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John Geil, son of Jacob, was born in New Britain, Bucks county, April 1, 1778, and removed with his father to Virginia, where he was apprenticed to the tanning trade, but, liking neither the trade or his master, he returned to Bucks county about 1796, and probably resided for a time with his elder brother, Abraham Geil. Abraham was a farmer, and later
located near Doylestown, where Samuel Hart now lives, and reared a family of eight children, of whom but two married, and none so far as known left male de- scendants. John Geil married April 22, 1802, Elizabeth Fretz, daughter of Mark Fretz, who owned and operated the grist and saw mills later known as Curley's Mills, in New Britain. John Geil settled in New Britain, where he owned a farm, and resided there until near the close of his life. He was ordained as minister of the Mennonite congregation at Line Lex- ington in 1809, and preached there for forty-two years. Late in life he re- moved to Plumstead, where he died Jan- uary 16, 1866, at the age of eighty-eight years. His wife was born January 27, 1781, and died November 6, 1849. She was the daughter of Mark and Elizabeth (Rosenberger) Fretz, the former a son of John and Maria Fretz of Bedminster, and the latter the daughter of Rev. Henry Rosenberger, for many years pas- tor of the Mennonite congregation in Franconia, Montgomery county. Rev. John and Elizabeth (Fretz) Geil were the parents of nine children: Jacob, the . eldest son, married Anna Funk, and had three sons: John F., Enos F. and Sam- uel; the first and last removed west; Samuel became a distinguished lawyer in Ohio, and removed later to California, where he recently died. The remaining children of Rev. John Geil were: Bar- bara, who married Abraham Landis; Elizabeth, who married Martin D. Ros- enberger, of Hilltown, (see Rosenberger family); Mark, who died young; Catha- rine, who married John Krabehl; Mary, who married Joseph Landis; John, born August 20, 1819, killed by a fall in his barn in New Britain, August 26, 1890; Anna, who married Mathew Hare and removed to Illinois: and Samuel.
Samuel Geil, of Doylestown, youngest son of Rev. John and Elizabeth (Fretz) Geil, was born in New Britain, Bucks county, March II, 1825. He was a youth of more than ordinary intellectual abil- ity and of a studious temperament. Early in life he studied civil engineering and surveying. After teaching school for some years he followed topographical engineering and surveying, and for many years made and published township, county and state maps. He made a sur- vey of Morris county, New Jersey, in 1850, and his last map published, which was a triumph in map-making, was that of the state of Michigan. made in 1863- 65. He then settled on his large farm in New Britain, where he resided until 1878, when he removed to Doylestown, and for several years was engaged in the hard wood lumber business. In 1856 he injured his spine by a fall from which he never fully recovered. Samuel Geil married Elizabeth Scese, of Plumstead, whose ancestors came over in the May- flower and they were the parents of two
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children: Ella, residing with her father in Doylestown; and William Edgar, the subject of this sketch.
William Edgar Geil, the great traveler, author and orator, was born in New Britain township, Bucks county, near Doylestown, October 1, 1865. He ac- quired his education at the public schools, the Doylestown English and Classical Seminary, and Lafayette Col- lege, Easton, Pennsylvania, graduating from the latter institution in the class of 1890. At an early age he manifested a deep interest in religious matters and became an earnest and active member of the church. An indefatigable student, he early became thoroughly versed in the Scriptures as well as in most of the im- portant sacred literature, ancient and modern.
