USA > Pennsylvania > Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. I > Part 53
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89
In 1829 John Davis built a store building at Davisville, and followed the mercan- tile business there, for many years filling the position of postmaster. He was an excellent business man, frank and straightforward in his dealings and of unswerv- ing public and private integrity. He and his family were members of the Baptist church, and took a deep interest in religious and educational matters. He died at Davisville, April 8, 1876. His wife, Amy (Hart) Davis, had died nearly thirty years earlier, August 17, 1847.
Major General John and his wife Amy (Hart) Davis had issue:
William Hart Davis, b. May 3. 1814, d. July 8, 1815;
Ann Hart Davis, b. April 3, 1815; m. Dec. 10, 1835, James Erwin, of Newtown, Bucks co., son of Oliver and Ann Erwin; four children, the only one surviving being Anna Mary, who m. Henry Mercur, nephew Chief Justice Ulysses Mercur, who had married her aunt, Sarah Simpson Davis, hereafter mentioned;
Rebecca Miles Davis, b. Jan. 27, 1818; m. Alfred T. Duffield, who succeeded his father-in- law as merchant and postmaster at Davisville; died there in 1871 ;
Gen. William Watts Hart Davis, of Doylestown, b. July 27, 1820; m. June 24, 1856, Anna Carpenter, of Brooklyn, N. Y .; educated at the local schools, Doylestown Academy, Newtown Academy, Dr. Aaron's Classical School at Burlington, N. J., and Partridge's University and Military Academy at Norwich, Ver., graduating at the latter institu- tion in 1842, with the degree of A. M. and M. M. S. In the same year he was appointed in- structor of mathematics and commandant of cadets at Portsmouth Military Academy, Va., where he remained for three years. He studied law in the office of Judge John Fox, at Doylestown, and was admitted to the Bucks co. bar, 1846. In the same year he entered Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., and while there enlisted in the First Mass. Infantry, for the Mexican war, and was commissioned First Lieutenant Dec. 31,
380
CRISPIN
1846, of Capt. Crowningshield's company, in Col. Caleb Cushing's regiment; became Adjutant, Jan. 16, 1847, Aide-de-camp, June 1, 1847; acting Asst. Adjutant General, July 18, 1847; acting Quartermaster and Inspector, Oct. 29, 1848; Captain Co. I, March 16, 1848, and served throughout the war. Returned to Doylestown and practiced law until 1853, when he was appointed U. S. Attorney for New Mexico, and spent nearly four years in that territory, during which time he filled the offices of Attorney-General, Secretary of the Territory, Acting Governor, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Returned to Doylestown in 1857, and purchased the Doylestown Democrat, the official organ of his party, which he ably edited and published until 1890. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he took to the front the Doylestown Guards, Company I, 25th Penna. Regiment, of which he was commissioned Captain, April 16, 1861, and served with it in the campaign in the Shenandoah Valley; returned to Doylestown and recruited the 104th Regiment, Penna. Vols., of which he was commissioned Colonel, Sept. 5, 1861; served with it through the whole war; frequently filling positions and exercising com- mands, commensurate with much higher rank; was Provincial Brigade Commander, Nov. II, 1861 ; commanded First Brigade, Casey's division, Fourth Corps, Nov. 30, 1861; wounded at Fair Oaks, May 31, 1862; commanded First Brigade, Second Divi- sion, Eighteenth Corps, Jan. 11, 1863; (Second Division, First Corps) March 10. 