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William Twining, Jr., married Elizabeth Deane, daughter of Stephen Deane, of Plymouth, in 1652, and had children as follows: William, born February 28,
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1654, married Ruth Cole; Eliza, married John Rogers, of Eastham; Anne and Jo- anna, both of whom were successively the wives of Thomas Bills; Stephen; Susanna, who died young and Mehitabel, who mar- ried Daniel Doane, and settled in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. William was a dea- con of Eastham church in 1677, but in 1695 became converted to the principals of Friends, and removed to Newtown, Bucks county, where he died November 4, 1703. His wife died December 28, 1708.
Stephen Twining, son of William and Elizabeth (Deane) Twining, was born at Eastham, Massachusetts, February 6, 1659, and died at Newtown, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, April 8, 1720. He married, 'an- uary 13, 1682-3, Abigail Young, daughter of John and Abigail Young of Eastham, Massachusetts, and came to Bucks county with his father in 1695, where he became a large landholder and a prominent and in- fluential citizen. He was one of the original members of Wrightstown Friends' Meet- ing, and meetings were frequently held at his house prior to the erection of the meet- ing house. He had children: Stephen, Nathaniel, Eleazer, John, Rachel, Mercy, Joseph, David and William. Ilis wife Abigail died April 9, 1715.
Stephen Twining, eldest son of Stephen and Abigail (Young) Twining, was born at Eastham, Massachusetts, December 30, 1684, and died at Newtown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, June 28, 1772. He married in 1709, Margaret Mitchell, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Foulds) Mitchell, who was born at Marsden's Lane, Lan- cashire, in 1686, and came to Bucks county with her mother in 1699; her father having died on the ill fated "Brittanica," on the way to America. She died July 9, 1784, in her ninety-ninth year. Stephen and Mar- garet ( Mitchell) Twining, were the parents of seven children: William, who died in in- fancy: Elizabeth, who married Isaac Kirk ; Abigail, who married Samuel Hillborn; Stephen ; Mary, who married John Chap- man; another William, who also died young ; and Margaret, who married Thomas Hambleton.
Stephen Twining, son of Stephen and Margaret (Mitchell) Twining, was born in Wrightstown, April 20, 1717. His father purchased in 1738 a tract of five hundred and fifty aeres in Springfield township, Bucks county, upon which he resided with his family for a number of years, return- ing to Wrightstown about 1761, Stephen, the son, being left in charge of the Spring- field farm for some years. At his father's death in 1772 he was devised a farm in Wrightstown of one hundred and eighteen acres on the Neshaminy, where he died on September 3, 1777. He married, in 1773. Sarah Janney, widow of Richard Jannev. and daughter of Joseph Worth, of Stony Brook, Burlington county, New Jersey, where Sarah was born in 171. She mar- ried a third time, in 1782, James Burson, and died in Wrightstown, August 20, 1833,
at the age of ninety-two years. Stephen and Saralı (Worth) Twining, were the pa- rents of two children, Mary, born Septem- ber 16, 1774, married Joseph Burson, died March 3, 1815, and Stephen, born in 1776.
Stephen Twining, son of Stephen and Sarah, left an orphan at a tender age, was reared in Wrightstown. He learned the trade of a tanner at the Chapman tannery in Wrightstown, and followed that busi- ness in Wrightstown and Newtown in con- nection with farming until about 1818, when he married Elizabeth Baldwin, an eminent minister among Friends, who had been a preacher since the age of nineteen years, and with the approbation of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting went as a teacher and counsellor to the Cattaraugus Indians, on their reservation near Troy, New York, where he remained for nine years. His wife dying in 1827, he returned to New- town, where he resided until 1835. when he purchased a farm of one hundred acres in Upper Makefield, and, having remar- ried, lived thereon until his death in 1849. Stephen and Elizabeth (Baldwin) Twining were the parents of two children: Charles ; and Sarah B., who married Isaac Simpson, and removed to Independence, Kansas.
