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George Heyburn was born in New Castle, county Durham, England, Janu-
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ary 6, 1692. He married Mary Watson, of Wickham, in the same county, May 26, 1718.
George (2) Heyburn, son of George (1) Heyburn, was born in England in 1732, settled in the state of Delaware, became an officer in the English and Colonial army and was killed during the Pontiac war at Bloody Run, in western Pennsylvania, April 14. 1764. He married Mary Rudolph, but was killed soon afterward.
George (3) Heyburn, only son of George (2) and Mary (Rudolph) Hey- burn, was born on the Heyburn homestead in the state of Delaware, January 15. 1765, a posthumous child. died April 17, 1833. He spent his life on the Heyburn estate, now part of the city of Wilmington, and in Birmingham town- ship, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, where he also owned a farm. He mar- ried Elizabeth Burgess. Children: Sarah, married Amasa Baker; John, mar- ried Letitia Brinton : Elizabeth. married Robert Bullock ; Ann. married Thomas Bullock : George, of whom further : Susan, married Ely Seal; Mary, married James Twaddell.
George (4) Heyburn, son of George (3) and Elizabeth ( Burgess) Hey- burn, was born at the Birmingham township farm in Delaware county, Penn- sylvania, September 9, 1800, and after a life spent in the cultivation of his own acres in Birmingham, died in September, 1878. George (4) Heyburn was a Whig in politics, later becoming a Republican. He was a member of the Society of Friends, inheriting a birthright in the meeting from his father, grandfather and great-grandfather. the Heyburns having been Friends from the first settler. He married Rachel Brinton, died October 15, 1857, daughter of Edward and Letitia (Dilworth) Brinton, a descendant of one of the old Quaker families of Delaware county. Children: Edith, married Wesley Matson; John Brinton, of whom further : Letitia, married Menander Slack; Phoebe, married William Gamble : Anna, married William Dutton : Elizabeth, married Sharpless Dutton ; William, died unmarried, a soldier of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, died of wounds in 1862; Emma, married Joseph B. Clayton, she is the last survivor and now resides on South Walnut street, West Chester, Pennsylvania : George Edward, married Sarah A. Smith.
John Brinton Heyburn, eldest son of George (4) and Rachel (Brinton) Heyburn, was born at the Brinton homestead in Birmingham township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, February 14. 1826, died at Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, February 14, 1873. He was educated under private tutors and spent his life on the estate inherited from his father. He served as commissioner of Dela- ware county and during the civil war was recruiting officer at Chadds Ford, his own services as a soldier having been refused by the examining surgeon on account of blindness of one eve. He was a Whig until the formation of the Republican party, with which he was ever afterward affiliated. He adhered to the family religious faith and was an honored member of the Society of Friends. He married Sarah Gilpin. died at Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, May 5, 1912, daughter of John Dickinson Gilpin, born October 22, 1799, in New Garden township. Chester county, Pennsylvania, and his wife, Sarah (Taylor) Gilpin, born in Thornbury. Chester county, Pennsylvania, April 6, 1799. Children : Hannah. died unmarried: Rebecca, died unmarried ; Ann. married Weldon Brinton : Gideon, married Eliza Heyburn, and now resides in St. Joseph, Mis- souri, the last survivor of this family of Gilpin children; Sarah, married John Brinton Heyburn, of previous mention ; Elizabeth, died aged three years. Chil- dren of John Brinton and Sarah Heyburn: Gideon, born June 4, 1850, died unmarried : Georgianna, born April 27. 1851, married, October 29. 1873, J. Wesley Batting ; Weldon Brinton, of whom further; Elwood Michiner, born
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August 2, 1853, married, December 1, 1874, Miranda Carver ; Rebecca Gilpin, born January 25, 1856, died in infancy ; Marie, born December 22, 1859, mar- ried, February 26, 1880, Henry C. Marshall; William, born August 17, 1861, married, January 7, 1891, Julia Barrett.
