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Levis, on the site now known as Addingham. In 1782 he was assessed in the Effective Supply Tax, in Northern Liberties in Philadelphia, one pound, six shillings and five pence on a paper mill at the Falls of the Schuylkill which he and Daniel Sowers had leased and in which he retained an interest until April 20. 1784. He purchased a paper mill site and fifty-three acres of land from Mark Wilcox. April 20, 1785. retaining this property until December 30. 1795, when he disposed of it to William Levis. This mill site was on Ridley creek in U'pper Providence, and was for many years known as "Bancroft's Upper Bank."
January 2, 1797. Thomas Griffith, of Aston township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, conveyed to John Lungren, a papermaker of Upper Providence. a tract of eighty acres of land for the sum of three hundred and sixty-five pounds, this transaction including certain rights for a mill to be erected by John Lungren for the manufacture of paper. On the same day Jonathan Pen- nell, of the borough of Chester, conveyed to John Lungren, for forty silver follars, all rights adjoining or abutting on Middletown township for the pur- pose of effectually completing and making firm and stable the mill dam to be used in connection with the paper mill intended to be built by John Lungren. The above mill site was on Chester creek in Aston township, and in the erec- tion of a stone paper mill and dam in 1798, a stone dwelling house. "The Mansion," in 1799, another stone dwelling house in 1815. a second stone paper mill in 1815, and tenements for seventeen families, by 1822, the present town of Lenni had its beginning. The Lungrens ( father and sons) manti- factured paper at the above place until 1823, in which year the entire place was sold to William Martin, who named the mill site "Lenni Mills."
After a long and useful career John Lungren died March 3. 1816. His cherished and devoted wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Garrett, died May 1, 1818. Both are buried in the Old Swedes (Gloria Dei) church yard in Philadelphia. They were vigorous examples of the sturdy, pioneer life of Penn- sylvania in its early days, and they bequeathed to their descendants those ster- ling, upright characteristics that make American citizens of to-day so eminently reliable and progressive. Six children were born to John and Sarah Lungren. as follows. 1. William, born May 10. 1778. died July 29, 1846; was the grandfather of the subject of this review, and further data concerning his life will be detailed in a succeeding paragraph. 2. John, born October 8. 1780. died, unmarried, November 14, 1807. 3. Elizabeth, born January 12, 1783. died February 7. 1836: she married ( first ). Joseph Black. (second ). William Turner. 4. Charles, born November 3. 1785: married Susannah Hemphill : died in 1861. 5. Samuel, born September 27. 1787: married Margaret Effin- ger : died January 28, 1858. 6. Sarah, born October 7. 1700: married Dr. Nathan Hayes : died September 10, 1850.
William and Charles Lungren, both sons of John Lungren, mentioned above, inherited their father's mill at the time of his demise, in 1816, and they continued to operate the same until 1823, when they disposed of it. In that year William Lungren removed to a paper mill on Elk creek, in Chester coun- ty, and thence to Muddy creek in York county. His mill at the latter place passed to his sons, Edwin and Alfred. For several years following 1833 he was proprietor of the Black Horse Inn on the West Chester pike in Upper Darby township, Delaware county. He removed to Philadelphia in 1841, and in that metropolis his death occurred July 29. 1846. He married, February 14. 1700. Hannah James, daughter of Joseph and Mary ( Engle) James, of Upper Providence, and a great-granddaughter of Morgan and Elizabeth ( Prytherch ) James, who were married "Ye first day of the eleventh month in the year 1604, at the meeting-house in Radnor." The ancestors of Hannah
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( James) Lungren were Quakers in the early colonial days of Pennsylvania. Her great-great-great-grandparents were Richard and Jane ( Petty) Wood- ward, who were married in England, September 10, 1674. Their son Edward married, March 24, 1705, Abigail Edge, daughter of John and Jane Edge, of Providencetown, Chester county, Pennsylvania. The daughter of Edward and Abigail Woodward, by name Abigail, married, October 23, 1730, Moses Ver- non, son of John and Sarah ( Pyle) Vernon. Abigail Vernon, daughter of Moses and Abigail Vernon, born March 25, 1738. married December 6, 1753, at Providence Meeting, Frederick Engle, son of Frederick and Ann Engle, she died October 4, 1826. Mary Engle, daughter of Frederick and Abigail Engle, born September 28, 1756, died January 31, 1818; she married, February 4. 1773, at Middletown Meeting, Joseph James, son of Samuel and Joanna (Paschall) James. Following are data of the children born to Joseph and Mary James: 1. Samuel, born January 1, 1774, died July 28, 1823 ; married January 1, 1791, Eleanor Worrall, born May 16, 1772, died August 22, 1821. 2. Frederick, born March 30. 1775, died July 31, 1843; married, November 30, 1797. Rebecca Starr, born March 1. 1776, died October 15, 1853. 3. Abi- gail, born October 29, 1776, died August 20, 1823; married, June 9, 1796, Aquilla Starr, born July 29. 1771. 4. Hannah, born in 1778. died June 22, 1817: married, February 14, 1799, William Lungren, whose name forms the caption for this paragraph.