Charles Twining, only son of Stephen and Elizabeth (Baldwin) Twining, was born at Troy, New York, August 9, 1820. Returning to Bucks county with his father after the decease of his mother, he was reared in Newtown and Upper Makefield. At the death of his father he inherited the homestead in Upper Makefield, upon which he lived for a time, removing later to Yardley, Lower Makefield township, now Yardley borough, where he engaged in the lime and coal business. He died February 10, 1902. He married, December 7, 1842, Elizabeth West, daughter of Mahlon and Mary (Trego) West, of Harford county, Maryland, who was born January 29, 1821, and died at Yardley, February 3, 1884. Mr. Twining married (second) on September I, 1886, Hannah Y. Bunting. The children of Charles and Elizabeth H. ( West) Twin- ing are: Stephen B., to be further men- tioned hereinafter: Edward W., of Yard- ley ; Mary E., born March 27, 1849, wife of Franklin Eastburn, of Philadelphia : Emma, born August 5. 1851, married R. Franklin Schofield ; Charles P., who died at the age of ten years; Rebecca, born March 7, 1856, wife of Watson G. Large of Yardley : Will- iam R., Adeline, and Sarah, who died in childhood.
STEPHEN B. TWINING was born in Upper Makefield township on the farm near Dolington, January 19, 1844. He was reared in the Makefields. and received the major part of his education at the Friends' Central School, at Fifteenth and Race streets, Phil- adelphia, later taking a course in Bryant & Stratton's Business College in Philadel- phia. After the completion of his educa- tion he engaged with his father in the lime and coal business at Yardley. Stephen B., in partnership with his brother, under the
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firm name of S. B. and E. W. Twining, began the stone business at Yardley, first opening a quarry on the home farm, and subsequently purchasing the extensive quar- ries at Prallsville, New Jersey, which they operated on a large scale, furnishing large quantities of stone for bridges and other buildings, and for macadamizing and pav- ing purposes. The large business built up by them is now conducted by their nephew, Charles Twining Eastburn, and gives em- ployment to a large number of men. Mr. Twining was one of the organizers of the Yardley National Bank, of which he was a director and vice-president. He was also one of the organizers and an officer of the Yardley Building and Loan Association. During his whole life he was prominently identified with all the local enterprises of Yardley and vicinity, having for their ob- ject the upbuilding and improvement of the town and community. He and his family were members of the Society of Friends. He died July 26, 1894. Mr. Twining mar- ried, January 17, 1866, Letitia Warner, daughter of Abraham and Sarah Ann (Tay- lor) Warner, of Penns Manor, Bucks coun- ty, who survives him. They were the pa- rents of two children: Sarah W .. wife of T. Sidney Cadwallader, of Yardley; and Elizabeth, wife of Professor Edward C. Wilson, of Baltimore, Maryland.
EDWARD W. TWINING, of Yardley borough, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, wa's born in Upper Wakefield township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, March 4, 1846, and is the second son of Charles and Elizabeth (West) Twining, and a lineal descendant of William Twining, of Eastham, Massachu- setts, through the four Stephen Twinings, as related in the preceding sketch of his elder brother, Stephen B. Twining. Edward W. Twining was reared in Upper and Lower Makefield and acquired his education at the public schools and Westtown Boarding School, under the care of the Society of Friends, in Chester county, Pennsylvania. At the age of twenty-two years he en- tered into partnership with his brother. Stephen B. Twining. in the stone business at Yardley, Pennsylvania, and Stockton and Prallsville, in Hunterdon county. New Jer- sey. being junior member of the firm of S. B. & E. W. Twining, and contributed largely to the success of the business. He has been interested in the various local en- terprises of Yardley and vicinity, and is one of the well known business men of that locality. After the death of his brother he retired from active business, the stone business being conducted by his nephew and successor. Charles Twining Eastburn. Mr. Twining married in 1878. Mary S. Walker. daughter of Phineas and Deborah (Mitch- el1) Walker, of Makefield, granddaughter of Phineas and Sarah (Holcomb) Walker. great-granddaughter of Robert and Mary (Linton) Walker, of Soleburv, and great- great-granddaughter of Joseph and Sarah (Heaton) Walker. of Middletown, Bucks
county, and great-great-great-granddaugh- ter of Robert and Grace ( Pearson) Heaton, both natives of England, the former hav- ing come to America with his parents Robert and Alice Heaton, in the "Wel- come," in 1682, with William Penn. Ed- ward and Mary (Walker) Twining are the parents of one son, Stephen B. Twining.