Weldon Brinton Heyburn, second son and third child of John Brinton and Sarah (Gilpin) Heyburn, was born at Chadds Ford, Delaware county, Pennsyl- vania, May 23, 1852, died in Washington, D. C., October 17, 1912. His early life was spent on the homestead farm in Birmingham township and his primary and preparatory education obtained under private tutors and at Shortlidge's Maplewood Academy. He studied law in the office of Edward A. Price, Media, and at the University of Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1876. He began practice at Media, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, but soon afterward moved west, locating and practicing law for a time at Leadville, Colo- rado, thence going to Idaho, ever afterward the scene of his great activity. He first went to Idaho in 1883, and in the early part of the year 1884 settled perma- nently in Shoshone county, that state, in the Coeur d' Alene mining district. He was attorney for the Union Pacific and the Oregon & Washington Railroad companies, but his special line of legal practice was mining law, although his years of practice covered every branch of the profession. He was admitted to the supreme courts of the western and northwestern states, the United States district and circuit courts and the supreme court of the United States. He was a learned and able lawyer, winning a fame that was national. His practice was very large and important in its character, and he won position at the bar and a name throughout the state that gave him a strong personal following.
From his first entrance into Idaho he took an active interest in politics and reached a point of prominence that caused the Republican leaders of the nation to seek his advice and counsel. He was a member of the constitutional conven- tion that met in Boise in the summer of 1889, participated in all the deliberations of the convention, served as chairman of the committee on judiciary and on other important committees. He did not surrender to the free silver wave that swept over the west in 1898, but although not a candidate for the office, suffered himself to be nominated as the gold Republican candidate for congress in order to hold the party together, going down to defeat through the fusion of the "free silver" factions of all the parties. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1888, 1892, 1900 and 1904, serving as national committeeman from Idaho from 1904 until 1908. In 1903 he was elected by the legislature of Idaho to the United States senate, receiving every Republican vote in joint assembly and was reelected in 1909. Upon entering the senate he was made chairman of the committee on manufactures, which had charge of the pure food and drug legislation. The pure food bill, under his direction, was pressed forward in the fifty-eighth congress, but a vote was not reached. During the interval between the fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth congresses, Senator Heyburn gave the subject of pure food legislation careful thoughit and study. He com- pletely rewrote the bill, which had been formerly proposed, eliminated the prin- ciple of the establishment of standard by legislation, also struck out the pro- visions for the establishment of a board to fix arbitrary standards that would be binding upon the courts, leaving the question of the violation of the general rules laid down in the act to be determined by the courts. He drew the bill on these principles, introduced it at the beginning of the fifty-ninth congress, and saw it become a law before the session closed. This is conceded to be one of the most important pieces of legislation at any time enacted by congress.
Senator Hevburn was consistently opposed to the joint admission of Ari- zona and New Mexico to statehood and on two occasions defeated the joint
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statehood bill for their admission to the Union of states. On both occasions the vote was a tie ; his being the last vote cast and in the negative. He was not opposed to, but on the contrary always favored the admission of all the terri- tories to statehood, but always opposed the consolidation of any of the terri- tories for admission, on the ground that such a consolidation would eliminate geographical divisions in a way that would reduce the representation of the west in the United States senate.
He always favored free pasturage on the public domain, and while strongly in favor of protecting forests against destructive waste, opposed the policy of permanent ownership by the government of forest lands within the states or withdrawing such lands from settlement and home-making. He opposed the aggregation of large holdings of timber or other lands by individuals or corpora- tions, believing that their products can best find way into the markets through the custom mills and small holdings. The question of public lands and forest reserves he discussed from the standpoint of interest to the people of his state. He admitted that government lands in Idaho belonged to all the people of the United States, but contended that they must come to Idaho, become citizens, participate in its government and contribute to the maintenance of the state in order to get the use of public lands for grazing, timber or other personal use. His speeches on the subject are especially noteworthy and able. He secured the enactment of a number of laws of special benefit to the mining agricultural and commercial interests of Idaho and consistently stood for the protective tariff policy of the Republican party. He was chairman of the joint committee of the two houses of congress on revision of the laws of the United States, a most laborious task, as the laws had not been revised since 1878. His senatorial career was a most creditable one and from whatever standpoint the career of Senator Heyburn be viewed, it will only redound to his honor. He was a learned and able lawyer, a wise, patriotic and far-seeing statesman and ever loyal to the state that gave him the opportunity to prove his worth. He was a prominent member of the Masonic order, holding the thirty-second degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and was a Master Mason, Royal Arch Mason and Knight Templar of the York Rite. He was also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine and an honorary member of many posts of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Senator Heyburn married, August 12, 1903, Gheretein, daughter of John Marshall and Lavinia ( Passmore ) Yeatman.
