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Nicholas Larzelere, son of above, born in Richmond county, Staten Island, pur- chased May 16, 1740, two tracts of land ag- gregating 264 acres in Lower Makefield township, Bucks county, and settled there- on, his residence as given in the deed of the above date being "of the County or Richmond, Stratton Island, in the Province of New York." He later purchased several other tracts of land in Lower Makefield, where he died in 1799. The name of his first wife and mother of his children has not been ascertained. He married about 1766 Sarah DePuy, a widow with several children, who died in 1791. The children of Nicholas Larzelere were: Nicholas; John, who married Margaret Van Horn in 1768; Catharine, who married Moses La- Rue in 1767; Esther, who married Rich- ard Mitchell in 1771; Anne, married Cor- nelius Vansant; Mary, who married George Appleton; Elizabeth, who married John Cape; and Margaret married - John- Son.
Nicholas Larzelere, eldest son of the above named Nicholas, married Hannah Brittain, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Johnson ) Brittain, of Philadelphia, and settled on land devised to Hannah by her father in Bensalem township, opposite
Hulmeville. Benjamin Brittain was a grand- son of Nathaniel Brittian, an early Eng- lish settler on Long Island, who married Anna, daughter of Nicholas Stillwell in 1660, and settled on Staten Island in 1664. The children of Nicholas and Hannah ( Brittain) Larzelere were: Benjamin (see forward) ; Nicholas; John; Abraham; Brit- ton; Mary, married Nicholas Vansandt ; Elizabeth, married Asa Sutton ; Sarah, mar- ried Andrew Gilkeson; Hannah, married Thomas Rue; Ann, married John Thomp- son, and Margaret. Nicholas and Hannah Larzelere both died prior to 1818.
Benjamin Larzelere married Sarah Brown, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Higgs) Brown, of Bristol township. Jo- seph Brown was a son of Thomas Brown, and a grandson of George and Mercy Brown, who emigrated from England, land- ing at New Castle in 1679, and settling in Falls township, Bucks county. Joseph Brown died in Bristol township in April, 1796, and his land, a farm of 117 acres, was conveyed to Benjamin and Sarah Lar- zelere in 1802, through proceedings in par- tition. Here Benjamin Larzelere and his wife lived and died. Their children were: Joseph; Nicholas; Benjamin; William, (see forward) ; Ann, died unmarried ; Mary, died unmarried January 18, 1879; Hannah, married James Harrison; Eliza- beth, married Richardson. Sarah (Brown) Larzelere died March 1, 1839, and her husband, Benjamin Larzelere, died September 7, 1850.
William Larzelere, fifth son of Benja- min and Sarah (Brown) Larzelere, born January 24, 1809, married January 22, 1852, Anna Maria Antrim, daughter of Thomas Antrim, and settled in Bristol township, Bucks county, where he died January 18, 1889, leaving two sons, Benjamin and Frederick, and a daughter Sarah, wife of John Tomlinson. Mrs. Lazelere died in 1885.
Benjamin Larzelere, the subject of this sketch, is the eldest son of William and Anna Maria (Antrim) Larzelere, and was born in Bristol township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1854. He re- ceived his education at the private school of Hannah Coleman, Pierce's Boarding School at Bristol, and Bryant and Strat- ton's Business College. On arriving at manhood hie engaged in farming on his father's farm, in Bristol township, where he has since resided. He married, December 22, 1875, Sarah Jane Subers, of Emilie, Bucks county, daughter of William LaFay- ette and Elizabeth LaRue (Vansant) Su- bers. Her paternal grandparents were John and - ( Booz) Subers, and her maternal Garret and Sarah (Stevens ) Vansant. Mr. and Mrs. Larzelere are the parents of two children : Harry Shippy, born April 5, 1880, and Lily Subers, born May 3. 1882. Both these children are graduates of Bristol high school. Harry S. resides on the homestead with his parents, and assists in the management of the farm. Lily S. was
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married August 1, 1901, to Dr. John M. J. Raunick, of Harrisburg, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, class of 1900, wlio now has an extensive practice 'at Harrisburg.