Following are the children born to William and Hannah ( James) Lun- gren : I. Edwin, born February 14, 1800, died August 8, 1827; married, in 1821, Eliza Frame, born February 6, 1800, and who died January 13. 1873. 2. Ferdinand, born February 20, 1801, died October 29, 1882: married, June 14, 1838, Susan Arinstrong, born February 20, 1810, died January 14, 1880. 3. Alfred, born April 24, 1802, died March 27, 1879: married, in 1827, Hukla Frame, born October 21, 1803. died March 15, 1844. 4. Emily Ann, born January 29, 1805, died July 2, 1877 ; married, May 11, 1826, Samuel Conn, born January 26, 1802, died May 19, 1872. 5. John Charles, born June 26, 1809, died September 21, 1888; married, January 14, 1830, Eliza Cameron, born December 25, ISII, died April 15, 1892. 6. William Palifox, born July 24, 1811, died October 23, 1837; married, October 2. 1833, Rebecca Lynah. 7. Hannah, born December 31. 1812. died January 13. 1813. 8. Han- son K., born December 30, 1813, died October 2, 1854; married May 4, 1843. Lucy .A. Brooks, born January 22, 1825, died February 9, 1902. 9. Garrett, born August 31, 1815, died March 29, 1892; married, March 25, 1858, Adaline Wiser, born August 28, 1828, died February 8, 1877. 10. Charles Hemphill, father of the subject of this sketch, mentioned below.
For his second wife William Lungren married Jane Dix Smith, the cere- mony having been performed May 6, 1819. She was born August 3. 1794, died November 24, 1871, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Dix) Smith, of Upper Darby township. Five children were born to this union, as follows : I. Hannah E., born August 31, 1820, died March 7, 1901 ; married, August 1, 1848, Samuel Carter, who died May 2, 1864. 2. Henrietta J., born April 30, 1822, died May 21. 1880 : married, February 16, 1847. Tracey E. Waller, born in August, 1816, died November 20, 1872. 3. Sarah J., born March 2, 1825, died April 12, 1903 ; married, June 19, 1867, William T. Fosque, born May 21, 1822, died November 22, 1881. 4. Samuel S., born August 22, 1827, died March 7. 1892; married, in 1848, Mary C. Schwartzwelder, and for a second wife wedded Mary F. Farrar, in June, 1875. 5. Henry H. G., born January 21, 1836, died October 19, 1874: married May 27, 1858, Annie D. Ivory, born August 17, 1832, still living in 1913.