1863; commanded U. S. forces at Port Royal Island, S. C., May 27, 1862; Post of Beaufort, S. C., June 14, 1863; First Brigade, Terry's Division, July 8, 1863, at siege of Charles- ton, S. C .; commanded U. S. forces at Morris Island, S. C., Jan. 19, 1864, and at Hil- ton Head, Port Pulaski, St. Helena, and Tybee Islands, S C., April 18, 1864; First Brigade, Hatch's division, July 4, 1864; wounded at siege of Charleston, July 6, 1864; mustered out, Sept. 30, 1864; brevetted Brigadier General, U. S. Vols., March 13, 1865, "for gallant and meritorious services, during operations against Charleston, South Carolina. He is the author of the following publications: "El Gringo," 1857; "Span- ish Conquest of New Mexico," 1869; "History of 104th Regiment Pennsylvania Volun- teers," 1866; "History of the Hart Family of Bucks County," 1867; "Life of General John Lacy," 1868; "History of Bucks County," First Edition, 1876, Second Edition, 1905; "Life of John Davis," 1886; "Doylestown Guards," 1887; "Campaign of 1861, in the Shenandoah Valley," 1893; "Fries Rebellion," 1899; "Doylestown, Old and New," 1904; and numerous lectures, essays and historical papers and addresses. Has been President of Bucks County Historical Society, almost from its organization till the present time;
SARAH SIMPSON DAVIS, b. Nov. 10, 1822, d. April 20, 1896; m. Uylsses Mercur, Chief Justice of Pa .; of whom presently;
Amy Hart Davis, b. June 24, 1827; m. June 12, 1850, Dr. Holmes Sells, of Dublin, O .. later physician at Atlanta, Ga., 1859, to his death in 1888. Mrs. Sells is now a resident of Hatboro, Montgomery co., Pa .;
Elizabeth Neeley Davis, b. Feb. 20, 1825; residing at the old homestead, Davisville, Southampton twp., Bucks co.
SARAH SIMPSON DAVIS, born at Davisville, Pennsylvania, November 10, 1822, married there, June 12, 1850, Ulysses Mercur, afterwards Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, son of Henry and Mary (Watts) Mercur, of Towanda, Pennsylvania.
Hugh Mercur, grandfather of Judge Mercur, was a native of Austria, and came to Pennsylvania, about the close of the Revolutionary war, and settled in Stras- burg township, Lancaster county, where his only surviving child, Henry Mercur, was born September 20, 1786. In 1799 this son was sent by his parents to Vienna, Austria, to be educated at the University, and remained there eight years, a por- tion of the time being probably spent with a brother of his father, for whom he was named. Both his parents died in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, before his return in 1807, and after settling up their small estate, he went on a prospecting tour to the frontiers of the United States, and in 1809 located at what later be- came Towanda, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, where he took up lands and fol- lowed the business of a hatter until 1845, when he sold his landed and other inter- ests there and went to Illinois, where he took up large tracts of land, and remain- ed in that state until 1865, when he returned to Towanda, and resided there until his death, September 10, 1868.
Henry Mercur had received while abroad a fine scientific and classical education.
381
CRISPIN
and was one of the best educated nien of his time. He married (first) September 10, 1810, Mary, born near Towanda, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, 1790, daugh- ter of Francis Watts (of no known relation to the Watts family previously men- tioned in this narrative, but of a family that had been early settlers in central Pennsylvania) by his wife, Jane Means. Francis Watts was a private in the Fourth Regiment of Light Dragoons, Colonel Stephen Moylan, in the Continental Army, and second lieutenant in Colonel Arthur Buchanan's battalion, of Cumber- land County Militia, in 1777. He was captured by the Indians in their attack on Fort Freeland, July 28, 1779, but escaped the same day ; his father, James Watts, who was a sergeant in Captain Arthur Taggart's company, Second Battalion, Cumberland County Militia, was killed by the Indians in the same attack. His mother was Ann Walker, of a family prominent among the early settlers of Cum- berland county, where James Watts resided prior to his removal to Northumberland county, during the Revolution. He is said to have been a brother of Gen. Fred- erick Watts, of Cumberland county, a prominent officer, of the Continental Army, who was colonel of a battalion of the "Flying Camp" in the Jersey and Long Island campaign of 1776.
Jane Means, wife of Francis Watts, was daughter of Samuel Means, Jr., and a granddaughter of Samuel Means, Sr., an Ulster Scot, who settled in Paxtang, Lancaster county, about 1720, and died there, February, 1746-7, by his wife, Grizzel, daughter of Andrew Stephen, who died in November of the same year.