AMOS TAYLOR PRAUL. Among the highly cultivated and therefore productive farms in Southampton township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, noted for their gen- eral appearance of good management and thrift, is the one owned and operated by Ainos T. Praul, who was born in that town- ship, September 4, 1849. Isaac Praul, his earliest ancestor of whom there is any au- thentic record, had children: Grace, be- came the wife of Charles Biles; Rebecca ; and John.
John Praul, only son of Isaac Praul, married Martha Tomlinson, and they reared a family of children to manhood and wo- manhood, namely : I. Isaac. 2. Thomas, married Sarah Tomlinson and by her had children : Amanda, deceased, who was the wife of Charles Eddows; Sarah, Martha, and Watson. 3. William, married Lydia Worthington, who bore him six children : Theodore, who married Jennie Jamison ; Edward; William, who married Jennie Lough; Ida, who married (first) Harry Patterson, and (second) Thomas Poinsett; Lucinda, who married Stephen Carter ; and Thomas Wrigfield, who married Ella Biles. 4. Francis, mentioned in the following par- agraph. 5. Charles, married Arnetta Tom- linson, and they were the parents of eight children : Emnor, who married Annie Stradling; William, who married Martha Barton; Augustus, who married Susan Hilliard; Albert; Mary, who became the wife of Isaac Stradling; Annie, who be- came the wife of Amos Barton; Ada, who became the wife of David Beaton, and Emma. 6. Philadelphia, who became the wife of Cornelius Bowden.
Francis Praul, son of John Praul, was born in 1819. He married Caroline Tom- linson, daughter of Amos, (born in 1786), and Sarah (Doan) Tomlinson. Caroline (Tomlinson) Praul was born May 6, 1826. Their children were : [. John Edmund, married Anna -, and two chil- dren were born to them: Alice and Caro- line. 2. Amos Taylor, born September +, 1849, mentioned in the following para- graph. 3. Albert, married Rachel Con- nell, who bore him two children: Walter and Mabel. 4. Charles Morris, married Clara Pierce and had two sons: Harold and Morris. 5. Clinton S., married Clem- entine Smack, and one child was the issue of this union, Francis. 6. Anna M., be- came the wife of Samuel Ford and their children are: Martha and Chester. 7. Mar- tha J., became the wife of David Hart and their family consists of two children, Stan- ley and Marian. 8. Emma, became the wife of Andrew Hibbs and six children were born to them.
Amos Taylor Praul, second son of Fran- cis Praul, when one year old was taken by his parents to Bensalem township and was there reared and received his early educa- tional advantages. Later he attended Friends' School at Langhorne and there completed his studies. He turned his at- tention to farming as a means of livelihood and worked on his father's farm until his marriage, after which he moved to South- ampton township, near Trevose, where he has since resided. In 1882 he purchased a tract of land consisting of ninety-five acres of arable land, on which he has since con- ducted extensive operations, producing a general line of farm products which find a ready market. Mr. Praul is a Republi- can in politics. He married Emily A. Paxson, a native of Southampton town- ship, born April 12, 1851, a daughter of Phineas and Rebecca (Tomlinson) Pax- son. One son has been the issue of this marriage, Clarance T., born December 31, 1876. He married Cora Wagner, daugh- ter of Harry Wagner, of Bethayres, Penn- sylvania, and one child was born to them, Helen E., now deceased.
GEORGE MORLEY MARSHALL, phy- sician, residing at New Hope, Bucks coun- ty, Pennsylvania, was born in Painesville, Lake county, Ohio, March 13, 1858, son of Seth and Esther Philena ( Morley ) Mar- shall. Seth Marshall was one of the early abolitionists. Like some others of strong principle and fearless at this period, he did not hesitate to imperil large business in- terests that he might protect the fugitive slaves in their flight to Canada, although it was in defiance of the law and the pro-slav- ery sentiment. His home was regarded as one of the stations on "the underground railroad." There still stands at the Marshall homestead the old barn with its massive frame of hewn timber, where many of these unfortunates were given food and shelter.
