History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Vol. III, Part 115

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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On March 15, 1855, Doctor Candy was married to Jennie Moser, of Philadelphia, daughter of Henry and Catharine (Everett) Moser, and of English and German descent. Her grandfather, Henry Moser, was a soldier in the revolutionary war under Gen- eral Anthony Wayne, and his brother, Burkhardt Moser, furnished financial and material aid for the prosecution of the war of independence. Dr. James B. and Jennie (Moser) Candy were the parents of six children; Kate Adele; Anna Bent- ley; Thomas Davy; James Bentley, Jr .; Pierson Mitchell ; and Laura Hudson. Kate Adele died in her fifth year of diphtheria. Anna Bentley married Wilmer Stevens Black (an account of whose ancestry ap- pears in this work) and they are the pa- rents of two children: Edith Holbrook and Cyrille Kershaw. James Bentley Candy, Jr., married Harriet L. Headley, daughter of John Burton Headley, of Winchester, Virginia, and they have one child, James Bentley (3), born September 22, 1904. Dr. Candy's sons have been established by him in the business of florists and land- scape gardeners at Langhorne, in which they are successfully engaged and give em- ployment to a number of hands. The Doctor is still hale and hearty, and gives promise of many years of usefulness.


DR. JOSEPH BENNER HERITAGE, of Langhorne, was born in Bustleton, Phila- delphia county, October 5, 1809, and is a son of Joseph Dearman and Annie Loisa (DeWees) Heritage, both of English de- scent. The first American ancestors of the subject of this sketch came from England prior to 1700, and settled near Salem, New Jersey, from whence the immediate an- cestor of Dr. Heritage migrated to the neighborhood of Horsham, Montgomery county, where his great-grandfather, John F. Heritage, was born. John F. Heritage was a tailor by trade, and followed that vocation during the active years of his life, locating at Bustleton, Philadelphia county, building the first house in what is now a thriving business town. He also operated a small farm there. He was a soldier in the war of 1812-14. He married Ann Fet- ters, a native of Montgomery, and of Ger-


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man descent. They were the parents of five children, viz. : John F., Jr., Joseph, George, Samuel, Sarah.


John F. Heritage, Jr., son of John F. and Ann Fetters Heritage, was born in Phila- delphia county, and early in life learned the tailor's trade with his father. On arriv- ing at manhood he took charge of a farm, and also followed his trade. He was an officer of militia, and captain of a company that was called out to quell the riots in Philadelphia. He later purchased the home- stead at Bustleton, and spent the remainder of his life thereon, dying at the age of sev- enty-five years. He was a member of Pen- nypack Baptist church for over thirty years. He married Ann Benner, daughter of John Benner. Her father died during her early girlhood, leaving two daughters, Mrs. Her- itage, and Hannah, who married a Camp- bell. Her maternal grandfather was Joseph Dearman, who was a captain in the Revo- lutionary war, and was taken prisoner while at home on a furlough, and confined in a British prison for some time; later he was exchanged, and entered the service and served until independence was achieved. After the close of the war he became a farmer in Philadelphia county, and lived to a good old age, long enough to see nis country achieve a second victory over the mother country, and become a power among the nations of the earth. He died about 1827. John F. Heritage and Ann Benner were the parents of seven children, viz : Anna, wife of George Brooks; Joseph, the father of Dr. Heritage; Samuel; John B .; George; Mary A., deceased; and Emma C., deceased.


Joseph Dearman Heritage, eldest son of John F. and Ann ( Benner) Heritage, was born and reared at Bustleton. He learned the coach making business, which he has carried on for many years at Bustleton, doing a large business. He married Annie Louisa DeWees, daughter of Isaiah and Mary (Hart) DeWees, both of whom were born in England.


