History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Vol. III, Part 24

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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5. Howard Lawrence Johnson, born Oc- tober 31, 1845, dicd June 25, 1891; mar- ried, May 7, 1876, Mary Evangeline Brad- ley. They had no children.

6. Russell Hampden Johnson, son of Lawrence and Mary (Winder) Johnson, was born in Philadelphia, September 15, 1847, and received his preliminary educa- tion in private schools in Philadelphia. He entered Princeton University at the age of seventeen years, and graduated in the class of 1868, after a four years' course, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then made an extensive tour of Europe, and on returning entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1871. After serving as resident physi- cian in the Episcopal Hospital of Philadel- phia, he once more visited Europe, spend- ing two years in travel, chiefly for the fur- ther prosecution of his medical studies in the University of Vienna. Returning to Philadelphia he began the practice of medi- cine there, where, excepting occasional vis- its abroad, he has since lived and practiced his profession. He married, December 13, 1877, Grace H. Price, of New York. Five children blessed this union, all, like their father, devotedly attached to the old home on the Nashaminy, in Bucks county, where the youngest daughter was born. The chil- dren are: Russel Hampden, Jr., born Sep- tember 16, 1878; Lawrence, born Septem- ber 17, 1880; Anna Price, born September 20, 1881 ; Louisa, born May 20, 1883; and Paul Sears, born October 24, 1896.

7. Lawrence Johnson, seventh child of Lawrence and Mary (Winder) Johnson, was born in Philadelphia, September 28, 1849, and was educated at private schools there and at Princeton University. In 1868 he began his business career as a clerk in the shipping house of Isaac Hough & Morris, where he remained for about two years. On coming of age in 1870 he began business for himself, under the firm name of Lawrence Johnson & Company, shipping and commission merchants and foreign bankers, which business he has since fol- lowed. On November 21, 1891, he was elected a director of the Philadelphia Na- tional Bank, and he is also a director of the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities, the In- surance Company of North America, and the Philadelphia Warehouse Company. He married, December 6, 1877, Louisa Philler Gaw, daughter of Henry L. Gaw, of Phila- delphia. They have one child, Millicent Gaw Johnson, born November 22, 1884.

8. Walter Richards Johnson, eighth child of Lawrence and Mary ( Winder) Johnson, was born at Lansdowne, Bucks county, August 24. 1851. He was educated at Dr. Faires' and other private schools of Philadelphia. He married, October 31, 1876, his cousin, Mary Rebecca Winder, daughter of Moses and Margaretta Winder. He purchased a farm on the right bank of the Neshaminy, in Bensalem township,

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Bucks county, between Hulmeville and Newportville, where he lived the remainder of his life, and was actively engaged in ag- ricultural pursuits. He was also actively interested in political affairs and held sev- eral political offices. He died March 25, 1897, leaving one child, Winder Lawrence Johnson, since deceased, who married, Oc- tober II, 1899, Susan D. Fine.

9. Robert Winder Johnson, ninth child of Lawrence and Mary (Winder) John- son, was born Sunday, May 7, 1854, at No. 727 Pine street, Philadelphia. He pre- pared for college at Mr. Gregory's private school on Market street, near Eleventh, and entered the freshman class of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, September, 1870 (class of 1874,) but left the University in the spring of 1871 and accompanied his mother to Europe, where he studied and traveled until October, 1874. He again traveled abroad in 1875 and 1876. In Jan- uary, 1877, he entered the office of Law- rence Johnson & Company, doing a large business as importers and exporters and bankers, and in July, 1879, was admitted as a member of the firm and has since been actively associated with its busi- ness. He was elected a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1874 and a life member in 1877; was elected a member of the Rittenhouse Club in 1883; a member of the vestry of St. Peter's church in 1891 ; member of the board of managers of Christ Church Hos- pital in 1892; member of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania in 1892; member of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania in 1897; member of the Society of theProt- estant Episcopal Church for the Advance- ment of Christianity in Pennsylvania in 1897; member of the Board of managers of the Children's Hospital in 1897; mem- ber of the Netherlands Society of Phila- delphia in 1899; and a life member of the Bucks County Historical Society in 1903. He takes a deep interest in the local history of Bucks county, where his maternal an- cestors, the Van Horns, Van Dycks, Van Sandts, Van Pelts, Vandegrifts, Winders, and others were among the earliest and most prominent settlers, and has devoted much time and expense during the last twenty-five years in tracing out the history of these early families of Bucks. Mr. Johnson was married on November 10, 1887, to Rosalie Morris, daughter of George Calvert and Elizabeth (Kuhn) Morris, at St. Peter's Church, Third and Pine streets, Philadelphia. Their children are as fol- lows: Morris Winder, born July 5, 1889, at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia ; Lawrence Edward, born July 9, 1892, at Lansdowne, Bucks county ; Robert Winder, Jr., born August 19, 1894, at Lansdowne, Bucks county ; and Rosalie Eugenia, born Octo- ber 12. 1900, at Chestnut Hill.