Samuel Means, Jr., was a soldier in the Revolution and is supposed to have been killed at the Wyoming Massacre. His wife was a descendant of William Clark, "of Lewes, in the County of Sussex, upon Delaware Bay, Gent," Chief Justice of the Provincial (Supreme) Court of Pennsylvania and a member of Provincial Council from Sussex county, 1683-1705. He was a Justice of Deal county, as Sussex county was known under the jurisdiction of the Duke of York, as early as June 7, 1680, and the "Three Lower Counties" of New Castle, Kent and Sussex, becoming territories of the Province of Pennsylvania, November 25, 1682, and part of William Penn's Proprietary Government, at which time the name of Deal county was changed to Sussex, and Jones county to Kent; William Clark was commissioned a Justice of Sussex county, May 1, 1683, and was regularly recommissioned until his death in 1705. He was also a Justice of the Provincial (Supreme) Court of Pennsylvania, July, 1684 to 1693, and was appointed Chief Justice of that tribunal, April 10, 1703, and served until his death. He was also Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1692. His will dated at Lewes, 2mo. 24, 1705, proved July 24, 1705, directs his property at Lewes to be sold, and mentions his son, William Clarke, Jr., and the latter's espoused wife, Rebecca Curtis ; his granddaughter Elizabeth, wife of Daniel Brown; his granddaughter Mary Pem- berton, his daughter Honour, wife of Thomas Pemberton, whom he makes sole executrix, and his brother-in-law, Walton Hulings, and his friend Thomas Fisher, whom he names as overseers of his will.
William Clarke in 1692 was made Collector of Customs for the Territories, a crown office, not under the jurisdiction of Penn's government. Although he con- tinued to describe himself as a resident of Lewes until his death, he had neverthe- less one of the finest mansions in the city of Philadelphia. It was located at the southwest corner of Third and Chestnut streets, the present (1907) site of the Merchants' and Mariners' Building, of the Girard Estate. Third and Chestnut
382
CRISPIN
was at that time not very far from the centre of the city, which was principally clustered about Front street. Still it was on the outskirts of the town, and Mr. Clarke had room, not only for a grand house according to the ideas of the period, but for a fine garden. The lot was ninety-nine feet front on Chestnut street and about two hundred and fifty-five feet deep. Clarke had bought it from Thomas Rouse, June 12, 1694. The house known as "Clarke Hall," was described as being built of brick, with a double front, two stories in height with a hipped roof. It had many parlors and chambers and, in size, was considered the largest house in town.
By deed of March 14, or April 22, 1704, William Clarke, Sr., conveyed this property to his son, William Clarke, Jr., and Rebecca Curtis, of Barbadoes, recit- ing in the deed that a marriage was soon to take place between the said William and Rebecca, "with whom he is likely to have a considerable estate." The father also declared in the deed that he was pleased at the prospect of his son's marriage to such "a worthy and virtuous person as the said Rebecca, and in consideration thereof, and from motives of affection" to his son, made the gift, the same to be void if the marriage was not solemnized in six months. The deed further recited that the property was then in the tenancy of Lieut. Gov. John Evans, who was living there with William Penn, Jr., Sec. James Logan, and Judge Roger Mompes- son. William Clarke, Jr., and Rebecca Curtis were married, but the match could not have been a happy one, judging from subsequent events. In fact, William Clarke, the younger, in less than fourteen years ran through his