EARLY LANGHORNE  AREA FAMILIES AND RESIDENTS

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From W. W. Davis’ History of Bucks County published 1905

BLACK

JOHN PHILLIPS BLACK. Among the active business men of Langhorne, Bucks County is John Phillips Black, who was born in that town March 16, 1839, and is a son of John and Rachel Shaw (Wells) Black.

John Black, the father, born in 1807, was a cooper by trade, and followed that trade for several years in Langhorne, where he purchased a home in 1830 He also assisted in building a number of the older buildings in that vicinity. He was a native of Bucks county, and a son of James and Judith (Searle) Black, the latter being a granddaughter of Arthur Searle, an early settler near the Neshaminy in Southampton who married a daughter of John Naylor of Southampton. John Black married Rachel Shaw Wells, born 1814, daughter of Valentine (born 1784) and Phoebe (Shaw) Wells of Middletown (born 1785) the latter being a daughter of Gideon Shaw. John and Rachel S. (Wells) Black were the parents of nine children: John P., the subject of this sketch; Elizabeth, wife of William Gillingham; Margaret, wife of Barclay Wildman; Franklin S., of Tullytown, Emma T., wife of Byran Wright, Phoebe W., William G., George D., and Catherine, died young. John Black, Sr., died in July, 1859, and his widow survived him many years, dying August 6, 1904, at the age of nearly ninety years. .

John Phillips Black was reared in Langhorne, and obtained his education in the public and Friends' schools of that town. At the age of twelve years he hired out on a farm, where he remained for four years. In 1856 he went to Newtown to learn the trade of a carriage blacksmith, which he finished at Langhorne. He found employment at Hulmeville as a journeyman, and later located at Bridgetown, where he remained for five years. He then bought the T. W. Boileau property in Langhorne, and later the wheelwright shops and business adjoining, thus uniting under one ownership and management a complete carriage building establishment which he has since successfully conducted, doing a large and profitable business, making his establishment one of the largest of its kind in Lower Bucks. Mr. Black is an enterprising and active citizen, and takes an active interest in the affairs of his town. He has served several terms in the town council, and has filled other local offices. He is a member of Orionto Lodge, No. 77, I. 0. 0. F., of Langhorne.

On February 5, 1863, Mr. Black married Rachel Pyle Boyce, daughter of Samuel and Jane (Stevens) Boyce, of Philadelphia County, the former a native of Delaware, and a son of Robert Boyce, whose father was a large tobacco planter and snuff manufacturer in that state; and the latter a native of Southampton Township, Bucks County, and a daughter of Benjamin Stevens, whose ancestors had been residents of that locality for several generations. Mr. and Mrs. Black are the parents of three children viz: Wilmer Stevens, born April18 1865; Emma Elizabeth, born August 15, 1869; and Clarence Randall, born June 6, 1873, all of whom were born and reared in Langhorne, and were educated in the local schools.

Wilmer Stevens Black at an early age became associated with his father in the conduct of the carriage building establishment, and has been a valuable assistant in the work. He married April 17 1890, Anne Bentley Candy, daughter of James B. and Mary Jane (Moser) Candy, of Langhorne, an account of whose ancestry is given elsewhere in this work. Wilmer S. and Anne C. Black are the parents of two children: Edith Holbrook, born September 13, 1898; and Cyrille Kershaw, born July 29, 1904.

Emma Elizabeth Black, only daughter of John P. and Rachel (Boyce) Black married August, 21, 1890, Samuel Mills Myers and they are the parents of five children, viz: Elenore Kruger, born October 12, 1893; John Harold, born October 8, 1895; Boyce Mills, born October 7, 1897; Inez May, born December 4, 1899; and Dever, born April 15, 1902.

CLARENCE RANDALL BLACK, son of John Phillips and Rachel Pyle (Boyce) Black, was born in Langhorne, June 6, 1873, and was educated in the public and Friends' schools of Langhorne, At the age of sixteen years he entered the wood. working department of his father's carriage building establishment, where he was employed for about two years, when, having an inclination towards the painting department, he learned that branch of the work and now hag entire charge of the carriage painting department of the works as superintendent of the entire force of men employed therein. He also acts as salesman, and has a general oversight over the whole establishment. In politics Mr. Black is a Republican, and takes an active interest, in local affairs. He is a member of Langhorne Castle, Knights of the Golden Eagle. He and his family attend the Langhorne Methodist Episcopal church, both Mr. and Mrs. Black being members of the choir of that church. ‘He married, May 26, 1898, Elizabeth Davis Duffield, daughter of the late Thomas Hart Benton and Rebecca (Search) Duffield. granddaughter of Alfred Torbert and Rebecca Miles (Davis) Duffield, and great-granddaughter of General John Davis, of Davisville, Bucks county. Her maternal grandparents were James and Susanna (Hall) Search, the former a son of Samuel and Katharine (Puff) Search, and grandson of Christopher and (Torbert) Search, and the latter a daughter of John and Eleanor (Comly) Hall, all early and prominent residents of lower Bucks.

CANDY

JAMES B. CANDY. The family of Candy in England are of French extraction, whose progenitor was Jean de Conde, younger son of Louis de Bourbon, the first Prince of Conde, and the founder of the family who took their name from the town of Conde, near the borders of Belgium, and the home of the royal family of Bourbon and Navarre. He was the' friend and pupil of Gaspard Coligny, the famous Admiral of France, and like him espoused the cause and religion of the Huguenots and became their leader in 1554. Condemned to death by Francis II., he escaped through the sudden demise of that prince, and at the reopening of hostilities between the Catholic and Protestant factions in 1562 he became again the recognized, leader of the Huguenots, and opened negotiations with Queen Elizabeth, under whose protection he placed his family. He was killed at the battle of Jarnac, December 15, 1569. His eldest son Henry, second Prince of Conde, returned to France, and his descendants were prominent in the internecine struggles at the court of that kingdom for several generations. From the younger son of Louis the English family is descended. A grandson emigrated to the New England colony in 1639 and settled in Boston, from whence he removed to Windsor in 1650. Another descendant, John Condee, with his nephew, Alexander Condee, emigrated to Maryland and settled in Prince George County. In Hanson's "Old Kent" is this record; "Alexander Condee, baptized ye 22d day of April 1693." Through their residence among the English the ending of the name became changed. On a tombstone in an old cemetery at New Haven; Connecticut, is found this inscription; "Rebecca Canbe, wife of Zachariah Canbe, died September 22, 1739, aged 91 years." The family has been prominent in England for many generations, some of its members holding high governmental and social positions. In the "Armonelle Universelle" is recorded their coat-of-arms, charged with three fleur-de-lis and a star.