Dr. Joseph Benner Heritage, the subject of this sketch, was born and reared at Bustleton, and received his education at the Fayette public school and at a high school at Vineland, New Jersey. Choosing the medical profession, he entered the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadel- phia, from which he graduated in 1891. He at once located at Langhorne, Bucks coun- ty, where he has since practiced his chosen profession with success. He married No- vember 8, 1893, Ida May Marple, daughter of Captain Alfred and Anna Addis (Van- sant) Marple. and granddaughter of Da- vid and Eliza Ann (Hart) Marple, and great-granddaughter of Joseph Marple, whose ancestors have been prominent in the affairs of Bucks county for many gen- erations. Dr. and Mrs. Heritage are the parents of three children, viz. : Charles Ed-


ward, born August 13, 1894; Florence Mar- ple, born August 23, 1897; and Joseph Irving, born October 8, 1898.


H. AUGUSTUS PICKERING, for many years a prominent merchant and bus- iness man of Carversville, Bucks county, was born at Mechanicsville, Buckingham township, Bucks county, December 22, 18.42, and is a son of the late Jonathan C. and Elizabeth (Anderson) Pickering. . His pa- ternal ancestor, Isaac Pickering, was the second child of Samuel and Mary ( Scar- borough) Pickering, and was born on the old homestead in Solebury, between the upper and lower York roads, two miles east of Lahaska, 12 mo. 23, 1716. He was a blacksmith by trade, and followed that occupation during nearly his whole life in connection with farming. He purchased in 1742, a farm adjoining the homestead, which had been the property of his matern- al grandfather, John Scarborough, where he lived and died. He was a prominent member of Buckingham Friends' Meeting, holding the position of overseer and elder for many years. He was also one of the trustees of the "Stone School House" at Centre Hill. He died in December, 1798, at the age of eighty-two years. He was married in 1738 to Sarah Lupton, and (sec- ondly) late in life to Sidney Wright, a widow, and the mother of Solomon Wright, who had married his daughter Rachel. Isaac and Sarah (Lupton) Pickering were the parents of nine children, viz: I. Jo- seph, born 5 mo. 9, 1739; married 8 mo. 18, 1762, Jane Paxson, see forward. 2. Sa- rah, born 2 mo. 27, 1741; married 12 mo. 14, 1763, Joseph Butler. 3. Mary, born 5 mo. 13, 1743; died unmarried. 4. Mercy, born 8 mo. 27, 1745; married 5 mo. II, 1774. Joseph Roberts. 5 and 6. Isaac and Sam- uel, born I mo. 27, 1747, died young. 7. Jonathan, born 2 mo. 15, 1750; married in 1773 Mary Williams, of Shrewsbury, New Jersey. 8. Rachel, born 2 mo. 17, 1752; mar- ried 6 mo. 13, 1787, Solomon Wright, the schoolmaster. 9. Esther, born 6 mo. 6, 1755, died young.


Joseph Pickering, the eldest of the above children of Isaac and Sarah, lived and died in Solebury. He died in December, 1793, his wife Jane surviving him. They were the parents of five children, four daughters, Ann, Jane, Rachel and Sarah- the first named three of whom married Carvers, and the latter married Israel Michener ; and one son, Isaac. Isaac Pick- ering. Sr., conveyed to his son Joseph by deed of gift a farm of 125 acres on Long Lane, in Buckingham, which the latter de- vised to his only son Isaac.


Isaac Pickering, Jr., married 10 mo. II, 1786, Elizabeth Carey, daughter of Thom-' as and Mary Townsend Carey, of Plum-


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stead, and took up his residence upon the Buckingham farm. He later purchased two acres in the village of Carversville, and erected a hotel and store which he con- ducted in connection with his son Isaac, until his death in 1815. He had eight sons, viz: Isaac, Thomas, John, Joseph, James, Stephen, Mahlon and Carey.


Joseph Pickering, son of Isaac and Eliza- beth (Carey) Pickering, was born in Buck- ingham in 1792. He learned the black- smith trade and followed it for a number of years in Plumstead, later removing to Mechanicsville, Buckingham township, where he followed blacksmithing for a number of years. He married Rebecca Keiple.


