History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Vol. III, Part 82

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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sey, whose ancestors had through several generations resided in that state, and they, too, were members of the Friends meeting. In her father's family were four children: John, a successful agriculturist, whose pro- gressive spirit was in keeping with modern advancement, figured prominently in politi- cal circles in his community and state. He held many township and county offices and twice represented Trenton district in the New Jersey legislature. He was also as- sociate judge of the Belvidere court, and was elected to these various positions on the Democratic ticket. His influence in New Jersey politics was marked, his thorough understanding of the issues of the day and his devotion to the general good well fitting him to become a leader in public thoughit and action. Joseph Moore prospered in his farming operations, but did not seek political prominence. Susan Moore became the wife of E. Price, of New York, and Christiana, of Yardly Cadwallader. The members of the Moore family all lived to the advanced age of eighty years. The children of Yardly and Christiana ( Moore) Cadwallader, were: Mary, wife of Thomas Lightfoot; Peter, a school teacher, wlio died at the age of twenty-eight years ; How- ard, a farmer, who died in 1900 at the age of seventy-seven years; Elizabeth, wife of F. Diamond; Charles M. (4) ; Anna, who died at the age of five years; and Sarah A., wife of S. Ely, of Kansas.

Charles M. Cadwallader (4), born in Byberry, Philadelphia county, Pennsyl- vania, November 6, 1830, accompanied his parents on their various removals, living with them in Horsham and in Upper Dub- lin, during which time he gained practical and comprehensive knowledge of farming methods. When eighteen years of age he went to Southampton, where he was ap- prenticed to the miller's trade for a term of three years. On the expiration of that pe- riod he worked for one year as a journey- man and then went to Wrightstown town- ship, Bucks county, where he assumed charge of the Rich flour mills, which he operated for five years. He was married during that period and subsequently re- moved to Horsham, where he conducted a milling business for two years. Then re- suming the occupation to which he had been reared he rented a farm near Jarret- town, continuing its cultivation for seven years, after which he rented land near Three Tons for three years. In the spring of 1867 he purchased the farm in Warring- ton township, on which he has since re- sided, it being a well-improved tract of land pleasantly located about a mile north of the Warrington postoffice. A commodious residence, large barn and substantial out- buildings are among the leading features of the place, while the productive soil under his careful cultivation brings forth rich crops. He carries on general farming and for many years sold his prodnets to the Philadelphia markets, but in recent years on account of advanced age and the failure

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of his eyesight he has largely left the man- agement of his farm to his son, who is carrying forward the work along progres- sive lines that his father inaugurated. Charles Cadwallader concentrated his ener- gies and efforts exclusively upon his agri- cultural labors and a splendidly improved property is now the visible evidence of his life of thrift and industry. Charles M. Cadwallader endorses Republican prin- ciples by his ballot, and manifests in the questions of the day the interest which every American citizen should display in tlie measure which effect the general wel- fare of county, state and nation. His in- fluence is ever on the side of progress, re- form and improvement, and he is a faith- ful member of the Friends meeting, to which his wife also belonged.

On the 16th of February, 1855, Mr. Cad- wallader married Miss Anna Conard, who was born in Warwick township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1830, a daughter of Charles and Mary (Patterson) Conard, also natives of this county and representa- tives of early pioneer families. She was one of four children, the others being : John, a farmer; Robert, a carpenter and engineer ; and James, a farmer and funeral director. In September, 1890, after more than thirty-five years of happy wedded life, Mrs. Cadwallader died. She is survived by her husband and two children, while their second daughter, Julia Elma, died in 1865 at the age of three and a half years. The eldest daughter, Elizabeth D., became the wife of George Corson, of Plymouth, Penn- sylvania, and died July 21, 1903, leaving two sons. The living children are Martha A. and Howard, both on the old homestead, the son continuing the conduct of the farm since his father's practical retirement from its active management.

FREDERICK F. BUEHRLE. The Buehrle family of which Frederick F. Buehrle is a representative had its or- igin in Germany. His grandfather, Jo- seph Buehrle, was a native of Baden, and entertained strong Republican prin- ciples as opposed to monarchical ideas. He served as revenue and tax collector for the duchy of Baden for a long period, but on account of his connection with the Republican movement which cul- minated in the rebellion begun at Baden in 1848 he was deprived of his office and of most of his property, and in 1846 he sought a home beyond the Atlantic in the "land of the free." Bucks county was his destination and he established his home near Easton, where he began boat- ing on the Lehigh and Delaware canal. Later he purchased a farm in Tinicum township, Bucks county, where he spent his remaining days, devoting his atten- tion to agricultural pursuits. The con- ditions of his life were very greatly changed from those of his German

home, but he made the best of the cir- cumstances and became a loyal and val- ued citizen of the Keystone state. His children were: Robert, who is now su- perintendent of schools in Lancaster city; Wilemine, who married Jacob Stee- ley, a resident of Nockamixon township; Emma, who married Titus Applebach, of Bethlehem; Josephine of Bethlehem, who was married twice; first to Jacob Krouse, and two years after his death to James Williams, both of Tinicum.

