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A NTHONY WAYNE EMERY, one of
the old and highly respected citizens of West Pikeland township, is the third son and only living child of John and Anna M. (Yeager) Emery, and was born in West Pikeland township, Chester county, Penn- sylvania, February 25, 1817. Ilis paternal grandfather, John Emery, was a native of WestPikeland township, where he owned and tilled a farm of one hundred and thirty-one acres of land. He was a democrat politically, and had been for many years before his death a strict member of Pikeland Evangelical Lutheran church. He married Christena Lawbangh,and reared a family ofeleven chil- dren, six sons and five daughters : Elizabeth March, John, Mary, Catherine Hartman, Naney Sloyer, William, Peter. Edward, George, Henry, and Sallie. John Emery (father). was born in 1783, and died in 1828,
aged forty-five years. He was a farmer, a demoerat, and a member of St. Peter's Evan- gelical Lutheran church. He served as a soldier of the war of 1812, and was in a comt- pany that was stationed at Marens Hook, where a considerable force was gathered to check a threatened expedition of the Brit- ish up the Delaware river to Philadelphia. He married Anna M. Yeager, who passed away in March, 1835, at forty-eight years of age. They had a family of eight children : Moses, Elizabeth, William, Anthony Wayne. Levi, Isaac. John and Samuel.
Anthony W. Emery was reared on his father's farm, and after receiving a practical education in the old subscription schools of that day, learned the trade of blacksmith, which he followed for a short time at Kim- berton. He then purchased a farm of sixty acres upon which he has resided ever since. He is a democrat in politics, has held vari- ous township offices, and believes implicitly in the cardinal principles of his party. He has quietly pursued the even tenor of his way in life, and now enjoys the substantial comforts of a pleasant home seeured by his own labor.
On September 1, 1840, the subject of this sketch married Mary A. Emery, a daughter of William and Mary Brownback Emery. By this union Anthony W. Emery had four children, two sons and two daughters. The eldest is William U. Emery, now a prosper- ous farmer of West Pikeland township, who was born April 22, 1841, and married Cath- arine Yeager, by whom he had four sous: Anthony Wayne, jr., a farmer of West Pike- land township, who married Laura Emery, July 18, 1886, and has two children -Neva and Lottie : Wesley Y., who married Carrie Coulter, November 18, 1892, and resides in Charlestown township : David F. and Ehmer
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C. The second son of the senior Anthony Wayne Emery is John P., who was born January 23, 1844, and married Elizabeth Sloyer, January 27, 1881. He owns a valu- able farm of one hundred and thirty acres of land. Sarah Emery, the eldest daughter, was born September 4, 1849, married George Fetters March 27, 1869, and they have eight children : Lizzie, William, Samael, Wayne, Orlando, Lewis, Frank and Roger. Mr. Fetters is now a foreman of carpenter work for the Pennsylvania railroad. The fourth child and youngest daughter of An- thony Wayne Emery, sr., is Edith A., born October 10, 1857, and married Matthias A. Pennypacker, on January 27, 1886. They reside on a farm in West Pikeland township.
ENOS P. LATSHAW, an intelligent citizen and successful farmer of West Pikeland township, and who owns one of the best iron ore farms in the county, is a son of Jacob B. and Anna (Pennypacker) Latshaw, and was born January 26, 1850, on the farm on which he now resides in West Pikeland township, Chester county, Pennsylvania. Ilis paternal grandfather, John Latshaw, was of German descent, and purchased a tract of two hundred and sev- enty-six acres of land, a part of which is now the farm of the subject of this sketch. He was a whig in politics, and a member of the Phoenixville Mennonite church, and died in 1857, aged seventy-five years. He mar- ried Susanna High, and reared a family of eight children, two sons and six daughters : Catherine Reiff, Elizabeth Heistand, Susan Harley, Magdalene MeCurdy, Mary Beitler, Jacob B., John II. and Sallie Adams. Jacob B. Latshaw (father), was born on the home farm, where he passed his life, and died
November 21, 1886, when in the sixty- ninth year of his age. He was a farmer by occupation, and in religious faith and church membership was a Baptist, having served for twenty years as a deacon in Vincent Baptist church. Ile was a whig and re- publican in politics, and married Anna Pennypacker, who is a daughter of Harmon Pennypacker, of West Pikeland township, who wedded Ann Showalter. To Mr. and Mrs. Latshaw were born eight children, three sons and five daughters: Enos P., Catherine Stiteler, Horace, Susan Moses. John H., Mary Dickinson, and Anna and Ida, who both died in childhood.