On leaving college where he was fa- mous as an orator he engaged in evan- gelistic work, with credentials from the Doylestown church, and soon after made several trips to Europe. Later he vis- ited Asia. Egypt. the Holy Land, and many of the ancient cities of the Mediter- ranean. Returning to America he again engaged in evangelistic work. He then began his life work in earnest. and his success was phenomenal. He held re- vival meetings in various parts of New Jersey, New York and New England. and later made a tour of the south and west, addressing meetings of thousands of hearers and making thousands of con- verts. The "Cincinnati Inquirer" says of him: "His success has been more pro- nounced than that of any evangelist since Moody:" and the "Lowell (Mass.) Citi- zen" says that the meetings conducted by him were "the most remarkable series of meetings ever held in this city." In 1896 he made another extended trip abroad, revisiting the Holy Land and its ancient environs, and many of the an- cient towns of Asia Minor, and the Med- iterranean. Among other points he vis- ited the Isle of Patmos, and on his re- turn wrote and published his book, "The Isle that is called Patmos," which reach- ed a sale of many thousands, and was rewritten, enlarged and republished in 1904, after his second visit to the island, in that year. The alarming illness of his mother, to whose early training he says he owes most of his success, called him home in the early part of 1897. and soon after closing the eyes of his beloved par- ent in her last sleep, on May 2, 1897, he returned to Europe for a brief sojourn and then again took up his work in his native country with increased success.
The crowning feat. however, of his younger days, was his remarkable trip around the world, visiting missions in obscure and distant parts of heathendom, and occupying a period of nearly four years. The purposes of this trip are best described by his Doylestown pastor, who says: "The purpose of the tour is that of
independent observation of the whole missionary field, in its actual condition, operations, modes of organization, in- struction and efforts, its different pecu -. liarities, its needs, its difficulties, its rela- tions to existing heathen religion, to in- ternational and denominational policies of political events ; and what encouragement or discouragement may exist in the great work of extending the gospel to the world, and especially to the neglected parts of heathendom. A special object is to visit schools, colleges and institutions of sa- cred learning in connection with mis- sionary operations and report the results to the whole Christian church." This purpose Mr. Geil fulfilled to the letter. Leaving Philadelphia on April 29, 1901, he crossed the continent to California, and. sailing from the Golden Gate for the Sandwich and South Sea Islands, visiting the Hawaiian, Samoan, Fiji, and many other archipelagoes, inspecting the mis- sions, and intelligently noting their con- dition and work, as well as the condition and characteristics of the inhabitants, and the relation of governmental and commercial matters to the propagation of the Gospel of Christ. He proceeded thence to New Zealand, and Australia, reaching Sydney in November, 1901, where, and in Melbourne the following April and May, he organized and partici- pated in the greatest religious revivals the continent has even known, speaking daily to audience's of 3.000 at noon and 10,000 at night. From Australia he pro- ceeded to New Guinea, the Philippines and Japan. The results of this part of the trip are beautifully told in his book, "Ocean and Isle," published in 1904. He also made an extensive trip through China, going up the Yangtse river in a native gunboat, and was carried over the mountains of western China in a bamboo mountain chair. His popular work, "A Yankee on the Yangtse" tells the story in brilliant language. He visited Man- churia, Korea and Siberia, and later traveled extensively in Burmah and jour- neyed across Africa from Mombassa on the eastern coast to the Pigmy Forest, and thence down the Congo to the west- ern coast. William Edgar Geil is the greatest living traveler. He is the only living white man who has crossed both China and tropical Africa. His great book "A Yankee in Pigmy Land," is just published. After spending sometime lecturing to vast audiences in England and Scotland. where he was welcomed by immense crowds, he returned to Bucks county and in June, 1905, delivered an address before the alumni of his alma mater, Lafayette College, and received from that institution the degree of A. M. One feature of his return to his native town was the large and enthusiastic re- ception tendered him by his fellow townsmen in the courthouse at Doyles- town, when addresses were delivered by
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many prominent Bucks countians, and at least one thousand people packed the "Temple of Justice" while others climbed up to the windows on ladders to wel- come the distinguished traveler on his return to his native heath. In August, 1905, he again sailed for foreign lands, and, after spending some months in Eng- land, Scotland and Wales, intends mak- ing an extended trip to Persia and other Asiatic points to finish up the work of his renowned trip around the world.