Charles Hemphill Lungren, youngest child of William and Hannah
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(James) Lungren, was born at Lenni, Pennsylvania, May 23, 1817. Losing his mother in early infancy, he was reared to maturity by an uncle and aunt, Charles and Susannah ( Hemphill) Lungren, for whom he was named. He re- ceived but meagre educational training in his youth, and it was not until his ninth year that he was able to attend school regularly. At the age of sixteen years he entered upon an apprenticeship to Coleman Sellers & Son, machinists and locomotive builders at Cardington. in Upper Darby township. He re- mained with the above concern until 1837, and for many years following that date was engaged in erecting sugar mills in Cuba and Trinidad. In 1852 he went to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, remaining in the Far West for two years. In 1854 he attained efficiency as a watch-casemaker. In 1868 he was honored by his fellow citizens with election to the office of alderman in the city of Philadelphia. He voiced his political views as follows: "Independent in politics; do my own thinking and vot- ing, and am in favor of the Republican party and its form of government." In 1878 he became a real estate agent in Philadelphia, and that city continued to represent his home until his death, November 16, 1897. He was overcome by the heat, August 2, 1887, and he never fully recovered from the effects of that shock. Through extensive travel and study. Mr. Lungren developed a very keen intellect. He was well versed on all kinds of topics, talked well and interestingly and everywhere commanded the unalloyed confidence and esteem of his fellowmen. His death was universally mourned in his particular com- munity, and his memory will long remain green in the hearts of his loyal friends.
January 14, 1841, Mr. Lungren was united in marriage to Eleanor Shields Frame, born September 2, 1817, died June 28, 1905, daughter of Robert and Martha (Philips) Frame, of Birmingham township, Delaware county. (Im- mediately following this paragraph is a brief sketch of the Frame family). In her girlhood days Mrs. Lungren became a member of the Brandywine Baptist Church, being baptized in the Brandywine creek. She continued in full fellowship in the several churches of that denomination with which she united, and was a quiet, unobtrusive Christian, working for the cause of Christianity continuously, ever regular in her duties, attendance and contributions for the welfare of her chosen church. Mr. and Mrs. Lungren were residents of No. 86 Andrew street, Hamiltonville, now 3624 Walnut street, Philadelphia, at the time of their respective deaths. Three children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Il. Lungren, namely: 1. Edwin Frame, born November 2, 1841 ; married, December 31, 1868, Emily S. Eckert, born September 24. 1845. 2. Emma Dallas, born January 12, 1845; unmarried. 3. Charles Howard, of this sketch.
By 1699 John Chalfast was located on a tract of land in the "Manor of Rocklands," now Birmingham township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. He requested a warrant for this land on the 22d of the tenth month, 1701. His son Robert was granted the patent for the same on the first day of the tenth month. 1714. Robert Chalfast had a daughter, Ruth, who married Nathan Frame prior to the year 1750. Mr. Frame was born in England and he and his wife had the following children: Robert, James. John and Thomas. Robert Frame, the first born of the above, was a native of what is now Delaware county, where his birth occurred. February 20, 1750. He died May 13, 1817. flis wife, whose maiden name was Eleanor Shields, was born August 26. 1762, died May 19, 1820, daughter of James and Margaret Shields. Robert and Eleanor Frame resided on a part of the tract mentioned above, which he inherited from his mother, and they reared a large family of children. 1. Mar- garet, born February 2, 1781, died April 19, 1851 ; married. December 14.
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1806. William Smith, born February 13, 1760, died May 9. 1824. 2. Ruth, born February 8, 1783, died January 31, 1864: married, in 1809. John Craig, born June 20, 1773, died February 15, 1849. 3. Mary, born May 5, 1785. died February 3, 1860: married Thomas Hickman, born in 1781. died March 14, 1860. 4. Eleanor, born January 14, 1788, died April 9. 1815, unmarried. 5. Elizabeth, born April 3. 1790, died August 18, 1871 ; married Enos Miles. born October 3. 1786, died May 18, 1840. 6. Robert Jr., born March 3. 1793. died February 10, 1871 ; married, October 6. 1814, Martha Philips, born Feb- ruary 9. 1794. died March 28, 1870. 7. Rebecca, born August 22, 1795, died February 2, 1796. S. Rachel, born January 21, 1797. died January 22, 1797. 9. Orpha, born May 3. 1798, died February 2, 1849; married, in 1816, John F. Engle, born in 1797, died June 29. 1874. 10. Jane B., born March 1, 1801, died March 4, 1838, unmarried. 11. Sarah, horn June 28, 1804. died January 2, 1876; married Absolom Ditterbine, born in April, 1799, and died .August 7. 1866.