William Buehrle, son of Joseph Buehrle, was born in Germany in 1834, and when a lad of twelve years left his native province of Baden in company with his mother and crossed the water to the new world. His educational privi- leges were somewhat limited, for it was necessary that he earn his own living at an early age, his father's property having been confiscated in Germany, so that it forced him to begin business life anew in the United States. When quite a young boy William Buehrle crossed the mountain with a pack on his back and he was still quite young when he secured a position on the Delaware canal, follow- ing that business continuously for twen- ' ty-one years. The careful husbanding of his resources enabled him in that time to save enough money to purchase a small farm in Tinicum first and later lie bought one belonging to Dietrich Knop- pel in Bedminster township. He resided thereon for five years, devoting his en- ergies to general agricultural pursuits and to dealing in cattle. He then sold the property to its former owner and bought another farm, where he contin- tied to engage in the tilling of the soil until twenty years of his life had been given to agricultural pursuits. At that time he turned his attention to mer- chandising at Quakertown, but when two years had passed sold out to his son William. Since that time he has been engaged in canvassing for books of vari- ous kinds. A Republican in his political views, he has ever been deeply inter- ested in the issues and questions of the day, keeping well informed on political conditions of the country. He served as school director in Tinicum township for two years and in Bedminster town- ship for six years. William Buehrle was married on the 16th of September, 1856, to Miss Mary Ann Fryling, a daughter of Samuel Fryling, a resident of War- rington township. She was born in 1842 and by her marriage became the mother of nineteen children: William; Hannah, wife of Nathan Beer. of Perkasie, Kock- hill township: Charlotta, who married A. O. Myers, of Portland; Frederick F .; William F .; Rosanna, who became the wife of John Edwin Scheetz, and after his death married Joseph Hager; Samuel, Joseph. Robert, Lawrence, Harry, de- ceased: John Edward, deceased; Benja- min Franklin; Annie, the wife of Charles

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Bowman; Lillie, Mary Ann, deceased; and three who died in infancy.

Frederick F. Buehrle was born in Tin- icum township, Bucks county, November 14, 1861, and pursued a common school education, entering upon his business career in the capacity of a clerk in the store of D. B. Crouthenear, of Ridge. On leaving that employ he turned his at- tention to farming, which he has since followed in connection with the butcher- ing business and fence building. His life has been characterized by unfalter- ing industry and has been crowned with a fair measure of success. In politics he is a stanch Republican, active in the work of the party, recognized as one of its local leaders and at the present writing in 1904 is spoken of as a candi- date for sheriff. He belongs to the Lu- theran church at Kellers, Pennsylvania, and is the champion of all measures that have for their object the upbuilding and substantial improvement of his county.

Frederick F. Buehrle was married to Miss Annie Bewighouse, the only daugh- ter of Isaac Bewighouse, and they now have two children: Sarah B. and Mary Ann.

JOSEPH HARRISON WILSON. for nearly twenty years a prominent mem- ber of the town council of Doylestown, Bucks county, and one of the active bus- iness men of the county town, was born at Jenkintown, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, February 1, 1854, and is a son of Ebenezer C. and Sarah T. (Fell, Wilson. On both the paternal and ma- ternal sides he is descended from early English pioneers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. His paternal ancestor. Captain Ebenezer Wilson, son of Samuel Wilson, a merchant of London, England, came to America prior to 1677. and set- tled in New Jersey, from whence his de- scendants later migrated to the Manor of Moorland, now Moreland township, Montgomery county.

Joshua Wilson, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was an early resident of Moreland township. He mar- ried Rachel Harding, daughter of Isaac and Phebe Harding, of Southampton, Bucks county, and a descendant of Thomas Harding, one of the earliest English settlers in Southampton.

Isaac Wilson, son of Joshua and Rachel (Harding) Wilson. was born 1801. He was a farmer in Moreland, and married Sarah Conrad, a descendant of Thones Kunders, one of the founders of Germantown, and they were the parents of six children: Emeline, Ebenezer G .. Thomas. Joseph, Alfred and Charles., Of these Thomas married Mary Fell, daugh- ter of Thomas and Sarah (Michener) Fell, and was a farmer for many years near Lahaska, Bucks county.

