Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 18

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

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Martha, b. 8mo. 9, 1738; m. 6mo. 9, 1763, Jonathan Kinsey, of Buckingham, Bucks co., son of Samuel and Elizabeth Kinsey;

Thomas, b. Imo. 16, 1740, lived in Phila .;

Joseph, b. 5mo. 14, 1743, d. 5mo. 17, 1794; m. 5mo. 25, 1768, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Harvey, of Falls, Bucks co .;

Mary, b. 5mo. 26, 1746, d. Imo. 21, 1746-7;

Lavinia, d. prior to 1757;

Benjamin, d. prior to 1757.

YEAMANS GILLINGHAM, second son of James and Martha (Canby ) Gillingham, born in Bucks county, 8mo. 15, 1734, after his marriage lived for a time in Sole- bury township, Bucks county, and about 1792, moved to Oxford township, Phila- delphia county, where he resided on the greater part of the original plantation of his grandfather, which he had purchased after it had been out of the family many years. The Friends' Meeting House, on Unity street, Frankford, was built on land given for that purpose by Yeamans Gillingham. He divided his land, during

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his lifetime, amongst his eight surviving sons; the deed to his son, Yeamans Gill- ingham, Jr., from "Yeamans Gillingham, of Frankford, in the county of Philadel- phia, Gentleman, and Bridget his wife," was dated 4mo. I, 1807. He died at Frankford, 2mo. 26, 1825. He married (first), 12mo. 21, 1763, at Buckingham Meeting, in Bucks county, Ruth Preston, born gmo. 15, 1742, died 3mo. 25, 1765, daughter of William and Deborah (Cheeseman) Preston, of Bucks county, and had issue-William, born 3mo. 12, 1765, died 4mo. 18, 1765.

He married (second), Imo. 13, 1768, at Falls Meeting, Bucks county, Bridget, b. Iomno. 21, 1743, died 4mo. 9, 1825, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Lucas) Moon, and great-granddaughter of James Moon, and Robert Lucas, who were among the founders of Bucks county.

Robert Lucas, of Beverall, Longbridge, in the county of Wilts, England, arrived in the Delaware river, 4mo. 4, 1679, in the ship "Elizabeth and Saralı," of Wey- mouth, and Elizabeth, his wife, arrived in the ship "Content," of London, in 7mo., 1680, with her eight children, John, Giles, Edward, Robert, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Mary and Sarah. Robert Lucas received a grant of 177 acres of land, below the Fails, on the west side of the Delaware, from Edmond Andross, Governor General under the Duke of York, and it was confirmed by patent from William Penn, 5mo. 31. 1684. This land he devised to his son, Edward. Robert Lucas was a Justice of Upland Court, 1681, member of Provincial Assembly, 1683, 1687 and 1688, and was a member of the first grand jury in Pennsylvania, summoned 3mo. 2, 1683. His will was signed 10mo. 6, 1687, and he died in Bucks county in 1688. His will mentions his wife, Elizabeth, and sons, Edward, Robert, Giles and John, and provides for his younger children who are not mentioned by name.

Edward Lucas, son of Robert and Elizabeth, was Supervisor of Highways for Falls township in 1730. He married, 7mo. 3, 1700, Bridget Scott, at the house of Thomas Lambert, in New Jersey, under the care of Chesterfield Friends' Meeting. Their daughter, Elizabeth Lucas, married James Moon, and was the mother of Bridget (Moon) Gillingham.

James Moon and Joan, his wife, came from Gloucestershire, England, and set- tled in Falls township, near Morrisville, in 1688. Their son, Roger Moon, married Ann Nutt, 8mo. 23, 1708, and their eldest son, James Moon, born Imo., 1713, died 5mo. 9, 1796, married (second) 3mo. 18, 1742, Elizabeth Lucas, before mentioned, and the only surviving child of this marriage was Bridget, who became the wife of Yeamans Gillingham.

The will of Yeamans Gillingham was signed, 8mo. 4, 1824, and proven, 5mo. 9, 1825. He and his wife, Bridget, are buried side by side in the graveyard of Frankford Meeting.

