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The children of John and Hannah (Yerkes) Morrison, were: Joseph, born October 18, 1794; Hannah, born Febri- ary 10, 1796, married Joseph Erwin: Ben- jamin, born 1798, died in infancy; Mary, born February 5, 1799, married Benjamin Longstreth: Martha, twin to Mary, died single in 1882; Eliza, born March 19, 1802, married Charles Blaker; Ann, born May II, 1803: David and Benjamin, born April 18, 1805; John, born October 28, 1807; Esther, born February 10, 1809, died unmarried; Matilda, born November 5, 1810, married Joseph Erwin; Rebecca Ann, born March 19, 1813, married John Campbell: Jonathan J., born May 4,
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1815, married Jane Rapp; and Sarah, born May 30, 1818, married Jonas Yerkes.
JOSEPH MORRISON, eldest son of John and Hannah (Yerkes) Morrison, born October 18, 1794, died July 30, 1880, became one of the most distin- guished citizens of Bucks county. He was born in Delaware county, and learned the trade of a miller with Amos Addis, in Moreland, and on his marriage to the daughter of his preceptor he re- moved to Northampton township, Bucks county, where he owned and operated the Rocksville Mills for fifty years. Early in life he took an active interest in the organization of the local militia, and eventually filled every commissioned po- sition in the organization from captain to brigadier-general, and was esteemed the best informed man in the county on mil- itary tactics. He was elected to the office of commissioner of Bucks county in 1836, and served three years. In 1840 he served a term as county treasurer. He filled the responsible position of re- corder of deeds for the term 1852-4. He served as associate justice of Bucks county courts for fifteen years, 1863 to 1878. He married in 1822 Eleanor Ad- dis, born December 1I, 1802, died Janu- ary 8, 1870, daughter of Colonel Amos Addis, who for many years operated a mill in Moreland township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. He was born in Moreland or Oxford township, and was a son of Nehemiah and Grace Addis, and a grandson of John Addis, an early set- tler in Oxford township, Philadelphia county, where he died in 1724. Richard and John Addis, the pioneers of the fam- ily in Northampton township, Bucks county. from whose family, Addisville (now Richboro) took its name, were older brothers of Nehemiah Addis. The children of Joseph and Eleanor (Addis) Morrison were: Amos Addis, born May 27, 1823, married Mary Coxhead; John, born March 13, 1827, died in Tennessee in 1864, while a soldier in the Union army; Johnson. born November 16, 1827. married Mary Hobensack; Ruth Ann, born July 30, 1830, married J. Krewson Cornell; Charles B., born March 31, 1832, married Mary A. Feas- ter; Eliza Ann, born September 9, 1835; Mary Ellen, born October 12, 1839, mar- ried Joseph F. Whitall of Southampton; Hannah Rebecca, born May 7, 1841 ; and Andrew Jackson. Judge Joseph Morri- son, married (second) Mary Ann Lash- ley .. widow of Lambert Lashley. of Wrightstown, and died at the Anchor, in Wrightstown, July 30, 1880.
Professor Andrew Jackson Morrison was born and reared in Northampton township and acquired his education at the Central High School of Philadelphia, the Tennent Academy at Hartsville, Bucks county, and the University of Pennsylvania. He has devoted his whole life to the cause of education. Ile was
successively principal of the Tillyer, Wheat Sheaf, Landreth, Irving, and Northern Liberties Grammar Schools, and of the Kaighn Grammar School of Camden, New Jersey. From 1881 to 1883 he was professor of mathematics in the Central High School, Philadelphia; from 1883 to 1898, senior assistant su- perintendent of public schools in Phil- adelphia; and acting superintendent dur- ing the year 1891. Since 1898 he has filled the position of principal of the Northeast Manual Training School of Philadelphia. In 1901 the honorary de- gree of Doctor of Philosophy was con- ferred upon him by Cedarville College.