Enos P. Latshaw was reared on the farm, received his education in the common schools of West Pikeland township and Edgefield institute, Uwehlan township, and afterward engaged in farming, which has been his life pursuit. He has always re- sided within the limits of West Pikeland township, and in 1888 purchased his pres- ent farm of one hundred and thirty acres. His land is well improved, fertile and pro- ductive, and contains several veins of rich iron ore, which were worked successfully for a number of years by the Phoenix Iron Company. Mr. Latshaw raises some stock in addition to grain and grass growing, and now owns and conducts a successful dairy. He is a republican in political opinion, and has served for several years as a deacon of Vincent Baptist church. He is quiet and unassuming in manner, has considerable will power, and is a well read and well informed man, who commands the respect of all who know him.
On January 16, 1873, Mr. Latshaw was united in marriage with Sarah J., daughter of William Henderson, of West Pikeland township. Their union has been blessed
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with three children, two sons and one daughter: W. Warren, Annie Elizabeth, and Horace E.
DAVID H. HEISTAND, a young man of good business qualifications and a successful farmer and dairyman of East Pikeland township, is a son of David and Catherine (Detwiler) Heistand, and was born in East Pikeland township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, May 30, 1860. His paternal great-grandfather, David Heistand, was of German descent, and came from Moutgom- ery county to what is now East Pikeland township, where he improved the farm now owned by his great-grandson, Harry Heis- tand. Two of his children were : John and Kittie Sensenig. John Heistand (grand- father) was born in 1785, and was a cabinet- maker by trade. He resided on the home farm until his death in 1880. His son, David Heistand (father), was born in 1815. and died in 1878, at sixty-three years of age. David Heistand followed farming on the tract of land formerly his father's farm. Ile was a republican in politics, and on Decen- ber 31, 1844, married Catherine Detwiler, daughter of Henry and Catharine (Latshaw) Detwiler, of Tredyffrin township. Mr. and Mrs. Heistand had seven children : Kate Good (dead), Harry, John, Elizabeth Funk, David H., Moses, and Horace, who died in infancy.
David II. Heistand spent his boyhood days on the farm, received a good English edu- ration in the connon schools of his native township, and at an early age became a clerk in the hardware store of N. H. Benjamin, of Phoenixville, where he remained until 1885. In that year he purchased his pres- ent well improved and highly desirable farm in East Pikeland township. This farm of !
forty-seven aeres is well watered and speci- ally adapted to truck farming and dairying. Mr. Heistaud has made many valuable im- provements to his property and does a very successful business in market gardening and truck farming. He makes a specialty of raising the finer varieties of potatoes and has established a well paying dairy on his land. He is a republican in politics, and believes thoroughly in the fundamental principles of his party. He gives his party an active and earnest support, but is not a partisan in any sense of the word.
On February 19, 1885. Mr. Heistand mar- ried Lottie M. Jones, who was a daughter of Josiah P. Jones, of Reading, and died August 18, 1888, at twenty-four years of age. leaving two children: Jones, who died in childhood, and Amanda. For his second wife Mr. Heistand, on June 17, 1891, wed- ded Lizzie A. Shantz, a daughter of Amos and Sallie (Reigner) Shantz, of Kenilworth. By his second marriage he has one child, a daughter named Edith Pauline.
JAMES J. WATSON, the popular sta- tion agent at Frazer, this county, is the youngest son of Joshua and Alice B. (Joy- ner) Watson, and was born in Hilliardston, Nash county, North Carolina, June 12, 1840. The ancestors of Mr. Watson were natives of England, who came over at an early day and settled first in Florida, but afterward drifted into the Carolinas, where the family has he- come quite numerous and some of its men- bers prominent. Joshua Watson (father) was born near Palmyra, Martin county. North Carolina, where he was reared and lived for a number of years. He removed, however, to Nash county, and died there in October. 1861, aged about sixty-eight years.
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He was a planter, business man and broker, and at one time owned four large planta- tions in that State, aggregating over a thous- and acres of valuable land. At the time of his death he owned two plantations. He was energetic and successful in business, and became widely known in his native State. In 1828 he married Alice B. Joyner, eldest daughter of Blunt Joyner, a prominent and wealthy French Huguenot who emigrated from his native France and settled in North Carolina, where he died. By this marriage Mr. Watson had a family of five children : Sarah E., who married Col. S. S. Cooper, inherited the famous "Nine Oaks" planta- tion in Granville county, North Carolina, and is now deceased, though her husband is still living; Mary B., became the wife of HIon. H. G. Williams, who was formerly a member of the State legislature of North Carolina, but is now chief of a bureau in the Pension department at Washington, though his family reside at Wilson, North Carolina : Thomas B., a prosperous farmer residing at Elm City, that State, on the Atlantic coast- line; Dr. William H., now deceased, who was for many years a practicing physician at Robinsonville, North Carolina ; and James J., the subject of this sketch.
