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(VII) Mark (2), son of Archibald and Mary ( Curtis) Hopkins, was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, February 4, 1802, died at Williamstown, Massa- chusetts, June 17, 1887. He obtained an excellent education in his early youth and was especially prepared for college by his uncle, Rev. Jared Curtis, then prin- cipal of Stockbridge Academy. also attending Lenox Academy for a time. Fin- ishing his preparatory work, he decided to teach school for a time before en- tering college. This he did, and in 1821 he matriculated at Williams College. founded in 1755 by Colonel Ephraim Williams, graduating as valedictorian of the class of 1824 with the degree B. A. The following year he became a til- tor at the college, at the same time having entered the medical school at Pitts- field, then in a flourishing condition. In the autumn of 1827 he resumed his medical studies, graduating M. D. from Berkshire Medical School in 1829. and in 1830 prepared to begin practice in New York. At this time, however. Dr. William A. Porter, professor of moral philosophy and rhetoric at Williams College, died, and the vacant chair was offered to Mr. Hopkins, which after some hesitation he accepted. Thus began the connection which was to last for over half a century and which was to be productive of such great and endur- ing results. In 1833 he was licensed to preach by the Berkshire Association. and in 1836, despite the fact that he was but thirty-four years of age, he was chosen to succeed to the presidency of the college in the place of President Griffen, resigned. a tribute to his lofty character and scholarly attainments. For thirty-six years he remained at the head of Williams College, and raising that institution to a higher state of efficiency and prosperity. Many were the positions of influence and trust offered him during these years, but he re- mained faithful to his alma mater, giving it in his whole-hearted, simple man- ner, the best of his time and labor. Possibly never before in the history of education has there been such fellowship and companionship between a teacher and pupils as that which existed between Mark Hopkins and the undergrad- uates of Williams College. He was their friend, confidant and advisor, the sympathizer of their sorrow and the sharer of their joy. The humblest stu- dent felt his influence, and left college strengthened and inspired by his friendship and example. \ predominating characteristic was his quiet de- termination. In 1868, during his absence, a serions rebellion broke out among the students against the faculty. Upon his return. a few masterly determined words and a short conference with the leaders of the malcontents restored harmony, which his consummate tact rendered permanent. In his declining years it was a source of great pleasure to him to receive letters from the alum- ni of the institution, many of whom declared that they owed their present high stations in life more to the quiet earnestness of his teaching than to any other one factor, since the lessons they had learned at a mother's knee. As a philosopher. he was one of the acutest thinkers the new world has ever pro-
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duced and it is a matter of regret that his absorbing duties as the head of a col- lege left him so little time to formulate to the full the philosophical system of which he was the founder. Many of his philosophical lectures are used as texts in the teaching of to-day. Harvard and Dartmouth Colleges honored him with the degrees M. D. and D. D., while the universities of New York and Harvard gave him the degree LL.D. He was also a member of the American Academy of Science and president of the A. B. C. F. M. He married Mary. daughter of Major Lyman and Louisa ( Rossiter ) Hubbell.
(VIII) Mark (3). son of Mark (2) and Mary ( Hubbell) Hopkins, was born in 1852, and married, in 1876. Lucy R. Parsons, born 1858. died 1884. Mr. Hopkins is a very prominent artist in Paris, France, where he makes his home. Ile is a Republican in politics. Children : Mark and Georgeanna.
(IX) Mark (4). son of Mark (3) and Lucy R. ( Parsons) Hopkins, was born at Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1877. He attended Harvard Univer- sity, class of 1902, but has devoted his life to agriculture and kindred branches in various parts of the country. He operated a large ranch in the west, de- voted to stock raising, and since the autumn of 1912 has been a land owner of Delaware county. He purchased the property in Marple township known as the Pratt farm. an estate that had been in the Pratt name since the original deed from William Penn in 1683 until its sale to Mr. Hopkins. The part bought by Mr. Hopkins embraces 136 acres, and here he has entered exten- sively into pigeon and poultry raising for the metropolitan markets. His flock of pigeons numbers more than three thousand birds, confined in quarters specially constructed. His poultry yards are also extensive and conducted with all the skill of the modern fancier. The house, one of Delaware county's historic homes, is being restored and the grounds surrounding it made most attractive.
