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A TOY, LENOX AND TRIL FOUNDATIONS.
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wallader) Price, of Doylestown. Their only child-John L., wa's born Deceni- ber 5, 1903.
JOSEPH DE BENNEVILLE AB- BOTT, burgess of Bristol, Bucks coun- ty, Pennsylvania, is a native of the state, born in Philadelphia, (Tioga), June 28, 1866, eldest son of Francis and Julia (Churchman Shewell) Abbott. He is de- scended on his father's side from John Abbat (subsequently spelled by this an- cestor, "Abbott") who came to America from Farnsfield, Nottingham, England, in 1684, and "settled a plantation on Crosswicks Creek," between Borden- town and Trenton, New Jersey, consist- ing at the time of his death in 1739 of eight hundred and ten acres. An active Friend, he took a prominent part in all that concerned the Chesterfield Meet- ing at Crosswicks, Burlington county, New Jersey. He was constable of Not- tingham and surveyor of highways. In 1695 he married Anne Mauleverer, daughter of Edmund and Anne (Pear- son) Mauleverer. She, like her husband, was an active Friend, an elder of the meeting, and prominent in all meeting interests, as the records indicate. She died in 1754. John and Anne (Maulever- er) Abbott had, with other issue.
Timothy Abbott, born in 1717, died 1776. He married Anne Satterthwaite. He succeeded to his father's estate in part, and was prominent like his parents in the Society of Friends. He was a merchant as well as farmer, and had vessels plying up and down the Dela- ware river to Philadelphia from the plan- tation on Crosswicks Creek, then a navi- gable stream for boats of, for those days, considerable draught. Timothy and Anne (Satterthwaite) Abbott had, with other issue,
John Abbott, born 1748, died 1809. He married Susannah Bulloch. He suc- ceeded to his father's estate and was actively engaged in the business insti- tuted by his father, continuing the mer- cantile phase of it until 1800, when his large land-holdings demanded all his at- tention. He took an active part in local public affairs and in those of the relig- ious body to which he belonged. John and Susannah (Bulloch) Abbott / had, with other issue,
Joseph Abbott, born 1779, died 1861. He married Anne Rickey. In his father's lifetime he moved to a portion of the original "Watson plantation." east of the Abbott homestead, and was a far- mer. Joseph and Anne (Rickey) Ab- bott had, with other issue,
Timothy Abbott, born 1809, died 1882. He married Susan Conrad. In early life he was a merchant. then was long asso- ciated with Peter Cooper, and later with Cooper. Hewitt & Co., in the Iron busi- ness. He was president of the Mechan-
ics' National Bank, Trenton, New Jer- sey. Timothy and Susan (Conrad) Ab- bott had, with other issue,
Francis Abbott, born 1840. He mar- ried (first) Julia Churchman Shewell. Mr. Abbott entered the banking house of the late F. M. Drexel in February, 1857, and at this date (November, 1904) still holds an important position in the same house. Francis and Julia C. (She- well) Abbott had, with other issue, Jo- seph de Benneville Abbott, mentioned at length hereinafter.