Issue of Yeamans and Bridget (Moon) Gillingham:

James, b. 12mo. 27, 1768, d. 6mo. 5, 1865; m. 10mo. 3, 1792, Sarah, dau. of James and Mary (Smith) Wood, of Chester co .;

Thomas. b. Iomo. 15, 1770, d. April 1, 1860; m. (first) 1791, Mary Heywood; (second) 1799, Gulielma Spicer, a second cousin;

Moses, b. 9mo. 4, 1772, d. Iomo. 12, 1829; m. 9mo. 2, 1794, Martha Kirkner; John, b. 9mo. 30, 1774, d. at Frankfort, unm .;

Matthias, b. 2mo. 25, 1776, d. 1797, at Franford, unm .;

Yeamans, b. 3mo. 9, 1778, d. 6mo. 3, 1827; m. 4mo. 23, 1803, Sarah Lewis, of Chester co .;

JOSEPH, b. 8mo. 3, 1780, d. 5mo. 3, 1867; of whom presently;

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Mahlon, b. 7mo. 27, 1782, d. 12mo. 8, 1873; m. 10mo. 6, 1808, Susan Clarke, of Prince- ton, N. J .;

Stacy, b. IImo. 16, 1784, d. 10mo. 12, 1839; at New Orleans, La .; m. 12mo. 4, 1804, Grace Harper, of Frankford, Phila.

JOSEPH GILLINGHAM, the seventh son of Yeamans and Bridget ( Moon) Gilling- ham, born on his father's farm near Carversville, in Solebury township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, August 3, 1780, became an eminent merchant in Philadel- phia, living at 66 Market street (now No. 223 and occupied by the National State Bank of Camden). He afterwards purchased a country place near Holmesburg, called "Bellevue," and lived there until 1839, when he removed to a house on the original purchase of his great-grandfather, Yeamans Gillingham, at Frankford, now No. 4419 Frankford avenue, opposite the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Station. In January, 1844, he moved to a house on Twelfth street, Philadelphia, and later to 1235 Spring Garden street, where he died May 3, 1867. This house is. still occupied by some of his children.

Joseph Gillingham was one of the pioneers in the introduction of anthracite coal into commerce, and with Joseph White, sold to the city of Philadelphia the water-power of the Schuylkill river for the use of the Fairmount Water Works in 1819. He married, 4mo. 14, 1802, in Buckingham Friends' Meeting House, Re- becca, daughter of Samuel Harrold, of Bucks county, by his wife, Rachel (Smith) Carver. She was born in Buckingham township Bucks county, 3mo. 19, 1783, and died in Philadelphia, 3mo. 10, 1871.

Samuel Harrold, great-grandfather of Rebecca (Harrold) Gillingham, was born in Normandy, France. He went to Holland and received a lieutenant's com- mission under William, Prince of Orange, afterwards William III., of England, and accompanied William to England. He was one of those besieged in London- derry, Ireland, and frequently related to his grandson, Samuel Harrold, the suffer- ings endured during that siege. At the battle of the Boyne, fought July, 1690, he was severely wounded, and being relieved from active service settled in Ireland, and established there factories for the manufacture of linen.

William Harrold, son of Samuel, married Isabella Elliot, also said to have been of Norman descent.

Samuel Harrold, son of William and Isabella (Elliot) Harrold, was born in county Cavan, province of Ulster, Ireland, in 1728, and came to America in 1745. He married (first) Elizabeth Russel, and had several children ; she died 5mo. 15, 1777, and he married (second) Irmo. 10, 1779, at Buckingham Meeting, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Rachel (Smith), widow of Henry Carver, of Buckingham, and daughter of William and Rebecca (Wilson) Smith; their children were David, borul 12mo. 7, 1780; Rebecca, married Joseph Gillingham; Samuel, died 10mo. 29, 1803; and Rachel, died 5mo. 18, 1824. Samuel Harrold was an extensive land- holder and prominent man in Buckingham. William Smith, the grandfather of the second wife of Samuel Harrold, was a native of Yorkshire, England, and arrived in the Delaware river in the ship, "Friends Adventure," 7mo. 28, 1684. He purchased land in Wrightstown township, Bucks county, of John Chapman, and afterwards received patents for several hundred acres adjoining, extending to Newtown township, and Neshaminy creek. He married, 9mo. 20, 1690, at the house of John Chapman, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Agnes Croasdale. It

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was as a witness to this marriage that the name of Yeamans Gillingham first ap- pears in Pennsylvania.