Mr. Hopkins married, in 1904. Gwladys, daughter of Walter Crosby. of New York City : children : Mark (5). and Gwladys.
WILLARD DeForest Willard was born in Newington, Hartford county .. Connecticut. March 23. 1846, and died at his home in Lans- clowne, Delaware county. Pennsylvania, October 14. 1910. He was the son of Daniel H. and Sarah Maria (Deming) Willard, who were both descended from ancestors closely identified with the colonial history of New England. Dr. Willard could trace his ancestry directly to Major Simon Willard, the founder of Concord, Massachusetts ( 1632). two of whose de- scendants were presidents of Harvard College. His preparatory education was received at the Hartford High School and he entered Yale College in 1803. From there he went to the medical department of the University of Pennsyl- vania, from which he graduated in 1867 with the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine. He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University in 1871, and the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Lafayette in 1882.
Dr. Willard early selected surgery as his branch of medical practice, and during the civil war, prior to his graduation, served under the auspices of the- United States Sanitary Commission at City Point and Petersburg, Virginia. as acting surgeon, and in 1867-68, was resident physician at the Philadelphia Hospital. At the university he was demonstrator of anatomy from 1867 to 1870: quiz master of surgery and anatomy from 1868 to 1877: demonstrator in surgery, assistant surgeon in Professor Agnew's clinic and assistant sur- geon in the surgical dispensary of the Universary Hospital from 1870 to 1877 : and attending orthopaedic surgeon to the University Hospital from 1889 to 1910. The chair of orthopaedic surgery was created by the University for
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Dr. Willard, and held by him from 1889 to the time of his death in 1910. He was patron of the Ashhurst Surgical Society from 1900 to 1910: chairman of the surgical section of the American Medical Association; president of tlie American Surgical Association in 1901 : president of the American Orthopae- dic Association. 1890; of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, 1893-94; vice-president of the Medical Alumni Association in 1905 and president in 1907 : president of the Medical Board of the Presbyterian Hospital, 1901-07 ; vice-president of the orthopaedic section of the International Medical Con- gress, Berlin, 1890: chairman of the orthopaedic section of the Philadelphia College of Physicians. 1894: curator of the Philadelphia Pathological Society, 1868-71 ; pathologist of the Presbyterian Hospital, 1872-81 : out patient sur- geon of the Presbyterian Hospital. 1873-76; surgeon to Howard Hospital, 1877-SI : organizer and surgeon in chief of the Widener Memorial Industrial School for Crippled Children. 1898: consulting surgeon of the Phoenixville Hospital, 1903-10; surgeon of the Presbyterian Hospital, 1876-1910: consult- ing surgeon of the Atlantic City Hospital. 1901-10; of the Seashore Children's Hospital, Atlantic City, 1902-10 ; of the Germantown Hospital, 1902-10; of the Jewish Hospital, 1904-10: of the Municipal Hospital, 1908-10; of the Home of Incurables, 1881-1910: of the New Jersey Training School for Feeble Minded, 1883-1905 : of the Haddock Memorial, 1001-10: Founder of the Mid- night Mission, 1868-1900: assistant medical director of the United States Centennial Exhibition, 1876: Mütter Lecturer of the Philadelphia College of Physicians. 1893: visiting surgeon of the Lincoln Institute, 1870-73: of the Educational Home. 1873: assistant physician of the Lying-in-Charity, 1872-77: professor of anatomy and physiology at the Wagner Institute of Science, 1870- 75: Fellow of the American Orthopaedic Association, of the American Sur- gical Association, of the American Medical Association, of the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, of the Philadelphia Pathological Society, of the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society, and of the Lehigh Valley Medical As- sociation. He was council of the Philadelphia College of Physicians for twelve years and censor of the Philadelphia County Medical Society for five years. He was a member of the General Alumni Society ; a member of the Medical Alumni Society, its president in 1907 and a member of its Executive Commit- tee for twenty years. He was a member of the Board of Managers, Univer- sity Hospital, 1892-1906: of the board of trustees, Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded, 1893-97 : of the board of managers, Midnight Mis- sion. 1868-1910: of the board of managers. Union Benevolent Association, 1883-1903 : member of the Academy of Natural Science, 1876-78: of the New England Society. 1881-1910; of the Founders and Patriots. Philadelphia. 1906-1910 ; manager of the Young Men's Christian Association, 1875-78; dele- gate to the International Medical Congress, Berlin. 1890: to the American Congress of Physicians and Surgeons; to the Pan- American Medical Con- gress. 1893: to the International Medical Congress, Philadelphia, 1876: to the International Medical Congress. Washington, 1883: vice-president of the International Congress of Tuberculosis, Washington, 1908: charter member of the Alpha Mu Pi Omega medical fraternity ; and honorary member of the Alpha Omega .Alpha fraternity.