Mr. Geil, in addition to numerous and noted magazine articles, is the author of a number of books that have had enor- mous sales. One of his earliest publica- tions was "The Pocket Sword," a vest- pocket book of scriptural phrases and texts and the lessons drawn from them. that has been immensely popular and has reached a sale of over 100,000 copies. Among his other books are, "Judas Is- cariot and other Lectures:" "The Isle That is Called Patmos:" "A Boy in the Sun;" "Laodicea, Or the Marble Heart ;" "Smyrna, or the Flight of the Angel;" "Trip Stories;" "Ocean and Isle;" "A Yankee on the Yangtse;" "The Man of Galilee;" "A Yankee in Pigmy Land." Mr. Geil's new books "The Men on the Mount:" "The Automatic Calf," and "The Worker's Testament," have just passed throught the press. He has deliv- ered six thousand lectures to large att- diences in many states and countries. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London, and a member of a number of other noted societies. In all his wanderings the heart of the great traveler still clings to Doylestown as his "home," in all the'truest sense of that much abused term.
.HON. EDWARD M. PAXSON, of By- cot House, Buckingham township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, ex-chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, was born in Buckingham, September 3. 1824, and is a son of Thomas and Ann (John- son) Paxson, and comes of an old and dis- tinguished family that have been residents of Bucks county from its earliest settle- ment.
James, Henry and William Paxson. brothers, came to Pennsylvania in the ship "Samuel," arriving in the river Delaware the middle of the eleventh month, 1682. Another brother, Thomas, died at sea on the same ship as did the wife and son (Henry) of Henry. Henry Paxton came from Bycott House, in the parish of Stowe, Oxfordshire, and James and William from the parish of Marsh Gibbon, county of Buicks, near Stowe. Bycot House is said to have been the ancestral home of the family for many generations. The subject of this sketch, in a visit there several years ago, found a Henry Paxton then occupy- ing the premises. The family were Friends
prior to their coming to Pennsylvania, and brought certificates from Bucks Monthly Meeting in Buckinghamshire, England. The family settled in Middletown, where Henry took as a second wife, Margery, the widow of Charles Plumly, August 13, 1684, his nephew, Henry Paxson, son of James, mar- rying her daughter, Ann Plumly. Eliza- beth, the only child of Henry Paxson, Sr., who reached Pennsylvania with him, mar- ried Richard Burgess, who in 1696 pur- chased two hundred acres on the river Delaware in Solebury, and what was long known as "Paxson's Island," in the river adjoining, then known as "Turkey Point." This tract. and island later became the prop- erty of William Paxson, son of James, and remained in the family many generations. Henry Paxson was also a very extensive land holder in Solebury, owning about one thousand acres there, and numerous large tracts elsewhere. He died about 1725, and, having no living descendants, devised his immense holdings of real estate to his nephews, the Solebury land going to Will- iam and Henry, the sons of his brother James.
James Paxson and Jane his wife, who came from Marsh Gibbon, in the county of Bucks, England, as before recited, were the parents of four children: Sarah, born in England, 8mo. 28, 1671, married 1692, John Burling ; William, born Iomo 25, 1675, mar- ried Abigail Pownall; Henry, born in Bucks county, 7mo. 20, 1683, married Ann Plumly ; and James, born 4mo. 10, 1687, died 7mo. 16, 1687. Jane, the mother, died 2mo. 7. 1710, and James, the father, 2mo. 29, 1722.
