History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Part 212

Author: Bean, Theodore Weber, 1833-1891, [from old catalog] ed; Buck, William J. (William Joseph), 1825-1901
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1534

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Although this subject has been lengthened beyond what was contemplated, there is much unsaid respect- ing Horseheaven. Many a ramble during the heats of summer has been taken over its summit while the cool and invigorating breezes were playing around. Often, too, in early spring have the swelling buds and blossoms been impatiently watched while meditating on the resumption of their foliage. Again in autumn would be observed their various hues and the depar-

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ture of their foliage as they stood at last divested of their summer robes. But, like ourselves, Horseheaven is getting older and changed; his top, though it was onee well covered, is getting bald, the furrows on his brow are becoming numerous and deeper, and his for- mer life is imperceptibly leaving him. Across his northern slope, since 1882, the iron horse prances, and his shrill stortings betoken the changes of time.

ASSESSMENT OF MORELAND FOR 1776.

John Swift, assessor, and John Wynkoop, collector.

Jacob Rush, 25 acres, 2 horses, 3 cows ; Sanmel Shoemaker, tanner, 75 a., and tan-yard, 4 h., 2c. ; John Gilbert, 77 a., I negro, 2 h., 3 c., a cripple ; Isaac Bond, 3 a. ; Peter Bowman, 1 h., 1 c. ; John Tompkins, inn-keeper, 1 h., 2 c .; Jacob Tompkins, shop-keeper, 56 a., 2 h., 3 c. ; David Marpole, 98 a., 2 h., 3 c. ; Enoch Marpole, 1 h. ; Clement Dungan, doctor, 1 servant, 3 h., 3 c. ; Samuel Irwin, Esq., 200a., 1 negro, + h., 5 c. ; Andrew Van Buskirk, 140 a., 1 negro, 2 h., 4 c. ; William Sront, 9 a., 1 h., 2 c., infirm ; Joseph Bond, 3 h., 4 c. ; George Shillets, John Dor- land, 1 c. ; Isaac Boileau, 200 a., I negro, $ h., 8 c. ; John Fisher, 1 c. ; Michael Riderpoke, 15 a., 1 servant, 3 h., 4 c. ; John Rhode, 1 servant, 2 h., 3 c. ; l'eter Souerman ; George Foster, 2 h., 3 c. ; Lawrence Sent- man, 100 a., 1 servant, 4 h., 5c. ; Mary Kirk, widow, 80 a., 1 h., 1 c. ; Nathaniel Sands, 3 h., 3 c. ; John Wynkoop, 212 a., 1 negro, 5 h., 5 c. ; Garret Van Buskirk, 186 a., 4 h., 5 c. ; John Hogeland, 1 negro, 260 a., + h., 5 c. ; Thomas Walton, 100 a., 2 h., 3 c., obland decrepid ; Nathaniel Walton, 30 a., 2 h., 1 c. ; John Heet, 3 h., Fc. ; John Blacklye, 140 a., 1 servant, 3 h., 3 e .; John Lewis, le .; Jonathan Clayton, 150 a., 5 h., 5 c. ; Richard Corson, 20 a., 1 negro, 2 h., 4 c. ; James Dyer, 253 a., 3 h., 4 c. ; Joseph Lewis, 1 h. ; John Lloyd, 150 a., 1 h., 9 c .; Benjamin Lloyd, 1 h. ; Samuel Lloyd, 4 h., 1 c. ; Thomas Lloyd, Sr., Th. ; Esther Perry, widow, 60 a., 1 h., 2 c. ; David Perry, 36 n., 2 b , 2 r., 1 negro ; Samuel Shoemaker, mason, 100 a., 4 h., 4 c. ; Jeremiah Walton, 48 n., 2 h., 2 c. ; John More, 1 h., 1 c. ; Elward Eaton, 44 n., 2 h., 2 