History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Vol. III, Part 63

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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hostilities with honor and distinction, his promotion coming in realization of meritorious conduct on the field of bat- tle. He was several times wounded, and on one occasion it was thought that he would lose an arm because of injuries. Following the cessation of hostilities he was appointed revenue collector and health officer of Philadelphia, filling these positions for a number of years. He was also appointed pension agent at Phila- delphia by appointment of the president, and he occupied many positions of of- ficial preferment, discharging the duties of all in a most creditable and honorable manner. His last position was that of pension attorney, in which capacity lie was serving at the time of his death, which occurred April 17, 1889, when he was seventy-two years of age. He was a consistent and worthy member of the Presbyterian church, taking a most ac- tive and helpful part in its work and con- tributing generously to its support. Broad-minded, liberal and charitable, he was ever found fearless in conduct, honorable in action and stainless in reputation. As the years have passed he had made investment in different public enterprises, becoming a stock- holder in some paying business con- cerns. He was president and one of the promoters of the Newtown railroad. His military service and the influential po- sition he occupied in political circles of Pennsylvania won him national fame. His wife died prior to his demise, pass- ing away at the age of sixty-two years. They were the parents of five children, all of whom are living: Howard V., who entered the pension office during his father's service and yet holds a position in that department in Washington, D. C .; Ellen, the wife of A. T. Miller : Charles A., who is a pension attorney in Washington, D. C .: William V., a pension attorney in Philadelphia; and Horatio, who is a major in the United States army in the Philippines. All are married, and this circle constitutes an interesting family.

Mr. and Mrs. Miller have become the parents of three children: Randolph H., a structural engineer, who married Miss Catherine Darrah; Clarence, who is foreman for the Kittarlinus Lithograph- ic Company of Philadelphia, and mar- ried Miss Helen Warner; and Augus- tus J., an architect of Philadelphia. The Parents and their children are mem- bers- of the Presbyterian church. Politi- cally :Mr. Miller is a Republican where national' issues are involved, but at local elections 1's independent, casting his bal- lot for men "and measures rather than for party. He is active in the church work, serving as superintendent of the Sunday school at Warrington. He has also been connected with several federal organizations, but has now withdrawn from these and his time and energies

are devoted in more undivided manner to his business affairs, which, capably conducted, are bringing him desirable success.

B. FRANK COPE. Among the active and efficient business men of Lower Buckingham is B. Frank Cope, for many years a director and superintendent of the Forest Grove Creamery. Mr. Cope was born in Doylestown township, Bucks county, August 14, 1859, and is a son of Amandus F. and Anna Elizabeth (Funk) Cope. His father, who is a son of Franklin S. and Magdalena (Urfer) Cope. was born near Pennsburg, Mont- gomery county, Pennsylvania, and soon after his marriage purchased a farm in Doylestown township, where he resid- ed until 1870, when he removed to Mont- gomery county, near Bryn Mawr. He was a farmer during his active life, but now resides with a daughter at Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The subject of this sketch was born and reared on the farm, and received a good education at the schools of Doylestown township and Bryn Mawr. At the age of twenty-one he accepted a position as assistant in the Pine Run creamery. Doylestown township. On June 4, 1882, he took charge of the For- est Grove creamery, and was superin- tendent and salesman, as well as a mem- ber of the board of directors, for many years, and giving entire satisfaction to the patrons and stockholders. Mr. Cope was for many years an ardent Democrat and took an active part in the councils of his party. He was the party nominee for director of the poor in 1898, and re- ceived the highest vote of any on the ticket, running far ahead of other can- didates in his home township. In 1902 he was nominated for the assembly, but a fusion was later effected by the local leaders, and he was forced off the ticket. He is a member of Doylestown Lodge, No. 245. F. and A. M .; Warrington Lodge, No. 447, I. O. O. F., of which he has been secretary and representa- tive for ten years; Neshaminy Castle, No. 139, K. G. E .; and Paunacussing Lodge. No. 221, K. of P. In the spring of 1004 he purchased a farm in Lower Buckingham. upon which he now re- sides. He was married, in 1883. to Rose Ella Barton, daughter of Joel and Phoebe (Carver) Barton, of Solebury. Her parents now reside in Warwick township. Mr. and Mrs. Cope have been the parents of four children: Linford W., deceased; Edmund B .: Anna E., de- ceased: and Harman Yerkes.