Thomas Davy Candy, father of James Bentley Candy, of Langhorne. Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and a lineal descendant of Jean de Conde, emigrated with his parents from Manchester, England, at the age of two years. The family settled at Poughkeepsie, New York, where Thomas Davy Candy was reared and educated and acquired proficiency as a mechanical engineer. He later located at Paterson, New Jersey, where he married Ann Bentley. She was a native of England, and had come to America with her parents at the age of one and a half years. Her family had located for a time at Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, and removed from there to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where the parents died, after which the family moved to Paterson, New Jersey. Thomas D. Candy removed with his wife to Philadelphia soon after their marriage, and followed the trade of a mechanical engineer in that city for many years. He was the father of two sons, James Bentley and John Bentley Candy.

JAMES BENTLEY CANDY was born in the city of Philadelphia, June 7, 1836. He began his education at the private school of Edwards & Parton, at the south-west corner of Penn Square and Market Street, and later attended the Morris public school and the high school, graduating from the latter in 1852. He inherited from his father a mechanical turn of mind and much of his leisure time as a boy was spent in the neighboring machine shop of Mr. Harrison. On leaving school he entered the employ of James E. Caldwell & Co. to learn the jewelry business, but later chose the calling of dentistry and took up his studies under the tutelage of John De- Haven White, M. D, D. D. S., Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery. Mr. Candy was a student at this college and was an assistant in the clinical department at the age of nineteen years. He graduated at the age of twenty-one, and practiced his profession in the villages of Yardley, Dolington, and Attleboro, now Langhorne, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He then entered the employ of his preceptor, and subsequently opened a dental laboratory at 108 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia. He was also in the employ of what is now the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company in the manufacture of artificial teeth, in sections; these were then entirely handmade, and were mounted upon gold or silver plates. .

At the outbreak of the civil war Dr. Candy, having been a member of the Artillery Corps of the Washington Greys for nearly five years, was well skilled in the manual of arms, and was called upon to spend several months in the drilling of squads of recruits for the front. He was lieutenant commanding, of Company B, Grey Reserves, Captain William H. Kern and" at one time gave an exhibition drill and company movements in Musical Fund Hall, and was subsequently" presented with a sword for his proficiency in the art of war. Returning to the practice of his profession, he located at 248 North Eleventh Street, where he practiced until April 1, 1863, when, owing to the illness of his wife he removed for her benefit to Attleboro (now Langhorne), Bucks County, where he has since resided, and has achieved distinction and success in his chosen profession. . .

Dr. Candy is a man of strong individuality. Has always been a close student, and is independent and fearless in the advocacy of what he believes to be right. In the matter of the incorporation of the village of Attleboro into a borough he was one of the most earnest advocates of the change, and took an active part in the establishment of grades and building and fence lines, though these measures met with strong opposition by some of the property owners of the borough. He has always been a strong advocate of the Democratic Party and its principles. In 1883 he was appointed a notary public, and filled that position with satisfaction to the public, until he was appointed by President Cleve-land, postmaster of Langhorne, which latter office he held until the change in the ad-ministration. He is a past master of Bristol Lodge, No. 25, F. and A. M.

On March 15, 1855, Doctor Candy was married to Jennie Moser, of Philadelphia, daughter of Henry and Catharine (Everett) Moser, and of English and German descent. Her grandfather, Henry Moser, was a soldier in the revolutionary war under General Anthony Wayne, and his brother, Burkhardt Moser, furnished financial and material aid for the prosecution of the war of independence. Dr. James B. and Jennie (Moser) Candy were the parents of six children; Kate Adele; Anna Bentley; Thomas Davy, James Bentley, Jr., Pierson Mitchell, and Laura Hudson. Kate Adele died in her fifth year of diphtheria. Anna Bentley married Wilmer Stevens Black (an account of whose ancestry appears in this work) and they .are the parents of two children: Edith Holbrook and Cyrille Kershaw. James Bentley Candy, Jr., married Harriet L. Headley, daughter of John Burton Headley, of Winchester Virginia, and they have one child, James Bentley (3), born September 22, 1904. Dr. Candy's sons have been established by him in the business of florists and landscape gardeners at Langhorne, in which they are successfully engaged and give employment to a number of hands. The Doctor is still hale and hearty, and gives promise of many years of usefulness.

EASTBURN

SAMUEL COMFORT EASTBURN. Among the most enterprising businessmen of lower Bucks county is Samuel Comfort Eastburn, of Langhorne borough. He is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Comfort) Eastburn, and was born in Middletown Township, Bucks County, August 2, 1848. An account of the first three generations of the paternal ancestors of the subject of this sketch is given in other pages, he being a descendant in the sixth generation of Robert and Sarah (Preston) Eastburn, who came from Yorkshire to Philadelphia in 1713, and settled near Abington, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, a year later. Samuel Eastburn, the great-great-grand-father of Samuel C., removed to Solebury Township, Bucks County, in 1729. His son, Robert Eastburn, and his first wife, Elizabeth Duer, were the great-grandparents of both the subject and his wife, Elizabeth (Maule) Eastburn. 

Aaron Eastburn, youngest son of Robert and Elizabeth (Duer) Eastburn, born 1 mo. 10, 1773, married in 9 mo.,1796, Mercy Bye, of Buckingham, and lived in Solebury, dying at the age of seventy-three years, 3 mo. 24, 1846, and Mercy, his widow, dying 2 mo. 21, 1848, aged seventy-four years. They were the parents of ten children, seven daughters and three sons. Joseph Eastburn, the ninth child of Aaron and Mercy, and the only son who married, was born in Solebury township, 4 mo- I884, ^4. He was reared in his native township of Solebury, but on his marriage, n mo. 19, 1846, to Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Comfort, of Middletown, settled on a portion of his father-in-law's farm in Middletown. At the death of Samuel Comfort in 1860 this. Farm descended to his daughter, Elizabeth C. Eastburn, and a part of it is the present home of the subject of this sketch.  The children of Joseph and Elizabeth (Comfort) Eastburn were: Samuel C., born 8 mo. 2, 1848, Anna, born 6 mo. 24, 1852, married John G. Willetts, and Thomas, born 8 mo. 21, 1853. Joseph Eastburn, the father, died 10 mo., 31, 1891.

            The maternal ancestors of the subject of this sketch were among the early Quaker settlers of this section. John Comfort was a resident of Amwell Township, Hunterdon County; where he died in 1728. He brought a certificate from Flushing, Long Island, to Falls Meeting, 12 mo. 3, 1719. In 1720 he married Mary, daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Baker) Wilson, and had by her three children: Stephen, Sarah. And Robert. Stephen Comfort married Mercy Croasdale and settled in Middletown Township, where he acquired several large tracts of land. He died in 1772, leaving sons Stephen, John, Ezra, Jeremiah, Moses, and Robert; and daughters Grace and Mercy. Stephen Comfort (2), married Sarah Stevenson, and settled on his father's farm on the Neshammy, near Parkland, and later purchased considerable adjoining land, most of which became the property of his son Samuel at the death of his father in 1826. The other children of Stephen and Sarah Comfort were Stephen, David and Jeremiah. Samuel Comfort lived upon the Neshaminy homestead until about 1850, when he removed to the village of Attleboro, where he died in 1860, leaving children: Mary Ann; Jesse; Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Eastburn, and Samuel. He was a prominent man in the community and filled many positions of trust.