r. ; Wil- liam Folwell, 190 a., 1 negro, 3 h., 5 c. ; Joseph Folwell, 2h., 3c. ; Mor- ! decai Thomas, smith, 90 a., 3 h., 3 c. : Isaac Longstreth, tanner, ? a., 2 h., 1 c. ; John Engle, 2 h., 2 c .; John Sommers, DS a., 2 servants, 3 h., 5 c. ; Abel Walton, 33 a., 1 h., 2 c. ; Henry Walton, 67 a., 2 h., Ir. . John Vanhorn, I c. ; Nicholas Randal, 5 h., 5c. ; C'omly Randal, 1 h. : Peter Vanhorn, 1 h., 1c. ; Jacob Comly, inn-keeper, 18a., 2h., 2 c. ; Joseph Comly, 100 a., 2 h., 2 c. ; John Swift, 205 a., I servant, 1 negro, 1 h., 7 c. ; Samuel Swift, doctor, 150 a., 2 negroes, 4 h., 7 c. ; Samuel Swift, Jr., 100 a., 2 h., 2 c. ; Daniel Street, 1 c. : John Blake, joiner, 26 a., 1 h., 2 c. ; Jolin Burk, 1 servant ; Allwertson Walton, 70 a., 1 h., 4 c. ; Philip Crips, cooper, 4n., 1 c. ; James Willard, 4 a., I h., 1 c. ; Derrick Krew - BOD, 4 L., 4 c. ; William Tillyer, 200 a., 1 negro, 5 h., ar. ; Peter Stick- ler, 52 a., in Lower Dublin ; Isaac Stoltz, mason, I c. ; Rachel Robert- son, 70a., 1 h., 2r. ; Abraham Lewis : John Boucher, 200 a., 5 h., 4c. ; Joseph Boucher, 2 h., 2 c. ; Samuel Boucher, 200 a., 2 negroes, 3 h .. & c. ; William Roberts, 200 a., 1 h., 1 c. ; William Roberts, Jr., 11 a., 1 negro, 3 h., 3c. ; Thomas King, 47 a., 2 h., 1 c., has eight chibiren ; Timothy Roberts, 1 negro, 3 h., 3 c. ; Jacob Johnson, 1 c. ; James Mc Gill, 4 a., 1 c. ; Elias Yerkes, 1 h., 2 c. ; Bernard Hleman, 2 h., 3 c. ; Jawies Harker, 1 c. ; Casper Taylor ; Thomas Austin, 140 a., 3 h., 4 :. , grist-mill ; Isaac Cadwallader, smith, 70 a., 3 h., 3 c. ; Moses Vanrourt, inn-keeper, 120 a., 4 h., 5 c .; Daniel Vancourt ; Sammel Ayers, 4 a., 1 h., 2 c. ; Isaac Roh- erts, 30 a., 2 h .. 2 c. ; Elisha Thomas ; Abel Marpole, I h., 1 c. : faster Fetters, 250 a., 1 negro, 5 h., & c. ; Anthony Yerkes, 230 a , 3 h., 7 c., son a cripple ; Jacob Yerkes, 1 h., 1 e. ; Anthony Yerkes, Jr., 2 h .. 2c. ; Anthony MeNeal, 50 a., 2 h., 2 c. ; Jacob Spencer, 147 a., 3h., 4 c. ; C'aleb Davis, 55 a., 1 h., 2 #: , 7 children ; John Morgan, 1 h., 1 c. ; Jarret Spencer, 70 a., 1 h., 2 c. ; Thomas Hallowell, 125 a., 3 h., & c .; Jacob Dubree, 39 a., 2 h., 2 c .; William Dubree, 2 c. ; Anke Boileau, 2 c .; Daniel Ragen, 47 a., 2 h .. 2 c., a grist-mill ; Alexander Maris, 4 h. ; Benjamin Tomlinson, 1 c. ; Robert Barnes, 75 a., I negro, 1 h. ; Jere- miah Walton, 188 a., 3 h., + c. ; Rachel Thubree, widow, 1 c. ; Abraham Bennet, 2 h., 2 c. ; William Shoemaker, 119 a., 3 h., 3 c. ; Colin McSwine, 100 a., 1 servant, 1 h., 2 c. ; Joseph Hart, Esq., 40 n., 2 c., grist-mill ; Josiah Yerkes, 6 a., 2 h., 2 c. ; Silas Yerkes, 100 a., 3 b., 5 c., grist.mill, 9 children and I idiot ; John Nesmith, 60 a., 2 h., 2c., grist and saw- mill ; William Patterson ; Bobert Little, 25 a., 1c. ; John Kennedy ; William Littleton, 200 a., I negro, 4 h., 7 c. ; Elias Yerkes, 150 a., 4 h., 5 c. ; Joseph Butler, 2 h., 2 c. ; Thomas Michenor, 160 a., 2 1., 4 c. ; Thomas Walton, 220 a., 3 1., 5 c .; John Wood, 90n., 1 h., 2c. ; Thomas

