HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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Martha (Dawes) Briggs, of Newtown, 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and had issue : 

 Rebecca Jarrett Hough, died unmarried ; 

 Phebe Alice, unmarried, member Civic 

 Qub and Browning Society, Philadelphia, 

 and of Bucks County Historical Society ; 

 managing committee of Friends' Central 

 School, Philadelphia ; ]\Iary Yardley Hough, 

 unmarried; from 1876 to 1897 proprietor 

 and editor of "The Children's Friend," a 

 juvenile magazine; author of numerous 

 short stories for children; Elizabeth Tay- 

 lor, died in childhood. Martha Dawes 

 Hough, unmarried, elder of Spruce Street, 

 Meeting, manager of Friends' Home for 

 Children. Philadelphia, and Friends' Board- 

 ing House Association, Philadelphia. Oliver, 

 died 1863 at Nashville, Tennessee, of camg 

 fever, was a private in i6oth Regiment 

 Pennsylvania Volunters, 15th (Anderson's) 

 Cavalry. Isaac, see forward. The Misses 

 Rebecca J., Phebe A., Mary Y. and Martha 

 D. Hough lived for over forty years at 1340 

 Spruce -street. Philadelphia. In April, 1904, 

 they removed to the old William Linton 

 Mansion, 24 South State street. Newtown, 

 Bucks county, a picture of w'hich ap- 

 pears in this volume. They inherited this 

 house from their aunts Letitia and Fran- 

 cenia Briggs. 



Isaac Hough, son of Oliver and Matha 

 (Briggs) Hough, was born in Doylestown, 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania and moved to 

 Philadelphia, with his parents when a child. 

 He was a merchant, and engaged in the 

 shipping trade with the West Indies. He 

 was a charter member and director of the 

 Maritime Exchange of Philadelphia, is a 

 member of the Philadelphia Bourse ; direc- 

 tor of the Finance Company of Pennsjd- 

 vania, and member of the Philadelphia 

 Fencing Club, the Merion Crick- 

 et Club, of Haverford, Pennsylvania, 

 and of the Union League. He married 

 first, in 1867, Anna Alexander Duff, daugh- 

 ter of Edward Duff, common councilman, 

 and member of the board of health of Phila- 

 delphia, by his wife, Mary Jane Diehl, a 

 descendant of Captain Nicholas Diehl, a 

 Revolutionary soldier and a member of the 

 Committee of Safety of Chester county, of 

 noble birth in Frankfort, Germany. Isaac 

 and Anna A. (Duff) Hough were the par- 

 ents of one child, Oliver Hough, 2d 

 Lieutenant. Company 8.. 3d Regiment, 

 Infantry. Penna. Vol. Spanish American 

 war, T898. to whom we are indebted for 

 the foregoing history of the Hough 

 fam.ily as well as data on numerous 

 other 'families published in this volume. 

 He is a member of the Bucks county 

 Historical Society and has contributed 

 a number of valuable papers to its Ar- 

 chives. He is the author of a number 

 of papers on genealogy and local his- 

 tory and is now- at work on an exhaust- 

 ive history of the Hart and Atkinson 

 families. Is a member of a number of 

 patriotic Societies. Isaac Hough mar- 

 ried (second) in 1877. Emilia Antionette, 

 vsndow of Francis Thibault, of Phila- 



delphia, and had one son, John Boyd, who 

 died in 1895. 



OLIVER HOUGH, son of Isaac and 

 Anna A. (Duff) Hough, was born in 

 Philadelphia, September 3, 1868, has lived 

 in that city until the present time, and 

 for about two years past has had a 

 transient residence with his aunts, the 

 Misses Hough, at the William Linton 

 Mansion, at 24 South State street, New- 

 town. He received his early education 

 at private schools, and entered the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania in the class of '88, re- 

 ceiving the degrees of B. S. and P. C. on 

 completion of course. He has been presi- 

 dent, vice-president, secretary and treasurer,. 

 Class of '88, and two terms secretary of 

 the University of Pennsylvania Cricket As- 

 sociation. For thesis required for technical 

 degree (P. C.) he made three original re- 

 searches in chemistry, described under the 

 titles : I. "An Attempt to Introduce Iodine 

 into Parabroma-benzoic Acid"; II. Some 

 Salts of Meta-nitro-para-bromo-benzoic 

 Acid" ; HI. Some Compounds of Monochlo- 

 ro-dinitrophenol". Nos. I and II were pub- 

 lished in the "Journal of the Franklin In- 

 stitute," December, 1891. No. HI resulted 

 in the discovery of twelve previously un- 

 known chemical compounds. 



.He has written a number of magazine 

 and newspaper articles of historical or bio- 

 graphical character, the principal ones be- 

 ing: "Richard Hough, Provincial Council- 

 lor," (Penna. Mag. Hist, and Biog., XV- 

 III, 20) ; "Captain Thomas Holme, Sur- 

 veyor-General of Pennsylvania and Provin- 

 cial Councillor,"' (Penna. Mag. Hist, and 

 Biog., XIX, 413. XX 128, 248) : "Cap- 

 tain William Crispin, Proprietary's Commis- 

 sioner for Settling the Colony in Penna." 

 (read before the Historical Society of 

 Pennsylvania, January 10, 1898, and pub- 

 lished in Penna. Mag. Hist, and Biog.. 

 XXII, 34) ; and "Thomas Janney. Provin- 

 cial Councillor," (read before Bucks Coun- 

 ty Historical Society, July 20, 1897, and 

 published in Bucks county newspapers). 



In politics Oliver Hough has been secre- 

 tary and chairman of the Seventh Ward 

 Association, Municipal League of Philadel- 

 phia ; a member of several committees in 

 charge of independent candidates' cam- 

 paigns (one of which resulted in the elec- 

 tion of Alexander Crow, Jr., as sheriff of 

 Philadelphia county) ; and from 1896 to 

 date has represented the Fourteenth Divis- 

 ion, Seventh Ward, in many conventions of 

 the Republican party. ]\Ir. Hough joined 

 the National Guard of Pennsylvania as a 

 private in Company D, First Regiment, In- 

 fantry, August 10, 1893 ; elected second 

 lieutenant Company G, Third Regiment, 

 Infantry, June 10, 1897. Served again 

 with Company D, First Infantry, on 

 riot duty at Hazelton, Pennsylvania, 

 October, 1902. Is a member of the 

 "Old Guard" of Company D. He was 

 mustered into the United States service 

 for the Spanish War as second lieutenant. 

 Third Penna. Volunteer Infantry, July 



