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taking an enthusiastic interest in every pro- gressive movement toward building up and developing the village and its various indus- tries. The residents of Wayne are a unit in their claim that the means employed by the promoters of the town, under Mr. Smith's directions, have already made it the most magnificent country place to be found in this part of Pennsylvania, if not in the entire country.
On September 28, 1875, Mr. Smith was united by marriage to Mary Elizabeth Moore, a daughter of Outerbridge Horsey Moore, of the city of Philadelphia. To Mr. and Mrs. Smith has been born one son, Wallace Neville, who is in his fifteenth year. Outerbridge H. Moore, father of Mrs. Smith, was the first engineer to run an engine burning coal over the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore railroad. After he was injured in on accident on that road he was made station master at the old Broad Street depot, and superinten- dent of the Southwark railway. The Moores were closely related to the Robins and Spence families, of Maryland. Capt. George Wales Moore, grandfather of Mrs. Smith, served with distinction in the Mexican war, and her great uncle, Outerbridge Horsey, for whom her father was named, was a member of Con- gress from Delaware during President Madi- son's administration.
In his political affiliations Frank Smith is a republican, and in religion an Episcopalian. He is a member of the vestry of St. Mary's Memorial Episcopal church, of Wayne, and one of the charter members of Wayne Lodge, No. 581, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is now past master. He has been a direc- tor in the Wayne Title and Trust Company since its organization in 1890, and for several years a director, and for three years president, of the Wayne Country club. While living in Philadelphia Mr. Smith was one of the leading promoters and organizers of the now famous Five O'clock club of that city. It is one of the finest social organizations in the city, and
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in its membership are included many of the best men of Philadelphia. Upon the formal organization of this club Mr. Smith was made secretary, and continued to hold that office until his removal to Wayne, when the club presented him with a costly tea service in rec- ognition of his successful labors on its behalf.
H ARRY S. RILEY, a leading young plumber of the city of Chester, who also owns a general hardware store here, was born August 7, 1865, in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is a son of James and Sarah (Smith) Riley. The Rileys are of English ex- traction, and were for many generations na- tives of Yorkshire, where James Riley, pater- nal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born and reared. After reaching manhood he came to the United States, and finally set- tled at Annapolis, Maryland, where his chil- dren were born. Later he removed to Mana- yunk, Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in the manufacture of cloth for a number of years, dying in 1882, at the age of eighty-three. He was a whig in politics, and an exemplary citi- zen, though he never connected himself with any branch of the church. By his marriage to Anna Ingraham he had a family of four children : Benjamin, a retired designer, now living at Roxborough, near Philadelphia ; Ellen, who married a Philadelphia designer, named This Holmes, and is now deceased ; Maria, wedded Ehner S. Amos, a millwright by trade ; and James. James Riley (father) was born at Annapolis, January 26, 1834, educated in private schools, and afterward learned the trade of loom fixer, which he followed nearly all his life. He was a resident of Chester, this county, for many years, and died at his home in this city January 6, 1882, in the forty- seventh year of his age. Politically he was a republican, and in religion a member of the Baptist church. He was also connected with the Knights of Pythias, and his funeral was conducted by members of that order. In 1855
he married Sarah Smith, a daughter of Charles Smith, of Philadelphia, and by that union had a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters : Emma, deceased ; Susan, Charles, Benjamin, Harry S., whose name heads this sketch; Maggie, now deceased; Lizzie, who became the wife of Frank Wolf ; and William. Mrs. Sarah Riley was a native of Philadelphia, and is still living. Her grandfather, John Smith, was a veteran of the Revolutionary war, an extensive farmer, and lived in the city of Phil- adelphia. He reared a family of seven chil- dren, four sons and three daughters, one of his sons being Charles Smith (father of Mrs. Riley ), who became a quarryman and operated several large quarries near Blockley, a suburb of Philadelphia, where he resided until his death in 1869, aged sixty-six years. He mar- ried Elizabeth Bush and had two children : Sarah, who married James Riley and became the mother of Harry S. Riley; and Charles S., living in Philadelphia.