Jonathan C. Pickering, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a son of Jo- seph and Rebecca (Keiple) Pickering, and was born in Plumstead township, Bucks county, in 1817. He was but a boy when his parents removed to Mechanicsville, where Jonathan was reared. On arriving at manhood he married Elizabeth Ander- son, and followed farming in Buckingham until 1867, when he removed with his wife and six younger children to Henderson county, Illinois, where he followed farm- ing until his death in 1892, at the age of seventy-five years. His wife Elizabeth survived him two years. They were the parents of eight children, seven of whom survive, viz: Mary Anna, wife of Wilson Flack, of Solebury ; H. Augustus ; Joseph, residing in Nebraska; Rebecca, widow of James Crawford, of Nebraska; Lester, liv- ing in California; Elizabeth, wife of W. F. Jones, of Illinois; and Ezra M., of Illi- nois.


H. Agustus Pickering was born and reared in Buckingham and resided with his parents to the age of fourteen years, when he accepted a position in the store of Sam- uel A. Firman, at Carversville. After six years of service as clerk and one year spent as a soldier in the army during the war of the rebellion, he became in 1864 a partner with his employer under the firm name of Firman & Pickering, which continued for six years, when Watson F. Paxson became a member of the firm, and the name was changed to S. A. Firman & Co. In 1872 Mr. Firman retired from the firm and removed to Doylestown, and his interest was pur- chased by the surviving members of the firm, who continued the business under the firm name of Paxson & Pickering until 1880, when A. W. Walton purchased an interest in the firm, and for the next five years the firm name was Pickering & Wal- ton. In 1885 Mr. Pickering sold his in- terest to Edward H. Worthington and en- gaged in farming for five years, when he purchased Mr. Worthington's interest, and is still senior member of the firm of Pick- ering & Walton, who do an extensive trade in general merchandise. Mr. Pickering en-


listed on August 8, 1862, in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regi- ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, under Cap- tain Samuel Croasdale, who later became colonel of the regiment. Mr. Pickering served in the regiment for ten months, par- ticipating in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellors- ville. He was taken prisoner at the latter battle on May 3, 1863, and confined in the notorious Libby Prison for sixteen days, when he was exchanged and returned home and resumed his position in the store, be- coming a member of the firm the following year. In politics Mr. Pickering is a Re- publican, but has never sought nor held other than local offices. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was married in 1879 to Hannah H. Shaw, daughter of Eleazer C. and Grace R. (Green) Shaw of Plumstead, and they are the parents of one child, Arthur C., who is a clerk in his father's store.


JOHN FRANKLIN AFFLERBACH, of Perkasie, Bucks county, is of German origin, a son of Captain John H. Affler- bach, of Bedminster, where he was born August 27, 1869, and was reared and edu- cated in the township of Haycock. Henry, Daniel and Ludwig Afflerbach emigrated from Germany about the time of the Amer- ican Revolution and settled in Bucks coun- ty-Henry in Springfield, Daniel in Hay- cock, and Ludwig (Lewis) at Durham. The descendants of Henry later located in Haycock and spelled the name Applebach. while most of the descendants of Daniel have held to the original spelling of the name. Daniel Afflerbach purchased a farm of 140 acres in Haycock and lived thereon until his death in 1826. He left six chil- dren-one son, George; and five daughters ; Elizabeth, wife of Abraham Mills, Cath- arine, wife of Isaac Diehl; Maria, wife of Isaac Mills; Magdalene, wife of John Wel- der; and Sarah, wife of Anthony Weire- back.