Ebenezer C. Wilson, eldest son of Isaac and Sarah (Conrad) Wilson, was born in Moreland township, Montgom- ery county, Pennsylvania, November 17, 1828. His early education was acquired at Jenkintown, and at the age of sixteen years he went to learn the shoemaker's trade with James K. Miller, later of. Doylestown, and followed that trade for some years. He later engaged in farm- ing near Jenkintown, where he followed that vocation for two years. He then removed to a farm near Dublin, Bucks county, where he resided for two years. In 1870 he removed to Doylestown, where he spent his remaining days. He was street commissioner of the town at the time of his death in 1892. He was a soldier in the rebellion, a member of Company C, Eighth Pennsylvania Cav- alry. He was wounded at Dinwiddy Court House, and was helped from the battle field by General Custin, who saved him from being captured. Mr. Wilson was in the hospital in Washington when President Lincoln was assassinated. He married in 1853, Sarah T. Fell, born May I, 1832, who survives him and is living in Doylestown. She is a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Michener) Fell, of Moreland, Montgomery county, Penn- sylvania, the former born in 1802, died June 1, 1841; and the latter a daughter of Isaac and Mary (Dehaven) Michener, and a descendant of John Michener, who came from England prior to 1690, and later settled in Moreland township; she was born January 4, 1803. and died in Bucks county, March 5, 1876. Thomas Fell, above mentioned, was a son of Phineas and Rachel (Coates) Fell, of Buckingham, the former born December 18. 1778, died 1818, was a son of Thomas Fell, born January II, 1746, married April 18, 1770, Grace Parry, daughter of Philip and Rachel (Harker) Parry, of Buckingham, and a great-granddaughter of Thomas and Elinor Parry, who came from Wales in 1693. Thomas Fell was a son of Benjamin Fell, born in Cumber- land, England, November 1, 1703, by his second wife Hannah Iredell, of Hor- sham. Ebenezer C. and Sarah T. (Fell) Wilson were the parents of four chil- dren: Emma, born April 14, 1856, wife of Morris Cloud, of Doylestown; Joseph Harrison, the subject of this sketch; Isaac Thomas, born July 2, 1858, married Priscilla Thompson, and resides in Phil- adelphia: and Elwood Conrad, born July IO. 1860. died 1882, leaving one son, El- wood. of Philadelphia.

Joseph Harrison Wilson was reared on the farm in Montgomery and Bucks counties and acquired his education in the public schools. He came to Doyles- town with his parents in 1870, at the age of sixteen years, and two years later learned the trade of a plasterer. which he has since followed in Doylestown and vicinity, filling many large contracts, and

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employing a number of men. He has always taken an active interest in local affairs, and has served continuously in the borough council for nineteen years, being re-elected in February, 1905, for the seventh term of three years each. During nearly the whole of this period he has been one of the most active mem- bers of the board, serving continuously on the street and water committees.

He married, in 1876, Anna Shive, daughter of Levi Shive, of Doylestown, and they are the parents of two children : Carrie, wife of A. Harry Clayton, local editor of the "Daily Republican," and George Lorah. Mr. Wilson and his fam- ily are members of the Methodist Epis- copal church. He is a member of Doylestown Lodge No. 94. I. O. O. F., of Doylestown Council, No. 166, A. O. U. A. M. and No. 214, I. O. R. M., of Doylestown. He is a Son of Veterans of Doylestown, a charter member of the Royal Arcanum.

THE CHAPMAN FAMILY. The pioneer ancestor of the Chapman family was John Chapman, who was born at Stanhope, or Stanehaugh, in the county of Durham, England, about the year 1635. He was a son of John Chapman, of Froslerty, Durham, and the Parish records show that the family had been residents in that locality for several generations and that some of their de- scendants continue to reside there. John Chapman was an early convert to the principles of George Fox, and as early as 1656, suffered imprisonment and other persecutions for his religious principles. In 1660 he was confined in York Castle for eight weeks for refusing to take a prescribed oath, together with other Friends, and at several periods there- after had goods seized for the payment of fines imposed for attending non-con- formist meetings. He was twice mar- ried, first on Io mo. 14, 1665. by which marriage he had one daughter. Ann. born 4 mo. 21, 1667, but who died 9 mo. 15, 1668. His wife died 8 mo. 2, 1668, and he was married a second time 4 mo. 12, 1670. to Jane Sadler, of Lagenby. To this marriage was born seven children, five at Stanhope and two in Bucks county .. On June 21. 1684, John Chapman and Jane his wife and their five children set out from Stanhaugh, in Durham, tak- ing with them a certificate from the Friends Meeting at that place to Friends in America, and took passage on the ship "Shield" at New Castle, on the river Tyne. for Penn's colony in America. On the 12th of September they encountered a storm off the capes of Virginia, which almost entirely dismantled their ship, and they were for two days at the mercy of the waves, but on the 15th of Septem- ber effected a landing on the shores of

