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STEWART For over two centuries the Stewart family has been estab- lished in Pennsylvania. The English emigrant, John Stewart, founded the American branch. He came from England about 1670, landed in New York, and from there made his way into Delaware. After the founding of the colony of Pennsylvania by William Penn in 1675. he drifted to Philadelphia with several boon companions. Eventually he located in the province. married and reared a large family. Among his descendants was John Stewart, of whom further.
(I) John Stewart was born in Port Penn. Newcastle county, Delaware, where his family had been established for generations. He was a farmer and owned five hundred acres of fertile farming and wood land, and here he lived and died before reaching the prime of life. In his day he was prominent, and was looked up to by his neighbors. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married Rosana H. Cozens, like himself of a family who had long resided in Port Penn. They were the parents of five or six children, among whom was Homer C., of whom further.
(II) Homer C. Stewart, son of John and Rosana H. (Cozens) Stewart, was born January 24, 1840, in Port Penn, Newcastle county, Delaware, and died November 26. 1904, in Lansdowne, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. When a boy of four or five his father died and his mother married a Mr. Smith; and after receiving a preparatory education in the common schools of Delaware, he went to work at the age of sixteen. He was in the employ of a general mer- cantile store in St. George's. Delaware, where he remained for many years. At the outbreak of hostilities between the North and South, Mr. Stewart en- listed in Company A, Ninety-first Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, for three years, being discharged after one year for disability, induced by a long and severe attack of typhoid fever from which he recuperated with difficulty. At the close of the war he moved to Philadelphia, where he was engaged as an ex- pert bookkeeper for eight years. When he received the offer, he accepted the position of cashier on the Westchester and Media railroad, and then that of treasurer of the Baltimore Central Railroad Company, and these positions he held until the two roads with which he was connected, passed by purchase to
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the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. On looking around for an opening to establish a business of his own, he found it in the real estate business, then in its infancy, in Lansdowne. Mr. Stewart was the first and chief pioneer in this line of endeavor in Lansdowne, and it is largely due to his judicious advertis- ing. and handling of real estate, that the place grew by leaps and bounds from a village to its present proportions. He laid out a large tract of land, known as Lansdowne Park, into streets and lots, and placed them on the market for building purposes. He continued in this business until a short while before his death. Mr. Stewart built many homes on Lansdowne, Baltimore, Wind- mere and Stewart avenues, the latter avenue being named for him. In poli- tics he was a Republican, but he never held any office except that of town coun- cilman on one occasion, his time and attention being too deeply engrossed with his interests to divide it with politics. In religion he was a member of the Presbyterian church, and his wife of the Society of Friends. He was one of the most public spirited and influential men that Lansdowne has had. Always he was in the forefront on all questions pertaining to the welfare of Lans- downe, and he was unfailing in his efforts to help towards material prosperity and a larger population. In his death the citizens of the place felt that they had suffered an almost irretrievable loss.
Mr. Stewart married, in 1868, Margaret L. Hibberd, born in Upper Dar- by township, Delaware county, a daughter of Joseph and Emily Hibberd. Both were descended from old Quaker families, the progenitors of which came from England upon the invitation of William Penn in 1680, to Pennsylvania. Mr. Hibberd was a successful farmer and a large land owner. Children of Homer C. and Margaret L. (Hibberd) Stewart: 1. Helen, married Horace Hafleigh, and lives in Lansdowne; children, Homer and Horace. 2. Estelle C., married Henry W. Pratt.
ANDERSON The Anderson family herein recorded springs from James Anderson, an emigrant from Scotland, who married Eliza- beth Jerman, daughter of a Quaker preacher and thrifty miller. They settled in the Pickering valley, their farm bordering on Picker- ing creek in what is now Schuylkill township, Chester county, Pennsylvania. (II) Captain Patrick Anderson, son of James and Elizabeth (Jerman) Anderson, was born on the home farm on Pickering creek, July 24, 1719, died in 1793, and is buried in the yard of Valley Episcopal Church. When a babe he was occasionally left with a friendly Indian woman to be nursed while his mother visited her parents across the mountain. He was educated in Phila- delphia, and in early life taught a private school in his father's house. He became prominent in public life, became the owner of the farm, and at an early date built the saw mill that later was owned by his great-grandson, Dr. M. J. Pennypacker. Long before the revolution he had made himself influ- ential, and a letter is yet preserved, written by William Moore, of Hall, November 5, 1755, to William Allen, chief justice of the colony, recommending Patrick Anderson for a captaincy.