The brothers and sisters of Mr. Cope are as follows: Mary J., widow of Sam- 11el Eckstein, of Philadelphia; Samuel E .. of Telford. Pennsylvania; Edward- ine, wife of Harry L. Riley, of Atlantic City: Clinton B., of Buckingham; James

Henry Pary

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R., of Egg Harbor; John A., of Atlan- tic City; and Daniel, who has been an employe of John Wanamaker for several years.

HENRY CRAWFORD PARRY, one of the best known citizens of Langhorne, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, retired business man, president of the People's National Bank, is of Welsh descent. His earliest ancestor in America was Thom- as Parry, who was born in Caernarvon- shire, North Wales, in 1680, and came to Pennsylvania when a young man, married Jane Phillips, in 1715, and set- tled in Moreland, near the present site of Willow Grove. The family of Par- ry is one of the most ancient in the United Kingdom, and their coat-of-arms is registered in Burke's General Arm- ory.

Thomas Parry, above mentioned, was a grandson of Colonel Geoffrey Parry, of Caernarvonshire, who married Mar- garet Hughes, of Cefn Llanfair, and son of Love Parry, of Wanfour, who was high sheriff of Caernervonshire in 1685, and his wife Ellen, daughter of Hugh Wynn of Penarth. Thomas and Jane (Phillips) Parry were the parents of ten children, eight sons and two daughters. He died in 1751, aged seventy-one years.

Philip Parry, born in the "Manor of Moorland," now Moreland township, Montgomery county, II mo. 18, 1716, married 2 mo., 1740, Rachel Harker. daughter of Adam Harker, one of the most prominent Friends of his day in Pennsylvania, and settled in Bucking- .ham township, where he purchased March II, 1746, 170 acres of land near Holicong. He died on this plantation, the late residence of E. Watson Fell, in 1784, leaving three sons: John, Philip, and Thomas; and five daughters: Han- nah, Jane, Grace, Rachel and Mary.

John Parry, son of Philip and Rachel (Harker) Parry, born in Moreland, 9 mo. 10, 1743, married 4 mo. 17. 1771, Rachel, daughter of Titus and Elizabeth (Heston) Fell, and granddaughter of Joseph Fell, who came from Longlands, in Cumberland, England, in 1705. by his second wife, Elizabeth Doyle, daughter of Edward and Rebecca (Dungan) Doyle. John Parry died in Buckingham II mo. 13, 1807, and his wife Rachel, 2 mo. 18. 1818. They were the parents of nine children: Elizabeth, who married George Shoemaker; Joyce, who married Jacob Shoemaker: Mercy; Charity; Tacy: Rachel: and John, who died un- married; David, who married Elizabeth Ely, and (second) Lydia Richardson, and settled in Drumore, Lancaster coun- ty, and Thomas Fell Parry.

Thomas Fell Parry, youngest child of John and Rachel (Fell) Parry, was born in Buckingham 7 mo. 8. 1791. He mar- ried 12 mo. 17, 1829, Mary, daughter of

Moses and Rachel (Knowles) Eastburn, of Solebury, who was born 9 mo. 13, 1800. Mr. Parry was for many years a resident of Philadelphia, where he was engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1846 he purchased property at Lang- horne and two years later removed to that locality, where he spent the remain- ing years of his long and useful life. He died 3 ino. 27, 1876. His wife, Mary E., died 6 110. 5, 1872. They were the par- ents of five children: Rachel, born 9 mno. 20, 1830, married Gilbert Shaw ; Eliza beth, born 4 mo. 16, 1832, married Wil- son Croasdale; Henry C., born 3 mo. 23, 1834; John E., born II mo. 22, 1836, married 2 mo. 14, 1861, Mary Jane Live- zey; Charles, born II mo, 24, 1839, died 12 mo. 19, 1842.