James J. Watson grew to manhood in the South, receiving his education principally at Emory and Henry college, Virginia, which failing health compelled him to leave a short time before completing the regular course. Later he began the study of medi- cine, and was a student in the medical de- partment of the university of Pennsylvania when the civil war occurred. Mr. Watson at once returned to his native State of North Carolina, and for a time was engaged in the detached service of the Southern Confed- eracy. After the close of the war, in Sep-
tember, 1865, he came back to Philadelphia, where he remained until 1867, when he came to Chester county, seeking employment, as he had lost all his property in the South. He was employed at various places and in different capacities until 1874, when he en- gaged with the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany as a repair man, and was successively promoted from one position to another un- til 1881, when he was made agent at Frazer, which position he still occupies, rendering entire satisfaction alike to his official super- iors and to the general public. In connection with his duties as station agent he owns and operates a small market farm of fifteen acres in East Whiteland township. Politic- ally he is a republican, notwithstanding his southern birth and education, and is a mem- ber of the Fraternal Guardians, of the city of Philadelphia.
On September 19, 1888, Mr. Watson was united in marriage with Mrs. Sallie A. Gray, nee Hoskins, a daughter of John Hoskins, of Chester county, Pennsylvania. By this union he has one child, a daughter, named Florence. Mrs. Watson had two children by her former marriage: William J. and Elwood E. Gray.
Mr. Watson has recently purchased prop- erty at West Chester, and will remove there to educate his children, going back and forth on the train to his work at Frazer.
SAMUEL C. MACKELDUFF, a de- scendant of the well known and worthy old Scotch-Irish Mackelduff family, and an industrious farmer of West Brandywine township, is a son of Joseph and Jane (Cal- braith) Mackelduff, and was born in West Brandywine township, Chester county, Penn- sylvania, March 4, 1841. The Mackelduff
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family is of Scotch-Irish origin and the an- cestors of the Chester county branch left the north of Ireland about 1735 on account of religious persecution and became early settlers in Honey Brook township, where they took up large tracts of land, on some of which several of their descendants still reside. Joseph Mackelduff (grandfather) was born in West Nantmeal and removed to Honey Brook (now West Brandywine) township, where he died. He was a farmer and miller, and married Elizabeth Harris on May 9, 1787, by whom he had three chil- dren : Joseph, Mary Long, and Eliza, who became the wife of John MeClure. Joseph Mackelduff (father) was born November 14, 1788, in West Brandywine township, where he died on the home farm, in 1872. He was a farmer and miller by occupation, and had been a faithful member of the Brandywine Manor Presbyterian church for many years before his death. Ile was a democrat in politics, and married Jane Calbraith. Their children were: Joseph, born April 9, 1830; George, August 16, 1832: Hannah E., July 28, 1833; Mrs. Eliza J. MeClure, Novem- ber 3, 1835; Harriet C., June 28, 1838: Samuel C .; William H., June 4, 1843, and Emma M., born March 7, 1846. Mrs. Jane Mackelduff, an intelligent and amiable wo- man, received her education at Kimberton Friends' school, was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church, and died Septem- ber 5, 1891, when in the eighty-seventh year of her age. She was a daughter of George and Hannah (Harris) Calbraith. Iler father was a successful farmer and hotel keeper, of Me Veytown, this State, where he died. Their children were: Elizabeth Hamand, Naney Wakefield, Julia Swansey, Hannah Creswell, George, Mrs. Jane Mack- elduff, and Harriet Calbraith.
Samuel C. Mackelduff was reared on the home farm, received his education in How- ard academy and Professor Wyer's boarding school, of West Chester, and assisted his father in farming from 1859 until the death of the latter in 1872. Hle then purchased his present farm of eighty-one acres of good farming land, which he has improved until it ranks as one of the best farms in that see- tion of the county. He is a democrat in polities, but has never been an extremist in political affairs.