Robert Frame Jr. was born in Birmingham township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, March 3. 1793, and in that locality he resided during the entire period of his life. He grew up in close identity with the Brandywine Baptist Church, being baptized in that faith in 1821. He devoted a long life to the service of God, holding many offices in the Baptist church. January 25, 1829. lie was appointed a justice of the peace by Governor Andrew Shultze for district No. 2. of Delaware county, then covering the townships of Aston, Bethel, Birmingham, Concord. Thornbury and Upper Chichester. He held that appointment until 1840, when he was elected to the same office for Bir- mingham, being continuonsly re-elected thereto until 1870, when he declined to further serve in that capacity on account of old age. The records of the Brandywine Baptist Church say : "He bore his afflictions with Christian forti- tude and died full of faith in the hope of a glorious immortality." In the same records his wife is mentioned as "\ most estimable Christian woman, a real mother in Israel." Mrs. Frame's maiden name was Martha Philips, born Feb- ruary 9. 1794, ched March 28. 1870. Prior to 1500 her ancestors were known by the cognomen "Philip" and the "s" was added to the name in that year by Meredith Philips. The progenitors of the Philips family in America were Joseph and Mary, who came to Chester county, Pennsylvania, from the parisli of Eglyswen. Pembrokeshire, Wales, in 1755. Their family consisted of four sons, David, John. Josiah and Joseph. They all attended the Great Valley Bap- tist Church until 1771, when they joined in the formation of the Vincent Baptist Church. During the revolutionary war the above sons were officers in the Second Company, Seventh Battalion Chester County Militia, Colonel William Gibson commanding-David, as captain, John, first lieutenant. Josiah, second lientenant, and Joseph, ensign. Joseph Philips, father of the above illustrious sons, was born in 1716, died May 18. 1792. His marriage to Mary occurred in Wales : she was born in 1710, died December 26, 1792. Following are brief data of their four children: 1. David, born March 26, 1742, died March 5. 1829: married Mary Thomas, who died October 31. 1840. 2. John. born in 1745. died May 22, 1790, married Margaret Davis. 3. Josiah, born March 29. 1751, died March 1. 1817 : married (first) October 15, 1772, Martha Edwards, born April 16, 1747, died January 7. 1784: married (second) Sep- tember 25, 1787, Sarah Thomas, born January 24. 1758. died January 23. 18.45. 4. Joseph, born November 1. 1754, died September 3, 1832: married Mary . born July 20, 1746, died January 28, 1817.
Josiah Philips, the third of the above sons, settled on the old homestead in Chester county. He was a man of deep piety and fidelity to conviction. His home was ever open to the man of God, and the fugitive slaves were
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always assisted in their passage northward by him, an underground railway station having been established in his barn. He and his second wife. Sarah ( Thomas) Philips, were the parents of eight children, as follows: 1. Joseph, born July 17. 1788, died July 21. 1825 : married Rebecca Dennison, born July 29, 1786, died June 3, 1840. 2. Owen, born September 7. 1789, died August 18, 1871: married, in 1814. Rachel Evans, born in 1790, died in 1868. 3. Martha, born January 14, 1791, died February 12, 1792. 4. Isaac, born September 17. 1792, died May 15. 1794. 5. Martha, born February 9. 1794. died March 28. 1870: married, October 6. 1814. Robert Frame Jr., as noted in preceding paragraph. 6. Mary, born July 29, 1795. died December 14, 1866: married. January 1, 1814. John Tustin, born March 4, 1789. died Feb- ruary 25. 1860. 7. Sarah, born April 18, 1797, died April 19, 1854: married, January 23, 1818, Nathaniel Miles, born July 10, 1795, died November 19, 1866. 8. Hannah, born April 6, 1802, died March 17. 1900; married (first) December 17, 1820, Jacob Still, born July 2, 1794. died October 31. 1831 : married ( second) December 17, 1833. Eber Eaches, born April 1. 1802, died March 9. 1880.
