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Thomas Williams, son of Isaac and Eliza- beth (Thomas) Williams, born in Hill- town township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1776, was the grandfather of Dr. Williams. April 8, 1800, his father con- veyed to him fifty acres of the land pur- chased by his grandfather, John Williams, in 1737, lying in New Britain township, on the stump road. Here he lived until 1834, when he purchased at sheriff's sale the farm of Nathan Thomas near Silverdale, in Hill- town township, part of the Ephraim Thom- as homestead whereon his wife was born. consisting of ninety acres, and lived thereon until his death, December 8, 1844. He mar- ried about 1800 Eleanor Thomas, born No- vember 10, 1779, died March 31, 1856. l'hey were the parents of the following children : Anna, born May 13, 1804. died June 23. 1822; Eleanor, born October 3, 1805, died March 8, 1817; Joseph, born February, 1808. died, August 2, 1808; Nathan Thomas, born August 21, 1818, died at Allentown. Pennsylvania, January 18, 1901 ; Cyrenious. born January 26, 1821, died 1881: Amy, born 1824, died 1865, unmarried; and Thomas, who removed to Reading, where he has descendants. Eleanor (Thomas ) Williams was a daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Brittain) Thomas. and a descendant on both maternal and paternal side from Elder William Thomas, above mentioned, her father, Joseph Thomas, being a son of Ephraim (born 1719. died 1776) and Eleanor (Bates) Thomas, and her mother a daughter of Nathan and Ann ( Thomas) Brittain, and granddaughter of Rev. John Thomas, born December, 1713, died 1790. for many years pastor of Hilltown Baptist church, and the eldest son of Elder Will- iam. His wife was Sarah James of Radnor
Dr. Cyrenious Williams, father of Dr. N.
*The "History of the Thomas Family" says Eliza- beth married Henry Godshalk. She was the wife of Isaac Williams when her mother made her will in 1781
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B. Williams, was born in New Britain town- ship, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, January 26, 1821. He received a good academic edu- cation and entered Jefferson Medical Col- lege, from which he graduated. Ile located in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he practiced medicine until his death in 1885. He was a member of the Lehigh Valley Medical Society and other medical associations. He was a member of the Baptist church, as had been all his ancestors since their settlement 1 Bucks county. In politics he was a Democrat. He married Margaret Darndt, born in Hilltown, Bucks county, June 15, 1842, and still living at Easton, Pennsyl- vania. She was a daughter of Neri and Hannah Barndt, the former was born in Bucks county, February 9, 1818, and died March 23, 1902, and he was a farmer in Hilltown and Rockhill townships, and a son of Samuel Barndt. His wife, Hannah Barndt, died in August, 1903, aged eighty- five years, and both are buried at Indian Field Cemetery, Montgomery county. They were the parents of two daughters: Mar- garet, above mentioned : and Elizabeth, the wife of William H. Sherm, of New Britain. Dr. Cyrenious and Margaret (Barndt) Will- iams were the parents of eleven children as follows: Courtland B., born June 12, 1861, married Elmira Scheetz, of Quakertown, Pennsylvania: Neri B., the subject of this sketch; Naomi B., born September 8, 1864, widow of Peter Hill, of Frankford, Indi- ana; Percy B., born April 12, 1867. married a lady of New York city and resides there ; William B., born June 14, 1869, married a lady from New Jersey and resides with wife and three children at Easton, Pennsyl- vania ; Hannah B., born July 14, 1871, mar- ried William Edgar, of Chicago, where they reside and have one child: Cyrenious B., of Frankford, Indiana; Margaret B., born May 5. 1876, unmarried ; Nathan B., born October 15, 1877, married Margaret Hilgert, of Williamsport ; Elizabeth B., born Febru- ary 12, 1880, wife of Arthur Smith, of Easton, Pennsylvania; and Ruth B., born October 16, 1884. unmarried.
