Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 10

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 978

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About 1785 Samuel Wetherill took his eldest son, of the same name, into part- nership, and engaged in the drug business under the firm name of Wetherill & Son, on Front street, above Arch, where "Wetherill's Drug Store" was long an ancient landmark, and the place where his sons and grandsons were brought up in the business of manufacturing chemists.

The Wetherill firm was the pioneer in the manufacture of white lead in America in 1790. At about this date they erected a large establishment for its manufacture near Twelfth and Cherry streets, which was burned down in 1813, as it is believed by emissaries of English manufacturers, whose trade the Philadelphia factory had destroyed. The factory was, however, soon rebuilt and the business continued.

With or soon after the establishment of the drug business on Front street the

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Wetherills abandoned the textile manufacturing and turned their attention exclu- sively to the manufacture and sale of drugs, chemicals and paints.

Soon after his disownment from the Society of Friends, Samuel Wetherill with a number of other prominent men of Philadelphia, who had also been disowned for participation in the struggle for Independence, among whom were Col. Timothy Matlack, his brother, White Matlack, Col. Clement Biddle and his brother, Owen Biddle (a no less ardent patriot), Benjamin Say, Christopher Marshall, Joseph Warner, Moses Bartram, organized "The Religious Society of Friends, by some Styled the Free Quakers." Samuel Wetherill was the prime mover in this move- ment and the meetings of the society were held for a time at his house and that of Col. Matlack, as early as 1780. The minutes of the Society of Free Quakers open with the meeting held February 20, 1781, and April 24, 1781, they issued an ad- dress to the Society of Friends, published in the form of a "broadside," claiming a division or share in the property of the Society ; later appealing to the Legisla- ture on the same subject. A subscription was started for the erection of a meeting- house which was contributed to by Washington, Franklin and a number of others beside the members, and sufficient funds being raised, a Meeting House, still stand- ing, was erected at the southwest corner of Fifth and Arch streets, and later a lot was granted them by the State for a burial ground, on the east side of Fifth street, below Pine.

To the Wetherill family the Society owed largely, not only its inception, but its perpetuation and usefulness, four generations of the family having served as its clerk. Samuel Wetherill, Sr., was its first clerk and preacher, in the latter capacity attracting considerable attention by his able, logical and eloquent discourses, so much so that the meetings were often visited by numbers of prominent people when it was known that he was expected to preach. Samuel Wetherill continued to preach after he became so feeble that he was carried from his carriage to the "gallery" in a chair. He was a member of Common Council of city of Philadel- phia, chairman of Yellow Fever Committee of that body in 1793, as well as one of the most active of the water committee. He died September 24, 1816.

Samuel Wetherill married, April 5, 1762, at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Sarah, born August 27, 1734, died July 27, 1816, daughter of Mordecai Yarnall, a valued minister of the Society of Friends, by his first wife, Catharine Meredith. Francis Yarnall, father of Mordecai, with his brother Philip, emigrated from Cloynes, county Worcester, England, and settled in Springfield township, now Del- aware county, where 100 acres of land were surveyed to Francis Yarnall, October 17, 1683. He married, in 1686, Hannah Baker, of the Baker family of Edgmont, and later took up 510 acres of land in Willistown township, where he died in 1721. He was a member of Colonial Assembly in 1711, and a prominent member of the Society of Friends. Mordecai Yarnall, youngest of nine children of Francis and Hannah (Baker) Yarnall, born in Willistown township, now Delaware county, September 1I, 1705, died in Springfield township, about the commencement of the Revolutionary War. He married (first) Catharine Meredith; (second) Mary Roberts ; (third), in 1768, Ann, widow of Joseph Maris.

About 1750 he removed from Willistown to Philadelphia, and resided there until his third marriage, when he removed to Springfield.

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Issue of Samuel and Sarah (Yarnall ) Wetherill:

Mary Wetherill, b. Jan. 28, 1763, d. inf .;

SAMUEL WETHERILL, JR., b. April 27, 1764, d. Feb. 22, 1829; m. Rachel Price; of whom presently;

Mordecai Wetherill, b. Dec. 8, 1766, d. March 24, 1826; m. Martha (1782-1830), dan of Edward and Sarah (Stille) Yorke, of Phila., and granddaughter of Thomas and Mar- tha (Potts) Yorke, an account of whom and some of their descendants is given in these volumes; Mordecai and Martha ( Yorke) Wetherill had one son,

Samuel Wetherill, b. 1801, d. 1843; m. his cousin, Jane Loveridge, dan. of his mother's brother, Peter Yorkc, by his wife, Mary Haines.