George Afflerbach, the only son of Dan- iel, was born in Haycock township about 1778, and lived his whole life there. He was a farmer and a member of Kellers' church. He died in 1838. His wife was Dorothy Stonebach, daughter of Heinrich and Dorothy (Keller ). Stonebach, and granddaughter of Heinrich Keller, for whom Keller's church was named, and who had emigrated from Weirbach, in Baden, Germany in 1738 and settled in Bedminster. Both he and the paternal grandfather of Dorothy ( Stonebach ) Afflerbach were among the organizers and first elders of the church. George and Dorothy (Stonebach) Afflerbach were the parents of thirteen chil- dren, eleven of whom lived to maturity ; John; Hannah, born August 22, 1805, wife


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of Peter Swartz; Mary, wife of Joseph Keller; Elizabeth, wite ux 1. F. B. Smith; Tobias, born August 6, 1807; Abraham, born May 11, 1809; Daniel, born April 13, 1813; Josiah, born September 15, 1817; Sa- rah; Isaac; and Dorothy.


Abraham, seventh son of George and Dorothy, born in Haycock, May II, 1809, was a carpenter by trade, but also followed farming. He purchased a farm in Hay- cock in 1854, part of a tract formerly owned and occupied by his maternal great- grandfather, Heinrich Keller, and purchas- ed by the latter of Griffith Davis, to whom it had been patented by the Penns in 1737. Abraham Afflerbach died in January, 1874. He had married Mary Magdalene Bebig- house, who was born April 17, 1808, and died July 3, 1887. Abraham and Magdalene Affierbach were the parents of four chil- dren : Sarah, born September 25, 1835, mar- ried Jacob Strouse; Charles Tobias, born August 12, 1838, died in 1868; John Hen- ry, born August 12, 1840; and George Franklin, who died in service in the civil war, December 6, 1862, at Suffolk, Virgin- ia. He married Levina King and left two sons, Milton and John.


Captain John Henry Afferbach, son of Abraham and Magdalene, was born and reared on the Haycock farm. In early life he was a school teacher. In 1862 he and his brother George Franklin, enlisted as privates in Company C, One Hundred and Seventy-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and the latter was elected ser- geant, but died as previously stated. Cap- tain Afflerbach was elected captain of the company, October 31, 1862, and served for nine months in Virginia and North and South Carolina, and was mustered out with his company August 7, 1863. At the ex- piration of this term of service he re- turned home, and in the spring of 1864 accepted a clerical position in the general store of Charles Sheets, at Keller's church, and in 1867 went to Bedminsterville, and three years later purchased the store and conducted it for six years, the last three in partnership with Abraham Keller, his cousin, whose son Lewis now owns and conducts the store. His father dying in January, 1874, he sold out the store to the Kellers, and purchased the old homestead in Haycock, and still lives there. Captain Afflerbach married November 15, 1868. Ab- bie Fulmer, daughter of John and Cath- arine (Kramer) Fulmer, and they were the parents of four children: John Franklin, born August 27, 1869; Abraham Lewis, born December 24, 1870; Emma, born Sep- tember 24, 1872, now the wife of Elmer Johnson; and Anna Mary, who died in in- fancy.


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John Franklin Afferbach, the subject of this sketch. was born in Bedminster, and removed with his parents to the old home- stead in Haycock at the age of four years.


He received his primary education at the public schools, and later entered the nor- mal school at Kutztown. After leaving school he taught school in Haycock and Bedminster townships for four years, and also studied telegraphy. He married Octo- ber 17, 1894, Emma Atherholt, born April 15, 1873, daughter of Aaron and Emma ( Strawn) Atherholt, and for five years con- ducted her father's farm. In 1900 he erect- ed a handsome residence in Perkasie, where he has since resided. In 1901 he be- gan the manufacture of brick at Perka- sie, which business he has since success- fully conducted. He is a member of the Reformed church, and politically is a Dem- ocrat. He has served as school director, and filled other local offices. He is a mem- ber of the Modern Woodmen of America, of Lodge No. 671, I. O. O. F., of Perka- sie; Mont Alto Lodge, No. 246, K. of P., of Perkasie; and Colonel Edmond Schall Camp, No. 92, Sons of Veterans, of Lands- dale, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Affler- bach are the parents of two children- Calvin Eugene, born October II, 1896; and Esther Lucretia, born December 25, 1899.


