History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Vol. III, Part 109

Author: Davis, W. W. H. (William Watts Hart), 1820-1910; Ely, Warren S. (Warren Smedley), b. 1855; Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: New York ; Chicago : The Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1040


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Robert Marshall, second son of John and Susanna (Lamborn) Marshall, was born in Kennett township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, 9 mo. 15, 1771. He inherited his father's homestead in Ken- nett. His son Caleb some years before the latter's death in 1869, removed to Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle county, Delaware. Prior to his removal to Del- aware he operated the grist mill in Ken- nett, inherited from his father. His son Thomas was also a miller and success- fully operated the mill in Kennett for many years, and in 1856 began the man- ufacture of paper, establishing the ex- tensive plant now operated by his sons, T. Elwood and Israel W. Marshall. Robert Marshall married II mo. 22, 1804, Mary Hoopes, born 3 mo. 16, 1781, died 7 mo. 30, 1847, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Bane) Hoopes, of Goshen, Ches- ter county. They had five children, viz .: Caleb H., born 9 mno. II, 1806, (see for- ward); John, born 10 mo. 7, 1808, died 5 mo. 23, 1885. married Sarah Phillips. and (second) Mary Harlan; Martha, born 8 mo. 1, 1810, married Thomas Hannum; Abner, born 8 ino. 27, 1814, married Ann Eliza Pyle; and Thomas, born 3 mo. 18, 1818, died 3 mno. 6, 1887, married Mary Way.


Caleb H. Marshall, born on the old Marshall homestead in Kennett, 9 mo. II. 1806, removed to New Castle county, Delaware. He married Jane Thompson, daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Reed) Thompson, of Mill Creek Hundred, and settled at the site of the present town of Marshallton, New Castle county. John Marshall, second son of Robert and


Mary (Hoopes) Marshall, also removed to New Castle county, and the two broth- ers, Caleb H. and John, engaged in the iron busines at Marshallton, building up a large business. In 1863 Caleb H. re- moved to Philadelphia, where the firm had already established a large plant under the name of the Penn Treaty Iron Works. In 1878 Alfred Marshall, the subject of this sketch, with his two brothers, W. W. Marshall and J. Howard Marshall, purchased their father's and and uncle's interest in the business, and continued it with great success under the firm name of Marshall Brothers & Company, introducing many new fea- tures, keeping abreast of the times dur- ing the period of vast developments in the iron and steel business in America. Both J. Howard and Alfred Marshall be- came residents of Langhorne Manor, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where J. Howard died January 24, 1902. John Marshall, junior member of the original firm, died 5 mo. 23, 1885.


John Thompson, the maternal ances- tor of Alfred Marshall, came to Fen- wick's colony near Salem, New Jersey, in 1679, from Wicklow county, Ireland, but was of English birth. He was a son of Thomas and Elizabeth Thompson, and was born in Kirkfenton parish, York- shire, in May, 1635. In 1658 Thomas and Elizabeth Thompson, with their two sons, John and Andrew, removed to Ireland, locating in the parish of Don- ard, county Wicklow, where John mar- ried in 1665 Jane Humble, daughter of Thomas Humble, who had lately re- moved to Ireland from county Durham, England. Four children were born to John and Jane in Ireland; Thomas, born 7 mo., 1666; James, born 8 mo., 1668; Ann, born 9 mo., 1672; and Mary, born IO mo. 25, 1675. Andrew Thompson, brother of John, married in county Wick- low, Isabel Marshall, in 1664, and had by her Elizabeth, William and Andrew, born in Ireland. On 9 mo. 16, 1677, John and Andrew Thompson with their fam- ilies embarked on the ship "Mary," for Fenwick's colony in West Jersey, where they arrived 12 1110. 22. 1677. John Thompson died in 1715. James Thomp- son, son of John and Jane, married in October, 1700, Ann Hollingsworth, daughter of Valentine and Ann (Cal- vert) Holilngsworth, of New Castle county, Delaware. He died in 1712, leav- ing five children: Jane, Ann. John, Eliza- beth and James. James Thompson, son of James and Ann, was born in Salem county, New Jersey, 8 mo. 26, 1712. On arriving at manhood he settled in Lea- cock township, Lancaster county, Penn- sylvania, and married 3 mo. 22, 1735- Sarah Worsley, daughter of Daniel and Sarah Worsley, of New Castle county. She was born 4 no. 3. 1717. On his mar- riage James Thompson removed to New Castle county, locating in Mill Creek