HINKSON The Hinksons have been a prominent Delaware county family since 1765, when John Hinkson, his wife and son Thomas came from Cavan, an inland county of Ireland, lying in the province of Ulster. He was of German ancestry, although several generations of the family had lived in Ireland, planted there by three brothers from Han- over, Germany, shortly after the year 1600. Jolin and his wife settled in Upper Providence township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, where they resided on a farm and reared a family of seven in addition to the son brought from Ireland. Children : Thomas, married - Worrilow ; John, of whom further ; George, married Catherine Fairlamb : James, married Elizabeth Crossley ; Jane, married Thomas D. Weaver ; Mary, died unmarried ; Sarah, married William Hawkins; Nancy, married Joseph Dickinson. From John and Jane Hinkson spring the different Hinkson families of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Illinois and other states.
John (2) Hinkson, son of John ( I) and Jane Hinkson, was born in Upper Providence, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, and became a farmer of Lower
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Providence. He married, in 1784, Abigail, daughter of Frederick Engle, of Chester. Children who reached mature years: I. Jane, married Ambrose Smed- ley, a farmer of Middletown township, and died in 1873, in her eighty-ninth year. 2. Ann, married David Baker, a carpenter and builder of Middletown township. 3. John, of whom further. 4. Mary, married Abraham Hamor, of Middletown, later of Hamorton, Chester county. 5. Joseph, a carpenter and builder ; married Ann, a daughter of Samuel Black, of Marple. 6. Orpha, mar- ried Jacob Evans, of Upper Providence, later of Chester township. 7. Fred- erick James, a teacher, clerk, cashier and president of the Bank of Delaware County, Chester, entering that bank in 1828, resigning from ill health ; the bank is now the Delaware County National Bank ; he was for twenty years treasurer of the borough of Chester, also treasurer of the first building and loan associa- tion in Chester, organized 1850; in 1856 was elected county judge, and resigned before his term expired; was poor director and jury commissioner ; he married, in 1837, Hannah H. Brobson. 8. Edward Engle, a carpenter and builder, and the first building inspector of the city of Chester ; he married Sarah, a daughter of Samuel Shanter, of Chester.
John (3) Hinkson, son of John (2) and Abigail (Engle) Hinkson, was born in Upper Providence, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, in 1790, died there in 1844. He became a prosperous farmer and one of the prominent public men of his day. He was a Democrat in politics and was steward of the county infirmary ; sheriff of the county ; member of the house of assembly ; prothono- tary of the county ; clerk of the county and register of wills, serving his county long and faithfully. He married (first) Jemima, daughter of Joseph Worrall, of Upper Providence. He married (second) Orpha, daughter of Joseph Naide, of Chester township.
Joseph H. Hinkson, eldest son of John (3) Hinkson by his first wife, was born in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, in 1817, died in Chester in 1854. He was a prosperous farmer, later moving to Chester, where he engaged in the coal and lumber business. He was a strong Democrat and served as treasurer of Delaware county. In religious faith he was a Presbyterian. He married, in 1840, Lydia Ann, daughter of Edward and Mary Edwards, a family of Welsh descent and one of the oldest in Delaware county. Children: John Baker, of whom further; Edward E., Mary E., Lizzie E., Samuel E., Persifor H., Joseph H.
John Baker Hinkson, eldest son of Joseph H. and Lydia Ann (Edwards) Hinkson, was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, October 2, 1840, died there May 22, 1901. He was educated in Chester public school and academy, later entering Lafayette College, whence he was graduated with honors, class of 1860. He chose the profession of law and pursued his study under the able preceptorship of John M. Broomall until his admission to the Delaware county bar in August, 1863. He at once began practice in all state and federal courts of the district and became a leading member of the bar. He transacted business with a large clientele and was held in the highest esteem by his brethren of the bar and townsmen. He was an ardent Democrat and a power in party councils. He often served in the city council; was a frequent delegate to county and state conventions, and in 1893 was elected mayor of Chester by a substantial major- ity, although his party ticket went down in defeat. He was an eloquent advo- cate and frequently gave his party his services "on the stump," always delight- ing and perhaps convincing his audience with his oratory. His administration of the mayor's office was strictly an efficient business one and is on record as unparalleled in point of usefulness, economy and advancement of the public
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interest. He was a devoted Presbyterian and for many years was an eler and trustee of the Third Church of Chester.
Mr. Hinkson married, May 16, 1864, Kate W., youngest daughter of John A. and Sarah Jane ( Warrington ) Caldwell. of Chester. Children: Joseph H., an attorney-at-law, residing in Chester; John Caldwell, of whom further; Alfred H., died aged eighteen years; Ridgely Graham, became a mining super- intendent of Denver county ; Mary Edwards.