Harry S. Riley was reared principally in the city of Chester, where he obtained an excel- lent English education in the public schools, and after leaving school learned the trade of weaver. He soon found that occupation un- congenial, however, and abandoned it to learn the plumbing business with S. C. Turner, of Chester. For a period of eight years he re- mained in the employ of Mr. Turner, after completing his apprenticeship, and then em- barked in the plumbing business on his own account, in partnership with Horace Larkin, under the firm name of Larkin & Riley. This partnership continued for the space of one year, after which, in 1890, Mr. Riley purchased his partner's interest, and has since conducted the enterprise in his own name. He has met with the most gratifying success, and now car- ries on a general plumbing business in all its branches, employing four men and having a large and lucrative patronage, chiefly among the leading citizens of Chester. In connec- tion with this business Mr. Riley also runs a general retail hardware store, which is
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meeting with much success and supplying large quantities of hardware to builders, contractors and the general public. By the crucial test of actual experience he has demonstrated his ability as a practical plumber and as a business man, and the success he has won is due en- tirely to his own industrious habits and his sound judgment in the management of busi- ness affairs.
In political sentiment Mr. Riley adheres to the traditions of his family, and has always been a stanch republican and protectionist. He is a member and trustee of the First Baptist church ; a member of Chester Castle, No. 29, Knights of the Golden Eagle ; and of Wash- ington Camp, No. 42, Patriotic Order Sons of America, also of Chester. He is unmarried.
N ATHAN STANDISH FRAZIER.
the popular manager of Armour & Co.'s beef market in the city of Chester, and a de- scendant of Capt. Miles Standish, who came over in the Mayflower, and was so prominent in the history of the Plymouth colony, is the only son of Elihu Meigs and Esther (Smith) Frazier, and was born November 30, 1847, at Norwich, Connecticut. It is on the maternal side that Mr. Frazier traces his ancestry back to Miles Standish, and he is the seventh in line of descent from that illustrious pioneer, whose memory has been embalmed in verse by the greatest of American poets. Young Frazier was reared in his native city and edu- cated in the public and private schools of Norwich. Leaving school he engaged in the meat business with his father, who was a lead- ing butcher of Norwich, and remained with him for four years. He then entered the em- ploy of the New Haven Car Company, at New Haven, Connecticut, but after a short time re- turned to Norwich and again became asso- ciated with his father in the meat business, under the firm name of E. M. Frazier & Co. Later they sold out their interest in that enter- prise and engaged in the ice business, which
they conducted for a number of years, and then he embarked in the meat business at Norwich on his own account. In 1887 he dis- posed of his meat market and entered the em- ploy of the Swift Beef & Refrigerator Com- pany at Jersey City, New Jersey, as manager of their beef establishment, corner of Grove and Wayne streets. Foreight months he held that position, when he was given an advance in salary and placed in Center Market, New York, for the same firm, where he remained over two years, and afterward entered the em- ploy of the Kansas City Packing Company, which was changed to the name of the Phoenix Packing Company, as manager in the same city. He remained with them until Decem- ber 1, 1892, when he accepted the position of manager of Armour & Co.'s branch business at Chester, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, and has ever since resided in this city. This business is owned by the well known Chicago pork packing firm, and is the largest meat market in the city of Chester. In the manage- ment of this business Mr. Frazier has dis- played the same ability and good judgment which have characterized his connection with other establishments, and has become quite popular with the general public.
On June 23, 1870, Mr. Frazier was united in marriage to Celeste Lyon, a native of New Milford, Connecticut, and a daughter of Morris A. Lyon. To them have been born two chil- dren, both sons : Morris Standish, who died in his nineteenth year, and Elihu M. Polit- ically Mr. Frazier is a republican, and in re- ligion a member of the Congregational church. He is also a member of Uncas Lodge, No. 11, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Nor- wich, Connecticut. In conducting the beef and provision business here he employs five men and two wagons, occupying a handsome brick structure one hundred by one hundred and fifty feet on Market street. He resides at No. 539 East Broad street.
