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(VII) SAMUEL TAYLOR BODINE, son of Samuel Tucker and Louisa Wylie ( Millikin) Bodine, was born in Philadelphia, August 23, 1854. From the Ger- mantown Academy, where he was a student from 1862 to 1869, he passed to the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in the class of 1873 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Mr. Bodine started his business career as a shipping clerk in the service of the Royersford (Pennsylvania) Iron Foundry Company, where he was employed until 1874. In a similar capacity he served the Cohansey Glass Company, of Bridgeton, New Jersey, in 1874-76. In the latter year he joined the force of Peter Wright & Sons, of Philadelphia, and within a short time of going there he was placed in charge of the commercial work of the repair shops and engineering department of the American and Red Star Steamship Lines, maintaining that association from 1876 to 1882.
It was in 1882 that Samuel Taylor Bodine began his long and valued associa- tion with the public utility service of his native city, Philadelphia. In that year he was elected secretary and treasurer of the United Gas Improvement Company, and in 1888 he was made general manager of the company. He was elected second vice-president in 1892, and in 1894 was advanced to first vice-president, and through all these years he continued to hold the title and to fill the position of gen- eral manager. When Thomas Dolan was elected executive head of the corporation, Mr. Bodine was made first vice-president, and in his dual capacity of vice-president
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and general manager he served until 1912, when he was elected president of the mammoth corporation, familiarly known to all Philadelphians and Pennsylvanians as the "U. G. I." Mr. Bodine served in the office of president until September I, 1926, when he resigned to become chairman of the board of directors, which posi- tion he holds at the present (1930) writing.
Among the numerous important interests with which Mr. Bodine is identified are the following: Director of the Philadelphia National Bank, the Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities, and Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company. He served as vice-chairman of the District Board of the East- ern Judicial District of Pennsylvania, under the Selective Service Act of May 18, 1917. Deeply interested in educational institutions, he is a trustee of the Episco- pal Academy of Philadelphia, while to his alma mater, the University of Pennsyl- vania, he gave the fine building known as the "Bodine Dormitory." On February 22, 1928, he was awarded by the University of Pennsylvania the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. He is a member, through right of his grandfather, Captain John Bodine, of the Sons of the Revolution, and belongs also to the Franklin Insti- tute, the Rittenhouse, Union League, University, and Merion Cricket clubs of Philadelphia, and to the University Club of New York. His religious fellowship is with the Presbyterian Church and his political affiliation with the Republican party.
Samuel Taylor Bodine married, November 15, 1883, at Germantown, Philadel- phia, Eleanor Gray Warden, daughter of William Gray and Sarah Wells (Bush- nell) Warden. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Bodine are :
1. Louise, married Dr. H. W. How, originally of New York City, and now of Rosemont, Pennsylvania.
2. Eleanor Gray, married William Graves Perry, of Boston, Massachusetts.
3. William Warden, whose biography follows this.
(VIII) WILLIAM WARDEN BODINE, only son of Samuel Taylor and Eleanor Gray (Warden) Bodine, was born in Philadelphia, October 18. 1887. His pre- paratory training was received in the Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia and at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. He next entered Harvard Univer- sity, from which he was graduated in 1909 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. A year of study abroad and in business in Philadelphia was followed by a course of study in the University of Pennsylvania Law School, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws at his graduation in the class of 1914. He was admitted to the bar of Pennsylvania, and entered directly upon the practice of law in association with the firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, of Philadelphia, with which he was only identified for a short time.
Mr. Bodine's official connection with The United Gas Improvement Company, with which he has had a steadily advancing career, was made in June, 1919, when he accepted the offer of the position of attorney to the company. He remained a member of the legal department until 1923. In 1922, he had been made assistant general counsel of the company, and in the autumn of the following year was made assistant to Lewis Lillie, vice-president and general manager of the organization. In October, 1924, he was appointed assistant general manager, and in December, 1925, was elected vice-president and appointed general manager in May, 1926.
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He now (1932) holds the position of vice-president in charge of finance of The United Gas Improvement Company.
Other interests of various purposes with which Mr. Bodine has official associa- tion are: a director of American Superpower Corporation, New York; First National Bank, Lumbermen's Insurance Company, Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company, Philadelphia National Insurance Company, and Provident Trust Com- pany, Philadelphia; a manager of Western Saving Fund Society, Philadelphia; a trustee of Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) Hospital, and Penn Mutual Life Insur- ance Company, Philadelphia.
