 2. ISAAC ROBERTS DAVIS, so well known
in the business circles of the country, was born 8th month
28th, i8cg, near Norristown, Montgomery county. Pa., on the
estate of Isaac Roberts, whose name he bore. He was the son
of Evan and Elizabeth Evans Davis, who were members of the
society of Friends. Isaac was educated at Westtown school,
Chester county. Pa. Entered 12th month, 1823. Died of pa-
ralysis, 2d month 4th, 1857, at his residence, "Chelton," Chelten-
ham township, Montgomery county, Pa.
Lydia Corbit Davis, wife of Isaac Roberts Davis, daughter
of Joseph and Elizabeth Cowgill Corbit, was born at Smyrna,
Delaware, 12th month 24th, 1810; died at her residence, "Chel-
ton," 4th month 23d, 1873. The remains of both Isaac R. Davis
and his wife are interred in North Laurel Hill cemetery, Philadel-
phia. Were married 12th month i8th, 1833.
Children :
Elizabeth Corbit. (See 7-45, page 55.)
Edward Morris, Jr., born gth mo. 3cth, 1837 ; died of
angina pectoris, 12th mo. 27th, i8gi, at No. 338 South
Twenty-first street, Philadelphia. Interred at Laurel
234 APPENDIX
Hill. Married 4th mo. 30th, 1862, Sarah Louisa Gib-
bons, born 7th mo. i6th, 1842 ; died 7th mo. 6th,
1889, of Bright's disease, at " Chelton." Interred
at North Laurel Hill. Was daughter of Hon.
Charles and Eliza Gibbons, of Philadelphia.
Children :
Louisa Gibbons, born nth mo. ist., 1863,
at "Chelton."
Isaac Roberts, born nth mo., 1864, at
"Chelton."
Charles Gibbons, born 7th mo. 5th, 1866,
at "Chelton."
Joseph Corbit, born 12th mo. 2d, 1871, at
"Chelton."
[The Hon. Charles Gibbons, father of Louisa G. Davis, was
a distinguished lawyer, who was active in procuring a law which
prevented the arrest of fugitive slaves, and the use of jails for
their detention. He was one of the founders of the Union League,
and rendered great service to the Republican party. Born in the
State of Delaware, 3d month 30th, 1814; died 8th month 14th
1884. Interred at South Laurel Hill, Philadelphia.]
NOTE No. 3. " NORWOOD," the residence of the late
Morris L. Hallowell (6-27), was situated at the corner of Chelten-
ham avenue and Washington lane, Cheltenham township, Mont-
gomery county, Pa. It was here that the Hon. Charles Sumner
sought repose for a time, after the murderous assault was made
upon his person by the ruftian "Bully Brooks," of South Caro-
linia, in the Senate chamber, at Washington, D. C
" Norwood" passed into the hands of Mrs. John Butler, in
185Q. After her demise, the Rev. Samuel Clements, D. D., be-
APPENDIX 235
came its owner, who, in 1871, founded the Cheltenham Academy.
At his death, about 1889, Prof. John Calvin Rice became the
fortunate possessor of the property, and continued the good work
that the Rev. Dr. Clements devoted so many years of his life to.
Prof. Rice's fitness for such an important responsibility is
demonstrated by the fact that the institution has been a success in
the highest sense from the time of his first assuming control.
In the twenty-one years of its history, more than six hundred
young men have been fitted for successful college or business life ;
and the school is at this time (1893) represented by its graduates
at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania,
Cornell, Amherst, Lafayette, and West Point. (See page 64.)
NOTE No. 4. Charles Tyson Hallowell. The
records of the monthly meeting of Friends held at Race street,,
and records of interments at Friends' Western burying-ground,"'
Philadelphia, show that he died 7th month 7th, 1829. Dawson's
family record reads as follows: "born 4th month 28th, 1780; died
7th month 7th, 1829." The records of Abington monthly meeting
also state that he was born 4th month 28th, 1780. it is recorded
in his family Bible that he was born 2d month 28th, 1780; and
died 7th month 3d, 1829. (See page 20.)
NOTE No. 5. James MOTT, born ist month 2cth, 1788;
died ist month 26th, 1868. Lucretia Mott, born ist month 3d,
1793; died nth month nth, 1880. Married 4th month loth, 1810.
Their remains were interred at Fair Hill, Philadelphia.
For an extremely interesting account of their lives, read
"Life and Letters of James and Lucretia Mott;" compiled by
their granddaughter, Anna Davis Hallowell. (See page 59.)