The ancestor of this family who first came to America was Thomas Marshall, one time mayor of Boston, in Lincolnshire, England. He emigrated in 1634 to Boston, Massachusetts, where he was for many years a deacon of the First Church and dean of the board of selectmen. His son, Captain Samuel Marshall, went to the de- fense of the colonies, commanding a regi- ment against the Indian conspirator King Philip, and in December, 1675, was killed while at the head of his force storming Philip's Fort, in the Great Swamp fight. For his exceptional bravery he is mentioned in Bancroft's history, Hollister's Connecti- cut, Hutchinson's Massachusetts, Drake's Indian, and other histories of that period. Thomas Marshall, next in line, married Mary Drake, of the family of Sir Fran- cis Drake. Thomas Marshall, grandson of the latter, and great-grandfather of George Morley Marshall, fought in the war of the revolution. Esther Philena (Mor-
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ley) Marshall, the mother of George Mor- ley Marshall, was descended on her pater- nal side from Abel Morley, who emigrated from England in 1650. On her maternal side she was descended from William Healy, who came with the Pilgrims and set- tled in Roxbury (afterwards Cambridge) Massachusetts.
George Morley Marshall attended the public schools of his native village and graduated from the Painesville high school in 1877. In 1877-78 he taught school while preparing for college, completing this pre- paration the following year at the Univer- sity preparatory school in Hudson. He then entered the Western Reserve University, receiving in 1883 the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Adelbert College. In the au- tumn of 1883 he entered the medical de- partment of the University of Pennsyl- vania, from which in 1886 he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Taking the competitive examination at St. Joseph's Hospital, he became the first resident phy- sician of that institution. In 1887 and 1888 he continued his medical studies at Vienna and Berlin, returning to Philadel- phia to active practice in January, 1889. In this year he was appointed attending phy- sician and laryngologist to St. Joseph's Hospital. Two years later he was also appointed laryngologist to the Philadelphia Hospital. Dr. Marshall is a member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, the American Academy of Medicine, the Amer- ican Medical Association, the Philadelphia College of Physicians and other medical organizations. He was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Western Reserve University. While independent in politics, he has in general voted with the Republi- can party. He married, June 7, 1893, at Elyria, Ohio, Harriet Putnam Ely, daugh- ter of Heman and Mary (Day) Ely, of Ely- ria, Ohio. Their children are as follows : George Morley, Jr., born in Philadelphia, March 19, 1894, died March 7, 1895; Esth- er Philena, born in Philadelphia, June 8, 1895; Harriet Ely, born in Solebury, Bucks county, September 7, 1896; Margaret Ely, born in Philadelphia, April 24, 1898; Edith Williamson, born in Solebury, August 3, 1899, died August 17, 1900; Celia Belden, born in Solebury, January 29, 1902. While residing in Philadelphia Dr. Marshall and his wife attended Calvary Presbyterian church on Locust street, but when in Bucks county they attend with interest the Friends Meeting at Solebury.
Harriet Putnam (Ely) Marshall, born in Elyria, Ohio, October 9, 1864, traces her ancestry to Nathaniel Ely, Puritan, born in Tenterden, in the county of Kent, Eng- land, in 1605, and emigrated to America in April, 1634, to escape persecution under Charles I. He settled first in Newtown (now Cambridge) Massachusetts. In June, 1636, he went with the Rev. Thomas Hook- er and about one hundred others who made the first settlement of the city of Hartford, Connecticut. In 1649 he was instrumental
in the first settlement of Norwalk, Connec- ticut. In 1659 he sold his property in Nor- walk and removed to Springfield, Massachu- setts, where the remainder of his life was spent. Springfield has since been the home of the family from generation to genera- tion. Here, as in Norwalk and Hartford, Nathaniel was called to serve the public shortly after his arrival. He was selectman in Springfield in 1661-66-68-71 and 73. He died December 25, 1675, and Martha, his wife, died in Springfield, October 23, 1688. They left two children, a son and a daugh- ter. The son Samuel married Mary, young- est daughter of Robert Day.