IRVIN Y. BARINGER, of the firm of Bissey & Baringer, merchants of Perkasie, was born in that part of Rockhill now in- cluded in the borough of Perkasie, May 9, 1870, and is a son of William and Sarah (Yeakel) Baringer. The paternal ances- tor of Mr. Baringer came from Wurtem- berg, Germany, and settled in Franconia township. Montgomery county, where his. grandfather, Christopher F. Baringer, was born January 1, 1806. He died March 15. 1889. His wife, Julia Ann Barth, was born August 16, 1806, and died July 28, 1892.
William Baringer, the father of Irvin Y., was born in Franconia. August 9, 1841, and died in Rockhill, September 31. 1879. He married Sarah Yeakel, a descendant of Christopher Yeakel, a native of Silesia who. came to Pennsylvania in 1734, with his widowed mother, Regina, from Creiham, in the Palatinate, and settled near Chest- nut Hill, Philadelphia. Sarah (Yeakel) Baringer was born March, 1848, and died November 19. 1875. William and Sarah (Yeakel) Baringer were the parents of two children-Irvin Y. and Annie, wife of Har- vey B. Rosenberger.
Irvin Y. Baringer was reared at Perkasie and acquired his education at the public schools. When a young man he became a clerk in the general merchandise store of his maternal uncle, Joseph A. Hendricks, at Perkasie, and in 1897 became a partner in the business with Tobias Bissey, under the firm name of Bissey & Baringer, Mr. Hendricks retiring from the business. The firm are doing a large and successful busi- ness. Mr. Baringer is a member of the Reformed church, and politically is a Re- publican. He married, June 28. 1893, Han- nah F. Groff, daughter of David and Maria (Fluck) Groff, and they are the parents of four children, viz. : Mildred, horn March 30. 1894; Sarah, born November 10. 1807; Francis, born May 17, 1902; and William, born May 19, 1904.
HARRY N. KULP, of Rockhill town- ship, near Telford. is a native of Montgom- ery county, Pennsylvania, and was born near Franconia Square, January 12, 1869. a son of Jacob S. and Barbara (Nice) Kulp. His paternal ancestor came from Germany and settled in Montgomery coun- tv, where his great-grandfather, Henry Kolb. was born, July 14. 1769. and died March 20. 1850. He was a farmer, dyer and tombstone cutter. Like his pioneer an-
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cestor, Deilman Kolb, and most of the fam- ily since, he was a Mennonite. He married, in 1797, Susanna Moyer, born April 25, 1775, died March 23, 1856, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Detweiler) Moyer, and whose paternal ancestors for the three pre- ceding generations were named Christian Meyer, the first of whom is supposed to have been a native of Switzerland, from whence he fled to the Netherlands and lived for a time in Amsterdam, migrating to America soon after 1700, and settling in Lower Salford township, Montgomery county, prior to 1720. He died in 1751, leaving children : Christian. Jacob, Samuel, Elizabeth, Anna and Barbara. His son, Christian Meyer, born 1705, died 1782, had children : Christian, Jacob, Anna, Maria, Fronica, Esther, and Barbara. Christian (3d) born 1728 died 1783, married Susanna Detweiler, daughter of Jacob and Neltjen (Kolb) Detweiler, and had fourteen chil- dren, the second of whom was Jacob, the father of Susanna (Moyer) Kolb.