Thomas Croasdale, of New Hoy, Yorkshire, England, by deeds of lease and release from William Penn, dated April 21 and 22, 1682, purchased 1000 acres of land to be laid out in Pennsylvania, and came to Pennsylvania in the "Welcome" with William Penn in the same year, accompanied by his wife, Agnes Hathorn- waite, whom he had married at Wyerside, Yorkshire, 3mo. 1, 1664, and their children among whom was the above-named Mary, who married William Smith. She was born in Yorkshire, 8mo. 31, 1669. The Croasdales settled in Bucks county, where 500 acres of their land had been laid out, and the family has always been one of the highest standing in that county. William Smith's wife, Mary Croasdale, died in 1716, leaving eight children, and he married a second time and had seven other children. He died in 1743.

William Smith, Jr., son of William and Mary (Croasdale) Smith, born IImo. 2, 1697, married at Middletown Meeting, 2mo. 8, 1722-3, Rebecca, daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Baker) Wilson, and after his father's death purchased of his brothers nearly all the landed estate possessed by his father, and later an additional tract in Upper Makefield township. He was Coroner of Bucks county, 1749-51 ; and a member of Provincial Assembly 1753-65, continuously, thirteen terms. His daughter, Rachel, born 5mo. 3, 1737, married (first) in 1755, Henry Carver, and (second) Samuel Harrold, before mentioned.

Henry Baker, grandfather of Rebecca (Wilson) Smith, was of New Town, Lancashire, England, 8mo. 6, 1667, when he married, under the auspices of Hard- shaw West Monthly Meeting, Margaret Hardman, of Aspull, Lancashire, and settled in West Darby, Lancashire. On 3mo. 27, 1684, they received from Hard- shaw Meeting a certificate to remove themselves and their family "into the Prov- ince of Pensilvania in America," which certificate gives them a very high recom- mendation as to honesty and sobriety. They sailed from Dolyseme, Merioneth- shire, Wales, in the ship "Vine," of Liverpool, and arrived at Philadelphia, 7mo. 17, 1684, accompanied by their five daughters and two sons, "Thomas Canby, his sister's son," and several servants. They settled in Bucks county, where he took up several large tracts of land, and where he became one of the most prominent ment men of his day. He was foreman of the first grand jury of the county ; overseer of highways ; Justice of the county courts, and a member of Provincial Assembly, 1685-87-88-90 and 98. He married (second) at his own house, under the care of Middletown Meeting, 8mo. 13, 1692, Mary, widow of James Radcliffe, a native of Lancashire, and an eminent minister among Friends. His daughter, Sarah Baker, born at West Darby, Lancashire, 8mo. 16, 1672, married at the same time and place, Stephen Wilson, of West Jersey, carpenter, who died 8mo. 29, 1707, and she married (second), in 1709, Isaac Milnor, and died 2mo. 29, 1715. Her first husband and the father of Rebecca Wilson, born 6mo. 29, 1701, who married William Smith, was one of the most active of the members of Falls Monthly Meeting in Bucks county, though residing across the river in New Jersey, near the Falls. During the winter months a Meeting was held at his house. He had charge of the erection of the first Friends' Meeting House in Buckingham at the time of his decease.

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Issue of Joseph and Rebecca (Harrold ) Gillingham:

Rachel Harrold, b. 4mo. 8, 1803, d. 6mo. 24, 1803;

SAMUEL HARROLD, b. 7mo. 31, 1804, d. 2mo. 10, 1854; of whom presently;

Mary Ann, b. 7mo. 30, 1806, d. 8mo. 3, 1807;

Anna, b. 12mo. 5, 1807, d. 7mo. 21, 1869; m. June 12, 1833, at "Bellevue," near Holmes- burg, John Ferris, son of Edward and Lydia (Grubb) Gilpin, being his second wife. They had two children, Rebecca Harrold, m. Fairman Rogers, and George, b. Phila., Dec. 21, 1830, m. Sarah C. Winston;

Emmeline, b. IImo. 11, 1809, d. Imo. 23, 1877; m. 10mo. 13, 1842, Dilworth Buckman; lived at Fox Chase, Phila. co., until March 9, 1852, when they removed to Accotink, Va., where she d .;

Elizabeth, b. 12mo. 20, 1811, d. 10mo. 12, 1879, unm .;

Rebecca Harrold, b. 11mo. 12, 1813, d. 6mo. 15, 1888, unm .;

Josephine, b. 3mo. 3, 1816, d. 4mo. 12, 1817;

Joseph Harrold, b. 8mo. 18, 1818, d. 3mo. 7, 1900, in Phila., bur. at Laurel Hill Cemetery ; Catharine, b. 11mo. 20, 1820, unm .;

Frances, b. 7mo. 2, 1823, d. 2mo. 22, 1894, bur. at Laurel Hill;

Caroline, b. 9mo. 17, 1825, unm.