Dr. Neri B. Williams is the second child of Cyrenious and Margaret ( Barndt) Will- iams, and was born February 12, 1863. He was educated at the public schools of Hoke- daqua, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, and subsequently entered the Philadelphia Col- lege of Pharmacy, from which he graduated in 1885. After his graduation he took charge of a drug store at Pittsburg, where he remained for three years and then went to New York city, where he had charge of a drug store for three years. He had mean- while taken up the study of medicine and graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1891. He began the practice of his pro- fession at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where he remained for two years, and then removed to Philadelphia where he prac- ticed for one vear. In 1894 he located at Perkasie, Bucks county, where he has built up a lucrative practice. In 1899 he erected a brick dwelling and store at the corner of
Fifth and Market streets and opened a drug store, and, being thoroughly skilled and experienced as a pharmacist and phy- sician, is doing a fine business. He has always taken an active interest in the af- fairs of the town, and has filled the posi- tion of school director for six years. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fra- ternity, having taken the thirty-second de- gree. He is affiliated with Bethlehem Lodge No. 283, F. and A. M .: Zinzendorf Chap- ter, No. 216, R. A. M., of Bethlehem ; Beth- lehem Council. No. 36, R. S. M. : Allentown Commandery No. 20, K. T .; Philadelphia Consistory; and the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine, Lu Lu Temple, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is also a member of Perkasie Lodge, K. of P. Re- ligiously he is a member of the Lutheran church, and politically a Republican.
He married March 21, 1888, Jennie A. Paul, daughter of Richard C. and Susan (Dawes) Paul, of Brooklyn, New York. Richard C. Paul was captain of a company during the civil war, and was shot through the hip and died in a Philadelphia hospital from the effects of his wound. Dr. N. B. and Jennie Alethea (Paul) Williams are the parents of three children: Beatrice Labira, born October 5, 1895; and Gladys and Dorothy W., twins, born September 8, 1901.
THE LAUBACH FAMILY OF DURHAM. Samuel H. Laubach, one of the oldest and most prominent residents of Durham township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in that town- ship March 23, 1834, and he and the fam- ily to which he belongs have been prom- inent in the affairs of that locality for several generations.
Christian Laubach, the great-great- grandfather of Samuel H. was a native of the Palatinate on the Lower Rhine, and at the age of thirty-eight years, ac- companied by his father, Rhinehart Laubach, aged seventy years, and his wife Susanna and several small chil- dren, embarked for Pennsylvania in the ship "Queen Elizabeth," Captain Alex- ander Hope, from Rotterdam, and landed in Philadelphia. on September 15, 1738. He was a blacksmith by trade, and was probably induced to settle on extreme northern frontier of the county of Bucks by the then proprietors of the Durham furnace, started in 1727, and then in full blast. He obtained a warrant for the survey of one hundred acres of land in Bucks county, on one of the tributaries of the Saucon Creek, in what became Northampton county in 1752. This war- rant was dated October 31. 1738, but six weeks after he had taken the oath of allegiance to the English crown. He possibly followed his trade near the furnace for some time, as men of his handicraft were much in demand about
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the mines and furnace and found lucra- tive employment. On May 22, 1745, he obtained a warrant for another seventy- five acres, and in 1755 and 1756 three other tracts were surveyed to him. On one of these he erected a saw and grist mill which was the property of his de- scendants for several generations. Some of the land taken up by him is still oc- cupied by his descendants. By his will dated March 4, 1762, probated January 5, 1769, he devised his mills to sons Con- rad and Frederick, and his other lands to sons Rhinehardt and Peter. His eld- est son, John George, received 190 pounds, and his daughter Elizabeth, wife of Adam Kuckert, thirty pounds.
Johan George Laubach, eldest son of Christian and Susanna, born in Germany November II, 1729, was the great-grand- father of Samuel H. Laubach, of Dur- ham. He reared a family of twelve children. as follows: Susan, born No- vember 7, 1757; John Michel, born No- vember 28, 1759; John, born August 25, 1761; John Christian, born June 30, 1762; Catharine, born February 26, 1764; John Conrad, born December 23, 1766, died young; Anna Mary, born October 21, 1768; Anna Margaret, born January 19, 1770; John Conrad, born March, 1772; John George, born March 5, 1774; Wal- burth, born February 15, 1776; and Eliza- zeth, born April 10, 1779.