Wood, 100 a., 2 1., 3 c. ; Stephen Yerkes, 150 a., 4 h., 4 c. ; David Fulton, 20 a., 2 h., 2 c., grist-mill ; Sarah Janes, willow, 88 a., 2 h., 2c. ; John Ramsey, 40 a., 2 h., 2 c. ; John Ledyard, 60 a., 2 h., 3 c. ; Thomas Led- yard, 40 a., 1 h., 2c .; John Cook, enlisted ; John Foster ; James Fulton, 24 a., 1 h., 1c. ; Daniel Boileau, 57 »., 2 h., 5c. ; Jacob Janes, 148 a., 3 h., 4 c. ; Garret Wynkoop, 340 a., 1 negro, 4 h., 5 c. ; Joseph Keen, Joshua Comly, 125 a., 2 h., 5 c. ; Jonathan Comly, 105 a., 3 h., 3 c. : John Lufboro, 130 a., 1 negro, 3 h., 4 c. ; Joseph Foster ; Daniel Thomas, 73 a., 1 negro, 2 1., 2 c. ; Jesss Edwards ; Thomas Lloyd, Jr., joiner, 20 a., 2 h., 3 c. ; David Hallowell ; Matthew Hallowell ; Henry Brous, 1 h., L c. ; James Vansant, 21 a., 2h., 2 c. ; Ilezekich Vansant, 2 a., 1 c. ; George George ; Charles Heterich, I h., 3 c. ; William ('ollins, 28 a. ; Jacob Tim- brel, 1 h., 1 c. ; Thomas Doughty, Ih. ; Lambert Dorland, 2 a. ; Thomas Pennington, 130 a., 4 h., 7c. ; Jonathan Martin ; Cornelius Daily, 3 h., 2 c. ; Lawrence Loudenberger, 1 h., 2 c. ; Joseph Comely, 1 c .; Robert Field, turner, 1 h., 1 c. ; Abel Fitzwater, I b., I c .; William Lukene, John Jones, 2 b., 1 c. ; Charles Mc Vaugh, 1 c. ; Thomas Boor ; John lillings ; George Trunk, 1 h., 1 c. ; Joseph Duffield, 46 a., 2 h., I c. ; Isaac Dorland, William Walton, 5 h., 3 c. ; Henry Murfits, 1 h., 1 c. ; William Walton ; Anthony Ships; Jacob Warner ; Jacob Vanpelt ; Isaac Warner, 19 a., 2 h., 2 c., grist and saw-mill ; Joseph Mitchell, 80 a., 2 h., 2 c. ; Thomas Mitchell ; Jonathan Richardson, 1 h., I c. ; James Craven, 70 a., 1 h., 2 c. ; Richard Whitton, 163 a., 3 h., 2 c. ; Paul Rust, 2 h., 2 c. ; Jolin Mccullough : Stephen Love, mason ; Edward Barnes ; William Williamson ; Andrew Bartle ; Joseph Brooks, 1 c. ; James Watkins, Ed- ward Duffield, 500 a., 1 servant, 1 negro, 2 h., 4 c. ; William Purdy, Henry Deshong, I servant, 2 h., 3 c. ; Michael Warner ; George Nevil, 1 h. ; Ungh Mcf'Iure, William McNerl. Single Men .- John Erwin, George Patrick, William Gilbert, Jonathan Gilbert, John Gilbert, Thomas Nixon, Jacob Marpole, Isuwe Marpole, Yost Van Buskirk, John Van Buskirk, Joseph Dyer, Thomas Perry, Peter Shoemaker, Edward Farmer, William Adams, Periden Ernst Peterson, James Street, Benja- min Heaton, Alexander Burk, Derrick Krewson, John Boucher, Jr. John Murray, John Mc Ginnes, Robert Austin, George Stoneback, Josiah Hart, Harman Yerkes, John Davis, Nicholas Austin.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