236 APPENDIX
NOTE No. 6. LYDIA LONGSTRETH, wife of Richard
Price, was born 1801 ; died in Philadelphia, 7th month 5th, 1843;
daughter of Joshua Longstreth, brother of Ann Longstreth
Hallowell, wife of Charles Tyson Hallowell (5-24\ and mother
of Morris L. Hallowell (6-27^, Richard Price Hallowell's father.
(See pages 59 and 137.)
NOTE No. 7. ROBERT HAYDOCK, son of Samuel
and Sarah Haydock, was born in Philadelphia, 12th month 2d,
1807. Hannah Wharton, his wife, was also born in Philadelphia,
3d month 6th, 1818, daughter of William and Deborah Fisher
Wharton.
Robert and Hannah were married ist month 26th, 1843.
Parents of Sarah W^harton (Haydock), wife of Norwood Penrose
Hallowell (7-48), of West Medford, Mass. (See page 70.)
NOTE No. 8. CHELTEN AVENUE, of Cheltenham town-
ship, Montgomery county. Pa., was formerly called Grave-\ard
lane, for the reason that an old burying-ground, formerlx' used by
Friends, is located thereon, the land having been donated for that
purpose by Richard Wall (or Wain). (See page 86.)
NOTE No. 9. A letter of tb.e alphabet after the genera-
tion number, denotes that the person is not a direct descendant on
the mother's side, but a child by another marriage. As an
example, Caleb Hallowell's (4-21) first wife was Priscilla Tyson,
from whom we are direct descendants. His second wife was
'Mary Waterman, by whom he had several children ; these are
but half-relatives, and therefore are designated b\- the alphabet.
(See pages 13, 16, and ig.)
APPENDIX 237
NOTE No. 10. There is much uncertainty as to the sur-
name of Abigail (or Abby ) Emmes Norwood's husband. The only
clue we have is, that the records of the city of Boston state that
an Ebenezer Norwood married Abigail (or Abbv) Emmes, 2d
month loth, 1773. It is supposed that he died a few years after
his marriage, for he is not referred to in any of the correspondence
which took place at the time of his daughter Annah's engagement
to William Penrose, and whose marriage occurred when she was
but scarcely seventeen years of age. (See pages 158 and 162.)
NOTE No. 11. There is an uncertainty as to Annah
Norwood Penrose's right name. In the family Bible, now (1893)
in the possession of her granddaughter, Mrs. Emilie Norwood
(Anderson) Emory, it is recorded Aimali.
Letters written by both the Norwood and Penrose families,
at the time of her marriage to William Penrose, speak of her as
Haiiuah. It is well to note that she signed herself Hannah, and
furthermore the name of Annah does not appear in any of the
family archives. (See page 162.)
INDEX
HALLOWELL
Abigail, 5-B
Agnes, 5-C
Ann, 6-34
Amanda Emily, 6-39
Anna, 7-44
Anna Norwood, 8-84
Benjamin, 2-8
son of
Belle Jewett, 8-94
dau.of
Caleb, 4-21
son of
Caleb, 6-28
son of
Caleb W., 6-37
son of
Caleb, 7-58
((
Charles Tyson, 5-24
dau.of Caleb and Mary Waterman
" Caleb and Mary Waterman
" Charles Tyson and Ann
Longstreth
dau.of Chalkley and Susan Fisher
" Morris Longstreth and Han-
nah (Smith) Penrose
dau.of Norwood Penrose and Sarah
Wharton (Haydock)
John and Mary Sharpe, No. i
Charles and Belle Jewett
William' and Agnes Shoe-
maker
Charles Tyson and Ann
Longstreth
Chalkley and Susan Fisher
Samuel Longstreth and Eliza-
beth Chase
son of Caleb and Priscilla Tyson
240
INDEX
Charles, 6-33
Charles, 7-62
Charles Eugene, 7-70
Chalkley, 5-25
Chalkley, 6-40
Cresson, 7-67
Charlotte Bartlett, 8-82