In the struggle that brought forth a nation, he bore a patriot's part. In 1774 he was a member of the Chester county committee, of which Anthony Wayne was chairman. In March, 1776, he was appointed by the assembly, senior captain of the Pennsylvania Battalion of Infantry, and though advanced in years accepted the honor and recruited a company. This battalion, under command of Colonel Samuel J. Atlee, fought with gallantry at the battle of Long Island, Captain Anderson's company losing heavily in killed and wounded. His friend and neighbor, Lieutenant-Colonel Caleb Parry, was
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killed by his side, and Colonel Atlee, having been captured, the command of the shattered battalion developed upon Captain Anderson. A letter from him to Benjamin Franklin, dated September 22, 1776, detailing the condition of the battalion, may be found in the Pennsylvania archives. At the capture of Fort Washington, all or nearly all of the company were taken prisoners, and on January, 1777, he made application for a lieutenant colonelcy, but does not appear to have received it. The company was reorganized and consolidated with other troops, and Captain Anderson placed in command of the first com- pany of the State Regiment of Foot, later commanded a company in the Thirteenth Pennsylvania Regiment of the Continental line. He was in the service in the fall of 1777, when the British passed through Chester county during the campaign for the possession of Chester. At his farm they wreaked special vengeance, destroying a great deal of furniture, also carrying off cattle and fowls to the value of three hundred and three pounds. A mirror, which had been part of the marriage portion of his dead wife, escaped and is still preserved in the Pennypacker family.
In October, 1778, he was elected a member of the assembly, and after a long contest obtained his seat in that body. He was reelected in 1779, 1780 and 1781, and as a member voted against all effort to abolish slavery in Ches- ter county, being himself a slave owner. In April, 1779, he wrote to the Council of Safety in regard to election of militia officers in Chester county, as conducted by Colonel Levi Gronow, and that election was declared null and void. In 1781 he was appointed by the assembly one of the board of com- missioners to provide for the navigation of the Schuylkill river.
Captain Anderson married (first) at Christ Church, Philadelphia, Decem- ber 22, 1748. Hannah Martin, who bore him Rebecca and Harriet. He mar- ried ( second) Elizabeth Morris, a granddaughter of John Bartholomew and sister of Colonels Edward and Benjamin Bartholomew. She bore him: Isaac, of whom further ; James and Elizabeth. He married (third) Ann Beaton, a sister of Colonel John Beaton, who bore him seven children.
(III) Hon. Isaac Anderson, son of Captain Patrick and his second wife, Elizabeth Morris Anderson, was born November 23, 1760, died October 27, 1838. When a boy he was a great favorite with the Indians, who yet frequented the valley of the Pickering and often accompanied them on their fishing and hunting trips. Though but a boy when the Revolution com- menced, he entered into it with all a boy's ardor and was one of the squad who visited and searched the house of William Moore, the Loyalist, looking for arms. In the fall of 1777, during the British invasion, he was lieutenant of a militia company that marched to Washington's assistance, and while the army lay at Valley Forge, he carried dispatches to and from the congress sit- ting at York. He was a Democrat, and after the war was appointed justice of the peace. From 1803 to 1807 he was representative in congress. In 1816 he was a presidential elector and at one time was prominently mentioned for governor. He was one of the earliest members of the Methodist Episcopal church in the state, he and his wife having been converted and admitted in 1780. He was very zealous in religious matters and was a local preacher. A history of Charlestown township written by him was published in "Potter's American Monthly" for January, 1875.
Isaac Anderson married Mary Lane, born in Providence township, now Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, May 22, 1762, daughter of Edward and Sarah ( Richardson ) Lane; granddaughter of Samuel Lane, of Providence, and great-granddaughter of Edward Lane, a son of William and Cecile (Love) Lane. of Bristol, England. The Lanes were early settlers of Plymouth town- ship and founders of St. James' Episcopal Church. Mary Lane was a great-
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great-granddaughter of Samuel Richardson, one of the earliest Philadelphia judges and provincial councilors ; also a great-great-granddaughter of Barbara Aubrey, a first cousin of the William Aubrey who married Letitia Penn, whose ancestor, Sir Reginald Aubrey, was one of the Norman conquerors of Wales in the twelfth century. Isaac Anderson was six feet four inches in height, a man of great muscular strength and equal firmness of character. Among his eleven children was Dr. James Anderson, who had three sons, also physicians, in fact Chester county has never since been without its Dr. Anderson.