Henry C. Parry, the subject of this sketch, eldest son of Thomas Fell and Mary (Eastburn) Parry, was born in the city of Philadelphia and received his primary education at private and pub- lic schools in that city. He was fifteen years of age when the family removed to Middletown, Bucks county, and then entered Pennington, New Jersey, Semi- nary, where he finished his education. On arriving at manhood he engaged in farming in Middletown township, which vocation he followed successfully for sixteen years. In 1876 he engaged in the coal and lumber business at Langhorne station, which he conducted for twenty- one years, building up a fine and profi- table business. He sold out the busi- ness in 1887, and has since lived retired. Mr. Parry has always been actively in- terested in the local affairs of his neigli- borhood, and has held many positions of trust. He has served as chief bur- gess of the borough for two terms, and two terms as a member of council. He was for many years a director of the First National Bank of Newtown, has been for eight years a director of the People's National Bank of Langhorne, and was unanimously elected president of the latter institution in 1899, a posi- tion he still fills. Mr. Parry has been actively interested in the improvements in and around Langhorne, and is one of the solid substantial business men of that section. He and his family are members of the Society of Friends. Po- litically he is a Republican.

He was married November 13, 1856, to Susan Gillam Blakey, daughter of William Watson and Anna. (Gillam) Blakey, and granddaughter of William and Elizabeth (Watson) Blakey. On the maternal side she is a granddaughter of William and Susanna (Woolston) Gil- lam. and great-granddaughter of Simon and Anna (Paxson) Gillam, and of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Harvey) Wool- store. There of her lineal ancestors were members of the colonial assembly at one time-Thomas Watson, William Paxson and John Sotcher, all of them

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serving a number of years. Her great- great-grandfather Mazry Watson, was also a member of colonial assembly for very many years. Henry C. Parry i, aiso a descendant of John Sotcher, through his grandmother Rachel (Knowles) East- burn. (See Eastburn sketch in this work.)

William Blakey Parry, only child of Henry C. and Susan G. (Blakey) Parry, was born in Middletown township, 5 mo. 18, 1858. He was educated in the schools of Middletown and in Philadel- phia. He married September 27, 1883, Elizabeth, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Williamson) Moon, who was born 7 mo. 27, 1857. Two children have been born to this marriage: Laura Elizabeth, born July 28, 1891; and Henry Crawford, Jr., born November 2, 1895.

PROFESSOR ALLEN S. MARTIN. County Superintendent of Public Schools, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, April 7, 1868, and is a son of the late Henry K. and Anna (Sahn) Martin, both natives of Lancas- ter county. He was reared on his fath- er's farm, and attended the public schools until the age of sixteen years, when he began teaching in the public schools of his native county, teaching in all in that county for five years. He graduated at the State Normal School at Millersville, Lancaster county, and later took a course in arts and sciences in the University of Pennsylvania, re- ceiving the degree of Bachelor of Sci- ences. In June, 1893, he became prin- cipal of the high school of Sellersville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and two years later accepted the position of prin- cipal of the Doylestown high school, which latter position he filled with emi- nent ability for seven years. In 1902 Prof. Martin was elected to the office of Superintendent of Public Schools of the county, and was unanimously re- elected to the same position in 1905. Superintendent Martin is deeply inter- ested in the cause of popular education, and has done much to improve the effi- ciency of our public schools. He has a superior talent for organization and one of his plans that has proved emi- nently successful, is the holding of fre- quent "educational meetings" of teach- ers and directors in different parts of the county, where subjects that are of direct interest to teachers and direc- tors are discussed, whereby the interest of both in the work of bettering the schools is stimulated and strengthened, and the best methods of imparting knowl- edge are brought within the reach of all. Professor Martin is president of the Bucks County Natural Science Asso- ciation, and a member of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia. He takes a deep interest in botany and zool- ogy, and is considered an authority on

the flora and mammals of the section in which he lives. He is a member of the State Teachers' Association, and has been frequently called upon to aid in educational work in different parts of the state.

