Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 11

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

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Margaret Stout, b. Dec. 28, 1907.

Alice Wetherill, b. March 20, 1878, d. Aug. 20, 1878;

Florence Wetherill, b. Aug. 11, 1881 ; m., Jan. 3, 1906, Graham Wood, son of George and Mary S. (Hunn) Wood, of Phila .; had issue :

Sibyl Kent Wood, b. Nov. 13, 1907, d. inf .;

Mary Hunn Wood, b. Nov. 13, 1907, d. inf.

John Price Wetherill, 4th, b. April 18, 1883; president of the Wetherill Pneumatic Cast- ing Co., etc .; m. Catharine Hall;

William Chattin Wetherill, b. Aug. 16, 1886; a student in the Scientific Department of Univ. of Pa., 1908;

Carl Augustus Heckscher Wetherill, b. Oct. 15, 1889; student at the DeLancy School, Phila., 1908.

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SAMUEL PRICE WETHERILL, second son of Samuel and Sarah Maria (Chattin) Wetherill, was born at Saugerties, New York, May 17, 1846. He was educated at Nazareth Hall Military Academy, Pennsylvania, and the Model School, Trenton, New Jersey, and commenced his business career in the employ of Wetherill & Brother, white lead manufacturers and wholesale druggists, in Philadelphia.

In 1868 he left the old family firm and started into business for himself as a commission merchant in paints and drugs. Shortly after this venture he organized the S. P. Wetherill Company, for the manufacture of paints, at Twenty-second street and Allegheny avenue, Philadelphia, and has served as president of the com- pany from its organization to the present time.

Samuel Price Wetherill was associated with his brother, John Price Wetherill, and the Heckscher Brothers in the purchase of the Lehigh Zinc Company, at South Bethlehem, 1880, and on its absorption by the New Jersey Zinc Company, became a director of that company and still fills that position. He is a member of the Union League, Rittenhouse, Philadelphia, Racquet, and Philadelphia Gun clubs of Philadelphia.

Samuel Price Wetherill married, February 6, 1872, Christine, born February 21, 1852, daughter of George Northrop, Esq., of Philadelphia, by his wife, Sarah, daughter of George Deacon Wetherill, of Philadelphia, before mentioned. George Northrop was born in Philadelphia, March 27, 1822, died there May 30, 1896. He graduated at Yale and studied law with Hon. George M. Dallas, in Philadelphia, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, September 13, 1845. He practiced his profession in that city for a half century and acquired a high position in the legal fraternity, establishing a wide reputation for clear and vigorous argument as an advocate, and a careful and conscientious counselor.

Early in life George Northrop became identified with the Democratic party and took an active part in its councils and contests. He took a prominent part in the movement that led to the consolidation of the city in 1854, and was chairman of the Press Committee in the preparation for the grand ball given in honor of the Consolidation on its consummation. He was elected to the Common Council from the Twenty-first Ward, 1860, and served for several years. In 1864 he was Dem- ocratic candidate for Congress in Fourth District of Philadelphia county against Hon. William D. Kelley, and displayed brilliant oratorical powers in a joint debate with the "father of protection," but was defeated at the polls. Mr. Northrop con- tinued his activity in public affairs, and in 1887 was a candidate for City Solicitor against Charles F. Warwick, later Mayor of the city, and was again defeated. Mr. Northrop was a member of the Rittenhouse Club, and the Philadelphia Gun Club. His wife, Sarah Wetherill Northrop, survived him. Beside Mrs. Christine (North- rop) Wetherill, he had two other children, Isabella, wife of James O. McHenry, of Edgewater Park, New Jersey, and Dr. Katharine Northrop, who died at Read- ing, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1899. The latter was graduated from the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia, and practiced in Philadelphia for several years. She later accepted the position of Chief Resident Physician of the Women's De- partment of the Warren Hospital. In 1896 she was made Chief of the Women's Department of the State Asylum for the Insane at Wernersville, Pennsylvania, and was acting in that capacity at the time of her decease.

The Northrop family, founded in Pennsylvania by George Northrop about 1681, is of English origin, though tradition relates that three representatives of the fam-

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ily found a temporary home in Holland prior to their emigration to America, John to New England, Samuel to the Carolinas and George to Pennsylvania. It is thought that they came from Norfolk county, England, where a parish still bears their name. It has also been suggested that the name was originally Northope, as there is an old seat in Flintshire, Wales, known as Northope Hall.