JOHN WALTON.

Jahn Walton was born September 10, 1796, and at a very early period in life was left an orphan, and went to live with an uncle, Samuel Walton, one of the pioneers of what is now Montgomery County. Of his early life but little, if anything, of interest is known beyond the fact that he was industrions, and his moral and upright bearing a model for other young nien. Dependent entirely upon his own resources, he started out to fight the battles of life, and by his indom- itable energy overcame obstacles that to a less courage- ous nature would have been insurmountable.

In 1831 he purchased of James Comly the farm and merchant mill owned by him at his death. The mill was known throughout this vicinity as "Walton's Mill," and the farm, for the beauty and picturesqueness of the location of the old mansion, was, and is still known by the name of "Hill's Highlands." This farmand mill lot was formerly a part of a grant of land from William Penn, to Nicolas More, and by him named the "Manor of Moreland," from which the present township of Moreland derived its name. This grant was made October 17, 1681. June 7, 1684, William Penn, for reasons not known, made a second grant to Nicolas More, of nine thousand eight hundred and fifteen acres of land, as a part of

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the ten thousand acre traet. Probably a shortage was found when the survey was made.

The next owner of the tract was Samuel, son of Nicolas More, and one of six heirs. November 6, 1694, Samiel More empowered his father-in-law, John Holmes, to sell so much of the estate as would pay his debts, and in the same year (1694) bequeathed to his brother Nieolas and sister Sarah the balanee of his property. Sarah married Richard Hill, Sr., and in 1713, Nicolas More transferred all his right in the estate to Riehard IIill, Sr.

In 1729, Richard Hill, Sr., bequeathed the property to Richard Hill, Jr., and in 1749, Richard Hill, Jr.,

ages, having stood for nearly or quite a century, when, in 1849, Mr. Walton removed the old house, and in 1849-50 erected the present stately mansion, where he so pleasantly spent the remainder of his days. In 1851 he rebuilt the grist-mill.

Of Mr. Walton's career a friend who knew him well thus writes: "Every year of his long life was spent in our midst,-an open book which all might read ; no obscure passages nor sealed pages to kindle doubt or arouse distrust ; and it has been the priv- ilege of few men to win true affeetion and esteem from their immediate associates.

"Square-dealing and sincere, genial and generous, his

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transferred sixty-one acres to Thomas Austin. Upon personal integrity and warm social qualities awakened this sixty-one acres was the old manor-house, known ! and held the respect and friendship of two generations. as " Hill's Highlands."

November 13, 1747, Samuel Butcher and wife sold to this same Thomas Austin a part of their three bundred and fifty acre tract, and Thomas Austin (who was Mrs. Walton's great-unele) sold to Joshua Comly, who bequeathed the same to his son, James Comly, and he subsequently sold the same to John Walton, the subject of this sketch.

The old mansion or farm-house stood just on the brow of the hill, partly in front of the present dwell- iug. It was one of those quaint old relies of past | native vale.

"Publie-spirited and progressive, he was elosely identified with the development and improvement of his neighborhood.