S- AMUEL HIGH, a prosperous, well- known and highly esteemed farmer of North Coventry township, who is also a wheelwright by trade, is the eldest son of Henry and Anna ( East) High, and was born in Colebrook, Dale township, Berks county, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1826. His paternal grandfather, Jacob High, was a na- tive of Chester county, born on the farm now owned by Samuel Stauffer, in North Coventry township. He was a farmer by vocation and removed to Cumberland county. this State, where he purchased a farm of three hundred and forty-nine aeres, on which he lived until his death, about 1845, when he had attained the ripe old age of seventy years. In politics he was an old-line whig, and in religion a Mennonite. He was twice married. By his first wife he had two sons and a daughter. One of his sons, Henry High (father), was born in Chester county. near Phoenixville, in 1796, and was taken by his father to Cumberland county when about ten years of age. In 1820 or 1821 he re- turned to North Coventry, Chester county. and lived for twoor three years with his uncle. Rev. Christian Beary, a farmer and preacher in the Mennonite church, who resided on the
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farm now owned by the canal company. He then married Anna East, a daughter of Sam- nel East, a prosperous farmer of Colebrook, Dale township, Berks county, this State, and for some years engaged in farming in that county. In 1829 he returned to Chester county and purchased the farm of eighty- one acres now occupied by Edwin E. Johns, in North Coventry township. Here he re- sided until about 1857, when he once more removed to Berks county, and died there in the year 1858, aged sixty-two years. In his political affiliations he was a whig and re- publican, and in religion was a striet mem- ber of the Mennonite church, in which he served as trustee for many years. By his marriage to Anna East, he had a family of nine children, three sous and six daughters : Samuel, the subject of this sketch ; Jacob, a resident of East Vincent township, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume; Mary, deceased; Sarah, also dead; Eliza- beth, married Adam Mench, a prosperous farmer of Upper Providence township, Montgomery county ; Henry. now deceased : Leah, likewise dead; Catharine, married John Mench, a tailor of Pottstown, this county ; and Anna, now living with her sis- ter in Pottstown.
Samuel High came to North Coventry township, Chester county, with his father, when only three years of age, and was reared and educated in this township, his educa- tion being obtained in the public schools of his neighborhood. After leaving school he learned the trade of wheelwright and has worked at that business to some extent, though his principal occupation has been farming. He owns two fine farms, one con- taining seventy-eight acres of choice land, nearly all of which is well improved and in a good state of cultivation, and the other con-
sisting of sixty-six acres, almost equally val- nable. Politically Mr. High follows the traditions of his ancestors, and has been a republican ever since the organization of that party in Pennsylvania. In religion he likewise adheres to the faith in which he was reared, and for many years has been a devoted member of the Mennonite church.
On March 16, 1854, Mr. High was united in marriage to Sarah Kulp, a daughter of Samuel Kulp, of North Coventry township, this county. To Mr. and Mrs. High was born a family of six children, three of whom died in infancy. The three who lived to reach maturity are : Milton K., who married Catharine Tyson, and is now a prosperous farmer of North Coventry township; Allen K., wedded Martha Tyson, and is now en- gaged in managing his father's farm; and Emma K., who became the wife of Milton Prizer, a farmer residing in East Coventry township. Mrs. Sarah High was born in Lower Providence township, Montgomery county, in 1827, and is still living, hale and hearty for a woman of her age.
R OBERT JONES MONAGHAN is one of the leading members of the Chester county bar, and has taken an active part in the politics and business of this county. He is the eldest son of Jonathan J. and Rebecca ( Murdagh ) Monaghan, and was born in Parkesburgh, Chester county, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1852. When quite young his parents removed to Pettis county, Missouri, where he grew to manhood, at- tending the common schools of that county and the high school in the city of Sedalia, Missouri. At the age of seventeen he re- turned to Pennsylvania and began the study of the law in the office of his uncle, R. E.
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Robert Jones Monaghan.
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Monaghan (see his sketch), at West Chester, Pennsylvania. While reading law he prose- ented his studies of Latin and Greek for a short time under the well-known teacher. William F. Wyers, and afterward by pri- vate study, without an instructor, reading the full Yale college course in the classics. Mr. Monaghan is not the graduate of any college, but has always had a lively interest in literature, and until he became absorbed in business, his reading embraced poetry, history, political and social economy, and several other lines, and was, as he says, en- tirely too extensive to be very thorough.
He was admitted to the Chester county bar July 3, 1873, and has practised the law continuously since that date. His greatest strength is probably in jury trials and argu- ments of legal questions to the court. His practice has been an active one, and he has probably tried as many, and as important, cases, as any member of the bar since his admission. A few of the leading cases which he has argued before the Supreme court of Pennsylvania are : Beale v. Penna. R. R. Co., land damages, 86 Pa. 513, 6 W. N. 137; Bradley's Appeal, liability of trus- tees, 89 Pa., 514; Ash v. Guie, liability of members of a Masonic lodge, 97 Pa., 498: Cross' Appeal, resulting trust, Ibid. 474; Coatesville Gas Company's case, taxation, Ibid, 476; Miller v. Penna. R. R. Co., ripa- rian rights, 112 Pa. 34; Morrison v. Bach- ert, constitutional law. Ibid. 322: Neely's Appeal, ante-nuptial contraet, 124 Pa. 406; the Sharpless will case, 134 Pa. 250; Ster- rett v. James, water right arbitration, 187 Pa. 234.