John George Laubach, born March 5, 1774, tenth child of John George, Sr., was the grandfather of Samuel H. Lau- bach. He married in 1798, Elizabeth Reel, of Williams township, Northamp- ton county, Pennsylvania, and they were the parents of nine children: Mary, born November II, 1799, married Jacob Boyer; Lydia, born June 7, 1802, mar- ried Joseph Trauger; Anthony, born Oc- tober 18, 1804, married Elizabeth Hess; Elizabeth, born June 23, 1807, married Samuel Rinker; John born July 5, 1810, died unmarried; Susan, born Januarv S, 1813, married Simon Illick: Peter, born January 1, 1816, married Lavinia Bach- man; Anna Margaret, born May 30, 1819, married Jacob Hess; and Sarah, born January 14, 1826, married David W. Hess.
Anthony Laubach, third son of John George and Elizabeth (Reel) Laubach, born October 18, 1804, was the father of Samuel H. Laubach and Charles Lau- bach of Durham. He married March 17, 1829, Elizabeth Hess, of Lower Saucon, Northampton county, and settled in Dur- ham township, where he was a lifelong resident and prominent farmer and busi- ness man. He died March 15, 1891, in his eighty-seventh year. The farm con- veyed to him by his father, George Lau- bach, in 1832, near Riegelsville, pur- chased by George in 1812, is still occu- pied by Samuel H. Laubach. The chil- dren of Anthony and Elizabeth ( Hess ) Laubach, were as follows: Hannah, born
March 21, 1830, married Leidy N. Wor- man; George WV., born December 23, 1832, married Maria Fraley, is still a res- ident of Durham; Samuel H., born March 23, 1834, married Sarah Rufe; Charles, born August 29, 1836, died Au- gust 23, 1904, married Jane Raub; Frank- lin, born September 13, 1838, married El- mira Heller, and is still residing in Dur- ham; Elizabeth, born May 4, 1841, died unmarried; David Anthony, born De- cember 14, 1843, died young: James Francis, born April 25, 1847, died young; Benjamin H., born March 30, 1853, married Lizzie Stover, and is liv- ing in Brooklyn, New York.
Samuel H. Laubach, second son of An- thony and Elizabeth Hess Laubach, was born in Durham township, March 23, 1834. He received a good common school education, and later attended the celebrated Vandeveer school at Easton, Pennsylvania, for several terms. He has always been one of the active and pro- gressive men of his township, and has filled a number of positions of trust. He served for many years as a school director of Durham township, and was twice elected to the office of justice of the peace. He is a practical surveyor and civil engineer, and was appointed in 1884 as one of the commissioners to re- trace and locate the boundary line be- tween Lehigh and Northampton coun- ties. He also served as county surveyor for six years, 1877-1883. Mr. Laubach has been interested in various local en- terprises in Durham and vicinity, and has always taken an interest in the af- fairs of the community in which he lives. He lias always taken a special interest in botany and mineralogy, and is an au- thority on these subjects in that local- ity. He still resides on the old home- stead near Riegelsville.
Mr. Laubach married in 1857 Sarah Rufe, and they are the parents of five children, viz .: Vincent R. Laubach, of Riegelsville, born September 21, 1858, married Margaret Jane Leh; Howard R. Laubach, of Riegelsville, born June 15, 1861, married Laura B. Nicholas; Edgar R. Laubach, of Bethlehem, born June I, 1868. married Abigail L. Judd; Ida R. Laubach, born June 1, 1868, now wife of William H. Judd, of Bethlehem; and Clara R. Laubach, born November 24, 1877. now wife of William H. Bischoff, of Bethlehem.