(IV) Dr. Isaac (2) Anderson, son of Hon. Isaac and Mary (Lane) An- derson, was born in Schuylkill township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, died in Norristown, Pennsylvania, aged over seventy years. He was a practicing physician, eminent in his profession and a man of high standing in his com- munity. He married Mary Smith, born in Haverford township, Chester county, daughter of Benjamin and Margaret (Dunn) Smith. Benjamin Smith, a farmer, was of a prominent early Chester county family. Children of Dr. Isaac (2) Anderson: Benjamin Smith, of whom further; Elizabeth, now residing in Westchester, married (first) Washington Baldwin, (second) Wil- liam Fisher, also deceased; Charlotte, died unmarried; Samuel Lane, died in Bryn Mawr in 1907.
(V) Dr. Benjamin Smith Anderson, eldest son of Dr. Isaac (2) and Mary (Smith) Anderson, was born on the farm now a part of West Phila- delphia, in 1821, died in Marple township, Delaware county, in 1894. He was an eminent physician of Delaware county, practicing in Upper Darby, Haver- ford and Marple townships until his death. He married Julia, daughter of Lane Scofield, of Chester county, at one time commissioner of Philadelphia. Mrs. Anderson survives her husband and resides with her children, who all reside in Delaware, Daughin and Chester counties ; Children: I. Elizabeth H., resides in West Chester. 2. Edward Lane, M. D., born in 1857, died in De- cember, 1887. 3. Julia, married Jacob Stauffer, for the past twenty years a resident of Harrisburg, where he holds a state position. 4. Mary F., married George R. North, a farmer of Lyndell, Chester county. 5. B. Hayes S., now a real estate agent of Philadelphia, but a resident of Haverford township, Del- aware county. He was the owner of the old mill property in Haverford that had been in the family since 1682, but had been sold and out of the family for many years, until purchased by Mr. Anderson, who later sold it to the Spring- field Water Company, but retained part of the original acres. 6. Virginia D., resides in West Chester. 7. S. Lane, M. D., a practicing physician of Nottingham, Chester county, was born October 12, 1864, and in his youth attended the pub- lic school of Marple township and Hillcroft Academy. After a year in Ne- braska he returned to Delaware county and began the study of medicine at the Medico Chirurgical Hospital, whence he was graduated M. D. in 1892. After an association with that hospital and St. Clement's in Philadelphia, he located at Chadds Ford, where he was in successful practice for several years, later moving to his present location. He married, October 6, 1898, Julia, daughter of William T. and Sophia (Simmons) Porter, of Wilmington, Dela- ware. Children: S. Lane (2d), born December 1, 1902: Sophia Simmons, born May 18, 1904. 8. Nathan Garrett, of whom further. 9. Josephine W., married Dr. R. Knipe of Norristown.
(VI) Nathan Garrett, son of Dr. Benjamin Smith and Julia ( Scofield) Anderson, was born in Haverford township, Delaware county, October 24, 1866. He attended the public schools in Upper Darby until fourteen years of age, then began farming, working at that occupation until 1891. Since that date he has been successfully engaged in the lumber business, residing since
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1895 at Ridley Park. He is a Republican in politics and has served as audi- tor of Ridley township.
Mr. Anderson married. March 21. 1888, in Media, Pennsylvania, Annie Harrison Hill, born in Marple township, Delaware county, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Davis) Hill. both deceased. Peter Hill was a farmer and mill owner of Ridley township. Children: Esther Garrett, born in Upper Darby township. February 16. 1889, a graduate of Ridley High School : Beulah Bar- tleson, born in Springfield township, November 14, 1893.
ANDERSON Benjamin Hayes Smith Anderson, son of Dr. Benjamin S. (q. v.) and Julia (Scofield) Anderson, was born in Haver- ford township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, August 20, 1861. For a period of three years he was a pupil in the public schools of Marpie township. then completed his education in a private school conducted in Broomall township, Delaware county. Pennsylvania, by the Misses Hotchkins, and known as Mann's Seminary. He was graduated from this institution in 1892, and from that time was engaged in the milling business in Haverford township until 1904. In that year he established himself in the real estate bus- mess in the city of Philadelphia, and has been successfully identified with it since that time. He has, however, continued to reside in his beautiful home at Llanerch. Haverford township.