Professor Morrison has always kept to the fore front in the cause of education. He has served two terms as president of the Teachers' Institute of Philadelphia, and two terms as president of the Edu- cational Club of Philadelphia. He is an active member of the National Educa- tional Association and of the State Teachers' Association, as well as of all the teachers' organizations of Philadel- phia. He and his family are members of the Second Reformed Church of Philadelphia. He is a member of Phoenix Lodge, No. 130, F. & A. M., and of Kensington Chapter, No. 233, R. A. M. He is also a member of the Penn Club, and of the Schoolmen's Club.
Professor Morrison was married at Feasterville, Bucks county, March 9, 1865, to Julia H. Jones, daughter of Asa Knight Jones, and they are the parents of five children. viz .: Anna Jones Mor- rison, born January 18, 1866, graduate of the Girls' Normal School; Jennie Singer Morrison, born December 5, 1867, now the wife of Rev. H. W. Har- ing. D. D., of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Egbert Heisler Morrison, born March 14. 1870. a graduate of the Central High School, now agent for the Gar- lock Packing Company; Clara Maria Morrison, born October 16, 1877, a grad- mate of the Girls' Normal School, re- siding at home: and Horace Stanton Morrison, born March 20, 1879, a grad- uate of the Northeast Manual Training School and of the University of Penn- sylvania. now associate editor of the Publications of Commercial Museums. of Philadelphia.
H. S. PRENTISS NICHOLS, Esq., of Philadelphia, was born in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. No- vember 2, 1858. and is a son of Dr. Jo- seph D. and Emily (Darrah) Nichols .. His grandfather was also a physician and a native of New Hampshire. Dr. Joseph D. Nichols, was the proprietor of an academy at Columbia, Lancaster county, and died in 1874. His wife Emily Darrah was a daughter of Robert Darrah, of Warminster Bucks county,
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and a great-granddaughter of Captain Henry Darrah of the Revolution.
The pioneer ancestor of the Darrah family was Thomas Darroch, native of Londonderry, Ireland, who with his wife Mary, emigrated to Pennsylvania about 1730, with the colony of Scotch Irish who settled on the banks of the Neshaminy, about the famous "Log Col- lege." He settled for a time in Hor- sham township, but in 1740, purchased of Mathew Hughes, a tract of land in Bedminster, Bucks county, on the Swamp Road, below the present village of Dublin, purporting to be 500 acres of land, but really containing nearly 800 acres. He died there in March, 1750. The children of Thomas and Mary Darroch were Robert, Thomas, Agnes, wife of John Davis, Esther, wife of George Scott, William, Henry, James, and Susanna. Robert died in Bedmin- ster in 1793, leaving a son Robert and several daughters. He represented his township in the Bucks County Commit- tee of Safety in 1776, and was active in the struggle. Thomas also died in Bed- minster leaving two sons Thomas and Mark and several daughters. William was lieutenant of Captain, later Col. Robinson's company of Bucks county militia in 1775, and is also said to have served in the Colonial war of 1756-7. He left two sons Archibald and William and several daughters. one of whom Hannah, married David Kelly of Buckingham and became the mother of Hon. William D. Kelly, for many years a member of Con- gress from Philadelphia and known as the "Father of the House." Another daughter Susannah, married John Shaw and was the mother of Commodore Thompson Darrah Shaw. Still another Agnes married James Smithi of Buck- ingham, son of Hugh, and was the mother of Gen. Samuel A. Smith of Doylestown.