Samuel Comfort Eastburn was reared on the Middletown farm, and received his education at the Langhorne Academy and at Westtown Boarding School. He later took a course at Crittenden's Commercial College, Philadelphia. He engaged in railroad surveying for a few years, and then in the dry goods business .in Philadelphia, where he remained for ten years. In 1880 he took an agency for the Provident Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia, in the life insurance department, and has been connected with it ever since, now holding the position of general agent for Central Pennsylvania. Mr. Eastburn is an enterprising and successful business man, and has been closely identified with most of the vast improvements in and about his native town of Langhorne in the lasttwenty-five years. In 1886 he organized and developed the Langhorne Improvement Company, purchasing for it the 620 acres of land upon which the present borough of Langhorne Manor is built. In 1887 he built the Langhorne water works, which now supply water to the three boroughs of Langhorne, Langhorne Manor and Attleboro, and in the same year he built the Langhorne brick works. In 1888 he organized the Langhorne Electric Light Company. He was treasurer and superintendent of the Langhorne Manor Inn, now the Foulke and Long Institute. He has been largely instrumental in the sale and development of suburban real estate, and has been for many years a foremost advocate of the improvement of the public roads. He has always been an ardent advocate of progress and improvement, and has been a potent force along these lines in the community in which he lives. In religion he is a member of the orthodox branch of the Society of Friends. In politics he is a Republican, though never a seeker or holder of other than local office, being for some years a justice of the peace, and filling other local offices. 

FLOWERS

THOMAS KITCHIN FLOWERS, of Langhorne, was born in that town December 11, 1835, and is a son of William and Mary (Kitchen) Flowers. The Flowers family has been residents of Bucks County since 1774, when James Flowers, son of Charles and Catherine Flowers! Of Long Island, came to Bristol Township and married Rebecca Gosline, Daughter of John Gosline, of Bristol. He was a shoemaker by trade, and followed that occupation for many years in Bristol Township, just outside of the borough,

Where he had purchased a home in 1775.His son, John Flowers, born in 1780, located in Middletown Township, where he followed the trade of a butcher in connection with farming, until his sudden death from heart disease on January 9, 1836. His wife, Phoebe Hibbs, was born in 1781 and was a daughter of Abraham Hibbs.' John and Phoebe were the parents of seven children: Thomas; Hannah, who married Samuel Stradling, Mary, who married Levi Boileau; William; Amos; John; and George.

William Flowers, second son of John, and Phoebe, was born and reared in Middletown township, and was an active business man, following the vocation of a butcher, merchant and farmer, successively, being for a number of years the proprietor of the principal general merchandise store in Langhorne, and also owned and operated a farm of seventy-four acres in Middletown. He died December, 1872. His wife was Mary Kitchin, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Kitchin, and a great-granddaughter of William Kitchin, who settled in Solebury early in the eighteenth century, where he died in 1727. He was a protégé of John Wells, the first proprietor of the ferry at New Hope, and married in 1713 Rebecca Norton, a niece of Mrs. Wells, who bore him five children:

Thomas, William, Ruth, Olive and Mary, who have left numerous descendants, Rebecca, the widow, later married Thomas Phillips, and from her are descended the Phillips family of Solebury, for several generations’ proprietors of the mill that bears their name. Thomas Kitchin inherited his father's real estate in Solebury, but sold it soon after his marriage and removed to Philadelphia County. William and Mary P. (Kitchin) Flowers were the parents of five children: Thomas K., the subject of this sketch; John, and three daughters.

Thomas Kitchin Flowers, eldest son of William and Mary, was born and reared in Middletown Township, and acquired his education at the Newtown academy and at boarding schools at Pennington and Mt. Holly, New Jersey. On finishing his academic education he entered his father's store at Attleboro (now Langhorne) as a clerk, and after a few years succeeded his father as its proprietor, and conducted it for many years. Subsequently he sold out the store and entered the employ of Peter Wright & Sons of Philadelphia, agents for the American Steamship Company, as a clerk, where he remained until the company was merged' into the International Navigation Company, and with the latter company until it was absorbed by the International Merchant _ Marine,

The great steamship trust which now controls the principal steamship lines sailing from the ports of Philadelphia and New York. Mr. Flowers is a Republican in politics, and while at the Langhorne store was appointed postmaster of that place by President Lincoln and served several years m that position. He still retains his clerical position with the steamship company, remaining in Philadelphia until the last consolidation above referred to when he was transferred to the offices of the new company in New York City. He is well known in marine circles, and enjoys the confidence and esteem of his employers and associates. He married December 30, 1858, Sarah Scott, daughter of Amos V. and Elizabeth (Hellings) Scott, of Bensalem, and granddaughter of Jacob and Esther Scott. This union was blessed with the birth of five children: William, born June 26, 1860, died in infancy; Amos Scott, born July 4, 1862, see forward; John Wilmot, born January 9, 1864, died young; Albert G., born October 31, 1868, deceased; George Russell, born November 30, 1871. Amos S. and George R. were educated in the Friends' school at Langhorne.

Amos Scott Flowers was married October 9, 1884, to Frances Robinson, daughter of William Massey and Frances (Perry) Robinson, who was born in England and came to Bucks County with her parents when quite young. In 1884 Amos Scott Flowers bought a farm near Woodbourne, upon which he took up his residence, and has since followed the vocation of a farmer. He and his wife have been the parents of two children William Massey, born September 23, 1885, died March 21, 1898; and Elizabeth Ann, born August 27, 1887.

GILLAM

HARVEY H. GILLAM, of Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia, July 23, 1846, and is a son of Harvey and Hannah H. (Hunt) Gillam. His paternal ancestor, Lucas Gillam, son of Lucas and Lydia Gillam, was born in Bristol township about the year 1715. His father and mother both dying when he wasa small child, he was, according to the custom of that time, bound out by direction of the orphans' court of Bucks county and learned the trade of a cooper, which he followed in early life in Middletown township. He was also a farmer, having purchased in1751 one hundred acres in Middletown township. He married 6 mo. 18, 1748, Ann Dungan, daughter and only child of Jeremiah Dungan, who was a grandson of Rev. Thomas Dungan, who came from Rhode Island to Bucks county in 1684 and established the first Baptist church in the county at Cold Spring in Falls township. Lucas and Ann Dungan Gillam were the parents of ten children: Susannah, wife of Jonathan Linton, of Northampton; Jeremiah; Lucas Jr.; Simon; Joseph; John; Sarah, wife of Euclides Longshore; Joshua, James and Thomas Gi!lam.

