HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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cousin to William Penn. William T. 

 and Alada E. B. Eastburn have four 

 children; viz.: Sybil Ethel, born 4 mo. 

 6, 1890; William B., born 4 mo. 30, 1894; 

 Edward B., born 2 mo. 9, 1898; and Jo- 

 seph Robert, born 10 mo. 20, 1901. 



CHARLES TWINING EASTBURN, 

 ■of Yardley, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 

 one of the most active and successful 

 young business men of Bucks county, 

 w^as born in Newtown township, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, October 9, 1873, 

 and is a son of Franklin and Mary Eliza- 

 beth (Twining) Eastburn, both of whom 

 -are descendants of the earliest English 

 settlers in Lower Bucks. Mr. Eastburn' 

 is a descendant in the seventh genera- 

 tion from Robert and Sarah (Preston) 

 Eastburn, who migrated from Yorkshire, 

 England, in 1713, through their son 

 Samuel, who settled in Solebury town- 

 ship, Bucks county, in 1729. An account 

 of the first three generations of this 

 family is given above. 



Amos Eastburn, son of Joseph and 

 Mary (Wilson) Eastbtirn, and grandson 

 of Samuel, above mentioned, was born in 

 Solebury township, 12 mo. 25, 1770, be- 

 ing the ninth of eleven children. His 

 father died when he was ten years of 

 age. Early in life he learned the trade 

 of a carpenter and joiner, and followed 

 that vocation in connection with' fafm- 

 ing in Buckingham and Solebury town- 

 ships, until 181 1, when he removed to 

 Middletown township and settled upon 

 135 acres of land that had been the prop- 

 erty of the ancestors of his wife since 

 1699, nearly the whole of which is now 

 included in the borough of Langhorne 

 Manor, where he died 10 mo. 16, 1823. 

 He married, 4 mo. 23, 1795, Mary Stack- 

 house, born in- IMiddletown township, 

 ■daughter of Jonathan and Grace (Com- 

 fort) Stackhouse. granddaughter of 

 Isaac and Mary (Harding) Stackhouse, 

 and great-granddaughter of Thomas and 

 Ann (Mayos) Stockhouse, an account of 

 whose arrival in Bucks county in 1682 

 is given in another part of this work. 

 The land upon which Mrs. Eastburn 

 spent nearly her whole life was part of 

 a tract of 350 acres taken up by her 

 great-grandfather (the last named 

 Thomas Stackhouse) in 1699. and had 

 been successively occupied by her di- 

 rect ancestors down to the death of her 

 father, Jonathan Stackhouse, in 1805, 

 when fifty-five acres thereof was set 

 apart to her as her share of her father's 

 estate. Her husband later purchased of 

 the other heirs an additional seventy-six 

 acres adjoining, and it was her home 

 from 181 1 until her death, i mo. 31. 

 1831. Amos and INIary (Stackhouse) 

 Eastburn were the parents of three chil- 

 ■dren: Grace, born in Buckingham, i mo. 

 29. 1796, died in Fallsington in 1875, 



unmarried; Jonathan, born in Bucking- 

 ham, 12 mo. 25, 1797, died in Middle- 

 town, 4 mo. 9, 1840, married Sidney Wil- 

 son and had children: Mary Ann, Amos, 

 Joseph Wilson and Isaac S.; and Aaronj 

 born m Buckingham, 8 mo. 23, 1804, died 

 in Newtown township, 2 mo. 6, 1889. 



Aaron Eastburn, grandfather of the 

 subject of this sketch, was reared from 

 the age of seven years on the Langhorne 

 Manor farm. His father died when he 

 was nineteen years of age, and he re- 

 mained with his mother until 1828. when 

 he purchased the farm where the subject 

 of this sketch was born, in Newtown 

 township, and spent his remaining days 

 thereon, dying 2 mo. 6, 1889, in his 

 eighty-fifth year. He was an active 

 member of the Society of Friends, and 

 a trustee of P^alls Meeting. He married 

 5 mo. 22, 1831, Sarah Cadwallader, 

 daughter of Cyrus and Mary (Taylor) 

 Cadwallader of Lower Makefield town- 

 ship, granddaughter of Jacob and Phebe 

 (Radclifife) Cadwallader, great-grand- 

 daughter of Jacob Cadwallader, and 

 great-great-granddaughter of John Cad- 

 wallader. a native of Wales, who wa= an 

 early settler in \\'arminster township and 

 a noted minister among Friends. Through 

 her mother, Mary Taylor, she was a 

 great-granddaughter of John and Mary 

 (Lofty) Sotcher, William Penn's trust- 

 ed stewards at Pennsbury. the former of 

 whom was for many years a member of 

 colonial assembly. 



Aaron and Sarah (Cadwallader) East- 

 burn were the parents of five children: 

 Mary C, born 5 mo. 10, 1832, married 

 Charles Moon; Cyrus, of Lower Make- 

 field, born 12 mo, 2, 1833, married Ase- 

 nath Haines; Charles, died in infancy: 

 Mercy, born 7 mo. 11, 1838, married 

 Charles Albertson; and Franklin. 



Franklin Eastburn; father of the sub- 

 ject of this sketch, was the youngest 

 child of Aaron and Sarah, and was born 

 on the Newtown homestead, 11 mo. 2, 

 1842, and resided thereon until 1896 

 when he moved to 2107 Chestnut street, 

 Philadelphia, where he now resides. He 

 married. 10 mo. 28, 1869. Mary Elizabeth 

 Twining, daughter of Charles and Eliza- 

 beth (West) Twining, of Yardley, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, and they are the 

 parents of two children: Sarah C, born 

 in 1871, now the wife of George William 

 Balderston. of Trenton, New Jersey, and 

 Charles. 



Charles Twining Eastburn was born 

 and reared on the old homestead in 

 Newtown township, and acquired his 

 education at the public schools and at 

 Friends' Central School at Fifteenth and 

 Race streets. Philadelphia, and Stew- 

 art's Business College at Trenton, New 

 Jersey, leaving the latter February 28, 

 1892. The day following his leaving bus- 

 iness college he entered the employ of 

 Stephen B. Twining, in the stone quarry 

 business, at Stockton. New Jersey. Upon 