Professor Martin was married, in Lancaster county, to Mary Magdalena Kauffman, of an old family in that coun- ty, and they are the parents of four chil- dren-Edith and H. Clay, born in Lan- caster county; and Lenore and Mildred, born in Doylestown.

GULICK FAMILY. Joachim Gulick, or, as he signed his name, "Jochem Guyllyck," the pioneer ancestor of the Gulick family of Hilltown, Bucks coun- ty, emigrated from the Netherlands in 1653, and settled in Gravesend, Long Island, removing later to Staten Island. He married Jacomyntje Van Pelt, daughter of Teunis Janse Lanen Van Pelt, who emigrated from Liege, Bel- gium, in 1663, with wife Grietje Jans and six children and settled at New Ut- recht. Long Island, from whence his grandson, Joseph Van Pelt, migrated to Staten Island and later to Byberry, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, and has numerous descendants in Bucks county. Jochem Gulick was an ensign at Gravesend in 1689, and about 1691 purchased land on Staten Island, and is said to have removed later to New Jer- sey, though of this there is no proof. Jochem and Jacomyntje (Van Pelt) Gu- lick were the parents of four sons,- Hendrick; Samuel, born 1685; Joachim, born 1687; and Peter, born 1689. Of these, Joachim and Hendrick located on Three-Mile-Run, Somerset county, New Jersey, in 1717, and left numerous descendants.

Hendrick Gulick, eldest son of Joa- chim, the founder, married Cantje Dirckse Amerman, who baptized on Long Island, April 2, 1677. He locat- ed in Somerset county, New Jersey, where he died in 1757, leaving eleven children: Joachim, Derrick, Jacomynt- je, Samuel, Alshe, Catrin, Mary, Grreb- rantje, Hendrick, Peter and Antje or Anna.

Hendrick (or Henry, as he later signed himself), son of Hendrick and Cantje (Amerman) Gulick, settled in Alexan- dria township, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, near the present site of Milford, where he died in April, 1798, leaving nine children, Samttel, Nicholas, Char- ity Hoagland, Minnor, Catharine Buck- alew. Mary Duckworth, Ranshea Allen, Abraham and Rachel. His wife, Mary Williamson, whom he married Septem- ber 26, 1754. survived him.

Samttel Gulick, eldest son of Henry and Mary (Williamson) Gulick, settled in Northampton county. where he mar- ried and reared a family.

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Jonathan Gulick, son of Samuel, born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, in 1795, removed to Towamencin town- ship, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, in 1818, where he followed farming un- til 1837, when he removed to Hilltown, Bucks county, where he located on a small farm adjudged to him in right of his wife as part of the real estate of her father, Obed Aaron, and later purchased other land adjoining. He died in Hill- town in 1873, at the age of seventy-sev- en years. He married Urey Aaron, daugh- ter of Obed Aaron, and granddaughter of Moses and Elizabeth (James) Aaron, the former a native of Wales, settled in New Britain about 1725, and died there in 1765. Thomas James, the father of Elizabeth Aaron, was also a native of Wales, and came with his father, John James, from Pembrokeshire in 1712. Obed Aaron was born in 1761 and died in 1837. The children of Jonathan and Urey (Aaron) Gulick were Merari, Har- riet, Sybylla and Urcy, all of whom are deceased.