Simon Gillam, third son and fifth child of Lucas and Ann (Dungan) Gillam, married 12 mo. 11, 1783, Anna Paxson, by whom he had four children: Mary, born 10 mo. 22, 1784; William, born 10 mo. 1, 1786, died 12 mo. 31, 1842; Isaac, born 4 mo. 13, 1788; and Anna, born 10 mo. 30, 1794, died 2 mo. 8, 1798. Simon Gilliam was a prominent man in the community and a preacher among Friends. He was the owner of four hundred acres of land in Middletown, and lived to a ripe old age.

William, son of Simon and Anna (Paxson) Gillam, was born in Middletown township and died there 12 mo. 31, 1842. He married 12 mo. 16, 1809, Susanna Woolston, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Harvey) Woolston, who was born n mo. 18, 1787, and died 8 mo. 31, 1860. The Woolstons were early settlers in Burlington County, New Jersey, from whence Jonathan Woolston, grandfather of the above named Jonathan removed to Middletown and married Sarah Pearson in 1707. William and Susanna Woolston Gillam were the parents of nine children: Elizabeth, born 9 mo. 17, 1810; Anna, born 8 mo. 12, 1812, Harvey, born 7 mo. 1, 1814; Jonathan W., born 10 mo. 25, 1816; William, born 11 mo. 15, 1818; Simon, born 11 mo. 24, 1820, Susanna, born 4 mo. 18, 1823, Hannah, born 6 mo.3, 1825, Mary, born 8 mo. 25, 1827.

            Harvey Gillam, Sr., was born on the old homestead in Middletown, and on arriving at manhood turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, purchasing a farm two miles east of Langhorne, which he conducted for a few years. On account of poor health he sold his farm and engaged in merchandising at Langhorne for a few years, and then purchased a farm of thirty acres which he conducted a short time, and then removed to Philadelphia, where he engaged in the wholesale boot and shoe business, later becoming a member of the firm of  Farrell & Herring, manufacturers of  safes, where he remained until his death. He married Hannah Hunt, of Chester county, Pennsylvania, who died in 1857. Harvey and Hannah (Hunt) Gillam were the parents of four children: Mary Wyatt, born 8 mo. 10, 1838, married William Albertson, of Philadelphia; William Henry, born 1 mo. 9, 1841, died in 1871, leaving a daughter, now Mrs. Howard Reifsnyder; Morris Shallcross, who died in infancy; and Harvey H., born July 23, 1846. Harvey H. Gillam and his brother William Henry removed from Philadelphia to the home of their ancestors in Middletown, where they purchased farms. William Henry died suddenly two years later at the age of thirty years.

Harvey H. Gillam was reared in Philadelphia, and received his education at the Friends' Central School. In 1869 he purchased a farm of one hundred and fifty acres in Middletown, which he conducted until 1888, when he rented it and removed to Langhorne, and has since followed the vocation of a real estate and general business agent. He has been a justice of the peace, for fifteen years, and has transacted a large amount of public business, filling many positions of trust in connection with the settlement of estates, etc. He was one of the promoters of the Langhorne, Newtown and Bristol Street Railway, and one of its directors for a number of years; and is a director of the Farmers' National Bank of Bucks county of Bristol, and of the Langhorne Building and Loan Association. He is a member of Bristol Lodge No. 25, F. and A. M. Religiously he is a member of the Society of Friends, and politically a Republican.  He was married October 2, 1873, to Mary Mitchell, a daughter of Pierson and Caroline (Burton) Mitchell, of Langhorne.

Pierson Mitchell was a son of John Allen and Tacie (Stackhouse) Mitchell, of Langhorne, an account of whose early ancestry is given elsewhere in this work. He was born in Middletown, August 29, 1822, on the old homestead, which he inherited at his father's death, and lived thereon for a time, subsequently removing to Langhorne, where he died April 1, 1894. He received a superior education and was a school teacher in Middletown before attaining his majority. He later took up the study of medicine with his uncle, Dr. Gove Mitchell, but abandoned it on account of poor health, and returned to the farm. A few years later he studied and mastered surveying, and took up that business in connection with conveyancing and real estate and general business agency. He was a justice of the peace for thirty years, and prided himself in never sending a case to court out of the many suits that were entered before him, being always able to induce the litigants to settle their cases out of court. He settled a great number of estates and filled a great number of positions of trust. . He was for over thirty years a director of the Farmers' National Bank of Bucks county, and enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. He was a member of Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends. (See sketch of Alien Robert Mitchell.) He married in 1850 Caroline Burton, daughter of Anthony and Mary (Headly) Burton, representatives of two old and highly respected families of lower Bucks. Caroline (Burton) Mitchell died May 16, 1890. Their only child was Mrs. Gillam.

Harvey H. and Mary (Mitchell) Gillam are the parents of two children; Caroline Mitchell, born July 21, 1874, married October 11, 1904, Malachi White, of Langhorne, a representative of an old family in that vicinity; and Mary Wyatt, born March 4, 1879, who resides at home.

HERITAGE

DR. JOSEPH BENNER HERITAGE, of Langhorne, was born in Bustleton, Philadelphia County, October 5, 1809, and is a son of Joseph Dearman and Annie Louisa (DeWees) Heritage, both of English de-scent. The first American ancestors of the subject of this sketch came from England prior to 1700, and settled near Salem, New Jersey, from whence the immediate ancestor of Dr. Heritage migrated to the neighborhood of Horsham, Montgomery County, where his great-grandfather, John F. Heritage, was born. John F. Heritage was a tailor by trade, and followed that vocation during the active years of his life, locating at Bustleton, Philadelphia County, building the first house in what is now a thriving business town. He also operated a small farm there. He was a soldier in the war of 1812-14. He married Ann Fetters, a native of Montgomery, and of German descent. They were the parents of five children, viz.: John F. Jr., Joseph, George, Samuel, Sarah.

John F. Heritage, Jr., son of John F. and Ann Fetters Heritage, was born in Philadelphia County, and early in life learned the tailor's, trade with his father. On arriving at manhood he took charge of a farm, and also followed his trade. He was an officer of militia, and captain of a company that was called out to quell the riots in Philadelphia. He later purchased the homestead at Bustleton, and spent the remainder of his life thereon, dying at the age of seventy-five years. He was a member of Pennypack Baptist church for over thirty years. He married Ann Benner, daughter of John Benner. Her father died during her early girlhood, leaving two daughters, Mrs. Heritage, and Hannah, who married a Campbell. Her maternal grandfather was Joseph Dearman, who was a captain in the revolutionary war, and was taken prisoner while at home on a furlough, and confined in a British prison for some time; later he was exchanged, and entered the service and served until independence was achieved. After the close of the war he became a farmer in Philadelphia County, and lived to a good old age, long enough to see his country achieve a second victory over the mother country, and become a power among the nations of the earth. He died about 1827. John F. Heritage and Ann Benner were the parents of seven children, viz.: Anna, wife of George Brooks, Joseph, the father of Dr. Heritage, Samuel, John B., George, Mary A., deceased, and Emma C., deceased.