Clarence Gottschalk, 8-105
David, 4-G
Daniel, 4-20
Daniel Albert, 6-38
Elizabeth, 2-5
Elizabeth, 3-15
Elizabeth, 7-59
Elizabeth Davis, g-iio
Edwin, 6-43
Edward Needles, 7-47
Edward Davis, 7-63
Emily, 7-49
son of Charles Tyson and Ann
Longstreth
son of Joshua Longstreth and The-
ressa (Jones) Kimber
son of Charles and Elmira Rebecca
(Stephens)
son of Caleb and Priscilla Tyson
" Chalkley and Susan Fisher
" Joshua Longstreth and Sarah
Catherine Fraley
dau. of Edward Needles and Char-
lotte Bartlett Wilhelma
(Swett)
son of Louis Henry Stephens and
Mary Anna Bartholomew
son of William and Margaret Tyson
" William and Agnes Shoe-
maker
son of Chalkley and Susan Fisher
dau. of John and Mary Sharp, No. i
" Thomas and Rosamond Till
" Samuel Longstreth and Eliza-
beth Chase
dau. of Morris Longstreth, 3d, and
Jane Dalzell Picot
son of Chalkley and Susan Fisher
" Morris Longstreth and Han-
nah (Smith) Penrose
son of Joshua Longstreth and The-
ressa (Jones) Kimber
dau. of Morris Longstreth and Han-
nah (Smithj Penrose
INDEX
241
Emily, 8-83 dau.of
Elwood Walter, i-^V/z son of
• Esther Fisher, 8-88 dau.of
Elmira Stephens, 8-103 dau.of
Frank, 6-41 son of
Frederick Fraley, 7-66
Francis Walton, 8-8i son of
Hannah, 2-6
dau. of
Henry, 6-42
son of
Henry Howell, 7-72
( (
Horatio Stephens, 7-69
son of
Isaac, 4-I
son of
Is;aac, s-A
b fc
Isaac Roberts Davis, 8-7;
((
John, 2-A"
son of
John, 4-E
a
John, 2d, 4-J
((
John, 3d, 4-K
(6
John, I
John, 2-4
son of
John, 3-10
i;
Edward Needles and Char-
lotte Bartlett Wilhelma
(Swett)
Joshua Longstreth and The-
ressa (Jones) Kimber
Norwood Penrose and Sarah
Wharton (Haydock)
Louis Henry Stephens and
Mary Anna Bartholomew
Chalkley and Susan Fisher
Joshua Longstreth and Sarah
Catherine Fraley
Richard Price and Anna
(CofFm) Davis
John and Mary Sharpe, No. i
Chalkley and Susan Fisher
Charles and Elmira Rebecca
(Stephens)
Charles and Elmira Rebecca
(Stephens)
William and Margaret Tyson
Caleb and Mary Waterman
William Penrose and Eliza-
beth (Corbit) Davis
John and Ma^ry Sharpe, No. i
William and Margaret Tyson
William and Margaret Tyson
William and Margaret Tyson
First Ancestor
John and Mary Sharpe, No. i
Thomas and Rosamond Till
242
INDEX
John, 6-35
John White, 8-87
John Guy, 8-102
Jane Shoemaker, 5-E
Jane, 2-9
Jean, 7-65
Joseph, 3-ig
Joseph, 4-22
Joshua, 4-L
Joshua Longstreth, 6-32
James Mott, 8-79
Kate, 7-60
Katherine, 7-64
Louis Henry Stephens, 7-71
Louis Stephens, Jr., 8-104
Lucretia Mott, 8-80
Matthew, 4-C
Mary, 4-H
Mary, 5-D
Mary, 2-3
son of Chalkley and Susan Fisher
" Norwood Penrose and Sarah
Wharton (Haydock)
son of Frederick Fraiey and Marv
Elizabeth Hunter
dau. of Caleb and Mary Waterman
" John and Mary Sharpe, No. I
" Joshua Longstreth and Sarah
Catherine Fraiey
son of Thomas and Rosamond Till
" William and Agnes Shoe-
maker
son of William and Margaret Tyson
" CharlesTyson and Ann Long-
streth
son of Richard Price and Anna (Cof-
fin) Davis
dau. of Samuel Longstreth and Eliz-
abeth Chase
dau. of Joshua Longstreth and Sarah
Catherine Fraiey
son of Charles and Elmira Rebecca
(Stephens)
son of Louis Henry Stephens and
Mary Anna Bartholomew
dau. of Richard Price and Anna (Cof-
fin) Davis
son of William and Margaret Tyson
dau. of William and Margaret Tyson
" Caleb and Mary Waterman
" John and Mary Sharpe, No. i
INDEX 243
Mary, 3-1 1 dau. of Thomas and Rosamond Till