John Caldwell Hinkson, second son of John Baker and Kate W. (Cald- well) Hinkson, was born in Chester, Pennsylvania. He began the practice of his profession in Chester and is well established as a learned and skillful lawyer. He is attorney and vice-president of the Delaware Trust, Safe Deposit & Title Insurance Company, and has other important business interests.
HAILMAN The Hailmans first came to Chester county, Pennsylvania, in the persons of two brothers, one of whom remained there, the other going to Virginia, where he established in business as a hatter. He took a load of hats from his factory to Richmond, Virginia, sold them, and on his way home was waylaid and murdered for the sake of obtaining the money he was known to have received from the sale of the hats.
Benjamin Franklin Hailman, son of the emigrant, was a resident of Au- gusta county, Virginia ; was a manufacturer of pottery at Cherry Grove ; manu- facturing earthenware of various kinds. He was justice of the peace in Cherry Grove and no man was held in higher esteem than Squire Hailman. He mar- ried, had an only son, Jacob Luther, and three daughters: Catherine, married John T. F. Allemong ; Augusta, married Frank Mayers, of Middletown, Vir- ginia, a merchant, who died 1913: Mattie, married S. D. McCommon, a mer- chant of Port Republic, Virginia. Mrs. McCommon died 1913; her husband, who survives, resides at Davis, West Virginia.
Jacob Luther Hailman, son of Benjamin Franklin Hailman, was born in Cherry Grove, Augusta county, Virginia, in 1841, now a resident of Vienna, Virginia. He was educated in Roanoke College. He left college when war broke out between the states, joining the cavalry, forming a part of the army of Stonewall Jackson. He rode with that famous general until his death at Chan- cellorsville, then other commanders served until the final surrender. He came through the perils of war unscathed, but had many thrilling adventures and escapes, losing several horses in battle, but himself escaping. After the war closed he engaged in general merchandising until 1881, then in the real estate business until 1898, now living retired at Vienna, Virginia. He is a Democrat in politics ; is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Lutheran church.
He married Elizabeth Virginia Shuey, born in Swoop, Virginia, daughter of George Washington (2) and Sarah Elizabeth Shuey, and a granddaughter of Captain George Washington Shuey, an officer of the war of 1812 and a descendant of the Virginia family of Shuey, owners of thousands of acres of land, farmers and famed fox hunters. Sarah Elizabeth survived her husband and now ( 1913) resides in Rock Island, Illinois. Children: Harriet, born 1869, died aged twenty-one years; George Frank, of whom further; Clifton, born 1873. never heard from since leaving Los Angeles in 1906; Katie, born 1875, died aged sixteen ; Dr. Hubert Victor, born 1877, now physician to the Indians on the government reservation at Schurz, Nevada ; Eugene, born 1879, 110w with the Singer Sewing Machine Company in Chester. unmarried; John Alle- mong, born 1882, graduate of Robinson College, Washington, D. C., a veteri- nary surgeon.
George Frank Hailman, son of Jacob Luther and Elizabeth Virginia
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(Shuey) Hailman, was born at Cherry Grove, Augusta county, Virginia, in 1871, his father then being engaged in mercantile business in Newport, Virginia. He was educated under the tuition of his aunt, Catherine Shuey, obtaining a good English education. The family next moved to Staunton, Virginia, where he took a course in Dunsmore's Business College. He lived in Staunton until 1885, then became clerk for his uncle, S. D. McCommon, a merchant near Port Republic, Rockingham county, remaining until 1887. He then joined his father in the real estate business in Florence, Alabama, remaining for two years, thence in the same business at Front Royal until 1892, also with his father. In 1892 he enlisted in Company H, Eighth Regiment United States Cavalry, but served for only a short time. He was next with the Eckington and Belt railways in Washington, D. C., as conductor until 1895, when he was promoted station clerk, later promoted to a clerkship in the main office, became assistant cashier, and finally cashier of the company. The road passed into the hands of a receiver in 1896 and Mr. Hailman was compelled to begin again the fight for promotion with another company. He obtained a situation with the Metropoli- tan railway ; became inspector and later a superintendent, continuing until 1907. From 1907 to 1911 he was connected with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. In 1911 he came to Delaware county, Pennsylvania, as superintendent of the Chester division of the Southern Pennsylvania Traction Company and so continues. He thoroughly understands the details of successful railway operation and has been instrumental in building up better conditions in Chester, holding the good will and respect of his subordinates and the entire confidence of his superiors in office. He is an independent in politics, usually has acted with the Democratic party, but supported President Taft in both his campaigns. He is a member of Ridley Heights Building & Loan Association ; the Mutual Guarantee & Loan Association of Philadelphia, and the Chester Building & Loan Association. He is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to Har- mony Lodge, No. 17, Free and Accepted Masons, of Washington, D. C .; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 488, of Chester, Pennsylvania ; the Blue Rock Gun Club, of Chester, Pennsylvania; the Wilmington & Phila- delphia and Southern Pennsylvania Traction Companies' Employees' Gun Club ; president of the Employees' Relief Association of Wilmington & Philadelphia Traction Company and Southern Pennsylvania Traction Company ; member of Chester Club ; Commodore Employees' Boat Club, Southern Pennsylvania Trac- tion Company ; and a member of the Chester Board of Trade.