A fine military record stands to the lasting credit of Mr. Bodine as an exponent of practical patriotism. He joined the First Troop of the Philadelphia City Cav- alry in 1912, and served with it during the trouble on the Mexican Border in 1916 and 1917. When the United States joined forces with the Allies in the prosecu- tion of the World War, he offered without delay his services to the Government and was assigned to the Field Artillery. He went overseas with the Forty-second (Rainbow) Division, and saw much active service as captain of Battery A, One Hundred Forty-ninth Field Artillery. Following the reorganization of the National Guard, in 1920, he joined the One Hundred Eighth Field Artillery as major, and has been lieutenant-colonel of the regiment since 1923.
In political alignment, Mr. Bodine votes with the Republicans, and is esteemed an earnest and influential member of his party. He is widely known for his prac- tical interest in the youth of Philadelphia and its environs, and his position in that highly commendable work is defined by his capacity as a vice-president of the Delaware and Montgomery Counties Council, Boy Scouts of America. In social and cultural relations he is well connected, as befits one of his family and position. He is a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Gulph Mills Golf Club, Harvard clubs of Philadelphia and New York, Merion Cricket Club, Penn Club, Pennsylvania Historical Society, Rittenhouse Club, and Union League. His religious fellowship is with the Protestant Episcopal Church.
William Warden Bodine married, April 29, 1915, in Philadelphia, Angela R. Forney, daughter of Brigadier-General James Forney and Jane de C. (Richard- son) Forney ; her father, a son of John W. Forney, of Philadelphia, was a general officer in the United States Marine Corps. Mr. and Mrs. William Warden Bodine are the parents of four children :
I. Samuel Taylor Bodine (2), born March 18, 1916.
2. William Warden Bodine, Jr., born May 29, 1918.
3. Jane Bodine, born March 16, 1920.
4. James Forney Bodine, born June 14, 1921.
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as associate judge until his death, which occurred February 12, 1880, in his seventy- sixth year.
It is stated that Judge Donaldson's middle name was Frazer, which suggests a connection with the powerful Scottish clan of that name. With the further asso- ciation of the name Donaldson, it is to be concluded quite strongly that the family came from the North of Ireland and was Protestant, and that they were also Cov- enanters who had been driven from Scotland during the sixteenth century when a great period of religious unrest was experienced.
Judge Donaldson married Violet Niles, daughter of John Nathan Niles, of Mansfield, Pennsylvania, and a descendant of John Niles, who came to America in 1635. This John Niles was said to be a grandson of John Rogers, born in 1500, died in 1555, a Cambridge Bachelor of Arts, who was installed rector of Holy Trinity, Queenhithe, London, and in 1534 went to Antwerp as chaplain to the Eng- lish merchants. There he met William Tyndale (1492-1536) and was converted by him to the Reformation movement. Tyndale, as is well known, had been for a long time an exile because of his heresy and attacks on Henry VIII, and because of his determination to send forth his revised translation of the Holy Scriptures. Tyndale was strangled and burned at the stake, October 6, 1536, but his work lived to furnish the framework of the Puritan movement in after years. John Rogers carried forward Tyndale's work of translation of the Bible and continued with vigor the attacks on "Pestilent popery, idolatry and superstition." His fol- lowing, however, was not equal to the party in power. He was sent to Newgate in January, 1554, by Bonner, who was the new Bishop of London, and was placed on trial, January 29, 1555, before a commission appointed by Cardinal Pole, and was executed at Smithfield, February 4, 1555. John Rogers was the first Protes- tant martyr of Queen Mary's reign.
Violet Niles was a sister of Colonel Lanson Niles, a noted Pennsylvania sol- dier, who assisted in organizing and was made colonel of the celebrated "Buck Tail" Regiment which served with great distinction during the Civil War. Colonel Niles had one son, now Rear Admiral Nathan Niles, United States Navy, retired, who commanded the American fleet in its historic world cruise during the admin- istration of President Roosevelt.
Judge and Mrs. Donaldson were the parents of a son, James Webster, of whom further.