Dr. Willard was never known to neglect any of the many offices and posi- tions he filled in his long and busy career. He was a voluminous contributor to medical literature and his book on the "Surgery of Childhood" represents the mature judgment of an exceedingly large and ripe experience in surgical practice. It is generally conceded that judgment is even more essential to a surgeen than perative skill, but Dr. Willard possessed both and added to a
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rare inherited and cultured judgment, a marvelous skill in surgical technique. Among the university students he was beloved because of his high ideals and the two great themes of his addresses to his graduating classes were "charac- ter building" and "faithful service." In his last public address, delivered three weeks before his death, at the opening of the one hundred and forty-fifth ses- sion of the Medical School. he concluded his discourse with these words. "Let me give you in conclusion just two mottoes to memorize, even if you forget all else of this hour --- surgically, be clean without, morally, be clean within."
Dr. Willard was married, in 1881, to Elizabeth M. Porter, a daughter of the Hon. William A. Porter, granddaughter of Governor D. R. Porter and great-granddaughter of General Andrew Porter. To them was born one son. Dr. DeForest Porter Willard.
Of ancient English lineage, Dr. Harry M. Armitage, of ARMITAGE Chester, is of the fourth American generation of his branch of the Armitages. He descends from George Armitage. who, born and married in England. came to the United States in 1840, set- tling in Pennsylvania. Ile died in Philadelphia about 1850. aged fifty years. He married Hannah Ibotson of English birth and reared a large family.
(I]) John, son of George and Hannah ( Ibotson) Armitage, was born in England in 1826, died in Richmond, Virginia, in 1909 (or 1911). He was a lad of fourteen years, when brought by his parents to the United States. where he led a long, useful and honorable business life. He resided in Phila- delphia, Maryland, Chester and Richmond, carrying on during his active life, a successful roofing business. He was for a long time engaged in business in Chester, as a contractor and manufacturer of roofing materials, first alone. then admitting his son. George Armitage. They finally dissolved, the father taking the Richmond branch of the business, moving there and continuing un- til his death in 1909. He married in 1853. Caroline Welch, born 1823, died August 15, 1802: children: George L. (of whom further) : Charles F. and William C., both now of Richmond, Virginia, where they continue the roofing business, established by their father.
(III) George L., eldest son of John and Caroline ( Welch) Armitage. was born in Hartford county, Maryland, August 2. 1855. In 1860 his parents moved to Chester, Pennsylvania, where he was educated in the public school. In 1871. he took a course and was graduated from Crittenden's Business Col- lege, becoming his father's assistant in the roofing business. Later he was ad- mitted a partner and for many years John Armitage & Son continned one of the successful contracting and manufacturing firms of Chester. They were manufacturers of building paper and roofing materials, also contractors for tin, slate and slag roofs of all sizes or dimensions. The firm enlarged their busi- ness by the establishment of a branch in Richmond, Virginia, where the elder Armitage moved in 1882. continuing as head of the Chester business until 1886, when the firm dissolved, George L. retaining the Chester business, his father taking the Richmond branch. George L. Armitage continued along the same lines until 1909, when he closed out in Chester and located in Savannah, Georgia, where he is now in successful business as a member of the Savannah Roofing Company. While in Chester, both he and his wife were active mem- bers of the Madison Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and in political faith he is a Republican.
Ile married, June 16. 1881. Mary W. Marshall. of Chester: chiklren : Mabel M .. engaged with the Delaware County Trust Company, of Chester :
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Harry Marshall (of whom further). and George L. (2), now a medical stu- dent.