FARNUM J. Edward Farnum, of Media, where he has spent his entire lifetime, a veteran of the Spanish-American war, was born in Media, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, May 2, 1869, son of J. Edward Farnum, born May 1, 1833, died May 13, 1884. In early life he was interested in the dry goods commission business, later a financier, conservative in his methods, attaining a large degree of success. He married Eliza Leiper Smith, born March 27, 1847, died February 12, 1912, who bore him two chil- dren : J. Edward and George Leiper. Mrs. Farnum was a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth C. (Leiper) Smith, granddaughter of Thomas Mifflin Smith, born at Darby, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, and great-granddaughter of Thomas Smith. a native of Darby, who married a Miss Mifflin, daughter of ex-Governor Mifflin, of Pennsylvania. Elizabeth C. (Leiper) Smith was a daughter of Judge Leiper, a son of Thomas Leiper, the immigrant ancestor, who came from Scotland in 1755 and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
J. Edward Farnum Jr. obtained his early educational training in private schools, and pursued advanced studies at Princeton College. from which institu-
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tion he graduated in the class of 1890 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Mr. Farnum has not engaged in any line of business, but has lived the life of a coun- try gentleman on his beautiful estate near Media, the grounds being laid out in a most attractive manner with all kinds of shrubbery and flowers of every descrip- tion, the residence commodious and beautiful, equipped with everything needful for the comfort of its inmates, and his collection of art treasures is considered the finest in Delaware county, he being particularly proud of this possession. During the Spanish-American war he displayed his patriotism by enlisting in the First City Troop of Cavalry of Philadelphia, in which he served two months, and later was promoted to the ranks of captain and assistant quartermaster on General Lawton's staff in Cuba, and served until the cessation of hostilities. His religious affiliation is with the Protestant Episcopal church, and his political allegiance is given to the Independent party. He holds membership in the Rittenhouse Club and the Philadelphia Country Club. He is a man of many sterling characteristics, with a high standard of citizenship and with social qualities which render him popular with his circle of friends.
Although a native of New York, Dr. Charles H. Schoff is a med- SCHOFF ical graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and for the past eighteen years has been intimately associated with Delaware county as a successful practitioner of his profession.
Charles H. Schoff was born in New York City, April 20, 1872, son of Peter and Julia (Manahan) Schoff, the former a prosperous wholesale dealer in dry goods in New York until his death in 1910, the result of a street railway acci- dent. His wife survives him, a resident of New York City.
Dr. Schoff was educated in the public schools of New York and at St. John's College, a graduate of the latter institution, Bachelor of Arts, class of 1889. He then accepted a position as draughtsman at the Cambria Iron Works in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, continuing there for eight years, but in the mean- time taking the medical course at the University of Pennsylvania, working in the drafting room during the summer months and for sometime after graduation. He was graduated, Doctor of Medicine, class of 1893, winning additional honors on the athletic field, and captaining the university baseball team that lowered the colors of both Princeton and Harvard. After graduation he spent two years as resident physician at the University Hospital, and in 1895 established in private practice in Media, where he has a large general practice, specializing in surgical cases. In 1911 he established the Media Hospital, a private institution, but open to all and maintaining also a "free"ward. For this purpose he pur- chased and has rebuilt the old Morrell mansion at the corner of Providence road and Washington street, Media, which he has equipped with every modern appliance and sanitary antiseptic arrangement that can be obtained to insure proper treatment of surgical cases. In 1911 he visited Europe, spending con- siderable time in the hospitals of Germany and France, before finishing the equipment of his own hospital at Media.
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