Joseph Dearman Heritage, eldest son of John F. and Ann (Benner) Heritage, was born and reared at Bustleton. He learned the coach making business, which he has carried on for many years at Bustleton, doing a large business. He married Annie Louisa DeWees, daughter of Isaiali and Mary (Hart) DeWees, both of whom were born in England.

Dr. Joseph Benner Heritage, the subject of tills sketch, was born and reared at Bustleton and received his education at the Fayette public school and at a high school at Vineland, New Jersey. Choosing the medical profession, he entered the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1891. He at once located at Langhorne, Bucks County, where he has since practiced his chosen profession with success. He married November 8, 1893; Ida May Marple, daughter of Captain Alfred and Anna Addis (Vansant) Marple, and granddaughter of David and Eliza Ann (Hart) Marple, and great-granddaughter of Joseph Marple, whose ancestors have been prominent in the affairs of Bucks County for many generations. Dr. and Mrs. Heritage are the parents of three children, viz.: Charles Edward, born August 13, 1894; Florence Marple, born August 23, 1897; and Joseph Irving, born October 8, 1898.

MATHEWS

CHARLES J. MATHEWS, of Langhorne Manor, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the prominent Philadelphia morocco manufacturer, was born in Philadelphia, July 23, 1862, and is a son of Lawrence James and Mary Catharine (Knight) Mathews. Lawrence Mathews, Sr., the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was for several _ years a prominent brick manufacturer in Kensington, Philadelphia. In 1829 he located on the Germantown road, in Kensington, but prior to that date had been engaged in the manufacture of bricks for some years in Kensington. In the spring of 1850 he removed with his family to Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania, and subsequently located in Lancaster County, where he died. Lawrence and Margaret Mathews were the parents of eight children, all of whom were born in Philadelphia, viz.: Cecilia; James, to whom they conveyed the Kensington real estate in April, 1850; Mary; Lawrence J.; Emmaline; Edward; Susan, now residing in San Francisco; and Martha.

Lawrence James Mathews, second son of Lawrence and Margaret, was born in Philadelphia, in 1832, and removed with his parents to York County in 1850. He married, in 1855, Anna Wilson, daughter of William and Anna Wilson, of Lancaster county, who bore him two children: Emmeline, who died young; and Lizzie, now Sister Mary Joseph, in St. Ursula' Convent, Bedford Springs, New York. Mr. Mathews married (second) Mary Catharine Knight, in 1861, and located, in Philadelphia, the city of his birth, where he engaged in the manufacture of morocco goods in a small way. establishing, the plant now conducted by the subject of this sketch, which has grown from that modest beginning to an industry representing a Capital of millions of dollars, marketing its extensive product in all parts of the civilized world. Mr. Mathews died in March, 1883. By his second marriage with Mary Catharine Knight he had several children, four of whom survive: Charles J., Estelle, Alice and Nellie.

CHARLES J. MATHEWS was born in Philadelphia, and acquired his education at the public schools of that city and at Andalusia Hall preparatory school in Bensalem Township, Bucks County. At the age of fifteen years he entered his father's morocco manufacturing establishment to learn the business. Beginning at the bottom, he thoroughly mastered every detail of the work in all its branches, and became thoroughly familiar with the different processes of manufacture then in vogue. Shortly after the death of his father in 1883, he assumed the management of the factory, and has continued to conduct it and the various plants later added to the present time. The house has kept pace with the rapid development and improved methods of manufacture in their line of business, and has vastly increased it’s capacity and output, from twenty-five dozen skins in 1883 to over eight hundred dozen per day, representing an output of two and a half million dollars, and filling orders from England, Scotland, Germany, France, Italy, Australia, Constantinople, as well as from all the South American countries. Mr. Mathews has discovered and introduced some very important improvements in the treatment of skins for the manufacture of patent leather and other products of his factory.

On October 16, 1884, Mr. Mathews was united in wedlock with Clara L. Brunner, daughter of Samuel and Anna (Leatherman) Brunner, of Philadelphia, both of whom were natives of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The Brunner families are of German origin, many of the name having migrated to Pennsylvania between the years 1727 and 1780.

The branch of the family to which Mrs. Brunner belonged were early settlers in Montgomery County, from whence they migrated into New Britain and Bedminster townships, Bucks County. Jacob Leatherman, the maternal ancestor of Mrs. Brunner, was a native of Germany, and emigrated to America, arriving at Philadelphia in the ship "Lydia," September 20, 1741, accompanied by his wife Magdalena and two sons, Jacob and Abraham, the latter less than two years of age. They settled in Bedminster township, Bucks county, shortly after their arrival, where six other children were born to Jacob and Magdalena. The father died in 1763. Jacob Leatherman, the eldest son of Jacob and Magdalena, born in Germany, did not marry until late in life, his wife, Esther Overholt, being twenty years his junior. She was born July 27, 1762, and died October 7, 1816. Jacob Leatherman died in 1805, aged about seventy years.

Joseph Leatherman, son of Jacob and Esther Overholt) Leatherman, was born in Bedminster. February 14, 1786, and died there April 11, 1860. He married, November 12. 1811. Sarah Meyers, born May 5. 1788; died September 10, 1833, daughter of Christian and Mary (Landis) Meyer, the former of whom was born March 27, 1763, in Franconia township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and was a son of Christian and Susanna fDetweiler) Meyer, and grandson of Christian and Magdalena_ Meyer, the pioneer ancestors of the family. Joseph and Sarah (Meyers) Leatherman, were the parents of eleven children, of whom Jacob M., the eldest, was born January 14, 1813, and died August I, 1876. He married, October 3, 1837, Sarah Bishop, born March 1, 1817, daughter of Jacob and Anna (Fretz) Bishop, of New Britain township. Bucks county. Jacob Bishop was the son of a German emigrant by name of Bischoff, (sometimes spelled Bischoffberger) and was reared in the family of Joseph Fretz, in Bedminster, whose daughter Anna he subsequently married. He located in New Britain after his marriage, and died there December 15, 1832. Anna (Fretz) Bishop was born February 29, 1788, and died in 1865, and was a descendant of the Fretz family of Bedminster, an account of which is given elsewhere in this volume. Anna Leatherman, daughter, of Jacob M. and Sarah (Bishop) Leatherman, was born in Bedminster township, November 10. 1839, and married Samuel C. Brunner, December 25, 1860. He died several years ago, and she married second John Piercy of Philadelphia.

Charles J. and Clara L. (Brunner) Mathews are the parents of one child Alyse, born July 1, 1894. Mr. and Mrs. Mathews have resided for several years in Langhorne Manor borough, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where they occupy a handsome home.

PARRY

HENRY CRAWFORD PARRY, one of the best known citizens of Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, retired business man, president of the People’s National Bank, is of Welsh descent. His earliest ancestor in America was Thomas Parry, who was born in Caernarvonshire, North Wales, in 1680, and came to Pennsylvania when a young man, married Jane Phillips, in 1715, and settled In Moreland, near the present site of Willow Grove. The family of Parry is one of the most ancient in the United Kingdom, and their coat-of-arms is registered in Burke’s General Armory.