IO. Alfred Clayton Johnson, youngest child of Lawrence and Mary (Winder) Johnson, was born in Philadelphia, Sep-

tember 17, 1856. He was educated at pri- vate schools in Philadelphia and at Dres- den, Saxony. He read law under P. Pem- berton Morris, Esq., of Philadelphia, and also attended lectures on law at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar April 3, 1880. He was appointed consul to Stuttgart, Ger- many, in 1893 and vice consul general at Dresden in 1898. He married in Dresden, July 21, 1888, Countess Toni von Baudis- sin, and they have one child, Mary Winder Johnson, born in. Bristol township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, June 1I, 1889.

THE WINDER FAMILY .* The pro- genitor of the Winders of Pennsylvania and New Jersey was Thomas Winder of England, who settled in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, in 1705. He was in New Jer- sey in 1703, and was one of the purchasers of Maidenhead and Hopewell, and partici- pated in the agreement with Daniel Coxe, one of the proprietors of West Jersey, in relation to that purchase. Soon after the consummation of the purchase he returned to. London, and was married at St. Mar- garet's, Westminster, June 5, 1704, to Sara Bull, and returned to West Jersey, settling in Hunterdon countly, where he became a large landowner. In 1721 he purchased six hundred acres at Newtown, Bucks county, of John Walley, and in 1727 purchased three hundred and forty-one acres in Make- field, Bucks county, which descended to his son John, and remained in the tenure of his descendants for several generations un- til it was sold in 1837. He was a prominent man in Hunterdon county, and was com- missioner of highways in Amwell town- ship in 1723. He married (second) in 1731, Rebecca Gregory, who survived him, and married Edward Collins in 1736. Thomas Winder died, and letters of administration were granted on his estate May 23, 1734. The children of Thomas and Sara (Bull) Winder were as follows:

I. John Winder, born 1707, died August 9, 1770, married Rebecca Richards.

2. Thomas, settled in Amwell, where he was living in 1736.

3. James, removed Prince George county, Maryland, where he died in 1789. 4. Jane, who married John Slack and set- tled in Lower Makefield, Bucks county, where many of her descendants still reside. 5. Elizabeth, married Peter Phillips of Amwell, where they lived and died.

Elinor, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Gregory) Winder, married July 31, 1751, Thomas Guinnup, of Philadelphia.

John and Rebecca (Richards) Winder settled on the land purchased by his father in Lower Makefield, Bucks county, the other heirs making conveyances to him for their interest therein at various periods af-

*Condensed from "Winders of America." by R. Winder Johnson.

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ter the death of Thomas. His wife, Rebec- ca Richards, was born September 19, 1714, and died January 19, 1788. The family were not members of the Society of Friends until 1747, when he and his wife applied for membership at Falls Meeting, and were admitted as members. John died in Make- field, August 9, 1770. The children of John and Rebecca (Richards) Winder, were as follows:

I. Thomas, married, May II, 1758, Eliza- beth Linton, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Blackshaw) Linton, of Northampton township.

2. James, married (first) December 28, 1763, Sarah Bailey, and (second) Mary Booz.

3. John, married, January 23, 1760, Mar- garet Briggs. He removed first to Dela- ware and later to Fayette county, Pennsyl- vania, and still later to the state of Ohio.