Through the pioneer ancestor, John Abbat, Dr. Abbott is descended from the Ingrams, Colvilles and Maulever- ers, who successively, as named, were owners of Ingleby Arnecliffe, Yorkshire, England, an estate in existence as such since the middle ages. Through the Maulevers the descent may be traced back to nearly all of the Barons of Magna Charta, 1215. The ancestry of Anne Mauleverer Abbott is of unusual interest because of this fact. Edmund Mauleverer, the father of Anne, became a Quaker, and was apparently the only member of the family who changed his faith. The Mauleverers have been Church of England folk since the time of Henry VIII, and were previously Roman Catholics. Edmund's father was . James, who married Beatrice, daughter of Sir Timothy Hutton. James' father was William, who married Eleanor, daughter of Richard Oldborough. Will- iam's father was Sir Edmund, who mar- ried Mary, daughter of Sir Christopher Danby. Sir Edmund's father was Rob- ert, who married Alice, daughter of Sir Niman Markenfield. Roberts father was Sir William, (knighted at Flodden in 1513) who married Anne, daughter of Sir William Conyers, and through this line the descent from Edward III is readily traced. Sir William's father was Robert, who married Joan, daughter of Sir Henry Vavasour. Robert's father was Edmund, who married Alionara, daughter of Sir James Strangwayes. Edmund's father was Robert, who mar- ried .Joan -- , and his father was Sir William Mauleverer, who married Joan de Colville. and succeeded to the Ingle- by Arnecliffe estate. The marriage of Robert Mauleverer and Alice Marken- field linked the family to descent from eighteen of the Magna Charter barons, the descent having intermarried between 1215 and 1500. This descent in all its details is traced in the beautiful Mars- shall-Clement chart published in 1904, to which the reader is referred. (Vide "In- gleby Arnecliffe and its Owners." by William Brown, Esq., Secretary of the Yorkshire Archaeological and Surtees Societies, Leeds, John Whitehead & Son, 190I.)
On his mother's side Dr. Abbott is descended from Walter Shewell, born near the village of Painswick, Glouces-
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tershire. England, in 1702. He came to Philadelphia, June 7, 1722, and purchased from the Penn estate a tract of land in New Britain township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, near Doylestown. He founded Painswick Hall, of which an ac- count will be found elsewhere in this volume. Dr. Abbott is the sixth in de- scent from Walter and Mary (Kimber) Shewell, who had with other issue, Rob- ert Shewell, born 1740, died 1825. He was a merchant in the West India trade. HIe married Sarah Sallows, and they had, with other issue, Thomas Shewell, born 1774. died 1848. He was a merchant. He married Sarah B. Linnington, and they had, with other issue, Linnington Dan- iel Shewell, born 1808, died 1873. He married Martha R. Roberts, and they had, with other issue. Julia Churchman Shewell, born 1843, died 1882. She was the wife of Francis Abbott, and mother of Joseph de Benneville ,Abbott.
. Dr. Joseph de Benneville Abbott was educated at the famous Germantown Academy, and subsequently studied medicine in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in April, 1887. In Octo- ber. 1890, he entered upon the practice of his profession in Bristol, Pennsyl- vania, in which he has been usefully en- gaged to the present time. February 20, 1903, he was chosen burgess for a two year term, ending in 1905. In 1897 Dr. Abbott married his second cousin, Helen Shewell Keim, who is a descendant on her mother's side of the Rodman fam- ily, prominent in Bucks county since early in the eighteenth century. (Vide "Autumn Leaves from Family Trees," by Theo. Francis Rodenbough, New York, 1892. Privately printed.) Two children have been the issue of this mar- riage: Charles Shewell, born Febru- ary 17, 1899: Helen Rodman, born Aug- ust 20, 1900.
MARY S. ABBOTT. The paternal ancestors of Mrs. Abbott were among the earliest German settlers in Pennsyl- vania, her first American ancestor be- ing Johannes Keim, who emigrated from Germany in 1698, and after a short stay in Pennsylvania returned to the fath- erland, where he married in 1706, and returned to Pennsylvania the following year. He located soon after on the Ma- natawny, in Oley township. Berks coun- ty, and took up land. He was probably one of "those adventurous Germans" who settled beyond the limits of the land purchased by Penn of the Indians, and referred to in the correspondence between James Logan, Penn's famous secretary, and the founder. He obtained a patent for his land in 1720 and fur- ther patents for additional land in 1737. He died in Oley in December. 1753. . 1 manuscript in his own writing gives an
account of his first marriage in 1706, (without mentioning the name of his wife) and the birth of his six children by that marriage, and his second mar- riage in 1731. By the second marriage he had ten children. The children by the first marriage were: Katharina, born 1708. died 1793; Johannes, born 1711; Stephen, born '1717; Johan Nicholas, born April 2, 1719, died at Reading, Berks county, Pennsylvania, in 1803; Elizabeth, born 1723; and Jacob, born 1724.