Justin Ely, fifth generation, was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts, August 10, 1739, and died there June 26, 1817. He graduated at Harvard College in 1759, rep- resented his town in general court of Mas- sachusetts in 1777, from 1780 to 1785, in- clusive, and from 1790 to 1797, inclusive, and was otherwise prominent in public af- fairs. During the war of the revolution he was active in aiding his country, es- pecially in the collection of men who were drafted into the service and providing for the comfort of the same and those who enlisted. He was largely interested in real estate in the states of Massachusetts, Ver- mont, and New York and the district of Maine, and was one of the original pro- prietors of the Connecticut Western Re- serve in Ohio under the Connecticut Land Company.
Heman Ely, son of Justin Ely, was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts, April 24, 1775, and died in Elyria, Ohio, February 2, 1852. He married Celia, daugh- ter of Colonel Ezekial Polter Belden. Ear- ly in the last century he became interested in the purchase of lands in central and wes- tern New York, and under his direction considerable tracts were surveyed and sold to settlers. Nearly coincident with these enterprises he entered into partnership with his brother Theodore in New York city, and was for ten years engaged in commerce with European countries and the East In- dies, and during this time be made several voyages. He was in Paris, France, from July, 1809, until April, 1810, a period when history was rapidly made. He saw in Aug- ust, 1809, the grand fete of Napoleon, with Josephine as empress, and in the evening attended a ball at the Hotel de Ville, where a cotillion was danced by a set composed of kings and queens; the following April (Josephine divorced and dethroned) he witnessed the formal entrance into Paris of the Emperor Napoleon with the Empress Maria Louise of Austria, and the religious ceremony of marriage at the chapel of the Tuilleries. In 1810 he returned to America and the following year visited Ohio, going as far as Cleveland, twenty-five miles east of his future home. The war with Eng- land made it inadvisable to open new ter- ritory in Ohio, and it was not until 1816. that he visited the land owned by his fath- er, and then known as No. 6, range 17,
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Connecticut Western Reserve. At that time he made arrangements for future settle- ment, contracting for a grist and saw mill and a log cabin. In February, 1817, ac- companied by his step-brother, Ebenezer Lane, late chief-justice of Ohio, and attend- ed by a company of skilled workmen and laborers, he left West Springfield for his future home. He called the new town Ely- ria, and from that time gave his life to the development of its resources. Hrs el- forts were not confined to his own town. He served on the state board of equaliza- tion, and from 1835 to 1845 was one of the associate judges under the old constitu- tion.
Heman Ely, son of Heman and Celia (Belden) Ely, was born in Elyria, Ohio, October 30, 1820, and died July 8, 1894, in the house where he was born. He married May 27, 1850, Mary F. Day, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Coit) Day, of Hart- ford, Connecticut. He was educated at schools in Westfield, Massachusetts, and Farmington, Connecticut. Owing to his father's failing health he gave up his con- templated college course at Yale and re- turned to Elyria. In his father's office he received a business training, particularly in the care and conveyancing of real es- tate, and soon assumed the charge of all his father's business. He assisted in the organization of the first bank in Elyria, and was chosen a director at the first elec- tion in 1847. He was successively direc- tor, vice-president and president to the time of his death. In 1852, with Judge Ebenezer Lane and others, hie secured the building of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, then known as the "Junction Railroad," from Cleveland to To- ledo. From 1870 to 1873 he was a mem- ber of the state legislature, particularly interesting himself in insurance legisla- tion, and in formation of the state insurance department. His connection with the First Congregational church Elyria was formed in 1838; he was for many years one of its officers, and for ten years served as superintendent of the Sabbath school. He was deeply interested in the advance- ment of his native town.