George Northrop, great-great-great-grandfather of George Northrop, Esq., first above mentioned, settled in Lower Dublin township, Philadelphia, now Mont- gomery county, about 1682, on a plantation of 100 acres. He died there in 1707, and his wife Susanna, November 12, 1748, and they are buried at Pennypack Bap- tist Churchyard. His will was probated at Philadelphia, May 26, 1707. Jolin and Susanna Northrop had children, George, Susanna, Alice, Elizabeth and Mary.

George Northrop, Jr., son of George and Susanna, also resided in Lower Dublin township. He united with Pennypack Baptist Church by baptism, March 31, 1739, died in December, 1780. He married Elinor (Nice, Neus, Newes), daughter of Hans de Nyce, a Mennonite preacher of Germantown, founder of Nicetown, in what was then known as the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia, where he afterwards resided. He was a native of Crefeld, on the Rhine, and one of the pioneer (Hol- land ) settlers in Pennsylvania. He died May 23, 1708, and his wife Jean or Janne- ken died September, 1742.

The children of George and Elinor (Nyce) Northrop were: Jeremiah, of whom presently, Jane de Nyce Northrop, Enoch and Mary.

Jeremiah Northrop, son of George Northrop, Jr., and his wife, Elinor de Nyce, resided in Lower Dublin township, owning land there as well as 230 acres in More- land township. He died in Lower Dublin township, his will being probated Janu- ary 24, 1785. He married, at Pennypack Baptist Church, May 31, 1753, Mary, daughter of John Foster, who died in 1769, and Jane, his wife; granddaughter of Thomas Foster, and Mary, his wife, of Lower Dublin township, and great-grand- daughter of Allen Foster, one of the early settlers of that township, who died in 1725. The children of Jeremiah and Mary (Foster) Northrop were: Elinor Wright, John, Rachel Duffield, Sarah Elizabeth and Phoebe Northrop.

John Northrop, only son of Jeremiah and Mary ( Foster) Northrop, was born in Lower Dublin township, March 8, 1767, died there November 20, 1841. He is buried in Pennypack Churchyard. He married (first) Mary Davis, and had chil- dren: John, Jr., of whom presently; Jeremiah; Hester, married William Rupert ; George; Elizabeth, married William Castor. John Northrop married (second) Mary Neissender, born 1780, died July 21, 1866, and had issue, Harriet, married James Poole, and Samuel.

John Northrop, Jr., eldest son of John Northrop, by his first wife, Mary Davis, was born in Lower Dublin township, 1796. On his father's second marriage, about 1808, he left home and became an apprentice to the carpenter trade in Philadelphia, and on arriving at manhood became a successful and prosperous carpenter and builder in that city. He built a number of houses on Walnut street, below Seven- teenth, and in other parts of the city. He died in Philadelphia, October 27, 1863, and was buried at South Laurel Hill Cemetery, in which he was one of the first lot holders in 1838. He married, about 1818, Christiana, born 1792, died November 9, 1873, daughter of Joseph Johnson, by his wife, Martha, daughter of Capt. Ben- jamin Brown, a sea captain, and Mary, his wife; granddaughter of Benjamin Johnson, born September 9, 1725, died September 20, 1797, by his wife, Christiana

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Rambo, born February 3, 1729, died November 9, 1805 ; and great-granddaughter of Jacob and Charity Johnson.

Peter Gunnarson Rambo, great-grandfather of Christiana (Rambo) Johnson (the latter being the great-great-grandmother of Christine (Northrop) Wetherill), was the ancestor of the prominent Rambo family of Philadelphia. He was a native of Guttenburg, Sweden, and came to Philadelphia with the first Pennsylvania Colony of Swedes in the two vessels "Key of Calmer" and "Bird Grip," in the fall of 1637. These Colonists purchased of the Indians land on west side of Delaware River and Bay, from Cape Henlopen to "Santhion," their name for the Falls of the Delaware, Bucks county, and called their new territory New Sweden. Peter Rambo owned 650 acres on west side of the Delaware and large tracts in what be- came Gloucester county, New Jersey, and was one of the most prominent men in the Swedish Colony. He was Commissioner to the Indians and Interpreter under the Swedes ; a Magistrate under Dutch Government, 1657, after their conquest of the Swedes, and a Councillor, under Gov. Robert Carr, first English governor on the Delaware in 1667; and a Justice of the Peace, both under the Dutch and Eng- lish jurisdiction, being commissioned under the latter, November, 1674, for Up- land and its dependencies, and recommissioned October 3, 1676. He died in Philadelphia, November, 1698.