Since he was a boy Mr. Monaghan has been an active political speaker. He is a forcible and effective orator, who has spoken in the most prominent places in the State, 1
and in other States under the National com- mittee. In 1875 he was the nomince of the Democratic party for district attorney. lu 1877 was nominated for State senator, but declined, because he was not old enough to be eligible under the constitution. In 1880 was nominated for congress for the Sixth Pennsylvania district, composed of the coun- ties of Chester and Delaware. In 1887 he was nominated for judge of the district court against the present incumbent, Hon. William B. Waddell.
He is not a practical politician, and, al- though accepting these compliments, has uniformly refused any nomination which indicated the possibility of an election which would withdraw him from business to pub- lic office. He refused the nomination for congress in 1886, when there was a split in the Republican party, and declined to allow his name to be considered for the nomina- tion for judge in 1889, when Hon. Joseph Hemphill, a democrat, was elected, and in 1891 for auditor general of the State. He has positive views against the wisdom of office-seeking.
In 1889 Mr. Monaghan and his brother- in-law, the late H. T. Fairlamb, organized the Pennsylvania Mortgage InvestmentCom- pany, a Chester county institution, the busi- ness of which is the loaning of money on mortgages in Washington and Idaho. Mr. Monaghan was eastern manager of the com- pany for more than two years, and has since been, and still is, its general counsel. The company has a full paid capital of $100,000 ; has been the most successful concern of the kind in this section, and embraces among its stockholders the most substantial and conservative capitalists of the county.
Mr. Monaghan is now one of the editors of the well-known and successful Philadel-
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phia Legal Intelligencer, the oldest law jour- nal in the United States, which has its edi- torial offices in the Drexel building, on Chestnut street.
Mr. Monaghan is a member of the Young Men's Democratic association of Philadel- phia, of the Pennsylvania State Historical society, the Lawyers' club of Philadelphia, one of the executive committee of the Phil- adelphia Tariff Reform association, and an active member of the Masonic fraternity.
In his domestic relations Mr. Monaghan has been even more fortunate than in his professional career. On November 13, 1879, he married Cornelia T. Wilson, eldest daugli- ter of Joseph P. Wilson, one of the most prominent members of the Chester county bar, and for many years president of the Philadelphia & Baltimore Central Railroad Company. Mr. and Mrs. Monaghan have two children living, Frances E. and Walter.
Blessed with a vigorous constitution, Mr. Monaghan did not appreciate the necessity of the gospel of rest, and as a result, in the fall of 1891, broke down in health. A voy- age around the world, including some months of rest in Australia, effected a restoration of his health, and he has, at this writing, re- sumed his former place in this community. His business and tastes have occasioned more than the usual amount of travel over the United States in the last ten years. In- deed, there are but five States or territories of the Union which he has not visited.
The Monaghans are of Irish descent, the family being planted in America about 1799, by James Monaghan (grandfather), a native of County Fermanagh, who located first in Delaware, and later removed to Chester county, Pennsylvania, where he died in October, 1841. (See sketch of Robert Em- muet Monaghan elsewhere in this work.)
Jonathan J. Monaghan (father) was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1813, where he grew to manhood on his father's farm, and received a fair English education. In 1850 he married Rebecca Murdagh, of Oxford, this county, and by this union had a family of five children, three of whom are still living: Robert Jones, the subject of this sketch ; James, a graduate of Lafayette college (1876), whoread law with his brother, R. Jones, with whom he afterward formed a law partnership, practising in this county, and in May, 1892, was appointed by Gov- ernor Pattison as State reporter for the Su- preme court of Pennsylvania for a term of five years; and Margaret, wife of Rev. Wil- liam F. Gibbons, a minister of the Presby- terian church, who is located near Wilkes- barre, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. About 1854 Jonathan Monaghan removed from Chester county to Pettis county, Missouri, where he resided until 1878, when he re- turned to his native county and settled at West Chester, where he resides at this time. IIe was a farmer, and in politics a stanch democrat, entertaining very positive views. His wife is still living. Her father, Robert Murdagh, was of Scotch-Irish stock, and was for many years a merchant of Oxford, in this county.
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