5. Elizabeth, married (first) in April, 1759, Joseph Linton, son of Joseph and Mary, before mentioned, and on April 2, 1795, married David Feaster.

6. Sarah, married, April, 1761, Robert Whitacre, and removed to Catawissa, Penn- sylvania.

7. Hannah, married in 1770, Timothy Brooks. Moses, Aaron and Rachel died un- married.

II. Rebecca, married March 26, 1772, John Nutt, and removed to Fairfax, Vir- ginia.

12. Mercy, died unmarried.

13. Ann married May 13, 1779, Absalom Knight.

14. Aaron Winder, born September 14, 1759, died July 2, 1824, married Janu- ary 16, 1812, Sarah Van Horn, born February 29, 1796, died Janu- ary 27, 1838, daughter of Isaiah and Cath- erine (Subers) Van Horn, of Makefield.

He purchased in 1788 two hundred acres of the Makefield homestead, and built a house thereon in 1790. It is related that Catherine Subers, whose daughter he eventually married, was the first love of Aaron Winder, and on her marriage to his successful rival in her affections, Isaiah Van Horn, he abjured matrimony and lived single until the age of fifty-three years, when he married her daughter though Mrs. Van Horn, the mother, had been a widow almost from the birth of the daughter.

The children of Aaron and Sarah Van Horn Winder were as follows :

I. Joel, born March 8, 1813, died in infancy.

2. Mary, born June 18, 1814, died Feb- ruary 16. 1877, married Lawrence John- son. (See Johnson Family ).

3. Rebecca, born February 22, 1817, died September 26, 1854, married General John Ely' and had four children, but two of whom lived to mature age: Mary Winder Ely, born November 19, 1840, died July 12, 1860, married October 19, 1859, Joseph Parry Brosius; and Samuel Lawrence Ely, born May 24, 1847, died March 19, 1886, married December 29, 1865, Mary Comly

Knight. He was sheriff of Bucks county for the term of 1881-83.

4. Dr. Aaron Winder, born October 17, 1821, died December 28, 1883, married August 21, 1846, Mary S. Gillam, and had three children; William G. Winder, M. D., of Andalusia, Bucks county and Phila- delphia; Mary Ely Winder, wife of Henry B. Knight of Bucks county; and Lawrence Johnson Winder, M. D.

5. Moses Winder, born December 20, 1823, died April, 1864, married December 25, 1844, Margaretta Thornton, and had six children, five of whom grew to maturity, viz: Sarah, born 1849, married Blackstone P. Doddridge; Mary Rebecca, born 1851; died 1893, married Walter Richards John- son, of Bensalem, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania ; Anna Louisa, born February 4, 1854, married April 6, 1885, Isaac Holbor- row Robertson; John Ely Winder, born 1857, died 1866; and Aaron Augustus Win- der, born February 8, 1859, married Octo- ber 12, 1880, Jane Phillips Slugg, died September 5, 1903.

Sarah (Van Horn) Winder married (second ) August 24, 1825, Abner Morris, and had four children.

JACOB M. WINDER, of Bristol, was born in that borough August 28, 1858, and is a son of Isaac and Mary Jane (Hetherington) Winder. He is of English descent, his paternal ancestors having been early English settlers in New Jersey. Samuel Winder, the great- grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a farmer in Falls township, and died there in April, 1816, devising his small estate to his wife Sarah who sur- vived him several years.

Giles Satterthwaite Winder, son of Samuel and Sarah, was born in Falls township about 1795, being just arrived at legal age at the death of his father, and was named as executor of the will. He received a good education and taught school in Middletown township for thirty years. He died in Bristol in 1857. He married Sarah Yonker, daughter of George Yonker, of Middle- town, and granddaughter of Daniel Yonker, of Solebury. George Yonker was the father of twelve children, one son George, and eleven daughters, all of whom lived to mature age, and all ex- cept two of whom married and reared families. The father resided on his farm in Middletown, near Langhorne, until 1859, and then sold it on account of in- ability to care for it, being very old and infirm, and lived with a married daughter in Burlington for one year, and then removed to Bristol, Bucks county. where he died in 1861 at a very advanced age. Sarah Satterthwaite was his eldest daughter. She also lived to an advanced age, dying in Bristol, June 21, 1880. The children of Giles S. and

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Sarah (Yonker) Winder were: George Y., Daniel Y., Samuel, Isaac, Eliza and Mary.