DR. GEORGE THOMAS HESTON was born in Pineville, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, February 27, 1826, the son of Jesse Stackhouse Heston and Martha Comly Thomas, of the well known Philadelphia family of that name.


Deceased removed from Pineville to Newtown with his parents when four years old. His early education was acquired at the old Newtown Academy and Westtown Friends' School. On the completion of a course at Haverford College he entered the University of Pennsylvania for the study of medicine, his preceptor being the noted Dr. Phineas Jenks, of Newtown. Failing health compelled him to travel at the end of two years, and he toured the world, starting on the barque "Adelaide," com- manded by Captain Joseph Eyre, of Newtown, spent sometime in California in '49, afterwards visited Brazil, Chili and Peru, and bore the distinction of a man living in Newtown who had twice doubled Cape Horn. While in Peru he met Don Pedro, and, when the latter visited the Centennial Exposition in 1876, through the instrumentality of George W. Childs, the acquaintance of former years was renewed, and the agricultural developments of Bucks county, that the Doctor had described as the "Eden of Pennsylvania," were thor- oughly appreciated and lauded by the Emperor.


After a close study of fevers on the South American coast he embarked from Valparaiso on the ship "Independence," commanded by the Danish Captain Peder- son, studied on his arrival in Europe in the hospitals of Berlin. Paris and London, and, on his return to his home in i851, re-


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newed his course in the University of Penn- sylvania, and at his graduation in 1852 made "Typhoid Fever" the subject of his thesis, which was highly commended by Sir Benjamin Brodie, of Edinburgh, Scot- land. During the civil war he passed a suc- cessful examination as surgeon, and held a certificate marked "very distinguished," but, yielding to his father's Quaker prin- ciples, declined an appointment, but from no lack of patriotism, as was evidenced by his ministering freely of his knowledge, time and money in the city hospitals and in the homes of his townsmen who were doing duty on the battle field, until the conflict was ended.


Dr. Heston was a lineal descendant of Zebulon Heston, who came to Eastham, Barnstable county, Massachusetts, from Heston Parish, on the Midland road, six- teen miles out of London, in 1684. He re- moved to Burlington county, New Jersey, and was very active in building the first Episcopal church in New Jersey, near Tren- ton, deeding the land and contributing gen- erously in finance toward the erection of the house of worship. His sympathies, which had been aroused for Friends while in New England by the unjust persecution of the Quakers, led to his becoming a member, and in 1707 he removed to Fallsington, Bucks county, and later (in 1711) he trans- ferred his certificate to Wrightstown, hav- ing purchased 211 acres in Upper Make- field, where he continued to reside until his death in 1720, and was interred in the old burying ground at Wrightstown. Hay- ing purchased one hundred acres of land at what is now known as Hestonville, his grandson Edward located there and was noted for his ability legally and financially, and was a well known revolutionary patriot, winning the title of colonel. His brother, who established the Heston Glass Works, now known as Glassboro, also held the same commission as Colonel Thomas Heston in the army.


Dr. Heston on his mother's side was a direct descendant of Llewellyn, King of Wales, and had in his home the family coat-of-arms, to which he was entitled from the Thomas castle in Wales. Dr. Heston's father was a shrewd business man in his day, and was largely engaged in mercantile enterprises in Newtown. He was an ex- tensive owner of coal lands in the Shamo- kin Valley, and a pioneer in the Middle coal fields, for many years president of the Locust Mountain Summit Improvement Company. The development of these coal fields made him a man of great wealth.


In 1853 Dr. Heston married Miss M. Amanda Duncan, then a talented and promi- nent teacher, who has distinguished her- self from a literary point of view, being a gifted speaker, fine conversationalist, in- terested in all good, active in the Forestry Association of Pennsylvania and ranks as the oldest graduate of the Philadelphia High and Normal School for Girls. Their married life of half a century was very


congenial. The Doctor relied on her in all business transactions, and made her his confidant in all matters pertaining to finance. There were no children born of the marriage.


