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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXTY 



appointed adjunct professor of Chemistry. 

 Central High School, Pheladelphia. i868_^ 

 resident physician, Philadelphia Hospitalj 

 1868-9; lecturer on Physiology, Wagner In- 

 stitute, Philadelphia, 1868-69 Philadelphia 

 Dispensary, 1869; Lying-in Charity Hospit- 

 al, 1869; medical adviser U. S. Life Insur- 

 ance Company, 1869-73 ! Berkshire Life In- 

 surance Company. 1875 ; and practiced medi- 

 cine in Philadelphia 1S69-74. While physi- 

 cian at Philadelphia Hopsital he made orig- 

 inal discoveries in reference to trichinae. 

 He invented a plan for fireproof huilding 

 construction in 1870, and was the inventor 

 of various surgical instruments in 1868- 

 70. He was the author of about thirty pa- 

 pers and pamphlets on hygiene, biology, 

 speculative physiology, social science, vital 

 statistics, population and political economy, 

 published in medical and scientific journals 

 in this and foreign countries, from 1868 

 to 1886. These papers attracted much at- 

 tention, and some were translated, and 

 published in foreign languages, and through 

 them membership in various learned socie- 

 ties was conferred on him. and a sketch of 

 his life was published in Johnson's and 

 Appleton's Encyclopaedias, and in the En- 

 cyclopaedia Britanica. His magnus opus 

 was a bibliography of medical literature 

 of the fifteenth century, intended to be en- 

 titled ''Incunabula Medica." He had lists 

 printed of all the known medical books oj 

 that time, of which there were about 1.500, 

 and sent copies of it to public libraries 

 and private collectors all over the world, 

 with the request to mark on the list such 

 books as they had copies of. and to make 

 certain remarks about them and return the 

 lists. He also visited many important li- 

 braries and most of the famous Universi- 

 ties in France, Germany, and Italy, and mas- 

 tered the languages of these countries, mak- 

 ing eleven voyages to Europe in connection 

 with this mammoth work, and traveled 

 extensively in this country. Before his 

 death nearly all the lists sent out had been 

 returned, but he had not finished the com- 

 pilation (which, besides the matter con- 

 tained in the lists, was to include biogra- 

 phies of all the authors) when death over- 

 took him. It is to be sincerely hoped that 

 some day the work so well begun will be 

 taken up and finished. During this period 

 of his life he also gathered together a li- 

 brary on medical and related subjects es- 

 timated to contain lo.ooo titles. It was 

 his desire that this library should be kept 

 intact. I-iut leaving no will, it was sold by 

 his administrators to the College of Physi- 

 cians, who transferred about 1,900 volumes 

 to the library of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. He was much interested in local 

 history and the history of old Bucks county 

 families, and furnished considerable mater- 

 ial for Davis's "History of Bucks County," 

 first edition. 1876. In 1890 he purchased 

 a property in Ewing township, where he had 

 always retained his voting residence, and 

 named it Alillbank, and spent the remainder 

 of his life there. He also owned, with his 



brother Horace, a farm in Hopewell town- 

 ship, and a half interest in the Ewing flour 

 mill near his home. He took a deep interest 

 in that section where his boyhood was spent, 

 and devoted great efforts for work of road 

 improvements in that section, capably serv- 

 ing in the capacity of county supervisor of 

 roads. 



John Stockton Hough. M. D., as eldest 

 son, back to Richard Hough. Provincial 

 Councillor, was the head of the Hough fam- 

 ily of Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He was 

 one of the revivers of the Aryan "Order of 

 St. George, of the Holy Roman Empire in 

 the Colonies of America, which was found- 

 ed by Sir Thomas Forsythe, Viscount de 

 Fronsac, a British-American officer, with 

 the allies fighting the Revolution in France, 

 who in 1798 was given authority by Em- 

 peror Joseph II to organize the American 

 families who were descended from noble 

 European blood, or from officers holding 

 royal commissions in the colonies. A num- 

 ber of persons were admitted during the 

 early j'ears of its existence, but it was not 

 thoroughly organized until 1879. when some 

 of the members met in Boston for that pur- 

 pose, and it was more formally organized 

 in the rooms of the IMaryland Historical 

 Society. October 28, 1880. 



Dr. Stockton-Hough, as he styled himself, 

 was a member of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church, being confirmed by Bishop Stev- 

 ens in Philadelphia in 187^. He married 

 first, January 29, 1874. Sarah Macomb 

 Wetherill. daughter of Dr. William Weth- 

 erill, of Fatland. Montgomery county. Penn- 

 sylvania, a descendant of Christopher 

 Wethrul. of West Jersey, ancestor of the 

 well known Philadelphia family of that 

 name. She died in Florence, Italy, in 1875, 

 leaving an only daughter, Frances Eleanor 

 Agrippina Etrusca Hough, who was born in 

 Florence, December 30, 1874, and died un- 

 married at Millbank, April 4, 1893. Dr. 

 Hough married (second) June 30. 1887, in 

 New York City, Edith Reilly, daughter of 

 Edward and Anna Russun (Rogers) Reilly, 

 of New York. Her father was a graduate 

 of Yale, and a large mine owner in the west, 

 and her mother's ancestors were prominent 

 in Delaware and the eastern shore of Mary- 

 land. Dr. Stockton-Hough was a member 

 of the Grolier Club and University Club 

 of New York. He died at Millbank, May 

 6, 1900. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN HOUGH. 

 SECOND SON OF RICHARD AND 

 MARGERY HOUGH. 5. John Hough, 

 second son of Richard and Margery 

 (Clows) Hough, born 7 mo. 18, 1693. in- 

 herited his father's upper tract adjoining 

 the Manor of Highlands and included in 

 Upper Makefield in 1737. It comprised 359 

 acres. It is not known how he disposed 

 of it, and he left no will, and none of his 

 children are known to have resided upon 

 it in later years. It is probable that he 

 conveyed a portion of it to the Taylors, 

 his wife's brothers, as a descendant of Mah- 

 lon K. Taylor, who married Elizabeth 