Maria, 6-30 " Charles Tyson and Ann
Longstreth
Maria, 8-77 dau. of Richard Price and Anna (Cof-
fin) Davis
Margaret, 8- 10 1 dau. of Frederick Fraley and Mary
Elizabeth Hunter
Morris Longstreth, 6-27 son of Charles Tyson and Ann
Longstreth
Morris Longstreth, 2d, 7-51 son of Morris Longstreth and Han-
nah (Smith) Penrose
Morris Longstreth, 3d, 8-74 son of William Penrose and Eliza-
beth (Corbit) Davis
Morris Longstreth, 4th, 9-111 son of Morris Longstreth, 3d, and
Jane Dalzell Picot
MorrisLongstreth, 5th, g-i 12 son of Morris Longstreth, 3d, and
Jane Dalzell Picot
Norwood Penrose, 7-48 son of Morris Longstreth and Han-
nah (Smith) Penrose
Norwood Penrose, 2d, 8-86 son of Norwood Penrose and Sarah
Wharton (Haydocl<)
Nancy Sterrett, 8-ico dau. of Frederick Fraley and Mary
Elizabeth Hunter
Priscilla, 6-26 dau. of Charles Tyson and Ann
Longstreth
Penrose, 8-78 son of Richard Price and Anna (Cof-
fin) Davis
Rosamond, 4-B dau. of William and Margaret Tyson
Rynear, 4-F son of William and Margaret Tyson
Rosamond, 3-14 dau. of Thomas and Rosamond Till
Richard Price, 7-46 son of Morris Longstreth and Han-
nah (Smith) Penrose
244
INDEX
Robert Haydock, 8-85
Sarah, 2-1
Sarah, 3-16
Sarah, 4-23
Samuel, 2-7
Samuel, 3-18
Samuel Longstreth, 6-31
Samuel, 6-36
Samuel Longstreth, 2d, 7
Samuel Williams, 7-73
Susannah Morris, 6-2g
Susan Morris, 7-50
Susan Morris, 8-89
Thomas, 4-A
Thomas, 2-2
Thomas, 3-12
Thomas, 2d, 3-17
Thomas Jewett, 8-93
William, 4-D
William, 3-13
William Penrose, 7-45
son of Norwood Penrose and Sarah
Wharton ( Haydock j
dau. of John and Mary Sharpe, No i
" 'i'homas and Rosamond Till
" William and Agnes Shoe-
maker
son of John and Mary Sharpe, No. i
" Thomas and Rosamond Till
" Charles Tyson and Ann
Longstreth
son of Chalkley and Susan Fisher
•61 " Samuel Longstreth and Eliza-
beth Chase
son of Charles and Elmira Rebecca
(Stephens)
dau. of Charles Tyson and Ann
Longstreth
dau. of Morris Longstreth and Han-
nah (Smith) Penrose
dau. of Norwood Penrose and Sarah
Wharton (Haydock)
son of William and Margaret Tyson
" John and Mary Sharpe, No. i
" Thomas and Rosamond Till
" Thomas and Rosamond Till
" Charles and Belle Jewett
" William and Margaret Tyson
" Thomas and Rosamond Till
" Morris Longstreth and Han-
nah (Smith) Penrose
INDEX
245
William Henry, 7-68 son of Charles and Elmira Rebecca
(Stephens)
William Penrose, 2d, 8-76 son of William Penrose and Eliza-
beth (Corbit) Davis
William Penrose, 3d, Q-116 son of William Penrose, 2d, and Ag-
nes Hardenbergh
SHOEMAKER
Frederick Fraley, 8-95
Mary Lippincott, 8-g6
son of Robert, Jr., and Katherine
Hallowell Shoemaker
dau. of Robert, Jr., and Katherine
Hallowell Shoemaker
SWENEY
Hannah Hallowell, 6-39 dau. of Thomas Worthington and
Amanda Emily Hallowell
Swenev
WALTON
Annie Hallowell, 7-56
Charles Morris, 7-52
Elizabeth, 7-57
Francis, 7-54
dau. of William and Susan Morris
Hallowell Walton
son of William and Susan Morris
Hallowell Walton
dau. of William and Susan Morris
Hallowell Walton
son of William and Susan Morris
Hallowell Walton
246
INDEX
James Morris, 7-55
Lydia Thornton, 7-53
Elizabeth, 8-gi
Ernest Forster, 8-92
son of William and Susan Morris
Hallowell Walton
dau. of William and Susan Morris
Hallowell Walton
dau. of James Morris and Mary Fors-
ter Collins Walton
son of James Morris and Mary Fors-
ter Collins Walton
H^
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