Peter Rambo, Jr., son of the above, born June 17, 1653, was present at the land- ing of William Penn at Upland in 1682. He was a member of Pennsylvania As- sembly, 1709, from Philadelphia county. He died December 12, 1729, and was buried at Gloria Dei Church, of which his father had been one of the founders and first vestrymen. His brother, Gunnar Rambo, was a member of Pennsylvania Assembly, 1685. Peter Rambo, Jr., married Magdalen, daughter of Swan Scuter. She was born March 25, 1660. They had children: Swen, Brigetta, Peter Rambo, 3d., Andrew, Elias, John and Jacob.

Peter Rambo, 3d., father of Christine ( Rambo) Johnson, was born December 20, 1682, died in Lower Dublin township, Philadelphia county, March 8, 1739. He married, November 11, 1709, Margaret Jonason, who died September 13, 1747. The old Rambo and Johnson Bible, published in Sweden in 1703 and containing the record of the family, was bequeathed by the will of Margaret, widow of Peter Rambo, 3d., to her youngest daughter Christine, wife of Benjamin Johnson, before mentioned, and is now in the possession of Mrs. Charles Johnson, of Holmesburg.

Christine Rambo, youngest of the eight children of Peter and Margaret (John- son) Rambo, married, 1748, Benjamin Johnson, and the fourth of their eight chil- dren, Joseph Johnson, born February 8, 1763, married Martha, daughter of Capt. Benjamin Brown, and they had children: Elias, married Melissa Smith ; Joseph, married Hannah Letteloeff ; Elizabeth, married a Poultney; Christiana, married John Northrop, Jr.

John Northrop, Jr., and Christiana Johnson had issue: Benjamin Theodore, born 1821, died 1867; George Northrop, Esq., father of Christine (Northrop) Wetherill; Fanny, married Charles Elmes, and others who died young.

Issue of Samuel Price and Christine (Northrop ) Wetherill:

Georgine Northrop Wetherill, b. March 4, 1873; m., April 18, 1893, Charles Shillard Smith, being his second wife; they reside at Bala, Pa .;

Sarah Wetherill, b. Oct. 11, 1874; m., June 6, 1898, at First Unitarian Church, Phila., Robert R. Logan, and had issue :

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Deborah Logan, b. Feb. 16, 1900.

Northrop Wetherill, b. May 3, 1876, d. Aug. 18, 1876;

Christine Wetherill, b. April 10, 1878; m., June 9, 1908, William Gordon Stevenson, of Phila .;

Samuel Price Wetherill, Jr., b. May 12, 1880; m., June 7, 1902, Edith Bucknell, and had issue :

Gyles Price Wetherill, b. March 14, 1904.

Isabella Wetherill, b. Dec. 6, 1881.

WILLIAM WETHERILL, M. D., son of Samuel Wetherill, 2d., and his wife, Rachel Price, was born in Philadelphia, January 21, 1804. He practiced medicine in Phil- adelphia for a number of years, and was a partner with his brother, John Price Wetherill, in the Wetherill White Lead Works. He later took up his residence at the old family residence of "Fatland," part of a large tract of land purchased by his father, near the junction of Perkiomen creek with Schuylkill river, origin- ally containing 1400 acres, and known as "Hill Grove on the Perkiomen." It had been sold out of the family and was the home of John James Audubon, the famous ornithologist for many years. It was later purchased by William H. Wetherill, son of Dr. William, and was the summer home of the family. Dr. William Wetherill died there April 28, 1872.

Dr. William Wetherill married, July 6, 1825, Isabella, born February 22, 1807, died December 25, 1871, daughter of John William and Isabella ( Ramsey) Ma- comb, and granddaughter of William Macomb, of New York, by his wife, Sarah Jane Dring. She was a cousin of Brig. Gen. Alexander Macomb, the hero of Plattsburg in 1814, and Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army, at his death in 1841.