William Paxson, the second son of James and Jane, born in Bucks county, England, on Christmas day, 1675, was the direct an- cestor of Judge Paxson. He married, Feb- ruary 20, 1695, Abigail Pownall, youngest daughter of George and Elinor Pownall, of Laycock, Cheshire, England, who, with their son, Reuben and daughters Elizabeth, Sarah, Rachel, and Abigail, came to Penn- sylvania in the ship "Friends' Adventure," arriving in the Delaware river 8mo. (Octo- ber) 11, 1682, and located in Falls town- ship, where George was killed by a falling tree thirty days after his arrival. Another son George was born eleven days after his father's death. The widow Elinor later married Joshua Boare. Abigail was born in England in 1678. She became a recom- mended minister among Friends, and died in Solebury, Bucks county, 4mo. 17, 1749. Her husband, William Paxson, died in 1719. Their children were: Mary, born IImo. 2, 1696; Abigail, born 6mo. 20, 1700; James, born 9mo. 5. 1702, married (first) .Mary Horsman in 1723, and (second) Margaret Hodges in 1730; Thomas, born 9mo. 20, 1712, married Jane Canby: Reuben, who married Alice Simcock ; Esther, who mar- ried a Clayton; and Amy, who never married.
Thomas Paxson, son of William and Abigail (Pownall) Paxson, in the division
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of the real estate in Solebury fell heir to the farm lately occupied by the Johnson family near Centre Bridge, and the island lying opposite. He later purchased other large tracts of land in Solebury, some of which still remain in the tenure of his de- scendants. Thomas died in 1782. He married in 1732 Jane Canby, daughter of Thomas Canby, an eminent preacher among Friends, (son of Benjamin Cauby of Thorn, Yorkshire) who had come to Penn- sylvania with his uncle Henry
Baker. He was three times mar- ried, and had nineteen children who intermarried with the most prominent fam- ilies of Bucks county and have left numer- ous descendants. The children of Thomas and Jane Canby Paxson, were: Joseph, born gmo. 10, 1733, married 6mo. 28, 1758, Mary Heston ; Benjamin, born 8mo. I, 1739, married 6mo. 16. 1763, Deborah Tay- lor. (second) in 1797 Rachel Newbold ; and (third) in 1807 Mary Pickering; Oliver, born 7mo. 9, 1741, married, 1766, Ruth Wat- son; Rachel, born 3mo. 6, 1744, married, 1764, John Watson; Jacob, born IImo. 6. 1745, married in 1769 Lydia Blakey ; Jona- than, born Imo. 14- 1748, married, 1771, Rachel Biles ; Isaiah, born 9mo. 20, 1751, married, 1775, Mary Knowles ; and Martha, who died young. Of the above named sons of Thomas and Jane ( Canby) Paxson, Joseph was devised a farm at Limeport, Solebury township; Benjamin, a farm at Aquetong, still owned by the children of his grandson, Elias Ely Paxson, one of whom is the wife of Colonel Henry D. Paxson: Oliver, who married (second) Ruth Johnson, was left a farm in the Pike tract, near New Hope; Isaiah, the island known as Paxson's Island, where he died without issne; Jacob, the homestead farm at Centre Bridge; Jonathan, the farm at Rabbit Run, now owned by Thomas Magill. Jacob Paxson, born IImo. 6, 1745, in Solebury township, fourth son and fifth child of Thomas and Jane (Can- . by) Paxson, was the grandfather of Judge Paxson. He married 6 mo. 1769, Lydia Blakey,
and at about that date purchased a farm and mill property on Tacony creek, in Mont- gomery county, Pennsylvania, and settled thereon. Here his wife died, leaving him two children, and he married a second time. in 1777. Mary Shaw, born. in Plum- stead township. Bucks county, 5mo. 28, 1759, daughter of Johnathan and Sarah (Good) Shaw, the former born in Plum- stead, June 15, 1730, died there May 24, 1790, was a son of James and Mary (Brown) Shaw, the pioneers of the Shaw family in Plumstead. James being the son of John and Susanna Shaw, early English settlers in Northampton, and born January 9. 1694, and married at Abington Friends' Meeting, September 24, 1718, Mary Brown, daughter of Thomas and Mary Brown, who came from Barking Essex county, England, and after residing for some time in Phila- delphia settled near Abington, Montgomery
county, Pennsylvania. Thomas Brown was one of the earliest landowners in Plum- stead township, and he and his sons were pioneer Friends in that section and the founders of Plumstead Meeting. In 1724 Thomas conveyed to his son-in-law, James Shaw, two hundred acres of land on the upper line of Buckingham township. that remained the Shaw homestead for over a century and a half. The ancestors of Sarah (Good) Shaw, were also early Quaker set- tlers in Plumstead and adjoining parts of New Britain. Jacob and Mary (Shaw) Paxson were the parents of twelve children. all born in Abington township, Montgom- ery county, where Jacob Paxson continued to reside until his death in Buckingham, in 1832, while on a visit to his. son-in-law. William H. Johnson. The children of Jacob and Mary ( Shaw) Paxson were: John, Saralı, Isaiah, Jonathan, Jane, Thomas, Jacob. Oliver, and Ruth, most of whom married and reared families, whose des- cendants are now widely scattered over Bucks, Philadelphia, Montgomery and Chester counties and elsewhere.