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Hundred. On the death of his first wife he married, 4 mo. 10, 1742, Elizabeth Hadley, daughter of Joseph and Amy (Greeg) Hadley, of Mill Creek. By the first marriage he had three children: Grace, born 3 mo. 9, 1736, married I mo. 17, 1763, Moses Pennock; Daniel, (see below); and Ann, born Io mo. 7, 1739, died young. By the second marriage there were seven children: James, Sarah, Amy, John, Ann, Joseph and Elizabeth. Daniel Thompson, eldest son of James and Sarah (Worsley) Thompson, was born in Mill Creek Hundred, II mo. 16, 1737, and married 10 mo. 25, 1764, Eliza- beth Chambers, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Miller) Chambers, of White Clay Creek, by whom he had nine chiil- dren: William, James, Eli, Deborah, Sarah, John, Elizabeth, Daniel and Joshua. John Thompson, born 5 mo. 17, 1777, married Elizabeth Reed, and their daughter Jane was the mother of the subject of this sketch, through her mar- riage with Caleb H. Marshall, of Mar- shalton, Delaware.


Alfred Marshall was educated in the public schools Marshallton, Dela- ware, and later in Philadelphia, to which city the family removed in 1863. On leaving school he entered the Penn Treaty Iron Works, of which his father was proprietor, and thoroughly learned all the details of the business that was to become his life work. His father, Caleb H. Marshall, died 12 mo. 16, 1888, and the business was continued by his sons under the firm name of Marshall Bros. & Co. This firm was the first manufacturer of galvanized sheet iron. In 1892 they began the manufacture of tin plate, establishing the first plant for this industry east of the Alleghenies, and making it a thorough success. The firm sold out the tin plate department in 1898 to the American Tin Plate Com- pany, but still continues the iron and steel business as jobbers, doing a large and lucrative business.


Mr. Marshall married December 19, 1878, Florence Virginia Mather, of Phil- adelphia, daughter of Richard and Esther (Coates) Mather. Mrs. Marshall is a descendant through many genera- tions of Quaker ancestors who have been prominent in the history and develop- ment of Bucks, Chester and Delaware counties. She is a granddaughter of Benjamin and Catharine (Rowland) Mather, and a great-granddaughter of Banjamin and Ann Mather. On the ma- ternal side she is a descendant of Moses Coates, who was born in Ireland of an old English family who had crossed the channel to escape religious persecution. He married, in Ireland, Susanna Wel- don. and, coming to this country, in 1731, purchased 540 acres of land on the site of Phoenixville, where his descendants became owners and operators of the iron works that liave contributed so largely


to the growth and importance of the town. Coatesville, Pennsylvania, was named for Moses Coates, a grandson of the emigrant, who was the great-grand- father of Mrs. Marshall, her grandpa- rents being Caleb and Elizabethi (Gil- bert) Coates.


Mr. and Mrs. Marshall have been the parents of three children: Clarence Mather, born March 16, 1880, died March 5, 1883; Frederick Warren, born Sep- tember 25, 1881; and Richard Mather, born November 13, 1890. These children attended the William Penn Charter School, and Frederick W. is now a stu- dent of the University of Pennsylvania in the class of 1905. In 1889 Mr. Mar- shall and his family removed to Lang- horne Manor, where he had previously erected a handsome home. He is a bus- iness man of excellent judgment and high standing in the community. He has identified himself with the business, so- cial and political interests of the county and borough. He is a director in the People's National Bank of Langhorne; president of the Langhorne Electric Light Company; president of the Junc- tion Furnace and Foundry Company; and senior member of the present firm of Marshall Brothers in Philadelphia.