Mr. Anderson married, in 1887, Mary W., daughter of Maris W. and El- vira (Clark) Leedom, of Haverford township, where the former is engaged in milling. Children: Edward Lane, who holds a clerkship with the Real Es- tate Trust Company of Philadelphia; Benjamin Hayes Smith Jr., engaged in farming in Texas ; Elvira L., at home : Elizabeth P., also at home : Mary W., a pupil at the high school. Mr. Anderson is a strong Republican, and until very recent years was an active worker in the interests of that party. His fraternal affiliations consist of membership in the Cassia Lodge, No. 273, Free and Accepted Masons, of Ardmore, Pennsylvania.
Although a son of Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, Jolin Mil- LUTZ ton Lutz has since early youth been a resident of Delaware county, where he has achieved prominence in business and political life.
Mr. Lutz is a grandson of Adams Lutz, born in Pennsylvania, who mar- ried a Miss Bisbing and had children: Hiram, George Mahlon, Albert, Mary and Hannah. George Mahlon, the second son, married Mary Martha, a daugh- ter of Clement and Lavina Collom, and a few years later settled in Upper Darby township. Delaware county, where he was engaged in the butchering business until 1882. In that year he moved to Philadelphia, surrendering his business to his son. Children of George Mahlon and Mary M. Lutz: John Milton, of further mention ; Charles Hiram, who married Hettie Dermond and has a daughter, Myrtle ; Philip Melancthon.
John Milton, eldest son of George Mahlon and Mary M. (Collom) Lutz, was born in Three Tuns, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, October 18, 1857. He was educated in the public schools of West Philadelphia and Hestonville, and during his youth assisted his father in his meat market. After leaving school he continued in his father's employ, becoming familiar with every detail, and so well qualified was he that in 1882, on the removal of his father to Philadelphia, John MI. became his business successor. From 1882 until Jan- uary 1, 1899, he was successfully engaged in the meat business in Upper Darby township. On the latter date he sold out. Later he became one of the organ-
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izers of what is now the Clifton Heights National Bank, being named in the charter with other leading men of the county, and he is now its president, the successor of Mr. Henry T. Kent, its first president. He is also president of the West Philadelphia Bank, No. 36 South Fifty-second street.
Mr. Lutz is a Republican in politics, and has given much of his time to the public service. For thirty years he served on the school board of Upper Darby township; was seven years its treasurer, and thirteen years secretary of the board. In 1905. he was elected director of the poor for Delaware county, serving two years. In 1907 he was elected to the State Legislature, serving with credit one term. He has been for seven years chairman of the executive committee of Delaware county. Mr. Lutz is a member of the Baptist church, and of several of the fraternal societies of the county, among them being the Masonic order, belonging to lodge, chapter, commandery of Knights Templar, and to the Mystic Shrine, and the Odd Fellows order.
Mr. Lutz married, April 25, 1883, Mary Jane, daughter of Patrick and Esther ( Chambers ) Dermond; children : Lavina M., Howard M., and Mary M. The family resides on the Westchester road, between Llanerch and the Sixty-ninth street terminal, the old homestead.
BOWERS On the north side of the Baltimore Pike, between Morton and Swarthmore, is situated the beautiful old home of the late Mrs. P. Pemberton Morris, who purchased it from Mrs. Henry Og- den in 1893. It contains about ten acres, is one of the best known places in Delaware county and is remarkable for its fine old trees. It is now owned by Mrs. Morris' daughter, Miss Virginia Roberts Bowers, whose city residence is at No. 1818 Pine street, Philadelphia.
BOND Among the well known and enterprising dairymen and fruit grow- ers of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, is Lewis H. Bond, whose family has been active in this field for a number of generations. Harmon B. Bond. his grandfather, was born in Frazer. Chester county, Penn- sylvania, in 1800, and died tliere at the age of eighty-one years. His business activities were of a threefold nature, as he was occupied as a miller, a farmer and a dairyman. He was a strong supporter of the Republican party, and an earnest member of the Episcopal church. He married Martha J. Gray, and had children: Benjamin J. (see forward) ; Harmon B., and Sarah J., who married William Rogers.