Maryland. After a few weeks stay in Maryland they proceeded up the Dela- ware to Bucks county, arriving at the house of Phineas Pemberton, near the Falls, in the latter part of October. Prev- jous to leaving England, John Chapman had purchased 500 acres of land to be laid out in Pennsylvania, and it was laid. out to him in the present township of Wrightstown, then the frontier of the little Quaker settlement on the Dela- ware, and still an absolute wilderness. Here the family removed in Io mo., 1684, and erected the first house that far north in the county of Bucks. John Chapman died in 5 mo. (July), 1694, and Jane, his. wife, in 9 mo., 1699, and both were buried in an old burying ground near Penns Park. Friends Meeting was held at the house of John Chapman for some time prior to the erection of the first Meet- ing House on his land. The children of John and Jane (Sadler) Chapman were: I. Mara, born at Stanhope, 2 mo. 12, 1671, married 2 mo. 28, 1697, John Croas- dale, who died Io mo. 14, 1706, leaving three children: Ruth, Agnes and Thomas. She married (second) John Wildman and had two daughters: Mercy and Elizabeth, and has left numerous de- scendants. 2. Jane Chapman, born 10 mo. 19, 1672. 3. Ann Chapman, born 3 mo. 19, 1676, married John Parsons, of Wrightstown, in 1717, and died Io mo. 9, 1732, without children. She was an eminent preacher among Friends and travelled extensively in this country and abroad. 4. John Chapman, born II mo. II, 1678. was surveyor for Bucks county for many years, making nearly all the early surveys, and was also a justice. He married. November 10, 1739, Ruth, daughter of John and Mary Wilkinson, and had one son, John, who was for many years a justice and a member of assembly. 5. Ruth Chapman, born 5 mo. 9. 1682. 6 and 7. Abraham and Joseph Chapman, twins, were the only children born to John and Jane Chapman in Bucks county. They were born at Wrightstown, 12 mo. 12, 1685. Joseph married Mary Worth, of Stony Brook, New Jersey, who died 5 mo. 24, 1727. Of her six children only three lived to ma- turity, and her only surviving son Isaac died in 1779 without issue. Joseph mar- ried again in 1730, Mary Wilkinson, daughter of John, who died in 1744, leav- ing no surviving issue. Abraham Chap- man, son of John and Jane, born 12 mo. 12. 1685, died 2 mo. 23, 1755. He was a member of Colonial Assembly from 1723 to 1752. and a justice from 1738 until 1752. His son, Benjamin, was a member of Assembly in 1758-9. and was succeeded by his brother Abraham, who served for five years, when Benjamin was again returned and served until the breaking out of the Revolution. Abra- ham Chapman, Sr., was married in 1715. to Susan Olden, daughter of William

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Olden, of Bound Brook, New Jersey, and they were the parents of eight children, viz .: John, born August, 1716; Abraham, born June, 1718; John, born February, 1720; Jane, born May 21, 1723; Thomas, born June 8, 1725; Benjamin, born No- vember 10. 1727: Elizabeth, born May 20, 1730; and Joseph. born October 20, 1733.

Joseph Chapman, youngest child of Abraham and Susan (Olden) Chapman, was born in Wrightstown in 1733, and died of yellow fever in 1790. He mar- ried, 5 mo. 17, 1758. Ann, daughter of John Fell, who was horn Io mo. 6, 1739, and died 3 mo. 20, 1828. They were the parents of fourteen children, nine of whom lived to mature age.

Abraham Chapman, sixth child of Jo- seph and Ann (Fell) Chapman, was born 8 mo. 18, 1767, at Wrightstown, and died at Doylestown, 2 mo. 24. 1856. He was an eminent lawyer, being admitted to the Bucks county bar in 1790. He prac- ticed at Newtown until the removal of the county seat to Doylestown in 1812, when he removed to Doylestown and spent the balance of his days in that town. He was known for years as the "Father of the Bucks County Bar." He was the first president of the Doylestown National Bank. He married 12 mo. 15. 1795, Elizabeth Meredith. daughter of Dr. Hugh and Mary (Todd) Meredith, the former a native of Warwick town- ship. of Welsh descent. and was for many years a practicing attorney at Doylestown, and the latter was a daugh- ter of Joseph Todd, of Warminster, and of English descent. Abraham and Eliza- beth (Meredith) Chapman were the pa- rents of eight children, only two of whom lived to grow up: Wilhelmina, born I mo. 27, 1801, married Mathias Morris, and Henry, born 4 mo. 2, 1804, died 4 mo. II, 1891.