Nicholas Keim, the third son, became a merchant in Reading, and his son John, born at Oley in 1749, was the an- cestor of Mrs. Abbott. At the age of twenty-eight years, in 1777, John Keim enlisted in the Fourth Battalion of Berks county and served through the Revolutionary war. He was a captain in the Fifth Battalion in 1778. At the close of the war he returned to Reading and resumed his position with his father in the mercantile business, and remained in that business until his death on February 19, 1819. The "Berks and Schuylkill Journal," in referring to his death, says: "The remains of John Keim, merchant, were interred in the Episcopal burial ground this afternoon. * *
* He had resided in this borough sixty-four years, during which time he amassed a large fortune which never caused a widow's tear or an or- phan's execration. What he left behind was justly his own. As a creditor he was ever lenient and his numerous ten- antry can testify to his goodness as a landlord." His wife was a daughter of George de Benneville, of Bristol town- ship, near Germantown, Philadelphia county.
Daniel De Benneville Keim was cap- tain of the Berks county "Washington Blues," attached to the First Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers in the war of 1812. General George de Benneville Keim, grandfather of Mrs. Abbott. was born in Reading in 1778, and died there in 1852. He married Mary May, daugh- ter of James and Bridget (Douglass) May, of Reading. James May was born May 2, 1749. in Coventry township, Chester county. Pennsylvania, and re- moved to Reading prior to the Revolu- tion, dying there March 13, 1819. He was a descendant of John May, born in Mayfield, Sussex, England, in 1500, and emigrated to New England in 1635. Rob- ert May, the grandfather of James. com- ing from New England in 1700 and set- tling at Limerick, now Montgomery county. Bridget Douglass was a daugh- ter of George Donglass and granddaugh- ter of Andrew Douglass, of Scotland, the latter of whom settled at what is now Douglassville, Berks county.
Major Daniel May Keim, son of George De Benneville and Mary ( May) Keim, was born at Reading, in 1806, and
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died in Bristol, Bucks county, Febru- ary 12, 1867. He was a man of much more than ordinary intellectual ability and of scholarly tastes and extensive learning. He had an antiquarian turn of mind, and made extensive researches in almost everything pertaining to history, and made many valuable contributions to the Historical Society of Pennsyl- vania, of which he was one of the most active and distinguished members. He was for many years engaged in mercan- tile business in Philadelphia, and during the later years of his life held a respon- sible position in the custom house at Philadelphia. He a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, and at the time of his death was affiliated with Bristol Lodge, No. 25, A. Y. M., and that lodge and the grand lodge of the order adopted resolutions com- memorative of his worth as a man and his distinguished services in the order. He married, November 17, 1829. Mary Linnington Shewell, born in Philadel- phia, June 5, 1805, daughter of Thomas and Sarah B. (Linnington) Shewell. The former was born at Painswick Hall, New Britain township, Bucks county, July 13. 1774, and was a son of Robert and Sarah (Sallows) Shewell, and a grandson of Walter Shewell, of Pains- wick Hall, the founder of the family. Thomas at the age of eighteen
years went to Philadelphia and en- tered mercantile pursuits. In 1796 he went to the West Indies, and from thence to England. where he
entered the house of Bonsfield & Co., woolen staplers and army con- tractors, London. He returned to Phila- delphia and became a merchant there in 1802, and was a member of the board of managers of the House of Refuge, and held many other positions of honor and trust. He retired from business in 1832, and died in Philadelphia, March 23, 1848. He was three times married. His first wife was Sarah B. Linnington, born March 10, 1784, whom he married March IO. 1802. She was a granddaughter of Dr. George de Benneville, of Bristol township. Philadelphia county, near Germantown. She died February II, 1819.