Henry Darroch, fourthi son of Thomas and Mary, was a miner at the death of his father in 1750. By the will of the latter about 190 acres of the homestead was devised to each of the elder sons, Robert and Thomas and the residue to the three younger sons Will- iam, Henry and James, subject to a life interest of their mother. On part of this residue. containing 185 acres Henry probably took up his residence on his marriage in 1760 though it was not con- veyed to him by his brothers until 1763, when he was about to convey it to Henry Rickert. In 1767, he purchased a farm of 207 acres on the west bank of the Neshaminy. on the Bristol Road, between Tradeville and New Britain vil- lages. now in Doylestown township, at Sheriff's sale as the property of his brother-in-law John Davis. Here he lived until 1773, when he purchased 237 acres further west in New Britain town- ship, on the line of Warrington town-
ship, and now included in the latter township, later purchasing about 50- acres adjoining. This remained his home until his death in 1782. Henry Darroch was one of the most illustrious of our Bucks county patriots in the trying days of the war for independence. He was a member of the New Britain company of Associators in 1775, and was commis- sioned in May, 1776, first lieutenant of Captain William Roberts Company of the Flying Camp, under Col. Joseph Hart, and served with distinction in the Jersey campaign of 1776. Returning to. Bucks county in December, 1776, his company was one of the few that re- sponded to the second call in the winter of 1776-7. On the reorganization of the Militia in the Spring of 1777, his old captain and lifelong friend William Roberts was made a Lieut. Colonel and Lieut. Darroch was commissioned Cap- tain May 6, 1777, and his company was soon after in active service under Col- onel, later Gen. John Lacey. In 1778, it was again incorporated in Col. Rob- erts' Battalion, which in 1781, came under the command of Col. Robinson. Captain Darroch's company of, Militia was one that was almost constantly in service and he died in the Spring of 1782 from a cold contracted in the serv- ice of his country. His will is dated March 17. 1782, and his friends, Col. William Roberts, Col. William Dean and his brother-in-law William Scott are named as executors. It is related that George Washington was a great ad- mirer of Captain Darroch and visited him at his house.
Captain Henry Darroch married Au- gust 13, 1760, Ann Jamison, daughter of Henry and Mary (Stewart) Jamison of Warwick township, Bucks county. Tra- dition relates that Henry Jamison did not approve of the attentions of young Darroch to his daughter, because he was too much of a dashing young man and too fond of fast horses to settle down to the life of a farmer; and that the young people settled the matter for themselves by his taking her up behind him on one of his fast horses and outdistancing the irate father in a race to the parson's. Henry Jamison was a native of the north of Ireland .. and came to Bucks county with his father, Henry Jamison and brothers Robert and Alexander about 1720. Henry the elder is said to have been born in Midlothian, Scotland, and removed to the Province of Ulster, Ireland in 1685. with his parents, from whence he migrated to Pennsylvania. He purchased in 1724. 1.000 acres partly in Northampton township and partly in Warwick, and was one of the founders of Neshaminy Church in 1727. In 1734 he conveyed the greater part of his real estate to his sons and returned to Ire- land. where he died. His son Henry, Jr., the father of Ann Darroch, was one of
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the original trustees of the "new lights" of the Neshaminy Church in 1743, a large landowner and prominent man in the Scotch-Irish settlement the Neshaminy. He sailed for Florida in 1765, and was never heard of after- wards. His wife Mary Stewart was one of a large and influential family of the names that were carly settlers in War- wick, New Britain, Warrington, Phim- stead and Tinicum. The children of Henry and Mary (Stewart) Jamison were, Isabel, who married Tristram Davis, brother of John who married Agnes Darroch; Jean, wife of Captain Thomas Craig; Ann, wife of Captain Darroch; Alexander; William, Robert and John.
In the possession of the descendants is a beautifully written letter yellow with age written by Ann Darroch to her husband while he was in the army. The children of Captain Henry and Ann (Jamison) Darroch, were, James, see forward Ann, who married Hugh Shaw; Margaret who married William Hewitt; William, born 1767, died July 1I, 1838; John and George, the last two of whom died young.