GEORGE BAILEY, of Lower Make- field township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, known for his zealous and useful efforts in behalf of education, was a de- scendant in the fifth generation from Thomas Bailey, a native of Bristol, which was in his day one of the most im- portant mercantile cities of England. Thomas Bailey came to America in 1682 and purchased land in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He was a bodice maker by occupation. From him the line of de- scent to George Bailey is through Thomas (2) and Mercy (Lucas) Bailey; Edward (3) and Ann (Satterthwaite) Bailey; and Edward (4) and Margaret (Livezey) Bailey.


George Bailey (5), son of Edward and Margaret (Livezey) Bailey, was born in Falls township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, January 15, 1816. He began his education in the common schools in the home neighborhood, and pursued what was equivalent to an academical course in the Friends' school of Falls town- ship. He was of studious disposition and devoted himself to his studies so assid- uously that on leaving school he was en- tirely capable of teaching, and he fol- lowed that occupation for several years. During his later life he followed farm- ing, industriously and successfully. He never lost his interest in educational af- fairs, and was among the foremost in laying the foundations for the normal school system and in effecting its es- tablishment. In politics he was a Re-


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publican. He married October 26, 1837, Ann, daughter of Israel and Rachel (Parsons) Bailey, and they died respec- tively April 30, 1853, and February 19, 1852. They were the parents of seven children: I. Peter, born April 30, 1839, died October 10, 1899; 2. Emily. born February 19, 1841. 3. Harding, Decem- ber 8. 1842; 4. George WV., July 12, 1845; 5. Edward, February 17, 1848; 6. Anna Mary, August 29, 1849. 7. Isaiah, born December 5. 1851. died in infancy.


Emily, oldest surviving child and eld- est daughter of George and Ann (Bailey) Bailey, resides in a handsome home in Langhorne borough, near the ancestral homestead, to which she is devotedly attached on account of the tender memories and honored traditions belonging to it. Her life has been un- selfishly devoted to the welfare of others, and she is held in regard by the many in the neighborhood who have constantly been objects of her care and the re- cipients of her bounties-bounties be- stowed so modestly and unassumingly that they go unheralded save by those grateful souls to whose comfort she has so generously contributed. She is also sincerely beloved by the widely dis- persed members of the family, who view in her an affectionate and considerate relative who by reason of her residence near the old home and her loyalty to her ancestry and kinspeople is in peculiar degree their principal and most honored representative.


Harding, third child and oldest sur- viving child of George and Ann (Bailey) Bailey, married September 29, 1868, Lu- cretia M. Garretson, and they are the parents of five children: I. William, born in 1870, died in infancy; 2. Luella M., born 1872; 3. Lorin H., 1876: 4. Hazel, 1886: 5. Arvine, 1891. This family re- side in Ohio.


George W., fourth child of George and Ann (Bailey) Bailey, married December 31, 1868. Ruthetta Butler, and they are the parents of eight children: I. John Butler, born 1870. died 1893: 2. Anna E., born 1871; married December 24, 1901, Horace C. Baldwin, of Whittier, Califor- nia, and to them were born two children: one died in infancy, and Clifford, born March 28, 1904; 3. Laura M., born 1874; died 1891; 4. Edward H., born 1876, mar- ried Esther Harris. June 1, 1904; 5. Erwin G .. born 1880, married Carrie Huntington, August 23, 1904; 6. William J., born 1884: 7-8. Charles F. and Ches- ter M., twins, born 1889: Chester M. died in infancy, and Charles F. is still living.


Edward M., fifth child of George and Ann (Bailey) Bailey, married Sarah Lee Taylor, September 12. 1888.


Anna Mary, sixth child of George and Ann (Bailey) Bailey, became the wife of Charles H. Carver, in January, 1872, and to them were born three children: I. Anna B., 1873; married Charles T.