Hon. Henry Chapman was born at Wrightstown. but was reared in Doyles- town, where he spent his entire life. He studied law in the office of his father and was admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-one, April 25, 1825. Inheriting the fine intellectual ability of his illus- trious sire, he had made the most of ex- cellent opportunities for acquiring a fine classical education. and possessed of a truly well-balanced mind and a faculty of concentration, his classical acquire- ments and fine literary taste lent a gloss to his oratory, and made him a strong advocate. In politics he was a Demo- crat of the old school. and exercised a potent influence in his wing of the party. He was elected to the state sen- ate in 1843 and served one term of three years. In 1847 he was appointed to fill an unexpired term of four years as pres- ident judge of the Chester-Delaware District, and at its termination in 1851 declined a renomination. He was the nominee of his party in Bucks for the position of president judge of the Bucks

Montgomery District, and though he carried his home county by a handsome majority, internal dissensions in

the party in Montgomery lost him the elec- tion. In 1856 he was elected to congress from his home district, and at the ter- mination of his term declined a re-nom- ination. In 1861 he was elected presi- dent judge of the Bucks-Montgomery District, and at the termination of the term in 1871 retired to private life. He died April 11, 1891. He was twice mar- ried, his first wife being Rebecca Stew- art, daughter of Dr. Thomas and Re- becca Stewart, of New Britain township. She died 10 mo., 1837, and he married, in 1845, Nancy Findlay Shunk, daughter of Governor Francis R. and Jane (Findlay) Shunk. By his first marriage he had four children: Elizabeth, who married T. Bigelow Lawrence, of Boston, Massa- chusetts. and has been many years a widow, residing at Doylestown; Mary Rebecca, who married William R. Mer- cer, born at Washington, D. C., now liv- ing at Doylestown. Mrs. Mercer died October 27, 1903. They were the pa- rents of three children: Henry C., Eliza- beth, wife of Captain Fidler Von Isar- born. of Austria, and William R., who married in 1904, Martha Dana, of Bos- ton, Massachusetts. The other children of Henry and Rebecca Chapman were Henry A., who died in 1834, and Thomas, who died 10 mo. 18, 1862. The children of Henry and Nancy Findlay (Shunk) Chapman are: Fanny, residing at the old homestead near Doylestown. and Arthur. Nancy (Shunk) Chapman died 2 mo. 27, 1900.

Arthur Chapman was born at Doyles- town. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. November 2, 1871, and prac- ticed for a few years, but preferring an outdoor life to the practice of the legal profession, he purchased the two hun- dred acre farm in New Britain. that was the property of the ancestors of his father's first wife for two centuries, and conducted it for several years. He has lived a retired life in Doylestown town- ship for the last fifteen years.

ALBERT G. B. HINKLE. M. D .. of I300 Spring Garden street. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born in Plumstead township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, November 6, 1831, and is a son of Will- iam and Elizabeth (Walter) Hinkle, late of Plumstead.

Casper Hinckle, the pioneer ancestor of the subject of this sketch. came from Germany in the ship. "Neptune." arriv- ing at the port of Philadelphia. Septem- ber 24. 1754. and settled at or near Ger- mantown.

Philip Hinckle, born in Germany, re- moved from "Cresham, alias German- town," to Plumstead township. Bucks

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county, Pennsylvania, in 1766, purchas- ing on December 16, 1766, of Robert MacFarland, 153 acres near the present site of Hinkletown, on the Durham Road, between Gardenville and Pipers- ville. He was a blacksmith by trade, and followed that vocation there for a number of years. He later purchased considerable other land in Plumstead, owning at the time of his death, in 1814, over 200 acres of land, and had conveyed to his sons, Casper and Charles, each a farm prior to his death. During the later years of his life he was the proprietor of an inn or tavern, at Hinkletown. He was a member of Captain William Mc- Calla's company of Associators in Plum- stead in 1775, and later served in the Con- tinental Line. Philip and Mary Hinckle were the parents of five sons: Joseph; Casper, who died in Plumstead in 1850; Charles, who died in 1819; Anthony, who died in 1815; and Philip. He had also six daughters: Catharine, wife of Joshua Richards; Mary, wife of Jacob Hol- bush ; Elizabeth ; Margaret, wife of Samuel Beakes; Barbara, wife of William Grove ; and Ann.

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History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Vol. III, Part 82

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