James Darrah, eldest son of Captain Henry and Ann (Jamison) Darroch, was born in 1764, and reared in New Britain township. In 1789, the executors of his father's will conveyed to him 170 acres of the homestead tract in New Britain and the balance 114 acres to his brother William. James married Rachel Hen- derson, born in Warminster July 27, 1762, daughter of Robert and Margaret (Archibald) Henderson, of Warminster. In 1794, James Darrah purchased of his wife's sisters and their husbands the 250 acres farm in Warminster belong- ing to the estate of Robert Henderson, formerly the property of Rev. Charles Beatty, pastor of Neshaminy Church, and they sold the New Britain farm and made their home on the Warminster farm, all of which is still owned by their grandsons, John M. and R. Henderson Darrah. Rachel (Henderson) Darrah died November 18, 1802, and James mar- ried second Rebecca McCrea. James Darrah died February 17, 1842, aged 78 years. His children, both by the first wife, were Robert Henderson and Henry. The latter married his cousin Martha Stinson, daughter of Elijah and Mary (Henderson) Stinson and lived for a time in Warminster, but removed later to Richboro, Northampton township where he died August 10, 1849, aged 58 years.
Robert Darrah, eldest son of James and Rachel (Henderson) Darrah, was born on his grandfather's homestead in New Britain, February 8, 1789. and re- moved with his parents to the War- minster homestead at the age of nine years, and spent the remainder of his days there. He was an ensign in the
war of 1812. Among the cherished me- mentoes now owned by the family are three swords, that of Captain Henry Darroch, of the Revolution; the sword of Ensign Robert Darrah of the war of 1812 and that of Lieutenant Robert Hen- derson Darrah of the Civil war. Rob- ert Darrah was an industrious and enter- prising farmer and accumulated a con- siderable estate. He had a sawmill on the farm which he operated in connec- tion with his farming. He also had a lime kiln and burned the lime used on his plantation. He early realized the value of a dairy and gave much atten- tion to this branch of husbandry, mar- keting the product in Philadelphia. He married September 4, 1819, Catharine Galt of Lancaster county, born January 26, 1799, a woman of fine intellectual ability and both she and her husband took a deep interest in and devoted their energies and means to the cause of morality, temperance, education and re- ligion. In 1835, at the urgent request' of his wife, he erected a school house on his farm which was afterwards en- larged and in connection with Joseph Hart and others secured college gradu- ates as teachers for their own and their neighbors children for many years. In 1849, he built a fine stone mansion house on the Bristol Road and retired from active farming, introducing water, bath, any many modern improvements, and this was the happy home of his family for forty years. His wife entered into all his plans and was his wise and pru- dent adviser. She lived to the good old age of ninety-one years, surviving her husband thirty years, he having died August 5, 1860. The Darrahs were of strong Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock. For more than a century the family have occupied the same pew in the historic Neshaminy Church, and the first two generations were intimately associated with the equally historic church at Deep. Run, near their first Bucks county home, then presided over by Rev. Francis McHenry. Robert Darrah left a fam- ily of three sons and six daughters. His eldest son, Rev. James A. Darrah, born in 1821, was one of the pioneer home missionaries and teachers in the West. He graduated at Princeton in 1840 and studied law under Judge John Fox at Doylestown and was admitted to the bar in 1843. But feeling called to the min- istry he took a three years' course in the Theological Seminary of Yale College and was licensed to preach by the Pres- bytery of Philadelphia September 23, 1846. For some months he labored as a missionary at Winchester, Va., and then removed to St. Louis, Mo., where he was pastor of a church and principal of the preparatory department of Webster college for nine years and then was called to the pastorate of a church at West Ely, Mo. He died at Zanesville,
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Olio, Feb. 24, 1882. The other chil- dren of Robert and Catharine (Galt) Darrah were, Rachel H., first wife of Rev. D. K. Turner, the eminent Presby- terian divine of Hartsville, lately de- ceased; Eliza M., who married Dr. Free- land of Chester county; Emily, the mother of the subject of this sketch; Rebecca, the second wife of Rev. D. K. Turner; Mary A., who died unmarried; John M., of Hartsville; Kate, who mar- ried Theodore R. Graham of Philadel- phia; and R. Henderson, still residing on the homestead.
Prior to the death of her husband Dr. Joseph D. Nichols, Mrs. Nichols re- turned to Bucks county and resided with her mother at the old stone mansion, on the Bristol road now owned by the sub- ject of this sketch, her son M. S. Pren- tiss Nichols, where she died in 1898.