Windle, and they had one child, Edward Howell, born 1897. 2. Rachel B., born 1876, is quite an artist, and in 1904 ex- hibited at the Trenton State Fair, win- ning seven prizes. 3. Edward L., born 1879, died 1881.


SAMUEL R. KRAMER, Postoffice Per- kasie, was born March 29, 1860, on the Ridge road, about two miles northeast of Perkasie borough, in Rockhill township, and was the youngest of seven children born to Abraham and Elizabeth Kramer. At the age of eight years his father died, and for five years he was in the employ of George L. Baringer, a farmer in Rich- land Center, during which time and be- tween the attendant duties of farm life he received a common-school education in the Quakertown public schools. In 1875 he was apprenticed to a jeweler in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, June 4, 1877, he was apprenticed to J. E. Witmer, of the Langsdale Reporter, at Langsdale, Montgomery county, this state, and served three years at the printing business. In June, 1881, Hon. M. S. Sellers established the Central News in Perkasie, and em- ployed him to take charge of the mechani- cal part, which position he held until the death of the founder, February 7, 1882, when he became a member of the firm of Moyer & Kramer, and continued the print- ing and publication business. In 1885, at the age of twenty-four. he was elected to the office of justice of the peace by his fellow-citizens. for the term of five years, and was re-elected for three succeeding terms thereafter. He was married in 1881 to Miss Mary Swartley, of Gwynedd, Mont- gomery county, Pennsylvania. The union was blest with ten children, the following of whom are living : Samuel R., Jr .. Russell, Lulu, Mamie, Stewart, Folwell and Ran- dall.


From a wooded hillside Mr. Kramer created Menlo Park. He united Perkasie and Quakertown by trolley. He produced the Perkasie water works. He gave the "upper end" a model weekly newspaper. He was a charter member of many lodges, and belongs to the following: F. and A. M .. K. of P., I. O. O. F., O. U. A. M. He brought to Perkasie its largest industries, persuading the proprietors to locate here, and financed the building of factories. As a surveyor he laid out important and profit- able annexes to the borough. He was a leading spirit in annexing Bridgetown to Perkasie, and in freeing the Bridgetown- Perkasie turnpike. He was successful in pleading for municipal ownership of the borough electric light plant. He was the pioneer along the North Penn for modern railroad stations. the first and finest of which is located at Perkasie. To a great extent Perkasie Bank is because of him. Verily a busy and honored career-a course uniformly run with integrity, and oppor-


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tunity for liis associates to go along with equal privileges.


His political affiliations tend toward the Democracy of Jefferson, although his partisanship is not of the intense type. Man or measure appeals to him because of its worthiness-nothing else-although, all things being equal, he is a Democrat. He was one of the leaders of the Palmer and Buckner (Gold Democrats) campaign in 1900, and was a national delegate to the convention that year. By the loss of only one vote Mr. Kramer failed to be- come the choice of his party for the as- sembly in 1890.


The products of his pen are a source of great pleasure. He is versatile, facile, and keen-convincing-and is equally at home with the weapons of sarcasm, ridicule, or the "statement direct"-the power of which has been felt in many a campaign, or other public question. And, remarkable as it may seen, he is equally forceful as a public speaker.


Mr. Kramer subscribes to the German Reformed faith, and has served the St. Stephen Sunday school as its superin tendent, choir leader, and orchestra leader. Of late years, however, his religious tenets have undergone a liberalizing process, and his views upon the plan of salvation, and the mundane machinery connected there- with, are a fusion of most beliefs-a com- promise for all. Socially, his home is head- quarters, locally. His genial personality, through which magnetism runs as the band of red through the national colors, attracts all classes. His heart is large, and his purse open-although his charity is un- ostentatious. He does good by stealth and blushes to find it fame.


Commercially, he is at present head of a corporation engaged in manufacturing and selling his patented attachments for platen printing presses - an ingenious mechanism which makes these presses print from a roll, in colors, perforating, number- ing, collating and packing, or rewinding the same.


He dissolved partnership with ex-Senator Moyer in the proprietorshop of the Central News in 1903, they two disposing of the property to Charles M. Meredith.