Isaac Winder, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Middletown township, Bucks county, in 1832, and died in Bristol in 1860. He married Mary Jane Hetherington and they were the parents of one child, Jacob McBrien Winder, the subject of this sketch.

Jacob M. Winder was born and reared in Bristol, Bucks county, and acquired his education at public and private schools in Bristol and Philadelphia. He graduated from Bryant and Stratton's Business College in 1877. For the greater part of his business life he has been engaged in the wholesale liquor business in Bristol, where he has always resided. In politics he is a Democrat, and has always taken a prominent part in the councils of his party. He was postmaster of Bristol for the term of 1895-1899, discharging the duties of that responsible position efficiently and to the satisfaction of its patrons. Mr Winder married in August, 1878, Mar- garet Scott Irwin, daughter of Robert and Dorothy (McCartney) Irwin, of Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Winder are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Bristol.

ISAAC S. JOHNSON, of Bucking- ham, was born in New Britain township. on February 20, 1850, being a son of Jacob B. and Lydia (Swartz) Johnson. Jacob B. Johnson was a son of Jacob Johnson, a native of England, and was born in Montgomery county, Pennsyl- vania, and while still a young man re- moved to New Britain township, Bucks county, and later located in Plumstead township, where he still resides. He was a prominent farmer for many years, but is now living a retired life with his son Harry. When the turnpike was built from Doylestown to Dublin, Mr. Johnson was the builder under contract with the newly organized company. Jacob B. and Lydia Swartz Johnson were the parents of nine children, of whom seven survive, viz .: Henry S., of Plumstead: John S., of New Britain; Isaac S .: Abraham S., of Montgomery county. Pennsylvania; Sallie S., wife of John Funk, of Fountainville: Mary Ann, wife of Reuben Detweiler, of Ililltown: Susan, wife of Harry High, of Plum- stead.

Isaac S. Johnson, the subject of this sketch, was reared on the farm and ac- quired his education at the public schools of the neighborhood. In 1873 he married Mary A. Myers, of Pipers- ville, Bedminster township, and settled on and conducted his father's farm in Plumstead for ten years. He then rented the Lead Mine farm in New

Britain, which he conducted for four years. In 1887 he purchased his present farm in Buckingham, eighty-six acres, where he has since resided. He is a successful farmer and a man of high. standing in the community. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are the parents of four children, viz .: Laura, for several years a school teacher in Buckingham, now the wife of Clarence Buckman; Monroe MI., a graduate of the Hughesian Free School, West Chester Normal School and Pierce's Business College, now fill- ing a clerical position in Philadelphia; Franklin M., living at home; Rosa, re- siding at home and teaching school in Buckingham, who acquired her educa- tion at the Hughesian School, Doyles- town High School and at West Chester Normal School. Mr. Johnson is a member of the Mennonite meeting, as. was his father. In politics he is a Re- publican, but has never sought or held office.

THE VAN PELT FAMILY. The emigrant ancestor of the Van Pelt fam- ily was Teunis Jansen Lanen Van Peltt, who emigrated in 1663 from Liege, Bel- gium, with wife, Grietje Jans, and six children and settled in New Utrecht, Long Island. He was known as "Tunis- the Fisher." The children of Teunis Jansen L. Van Pelt were, John Van Pelt, died after 1720, married Maria Peters: Anthony Van Pelt, died Feb- ruary 2, 1720-1, married Magdalen Joos- ten; Hendrick Van Pelt, married An- netje Meinards; Wouter Van Pelt, mar- ried Maria Jansen Schaers; Jacomytje, married Jochem Gulick; and Aerte, mar- ried Nieltje Jansen Van Tuyl. Bergen in his "Early Settlers of King's County" mentions three other children of Teunis Jansen L. Van Pelt, viz .: H. Teuntje, married Hermanus Gelder, Rebecca, married Abraham De La Montaigne, and Elizabeth.