H. S. Prentiss Nichols came to Phil- adelphia in 1872, and since that time has had a home in the old homestead on the Bristol Road at Hartsville, Bucks county, though most of his time has been spent in Philadelphia. He gradu- ated from the college department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1879; studied law and was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia county, where he has since practiced with success, and has since been admitted to practice at the Bucks county bar. He is a member of the Bucks county Historical Society and takes a lively interest in Bucks county, the home of his distinguished maternal ancestors. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution.
He married, June 4, 1895, Isabel McIlhenny, of Germantown, daughter of John and Berenice (Bell) Mcllhenny, both natives of the north of Ireland, now, living in Germantown, but formerly of North Carolina, where Mrs. Nichols was born. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols reside at 346 Pelham Road, Germantown, but the summer months are generally spent at their country home at Hartsville, Bucks county.
HENRY SYLVESTER JACOBY, Professor of Bridge Engineering, in Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, was born April 8, 1857, in Springfield township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, between Bursonville and Springtown, and is a son of Peter L. and Barbara (Shelly) Jacoby, both of German de- scent.
The paternal ancestor of Professor Ja- coby came to Pennsylvania, as is sup- posed, prior to 1750, but little is known of him. His widow Elizabeth survived him many years, dying at an advanced age at the home of her son-in-law, An- dreas Schneider, in Richland, about 1790, letters of administration being granted on her estate January 9, 1790.
Her children as shown by the distribu- tion account filed were: Conrad, "eld- est son," Henry, who settled in Lower Mount Bethel township, Northampton county; George, who settled in Lehigh county; John, who settled in York coun- ty; and Margaret, who married An- dreas Schneider, of Richland, a native of Zweibrucken, who came to this coun- try in 1759. Margaret, probably the youngest of the Jacoby family, was born January 6, 1749, and died March 22, 1828.
Conrad Jacoby was born June 7, 1730, and was certainly in Bucks county May 18, 1751, when a warrant of survey for a tract of land in Bedminster township, Bucks county, was issued to him. His later Bucks county residence was in Mil- ford township, the threshold of German immigration into the county of Bucks. On April 1, 1768, he purchased of Ja- cob Geil 220 I-2 acres of land in Spring- field township, on the line of Durham township. In this deed he is styled "Con- rad Jacobi, of Lower Milford township, Blacksmith." This farm is on the road from Bursonville to Durham, and ad- joins the farm still owned by Professor Henry S. Jacoby, on the northeast. On March 6, 1787, he purchased a farm of 152 acres in Bedminster township, the present residence of Gideon S. Rosen- berger, and lived thereon until his death March 26, 1795. On April 11, 1791, he purchased 259 acres in Durham town- ship, being Nos. 5 and 6 of the Durham tract, and adjoining his Springfield pur- chase. This tract he conveyed to his sons, Peter and John and John Reigle, respectively, in 1792 and 1793. His wife Hannah died November 27, 1828, at the age of ninety-nine years six months, and is buried at St. Peter's German Re- formed church, in Leidytown, her later days having been spent with her young- est son, Leonard, in Hilltown township. Conrad Jacoby is buried in the grave- yard of the old Tohickon church at Church Hill. He and his wife Hannah were the parents of nine children: John, Philip, Peter, Benjamin, Margaret, Cath- arine, Elizabeth, Henry and Leonard. John lived on the Durham land conveyed to him by his father in 1793, until his death as did his brother Peter. Philip lived for a time in Nockamixon, and from 1783 to 1787 he lived on a farm of 196- 1/2 acres at Stony Point, in Springfield township. He then removed to Hill- town township, where he died in 1827. Benjamin settled in Haycock township on a tract of 165 acres, patented to him as No. 15 of the Lottery Lands in 1789, near Haycock Run postoffice, where he lived until his death. One of the daugh- ters, either Margaret or Catharine, mar- ried a Woolsleyer. Elizabeth married (first) John Fluck, and after his death married Robert Darroch, Jr., and they resided in Bensalem township, Bucks
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county, during the latter part of their lives. Henry lived for a time in Bed- minster, removed thence to Gwynedd, and a year later to Andalusia, Bensalem township, Bucks county. Leonard lived for fifty years near the Mennonite meet- ing house in Hilltown, and then re- moved to Allentown.