Thomas Parry, above mentioned, was a grandson of Colonel Geoffrey Parry, of Caernervonshire, who married Margaret Hughes, of Cefn Llanfair, and son of Love Parry, of Wanfour, who was High Sheriff of Caernervonshire in 1685, and his wife Ellen, daughter of Hugh Wynn of Penarth. Thomas and Jane (Phillips) Parry were the parents of ten children, eight sons and two daughters. He died in 1751, aged seventy-one years.

Phillip Parry, born in the "Manor of Moorland," now Moreland township, Montgomery county, 11 mo. 18, 1716, married 2 mo., 1740, Rachel Harker, daughter of Adam Harker, one of the most prominent Friends of his day in Pennsylvania, and settled in Buckingham township, where he purchased March 11, 1746, 170 acres of land near Holicong. He died on this plantation, the late residence of E. Watson Fell, in 1784, leaving three sons: John, Philip, and Thomas; and five daughters: Hannah, Jane, Grace, Rachel and Mary.

John Parry, son of Philip and Rachel (Harker) Parry, born in Moreland, 9 mo. 10, 1743, married 4 mo. 17, 1771, Rachel, daughter of Titus and Elizabeth (Heston) Fell, and granddaughter of Joseph Fell, who came from Longlands, in Cumberland, England, in 1705, by his second wife, Elizabeth Doyle, daughter of Edward and Rebecca (Dungan) Doyle. John Parry died in Buckingham 11 mo. 13, 1807, and his wife Rachel, 2 mo. 18, 1818. They were the parents on nine children: Elizabeth, who married George Shoemaker; Joyce, who married Jacob Shoemaker; Mercy; Charity; Tacy; Rachel; and John, who died unmarried; David, who married Elizabeth Ely, and (second) Lydia Richardson, and settled in Drumore, Lancaster county, and Thomas Fell Parry.

Thomas Fell Parry, youngest child of John and Rachel (Fell) Parry, was born in Buckingham 7 mo. 8, 1791. He married 12 mo. 17, 1829, Mary, daughter of Moses and Rachel (Knowles) Eastburn, of Solebury, who was born 9 mo. 13, 1800. Mr. Parry was for many years a resident of Philadelphia, where he was engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1846 he purchased property at Langhorne and two years later removed to that locality, where he spent the remaining years of his long and useful life. He died 3 mo. 27, 1876. His wife, Mary E., died 6 mo. 5, 1872. They were the parents of five children: Rachel, born 9 mo. 20, 1830, married Gilbert Shaw; Elizabeth, born 4 mo. 16, 1832, married William Croasdale; Henry C., born 3 mo. 23, 1834; John E., born 11 mo. 22, 1836, married 2 mo. 14, 1861, Mary Jane Livezey; Charles, born 11 mo, 24, 1839, died 12 mo. 19, 1842.

Henry C. Parry, the subject of this sketch, eldest son of Thomas Fell and Mary (Eastburn) Parry, was born in the city of Philadelphia and received his primary education at private and public schools in that city. He was fifteen years of age when the family removed to Middletown, Bucks County, and then entered Pennington, New Jersey, Seminary, where he finished his education. On arriving at manhood he engaged in farming in Middletown Township, which vocation he followed successfully for sixteen years. In 1876 he engaged in the coal and lumber business at Langhorne station, which he conducted for twenty-one years, building up a fine and profitable business. He sold out the business in 1887, and has since lived retired. Mr. Parry has always been actively interested in the local affairs of his neighborhood, and has held many positions of trust. He has served as chief burgess of the borough for two terms, and two terms as a member of council. He was for many years a director of the First National Bank in Newtown, has been for eight years a director of the People’s National Bank of Langhorne, and was unanimously elected president of the latter institution in 1899, a position he still fills. Mr. Parry has been actively interested in the improvements in and around Langhorne, and is one of the solid substantial business men of that section. He and his family are members of the Society of Friends. Politically he is a Republican.

He was married November 13, 1856, to Susan Gillam Blakey, daughter of William Watson and Anna (Gillam) Blakey, and granddaughter of William and Elizabeth (Watson) Blakey. On the maternal side she is a granddaughter of William and Susanna (Woolston) Gillam, and great-granddaughter of Simon and Anna (Paxson) Gillam, and of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Harvey) Woolstore. There of her lineal ancestors were members of the colonial assembly at one time—Thomas Watson, William Paxson and John Sotcher, all of them serving a number of years. Her great-great-grandfather Mazry Watson was also a member of colonial assembly for very many years. Henry C. Parry is also a descendant of John Sotcher, though his grandmother Rachel (Knowles) Eastburn. (See Eastburn sketch in this work.)

William Blakey Parry, only child of Henry C. and Susan G. (Blakey) Parry, was born in Middletown Township, 5 mo. 18, 1858. He was educated in the schools of Middletown and in Philadelphia. He married September 27, 1883, Elizabeth, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Williamson) Moon, who was born 7 mo. 27, 1857. Two children have been born to this marriage: Laura Elizabeth, born July 28, 1891; and Henry Crawford, Jr., born November 2, 1895.

REED

GEORGE MOSES REED, an honored veteran of the civil war, living a retired life at Langhorne, was born November 23, 1839, in Ireland, whence he was brought to America at the age of five years by his parents, David and Jane (Hunter) Reed. His grandfather was Moses Reed.

The public schools of Philadelphia and the Bensalem school provided him his educational privileges, and after putting aside his text books he assisted his father on the home farm, gaining practical and comprehensive knowledge of the best methods of conducting agricultural pursuits. In 1866 he began farming on his own account on land owned by Alexander Schriver, of Hartford county, Maryland, where he remained for eight years. On leaving that locality he came to Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and purchased his present fine farm in Middletown Township, where he still remains. At the time of the-Civil war Mr. Reed enlisted for service in the Union army as a member of Company K, Thirteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry, with which, he served throughout the period of hostilities, and then received an honorable discharge in Philadelphia, on the 25th of August, 1865, being mustered out at Camp Cadwallader. Mr. Reed's was an active campaign, for he took part in many skirmishes and in a number of important engagements, including the. battles of Winchester, Strasburg and two engagements at Martinsburg, South Mountain, and the seven days battle of the Wilderness. He was twice wounded, once at Winchester and again at Culpeper Courthouse. He now belongs to H. Clay Beatty Post, No. 73, G. A. R., at Bristol. He is also a member of Neshaminy Lodge, No. 422, I. 0. 0. F., has taken the encampment degrees, belongs to the Knights of Pythias Lodge, No. 109. to the Knights of the Golden Eagle, No. 262, at Langhorne, and of the last named has been a trustee for eight years. In his political views Mr. Reed is a stalwart Republican, and has served his township as supervisor of roads for six years, during which time great improvement has been made in the roads in this section of the state. He is recognized as a painstaking, efficient and honorable official and citizen, and his cooperation can always be counted upon to aid in any progressive measure for the general good. He was one of the directors of the board of education of Middletown in 1895 and 1896. In 1903 he sold his magnificent farm to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, receiving there from the price which he asked, and which was a handsome increase over the original cost. He now resides at Langhorne, enjoying the fruits of his-active life.