MOORE FAMILY. The Moores of Richland were descended from Mordecai Moore, a physician, by his first wife, his second wife being a daughter of Thomas Lloyd, well known in the early history of Pennsylvania. The son Richard married 5 mo. 27, 1709, Margaret Preston, born 1689, daughter of Samuel Preston, who was born in Patuxent, Maryland, in 1665, and became mayor of Philadelphia in 171I. Margaret Preston's mother was Rachel, daughter of the same Thomas Lloyd men- tioned above. Richard Moore was a physi- cian and merchant, and resided most of his life in Maryland. Richard had five children.
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Mordeci Moore, son of Richard, mar- ried Elizabeth Coleman and had eight chil- dren : Margaret, Mary, Richard, Samuel Preston, Rachel, Deborah, Henry and Han- nah. Mary married Jorathan Dickinson, and Hannah became the second wife of Charles Willson Peale, the famous artist. Henry, 5 mo. 29, 1753, married Priscilla Hill Jackson. His father, Mordecai, died at Montgomery Square, Pennsylvania, 7 mo. 31, 1800.
Henry Moore, son of Mordecai and Eli- zabeth, resided in Montgomery county, and afterwards in Lancaster county. They had seven children: Mordecai, Mary, Samuel Preston, Elizabeth, Milcah Martha, Rich- ard and Charles. Henry died in 1829, and his wife in 1821.
Richard Moore, of Richiland, was promi- nent in the Society of Friends, as was his son, John Jackson Moore. He was active in the anti-slavery movement, sheltering and feeding many fugitives from bondage. He married, I mo. 7, 1819, Sarah Foulke, daugh- ter of Theophilus and Hannah Foulke, as we have seen. Their children: I. John Jackson, II mo. 17, 1819, married Jane, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Warner, they having three children,-Alfred, EI- len, Arthur; 2. Hannah, 7 mo. 27. 1821, married 10 ino. 5, 1843, William M. Levick, of the Philadelphia bar, a brother of Samuel J. Levick. William died 6 mo. 10, 1874. Their children : Anna F., Elizabeth J.
EDWARD W. MAGILL, a prominent member of the Philadelphia bar, was born in Solebury township, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, January 27, 1858, and is descend- ed from early settlers in Bucks county, who have been prominent in the affairs of the county, province and state from the time of William Penn.
William Magill, his pioneer paternal an- cestor, was born in the north of Ireland, where his ancestors had been resident for several centuries, several of the nanie from Armagh, Antrim and Downs having held commissions in the army of Cromwell, and long prior to that time had held large es- tates with baronial rights. The family is said to have originated with Giolla, a grand- son of the one hundred and twenty-fourth monarch of Ireland, the name becoming anglicized into Gill, and his children be- coming known as MacGill. The name cen- turies ago came to be spelled in its present form. William Magill emigrated to Amer- ica about 1725, and about 1730 located in Solebury township, in what was then known as the Manor of Highlands, in the lower part of the township. In 1735 he became a member of Buckingham Friends' meet- ing, and married at Falls Meeting, Mary Simcock, daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Waln) Simcock, of Ridley, Chester coun- ty. Mrs. Magill's father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all successively members of provincial assembly, and the
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latter, as well as her maternal great-grand- father, was a provincial councillor. Will- iam and Sarah Simcock Magill were the parents of eight children, of whom John, the second son, born September 27, 17.10, was the great-great-grandfather of the sub- ject of this sketch. He was a farmer in Solebury and died there March II, 1814. He married in 1765, Amy Whitson, daugn. ter of David and Clemence (Powell) Whitson, both natives of Long Island, and they were the parents of six children, of whom Jacob, born November 2, 1766, died January 14, 1847, was the great-grandfath- er of Edward W. Magill. He was also a farmer in Solebury, and a member of the Society of Friends. He married Rebecca Paxson, of Solebury, and they were the parents of Jonathan P. Magill, a promi- nent Friend and Abolitionist, whose house was for many years a station of the under- ground railroad, through which many slaves found their way to freedom. Jonathan P. Magill married Mary Watson, daughter of David and Rachel (Twining) Watson, granddaughter of Joseph and Rachel ( Croasdale) Watson, great-granddaughter of Mark and Ann (Sotcher) Watson, and great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Wat- son and John Sotcher, both of whom, as well as Mark Watson, were for many years members of colonial assembly and other- wise closely associated with colonial af- fairs in the time of Penn. The children of Jonathan P. and Mary (Watson) Magill were: Sarah T .; Edward H., the distin- guished ex-president of Swarthmore Col- lege; Watson P .; Rebecca; Catharine M .; Rachel, the late wife of John S. Williams, of Solebury, and Matilda R., wife of Charles S. Atkinson, of Solebury.