SAMUEL HARROLD GILLINGHAM, eldest son of Joseph and Rebecca (Harrold) Gillingham, born July 31, 1804, died in Philadelphia, February 10, 1854. He married (first), December 12, 1823, at Frankford Meeting, Lucy Lewis Eddy, born May 10, 1803, died September 1, 1836, ninth child of George Eddy, of Philadelphia, by his wife Hester, daughter of Ellis Lewis, of Philadelphia, by his second wife, Mary Deshler. Ellis Lewis, was a descendant of the Lords of Nan- nan, Merionethshire, Wales; and Lucy Lewis Eddy also descended from Nathan- iel Newlin, of Chester county, member of Assembly, and from Nicholas Newlin, Provincial Councillor of Pennsylvania, in 1685. An account of her ancestry fol- lows this sketch. Samuel Harrold Gillingham married (second), in Philadelphia, June 30, 1839, Louisa M. (Stitcher) Hubbs, a widow, daughter of John and Sarah (Clemens) Stitcher.

Issue of Samuel H. and Lucy Lewis (Eddy) Gillingham:

Frances Eddy, b. Oct. 4, 1827, d. May 11, 1896; m. March 23, 1852, Dr. Jared Kibbee, of Port Huron, Mich., of which city he was Mayor in 1866. They had issue:

Ada Follonsbee Kibbee, m. Theodore R. Wright;

Lucy Eddy Kibbee; Harrold Gillingham Kibbee;

Henry Clinton Kibbee, m. Louise Halbig;

Eleanor P. Kibbee;

Frances Lewis Kibbee, m. Cyrus Alvin Hovey.

Harrold, b. Sept. 15, 1828, d. Sept. 4, 1829;

Rebecca Harrold, b. Sept., 1829, d. inf .;

JOSEPH EDDY, b. July 6, 1830, d. Nov. 7, 1905; of whom presently;

Lucy Eddy, b. Sept. 8, 1831, d. Nov. 9, 1832;

Lewis Eddy, b. May 17, 1833, d. inf .;

George Eddy, b. April, 1835, d. inf .;

Louis Harrold, b. July 3, 1836, d. Dec. 14, 1899, in Phila .; m. June 12, 1859, Louise M. Bartle, and had issue :

William B. Gillingham;

Hattie W. Gillingham.

Issue of Samuel H. and Louisa M. (Hubbs) Gillingham:

FRANK CLEMENS GILLINGHAM, b. April 14, 1840; of whom later.

Someph & filling have.

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JOSEPH EDDY GILLINGHAM, eldest son of Samuel Harrold and Lucy Lewis (Eddy) Gillingham, born in Philadelphia, July 6, 1830, was a birthright member in the Society of Friends, and was educated at the Friends' Central School, Phila- delphia. In 1854 he engaged in the lumber business, later organizing the firm of Gillingham & Garrison, afterwards incorporated under the title of Gillingham, Garrison & Company, Ltd., the largest dealers in lumber in the city of Philadel- phia. He built and was president of the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Street Rail- way until it was absorbed by the Union Traction Company. He was the first president of, and up to the time of his death a director of, the Mortgage Trust Company of Pennsylvania ; a director of The Investment Company of Philadel- phia ; of the American Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia ; of the Lancaster Avenue Improvement Company; and of the Bell Telephone Company. He was also president of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Company, whose Board of Directors, on November 14, 1905, adopted resolutions on his death in part as fol- lows: "Resolved, That we have received, with deep regret and sorrow, the in- telligence of the death of our late colleague, Joseph E. Gillingham, who for over twenty-five years has been actively associated with us in the management of the affairs of this Company, and during twenty of those years has presided at our meetings with unfailing and impartial courtesy. We desire to place on record our high appreciation of his able and faithful service as Director, and President, and of the uniform cordial kindness that has endeared him to us as a friend, and of the exceptional services rendered by him in the early period of his presidency, during a very trying time in the Company's history, which were of inestimable value."