property and does not seem to have been in a condition to make arrangements with his creditors. The Assembly of Pennsylvania, May 3, 1718, passed an act in which it was direct- ed that the house and lot at Third and Chestnut streets should be vested in Charles Read and others as trustees, to be sold for the payment of the debts of William Clarke, Sr., and William Clarke, Jr. These trustees, by deed of December 8, 1718, sold the property to Anthony Houston, and nine days afterwards Houston convey- ed it to Andrew Hamilton, in fee. By virtue of this conveyance Hamilton occu- pied the house as his city residence during the remainder of his lifetime, but for a considerable period after the purchase he must have felt that he was residing in a house to which he had no legal title, although he paid a full and adequate price for it, for the reason that all laws passed by the Assembly of Pennsylvania were re- quired to be submitted for the approval of the Privy Council of England, and it frequently happened that laws passed by the Assembly were repealed by the Privy Council, sometimes to the injury of the community and private individuals, as in this case. The Act of Assembly providing for the sale of the Clarke property was repealed by the Privy Council, and Mr. Hamilton was laid under the disadvantage of occupying premises from which there was a possibility he would be dispos- sessed. In fact, suit was commenced in the High Court of Chancery in England by some of the representatives of William Clarke, Jr., which, after the usual delay, was brought to a decree which set forth that the defendant, Andrew Hamilton, had no title to the premises. Andrew Hamilton was deceased at the time the de- cree was given, but his son, James Hamilton, entered into a compromise with the claimants, and February 8, 1743, Rebecca Richardson, then widow of Zacharias Richardson, but formerly widow of William Clarke, Jr., and her surviving chil- dren by Clarke, viz., Rebecca, wife of Edward Evans, and Elizabeth Clarke, who afterwards married Samuel Means, Jr., of Paxtang, conveyed their rights in "Clarke Hall," to James Hamilton ; Mary and Ann Clarke, two other daughters
383
CRISPIN
of William and Rebecca (Curtis) Clarke, having died in their minority, unmarried and without issue. It is said that it was part of the bargain that one of the heirs, a daughter of William Clarke, the second, should be maintained for life on the premises, and it is tolerably well established that one of the Clarkes did live in the house until her death, both under the Hamiltons and their successors in title, the Pembertons, James Hamilton having sold "Clarke Hall" on February 5, 1745, to Israel Pemberton, the elder.
Mary (Watts) Mercur, first wife of Henry Mercur, died at Towanda, Decem- ber 14, 1830, and he married (second) July 25, 1844, Harriet Byron, daughter of William and Maria Briggs, of Towanda. She was born May 4, 1821, died Febru- ary 19, 1890.
Issue of Henry and Mary (Watts) Mercur:
Henry Spaulding Mercur, b. Aug. 29, 1811, d. Aug. 7, 1869; m. April 17, 1836, Sarah Azuba Guernsey, at Oxford, N. Y .; their second son, Henry Mercur, b. May 3, 1830, d. July 21, 1882, m. Oct. 16, 1866, at Davisville, Bucks co., Pa., Anna Mary, dau. of James Erwin, by his wife, Ann Hart Davis, before mentioned;
James Watts Mercur, b. Sept. 23, 1813, d. May 22, 1863, m. Oct. 3, 1837, Harriet Amelia, dau. of Daniel and Jane Bartlett, of Towanda, Pa .; no issue;
Mahlon Clarke Mercur, b. Feb. 6, 1816; m. (first) Helen Marr Kingsbury; (second) Anna Hubbard Jewett; had issue by both wives;
ULYSSES MERCUR, b. Aug. 12, 1818; d. June 6, 1887; m. Sarah Simpson Davis; of whom presently;
Hiram Mercur, b. April 6, 1821, d. Feb. 29, 1848;
Eliza Jane, b. Dec. 29, 1828, d. April 22, 1841.