In 1885, owing to poor health, Dr. Heston relinquished his practice in favor of Dr. J. Aubrey Crewitt, of Huntingdon, whom he always highly esteemed and in his dying moment said "that man has been a son to me in alleviating my sufferings." The Doctor never lost interest in his pro- fession. As one of his brother physicians (Dr. Charles Smith) wrote, "Dr. Heston will always stand out as a unique per- sonality, doing harm to no one, kindly to all, a big heart, strikingly benevolent and charitable in suspecting poor but needy places, never letting his right know what his left hand did, as a physician, forceful, posi- tive and progressive, in fact, I never met an elder medical man, as I of a younger gen- eration would say, who more fully kept awake to all that was new in his pro- fession."


The Doctor was a gifted writer, a fine English as well as classical scholar, reading his Greek Testament a week before his death as well as his English, a thorough chemist, even in his college days the origina- tor of numerous prescriptions that would have made a fortune, but pride in his alma mater forbade all secrecy that leads to quackery. He was a prominent local his- torian, well informed in botany, geology, mineralogy, ichthyology, and particularly so in conchology. In a word, he was at home in the field of science, and the study of nature was his pleasure. Caring nothing for social life, yet there was a rare hospitality in his home, and he was a genial and charming host.


For more than a year he had been a quiet uncomplaining sufferer from the results of la grippe in the form of insomnia and acute Bright's disease. He died as he lived, honored and beloved by all who knew him, leaving a large circle of friends to mourn his loss. His philanthropic and charitable deeds will be missed by many in his com- munity, to whom he was always ready and willing to extend help from his well- filled purse and larder. The funeral services in the home where he had lived for seventy- five years were largely attended. The casket designed as his last resting place was a handsome work of art in solid mahogany, richly carved, while the floral offerings were of unique and original de- sign.


Dr. Heston was a birthright member of the Society of Friends, and Evan L. Worth- ington's remarks on this last occasion were appropriate to the life of the deceased who had solved the mystery of death without a fear, and borne the testimony that he had made his peace with God. The Masonic fraternity, of which he had been a member fifty years, rendered their burial ceremonies in a most impressive manner at the grave in Newtown cemetery.


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ZACHARY TAYLOR JENKINS, of Washington, D. C., was born in War- rington township, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, February 17, 1853, and is a de- scendant of ancestors that have been prominent in the affairs of Bucks and Montgomery counties for several gen- erations.


William Jenkins, the pioneer ances- tor of the family, was born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, in the year 1658, and married there Elizabeth, daughter of Lewis Griffith, and about 1682, with wife and three children,-Stephen, Margaret and Elizabeth-emigrated to Pennsyl- vania and settled in "Duffrn Mawr," near Haverford, Chester county, on 1.000 acres of land purchased of Will- iam Penn, October 24 and 25, 1681. At different periods between 1686 and 1698 he sold the 1,000 acres and purchased 400 acres in the latter year in Abington township, Philadelphia (now Montgom- ery) county, including the present site of Jenkintown, of which town his de- scendants were the founders: He was one of the original members of Abing- ton Friends' Meeting. and with Joseph Phipps had charge of the erection of the meeting house in 1697. He was commis- sioned as a justice of Chester county in 1691 and 1692, and was a member of the colonial assembly from 1690 to 1696. His daughter Margaret, born in Wales, 3 mo. 23. 1674, married 9 mo. 15, 1692, Thomas Paschall, and had eleven chil- dren. the numerous and prominent fam- ily of that name in Chester and Bucks counties being her descendants. She died II mo. 17. 1728. Elizabeth, the other daughter. died 9 mo. 14. 1711, unmarried. William Jenkins died in Abington town- ship. 4 mo. 7. 1712, aged fifty-four years.




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