"Often the projector and always the earnest advocate of every worthy enterprise tending to promote its growth and advancement, he never failed to con- tribute material assistance, not only of his time and means, but no less by the inspiration of his enthusi- asm and the confidence infused by his clear discern- ment and firm faith in the future possibilities of his

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" Notwithstanding the engrossing nature of his business, his mind and hands were never so fully oceu- pied with selfish interests but he found time to remember his neighbor; to respond to every appeal, to visit him in sickness and distress; to honor his inanimate form with the last tribute of respect. Positive in his opinions, true in purpose, unfaltering and steadfast in right, he has gone to receive the re- ward of those faithful servants who have been true to their trust of life."

In religious affairs Mr. Walton was a Friend, and in politics a Henry Clay Whig. In business habits he was ever zealous in the performance of every con-

The first record we have of any of that name is of Anthony Woodward (2nd), who, in some deeds dated as early as 1725, is styled "Yeoman," and in others "Gentleman." He located near Bordentown, N. J., and died in October, 1784, leaving five sons,- Israel, Anthony, Thomas, Joseph, George, and a daugliter, Margaret. Of these sons, Anthony was the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketeli, and married Deborah Williams, of Shrewsbury, N. J. George, a son of the last-named Anthony, was born in 1744, and died December 25, 1817, aged seventy- three years. lle married Margaret Mount in 1777. She was born near Middletown, Monmouth Co.,

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tract, whether verbal or written, and until within a year of his death was actively engaged in the trans- action of his every-day affairs. He was married, Third Month 8, 1832, to Miss Sarah, daughter of Elisha Thomas and grand-daughter of Joshua Comly. She was connected also with the pioneer Austin family, of | of the charges against him, he having married con- what is now Huntingdon Valley. Mr. Walton died Fifth Month 26, 1884, the result of an accident. Mrs. Walton died Ninth Month 29, 1872. They were the parents of six children,-Mary ( died in January, 1835,) Eliza C., Charles, Susan O., Anna F. and Henry Clay.

MAJOR EVAN M. WOODWARD.

Major Evan M. Woodward is a descendant of the Woodward family, who first settled in New Jersey.

N. J., in 1756, and died at White Hill, on the Delaware, May 4, 1830, aged seventy-four years. Of this marriage we find the following minute in the Friends' record : Fourth Month 5, 1781, "The friends appointed report they informed George Woodward

trary to Discipline to a woman not in membership with us; the said friends informed he was married by a priest, therefore this meeting disowns him, the said George Woodward, from being a member of our religious society, until he comes to a sense of his errors and condemns the same as Discipline directs."

This Margaret Mount was of a patriotie family, not less than fifteen of her relations serving in the Revo- lutionary war. Her brother, Colonel Timothy Mount,

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was one of Washington's most trusted confidential agents, he receiving from him a letter stating he had " rendered most important services in the cause," in recognition of which Congress granted him a large tract of land in Ohio.

It is traditional of Colonel Mount that he formed a daring plot to seize General Arnold in New York and carry him into our lines. For this purpose he en- ' tered the city in disguise, and obtained a situation as bar-tender at the tavern frequented by the general and other British officers. Two nights were fixed pon to carry the scheme into execution, his confede- rates, shoremen from Monmouth County, N. J., coming over iu a large and swift barge to assist and carry the prisoner across the bay. A dinner-party upon one occasion and a severe storm upon another frustrated their designs.

The country around Middletown and Shrewsbury was filled with partisans, with Tories and Whigs, active and bitter in their hostilities. The patriots were continually receiving information ofthe British, and suspicion was created that Margaret Mount was one of the mediums through which it was conveyed. One night a party of British and Tory horsemeu went to her father's house, searched her bed and discovered a letter she was to deliver to the patriots the next morning. She and the young lady friend who brought the letter were taken prisoners and carried away. The next night they escaped from the house in which they were confined, and concealing them- selves in a corn-field, eluded the pursuit of the Brit- ish cavalry. Margaret, fearing to return home, was concealed by her friends till the enemy left the country. It was during this period that she met her future husband, George Woodward,

They had children,-Lydia, who married William Woodhouse, a merchant of Philadelphia; Margaret, who married Jacob Sebohm, also a merchant of that city ; and George.