Merari Gulick, only son of Jonathan and Urey, was born on his father's farm in Towamencin township, Mont- gomery county, Pennsylvania, in 1819, and removed with his parents to Hill- town in 1837. In 1843 he purchased a farm in Hilltown of 117 acres, which he conducted during the active years of his life. He was an active and promi- nent farmer of that section, and followed the Philadelphia markets for some thir- ty years. He married, in 1841, Chris- tina Swartz, who was born in New Brit- ain township in 1819, and died in Hill- town in 1888. She was a daughter of Christian Swartz, a prominent farmer of New Britain township, of German ancestry. He married Margaret Funk, daughter of Rev. John and Elizabeth (Lewis) Funk of Line Lexington, the former a son of Martin Funk, who came from Germany in 1737 and settled in Hatfield, Montgomery county, and the latter a native of Wales and a daughter of Henry Lewis of New Britain. John Funk was the founder of a branch of the Mennonites known as Funkites. He is said to have preached at German- town while residing in Hilltown, making the journey back and forth on horseback. Christian and Margaret Funk Swartz were the parents of eight children: John, died young; Andrew F .; Eliza- beth, wife of John Rosenberger; Mar- garet, wife of Enos Gehman; Christina, wife of Merari Gulick; Lydia, wife of John Heckler; Amelia, wife of John Hunsberger; and Mary, wife of Samuel Rosenberger.

The children of Merari and Christina (Swartz) Gulick were: Mary, wife of William D. Yocum, a farmer of Hill- town; Urey, wife of Joseph B. Alla- baugh, also a farmer in Hilltown; Jon- athan, of Hilltown; Obed Aaron, a gro-

cer in Philadelphia; Merari, who died at the age of two years; Samuel S., of South Perkasie; Christopher S., of Blooming Glen; and John S., born Feb- ruary 17, 1861, died September 28, 1878.

SAMUEL S. GULICK, son of Merari and Christina (Swartz) Gulick, was born in Hilltown township, October 10, 1856, and was educated at the public schools. He was reared on his father's farm and remained there until his mar- riage in 1886, when he located at what is now South Perkasie. In 1890 he was elected a justice of the peace of Rock- hill township, and was re-elected in 1895, and served until 1900. He is an auctioneer, which business he has fol- lowed for many years, crying hundreds of sales in a single year. Since his election as justice of the peace he has conducted a general business agency in connection with his official duties, and has settled a great number of estates and done a large amount of public busi- ness. He is the owner of several pri- vate properties at South Perkasie, a small farm located within the limits of Perkasie borough, and his present resi- dence in South Perkasie. He is direc- tor of the Quakertown Trust Company, and one of the progressive and promi- nent business men of the growing town of Perkasie. He is a member of Mc- Calla Lodge, No. 596, F. and A. M., of Sellersville, and of the brotherhood of the Union. Politically he is a Republi- can. He and his family are members of the German Reformed church. He married, March 13, 1886, Mary E. Shell- enberger, daughter of Jacob S. and Cath- arine (Rudy) Shellenberger, and they have been the parents of eight children: Paul, Katie, deceased; Ella, Herman, Esther, Emma, Samuel and Robert, de- ceased.

CHRISTOPHER S. GULICK, ex- register of wills of Bucks county, now (1905) deputy treasurer of the county, was born in Hilltown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, June II, 1859, and is the youngest son of Merari and Chris- tina (Swartz) Gulick, whose ancestry is given in a preceding sketch.

He was reared in Hilltown township, and has resided there all his life with the exception of the three years, 1896- 98, during which he filled the office of register of wills, when he resided in Doylestown. He received his elemen- tary education at the public schools of Hilltown township, later attending Sellersville high school, from which he graduated at the age of nineteen years, and began teaching in the public schools of the county. He taught for one year in Bedminster and ten in his native township, eight of which were spent in conducting the school at Blooming Glen, where he now lives. In politics Mr.