Mr. Gillingham was for a number of years, and until his death, one of the managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital, in which he took a special interest and pride, and to which he was a large benefactor during his life and to which also he left a generous bequest. In 1902 he caused to be erected and presented to the Hospital, a building on the grounds of the Women's Department of the Hospital for the Insane, in West Philadelphia, known as the "Gillingham Memorial Build- ing." On one of two tablets in the vestibule is the following inscription :

ERECTED ANNO DOMINI 1902 BY JOSEPH E. GILLINGHAM IN MEMORY OF HIS WIFE CLARA DONALDSON GILLINGHAM

Mr. Gillingham was one of the founders and a frequent contributor to the Veterinary Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and was one of the managers from its inception to the time of his death. In this connection it is of interest to note that the investigations conducted in 1892, by Dr. Leonard Pear- don, a professor in this department, at Mr. Gillingham's request, on the condition of the latter's valuable herd of cattle at his country place, "Clairemont," near Villanova Station of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in Lower Merion, Montgomery county, gave a great impetus to the scientific study and treatment of tuberculosis in cattle, and was the first instance of such an investigation on a large scale in this country. The Medical News in publishing an account of it, in the issue of March 26, 1892, makes this comment : "Mr. Gillingham's action is an example of

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public spiritedness that has seldom been equalled, and the public would profit, immeasurably if others would follow a similar course." In addition to his active efforts and donations in behalf of the Veterinary Department, during his lifetime, he left it a substantial bequest, as he likewise did Haverford College, Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr College, and the Women's Medical College of Philadelphia. He was also connected with a number of charitable organizations of the city and vicinity. Those mentioned in his will, with most of which he had an official con- nection, were: Bryn Mawr Hospital, Norristown Charity Hospital, Hospital of the Church of the Good Shepherd, near Rosemont, Maternity Hospital, Phila- delphia, Merchants' Fund of Philadelphia, Kensington Soup Society, Penn Asylum for Indigent Widows and Single Women, Union Benevolent Association of Phila- delphia, Old Men's Home, Home for Incurables, and the Central Branch Young Men's Christian Association ; to the latter of which at Fifteenth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, besides a direct legacy, he left the annual income of a fund to be known as "The Joseph E. Gillingham Fund." Mr. Gillingham was a mem- ber of the Union League Art Club, Merion Cricket Club, Radnor Hunt, Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. To the Historical Society he had made various gifts ; his last being by his will, by which he bequeathed them, besides a sum of money, an original Orderly Book, used by the American Army at Valley Forge. He took great interest in the work of the Genealogical Society, of which he became a mem- ber on April 11, 1892, within two months of its founding, and became a life mem- ber, May 7, 1894, and was one of its directors from March 7, 1898, until his death. He procured for the Society copies of the birth, death and marriage registers and of the minutes of Abington Friends Meeting, to which some of his ancestors had belonged, and was also its liberal benefactor on other lines, besides leaving it a substantial bequest.

About 1876, Mr. Gillingham purchased a tract of land in Lower Merion town- ship, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, which either originally or by subsequent purchases amounted to about four hundred acres of land. Here he erected an ele- gant dwelling, on the highest portion of the tract, commanding a fine view of the country for many miles, which he named "Clairemont," in honor of his wife, Clara. He lived here the greater part of the time thereafter, and died there on November 7, 1905. As he left no direct descendant, he ordered this property to be held for fifteen years after his death, and then sold. During the latter part of his life he also maintained a city residence at 1421 Walnut street, but after his wife's decease, he sold this and made "Clairemont" his permanent home, living there the life of a gentleman farmer, and though he had a manager and assistants, the farm and dairy were under his constant personal supervision. Everything there was run under the most improved methods of modern scientific farming; the stables, cattle sheds, and dairy, were kept according to the most approved sani- tary principles. Some account of the "Clairemont" herd of cattle, and the judg- ment exercised in its selection, breeding, and management, is given in the article in The Medical News, before referred to. The post-office and railroad station for "Clairemont," was Villanova, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Mr. Gillingham was mentioned in the obituary notices in the newspapers at the time of his death as "one of the best known residents on the Main Line." Funeral services were held at the Church of the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr, November 8, 1895, by the rector,

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Rev. James Haughton, assisted by the Rev. J. Houston Eccleston, of Baltimore, the latter a lifelong friend of Mr. Gillingham. The managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital acted as pall-bearers, and he was buried in the family plot at South Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, where he directed that a gravestone exactly similar to that of his wife, beside whom he was buried, should be erected over his grave. He also left a fund for the care of the family lots, including those of his father, grandfather and aunts, in the same enclosure as his own.