(II) JAMES WEBSTER DONALDSON, son of Judge John F. and Violet ( Niles) Donaldson, was born in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. He served as a private in the Pennsylvania Regiment of Volunteer Infantry during the greater part of the Civil War and, in later years was prominent in the affairs of the Grand Army of the Republic. His permanent occupation, that of railway mail clerk, continued until his death in 1914. He married Emma Houghton, born in Wellsboro, died in 1924, at the age of eighty-four, daughter of Pharez Houghton, a direct descendant of the celebrated English family of which Lord Houghton was an important member. They were the parents of three children:
I. Harry James, of whom further.
2. Dr. John H., a surgeon dentist of Williamsport.
3. Mrs. Brown G. Ensign, of California.
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(III) DR. HARRY JAMES DONALDSON, son of James Webster and Emma (Houghton) Donaldson, was born in Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, December 28, 1873. He began his early education in the public schools of Wells- boro and followed this with four years at the Williamsport High School. He then matriculated for the medical course at the University of Pennsylvania and gradu- ated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in 1895. This was followed by a post-graduate course at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and at the cele- brated New York Polyclinic College Hospital.
Dr. Donaldson began medical practice in Williamsport, and served as resident physician at the Williamsport Hospital in 1895-96. He had a strong leaning toward specialization in surgery exclusively and to this end he attended the well- known clinics of the Drs. Mayo in Rochester, Minnesota. He eventually forsook the strictly internist field for that of major surgery. He conducted the Donaldson Private Hospital and also served as staff surgeon of the Danville Hospital for the Insane. From 1906 to 1910 he was a trustee of Blossburg Hospital, and in 1911 was elected abdominal surgeon-in-chief of Williamsport Hospital, which position he filled with his usual marked ability. In 1920, he was elected to the board of managers of Williamsport Hospital. His professional affiliations included the Lycoming County Medical Society, which he served as president; the Pennsyl- vania State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, and the American College of Surgeons of which he was a Fellow, and the Surgeons' Club of Roches- ter, Minnesota, of which he was a life member. He was the author, in 1927, of a "History of Surgery in Lycoming County."
Dr. Donaldson rendered a fine public service to the Commonwealth as a mem- ber of the Pennsylvania State Game Commission, to which he was named in 1914, and of which he was president for a time. He was vice-chairman of the State Conservation Board and chairman of its publicity committee, which last-named body achieved much of the work in connection with the passage of the $25,000,000 forestry bond issue by the Legislature in 1925. This has been classed as one of the greatest pieces of conservation legislation that has been passed in the history of the State. In 1923, the Donaldson State Game Refuge was created out of an area of 14,860 acres of timber land in Sullivan County, and dedicated as a perma- nent wild life sanctuary owned and controlled by the Commonwealth. This was ordered and done in recognition of Dr. Donaldson's magnificent work for con- servation. He also served as a national director of the Izaak Walton League, secretary of the Stream Pollution Association, and as a member of the State Sanitary Water Board. In political alignment, he was a strong, cooperative Republican, and his party received additional prestige from his activities and public service.
Dr. Donaldson was an influential member of the Williamsport Chamber of Commerce, and was popular in social affairs, belonging to the Old Colony Club of the United States and Foreign Countries, to various college fraternities to which he was bidden during his student days, and to the Williamsport Country Club, the Ross Club, and the Lions Club. He centered his religious effort in the Protestant Episcopal Church, in which faith his family continues to worship.
Dr. Harry James Donaldson married (first) Blanche Schriner, of Philadelphia,
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and (second), September 18, 1917, Ann Houser, of Dutch lineage, and a native of Williamsport. Children of first marriage:
I. Paul S.
2. John F.
Dr. Donaldson died suddenly in Savannah, Georgia, February 5, 1930, where he was spending the winter in an effort to regain his health.
In recording the accomplishments credited to Dr. Donaldson, the biographer has not been confined to the rehearsal of his contributions to medical and surgical advance. While these are in their category the high lights of the record, they fur- nish, as it were, illumination of that other service which he performed with equal ardor and fruitful results for humanity at large and the lower order of animals which all high-minded people love and whose numbers they seek to conserve.
(Family data. George P. Donehoo: "Pennsylvania History," Vol. V, pp. 3-4.)