DAVID W. ALLABOUGH, EsQ. David \V. Allabouglı, Silverdale borough, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in Hilltown township, Bucks county, May 13, 1869, and is a son of Henry S. and Elizabeth (Wismer) Allabough, of the same place.


Henry Allabough, grandfather of David W., was a native of Montgomery county, and a carpenter by trade. He lived for a time in Salem county, New Jersey. He was twice married, the subject of this sketch being descended from the second marriage, with Sarah Smith. By his first marriage he had two children-John and Amanda ;


and by the second three-Etta, Sarah Ann, and Henry S.


Henry S. Allabough was born in Mont- gomery county, Pennsylvania, December 8, 1843. He was reared in that county, and on March 4, 1862, enlisted as a private in Company E, Ninetieth Regiment, Penn- sylvania Volunteers, at Philadelphia, under Captain Jolin Barnes and Colonel Peter Lyle. The regiment was incorporated in the Second Brigade, Second Division, Tenth Corps, of the Army of the Potomac, and was in the thick of the fight through- out the war. He was in the battles of Cedar Creek, Fredericksburg, Chancellors- ville, Gettysburg and many others. At Gettysburg he was wounded in the right shoulder and right cheek and was sent to the military hospital at Broad and Cherry streets, Philadelphia, and after being there four months was transferred to Chestnut Hill hospital. On his discharge from the hospital he was transferred to Company H, Eleventh Regiment, and was at the bat- tle of the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, where he was slightly wounded in the right thigh but took part in the two weeks fight at Petersburg, June 15 to 30th. He was hon- orably discharged May 4, 1865, and was highly commended for bravery and meritor- ious conduct. He is a member of Peter Lyle Post, No. 145, G. A. R., of Quaker- town. Returning from the war he settled in Bucks county, and married October II, 1866, Elizabeth Wismer, daughter of Chris- tian and Mary (Cassel) Wismer of Hill- town, and, purchasing his father-in-law's farm, which he conducted for fourteen years, then moved to Silverdale, purchas- ing a small property where he now lives retired. Henry and Elizabeth (Wisiner) Allabough are the parents of three chil- dren : David W., the subject of this sketch ; William, of Hilltown, who married Emma Miller, daughter of Noah Miller, of Rock- hill, and has one son Harvey; and Mary, wife of Henry Hunsberger, of Silverdale.


Christian Wismer, the maternal grand- father of 'Squire Allabaugh, was born in Montgomery county, and was a son of Christian Wismer who married Mary Rosenberger. He settled in Hilltown, and married Mary Cassel, also a native of Mont- gomery county, and they were the parents of seven children: Anna, who married David Ruth: Sarah; Elizabeth; Jacob, of Silverdale, who married Catharine Stout; Joel, who married Mary Shelly: Mary de- ceased; and Daniel, who married Annie Roberts.


David W. Allabough was reared on his father's farm in Hilltown, and acquired his education at the public schools. As a boy he entered the tailoring establishment of his maternal uncle, Jacob Wismer, and is still employed there, filling the position of foreman in the large establishment of Mr. Wismer at Silverdale for many years. He has always taken an active interest in the local affairs of the community in which he lived, and has filled a number of local of-


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fices. He was elected a justice of the peace in 1897, and reelected in 1902. In politics he is a Republican, and has served for some years as a member of the county committce. He married Rosa Stout, daughter of Moses and Mary Ann ( Bishop) Stout.