HON. ULYSSES MERCUR, fourth son of Henry and Mary (Watts) Mercur, was born at Towanda, Pennsylvania, August 18, 1818, and graduated with high honors at Jefferson College in 1848. He studied law and being admitted to the bar, prac- ticed his profession at Towanda, until 1861, when he was appointed President Judge of the Thirteenth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, to succeed Judge David Wilmot, of "Wilmot Proviso" fame. Judge Mercur presided over the courts of that district until 1864, when he resigned and accepted the unanimous nomination of the Republican party to represent his district in the National House of Repre- sentatives, and was elected. He served four terms in Congress with marked abil- ity, and in 1872 was elected to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, to succeed Chief Justice Thompson, and December 26, 1882, became Chief Justice, by seniority of commission, and continued to serve as such until his death, June 6, 1887. His career on the bench, and his decisions as a Justice, were typical of the man, pure, just, straightforward, logical, and consistent, without unnecessary ornamentation. At a Bar Meeting held at Pittsburg, in his honor and memory, one of the speakers said of him: "In connection with this office, nothing can be said of him that is not to his honor. There is no taint on the purity of his ermine, the hot breath of calumny has never touched him, and no question was ever made of the integrity of his life. His daily walk and conversation were pure and without reproach. He was distinguished by a saving common sense. His opinions have been accepted by the judgment of the profession as sound. They are clearly expressed, without ornament or affectation. They are consistent with the char- acter of the man, showing his industry, his uprightness, his straightforwardness, his ambition to do right, and are expressed in clear, simple, pure English. They will remain while the Commonwealth lasts, an enduring monument to his honor."
384
CRISPIN
Before his elevation to the bench, Judge Mercur took an active interest in the success of the Republican party, with whose policies and principles he was in entire accord ; he was a member of the first Republican Convention, held at Pitts- burg, in 1856, at the birth of the party to which he gave his unswerving allegiance thereafter. During his eight years in Congress, 1864-72, a critical period in the nation's history, he was universally recognized as a useful and influential member of that body, who had the best interests of his country at heart. Religiously he was a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and a regular attendant of its services.
Chief Justice Mercur married, as before stated, at her father's residence, Davis- ville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, June 12, 1850, Sarah Simpson Davis. She died at Towanda, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, April 20, 1896, having survived her distinguished husband nearly nine years; his death having occurred at the resi- dence of his son, James Watts Mercur, Wallingford, Delaware county, Pennsyl- vania, June 6, 1887.
Issue of Chief Justice Ulysses and Sarah S. (Davis) Mercur:
Rodney Augustus Mercur, b. Sept. 29, 1851; was educated at Harv. Univ., studied law, and became a prominent member of the Bradford county bar, practicing at Towanda, the place of his nativity. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution, and of the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Pennsyl- vania. He m. at Towanda, June 12, 1879, Mary, dau. of James Monroe and Louise (Overton) Ward, of Towanda, and they have been the parents of five children of whom but two survive :
Sarah Davis Mercur, b. June 14, 1881;
Rodney Augustus Mercur, Jr., b. June 24, 1884;
John Davis Mercur, b. at Towanda, July 14, 1853; educated at Harv. Univ .; studied medicine and is a practicing physician at Towanda. He is a member of the Pennsyl- vania Society, Sons of the Revolution. He m. Nov. 11, 1896, at Towanda, Jessie Corinne, dau. of James Harvey and Catharine Maria ( Phinney) Hildreth. She d. s. p. May 12, 1900, and he m. (second) Jan. 24, 1903, Sue Eyer Rahn;
Mary Eliza Mercur, b. at Towanda, May 4, 1855; m. there, Dec. 21, 1876, Benjamin Franklin Eshelman, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Gyger) Eshelman, b. March 10, 1847, d. Dec. 19, 1903, sometime Colonel and Judge Advocate of the National Guard of Pa .; they had six children;
JAMES WATTS MERCUR, b. Dec. 3, 1856; m. Marietta Honore Denis; of them presently; Ulysses Mercur, Jr., b. March 12, 1867; graduated at Princeton, class of '88, studied law and was admitted to the Phila. bar; member of University and Princeton clubs of Phila., and of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution.