Benjamin J., son of Harmon B. and Martha J. (Gray) Bond, was born in Frazer, Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1830, and died in June, 1913. He was the owner of one hundred and ten acres of land in Chester county, which he cultivated for general farming and dairy purposes. In political matters he was a Republican, and in religious, an Episcopalian. He married Margaret, daughter of Charles and Margret Jane Coulter, and had children, all now liv- ing, as follows: Harmon, Darlington; Lewis H. (see forward) ; Winfield, Harvey, Martha, William.
Lewis H., son of Beniamjn J. and Margaret (Coulter) Bond, was born in Frazer, Chester county, Pennsylvania, May 21, 1859. He attended the public schools of his native township, receiving what was then considered a sound, practical education. Even while he attended school his spare time was devoted to assisting his father in the labors of the farm, and upon the comple- tion of his education all of his time was devoted to such occupations. He be- came thoroughly familiar with all the details of farm and dairy work, and at
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the age of twenty-one years, established himself independently. Then for a period of twenty-eight years he conducted a dairy successfully at Philadelphia. In June, 1910, he purchased fifty-eight acres of land at Newtown Square, Delaware county. Pennsylvania, this property having been known as the Pratt farm since the days of William Penn. The house still standing on it was erected in 1735. Mr. Bond has become greatly interested in fruit culture, and has set out several hundred young peach trees; he will undoubtedly have one of the finest peach orchards, in the course of time, in this region.
Mr. Bond married, in 1888, Emma J., daughter of Joseph Frame, of West Chester, Pennsylvania. They have one child: Harvey, born in February, 1889. He received a fine education in the Philadelphia schools, and is now a motor- cycle mechanic.
Edward Nathan Grimm Davis, one of the younger generation of DAVIS business men who have done so much to increase the prosperity of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, is a worthy representative of the Davis family, which has been noted for some generations for the business acumen displayed by its members.
Edward Davis, his grandfather, was born in Delaware county, Pennsyl- vania, and was active in the agricultural circles of that section of the country. He married Drucilla Gardner, and had children : William Thomas (see for- ward) ; Susanna R., deceased ; Henry G., deceased; Kezia G .: George L., de- ceased : Edith A., Hannah T., deceased.
William Thomas, son of Edward and Drucilla (Gardner) Davis, was born in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, August 13, 1830. His early education was acquired in his native township in the public schools, and this was sup- plemented by a course in the boarding school of Jonathan Gause, at Greenwood, Chester county. He then returned to the farm of his father and assisted in its management until the death of his father, which occurred in 1854. He continued farming for about eighteen months, then engaged in the cattle drov- ing business. In 1856 he rented the Grubb farm, consisting of about two hundred acres in Chester county, and managed this very successfully until 1866, when he disposed of his interest. He removed to Newtown Square, where he carried on his business as a drover for the period of one year, then bought a hotel, which he conducted personally until 1897, and of which he is still the proprietor, although it is under other management. Another line of business with which he was successfully identified was that of auctioneering, and he still carried on his business as a drover. He is indeed a man of many sided business ability. He retired from active business pursuits in 1897 and erected the handsome residence in which he now lives, this being equipped with every modern convenience. In addition he is the owner of thirty-seven acres of land in Newtown township. In politics Mr. Davis is a Republican, and has very ably filled the office of supervisor, and has also acted for one term as auditor. Mr. Davis married, in 1879, Sarah J., a daughter of John and Hannah (Thomas) Kirk. They have had one son.
Edward Nathan Grimm. son of William Thomas and Sarah J. (Kirk) Davis, was born in Newtown Square, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, October 20, 1880. He was the recipient of a very comprehensive education, this con- sisting of attendance first at the public schools of Newtown Square, then at West Chester, next the St. Luke's School at Bustleton, and lastly two years were spent at Swarthmore College. For about seven years Mr. Davis was engaged in the lumber and coal business. Having become interested in the real estate business. he established himself as a real estate broker, with the usual
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side lines, and is now successfully identified with that. Like his father, he sup- ports the Republican party, and for the past eight years he has been a mem- ber of the order of Free and Accepted Masons. He and his wife attend ser- vices at the Episcopal church.
Mr. Davis married, in 1906, Amelia, a daughter of Horatio Lavender. They have two children: Elizabeth L., born in 1908, and William Thomas, born in 1911.
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