On the 2d of April, 1863, Mr. Reed was married to Miss Mary Jane Sharkey, of Middletown, Pennsylvania, a daughter of William and Ellen Sharkey, who are both deceased. They have become the parents of ten children: David Lincoln, born September 28, 1864, was married April 15, 1896. to Mazie Gaffney. William, born September 14, 1866, married Minnie Viola Phillips, on the l4th of March, 1894, and they have one son, William Hervey, who was born December 16. 1894. Mary Jane Reed, twin sister of William, was married April 24, 1889, to Samuel C. Bunting of Bensalem, and they have three children—Charles Henry Bunting, born January 23, 1891, George Moses Bunting, born March 5, 1892; and Mary Jane Bunting, born April 25. 1899. Emma Reed, born January 17, 1868, is unmarried and resides with her parents. Frederick Shriver Reed, born June 29. 1869, was married March 23, 1892, to Mary Reed, and they have one- child. George Moses, who was born May 18. 1893. Robert Hunter Reed, born February 20, 1871, was married April 21, 1894. to Josephine Robinson, and they have one child. Mary Jane Reed, born September 9, 1894. George Mann Reed, born May 8, 1874. was married May 10, 1898, to Marion Hellings. James Field Reed. born November 29, 1876. Henry Gaw Reed, born November 1, 1878. Pierson Mitchell Reed, born July 8, 1880. The children were educated in the public schools of Langhorne. James F., Henry G. and Pierson M. reside on the farm, assisting in farm work. These boys are all good Republicans, like their father. Mr. Reed is an owner of real estate in Langhorne borough, having several houses there.

RICHARDSON

JOSHUA  RICHARDSON. The Richardson family of Attleboro, Pennsylvania, the members of which have been noted for sterling integrity and indomitable courage and patriotism, was founded 'in America in 1724 by Joseph Richardson, who upon his arrival here from his native land, England, located near Oxford, where he commenced work on the farm of William Paxson. October 21, 1732, he married Mary Paxson, daughter of William Paxson, and shortly afterward moved to Four Lanes End, where he engaged in business for himself in a country store. The line of descent from the pioneer ancestors is as follows: Joshua, who married Sarah Preston; Joseph, who married Mary Dixon; and Joshua, whose name appears at the head of this sketch.

            Joshua Richardson, son of Joseph and Mary (Dixon) Richardson, was born in Attleboro, Pennsylvania, (now Langhorne borough) March 6, r8o3. After completing his studies in the Friends school at Attleboro he assisted in the farm work, as was the custom with the boys of that period, on his father's estate, and this occupation proving congenial to his tastes and also highly remunerative  he followed  the same throughout the active years of his career.

October 15, 1835, Mr. Richardson married Mary Carpenter Hunt, who died July 18, 1836; leaving no issue. On March 15, 1838, he was united in marriage to Mary Knight, of Lower Makefield, Bucks County, daughter of Joshua and Jane (Bunting) Knight, the former named having been a son of John and Margery (Paxson) Knight, and the latter a daughter of William and Margery (Woolston) Bunting. Three children were the issue of the second marriage, namely:

            l. Joseph, born March 14, 1839, attended the Friends' school, Bucks County Academy at Langhorne, and Foulk's  boarding school at Gwynedd. He is now retired from active agricultural pursuits. February 16, 1865, he married Hannah Gillingham Rowland, of Middletown Township, daughter of William D. and Margaret G. Rowland, and their children are as follows: Margaret, born February 3, 1866, attended the public schools of Middletown township and the Friends' school at Langhorne, and January 23, 1890, became the wife of  Newton May Comly, of Philadelphia, and their children are: Rowland Richardson, born December 23, 1890; Bessie May born February n, 1892; Edith Rosier, born July 17, 1894; John Byron, born June 17, 1896; Mary Richardson, born July 14, 1897; and Helen Maud, born February 18, 1899- These children attended the public schools of Bustleton, and the eldest, Rowland Richardson Comly, is completing his studies at the Manual Training School in Philadelphia. Mary Rowland, born July 13, 1867 attended the public schools of Middletown Township and the Friends school at Langhorne.  Samuel, born February 25, 1869, also acquired his education in the same institutions. Joshua, born November 12, 1872, attended the same institutions of learning as his brothers and sisters, and the knowledge thus obtained was supplemented by attendance at Pierce's Business College, Philadelphia, from which he was graduated.

2 Edward, born April 21, 1841, attended the Friends' school and the Bucks County Academy at Langhorne, and he is now one of the representative agriculturists of Bucks County, his prosperity being the direct result of capability and efficiency.

3. Mary, born March 7, 1844, acquired her educational advantages at the Friends' school and Bucks County Academy, and is widely known and highly esteemed throughout the section in which she resides for her many estimable traits of character.

TOMLINSON

JOSHUA TOMLINSON, honored as the oldest living resident of Langhorne, of which city he is a native, and the only surviving charter member of the Lodge of Odd Fellows in that village, is a representative of ancestry who settled in Pennsylvania in the colonial days, shortly before the Revolution. The founders of the American branch of the family came from England and settled in Philadelphia and Bucks counties. They were farmers by occupation, and Friends in religion.

Mr. Tomlinson was born March 24, l822, in Middletown township, son of Aaron and Jane (Headley) Tomlinson; grandson of William and Rachel (Everett) Tomlinson; and great-grandson of Richard Tomlinson. He was educated at the Friends' school and the Belleview school in Langhorne, that last named being then under the charge of William Mann, one of the most capable teachers of that day.