Robert and Martha (Philips) Frame became the parents of eleven chil- dren: 1. Sarah P., born July 3. 1815. died June 26, 1875, unmarried. 2. Eleanor S., born September 2, 1817. died June 28, 1905 : married, January 14, 1841, Charles H. Lungren, father of the subject of this sketch. 3. P. Miles, born September 1, 1819. died August 10, 1901 : married. October 17. 1844. Sarah Ann Smith, born February 23, 1819. died February 19, 1893. 4. Margaret T., born April 16, 1822, died February 1. 1884: married. April 6. 1846, Joseph Perkins, born March 17, 1812. died December 10, 1888. 5. Mary, born October 27, 1824. died December 27, 1826. 6. Martha P., born December 3. 1826, died January 6, 1827. 7. Joseph E., born January 9, 1828. died October 24, 1907 : married. January 23, 1851. Hannah Taylor, born .Au- gust 14. 1830, living in 1913. 8. Martha J., born April 6, 1830, died Marchi 23, 1909 : married, January 27. 1853. John Q. Taylor, born February 1. 1828. lied August 20, 1902. 9. Vernon T., born May 17, 1832. died August 24, 1832. 10. Hulda T., born April 26, 1834, living in 1913: married, May 10. 1855. Edmund H. Smith, born November 30, 1831, also living. 11. F. Marion, born September 14, 1839. died December 10, 1904: married, June 22, 1865, Mary Grubb, born July 17, 1839, living in 1913.
From the foregoing it may be seen that Charles Howard Lungren is descended from a staunch old pioneer ancestry, many of his forebears having been frontiersmen in the colonial days of the Keystone commonwealth. From them he has inherited that sterling integrity of character which is mani- fest in all his business and private dealings. He was born at No. 3024 Walnut street. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 28, 1855. His early educational discipline was obtained in the Newton Grammar School of Philadelphia. through the various divisions of which he passed, graduating therefrom June 28. 1872. He launched into business life as a partner in a hardware concern. the same being known as S. B. Miller & Company, with offices in Philadelphia. His partner, Samnel B. Miller, died in 1876, and the store was closed up. Mr. Lungren then became an exchange clerk in the Centennial National Bank, at their Centennial branch, during the Centennial Exposition in 1876. In 1880 he entered the employ of the AAllison Manufacturing Company, remaining with that concern for the ensuing six years, at the expiration of which he entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in the accounting depart- ment with the auditor of merchandise traffic, and has so continued to the pres- ent time ( 1913). The family home was maintained in West Philadelphia until the summer of 1891, when removal was made to Swarthmore, in Delaware
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county, where the family have since resided. Although not an office seeker in any sense of the word, Mr. Lungren is an independent Republican in his politi- cal adherence, and is ever on the alert to do all in his power to forward the best interests of his home community. He is a man of his word, and as such is highly respected by all with whom he has come in contact.