Henry and Susanna (Moyer) Kolb were the parents of nine children, as follows : I. Catharine, born February 3, 1708, mar- ried John Freed. 2. Jacob, born November 2, 1799, a Mennonite minister. 3. Mary, born December 10, 1801, married Peter B. Hendrick. 4. Henry, see forward. 5. Abra- ham M., born January 1I, 1806, died in Franconia, 1886. 6. Sarah, born December 8. 1808, married Joseph Swartz. 7. Will- jam, born June 14, 1811, died June 8, 1880, was a watchmaker. 8. Samuel. born No- vember 20, 1813. 9. Anna, born March 22, 1818, married Benjamin Kolb.
Henry Kolb, fourth child of Henry and Susanna, was born in Franconia, January 24. 1804. He was a farmer, and lived and died in Franconia township. He married Elizabeth Shoemaker, and had eight chil- dren: Catharine who married John C. Moyer: Jacob S .. the father of the subject of this sketch: Samuel S., of Telford; . Susanna, married Francis Frick: Henry, married Kate Ziegler, living in Franconia : Michael, living near Telford: Lizzie, mar- ried Henry Bergy; Sarah, who married Enos Moyer.
Jacob S. Kulp learned the jewelry and watchmaking trade at Salford. Montgomery county, and conducted a jewelry store at Franconia Square for twenty-five years. He still lives at Franconia Square, and con- ducts the feed. coal. hay and lumber busi- ness at Telford, Montgomery county. He married Barbara Nice. Jacob S. and Bar- bara (Nice) Kulp were the parents of five children, viz .: Amanda, wife of L. L. Horn- ing; Elias, who married Emma Nice; Liz- zie, wife of Harry Hartzell ; Kate. deceased : and Harry N., the subject of this sketch.
Mr. Kulp acquired his education at the public schools of Franconia township, Montgomery county. He was a clerk for some years in the store of Tacob C. Swart- ley, at Line Lexington, and later in the store of Henry Zeigler, at Hatfield. Montgomery county. In 1882 he removed to his pres-
ent farm in Rockhill township. He makes a specialty of the dairy business, using two- large silos for the storage of ensilage, and is one of the large milk shippers of that neighborhood. He is a member of Men- nonite Meeting, and politically is a Re- publican. He married, in 1891, Irene May Swope, daughter of Isaiah and Rebecca (Hager) Swope, of Plumstead township. Bucks county, and they are the parents of one child, Howard Russell, born May 22, 1893.
ST. JOHN W. MINTZER, M. D., born. in Philadelphia, May 10, 1834, died Decem- ber 25, 1894. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College and the University of Pennsylvania. April 16, 1861, he was ap- pointed surgeon of the Washington Brigade, and April 19, three days later, at Baltimore, Maryland, attended the first killed and wounded of the war. On May 5, 1861 he was appointed surgeon of the Twen- ty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers and also acted as surgeon of United States Volunteers, Third and Fourteenth Army Corps. He was present on duty in all the battles fought by General Hooker. com- manded by Generals McClellan and Burn- side, in the Army of the Potomac. He was acting medical inspector of the Army of the Cumberland, surgeon-in-chief command- ing the United States Army general hos- pitals at McMinnville, Tennessee; South. street, Philadelphia; Beverly, New Jersey, , and York, Pennsylvania, and surgeon-in- chief of the states of Texas, Mississippi, etc. He resigned and was mustered out June 28, 1867. He practiced medicine until. within one year of his death. June 29, 1867, Dr. Mintzer was appointed commis- sioner to the Paris Exposition by Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Mintzer married Frances M. who survives him. With her children, Watkins Franklin and Anna M., she resides. at the old colonial mansion, "China Hall." on the Upper Delaware river, near Croy- don station, which Dr. Mintzer purchased and restored in 1882.