Peter Jacoby, third son of Conrad and Hannah, was born in Bucks county on New Years day, 1759. He learned the trade of a blacksmith with his fath- er, and probably followed it for a num- ber of years. On June 9, 1792, he pur- chased of his father seventy-one acres of the Durham tract No. 6. He built in 1801 the stone house and later the barn, both of which are still standing, and later, purchasing other land ad- joining, lived there all his life. While attending the February term of court, 1815, as a juror, he was taken ill and died March 11, 1815. He was a member of Durham Reformed church, a trustee of the church from its organization and was later an elder. He married Cathar- ine Trauger, born September 29, 1763, died September 4, 1844; daughter of Christian and Ann Drager (Trauger) of Nockamixon. The former, born March 30, 1726, in Bechenbach, grand duchy of Hesse Darmstadt, came to Pennsylvania in the ship "Restora- tion," arriving in Philadelphia, October 9, 1747, and died in Nockamixon, Janu- ary 8, 1811. His wife, Anna Barbara, was born March 5, 1729, and died No- vember 5, 1821. The children of Peter and Catharine (Trauger) Jacoby were: John, who settled in Doylestown town- ship; Elizabeth, who married George Hartman, of Rockhill, who after living for twenty-seven years in that town- ship, removed near Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania; Mary, who married Jacob Hartman, of Rockhill; Benjamin, who finally settled in Springfield township; Barbara, who died in youth; Catharine, who married Frederick Laubach, of Lower Saucon, later of Durham town- ship; Hannah, who married George Overpeck, of Springfield, and later re- moved to near Milton, Pennsylvania; Sarah, who died in youth; Peter, who lived and died on the old homestead in Durham; Samuel, who finally settled in Northumberland county, Pennsylvan- ia; and Susannah, who married Jacob Schlieffer, of Springfield township.
Benjamin Jacoby, son of Peter and Catharine (Trauger) Jacoby, was born September 9, 1786. He was a mason by trade. In the fall of 1809 he married Margaret Landes, daughter of Samuel and Susannah Landes, and on Septem- ber 10, 1810, purchased a small farm in Nockamixon, where he lived for six years, following his trade in summer and teaching school
during the winter months. He then bought a farm of nine- ty acres two miles from Frenchtown,
New Jersey, where he lived until 1826, when he purchased the farm in Spring- field, adjoining the farm purchased by his grandfather in 1768, and removed thereon. This farm has remained in the family ever since, and is now the prop- erty of the subject of this sketch. Here Benjamin Jacoby lived until the spring of 1839, when he rented the farm to his son, Peter L. Jacoby, and removed to the village of Springtown, where he lived until his death, October 29, 1850. He served for three months in the army during the war of 1812-14, his company being stationed at Marcus Hook, to guard the approach to Philadelphia af- ter the burning of Washington in 1814. His wife Margaret died in 1827, and he married in 1829 Margaret, daughter of Peter Werst, who died September 26, 1844, without issue. The children of Benjamin and Margaret (Landes) Ja- coby were: Samuel, who finally settled at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Peter L., who lived nearly all his life on the Springfield homestead; Catharine, who married Aaron Heckman and settled near Milton, Pennsylvania; Caroline, who married John Schlieffer, of Spring- field; Susannah, who married Samuel Fulmer, of Springtown; Anna, who died in infancy; Benjamin L., who during his later years resided in Philadelphia; John L., who lived for some years in Springfield and later removed to Allen- town, Pennsylvania; and Levi L., who was a minister of the German Evan- gelical association and stationed at various points in New York state, be- ing located at Newark, New York, at the time of his death.
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