Daniel May, and Mary L. (Shewell) Keim, were the parents of eight chil- dren, the two eldest of whom died in infancy. Those who survived were: Thomas Shewell Keim, born January 3, 1834, in Philadelphia, died at Bris- tol, Bucks county, November 9. 1866; Joseph D. (Brown) Keim, (so signed as administrator of father and brother) born November 26, 1835, married April 17. 1868, Lillie Paxson; Esther de Benne- ville Keim, born November 26. 1835, died January 24, 1874, married James P. Wood; Augusta Shewell Keim, born Sep- tember 6. 1840: Mary Shewell Keim, the subject of this sketch, born December I,
1843, married January 22, 1884. Francis Abbott: Anetta Faber Keim, born De- cember 29, 1845, died December 20, 1860.
MARTIN LUTHER SNYDER, wholesale dealer in rubber goods, at Fourth and Market streets, Philadel- phia, was born at Farmersville, North- ampton county, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1850, and is a son of John H. and Anna (Groover) Snyder, both of whom were natives of Bucks county.
Andreas Von Schneider (or. as he signed himself in America, Andreas Schneider), the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in the year 1739, in Zweybrucken. or Deux Ponts. Rhenish Bavaria, and is said to have belonged to the nobility of that cosmopolitan town, but, having taken part as a mere youth in an uprising against the government, was stripped of his nobility and property and forced to flee from the country. He sold himself to the captain of a sailing vessel bound for the port of Philadelphia, where he ar- rived some time in the year 1759. He bound himself to a merchant 'in Phila- delphia whose name has not been ascer- tained, by whom it is said he was em- ployed in the capacity of a farmer in the neighborhood of Germantown for some years, and that later his employer sold him sufficient stock and farming implements with which to embark in the farming business for himself, taking his note without security for the same. It is probable that his employers and bene- factors were Abel James and John Thompson, of Philadelphia, prominent merchants on whose plantation in Rich- land township. Bucks county, we find Andrew Schneider in 1775. and five years later they conveyed to him 140 acres thereof, on which he lived and died. He was a member of the first Associated Company of Richland township in 1775, and is said to have rendered active serv- ice in the defense of the rights of his adopted country during the Revolution and served as an officer under Washing- ton when he crossed the Delaware to at- tack the Hessians on that memorable Christmas night. It is related of Mr. Schneider that he was in such haste to join the army in the time of his coun- try's urgent need, that he left his team in the field hitched to the plow. After service in the army of five years he set- tled on his farm in Richland, and de- voted his energies to the tilling of the " soil, meanwhile rendering such service to the public as the needs of the com- munity in which he lived demanded. In the latter part of the war lie served as a collector of militia fines, and, having in his hands at different periods consid- erable public funds, he kept the money hid in places known only to himself in order to protect his family from the dep-
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redations of the Doanc outlaws, who did not hesitate to maltreat and torture the families of tax collectors in order to ascertain the hiding place of the public money. In religion Andreas Schneider was a member of the Lutheran church. He had received more than the ordinary advantages in the way of education, and took an active interest in the establish- ment of schools in the community in which he lived. He spoke the French language fluently, and while living in the neighborhood of Germantown was gen- erally referred to as "the Frenchman." He died on his Richland farm about the year 1816. He married in 1765 Margaret Jacobi, whose parents were also early settlers in upper Bucks county, and they were the parents of eleven children, viz .; Frederick, who married a Miss Eckhart and had seven children; Eliza- beth, who married Stephen Knizeley and had five children; Catharine, who mar- ried Isaac Bean and had five children; Andrew Jr., who married Mary Mickley and had five children: Margaret, who married John Weisel and had ten chil- dren; Magdalena, who married Jacob Bean; Henry, who married a Miss Mes- simer and had one child; George, who married Mary Mickley and had ten children: John, who married Elizabeth Hinkle and had eleven children; Mary. who married Philip Rumfield and had four children; and Susanna who never married.