Issue of Dr. William and Isabella ( Macomb ) Wetherill:

Samuel Wetherill, b. Phila., April 8, 1826, d. there, Jan. 22, 1902; graduated at Univ. of Pa., 1845; studied law and was admitted to the Phila. Bar; practiced his profession in that city for half a century; edited "Williams on Personal Property," and was the author of other legal text books; Director of Public Schools in the Seventh Ward for several years; member of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution, etc .; m., Dec. 20, 1860, Martha Anna, dau. of William Parker Bowen, of Savannah, Ga .; no issue ;

Col. John Macomb Wetherill, b., Phila., Feb. 11, 1828; educated at private schools and Univ. of Pa., and at age of eighteen years went to Pottsville, Pa., to look after manage- ment and development of coal lands and mines in Schuylkill co., belonging to the family. Upon the outbreak of Civil War, he enlisted at first call for troops and, April 19, 1861, was mustered into the service as Aide-de-camp and Acting Assistant Adjutant- General, in Keim's division of Gen. Robert Patterson's command, and served three months in the Shenandoah campaign. At the expiration of his term of service he re- enlisted for the war in 82nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, and was commissioned Major. He served with this regiment three years and one month, participating in the battles of Yorktown, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, the Seven Day Fight before Richmond, Malvern, Chancellorsville, Antietam, Williamsport, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Rap- pahar ock, Mine Run, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and in the Shenandoah Valley with Sheri an, rising to the rank of Colonel, and was honorably mustered out Sept. 16. 1864. He was a candidate on the Democratic ticket for State Senator for his district in 1867, but was defeated at the polls. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Con- vention of 1873-4.

Col. Wetherill was president of the Regimental Association of the Eighty-second Regiment at the time of his death, which occurred at Pottsville, May 16, 1895, after an illness of only ten days. He was unm. He was bur. in the Free Quaker and Bake- well burying lot at Fatlands;

Isabella Bloomfield Wetherill, b. Feb. 14, 1830, d. May 5, 1830;

Rachel Wetherill, b. May 18, 1831, d. at her residence, 1434 Spruce street, Phila., Nov. 10. 1901 ; m. Dr. Addinell Hewson, a distinguished physician of Phila., Surgeon at the Wills Eye Hospital, etc., and the fifth of his family as an instructor in anatomy, sur- gery and medicine, being a son of Dr. Thomas Hewson, of Phila., and a descendant

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of Sir Thomas Hewson, of London, one of the discoverers of the lymphatic system. Dr. Addinell Newson d., Phila., 1889, and his wife, Rachel Wetherill, had issue:

Dr. Addinell Hewson, Jr., of Phila .;

Thomas Hewson, d. young;

William Hewson, d. young;

Isabel Bloomfield Hewson, m., Nov. 3, 1897, William Thurston Manning, of Balti- more, an official of the B. & O. R. R. Co .;

Mary Coxe Hewson, m. April 19, 1893, Rudolph Moorel Booraem, of Phila., for- merly of N. Y .;

Emily Hewson, m., June 10, 1895, Thomas Johnston Miche, Esq., of Baltimore Bar.

William Wetherill, b. Oct. 7, 1833, d. July 16, 1834;

Joseph Bloomfield Wetherill, b. June 17, 1835, d. 1887; m., Jan. 2, 1879, Kate Annette, dau. of J. Lawrence Smith, and had issue :

Cornelia Stewart Wetherill, d. young;

Isabella Macomb Wetherill.

Sarah Jane Wetherill, b. Oct. 12, 1836, d. Jan. 10, 1875; m., Jan. 29, 1874, John Stockton Hough, M. D., of Phila., and Millbank, N. J., a distinguished physician of Phila., 1869- 74; lecturer on physiology, Wagner Institute; physician at Pennsylvania Hospital, and a number of other Philadelphia medical institutions, and the author of a number of medical works of international reputation; eldest male representative of Richard Hough, Provincial Councillor, 1692-1700; he d., Millbank, May 6, 1900;

WILLIAM HENRY WETHERILL, b. Jan. 20, 1838; m. Elizabeth Putnam Proctor; of whom presently ;

Francis Dring Wetherill, b. June 10, 1839; served during the Civil War as Captain in 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry; was taken prisoner, Feb. 25, 1863, confined for three months in Libby Prison; was for several years member of firm of Wetherill Brothers, paint manufacturers, but retired from business in middle life; m., Oct. 20, 1870, Caroline Jacobs, dau. of John Price Wetherill (2d), by his wife, Caroline Jacobs, and had issue : Brinton Wetherill, b. Aug. 12, 1871;

Isabel Macomb Wetherill, b. Dec. 16, 1873; m., Jan. 16, 1899, William Weaver Lukens, of Conshohocken, and had issue :

Francis W. Lukens; Charles W. Lukens;

Alexander M. Lukens;

William Lukens.