Anna Wetherill, b. Aug., 1769, d. inf .;

John Wetherill, b. Feb. 5, 1772, d. March 24, 1851; m. Susan, dau. of Reuben and Sarah Garrison, and had issue :

Sarah Wetherill, m., 1823, Frederick Montmollin, and had issue;

Harriet Wetherill, m., 1825, David Kyle, and (second) Hugh M. Ward, and had issue by both ;

Martha Bryan Wetherill, d. unm., March 8, 1871 ;

Susan Wetherill, m., 1849, Paul Hewitt Cushman, and had issue;

Rebecca Wetherill, d. unm., at her residence at the southeast corner of Broad and Walnut streets, Phila., Feb., 1908;ª

Edward Wetherill, Esq., of Phila., m. June 4, 1863, Anna, dau. of Amos and Mary (Newbold) Thorpe, and had issue :

Edith Wetherill, b. April 16, 1869; m., Nov. 15, 1900, Frederick Mervin Ives, M. D., of N. Y .;

Marian Wetherill, b. Dec. 6, 1870;

Blanche Wetherill, b. Nov. 16, 1871, was a student at the Univ. of Pa., 1890-1;

Irma Wetherill, b. Sept. 5, 1872;

Cora Wetherill, b. Dec. 4, 1876.

Sarah Wetherill, b. Sept. 7, 1776, d. Feb. 16, 1840; m., Jan. 3, 1799, Joshua Lippincott, of Phila., b. Aug. 1, 1772, d. Aug. 11, 1836; they had issue :

Sarah Ann Lippincott, b. 1800, d. 1862; m., Jan. 10, 1821, Benjamin W. Richards; Mary Lippincott, d. unm .;

Silina Lippincott, h. Oct. 16, 1803, d. unm., July 11, 1871;

Samuel W. Lippincott, b. March 15, 1806, d. July 20, 1859, unm .;

William Lippincott, m. Mary Wilson; no issue;

Joshua Lippincott, b. Nov. 21, 1814, d. Oct. 23, 1880; m., May 21, 1839, Agnes Keene, and had issuc:

James Dundas Lippincott, b. June 6, 1840, d. 1905; m. (first), April 2, 1867, Alice Potter, (second) ; no issue; Anna Maria Dundas Lippincott, m., June 9, 1868, William Wilberforce Wurts, now Dundas.

SAMUEL WETHERILL, JR., eldest son of Samuel and Sarah (Yarnall) Wetherill, born in Philadelphia, April 27, 1764, became interested in the manufacturing establishments of his father at an early age, and on arriving at his majority, 1785, became a partner with him in the drug and chemical business on Front street, and later in the Twelfth street establishment, under the firm name of Samuel Wetherill & Son, in which his own sons later became partners. He was a member of Com- mon Council of Philadelphia, and like his father, and later his son, chairman of the water committee of that body.

He succeeded his father as clerk of the Society of Free Quakers and served until his death, September 29, 1829. He married, April 24, 1788, Rachel, born January 28, 1766, died February 9, 1844, daughter of John Price, of Reading, Pennsyl- vania, by his wife, Rebecca, daughter of Gen. Jacob Morgan, of Morgantown, Pennsylvania.

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Issue of Samuel and Rachel (Price) Wetherill:

Rebecca Price Wetherill, b. May 19, 1789, d. Dec. 2, 1869; m., June 17, 1809, William Henry Gumbes, b. at St. Martin's, West Indies, Ang. 18, 1784, d. Dec. 17, 1814; had one son-Samuel Wetherill Gumbes, of Phila., b. April 30, 1813, d. May 16, 1865; m., April 30, 1838, Frances Sarah D., dau. of John William and Isabel ( Ramsey) Macomb, who was b. Sept. 16, 1816, d., Montgomery co., Pa., April 18, 1896; they had issue :

William Henry Gumbes, b. March 19, 1839, d. Oct., 1879; m., Dec. 30, 1862, Eliza- beth Hildeburn, and had three sons, and two daughters; the youngest of the latter, Frances Sarah Dring Gumbes, b. June 1, 1877, m., Nov. 23, 1898, at Christ Church Chapel, Phila., Christian Irwin Boye Smith;