HON. HAMPTON W. RICE was born in Solebury township, Bucks county, on the old Rice homestead, March 24, 1844, the son of Samuel H. and Ann (Livezey ) Rice, both natives of that township. Edward Rice, ancestor of the Rice family of Bucks county, was a native of the parish of Killa- man, county Tyrone, Ireland, from whence he emigrated to America, bringing with him a certificate from the rector and church wardens of the parish, dated June 12, 1736. He settled in Buckingham, and on Decem- ber 19, 1753, obtained a deed for 153 acres of land on the old York road and the War- wick line, comprising the present Edward Swartz and Percy farms. He had probably resided on this land some years previously. It was part of a tract of 1,622 acres patented to Thomas Mayleigh, and had been devised to his son and heirs male in feetail, and proceedings had been instituted to bar the entail so as to make conveyances thereof in fee, some years previously. Edward Rice resided on this farm until his death in 1761. His wife was Elizabeth She mar- ried Mathew Beans, 5 mo. 18, 1763, and had two children-Aaron and Moses Beans by this second marriage. She died in Buck- ingham in 1814. The children of Edward and Elizabeth Rice, were eight, viz. :


I. James, born about 1742, died in War- wick township, November 5, 1822, leaving seven children: Jane, wife of Henry Wig- gins; Rebecca, wife of Henry Black ; John ; James ; Phebe, wife of James Lukens ; Wil- liam and Mary. James had removed to Baltimore, Maryland, but returned to Bucks county and settled in Warwick ten years later. 2. John, born 1744, died on the home- stead in Buckingham, October 1, 1801, mar- ried Rachel Worthington, August 24, 1765. and had children: Mary, who married Thomas Kirk; Edward, Elizabeth, Han- nah. Ann, John and James. 3. Edward, born 1747, married Martha Fell, and lived in Plumstead. Children: Jonathan and Mary. 4. George Rice, born 1749, married Eleanor, daughter of Robert and Jane Skelton, of Buckingham, and had children : Robert, Ann, Susanna, George, Sarah. Mary, Moses, and Elias. George Rice and his son Robert were wheelwrights and lived in Plumstead. 5. Mary, born 1752, married John Kinsey, 3 mo. 23. 1774. 6. Joseph. born 1754. 7. Thomas, born 1756. 8. Will- iam, born 1758.


Joseph, sixth child of Edward and Eliza- beth Rice, was born in Buckingham in the year 1754. He was very young when his mother was married to Mathew Beans, and his boyhood days were probably spent on the old Beans farm, near the Solebury line,


where Henry H. Beans now lives. He mar- ried, 4 mo. 14, 1779, Letitia, daughter of William and Catharine (Fisher) Hartley, of Solebury. He purchased of his wife's uncle the farm on the state road in Sole- bury, part of which is still owned and oc- cupied by his descendants, and spent his long life thereon, dying in November, 1848, in his ninety-fourth year. His children were: Catharine, born 1780, married Elias Paxson; James, born 1785, died in infancy ; William, born 4 mo. 30, 1782, died 1827 ; Letitia, born 1788, married John Bodder ; James, born 2 mo. 7, 1791, died young ; and Joseph, born 3 mo. 2, 1792. Letitia (Hart- ley) Rice died II mo. 30, 1815.


William Rice, eldest son of Joseph and Letitia, born in Solebury, 4 mo. 30, 1782, was devised by the will of his grandfather, William Hartley, a farm of 180 acres ad- joining the one purchased by his father, the greater part of which is still owned by the subject of this sketch, and, marrying Sidney Hartley settled thereon. He died when but forty-five years of age, in 1827. His children were: Samuel H., father of the subject of this sketch; Hiram, for many years a prominent citizen of Buckingham, died at Newtown; Charles and Eliza.


Samuel H. Rice, eldest son of William and Sidney, was born on the old homestead in Solebury in 1808. At his father's death he assumed the management of the farm, and two years later, he having arrived at his majority, the farm was partitioned through the orphans' court and he accepted the homestead and 127 acres and spent the remainder of his life thercon. He was an auctioneer, and followed that vocation in connection with farming. He was twice married, his first wife being Euphemia, daughter of John and Euphemia (Ingham) Watson to which marriage two children were born : Mary Ellen, now deceased, mar- ried William M. Wharton; and one who died in childhood. He married (second) Ann Livezey, daughter of Robert and Sarah (Paxson) Livezey of Solebury, by whom he had three children: Euphemia Ann and Sarah L., both single, residing at Lahaska; and Hampton W., the subject of this sketch. Samuel H. Rice died in June, 1879.




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