Fortescue
The surname Fortescue is doubtless from the old French fortescue, "strong shield," referring probably to such a weapon carried by the primary bearer of the name. This, with the motto of the family, "Forte scutum salus ducum" (a strong shield is the safety of commanders), doubtless led to the fabrication of the vener- able and almost uniform tradition that the founder of the family, one Sir Richard le Fort, at the battle of Hastings was the safety of his commander, by bearing a strong shield in front of him, and hence acquired the addition of the French word "escue" to his name. The Norman origin of the family is fairly certain. In any event, it is certain that the family was established in the eleventh century, and con- tinues with unchanged name to this date. Through the centuries it has occupied a foremost place among the great families of England. In addition to the distin- guished American lines of Penn, Stockton, Crispin, and Wetherill, the ancestry of Horace Fortescue and his immediate family is directly and authentically brought down through the royal lines of England and France.
(I) JOSEPH FORTESCUE was born January 23, 1760, and died May 29, 1793. The records in the office of the Commissioner of Navigation of the Port of Phila- delphia in the Bourse Building show Joseph Fortesque was a second rate pilot on the Delaware River in the year 1784, and first rate pilot from May 16, 1786. Among the vessels with which his name is associated in their records is "Queen of France," Captain Archibald Fisher, from Madeira, 1784; brig "Charlestown- Packet," Captain Allibone, 1784; brig "Zenia," Captain Joseph Ashbridge.
Joseph Fortescue married, in 1784, Sarah Smith, granddaughter of Francis and Rachel (Zelley) Smith, who were married December 12, 1728. They were the parents of a son, Aaron Smith, who married Mary Crispin (Crispin IV). Aaron and Mary (Crispin) Smith were the parents of Sarah, who married Joseph Fortescue. Joseph and Sarah (Smith) Fortescue were the parents of :
1. Anne, born September 3, 1785, died August 13, 1817.
2. Thomas Smith, of whom further.
3. Joseph, born April 29, 1793, died in 1840; married, in 1815, Sarah Shetzline. (Family data.)
(II) THOMAS SMITH FORTESCUE, son of Joseph and Mary (Smith) Fortes- cue, was born July 9, 1787, and died January 16, 1865. He married, December 12, 1813, Martha Lyle, born December 15, 1792, and died July 14, 1868. They were the parents of :
1. Joseph Lyle, born October 9, 1814.
2. Mary Emma, born January 26, 1819, died August 6, 1819.
3. Amanda Melonia, born March 20, 1820, married Henry Roberts.
4. Walter Lyle, born November 3, 1822, died December 29, 1822.
5. Thomas Smith, married, March 31, 1850, Louisa Jane Ballenger, born in 1823, died September 7, 1873.
6. Sarah Smith, born in 1825, died in August, 1825.
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7. Walter Scott, of whom further.
8. Mary Lyle, born September 8, 1828; married, July 2, 1854, Samuel Gideon Baggé, born May 11, 1821, died May 28, 1880.
9. Henry Clay, married Mary de Bender.
10. Francis Hodson, born October 23, 1832; married, July 25, 1854, Jane Bowler.
11. William Mason, born April 1, 1835; married, in September, 1856, Susan P. Jenkins. (Ibid.)
(III) WALTER SCOTT FORTESCUE, son of Thomas Smith and Martha (Lyle) Fortescue, was born August 27, 1826. He married, November 4, 1857, Maria Chase Grey, born October 10, 1836, died December 18, 1914. They were the par- ents of :
I. Charles, born October 11, 1858, died May 10, 1878.
2. Grace, born January 21, 1861, died in 1892.
3. Mary, born September 19, 18'2, died January 19, 1885.
4. Walter Lyle, born May 7, 1872.
5. Horace, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(IV) HORACE FORTESCUE, son of Walter Scott and Maria Chase (Grey) Fortescue, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1873. He received his early education in private schools of his native city, Philadelphia. By an early firm determination to gain for himself a noteworthy place in the world of finance and commerce. Mr. Fortescue, having entered The Philadelphia National Bank in 1893 as junior clerk, soon rose from this position. He served in various departments of the bank as clerk and teller, gaining from each position a fund of valuable information, which together with his own innate ability, enabled him to fill the position of assistant cashier capably and efficiently. In 1915, Mr. Fortescue accepted the positions of vice-president and cashier, and in 1917, resigned from the office of cashier, continuing as vice-president. Mr. Fortescue is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars in Pennsylvania, the Church Club, and the Business Science Club. He is a member of the vestry and serves as rector's warden of Grace Church, Mt. Airy.