Charles Wetherill Gumbes, b. Nov. 2, 1841; m., Jan. 8, 1873, Mary Louise Cush- man, and had issue :

Rea Wetherill Gumbes, m., Feb. 9, 1899, Justin R. Sypher, of Phila .;

Charles Wetherill Gumbes, Jr., b. Feb. 13, 1875;

Francis Macomb Gumbes, b. Aug. 18, 1876; m. at Race Street Meetinghouse, Phila., June 6, 1900, Rebecca Palmer, of Phila .;

Isabella Bloomfield Gumbes, b. July 7, 1844; m., Dec. 6, 1866, Caleb Cresson.

Samuel Price Wetherill, b. June 26, 1790, d. Feb. 22, 1839; m., June 16, 1812, Martha Wyckoff, b. March 18, 1793, d. March 8, 1840, and had ten children, seven of whom d. unm .;

JOHN PRICE WETHERILL, b. Oct. 17, 1794, d. July 23, 1853; m., Aug. 14, 1817, Maria Kane Lawrence, b. 1797, d. Aug. 30, 1877; of whom presently;

Charles Wetherill, b. Dec. 17, 1798, d. Nov. 2, 1838; m., May 1, 1822, Margaretta S. Mayer, b. Aug. 31, 1804, d. Jan. 16, 1882, and had issue :

Charles M. Wetherill, m., Aug. 12, 1856, Mary C. Benbridge;

Margaretta Sybilla Wetherill, d. young;

Henry M. Wetherill, b. May 18, 1828; m., Nov. 7, 1847, his cousin, Rebecca Price, dan. of John P. Wetherill, and had issue;

Thomas M. Wetherill, m., 1851, Sarah Smith, and had issue;

Margaretta Mayer Wetherill, b. Jan. 17, 1833; m. Thomas J. Diehl, of Phila., and had issue;

Mayer Wetherill, b. 1836; m. Mary Ekeightly, of Phila .; living in Syracuse, N. Y. WILLIAM WETHERILL, M. D., b. Jan. 21, 1804, d. April 28, 1872; m. Isabella Macomb; of whom later;

Thomas B. Wetherill, b. 1806, d. 1814.

JOHN PRICE WETHERILL, son of Samuel Wetherill, Jr., by his wife, Rachel Price, born in Philadelphia, October 17, 1794, became identified with the drug, chemical and paint manufacturing establishment by his father and grandfather, at an early age, and was the representative of that important industry for many years. He was an enthusiastic student in his youth, becoming a member of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia, 1817, and was its Vice-President for many years. He became a member of the American Philosophical Society, 1827, and of the Franklin Institute soon after its founding. He was elected a member of the Geographical Society, in 1832; was honorary member of the Boston Society of Natural History, 1837 ; a member of the Mineralogical Society of St. Petersburg, 1844; of the American Society for the Advancement of Science, 1848, and in 1851 became a member of the New Jersey Society of Natural History. He became a member of the Second Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, and was its Captain for several years.

John Price Wetherill gave intelligent and active attention to the chemical busi- ness, maintaining fully the supremacy of the family in the drug business. It was as a public man, however, that he was best known to his fellow citizens. He was elected to Common Council of city of Philadelphia, October 13, 1829, being the third generation of the family to serve in that capacity. After three years service was advanced to the Select Council, in which he served until his death, a period of

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nearly twenty-four years, taking a leading part in local legislation. Like his father he was chairman of the Water Committee of Councils, and dictated the policy of that department of local utility. He succeeded his father as clerk of the Society of Free Quakers, by this time greatly reduced in membership by the death of most of its original members and the return of others to the home fold in the Society of Friends, and he was for a time, prior to the abandonment of regular meetings for worship, almost the only regular attendant. Seeing the futility of the effort to maintain it as an ordinary meeting for religious worship, and desiring to perpetuate the organization in a manner that would place its property and revenues at the service of the poor and suffering, he organized a charitable society to whom the control of the property was transferred.

In 1841 the recently organized Apprentices' Library was induced to become a tenant of the building at a nominal rental, all of which was to be used in the pur- chase of books suitable for the readers it was designed to reach.

John Price Wetherill was succeeded as clerk, at his death in 1853, by his son of the same name, who with other members of the family held the Society together, and in 1882 they resolved to hold meetings on the first Wednesday of November of each year, a rule which has been since followed with much success, William H. Wetherill being the present clerk, representing the fifth of the family to serve in that capacity.