Anthony Van Pelt, son of Teunis Janse, came to this country with his parents in 1663. He was a landholder in New Utrecht in 1683, and ten years later was constable of New Utrecht. In 1700 he joined with his brothers and sis- ter, the six above mentioned, in a con- veyance of land taken up by his father in New Utrecht. on July 27, 1713; he. conveyed his land to his sons John and Tunis with a provision that he and his wife were to remain thereon during their natural lives. He died on February 2, 1720-I. His wife was Magdalena or Helena Joosten. Their children were: Joost. (Joseph) baptized at Flatbush, September 28, 1679; Maria, baptized Oc- tober 14. 1681. married Adrien Schoute; Adriantje, baptized February 3. 168.4, died young: Grietje, baptized June 3, 1685, married Barendt Bond; Tunis, who removed to Staten Island, 1719, married

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Maria Degreau; Adriantje, baptized May 25, 1690, married Charles Taylor; John, of Staten Island, married Susanna La Tourette; Helena, baptized May 29, 1695, married Teunis Stoutenburgh, and Sarah, who married Cornelius Dorlandt. Of the above, at least two, Joseph Van Pelt and Adrien Schoute, (Scout) and Maria Van Pelt his wife settled in Penn- sylvania, Joseph in Byberry, Philadel-' phia county, and Scout in Warminster township, Bucks county.

Joseph Van Pelt married Catharine -, and the baptism of three of their children appears of record in Staten Island, Catharine, baptized May 4, 1714. Joost, baptized March 20, 1716, and Jo- hannes, baptized September 8, 1717. He removed to Pennsylvania prior to De- cember 6, 1719, as his daughter Sarah was baptized at Abington Presbyterian church on that date. Another son Der- rick was baptized at the same church May 7. 1721. His other children were: Joris (George), who married Catharine Sleght, June 2, 1743, and had children, Joseph John, Catharine and Sarah, bap- tized at the Dutch Reformed church of North and Southampton, (1744 to 1756); Lena, who married John Van Horn; An- thony, who died in Buckingham in 1754, and Elizabeth, who married John Ben- nett. On November 7. 1730, Joseph Van Pelt purchased 18034 acres of land in Byberry of Jacob Hibbs. He died intestate and letters of administration were granted to his widow Catharine March 17, 1739. His widow married John Mc Veagh, May 17, 1745. His son Joseph must have died young as he does not appear in connection with the con- veyance of his father's real estate. John Van Pelt, the second son, married May 12, 1739, Cornelia Sleght, and settled in Northampton township, Bucks county. Their children were: Joseph, baptized December II. 1742; Catharine, baptized April 2, 1745; John, baptized August 31, 1749; Daniel, baptized October 15, 1751; Isaac, baptized August II, 1754, mar- ried December 30, 1788, Jane Hender- son, and removed to Wrightstown town- ship, Bucks county. Helena, baptized January 2, 1757; Jacob, baptized August 12, 1759, married Sarah Ryan. He died in New Milford, Ohio, August 31, 1831. He was the father of eleven children. Sarah, baptized September 23, 1761. Catharine Van Pelt. eldest daughter of Joseph and Catharine Van Pelt, married Abraham Carroll, January 29, 1737. Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Catharine Van Pelt, married Barnard Van Horn. January 17, 1753, and their son Isaac Van Horn was baptized at Southamp- ton, March 17. 1754.

Derrick Van Pelt married February 14. 1742, Mary Britton. He was an inn- keeper in Whitpain township, Philadel- phia county, at his death in 1767. His sons Joseph and John were residents of

Upper Dublin township in 1770, but both removed to New Britain township, Bucks county, prior to 1776. The other children of Derrick and Mary were: Abraham, Mary, Anne, Samuel, Catlı- arine, married Isaac Newhouse, and Mercy, married Jacob DeHaven.

Isaac Van Pelt, who married Jane Henderson in 1788, removed to Wrights- town township, Bucks county, in 1795, later removed to Buckingham where he died in 18II. His children were: Mary, married Robert Jones ; John ; Isaac Thomas; Jane, married Thomas D. Wolf; and Eleanor, married William Vansant. Jane (Henderson) Van Pelt died in Buckingham in 1835.