Thomas Paxson, sixth child of Jacob and Mary (Shaw) Paxson, was born in Mont- gomery county in 1793, and reared in that county. He married, in 1817, Ann Johnson, daughter of Samuel and Martha (Hutchin- son) Johnson, of Buckingham, and grand- daughter of William Johnson, who was a native of Ireland, and came to America about the year 1754, in his nineteenth year. He was a man of high scholastic attain- ments, and a great student on scientific subjects, and delivered numerous lectures on electricity and kindred subjects of the highest merit. He married Ruth Potts, of an eminent New Jersey family, and re- sided for a time in Philadelphia, where his son Samuel was born in 1763. He soon after removed with his family to Charles- ton, South Carolina, where he died in 1767 at the age of thirty-two years. His widow and four children returned to Phila- delphia and later removed to Trenton, New Jersey, where they resided at the time of the memorable battle of Trenton, on Christ- mas night. 1776. His eldest daughter Mary married Thomas Mathews of Virginia. and Hon. Stanley Mathews of the United States supreme bench was a descendant. The second child was Hon. Thomas Potts Johnson, an eminent lawyer of New Jersey.
Samuel Johnson, third child of William and Ruth (Potts) Johnson, born in Phila- delphia, in 1763, removed with his par- ents to South Carolina, and returned with his mother to Philadelphia in his fourth year. He was reared at Trenton, New Jersey, and came to Bucks county in 1786, purchasing "Elm Grove," on the York road, east of Holocong. now the residence of his great-grandson, Colonel Henry D. Paxson. He later purchased a farm including the site of the present "Bycot House," and removed thereon. He was a man of high intellectual ability and literary attainments, a poet of more than ordinary merit. Two
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volumes of his poems have been published, the last one in 1845. In 1801 he retired from active business and, making his home with his son-in-law. Thomas Paxson, de- voted his time to literary pursuits and so- cial intercourse with congenial spirits. He died at the age of eighty-one years, his wife having died a few years previously. She was a daughter of Mathias Hutchinson, Esq., a prominent public official of Bucking- ham and Solebury, for many years a jus- tice of the peace and an associate justice of the Bucks county courts. He was a grand- son of John and Phebe (Kirkbride) Hut- chinson. of Falls township. the latter being a daughter of Joseph and Phebe (Black- shaw) Kirkbride. Mathias Hutchinson married, in 1765, Elizabeth Bye, whose an- cestors were the first settlers on the land now occupied by "Bycot House." Ann Johnson, who married Thomas Paxson, was born at "Elm Grove" in 1792. She was a woman universally loved and respected in her neighborhood for her many acts of Christian charity and kindness. Whenever by sacrifice and self devotion a fellow being in want or sickness could be made more comfortable by help in counsel or material assistance. she acted the part of the Good Samaritan with a cheerfulness that was highly appreciated. She was a writer of much merit. both in poetry and prose. She died in 1883, in her ninety-second year. William H. Johnson, a brother of Mrs. Paxson, married her husband's sister Mary Paxson. He was a classical scholar and mathematician, and an extensive writer on temperance and anti-slavery, contribut- ing numerous essays to the. "Intelligencer" and other journals.