John Price Wetherill died July 23, 1853, after a short illness contracted while serving as a member of the committee appointed by Select Council to receive Presi- dent Franklin Pierce on his visit to Philadelphia. He was President of the Schuyl- kill Bank from 1846 to his death, and identified with a number of other institutions of his native city, and senior member of the family drug firm, then known as Wetherill & Brother.

John Price Wetherill married, August 14, 1817, Maria Kane, born May 24, 1797, died August 30, 1877, daughter of John Prescott Lawrence, M. D., of Fort Ed- ward, New York, by his wife, Abigail Kane, and a descendant through twenty-two generations from Sir Robert Lawrence, of Ashton Hall, Lancaster county, Eng- land, a Crusader, knighted by Richard Coeur de Lion at the siege of Acre, A. D., 1191, born 1150, died 1208. He was of the same lineage as George Washington, he being also a descendant of Sir Robert Lawrence. Mrs. Wetherill's first Amer- ican ancestor, Henry Lawrence, of Wisset, county Suffolk, settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1635, His great-grandson, Col. William Lawrence, of Goshen, Massachusetts, born May 11, 1697, died May 19, 1764, married, 1722, Susanna, granddaughter of John Prescott, of the Prescotts of Standish, Lancashire, who emi- grated to Massachusetts in 1640. Rev. William Lawrence, of Lynn, Massachu- setts, son of Col. William and Susanna ( Prescott) Lawrence, born May 7, 1723, married, 1751, Love, daughter of John Adams by his wife, Love Minot, and was a second cousin of Samuel Adams, the Signer of the Declaration of Independence. John Prescott Lawrence, M. D., father of Mrs. Wetherill, was a son of Rev. Will- iam and Love (Adams) Lawrence. Abigail Kane was a daughter of John Kane by his wife Sybil (m. 1756), daughter of Elisha Kent, and was a first cousin to Elisha Kent Kane, the Arctic explorer.

Issue of John Price and Maria Kane (Lawrence) Wetherill:

Rachel Wetherill. b. Sept. 17, 1818, d. unm .;

Elizabeth K. Wetherill, b. March 1, 1820, d. unm .;

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SAMUEL WETHERILL, b. May 27, 1821, d. June 24, 1890; m. Sarah Maria Chattin, (sec- ond) Thyrza A. James; of whom presently;

Maria Lawrence Wetherill, b. April 19, 1823; m., Jan. 11, 1843, John L. Janeway, and had seven children;

John Price Wetherill, 2d, b., Phila., Aug. 4, 1824, d., Germantown, Sept. 17, 1888; gradu- ated at Univ. of Pa., 1843, engaged in manufacturing chemicals, etc., in Phila .; was a member of Select Council; one of the Guardians of the Poor; member of the Board of Education; Inspector of Moyamemsing Prison; member of the Constitutional Con- vention, 1873; member of Board of Finance of the Centennial Exposition, 1876; presi- dent of Board of Trade of Phila .; director of Penna. R. R. Co., 1874-88; president of American Steamship Co. and of Western Savings Fund Society of Phila .; member of American Philosophical Society from 1878 to his death; m., Nov. 9, 1847, Caroline, dan. of Thomas Brinton Jacobs, by his wife, Jane Bowen, and they had issue, beside four children who died in infancy, two children, viz .:

CAROLINE JACOBS WETHERILL, b. April 14, 1850; m., Oct. 20, 1870, Francis Dring Wetherill, son of Dr. William and Isabel ( Macomb) Wetherill; of whom later; Albert Lawrence Wetherill, b. Feb. 15, 1852; m., Feb. 24, 1892, Frances Pearsall, dan. of A. E. Lahens, of New York City.

Elisha Kane Wetherill, b. May 2, 1828, d. June 23, 1836;

Rebecca Price Wetherill, b. Jan. 17, 1830; m., Nov. 17, 1847, Henry Mayer Wetherill, son of Charles and Margaretta ( Mayer) Wetherill; graduate of Univ. of Pa., class of 1844; b., Phila., May 18, 1828, d., Germantown, Sept. 6, 1896; they had issue :

Margaretta, d. inf .;

Charles Wetherill, b. July 31, 1850; a member of the Phila. Bar;

Henry M. Wetherill, Jr., M. D., b. Dec. 14, 1851 ; m., Jan. 5, 1882, Florence Sirecker ; d. July 24, 1904;

Rebecca Price Wetherill, b. June 29, 1854; m., Dec. 30, 1879, Paul L. Tiers; Mary Lawrence Wetherill, b. Aug. 18, 1864; m. Christopher Wetherill, Jr., son of Christopher and Anna Wetherill.