John Lawrence Wetherill, b. July 10, 1874; read law in office of William Brooke Rawle, admitted to Phila. Bar, 1896; served in Spanish-American War as volun- teer in First City Troop;

Caroline Bowen Wetherill, b. July 12, 1876; m. at Christ Church, London, Eng- land, June 10, 1907, Josiah Collins, of Seattle, Wash., and had issue :

Josiah Collins, Jr., b. March, 1908.

Charles Wetherill, b. July 20, 1840, d. Sept. 16, 1859;

Isabella Macomb Wetherill, b. Aug. 21, 1841, d. May 4, 1848;

Elizabeth Ramsey Wetherill, b. Feb. 14, 1843, d. Feb. 21, 1882; m., 1864, George Inman Riché, of Phila., and had issue :

George Inman Riché, d. inf .;

Charles Swift Riché, Esq., of Phila.

Rebecca Gumbes Wetherill, b. 1844; m., 1876, George Tupman; no issue;

Capt. Alexander Macomb Wetherill, b. May 23, 1845; enlisted as private in Capt. Landis' Independent Company, Penna. Vols., 1862; was appointed an Aide in U. S. Coast Survey, and served with both North and South Atlantic Blockading Squadrons during Civil War; was appointed Second Lieut. in Sixth Regiment, U. S. Inf., 1867; promoted First Lieut., 1875, and Captain, 1890; also served as Regimental Quartermaster from 1887 to 1890; was killed while leading his command up the heights of San Juan, Cuba, July 1, 1898, exhorting his men, as he fell, to push on and capture the entrenchments; m., 1873. May Hubbard, and had issue:

Mav Hubbard Wetherill, b. Jan. 12, 1875; m., Sept. 29, 1900, Dr. Benjamin F. Van Meter, of Richmond, Va., Surgeon, U. S. A., who served in Capt. Wetherill's regiment at Santiago de Cuba; they had two daughters;

Lieut. Alexander Macomb Wetherill, b. 1877; commissioned Second Lieut. Sixth U. S. Inf., Sept. 6, 1898; now Captain in 23rd Regiment, serving in the Philli- pines;

Samuel Wetherill, b. Feb. 22, 1885.

Isabella Wetherill, b. March 7, 1847, d. April 2, 1869.

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WILLIAM H. WETHERILL, son of Dr. William and Isabella ( Macomb) Wetherill, born January 20, 1838, was educated in Philadelphia. When a young man he enter- ed the employ of the well-known firm of Samuel & William Welsh, merchants and. importers, and remained with them for some years. He then engaged in business for himself at Boston, Massachusetts, and remained there until the death of his father in 1872, when he returned to Philadelphia, to take charge of his father's interest in the White Lead Works, established by his grandfather and great-grand- father, with which he has since been connected as the official head of the firm, known since 1829 as Wetherill & Brother.

During the Civil War, William H. Wetherill was a resident of Philadelphia, and he trained and drilled with the Philadelphia Home Guards, went to the front with an "Emergency" Regiment, and was at the battle of Antietam, as sergeant of the company commanded by Capt. Charles S. Smith.

Among the property owned by Samuel Wetherill, Jr., grandfather of William H. Wetherill, was "Mill Grove Farm," before mentioned, on the banks of the Perkiomen, purchased in 1813, with the view of utilizing the lead deposits thereon, and from it a large amount of the lead used in the white lead works was mined for some years, the firm later finding it more profitable to bring their material from the richer lead deposits in Missouri. A portion of this tract, the old Audubon homestead, descended to Dr. William Wetherill, and was his home at his death, and from him came to William H. Wetherill, whose country home it still is, and has been greatly improved and beautified by him.