JAMES WATTS MERCUR, third son of Chief Justice Mercur, born at Towanda, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1856, prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, and at Andover Preparatory School, Andover, Massachusetts, and entered Harvard University in 1874, graduating from the latter institution in 1878, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He immediately entered the law office of his brother, Rodney A. Mercur, Esq., at Towanda, as a student at law, and was admitted to the Bradford county bar, December 2, 1879, and in the same month was admitted to the bar, of Philadelphia county, and began the practice of law in this city. He was admitted to the bar of Delaware county, 1886, and since 1902 has had his office in Media, county seat of that county, previous to that time having an office on Walnut street, Philadelphia, and practicing in the several courts of that city. He is a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Delaware County Historical Society, Pennsylvania Soci-
385
CRISPIN
ety Sons of the Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Society of the War of 1812, of which latter society he is one of the executive committee. Politically Mr. Mercur is a Republican, and has represented his district in state and county conventions of that party. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church and was a vestryman of Christ Church, Media, Pennsylvania, for ten years. He and his family have resided for several years past at Wallingford, Delaware county. He is vice-president of Spring Haven Country Club, at Wallingford.
James Watts Mercur married, March 1, 1881, Marietta Elizabeth Honore Denis at Holy Trinity Church, Philadelphia, the ceremony being performed by Right Rev. William Bacon Stevens, Bishop of Pennsylvania ; the Rev. Nelson McVicar, Bishop of Rhode Island, assisting.
Mrs. Mercur was a daughter of Narcisse Francois Honore Denis, born at Gui- prez, France, February 9, 1799, by his wife, Marietta Randolph, born November 24, 1818, died July 2, 1901, daughter of William Randolph, a veteran of the war of 1812 born July 3, 1794, died in 1861. Samuel F. Randolph, great-grandfather of Mrs. Mercur, born May 2, 1762, died about 1800, was a minute-man of the New Jersey Militia, during the Revolutionary War, and her other maternal great- grandfather, Peter Tharp, enlisted June 20, 1777, in Captain William Gordon's company in the Third New Jersey Regiment, Colonel Elias Dayton, and was later transferred to Captain William Mitchell's company in the same regiment. Through her mother, Mrs. Mercur is also descended from Edward Fitz Randolph, and Elizabeth Blossom, of Barnstable, Massachusetts, who were married May 10, 1637, and from Adam Berkhoven, who came from Cologne to New Amsterdam, now New York, 1642, and married there, March 19, 1645, Magdalena Jacobse Verdan. The will of Adam Berkhoven was dated January 22, 1691-2, and probated, March 21, 1691-2.
Her father was a son of Pierre Geoffrey Denis, born 1757, died April 4, 1829, by his wife, Henriette Jeanne Georgine Maubec, and grandson of Geoffrey and Anne (Guichard) Denis, his maternal grandmother being an Honore. He was educated as a surgeon, but being unable to stand the sight of blood, took up the study of Chemistry and became expert in that science, being associated with the firm of Duval & Robiquet, one of the most prominent chemical establishments in Paris. He came to Philadelphia in 1832, and was engaged in the manufacture of chemicals and drugs in that city until 1856, when he retired from business, having accumulated a competence. Mrs. Mercur was born in Philadelphia, August 6, 1858, and was educated at the Moravian Seminary, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania ; Brooke Hall, Media; and at Miss Anna Mary Longstreth's school in Philadel- phia. She is a Daughter of the American Revolution, and was the founder and first regent of the Delaware County Chapter of that Society. She is also a mem- ber of the New Century Club.
Issue of James Watts and Marietta Elizabeth Honore (Denis) Mercur:
Marietta 'Denis Mercur, b. in Phila., Jan. 11, 1882; m. July 29, 1902, Thomas Cahall, Esq., of Phila bar, only child of Dr. Thomas Vickery and Ella (West) Cahall, of Frederica, Del .; b. in Del., graduated at Swarthmore College, and the Law Department of the Univ. Pa .; residing at Wallingford, Delaware county, but practicing law in Phila .; one child, viz. :
Honore Mercur Cahall, b. Jan. 22, 1904.
Sarah Davis Mercur, b. Sept. 2, 1886, at Wallingford, Delaware co .;
25
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.