Vincent R. and Margaret J. (Leh) Lau- bach, have the following children: Ger- trude Alice, born November 13. 1881, wife of Charles Lincoln Free, of Phil- lipsburg, New Jersey; Charles Reuben Laubach, born July 16, 1883; Mabel Alma Laubach, born August 8. 1885, wife of Fred Neamand, of Richlandtown; and Laura Lovina Laubach, born October 20, 1887.
William H .. and Ida R. (Laubach) Judd, have one child, Florence Alma,
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born December 4, 1803: another daugh- ter, Dorothy Sarah, died in infancy.
William H. and Clara R. (Laubach) Bischoff, have one child, George Sam- tcl Bischoff, born February 14, 1902.
Charles Lincoln and Gertrude Alice (Laubach) Free, have one child, Lincoln Forest Free, born April 8, 1903, the first great-grandchild of Samuel H. Laubach.
CHARLES LAUBACH, third son of Anthony and Elizabeth (Hess) Laubach, was born in Durham township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, August 29, 1836, and died there August 23, 1904. He was reared on the Durham farm and received a thorough common school education, and afterwards took a classical course in the Vandeveer Collegiate Institute of Easton.
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In 1855 he took up a course of study in phrenology and ethnology and later lectured extensively on these subjects, In 1857 he took up the study of practical obstetrics under John Ludlow, M. D., of Easton, Pennsylvania, and at the same time took a thorough course of study on medical electricity. On completing his medical studies he took up the practice of medical electricity, which he followed for thirteen months with success. He then returned to the farm and continued his scientific studies, devoting consid- erable portion of his time to geology and archæology, and became the best in- formed geologist in Bucks county. He was a member of the Archæology and Palaeontology Society of the University of Pennsylvania, and of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia, and con- tributed many valuable papers on scien- tific subjects that have been widely pub- lished. He was an indefatigable student of the folk lore and local history of his native section, and was the best known authority as to the conditions and hab- its of the Indians living in that section, as well as of the events pertaining to its early settlement by his own race. The newspapers of the county and elsewhere have published a vast number of his ar- ticles on geology, archaeology and local history that are of incalculable value. He was one of the organizers of the Buckwampum Literary and Historical Society, and served as its secretary until his death, besides contributing a num- ber of valuable papers to its archives, as well as to those of the Bucks County Historical Society, of which he was one of the oldest members. His collection of interesting specimens of minerals and Indian relics and curios at his home in Durham is one of the best of its kind in the state, and he has presented many specimens to the museum of the Bucks County Historical Society. He was no mere relic hunter or collector, but thor- oughly understood the value and merits of cach article in his collection, and any one interested in historical and scientific subjects could spend hours in poring
over this valuable collection, and the most lukewarm student could not fail to be interested in his intelligent and flu- ent explanation of the value and signifi- cance of each article therein. He was also profoundly interested in popular education and all matters pertaining to the advancement and enlightenment of his community. He served several terms as school director, and was dis- trict superintendent of the Durham schools for four years, 1879-1883, and did much for their advancement. In 1885 he represented the the first district of Bucks county in the School Direc- tors' Assciation at Harrisburg. He has been connected with numerous success- ful business enterprises in his district. In politics he was a Jeffersonian Demo- crat of the old school, but took little in- terest in the practical politics of the day. He was a member of the Reformed church. On March 29, 1860, he married Jane Raub, of Riegelsville, who survives him. Their only child, a daughter, died in infancy. The immediate cause of his death was cancer of the face, from which he suffered for upwards of two years.
WATSON P. CHURCH, the editor and proprietor of the Newtown Enterprise, was born at Center Bridge, in Solebury town- ship, Bucks county, 2 mo. 7, 1849. He is the second son of Eleazer F. and Hannah Brock (Price) Church.