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Gulick is a Republican, and has always given an unfaltering support to the prin- ciples of that party. and done effective service in its behalf in his home local- ity, and keeping himself well informed as to the questions and issues of the day. In 1885 he was elected to the office of justice of the peace in Hilltown town- ship, and filled that position for five years, doing a large amount of official business and assisting in the settlement of estates. He also took up the business of auctioneering, and did considerable business in that line. On the termina- tion of his term as justice, in 1889,

he was appointed. under President Harrison, deputy collector of internal revenue for the district in which Bucks county is included, and served in that capacity for four years. In 1894 he em- barked in the mercantile business at the thriving village of Blooming Glen, in partnership with M. H. Leidy, under the firm name of Leidy & Gulick, which continued until his election to the office of register of wills, in the fall of 1895. On assuming the duties of this office in January, 1896, he transferred his in- terest in the store to Abram M. Moyer, and removed with his family to Doyles- town. Thoroughly diligent and consci- entious in the transaction of his offi- cial duties, and courteous to all with whom he came in contact, he made a very popular and efficient official, and made many friends throughout the county. On the termination of his term of office in 1899, he returned to Bloom- ing Glen, and in August of that year purchased his former store of the firm of Leidy & Moyer, and conducted the business . until February. 1904. when he sold out to the present firm of Apple & Shaddinger, and, purchasing a residence of his former partner. M. H. Leidy, followed farming and auctioneering un- til May, 1905, when he was appointed deputy county treasurer, under John B. Poore, and assumed the duties of that office. retaining his residence at Bloom- ing Glen.

Mr. Gulick is a member of McCalla Lodge, No. 596, F. and A. M., of Sellers- ville: of Doylestown Chapter, No. 270. R. A. M .: of Perkasie Lodge. No. 671, I. O. O. F .. and of Doylestown Encamp- ment. No. 35. I. O. O. F., of which he is a past chief patriarch. Mr. Gulick has always taken an active interest in all that pertains to improvement and devel- opment of the material interest of the community in which he lived. and has filled a number of positions of trust. At the organization of the Perkasie Na- tional Bank he was elected one of the original board of directors, and has served continuously in that position since. He is a member of the Reformed church.

He married. February 28, 1885. Emma H. Moyer, daughter of Rev. Abraham

and Hester (Hunsberger) Moyer, of Hilltown. She was born in Hilltown, October 1, 1864, and was the tenth of eleven children. Her father, Rev. Abra- ham F. Moyer, was born in Upper Sal- ford, Montgomery county, Pennsylvan- ia, September 19, 1822, and was a son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Fretz) Moyer, grandson of Christian Meyer, great grandson of Henry Meyer, who came to Pennsylvania about 1725, at the age of one year, with his father, Hans Meyer, from Germany or Switzerland, who set- tled in Skippack, now Salford township, Montgomery county, and purchased land there in 1729, which is still in the tenure of his great-great-grandson, Ja- cob L. Moyer. Henry, the son of Hans, married Barbara Miller, who came from Germany at the age of eighteen years, and inherited the homestead at the death of his father, in 1748. He reared a family of seven children, many of whom have left descendants in Bucks county. Rev. Abraham F. Moyer came to Bucks county when a lad, and lived with his maternal uncle, Martin Fretz. From the age of sixteen to twenty-one he was a clerk in a store, but later be- came a farmer in Hilltown. He was ordained minister the Mennonite congregation at Blooming Glen Novem- ber 6, 1855, and continued to minister to that flock until his death. He was an active and faithful Christian teacher, and much respected in that community. He was twice married. His first wife. and the mother of his eleven children, was Hester, daughter of Jacob and Mary Hunsberger, of Hilltown, who died Feb- ruary 28. 1873. He married. in 1874, Anna, widow of Henry M. Hunsberger, of Montgomery county, and daughter of Abraham L. Moyer.

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History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Vol. III, Part 63

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