The Frazier family is of ancient Scotch lin- eage, and certain of its members followed
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Cromwell from Scotland into Ireland, from whence came the founders of the American branch. The year is not known, but it is cer- tain that at a very early period in the settle- ment of this country the Fraziers located in Connecticut, near what is now the city of Norwich. There they have ever since re- sided and have become numerous and prom- inent. Joseph Frazier, paternal grandfather of Nathan S. Frazier, was a butcher by trade, and lived and died in the city of Norwich. He was a whig and republican in politics, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. By his marriage to Eliza Ann Meigs he had a family of seven children, four sons and three daughters : Edmund, Thomas, William, Elihu M., Lucy, Eliza and Emmie. Elihu M. Fra- zier (father) was born, lived and died at Nor- wich. He also followed butchering as an oc- cupation, and became quite prosperons. His death occurred in 1882, when he was in the sixty-eighth year of his age. He was a stanch republican in politics, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church until within a few years of his death. when be became a Congre- gationalist, and died in that faith. In 1837 he married Esther Smith Standish, a native of Bazrah, Connecticut, and a daughter of Eras- tns and Sally Giddings Standish, and a direct descendant of Miles Standish, as heretofore mentioned. To this union was born a family of three children, one son and two daughters: Louisa Adalaide, who died when only four years of age; Elethea Meigs, who died at the age of eighteen; and Nathan Standish, the subject of the foregoing sketch.
A RTHUR H. TOMLINSON, founder and principal of the Swarthmore Grammar school, at Swarthmore. this county, and one of the most active and successful teachers of his time, is another of the distinguished educators who deserve more than a passing notice in this volume. He was born January 20, 1856, in Upper Makefield township, Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, and is a son of Robert K. and Mary E. ( Hibbs) Tomlinson. The family is of English extraction and were early settled in New Jersey, where Benjamin P. Tomlinson, paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born and reared. While yet comparatively a young man he removed to Bucks county, Pennsylvania, becoming the founder of the family in that county. He was a farmer and miller by occupation, and a Quaker in religion. Taking little interest in political matters, he was nevertheless in hearty sym- pathy with the anti-slavery sentiment of his time, and being industrious and energetic in business, became quite prosperous in his later years. He died at his home in Bucks county in the latter part of 1857. in his seventieth year. He married Hannah Knowles, and had a family of three sons and three daughters, one of his sous being Robert K. Tomlinson (father), who was born in Bucks county in 1831. There he grew to manhood, receiving besides a good common school education, a term at Westtown, and a year at Benjamin Hallowell's famous mathematical school, at Alexandria, and afterward engaged in farming, which occupation he has successfully followed all his life. He still resides in his native county, is a member of the Hicksite branch of the So- ciety of Friends, and an ardent prohibitionist in politics. Being a man of fine intelligence, he has always kept well posted on current questions, and has written a great deal for the local and agricultural papers on financial mat- ters and other subjects. In 1855 he married Mary Hibbs. a native of Bucks county, this State, who died in 1890, aged fifty-seven years. She was descended from one of the old Quaker families of that county, and in her life exen- plified all the quiet virtues for which the Friends are noted. Robert K. and Mary Tomlinson were the parents of seven children. six sons and one daughter : Arthur H., Edith, Walter H., Alvan H., Ernest H., Benjamin P., and William H.
Arthur H. Tomlinson spent his boyhood
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days on his father's farm in Bucks county. early acquiring those habits of industry and thoroughness which have distinguished his after life. He attended the public schools of his native county, and made such progress that in 1875, when nineteen years of age, he began teaching. After he had taught two years in the district schools of his native county he took a course in the State normal school at West Chester, being graduated from the ele- mentary department of that institution in the fall of 1877. He then went to Cecil county, Maryland, where he opened a Friends' school, which he continued to manage successfully for four years, after which he returned to Ches- ter county and opened the Friends' Select school at Oxford, of which he was principal for two years. In 1883 he was graduated from the scientific department of the West Chester State Normal school, and immediately went to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he pur- sued a post graduate course in the Michigan university, being one of the very few men ever admitted to that course on a normal school diploma. Leaving Michigan, Mr. Tomlinson went to New York, and in 1884 became prin- cipal of the Friends' academy, at Locust Val- ley, that State. Being now thoroughly equipped for his work, and earnestly devoted to the cause, he met with the most gratifying success and continued in the management of the school in New York until 1887, when he was called to Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, to es- tablish a Friends' boarding school at Jenkin- town, that county. This school was opened in September, 1887, and met with immediate success, having a wonderful growth under Mr. Tomlinson's able management. He re- mained in charge until 1892, when knowing that a preparatory school was needed at Swarth- more to prepare young men and women for the college, he resigned the principalship of the school in Montgomery county and came to this village, where he made arrangements for opening what is now known as the Swarth- more Grammar school. This is a high class 21a
boarding and day school for both sexes, for- mally opened September 12, 1892. Its main object is to prepare pupils for Swarthmore college, and to furnish a home school for the careful and conscientious training of boys and girls who may not be able to take a college course. It aims to develop the best possibil- ities-moral, mental and physical-in each individual, and by this process of character building to create high minded, clear thinking, noble men and women, prepared to bear an honorable and intelligent part in that increas- ing activity which carries forward the world's great enterprises. With such aims, and in the hands of such a manager, having exper- ienced and successful teachers in every de- partment, there is no reason to doubt that his school will accomplish a wonderful work for humanity, and prove a decided financial suc- cess. It already has a large attendance, teaches all the English branches, mathematics, read- ing, art and music, in the academic depart- ment, and its pupils have the privilege of at- tending the college lectures. An institution like the Swarthmore Grammar school has long been needed, and Mr. Tomlinson's experience and success in opening and conducting so many Friends' schools has peculiarly qualified him for his present position, and fitted him to conduct the present enterprise to professional and financial prosperity.