Mr. Church is a descendant, through both parents, of Joseph Fell, the pioneer ancestor of the Fells of Bucks county, who in 1705 emigrated from Longlands, in the county of Cumberland, in England, and settled in Buckingham, Bucks county. He was twice married. By his first wife, Bridget Wilson, of Cumberland, he had four children, Joseph, Benjamin, Tamar and Mary. Benjamin, born in Cumberland, 9 mo. 1, 1703, married (first) Hannah Scar- borough, and the fifth child of this mar- riage, Phebe Fell, born I mo. 27, 1736, mar- ried in 1760 Stephen Kirk, son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Twining) Kirk, of Bucking- ham. The third child of this marriage Elizabeth Kirk, born 10 mo. 19. 1773, mar- ried in 1796 John Price, son of Smith and Martha (Carver) Price, of Plumstead, and their daughter, Hannah Brock Price, born January 20, 1814, was the mother of Watson Price Church, the subject of this sketch.
Joseph Fell, the emigrant, married (sec- ond) 3 mno. 10, 17II, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Rebecca (Dungan) Doyle, (born 1688, died 1784). Rebecca was the daughter of Rev. Thomas Dungan, who came to Bucks county from Rhode Island in 1684 and founded a Baptist church at Cold Spring, in Falls township, and she and her husband were the grandparents of William Doyle, from whose colonial tavern of 1745 Doylestown took its name. Sarah Fell, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth, born
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8 mo. 26, 1713, married in 1735 Richard Church, who had brought a certificate from a Friends' Meeting in Ireland two years previously, and settled in Bucking- ham.
Richard Church obtained a patent for 267 acres adjoining the tract of his father-‘ in-law. Joseph Fell. in 1741. This tract in- cluded the present Church's school, founded by his sons, and the mill at Mechanics Valley, now owned by A. K. Steever. The mill was erected by Richard Church in 1742. Richard Church was a prominent man in the community, and an active mem- ber of Buckingham Friends' Meeting. He died 6 mo. II, 1776, and his widow Sarah died 10 mo. II, 1797. He was the great- grandfather of the late Eleazer F. Church, who was the father of Watson P. Church.
Eleazer F. Church learned the trade of a printer in the office of the Doylestown Democrat, under General John S. Bryan, graduating in 1839. For the next ten years he followed other pursuits, being engaged in the mercantile business at both Mechan- icsville and Centre Bridge. In March. 1850, he started a newspaper in Baltimore, Mary- land, called the Baltimore County Advo- cate. It was published in the interest of a separation of the county and city of Balti- more in municipal affairs. From Baltimore the paper was removed to Cockeysville, in August, 1850, and from there to Towson, the new county seat, in 1853, where Mr. Church continued its publication until 1865. when he sold it. In the same year he was appointed inspector of internal revenue for three counties in lower Maryland. In 1856 he purchased a half interest in the Herald and Torchlight, at Hagerstown, Maryland, but in a short time disposed of his interest and returned to Towson and started an- other paper under the name of the Balti- more County Free Press. This he sold in March, 1868. and returned to Bucks county and established the Newtown Enterprise. The paper was a success from the start, and has always been one of the most popular weekly papers in the county. Independent in politics, clean, newsy, and specially de- voted to local matters, it has found its way into a great majority of the homes in lower Bucks, and has probably the largest circulation of any weekly paper published in the county. Eleazer F. Church continued to conduct the Enterprise until his death, June 15, 1893. He was a man of sterling integrity and irreproachable character, of pleasing address, and possessed of good literary ability, and was exceedingly popular as an editor and as a man. He married Hannah Brock Price, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Kirk) Price and had the fol- lowing children: William, born 8 mo. 17, 1847, now a farmer near Taylorsville; Wat- son P., the present editor and proprietor of the Enterprise; Mary E. born 6 mo. II, 1851, who married George M. Wright, and died in Philadelphia October 6, 1899: Harry F., born 2 mo. 16, 1853, who married Helen W. Trego, and died in Newtown, December
2, 1901 ; and Fannie M., living in Newtown.