Watson P. Magill, son of Jonathan and Mary, was born in Solebury and spent the greater part of his life there. He took an active part in politics, was a pioneer in the organization of the Republican party being president of the first association of that party in Solebury and New Hope, and continued to fill that position for a number of years. In 1854 he was elected to the state legislature and served one term. In 1862 he raised a company of one hundred and three men, of which he was commis. sioned captain, and which was mustere 1 into the Seventeenth Regiment Pennsyl- vania Militia at Harrisburg, and during the battle of Antietam, in September, 1862, was stationed at Hagerstown, Maryland. Again in 1863, just prior to the battle of Gettys- burg, he responded to his country's call with his company, which was incorporated in the Thirty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, as Company D. In 1868 Mr. Magill was a presidential elector on the Grant ticket. In 1875 he was appointed United States assistant internal revenue as- sessor for the fifth district, which he held for four years. In July, 1879 he was ap- pointed United States gauger and inspec- tor for the first district of Pennsylvania
and held that position until December, 1885. The later years of his life were main- ly spent in Philadelphia. He married Sep- tember, 1851, Mary W Harvey, daughter of Eli and Rachel ( Hollingsworth) Har- vey of Deleware county, Pennsylvania, and they were the parents of two children- Chalkley H., a prominent veterinarian and business man of Philadelphia, and Edward W. Magill, Esq., the subject of this sketch. Mrs. Magill died and Watson P. Magill married (second) in 1882, Elizabeth H. Moore, daughter of Francis W. and Mary (Kelley) Moore, of Philadelphia, but for- merly of Bucks county.
Edward W. Magill took up the study of law with Orlando Harvey, of Chester, Pennsylvania, in September, 1877, and in September, 1880, was admitted to the Dela- ware county bar. He entered the law department of the University of Penn- sylvania in the fall of 1879, graduating in June, 1881, and the same year was ad- mitted to the Philadelphia bar. In 1880, after being admitted to the Delaware county bar, he took up his residence in Philadelphia, and became connected with Carroll R. Will- iams, a son of John S. Williams, of Solebury township, Bucks county, and formed the firm of Magill & Williams, which continued until January 1, 1891. Mr. Magill then formed a partnership with Robert Alexander, Esq., who at an early age was a teacher in the Carversville Academy, Bucks county, and had become one of the leading members of the Philadelphia bar. This partnership under the firm name of Alexander & Magill, con- tinued until the death of Mr. Alexander in December, 1903, since which time Mr. Magill, who is an eminently successful law- yer, has continued in the practice of his profession alone. Mr. Magill married, June 14, 1888, Carrie Altemus, daughter of Francis and Martha Altemus, and a member of Phil- adelphia Friends' Meeting. To them has been born one son, Watson H. Magill. Mr. Magill resides with his family at Oak Lane, in the Forty-second ward, Philadelphia, and has a summer residence in Solebury township, near New Hope, Bucks county, the homestead of his grandfather, Jonathan Magill, and his father, Watson P. Magill.
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