Of these children, George moved to Moreland township, Montgomery Co., where he married Marga- ret Wynkoop, and in 1854 went to Kansas, where he was killed. The sons of George and Margaret were Timothy M., who lives in Philadelphia ; Charles, a resident of Philadelphia; James, resides in Camden, N. J .; Wynkoop, deceased; Martha; Mary ; Rebecca Anna; Anna, who married William Schall- cross, of Maryland; and Evan M., who was born March 16, 1813, on the old homestead, which he now owns, adjoining the one upon which he lives.

Besides attending to the duties pertaining to a large plantation, Major Woodward (ashe is popularly known) has visited several of the States of the Union and thus become conversant with the prominent men

of the country, and familiar with all the prominent points of interest. He is also the owner of two tracts of land, of twelve hundred aeres each, in Mecklenburg County, Va. Since Major Woodward attained his majority he has been prominently identified with all the progressive movements of his township. Politi- cally he was a Henry Clay Whig, then a Douglas Democrat, and both during and since the war of 1861 -65, has been a stanch and unyielding Republican, several times leading a forlorn hope as its standard- bearer in legislative contests. He has been honored by his townsmen with official positions, and for twenty years with that of justice of the peace.

He was married, March 7, 1838, to Miss Margaret Snyder, who was born May 6, 1814, in Montgomery Connty. They are the parents of two children,- Sarah S., born November 18, 1839, died March 5, 1841; Harrison, born January 20, 1842. Harrison's life thus far has been spent upon the old homestead, except that portion spent at Eastman's Business Col- lege, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., from which institution he graduated April 9, 1864. He has also taken a promi- nent part in the politics of the township, and was elected by the Republicans, in the spring of 1882, to the office of justice of the peace for a term of five years. He was married, January 5, 1870, to Miss Rebecca A. Clayton, of Montgomery County. The result of this union has been four children,-Clara, born July 18, 1871, died April 10, 1879; Mary Eliza- beth, born August 4, 1873; Justus C., horn August 26, 1876, died March 10, 1879; Frank H., born April 2, 1880.

JEREMIAH BERRELL LARZELERE.

Jeremiah Borrell Larzelere, of Moreland township, Montgomery Co., comes of Huguenot stock. The famous Edict of Nantes, signed by Henry IV., of France, April, 1598, gave religious freedom to all parties. Eighty-seven years later Louis XIV., for political reasons, revoked it, October 22, 1685, and by the persecutions which followed France lost a half- million of her best and sturdiest citizens. They fled to Germany, England, Scotland and North Ireland. Many families came to the colony of South Carolina, and from these Huguenots the South Carolinians in- herited largely their intelligence, wealth, dauntless courage and political power. Both Calhoun and Hayne were of Huguenot blood.

The whole life of Evan M., except a few short in- | entions of France in the latter part of the seventeenth tervals, has thus far been spent upon these two farms, pleasantly located on the table-land, about two miles west from Somerton Station, on the Bound Brook Brauch of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.

Among the Huguenot pilgrims who fled the perse- century were Nicholas and John Larzelere, who set- tled on Long Island. Nicholas subsequently moved to Staten Island, where he married and raised a family of four children ; two sons, Nicholas and John, and two daughters. In 1741, Nicholas, the young- er, moved with his family to Bucks County, Pa., and settled in Lower Makefield township. He raised eight chiklren, died at the age of eighty-four,

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and was buried in the Episcopal graveyard at Bristol. The eldest son of the second Nicholas was also named' Nicholas, and was born on Staten Island in 1734. He married Hannah Britton, of Bristol township, and moved into Bensalem, where he owned a large estate, and raised a family of ten children ; he fought in the Revolution and died at the age of eighty-four. Ben- jamin, the eldest son, married Sarah Brown, of Bris- tol, moved into that township, had eight children and died at eighty-four. Part of Bristol is built on his farm.