COL. SAMUEL WETHERILL, eldest son of John Price Wetherill by his wife, Maria K. Lawrence, born in Philadelphia, May 27, 1821, was educated in that city. At an early age he entered the White Lead and Chemical Works of Wetherill & Brother, the firm being composed of his father and uncle, and became thoroughly familiar with both branches of the business.

In 1850 he entered the employ of the New Jersey Zinc Company at Newark, New Jersey, as chemist, and became deeply interested in the manufacture of zinc. In 1852, after many carefully conducted experiments, he evolved a process for the manufacture of white oxide of zinc direct from the ore, and in 1853 organized the Lehigh Zinc Company and erected the Lehigh Zinc Works, at what is now South Bethlehem, known thereafter for many years as Wetherill, in honor of its pioneer manufacturer. He here introduced his newly patented process known as the Wetherill Furnace for the manufacture of zinc, being the first to produce metallic zinc, commercially, in America, and in 1857 produced the ingot from which was rolled the first sheet of metallic zinc in the United States.

Soon after the breaking out of the Civil War, Samuel Wetherill recruited at Bethlehem two companies of Cavalry, and was commissioned Captain, August 19, 1861, and assigned to Harlan's Light Cavalry, afterwards the Eleventh Pennsyl- vania Cavalry, with which he saw hard service with the Army of the Potomac, and later with the Army of the James. He was promoted to Major, October 1, 1861, and at different periods had command of the regiment, and often was detailed on detached duty with his battalion. His last military service was as chief of staff to Gen. Kautz, commanding the cavalry of the Army of the James. He was beloved by his officers and men, having not only the respect and confidence of his subordi- nate and superior officers as a soldier and an officer, but secured their regard and

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esteem as a gentleman. He was brevetted Lieutenant Colonel, United States Vol- unteers, March 13, 1865, "for gallant and meritorious services throughout the cam- paign of 1864, against Richmond, Virginia." He was honorably mustered out September 30, 1864, and returned to the manufacturing business, from which he retired in later life. He died at Oxford, Talbot county, Maryland, June 24, 1890.

Samuel Wetherill married (first) January 1, 1844, Sarah Maria, born July 3, 1821, died July 3, 1869, daughter of - and Hannah (Lane) Chattin ; (sec- ond), October 14, 1870, Thyrza A., daughter of John and Martha T. (Wilson) James.

Issue of Col. Samuel and Sarah Maria (Chattin) Wetherill:

JOHN PRICE WETHERILL, 3d, b. Nov. 13, 1844, d. Nov. 3, 1903; m. Alice D. Cortright; of whom presently ;

SAMUEL PRICE WETHERILL, b. May 17, 1846; m. Christine Northrop; of whom presently; Sarah Maria Wetherill, b. Aug. 24, 1849, d. Aug., 1850;

Georgianna Wetherill, b. Nov. 12, 1847; m., Nov. 24, 1869, Walter E. Cox, and had issue : Walter Wetherill Cox, b. Feb. 22, 1874; m., Aug. 8, 1900, Olivia Knight, and had issue: Edwin Knight, Virginia Knight;

Robert Sayers Cox, b. Aug. 22, 1875, d. inf .;

William John Cox, 'b. March 7, 1878;

Sarah Maria Cox, b. Dec. 20, 1880; m., June 1, 1901, Edmund Trowbridge Satchel, and had issue: Georgiana Wetherill Satchel, b. April 21, 1904;

Eugenia Madeline Cox, b. March 27, 1882; m., March, 1900, Henry A. Fibro, and had issue :

Henry Fibro, b. Dec. 22, 1902;

Walter Wetherill Fibro, b. Oct., 1905;

Louis Nelthorp Fibro, b. Oct. 27, 1906.

Mary Edith Cox, b. March 12, 1886; m., May 17, 1905, Charles Everitt Buffington. William C. Wetherill, b. Nov. 22, 1851 ; m., Jan. 22, 1880, Sarah A. Campbell, and had issue :

Elizabeth G. Wetherill, b. Nov. 20, 1881; Gertrude Wetherill.