JAMES PATTERSON, D. V. S. Any words of introduction prefixed to the name of James Patterson, of Newportville would be idle and superfluous. Dr. Patterson is a grandson of Jesse Patterson, who was born in England, and in boyhood was brought to this country by his parents, who settled in New Jersey. Subsequently Jesse Patterson moved to Bucks county, where he engaged in farming. During the war of 1812 he served in the army of his adopted country. He married Charity Barr, by whom he had two children: Jesse, men- tioned at length hereinafter: and a daugh- ter. Mrs. Patterson died in 1830, and her husband survived her but a few years.
Jesse Patterson, son of Jesse and Charity (Barr) Patterson, was born in 1810, in
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Warwick township, and on reaching man- hood went to Wrightstown, where he pur- chased a small farm which was his home for the remainder of his life. He was extremely influential in the political affairs of the township, and was elected to various offices, among them that of supervisor. Prior to 1865 he was a Democrat, but in that year associated himself with the Republicans. He and his wife were members of the So- .ciety of Friends. Mr. Patterson married Hilda Morgan, born in Bucks county, in 1820, daughter of Samuel Morgan, and their children were: Mary, born May 19, 1838; William, September 6, 1839; Lizzie, Sep- tember 19, 1841 ; James, mentioned at length hereinafter; Martha, born March 15, 1846 . Anna M., July 23. 1849; Benjamin, May II, 1851; Henry, September 4, 1857; and Amos, September 26, 1859. Mrs. Patter- son died April 1, 1884, and her husband passed away in April. 1886. Both are buried in the Friends' burying-ground in Wrights. town township.
James Patterson, son of Jesse and Hilda (Morgan) Patterson, was born June 19. 1843, in Wrightstown township, and until he was fourteen years of age attended the common schools. He then began to work for the neighboring farmers, but still found time to prosecute his studies. In 1864 he enlisted in Company H, Fifth Regiment. Pennsylvania Volunteer .Cavalry, and served until the close of the war. His regiment was immediately sent to the front under the command of General Butler, and participated in many engagements, chief among which were Fort Fisher, South Side Railroad, Petersburg and Richmond. At the battle of Five Forks. April 2, 1865, Mr. Patterson narrowly escaped death by a ball from the gun of a sharpshooter, which passed through his right arm, penetrating his body within an inch of his heart, and lodged in a book which he carried in the pocket of his blouse. He was taken to the Fairmount Hospital, near Washington, and notwithstanding the fact that small hopes were entertained of his recovery he was able to return home by May 26, that being the day on which he received his discharge. The book and bullet are now in his pos- session and will be preserved by his de- scendants as priceless relics. Upon his com- plete recovery Mr. Patterson engaged in farming until 1875, when he entered the School of Veterinary Surgery at Trenton. New Jersey, and after a complete course graduated in 1878. He immediately began the practice of his profession in Newport- ville, and two years later purchased the es- tate of two hundred and eighty-five acres where he has since lived and had his office. His patronage is both select and extensive. For several years he had full charge, in his line, of all the stock on the Drexel School Farm, and purchased all the horses and cows for that establishment. Dr. Pat- terson's interest in public affairs has always been keen and active and he has been chosen by his fellow-citizens to fill many offices of
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trust. For nine years he served as school director, and at one time was a member of the Bristol township Republican committee. He has also acted as delegate to many con- ventions. In 1894 he was elected to the State legislature, and was re-elected in 1896. During his first term he served on the fol- lowing committees: city passenger rail- ways, corporations, and comparing bills. In his second year, in addition to serving on these committees, he was a member of the committee on military affairs. He was in- terested in defeating the bill for a bridge to span the Delaware river between Bristol and Burlington. In 1899 he was deputy internal revenue collector for Bucks county, serving about two years. In March, 1903, he was appointed by John C. Delaney to the office of factory inspector and is still serv- ing in that position. He is a member of Captain H. Clay Beatty Post, No. 73, G. A. R., of Bristol, and of Bristol Lodge, No. 25. F. and A. M. He is also an ex- member of Hulmesville Lodge, I. O. O. F., and was one of the organizers of the Bris- tol Driving Association, to which he still belongs.