October 5, 1880, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lungren to Rebecca Checkwood Allen, the ceremony having been performed in the parsonage of the Berean Baptist Church. at Philadelphia, the Rev. Edgar MI. Levy, D. D., officiating. Mrs. Lungren was born at No. 41 North Thirty-eighth street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. December 28, 1858. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Lungren were Joseph and Isabel ( Lowden ) Allen ; their son William was her father. William Allen was born June 23, 1820, died February 15, 1898. As a youth and with the consent of his mother he became a sailor. Subsequently he enlisted in the United States navy as ship's carpenter, and he was aboard the frigate "Constitution" ( Old Ironsides) on her last cruise around the world. He was mustered out of the naval service at Boston, Mas- sachusetts, in 1848, and in that year came to Pennsylvania, locating in Philadel- phia, where he became a rigger of the derricks of many of the large stone buildings. Later he became a stonecutter. He married, July 12, 1849. Julia G. Hopson, born August 11, 1827, died May 21, 1913. daughter of William and Rebecca ( Checkwood ) Hopson, and granddaughter of Peter and Cath- erine (Miller ) Hopson, of Philadelphia. William and Julia G. ( Hopson) Allen had eight children. as follows: 1. Joseph C., born June 1, 1850, died March 6. 1908; married ( first) February 9. 1878, Emma O. Dell, born December 19, 1854: died May 21, 1890; married (second) January 14, 1903, Ellen S. Schaffer. 2. William H., born February 6, 1852, died July 15, 1854. 3. Catherine, born May 13, 1854; married, July 1. 1875, Charles J. Pugh. born March 19, 1851. 4. Sarah .A., born September 4, 1856; married, March 15, 1877, Louis D. Sloan, born June 16, 1855. 5. Rebecca Checkwood, Mrs. Lungren, mentioned above. 6. Eleanora P., born May 21, 1861, died June 25, 1888: married, June 16, 1881, John C. Dell, born September 5, 1852. 7. Margaretta, born January 1, 1864; married, in January, 1883, Robert A. Stewart, born May 22, 1862. 8. George FL., born January 23, 1867 ; married. August 13, 1890, Caroline S. Laager, born June 3. 1872.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Howard Lungren have eight children, namely : 1. Allen, born December 21, 1881 ; married, November 15, 1905. Mary B. Crow- ther. born May 17, 1885; he received a good public school education and is now an elevator constructor, his home being in the vicinity of Swarthmore ; his wife is the daughter of Charles Ilenry and Emma M. ( Boyer ) Crowther, of Morton, Delaware county, Pennsylvania ; children of Allen and Mary B. Lungren : Frances Marion, born November 3, 1906, died January 17, 1911 ; Eleanor Shields, born July 15, 1912. 2. Rebecca C., born February 2, 1885 ; was educated in the public schools and Bank's Business College ; married, May 5, 1909. Dr. Williamn .A. Raiman, born August 10. 1879, son of August W. and Minnie Raiman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 3. Marion Frame, born June 29, 1887, died July 23, 1887. 4. Helen, born August 21, 1889; was edu- cated in the public schools of Swarthmore ; married, December 2, 1913, Godwin F. K. Werlün, born June 19. 1888. son of Louis and Metta K. ( Kyster ) Wer- lun, of Prospect Park, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. 5. Emma Dallas, born January 22, 1892 ; is a student in Swarthmore College, being a member of the class of 1914. 6. C. Howard Jr., born June 22, 1894, is a student in the Banks Business College at Philadelphia. 7. William Hemphill, born June 18. 1896: is a student in the Williston Seminary, at Easthampton, Massachusetts. 8. Frances Marion, born May 12, 1900, died January 11. 1902. 46)
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In the records of the Society of Friends in New Jersey, the ATKINSON name Atkinson has ever been prominent since the founding of the branch herein traced by John Atkinson. He was a native of Yorkshire, England, living for many years in Newby, but in 1659 moving to Thurseross, in the same county. He was among the earliest con- verts to the faith expounded by George Fox and bore with a strength born of strictest piety, the persecution of the Crown. Of his children, two sons came to Pennsylvania, John, died May 2, 1688, without issue, and Thomas. of whom further.
(11) Thomas, son of John Atkinson, was born in Newby, Yorkshire. England, prior to 1660, died in Bristol township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. October 31. 1087. In 1678 he was registered in Sandwich, in the parish of Addingham, county York, where there is record of his marriage. For the three following years there is no authentic record of his residence, but in 1681 he came to West Jersey and presented a certificate from the Beamsley Meeting. The following year he moved to Bristol township, Bucks county, and became a member of the Neshaminy Meeting, subsequently joining the Meeting at Falls. He became a prominent man in the county, a minister of the Society of Friends, one of the largest and most prosperous landowners in the county, and for many years a member of the Assembly and Justice of the Berks County Court. On June 1. 1685, he was a member of the first grand jury impaneled in the county. So exemplary was his life, so varied his activi- ties, and so noble his character, that after his death the Philadelphia Meeting published a lengthy "Testimonial" written by his wife, a most unusual action among that sect, such strict believers in humility and the perfect equality of man.
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