Thomas Paxson, at his marriage to Ann Johnson in 1817, settled on the homestead at Abington, but moved to Buckingham two years later and purchased a portion of the Johnson homestead near the mountain, now occupied by his son, Hon. Edward M. Paxson, where he spent his remaining days, dying in April, 1881, at the age of eighty- eight years. He was a member of the Society of Friends and a constant attendant at Buckingham Meeting. He took an active part in the affairs of his neighborhood, and had strong convictions of right and wrong. He was conservative in his views, and the old landmarks of Friends that had dis- tinguished them as a people were held in reverence by him; while an earnest advo- cate of all true reforms for the improve- ment of mankind, he believed the religious society of which he was an earnest mem- ber had a mission to fulfill with the Chris- tian religion as a enduring basis. In him the Socety of Frends lost an earnest sup- porter and a living example of sacrifice and devotion to principle rarely met with. The children of Thomas and Ann (Johnson) Paxson, were :
I. Samuel Johnson Paxson, born in Montgomery county in 1818, died in Buck- ingham, May 28, 1864. He was editor and
proprietor of the "Doylestown Democrat" from 1845 to 1858, when he sold it to Gen- eral W. W. H. Davis; he was a writer of recognized ability. He married Mary Anna Broadhurst in 1840, and had two daughters: Helen, widow of J. Hart Bye, . now living at Germantown; and Carrie, who married Watson B. Malone, and is now deceased, leaving two daughters, and a son Arthur, a business man of Philadelphia.
2. Albert S. Paxson, born in Bucking- liam in 1820, died there. At the age of nineteen he became a teacher at a school in Montgomery county where his father had taught many years before. A year later, 1840, he returned to Buckingham and taught for some years at "Tyro Hall" and at the Friends School at Buckingham. From 1851 to 1856 he was local editor and general manager of the "Doylestown Dem- ocrat," owned and edited by his brother, Samuel Johnson Paxson. In 1856 he re- moved to the old Ely homestead, near Holi- cong. that had been in the continuous oc- cupancy of his wife's ancestors since 1720. He was elected to the office of justice of the peace in 1873, and served for ten years. He devoted considerable time to literary pursuits and was a writer of known merit. He married first, in 1844, Mercy Beans, daughter of Dr. Jesse Beans, who died in 1849, leaving a daughter Mary, who mar- ried Robert Howell Brown, of Mount Holly, New Jersey. She died at Bycot House, July 20, 1887, leaving a son, T. Howell Brown, now residing in Solebury. Mr. Paxson married (second) in 1854, La- vinia Ely, daughter of Aaron Ely, of Buck- ingham, and a descendant of Joshua and Mary ( Seniar) Ely, who came to Trenton, New Jersey, from Nottinghamshire, Eng- land, in 1684. Their children are: Edward E., born May 7, 1860, engaged in the bank- ing business in Philadelphia, with summer residence at the old homestead ; and Colon- el Henry D. Paxson, born October 1, 1862, a member of the Bucks county and Philadel- phia bar, for many years an officer of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, and a prominent lawyer of Philadelphia. He mar- ried Hannameel Canby Paxson, a daugh- ter of Elias Ely Paxson, of Aquetong, and they reside at Elm Grove, in Buck- ingham.
3. Hon. Edward M. Paxson, the third son of Thomas and Ann (Johnson) Paxson, was born in the old homestead in Buckingham, September 3. 1824. He was educated at the Friends' School at Bucking- ham, then a famous educational institution. where many young men, who later dis- tinguished themselves in legal and other professional life were educated. Judge Paxson did not have a collegiate educa- tion, but fitted himself in the classics and higher branches of learning, chiefly by his own exertions. At an early age he had am- bitions for a journalist career, and, having mastered the practical art of printing, in
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