(1\') Dr. Harry Marshall Armitage, eldest son of George L. and Mary W. (Marshall) Armitage, was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, May 11, 1886. He was educated in the Chester public schools, and is a graduate of the high school, class of 1904. During his vacations he worked with his father and be- came thoroughly familiar with all details of the roofing business. He decided- upon the profession of medicine, entered the medical department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, and received his degree of M. D., class of 1908. During the years 1908 and 1909, he was interne at Chester Hospital, then es- tablished in general practice at Chester, making, however, a specialty of sur- gical cases. Fle has taken post graduate courses at the University, where he has also been engaged as an instructor. He thoroughly understands the mod- ern treatment of disease, by medical or surgical means and has a well estab- lished, growing practice in the city of his birth. He is a member of the Amer- ican Medical, Pennsylvania State Medical and Delaware County Medical So- cieties, and of the H. C. Wood Medical Society of the University of Penn- sylvania, taking active interest in all and using them as a means of keeping in closest touch with all latest medical thought, discovery or experience. In 1900 he was elected pathologist at Chester Hospital and in 1912, a member of the surgical staff. Dr. Armitage is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Modern Woodmen of America, and maintains his home and offices at No. 400 East Thirteenth street, Chester. He is unmarried.
From Scotland, at an early date, came the ancestors of the Macks
MACK of this record, settling in Pennsylvania. William Mack, great- grandfather of Raesly S. Mack, of Chester, Pennsylvania, owned a farm on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware river, opposite Belorden. New Jersey, and an island in the river known as Mack's Island. He married Rachel Gulick, whose father was proprietor of a hotel near Winchester. Vir- ginia.
William (2) Mack, son of William (1) Mack, was born in Mount Bethel, Northampton county, Pennsylvania. August 2, 1806, died in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, March 16, 1892. He located at Richmond, Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in business as a carriage builder. He was a Democrat in poli- tics until 1861, then joined the Republican party, with which he was ever after- ward affiliated. Iu religious faith he was a member of the Methodist Episco- pal church. He married. March 22, 1832, at Easton, Pennsylvania, Rachel, daughter of William and Anna (Van Sickle) Everett and granddaughter of Asa and Sarah Everett and of James and Sarah Van Sickle, the latter of near Belvidere, New Jersey : children : Miriam Brown, born January 10. 1833. de- ceased : Sedgwick Rusling, born June 13, 1835, now living in Tranquility ; Hannah Everett, born December 8, 1836, died July 21, 1900: Mordecai Stokes, born November, 1838, deceased : Russell Little (of whom further ) ; Newton Heston, December 5, 1843: Eveline Raesly, born April 10. 1847, died in in- fancy : Robert Geary, born February 17, 1851, died in infancy.
Russell Little Mack, son of William (2) and Rachel ( Everett ) Mack, was born in Richmond, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1811. He learned the car- riage builder's trade, settled in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, where two of his children were born, then located in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. About 1870 he established the Wellsboro Carriage Works, which he conducted successfully for eighteen years. After an active busy life as a carriage builder and busi- ness man, he now lives in Wellsboro, retired. He is a member of the Metho-
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dist Episcopal church. Mr. Mack married in Philadelphia, January 2, 1870, Josephine Illrick, born at Richmond, Pennsylvania, July 22, 1845, daughter of Samuel and Harriet ( Kressler) Illrick of Richmond, granddaughter of Chris- topher and Susan ( Bradt) Illrick, both born in Germany; maternal grand- (laughter of Jolin and Mary ( Seidl ) Kressler : children: Minnie M., born in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, November 24, 1870, graduate of Dickinson Col- lege at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and later at the Massachusetts College of Osteo- pathy at Boston, now teacher in Dickinson Seminary at Williamsport, Penn- sylvania ; Edgar Illrick, born in Tunkhannock, August 25, 1872, now a book- keeper of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: James Bryant, born in Wellsboro, Oc- tober 22, 1875, now professor in the University at Oscaloosa, Iowa ; Everett William, born in Wellsboro, September 3, 1879, now a clothing merchant of Wellsboro, married May Smith, of Wellsboro; Raesly Seidl, of whom further ; Josephine Penelope, born in Wellsboro, September 22, 1884, resides at home. Dr. Raesly Seidl Mack, youngest son of Russell Little and Josephine (Illrick) Mack, was born in Wellsboro, Tioga county. Pennsylvania. Febru- ary 7, 1882. He was educated in the public schools and graduated from the high school at Wellsboro, class of 1900. He then entered the Massachusetts College of Osteopathy whence he was graduated class of 1902. He began practice in the same year and is well established in successful practice at No. 114 E. Broad street.