The eldest son of Benjamin was Nicholas, who was

dence in Ohio, has always lived in Montgomery County. In 1858 he married Elmina, daughter of James Lovett, of Doylestown, Bucks Co., who died in 1874, and in 1876 he was again married, to Carrie E., daughter of Dilworth Wentz, late of Philadelphia, deceased. He had a family of seven children, all of whom are living save one.

Inheriting the strength and health of his ancestors, he is now in the prime of life and in the midst of a busy and aetive career. At the age of eighteen he taught school in Horsham. United with his large agricultural interests, he has for many years been ex-

the father of the subject of the present sketch. Nicho- las married Esther, daughter of Col. Jeremiah Berrell, of Abington, and moved into that township about the | year 1825, and lived in that township and Moreland the balance of his life. He reared a family of twelve children, all of whom are living excepting one. Nicholas died in the year 1858, at the age of sixty-seven, and was buried at the Presbyterian graveyard at Abington. His widow still survives him at the advanced age of eighty-two.

Jeremiah was the third son of Nicholas, and was born in 1828, and, with the exception of a short resi-

tensively engaged in the shipment and sale of live- stock from the Western States. Among the projectors of the North East Pennsylvania Railroad, which was opened in 1870, he became a director, and remained such until it passed by lease into the possession of the Reading Railroad. The position of school and bank director he has held for years.

Notwithstanding the taxation of his energies in i business, he has always found time to take an active part in politics, and is naturally fond of a contest for honors. A pupil of the old Jeffersonian school of politics, he has, nevertheless, kept abreast with the

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advanced and progressive ideas of the better element of his party. In 1871, selected as the candidate of his party for sheriff, he was elected by upwards of a thou- sand majority, and received the highest number of votes on the ticket. This office he held from January, 1872, until January, 1875, and administered its ardu- ons and responsible duties to the eminent satisfaction of all. It may be said that in disposition, generous and benevolent, he has endeared himself to many, who, in darkest hours, have found in him the friend they needed. No higher test of character is re- quired than the esteem in which one is held by his neighbors.

his son, John J., where he died December 22, 1856. His wife, born May 5, 1781, and died June 26, 1867, was Mary, daughter of the late William Jarrett, of Horsham township. Mr. Hallowell was, for over half a century, proprietor of the Pennypack Mills, and was well and favorably known for his uprightness of character and fair dealing with his fellow-men. His heart and hand were always open to the demands of charity. He died as he had lived, a purely Christian gentleman, loved while he lived, and by all who knew him mourned in death. He was the father of a highly- respected family, who are following elosely in the path of Christian duty marked out by their honored sire.

Jonas th. Hallowell

THE HALLOWELL FAMILY.

The Hallowell family was among the pioneer set- tlers along the Pennypack Valley, locating at what | elder in that society.

is now known as the Pennypack Mills, Abington town- ship, in the early part of the last century. At that place was born, in 1777, Israel Hallowell, father of Jonas W., of Huntingdon Valley; John J. and W. Jarrett, of Pennypack Mills, also of the late Israel Hallowell, Jr. Mr. Hallowell, Sr., grew to manhood on the old homestead, became the owner of the mills. and lived, until within a few years of his death, in the house where he was born. A few years prior to his death he removed to the dwelling now occupied by

He was all his life a member of Abington Friends' Meeting, and during the latter part of his life an

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History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Part 212

Author: Bean, Theodore Weber, 1833-1891, [from old catalog] ed; Buck, William J. (William Joseph), 1825-1901 Publication date: 1884 Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Peck Number of Pages: 1534

Author: Bean, Theodore Weber, 1833-1891, [from old catalog] ed; Buck, William J. (William Joseph), 1825-1901
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1534