John Snyder was the seventh child of Andreas and Margaret (Jacobi) Schnei- der, and was born and reared in Rich- land township. Bucks county. He was a farmer and lived and died in Richland township, his death occurring about August 1. 1844. His wife was Elizabeth Hinkle, daughter of John Hinkle, who owned and occupied a farm adjoining that of Andreas Snyder., in Richland. The children of John and Elizabeth (Hinkle) Snyder follows: William H., who married Catharine Heist and died before his father, leav- ing two children. Charles and William: John H .. the father of the subject of this sketch, who married Anna Groov- er: Tobias H., who died unmarried; Lydia, who died young; Sarah. w.1- also died unmarried; Amos H., who married Mary Blank: Andrew H., never married: Caroline, who married George Brong: Thomas H., who married Sarah Erdman: Catharine, who married Sa- 11el Cressman, and Joseph H., who never married.
Tohn H. Snyder, son of John and Elizabeth (Hinkle) Snyder, was born in Richland township. May 20. 1816, and died Philadelphia. September 30. 1875 When a lad he was apprenticed to the shoemaker trade but was obliged to relinquish it on account of ill health. He entered the famous academy of Pro- fessor Blech, at Bethlehem, and fitted
himself for teaching school, and taught for twelve years, 1839 to 1851, part of the time at Rufe's school in Durham towi ship, later at Hellertown, Northampton county, where he resided at the time of his marriage, and the last three years, 1848 to 1851, at Farmersville, Northampton county, Pennsylvania. In 1851 he removed with his family to Richlandtown, Bucks county, where he conducted the village hotel until March 21, 1861, when he removed to a farm formerly owned by his wife's father, John Groover, in Durham township. In 1873 the family removed to Philadelphia, where Mr. Snyder died September 30, 1875. Mrs. Snyder is still living. Anna (Groover) Snyder, wife of John H. Sny- der, was born in Nockamixon township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania March 29, 1821, and was a daughter of John and Catharine (Miller) Kruger, (that . being the original spelling of the name). Her grandfather, Nicholas Kruger, is said to have been born in Germany, and died in Nockamixon township in 1842. His grandfather. Nicholas Grouger (or Kru- ger) was one of the earliest settlers on the Tohickon, in Tinicum township, and died there in 1773. leaving a widow Ul- fronica and children Nicholas. Philip, Mary Barbara and Anna Elizabeth. Nicholas Kruger, first above mentioned, married Catharine Wolfinger and had five children: Henry, who married Mary Trauger: Elizabeth, who married Nicho- las Younkin: Margaret, who married a Fenner: John, who married Catharine Miller; and Nicholas, who married Susan Rufe. John Kruger and Catharine Mil- ler were the parents of five children: Anna, the wife of John H. Snyder, and the mother of the subject of this sketch; William, who died in infancy; Charles, who married Hannah Frankenfield: Sa- rah, wife of George Harwick; and Sam- tel. who died in childhood.
John H. Snyder was a member of the Lutheran church, and in politics was a Democrat. He was a master mason of Philetus Lodge. No. 527, F. & A. M., at the time of his decease. He had five sons,-Martin L., John A .. and Charles A., who are living, and Robert J. and Marcus F. who died in infancy.