Watson Price Church, born 2 mo. 7, 1849, received a liberal education, and has always followed literary pursitits. He was associated with his father in the conduct of the Newtown Enterprise, and at his father's death in 1893 he purchased of the executor the entire plant and has since conducted the paper and maintained its old-time popular- ity. He was married June 1, 1899. to Mary Gillam, of Langhorne, daughter of the late Simon and Elizabeth Richardson Gillam, a lineal descendant of Justice Joseph Groiv- don, of Trevose, Bensalem (who was a member of provincial council, 1687-9, 1692, 1695. 1697-8; Justice of supreme court, 1698-9; judge of Bucks county, 1689, 1708; member of assembly, 1684, 1686, 1690, 1693. 1704-5-6, 1713-4-5-6 and until 1723; speaker of the assembly, 1690, 1693, 1700 to 1706 and 1713 to 1716, and again in 1722), through the marriage of his daugh- ter Elizabeth to Francis Richardson of Philadelphia in 1705.
'The children of Watson P. and Mary (Gillam) Church are Watson Price Church, Jr., born June 7, 1900, and Millicent Eliza- beth Church, born August 15, 1901.
ALFRED MARSHALL, of Lang- borne Manor, Bucks county, was born in Marshallton, Delaware, October 29, 1848, a son of Caleb H. and Jane (Thompson) Marshall, and comes of a distinguished English ancestry. John Marshall, paternal ancestor of Alfred Marshall, was born in Derbyshire, Eng- land, and migrated from Elton parish in that shire in 1686 to America, and after locating for about a year in Blockley township, Philadelphia county, located in Darby, Delaware county. He was a member of Darby Friends' Meeting, and married there Io mo. 19, 1688, Saralı, daughter of Thomas Smith, that being the first marriage solemnized under the auspices of Darby Meeting. He was a cousin of Abraham Marshall, the distin- guished botanist and horticulturist, who came from Gratton parish, Derbyshire, in 1700, and settled in West Bradford, Chester county. John Marshall died 9 mo. 13, 1729. and his widow 5 mo. 16, 1749. They had three children, John, born 6 mo. 16, 1690, died 8 mo. 4, 1749, married Joanna Paschall, and (second) Elinor Shenton, a widow; William, born 2 mo. II. 1692, died 1727, married Mary Sellers; Thomas, born 12 mo. 10, 1694, (see forward).
Thomas Marshall married 2 mo. 24, 1718. and settled in Concord township, Chester county. His wife was Hannah Mendenhall, daughter of Benjamin and Ann (Pennel) Mendenhall. Thomas died in 1741. and his widow married Peter Grubb. Thomas and Hannah (Menden- hall) Marshall had nine children. John Marshall, eighth child, born II mo. 22,
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1734, in Concord, married (first) Han- nah James, daughter of Joseph and Han- nah ( Hickman) James, of Westtown, and settled in Birmingham township, where his wife died in 1764, leaving two chil- dren. Mary, who married William Phil- lips; and Martha, who died unmarried. He removed to Kennett township in 1765, and on 4 mio. 27, 1768, married Su- sanna Lamborn, daughter of Robert and Ann (Bourne) Lamborn. She was born 4 m10. 7, 1749, and died 3 mo. 3, 1839. John Marshall became a large landowner in Kennett, among his extensive hold- ings being a grist and saw mill. He and his family were members of Hockesin Meeting, and Kennett Monthly Meeting. He died II mo. 30, 1815. The children of John and Susanna ( Lamborn) Mar- shall were: Thomas, born 4 mo. 22, 1769, died 2 mo. 2, 1851, married Sarah Gregg; Robert, born 9 mo. 15, 1771, (see below) ; William, born 5 mo. 26, 1773, died young; Hannah, born I mo. 7, 1775, died I mo. 21, 1859, married John Yeaman ; Ann, born 8 mo. 22, 1778, died 5 mo. 26, 1862, married John Scarlett; Martha. born 8 mo. 20, 1780, died I mo. 3, 18II, unmarried; and William, born 7 110. 30, 1784, died 1859, married Margaret Mc- Cammon.
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