In politics he is an Independent and is an attendant of the Methodist Episcopal church. He belongs to the Masonic Order, affiliated with the Ches- ter Lodge No. 226. Free and Accepted Masons; Philadelphia Consistory, An- cient Accepted Scottish Rite, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree, and Lulu Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Philadelphia. His professional societies are the American, Pennsylvania State and Philadelphia County Os- teopathic Associations : his social club, the Penn of Chester. Dr. Mack is un- married.
Of the third generation of his family in the United States, COULTER David Coulter traces descent to James Coulter, the first of the family to make Delaware county his home.
James Coulter, born in county Donegal, Ireland, lived in Shoemakerville (now Irvington) Delaware county, where he died. He brought with him wife and children, the former Margaret McClay, dying in Chester at the great age of ninety-seven years. James Coulter worked in the Shoemakerville quarries all his life and reared his children to habits of industry and thrift. Children, all born in county Donegal, Ireland : James, born 1836, died in March, 1911, at Muncy, Pennsylvania, a successful manufacturer, president of the Murray Woolen Mills: Eliza, born 1837, now residing in Chester, unmarried; Thomas (see forward) : Robert, born 1841, deceased ; Lucy, born 1844, died in Ches- ter ; William, born 1846, a quarry superintendent for many years with Leiper and Lewis-now superintendent of a mine and quarry in Virginia.
Thomas Coulter, second son of James and Margaret ( McClay) Coulter, was born in county Donegal, Ireland, in 1839, died in Chester, Pennsylvania, February 20, 1902. Ile was but a boy when his parents came to Delaware county, Pennsylvania, where he attended school and worked in the quarries at Shoemakerville (Irvington) in his early manhood. When the war broke out between the states of the North and South, he enlisted in the Union army, serving three years, securing an honorable discharge at the close of his term of enlistment. After the war he settled in Chester and for thirteen years was proprietor of the William Penn Hotel, noted in that city. He married Ann
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Jane Creighton, born in Quebec, Canada, who survives him a resident of Ches- ter ; children : Margaret, married Adrian V. Covert, now residing at Richmond Hill, Long Island, sales agent for the American Agricultural Chemical Com- pany ; Adela R., married Rev. John W. Morgan, a minister of the Baptist church, now located at Madison, Wisconsin : Catherine B., resides in Chester with her widowed mother; Frank, now teacher of manual training in the Orange, New Jersey, high school, married Mary Thompson : Lydia C., mar- ried David G. Brown, who is connected with the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company, residing in Chester ; David (see forward).
David Coulter. youngest child of Thomas and Ann Jane ( Creighton) Coulter, was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, at the William Penn Hotel on Edgemont avenue. December 11, 1883. He was educated in the public schools of Chester, a graduate of the high school in 1900. In July of that year he entered the employ of the American Steel Casting Company, remaining with that corporation four years. In 1904 he accepted a position with the Chester Steel Casting Company and in 1906 returned to the old plant of the American Steel Casting Company, but operated then by their successor, the American Steel Foundries. During these years he had gained an intimate knowledge of the steel casting business and understood its details so well that in April. 1907. he formed in association with A. G. Lorenz, the Keystone Steel Casting Com- pany of which Mr. Coulter was secretary, treasurer and until September, 1911, also sales manager. He then retired from the company and became sales man- ager for the Taunton Crucible Company of Taunton, Massachusetts. In May. 1912, he returned to Chester and organized the Economy Iron Works Com- pany with Charles K. Shaw and William Dougherty, locating their plant at Fifth and Pusey streets, Chester. This company was organized for the pur- pose of manufacturing coal fired house heating boilers and gas fired steam boilers under the patents taken out by William Dougherty, the inventor. The company is prospering, the value of these boilers having been fully demon- strated in the short time they have been upon the market. The partners are men of practical, mechanical and executive ability and fully alive to modern methods of manufacture and sale. Mr. Coulter's experience covers both de- partments and he is fully capable of either executive or selling management. He is a young man of great energy and since leaving school at the age of sev- enteen years has been continuously employed in the steel business in some ca- pacity. He is an Independent in politics and a member of the Protestant Epis- copal church. He is unmarried.
WALKER
A descendant of a family long seated in England, Philip Walk- er is, with the single exception of his youngest brother, Abner. the only member of his family to seek a home in the United
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