Another family property of the Wetherill family, owned by Mr. Edward Weth- erill, is "Chalkley Hall," in Frankford, loaned during the summer months of 1907 to the College Settlement, as a Country Club, for the crowded inhabitants of the Jewish quarter, "Little Italy," and other poor districts of Philadelphia. Under the management of Miss Anna Dawes, head worker of the Settlement, the old Wetherill Mansion, set back a mile or more from the road and surrounded by sturdy chestnuts and maples, has been turned into a club house for the poor labor- ers of all nationalties who are permitted to spend two or three weeks at a time in this rural retreat ; sometimes as many as fifty families occupying it at one time, Russians, Poles, Italians and Germans, the college women acting as hostesses, initiating this foreign element in our population into ways of decent self respect- ing manner of living.

William H. Wetherill is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and in 1907 had erected on St. Mary's Church, Locust street, above Thirty-ninth street, a beautiful stone tower, eighteen feet square and rising to the height of one hun- dred and ten feet. On a tablet in the room below the tower is this inscription :

"To the glory of God, in loving memory of Harry Flickwir West, who died January 3, 1906, this spire is erected by his life-long friend, William H. Wetherill."

The tower was dedicated with impressive ceremonies, October 20, 1907, Mr. Wetherill intended also to install a set of chimes in the tower, but the vestry of the church opposed it for the reason that they were attached to the original bell, which had been cast by J. Wiltbank in 1838, the sound of which is so familiar to the resi- dents of the locality. Mr. Wetherill has also placed in the church tower memorial windows to the sisters of Mr. West.

William H. Wetherill has been clerk of the Society of Free Quakers for the last

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thirty-five years, succeeding his cousin, John Price Wetherill, and being of the fifth generation of the family to serve in that capacity. He is a member of George G. Meade Post, No. I, Grand Army of the Republic; Union League; Pilgrim's Society of Massachusetts ; Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; Historical Society of Montgomery County ; Philadelphia Pink Club; Apprentices' Library Associa- tion ; Pennsylvania Forestry Association ; Philadelphia Audubon Society, and other local associations. He is also a member of the Board of Trade of Philadelphia ; a life member of the House of Refuge, and of the Zoological Gardens Association. He is a member of Jordan Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and Washington Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, both of Salem, Massachusetts.

William H. Wetherill married, October 4, 1863, Elizabeth Putnam, born May 27, 1842, daughter of Abel and Lydia ( Emerson) Proctor, of Massachusetts.

Issue of William H. and Elizabeth P. (Proctor ) Wetherill:

Alice Putnam Wetherill, b. Aug. 13, 1867, d. Aug. 17, 1868;

Edgar Macomb Wetherill, b. April II, 1869, d. 1887;

Henry Emerson Wetherill, M. D., b. May 19, 1871 ; graduate of Univ. of Pa., and prac- ticing physician of Phila .;

Herbert Johnson Wetherill, b. May 19, 1873; m., Oct. 7, 1903, Mary Rowe Dunn; resides in Phila .; they had issue: Anna Wetherill, b. Sept. 21, 1905;

Abel Proctor Wetherill, b. July 24, 1876; now associated with his father and younger brother. Webster King Wetherill, in the manufacture of white lead in Phila .; m., 1905, Sarah Reeve Mullen ;

Webster King Wetherill, b. Oct. 19, 1878; member of the family firm in the manufacture of white lead, with his father and elder brother, Abel Proctor Wetherill; m., June I, 1904, Georgine Vaux Cresson;

Francis Macomb Wetherill, b. January 27, 1882; student at General Theological Semi- nary, New York City.

LIPPINCOTT FAMILY.

The family of Lippincott was an ancient one in Devonshire, whence Richard Lippincott came to New England prior to 1640. The name is possibly a corrup- tion of Lovecote, mentioned in Domesday Book, compiled in 1080, and the estate, still bearing the ancient name, is located in Highampton, about thirty miles south- west of Webworthy, the seat of the Lippincott family for three hundred and fifty years. Luffincott, another corruption of the ancient name, being a parish, some twenty miles west of Lovecote on the western border of Devon. The last of the Webworthy family was Henry Luppincott, who died in Barcelona, Spain, in 1779. A branch of this family removed to Sedbury, East Devon, in the middle of the sixteenth century from which descended Henry Lippincott, a distinguished mer- chant of Bristol, England, who was made a baronet in 1778 by George III. Numer- ous Coats-of-Arms have been granted the family at different periods.

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 11

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