Martin L. Snyder was born in North- ampton county, where his father was at that time teaching school. but his parents removing to Richlandtown, Bucks county, when he was less than a year old, his earliest education was ac- quired in the public schools there: he later attended the Monroe school in Durham township, and finished his edu- cation at the Excelsior Normal Insti- tutte at Carversville, Solebury township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. At the age of sixteen years he began teaching school and taught in the public schools of Bucks county for three years. At the age of nineteen years he went to Phila-
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delphia and was employed there as a clerk until 1878, when .he embarked in business for himself as a wholesale dealer in rubber goods, in which he has since been successfully engaged. In politics he is a Republican, with a decid- ed leaning toward clean politics as ex- emplified by the Committe of One Hun- dred and the Municipal League. In 1901 he was the candidate of the Municipal League, endorsed by the Republican party, for common councilman from the thirty-seventh ward of Philadelphia, but failed of election. He is an active mem- ber of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, Broad and Jefferson streets, and for the past seven years has been a vestryman of that church, and is the present secretary of the vestry. He is a Master Mason of Shekinah Lodge, No. 246, F. and A. M .; past re- gent of Apollo Senate, No. 6, Order of Sparta. and Great Ephor of the Great Senate of Sparta for the last twelve years, also secretary of the Great Eph- ori of the Great Senate of Sparta; past master workman of Quaker City Lodge, No. 116, Ancient Order of United Work- men of Pennsylvania, and an ex-super- vising deputy grand master workman of the order in Pennsylvania; and a member of Pennsylvania council, No. 342, Royal Arcanum. Mr. Snyder was married in Philadelphia, January 28, 1880, by the Rev. Francis L. Robbins, D. D., to Eliza Hunter Cassin, daughter of Isaac Sharpless and Emily (Hunter) Cassin, of Philadelphia, and they have been the parents of two sons. the elder of whom died in infancy. Their son, Cassin Snyder, born February 27, 1885, received his education in the public schools of Philadelphia, graduated from the North East Manual Training School, and until recently was connected with the engineering department of the Phila- delphia Rapid Transit Company in the construction of the subway and bridge work for the depression and elevation of the car tracks on Market street; but is now associated with his father in business.
Isaac S. Cassin, father of Mrs. Sny- der, was born in Delaware county, Penn- sylvania, July 29, 1826, and is of Eng- lish and Irish lineage, Joseph Cassin, his great-grandfather having emigrated from Queen's county, Ireland, in 1725, and settled in Philadelphia. He had among other children sons John and Luke, the former of whom became fa- mous as Commodore Jolin Cassin dur- ing the Revolution, was a warm personal friend of Washington, who presented him with an oil portrait of himself, which was destroyed by fire in the home of his no less distinguished son, Com- modore Stephen Cassin, at Washington. Commodore Stephen Cassin commanded the Ticonderoga in McDonough's fa- inous victory on Lake Champlain in the
war of 1812-14, and was awarded a med- al by Congress for bravery in that ac- tion, a replica of which is now in pos- session of Cassin Snyder, above men- tioned. Luke Cassin, brother of the first Commodore, was the great-grandfather of Mrs. Snyder. He was born in Phila- delphia in 1763, and followed the trade of a silversmith. He married Ann Wor- rall, of an old Delaware county family, and had one son, Thomas W. Cassin, who married Rachel Sharpless, daughter of Isaac and Hannah (Wright) Sharp- less, and had children: John, the dis- tinguished naturalist and ornithologist; Lydia, Luke, Thomas W., Rebecca S., William V., Isaac S., Ann Eliza, and Susanna S.
Isaac S. Cassin was educated at the famous Friends' school at Westown and under private tutors, and early manifest- ed a talent for mechanics. He served an apprenticeship with Messrs. I. P. Morris & Co., of Philadelphia, and sub- sequently became, successively, engineer of the Spring Garden Water, Works, of Philadelphia Gas Works, chief engineer of the Philadelphia Water Works, and chief engineer of the United States Mint in Relinquishing Philadelphia. for a time public office, Mr. Cassin re- organized the Union Hydraulic Works, and was one of the most eminent water and gas engineers in the country, hav- ing built not less than fifty water works in prominent cities throughout the coun- try. His services as an expert in the construction of water works, were in great demand. and he had a distinct and unique reputation in the valuation of water and gas properties. He was a' life member of the Franklin Institute, and of the Engineers' Club. and for more than twenty years prior to his death was a member of the Public Buildings Commission, which had charge of the erection of the city hall of Phila- delphia. He was a member of the So- ciety of Friends, at the Race Street Meeting. In politics he was an uncom- promising Democrat, and besides filling numerous public offices was frequently a delegate to state and national conven- tions. He married, October 10, 1850, Emily Hunter, daughter of John Mor- gan Hunter, of Delaware county, and they were the parents of six children: Thomas; Eliza H. (now Mrs. M. L. Snyder): Edward, John, Emily, and Is- aac S. Cassin.
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