Maria Kane Lawrence Wetherill, b. July 27, 1858, d. Jan. 2, 1860;

Rachel Elizabeth Wetherill, b. Dec. 30, 1860, d. June 2, 1863.

Issue of Col. Samuel and Thyrza A. (James) Wetherill:

Elisha Kent Kane Wetherill, b. Sept. 1, 1874;

Thyrza James Wetherill, d. inf .;

Maria Kane Wetherill, b. Sept. 24, 1877.

JOHN PRICE WETHERILL, 3d., eldest son of Col. Samuel Wetherill, by his first wife, Sarah Maria Chattin, was born in Belleville, New York, November 13, 1844. He prepared for college at private schools and graduated from the Polytechnic College of Philadelphia as a Civil and Mining Engineer. He was connected with the mining and engineering department of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company and the Philadelphia & Reading Iron & Coal Company until 1881, being located at Pottsville, Pennsylvania. In 1881 he became associated with his younger brother, Samuel Price Wetherill, and Richard and August Heckscher, in the pur- chase of the Lehigh Zinc Works at South Bethlehem, founded by his father, and became manager of the works. He retained this position until the consolidation of the company with the New Jersey Zinc Company, of which latter company he was a director and consulting engineer until his retirement in 1905.

In 1895 John Price Wetherill invented and patented and put into operation at the 22

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Lehigh Zinc Works, the Wetherill Magnetic Concentrating Process for treating refractory ores. This important invention, which gave Mr. Wetherill a high place in metallurgical science, is described in detail in a paper presented at the Pittsburg meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, February, 1896, by Prof. H. B. C. Nitze, and published in the transactions of the Society, and was also pub- lished in the Journal of the Franklin Institute for April, 1897.

John Price Wetherill was one of the most popular members of the Philadelphia Art Club, and possessed considerable artistic talent, painting a number of excellent water-colors of rural scenes and landscapes. He was a member of the Union League, Rittenhouse, Philadelphia Country, Merion Cricket, Radnor Hunt, Cor- inthian Yacht, New York Yacht, Bicayne Bay Yacht, and Manufacturers clubs; a member of the Society of the Cincinnati; of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution, and was the organizer of the Pohoqualine Fishing Association, of Monroe county, Pennsylvania, of which he was president for ten years. He died at his residence, 2014 Walnut street, Philadelphia, November 9, 1906, after a year's illness.

John Price Wetherill married, January 20, 1869, Alice D., born at Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1847, daughter of Ira Cortright, a prominent coal oper- ator of that section, by his wife, Margaret Sherry, and a descendant of Sebastian Van Kortright, of an ancient family of Flanders, who came to New Amsterdam, now New York, in the ship, "Brindle Cow," April 16, 1665, with his two sons, Michael and Jan, and settled at Harlem, from whence some of his descendants mi- grated to the Wyoming Valley, prior to the Revolution.

Issue of John Price and Alice D. (Cortright ) Wetherill:

Margaret Wetherill, b. Feb. 8, 1870, d. Oct. 21, 1870;

Samuel Wetherill, b. May 10, 1871, d. April 24, 1872;

Ira Cortright Wetherill, b. Oct. 17, 1873; member of Rittenhouse, Country, Corinthian Yacht, and other clubs of Phila .; m. at Canon City, Cal., May 22, 1901, Elizabeth Josephine, only dau. of William P. Campbell, of Omaha, Neb., formerly of Baltimore, Md .; they had issue :

John Price Wetherill, 5th, b. March 13, 1902;

George Goddard Convers Wetherill, b. Nov. 24, 1905.

Anna Wetherill, b. Feb. 13, 1876; m. (first), Dec. 15, 1897, at St. Mark's Church, Phila., William H. Addicks, Esq., an eminent corporation lawyer of Phila., son of John E. and Barbara (O'Sullivan) Addicks, b. in Phila., March 4, 1854, d. there, Feb. 24, 1900; counsel for and member of the board of directors of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., and of the Schuylkill and East Side Railroad Co .; contributor to the Law Depart- ment of Univ. of Pa., etc .; (second), April 7, 1904, George C. Stout, M. D .; by her second husband she had issue :

Mary Stout, b. Feb. 14, 1905;

Rebecca Wetherill Stout, b. Nov. 11, 1906;

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 10

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed Publication date: 1911 Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 978

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 978