On August 6, 1886, Professor Tomlinson was married to Emma Pyle, a daughter of William H. Pyle, of West Chester, this State. To them have been born two children, one son and a daughter : Willard P. and Helen. In his political convictions Mr. Tomlinson is an ardent prohibitionist.
H ARRY L. HIPPLE, county commis- sioner from Marple township, and one of the most enterprising and successful farmers and stock-raisers of Delaware county, is a son of Henry and Rachel (Roberts) Hipple, and was born December 14, 1856, in Marple town-
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ship, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. The Hipples are of German extraction, but have been residents of Pennsylvania since an early day. Henry Hipple, paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Chester county, this State, and a prosperous farmer of that county, where he died about 1864, at the advanced age of eighty-three years. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and married Jane Garrett, by whom he had a family of eight children. One of his sons was Henry Hipple (father), who was born on the old homestead in Chester county in 1815. There he grew to manhood, received a good common school education, and resided in that county until after his marriage. He then removed to Delaware county, locating in Marple township, where he engaged in farm- ing, and followed that occupation all his life, dying there in 1878, at the age of sixty-three. He owned a large and valuable farm, and be- came prosperous and influential in the com- munity. Politically he was a republican, and for many years served as a school director of Marple township. His religions opinions were those of the Society of Friends, and he regu- larly attended their meetings. In 1840 he married Rachel Roberts, a native of Mont- gomery county, and a daughter of Amos and Mary Roberts. They were the parents of eight children, three sons and five daughters, only three of whom are now living : Lydia Dickinson, Rachel Hipple and Mary Gilbert. The deceased were: Joseph, Sarah, Isaac, William and Jane Roberts. Mrs. Rachel Hip- ple was born in 1815, is a member of the So- ciety of Friends, and now resides on the old homestead in Marple township, this county.
Harry L. Hipple was reared on the farm where he was born and which he now owns, in Marple township, this county. His primary education was obtained at the Cedar Grove public school in that township, and was after- ward supplemented by a term at Swarthmore college. After leaving school he engaged in farming on the home place, and has continued
to cultivate its broad acres ever since. In 1878 the old homestead passed into his possession, and is now one of the most valuable and finely improved farms in this section of the county. Mr. Hipple devotes considerable attention to stock-raising, in which he has met with en- couraging success.
Following the political traditions of his family, Mr. Hipple has always been an ardent member of the party of Lincoln and Garfield, taking an active interest in local politics and exerting much influence in behalf of sound republican doctrines. In 1889 he was elected county commissioner of Delaware county for three years, taking the office January 1, 1890. At the end of his first term, so acceptable had been his administration of the duties con- nected with that responsible position, that he was reëlected to another term of three years, succeeding himself in the office January 1, 1893. This fact is a good index of the confi- dence reposed in him by his fellow citizens, and of the high esteem in which he is held where he is best known. Mr. Hipple has never married.