Horace Fortescue married, in Germantown, Philadelphia, October 2, 1899, Laura Irene Archambault, daughter of Frank L. and Eliza (Boggs) Archambault. They have one son, Frank Archambault Fortescue, born November 18, 1902, who married, in Paris, April 20, 1925, Marjorie Hill, and they in turn have one son, George Horace Fortescue, born in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, September 19, 1927.
Viewing his life in the light of his past record, we may readily expect a succes- sion of future noteworthy achievements.
(Ibid.)
(The Penn Line).
The family of Penn was doubtless originally Welsh. The name itself is dis- tinctly of Welsh origin, and a word in common use in that language, signifying a head, or highland. Penn himself is said to have stated that he was of Welsh origin, and that one of his ancestors had come from Wales into England. This ancestor, John Tudor, "lived upon the top of a hill or mountain in Wales," and was generally called John Penmurith, or "John on the top of a hill," hence ultimately John Penn.
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(I) WILLIAM PENN was of Mintye and Penn's Lodge, county of Wilts. We know but little of his life, but from an old letter we know him to have "lived in a genteel ancient House," viz .: Penn's Lodge, and was of enough consequence to be buried before the altar of the Church at Mintye, and there is a tablet to his memory in the same church. He died March 12, 1591-92, and his will, proved in 1592, is recorded in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. The will of William Penn, of Penn's Lodge, dated May 1, 1590, shows that his son, William, was deceased at that date.
(Jordan : "Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania," Vol. I, pp. 1-2.)
(II) WILLIAM PENN, JR., son of William Penn, was placed by his father with Christopher Georges, then a counsellor-at-law, "to be bred up by him, and with whom he lived many years as his chief clerk, till he married him to one of his sis- ter Ann George's daughters by Mr. John Rastall, then one of the aldermen of Gloucester." As shown by the will of his father, he died prior to May 1, 1590. He was survived by his wife, Margaret (Rastall) Penn, and by six children :
I. George, succeeded to estates of his grandfather at Mintye, and had a son William.
2. Giles, of whom further.
3. William.
4. Marie.
5. Sara.
6. Susanna, married Richard Cusse of Wooton Basset, in Wilts, in 1633.
(Ibid.)
(III) GILES PENN, son of William and Margaret (Rastall) Penn, married, November 5, 1600, Joan Gilbert, of the Gilberts of New York. He became a cap- tain in the Royal Navy, and afterwards was for many years a consul for the Eng- lish trade in the Mediterranean, to which position he was appointed about 1635. Captain Giles and Joan (Gilbert) Penn are known to have had at least four children :
I. George, born in 1601, died in 1664.
2. Rachel, of whom further.
3. Eleanor, died November 24, 1612.
4. (Admiral) William, born in Bristol, England, in 1621, passed his life in active service in the navy ; captain in 1654; admiral in 1655; married, January 6, 1643-44, Margaret, widow of Nicholas van der Schuren, and daughter of John Jasper.
(Ibid.)
(IV) RACHEL PENN, daughter of Captain Giles and Joan (Gilbert) Penn, was baptized at St. Mary, Radcliffe, February 24, 1607. She married Raphe Brad- shaw, born in 1611, son of Lawrence and Sarah (Hinchman) Bradshaw, who resided at Hope, County Lancaster, England. Raphe and Rachel (Penn) Brad- shaw were the parents of Rebecca Bradshaw, who, according to a theory recently propounded by descendants of the Crispin family, married William Crispin (Cris- pin I), whose wife the older theory held to be Anne Jasper, sister of Margaret Jasper, who married Admiral William Penn.
(Ibid. Sir William Dugdale: "Visitation of Lancashire," Vol. LXXXIV, p. 53.)
(The Stockton Line).
From two old English words, stoc and tun, the surname Stockton is derived. The former means "the stock or stem of a tree," and the latter, "an inclosure," is
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the root from which the word "town" is taken. The family is of Saxon blood, having been settled in England long before the Norman Conquest. The spelling was originally de Stocton, later Stockton, and some members of the family have changed it to Stoughton. There are numerous small towns of the name in the English countryside, from which the family name arose about the eleventh century.
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