Joseph E. Gillingham married, August 23, 1864, Clara, daughter of Jacob and Maria (Conner) Donaldson, of Philadelphia. She died March 21, 1900. After her death, having no children of his own, Mr. Gillingham adopted, as his daugh- ter, Mrs. Anna H. (Wright) Gillingham, the wife of a third cousin, who lived with him thereafter at "Clairemont," and continued to reside there for some time after his death, removing about March, 1906, to Germantown.

FRANK CLEMENS GILLINGHAM, only son of Samuel Harrold Gillingham, by his second marriage with Louise Maria Hubbs, and a half-brother to Joseph E. Gill- ingham, was born in Philadelphia, April 14, 1840. He entered the lumber business in 1859, and in 1868, formed a partnership with Rudolph J. Watson, under the firm name of Watson & Gillingham. Mr. Watson dying in 1889, Mr. Gillingham in 1898, took his eldest son as a partner under the name of Frank C. Gillingham & Son. During the Civil War, Frank C. Gillingham enlisted in the One Hundred and Nineteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, was mustered in as Second Lieutenant of Company K, on August 7, 1862, promoted to First Lieutenant Sep- tember 30, 1862, and honorably discharged on a Surgeon's certificate, June 4, 1863. He was a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Veteran Corps, Union League, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He was a director of the Consolidation National Bank of Philadelphia, and was interested in a number of charitable institutions of the city.

He married, September 3, 1862, at her father's residence, in Hainesport, New Jersey, Tacy Shoemaker, daughter of Thomas Edgar and Elizabeth (Shoemaker) Morris. Tacy Shoemaker Morris was eighth in descent from Tobias Leech, mem- ber of Assembly, 1713-1714; seventh from Robert Heaton, member of Assembly 1700; sixth from George Shoemaker, in Pennsylvania 1686; seventh from Henry Comly, 1683-4 ; seventhi from Peter Elliott, 1686; eighth from Richard Wall, 1683; sixth from John Kirk, 1686; sixth from Rynier Tyson, 1683; and sixth from Will- iam Levering, 1685. Frank Clemens Shoemaker's descent from a like ancient and worthy ancestry is given in the preceding pages.

Issue of Frank Clemens and Tacy Shoemaker (Morris) Gillingham:

Frank Morris, b. 6mo. 13, 1863: m. Oct. 24, 1888, Ida Keen, and has issue-Frank Keen Gillingham, Thomas Morris Gillingham;

HARROLD EDGAR, b. 8mo. 25, 1864; of whom presently;

Elizabeth Morris, b. 5mo. 28, 1871; m. Nov. 8, 1900, Charles Schroeder Rich, of Balti- more, Md .;

Catharine, b. 5mo. 5, 1887, d. 5mo. 5, 1887.

HARROLD EDGAR GILLINGHAM, son of Frank Clemens and Tacy S. (Morris) Gillingham, born at Hainesport, New Jersey, August 25, 1864, is a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania. In the latter society he holds the office

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of treasurer. His ancestors through whom he holds membership in the Colonial Society, besides those just given as his mother's ancestors, were, Yeamans Gilling- ham, Bridget Scott, Sarah Jarvis, Thomas Canby, William Smith, Stephen Wil- son, Henry Baker, Thomas Croasdale, and Robert Lucas, of all of whom some account has been given in these pages. In 1901 Mr. Gillingham published an out- line genealogy of the descendants of Yeamans Gillingham, under the title of "Gillingham Family." He married, February 9, 1891, at St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, Louise Hance, daughter of John Hendeson and Caroline Hearn (Hance) Long, of Philadelphia. In 1901 they lived at 410 West Price street, Germantown, and had one child:

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 18

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