W ILLIAM C. KELLY, a prosperous druggist of Chester, and a member of the Delaware County Pharmaceutical associa- tion, was born at Lewisburg, Union county,' Pennsylvania, May 13, 1860, and is a son of Capt. Josiah and Fannie Y. ( Derr) Kelly. His paternal grandfather, James Kelly, was a man of business ability and political influence in his day, running a boat on the canal from Philadelphia to Lewisburg, and being an in- timate friend of Simon Cameron. He was a whig and a Methodist, and amassed consider- able wealth before his death, which occurred at Lewisburg, October, 1876, when he was in the eighty-sixth year of his age. He married Hannah Sikes, and had a family of nine chil- dren : John, James, Joseph, Capt. Josiah, Joshua, Joanna, Jesheba, Jennetta and Julia Ann, the last two of whom are deceased. Josiah Kelly (father) was a man of observa-
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tion, study and reading. He learned the trade of shoemaking, but soon went to boating and afterward became a boat builder at Lewisburg. In 1860 he raised Co. K, 52d Pennsylvania infantry, and participating in the battles of Bull Run, Spottsylvania and other great strug- gles of the war, was successively promoted from the captaincy of his company until he attained the rank of quartermaster. Captain Kelly was never wounded, although one ball passed through his cap and several through his clothes, and when he returned to Lewis- burg the citizens of that place presented him with a valuable and handsomely engraved sword for his services in raising Co. K. Cap- tain Kelly is a republican and an active mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church, and married Fannie Y. Derr, a daughter of Lewis Derr. To their union were born nine chil- dren, four sons and five daughters : Kiturah, who died in childhood ; James L., Isabella, wife of G. W. Schoch, editor of the Mifflin- burg Telegraph and Lewisburg Chronicle; G. D., Thomas D., Alice M. Miller, W. C., Helen M., wife of J. B. Ettinger, an inventor and musician of note, and now a manufacturer of Milton, this State; and Jennie F. Mrs. Kelly is a daughter of Lewis Derr, a miller and farmer of Union county, a philanthropic man, who gives largely of his ample means to churches and other worthy causes. He married Charlotte Stoner, and they had four children : Mrs. Fannie Y. Kelly, Sarah, George and Polly.
WV. C. Kelly received his elementary educa- tion in the public and grammar schools of his native place, and at the close of his freshman year in Bucknell university, quit school in order to engage in the drug business. Ten months later he came to Chester city, and after graduating from the Philadelphia college of pharmacy in the class of 1884, he opened a drug store at the corner of Third and Flower streets. After two years spent there with good success, he built, in 1886, his present brick drug house, twenty by sixty-five feet in dimen-
sions, at No. 1804 West Third street. Mr. Kelly carries very fine and extensive lines of fresh and pure drugs, proprietary medicines and toilet articles, and has gradually built up a large and remunerative trade. In December, 1891, he started in his present machine manu- facturing business. and at the present time has an interest in the Consumer's ice plant. He is an active republican, but does not allow politics to interfere with his business affairs. Mr. Kelly is a member of Chester Lodge, No. 236, Free and Accepted Masons ; Monaponaca Tribe, No. 149, Improved Order of Red Men ; Thurlow Castle, No. 159, Knights of the Golden Eagle ; Chester Council, No. 36, Junior Order of United American Mechanics ; and the Mc- Clure gun club.
On November 28, 1888, Mr. Kelly married Emma M. Sassaman, of Milton, Pennsylvania, and their union has been blessed with one child, a daughter, named Harriet D.
GARNETT PENDLETON, a distin- guished member of the Delaware county bar, and who stands high as a lawyer of abil- ity, integrity, and energy, is a son of Rev. Dr. James M. and Catharine (Garnett) Pen- dleton, and was born at Bowling Green, Ken- tucky, May 24, 1855. He was taken by his parents, at two years of age, to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and five years later to Ohio, which they left in 1865 to settle at Upland, this county. He was educated by his parents until he was fifteen years of age, when he was sent to Mt. Holly academy, New Jersey. He remained there a year in preparatory studies, and was then admitted to Rochester univer- sity, New York, where he was graduated with the degree of bachelor of arts in 1875, and in 1878 was accorded the degree of master of arts. In the fall of 1875 Mr. Pendleton en- tered the law office of E. Coppee Mitchell, . dean of the law school of the university of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, and remained there three years as a student, and then one
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