Young Tomlinson labored upon the paternal farm until he was seventeen, and at that early age entered upon an apprenticeship to the coach maker’s trade in a shop which his father conducted in connection with his fanning labors. He was so employed for four years, and at the expiration of that time, his father retiring, he succeeded to the management. He conducted the business with much success until 1849, when he sold it and went to Maryland, where he cultivated a plantation for a couple of years. In 1851 he returned to Middletown and resumed his coach making business, in which he successfully continued until 1875, when he retired to a finely improved and highly productive farm which he had previously purchased, and where he made his home for thirteen years. He then made a final removal to Langhorne, where he has since resided, occupying a beautiful and comfortable home where he enjoys that well merited ease and contentment which should properly crown so active and well spent a life. He enjoys the esteem and confidence of the community, to whose prosperity and advancement he has materially contributed, and among whom he is held in peculiar regard as the oldest citizen. He is the oldest surviving member of and the only charter member now living of Orionto Lodge, No. 177, I. O. O. F. organized in May, 1846, and of which he has been an active and contributing member continuously down to the present time, a period of forty-Eight years. He was for five years a justice of the peace, and for many years was a member and secretary of the old Attleboro Fire Company. In religion he is a Friend, and in politics a staunch Republican, having affiliated with the party when it organized in i8<^6 for its noble purpose of staying the aggressions of slaveholders and the prostitution of free soil to human slavery, a crime against humanity and a sin against God. Mr. Tomlinson married, July 4, 1847. Miss Lydia Ann Noble, of Philadelphia, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Tiller) Noble. Of this union were born three children, all of whom were educated in the Friends' and public schools of Langhorne. They were: 1. Edward Hicks, born May 11, 1848 he married Annie Reigan, and they became the parents of the following children, Florence May, born 1874, Joshua Noble, who married in 1904, Elizabeth Griffith Estelle. Clarence L. and one who died in infancy. Florence May was married to Ervin Fisher, of Philadelphia, and they became the parents of two children: Nevin and Oswald Fisher. Elizabeth Jane. born September 29, 1850, Frederick Noble, born June 17, 1855 never married. Mrs. Tomlinson, Mother of this family, passed away January 28, 1902. leaving to her mourning children and husband the tender memories of a beautiful spirit which shed the light of love upon all who came into companionship with her.

GEORGE TOMLINSON, son of Aaron and Jane (Headley) Tomlinson, and grandson of William and Rachel (Everett Tomlinson, mentioned in the preceding sketch, was born in Middletown, February 15, 1840, and was educated at the public and Friends' schools of Langhorne, he remained on the farm with his parents until twenty years of age. In 1861 he responded to the call of his country by enlisting in Company F, One Hundred and Fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers under Captain Alfred Marple. and that veteran of two wars, Colonel (now General} W. W. H. Davis, and participated with his regiment in the bloody battles of Fair Oaks, the Seven Days Fight, Malvern Hill,as well as in a number of other engagements and skirmishes. On account of ill health he was honorably discharged on October 3, 1862, after having been confined for some time to the military hospital on David's Island, New York. He returned home, and after careful nursing regained to some extent his normal health, though he never fully recovered from the results of the campaign of hardships in the Virginia swamps. As soon as sufficiently recovered he resumed the vocation of farmer, which he followed until 1883 when having purchased a house on Green street, Langhorne, he retired to that borough, where he has since resided, having built his present residence in 1891. He has always taken an active interest in tile affairs of the town, and is a member of Sergeant Hugh A. Martindale Post. G. A. R., No. 366, and of Orionto Lodge, No. 177, I. 0. 0. F. He was reared in the faith of the Society of Friends, of which his ancestors have been members for many generations. In politics he is a Republican, and has always taken an active interest in the success of his party. He married, December 21, 1865, Annie Strouse, daughter of Samuel and Susan (Lutz) Strouse, of Langhorne.

WATSON

HENRY WINFIELD WATSON, of Langhorne, Middletown Township, son of Mitchell and Anna (Bacon) Watson, and grandson of Joseph and Mary (White) Watson was born in Buckingham, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, June 24, 1856. The pioneer ancestor on the paternal side was Thomas Watson, who came from High Moor, Cumberland county, county, England, in 1701. He settled for a short time near Bristol, Pennsylvania, but subsequently purchased several hundred acres in Buckingham Township, where he built a large stone mansion and resided there until his death. The pioneer ancestor on the maternal side was Nathaniel Bacon, grandson of Sir Nicholas Bacon, lord keeper to Queen Elizabeth, who came originally to Barnstable, Massachusetts, in the early part of the seventeenth century.

Henry W. Watson received an excellent English education in private schools, studied law under Hon. F. Carroll Brewster, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1881. He has been actively identified with many of the leading institutions in the vicinity of his home. In 1883 he was largely instrumental in the organization of the People's National Bank of Langhorne, and in the Langhorne Library, of which he was president for a number of years. He served as president of the first electric street railway company operated in Bucks County, and drove the first spike of said road on November 20, 1895. This connection continued until 1898, when the road was sold, and afterward it was leased by the Newtown Electric Railway Company. In 1900 he was appointed receiver of the Washington & Potomac Railroad Company, and at the present time (1905) is president of the Washington, Potomac & Chesapeake Railroad Company, and director of the Bucks County Trust Company and the People's National Bank of Langhorne. Mr. Watson is a stanch adherent of the Republican Party, and has served several times as state and congressional delegate.

WILDMAN

ALFRED MILNER WILDMAN. The progenitor of the American branch of the Wildman family was Martin Wildman, who in 1693, accompanied by his wife and six children came to Bucks County from Yorkshire, England, and settled in Middletown Township. They were members of the Society of Friends, and brought a certificate of membership with them from the Monthly meeting of Settle, Yorkshire, England. Joseph Wildman, third son of Martin and Ann Wildman, born January 23, 1683, in England, married and among his children was a son John, who was born in Middletown, July 8, 1732, and was united in marriage to Mary Tomlinson.  John Wildman, son of John and Mary (Tomlinson) Wildman, was born in Middletown, March 28, 1771, married Mary Knight, and among their children was a son Charles, who was the proprietor of a country store at Fallsington, who married Susannah Shoemaker Albertson, daughter of Benjamin and Ann (Knight) Albertson, and they reared a family of seven children, as follows: Chalkley Albertson, John Knight, Mary Ann, Benjamin Albertson, Charles, Ellwood, and Jane, who died in infancy. Chalkley Albertson, the eldest child, was a merchant in Philadelphia, in which city he resided up to the time of his death. He married Emeline Reed Tatum, and among their children was Alfred Milner, whose name appears at the head of this sketch, who was born in Philadelphia, January 12, 1862.

The public schools of Philadelphia afforded Alfred M. Wildman the means of obtaining a practical education which prepared him for an active career. He hen entered the employ of James M. Vance & Co., of Philadelphia, hardware merchants, with whom he remained nine years. He then located in Langhorne, and shortly afterward established a hardware business on his own account, which he has successfully conducted up to the present time. Although his time is so fully occupied with the varied duties of this enterprise, Mr. Wildman takes an active interest in the management of affairs in the borough in which he resides, and is now serving as secretary and treasurer of the Langhorne Electric Light and Power Company, and secretary of the Mutual Beneficial Association of Bucks County. He has been active and efficient in the interests of the Republican Party, the principles of which he firmly advocates. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, being affiliated with Newtown Lodge, No. 427.  Mr. Wildman was united in marriage November 19, 1890, to Josephine Schenck, of St. Louis, Missouri, daughter of Peter Voorhees and Anna (McCune) Schenck, the former named having been a graduate of Princeton College, and for many years a physician of celebrity and great skill in the city of St. Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Wildman, who are highly esteemed, By a wide circle of friends, are the parents of four children: Marshall, born January 18, 1895; Ruth Anna, born September 21, 1897; Josephine, born April 12, 1899; and Florence Marshall, born December 18, 1901.