Three of the sons of Joseph Van Pelt, viz .: John, Isaac and Daniel-were pri- vates in Captain Folwells Associated Company in Southampton in 1775, John was commissioned a lieutenant in Lower Solebury, May 10, 1779. Isaac also saw actual service in the revolution. John became a captain.

Isaac, son of Isaac and Jane Hender- son Van Pelt, was born in Wrightstown in 1797. He was a shoemaker by trade and lived in Wrightstown until 1836, when he purchased a farm in Bucking- ham, where he died May 27, 1865. He was twice married. His first wife was Sarah, daughter of Peter D. and Re- becca (Lewis) Cattell, (originally De- Cattel). The children of this marriage who survived were: Seth C., born Au- gust 24, 1829: Jane Ellen, married Jo- seph S. Ely, Esq., of Newtown; William, of Upper Makefield: Wilhelmina, mar- ried Charles H. Warner. Isaac Van Pelt married (second) Mary Ann Rich- ardson and had three children: Joseph, born October 8. 1844, Elizabeth, mar- ride Joseph Starkey, and Matilda Caro- line, who never married, living with her sister Elizabeth at Forest Grove.

SETH C. VAN PELT, deceased. was born near Penns Park, Wrightstown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. August 24, 1829, a son of Isaac and Sarah (Cattell) Van Pelt. He was reared on a farm until twenty years of age, acquir- ing a good education in the common schools adjacent to his home. He then entered the store of Jesse P. Carver, at Pineville, as clerk. where he remained until December 1, 1872, when, having been elected to the office of prothonotary of Bucks county, he removed to Doyles- town and there resided until the spring of 1877, when he returned to Pineville and rented a store for two years. At the expiration of this period of time he purchased the same and continued the management of it until his death, May 31, 1889. He was a man of sterling in- tegrity, and in all his career as clerk. accountant, postmaster, merchant and

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public official enjoyed the unbounded re- spect and esteem of all with whom he came in contact.

Mr. Van Pelt married, May 30, 1877, Carrie A. Bodine, daughter of John R. Bodine, and sister of General Robert L. Bodine, who participated in the civil war. One child was the issue of this union, Arthur C., who now resides in Pittsburg. Mr. Van Pelt was survived by his wife, who now makes her home in Doylestown. Their son, Arthur C. Van Pelt, born in 1879, is now residing in Bellevue, a suburb of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. He married Claudia Geer, and has two daughters: Marian and Margaret.

WILLIAM VAN PELT, of Upper Makefield, son of Isaac and Sarah (Cat- tell) Van Pelt, was born in Wrightstown township, Bucks county, May 27, 1833. He was reared on the Wrightstown farm, and acquired his education at the local schools. In 1857 he married Han- nah D. Tomlinson, daughter of Samuel Tomlinson, of Pineville, Bucks county, and took charge of the home farni, which he conducted for four years, when he removed to Taylorsville, where he conducted a temperance hostelry for one year. He then removed to Searchville, and conducted a small farm for one year, and then removed to Titusville, New Jersey, and engaged in the butcher business. In the fall of 1861 he enlisted in Company F, Twenty-second Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, for a term of nine months, and went to the front in defense of his country. At the expira- tion of his term of enlistment he re- turned to Titusville, and was employed in a store there for a short time. His father being taken sick, he returned home and took care of him until his death, May 27, 1865. After his father's death he removed to Pineville, and worked at carpentering for short time, and then purchased a lot of land and erected buildings and began buying and slaughtering calves and poultry for the New York market, and conducted a local butchering business. In 1878 he sold out his business to his half-brother. Joseph Van Pelt, and Hiel Quinn, and purchasing his present farm in Upper Makefield, has since devoted inis atten- tion to farming and stock raising. He has bred and owns a number of high bred horses. In politics Mr. Van Pelt is a Democrat. He is a member of Cap- tain Angel Post, G. A. R., of Lambert- ville, New Jersey.

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History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Vol. III, Part 24

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

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