Dr. Patterson married, March 17, 1867. Elizabeth Wright, and they are the parents of the following children: Lillian Bertha, who was born October 7, 1868, and is the wife of Isaac Chapman Cooper, of North- ampton county ; Marie Wright, who was born July 25, 1871, was married, July 31, 1897, to John Gyger Embree, of West Ches ter, and has two children, John Harola. born May 7, 1898, and James Newlin, born February 1, 1902: Charles Rhodes, who was born January 6, 1878; and Alice Taylor, who was born April 17, 1883. Mrs. Pat- terson comes, like her husband, of English ancestry. She a granddaughter of Joshua Wright, who was a farmer in Bucks county, and married Beersheba Rue, by whom he had a family of eleven children, of. whom Charles Rhodes Wright was the second and was also a farmer. He mar- ried Maria Vanzant, also a native of Bucks county, and they were the parents of a daughter, Elizabeth, who became the wife of James Patterson, as mentioned above. Mr. Wright, in his latter years, by reason of failing health, retired from active labor, and moved to Bristol, where his death occurred February 17, 1885. Mrs. Wright died August 6, 1901.
JESSE C. EVERITT, clerk of the or- phans' court of the county of Bucks, was born in Middletown. Bucks county. Pennsylvania, October 24. 1866, and is a son of the late David P. and Hannah M. (Vandegrift) Everitt.
Ezekiel Everitt, the great-great-grand- father of Mr. Everitt, came to Bucks county about the close of the revolution- ary war, from Hunterdon county, New Jersey, where, and in the adjoining part of New Jersey, his ancestors had prob-
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ably been residents for two or three generations. The first of the name of whom we have any record was Edward Everett, "of St. Saviour's, Southwark, Surrey, England, Shipper," who came to New Jersey and purchased on July 23, 1681, a tract of land in Gloucester county, East Jersey, opposite Philadel- phia, a part of which he and his wife Mary conveyed to Richard Wall, Decem- ber 9, 1681. No probate record is found on his estate, and there is no proof that he was the ancestor of the family of Everitt who later settled in Middlesex and Hunterdon counties, New Jersey. and were the direct ancestors of the sub- ject of this sketch. Nicholas Everitt, of Hopewell, Hunterdon county, died in 1723, intestate, and letters of adminis- tration were granted on his estate to his widow Phebe. He was probably the father of Benjamin, who died at Maiden- head in 1760: William, of Kingwood; John, of Bethlehem, who died 1756; and possibly also of Ezekiel Everitt, who died in Middlesex county, in 1795. Will- iam Everitt purchased land in Hunter- don county in 1753, and died there in 1782, letters of administration being granted to his son Samuel. who died in December, 1783. The similarity of the names of the children of the Everitts above named indicates that they were all of the family.
The first record we have of Ezekiel Everitt, the ancestor of the Bucks county family, is in 1784 when, with Benjamin Doughty, of Hunterdon county, he ad- vertises for information in reference to a span of horses stolen from his late resi- dence in Ulster county, New York. At about this date he came to Bucks county, and was engaged in the milling business on the Neshaminy in Middletown, and in 1789 purchased lots in the present limits of the borough of Langhorne. He later purchased a farm of eighty acres on Core Creek near Jenks' Mill, and sev- eral other tracts of land in Middletown. About 1810 he removed to Tinicum town- ship, Bucks county, where he purchased a farm of ninety-eight acres, but soon after removed to Amwell township, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, where he lived until his death, about May 1, 1829. He was twice married; his first wife and the mother of his children was Mary. About the time of his removal to New Jersey he married a second wife, Abigail, who survived him. His children were: Jacob, Epenetes; Aaron; Moses; Will- iam; David; Ezekiel; Rachel, wife of William Tomlinson, of Middletown; Mary Quick, and Elizabeth Bonham ; Jacob died in Middletown, in 1832, on land devised to him by his father.
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