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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



Sanuul Eastbiini. son of Sam- 

 uel and Hannah, was born in Solebury, 

 Bucks county, lo mo. 7, J 790. His early 

 boyhood days were spent at White 

 Marsh, where his parents resided until 

 he was in his thirteenth year, the re- 

 mainder of his life being spent in Falls 

 township and Morrisville borough, 

 Bucks county. He married, in 1813, 

 Huldah Wooley, and they were the pa- 

 rents of seven children, viz.: Lewis, born 

 8 mo. 5, 1814; Elwood, born 11 mo, 22, 

 1816; Robert K., the subject of this 

 sketch; Caroline, born 3 mo. 17, 1832; 

 Maria Ann, who married and removed to 

 the west; Hannah K., born g mo. 13, 

 1835; and Edward. 



Robert Kirkbride Eastburn, third 

 son of Samuel and Huldah, was 

 born and reared at Morrisville. 

 At the age of nineteen years he 

 became a school teacher and taught in 

 the nearby townships of Bucks county 

 for several years. He later removed to 

 Philadelphia, and w-as engaged in the 

 manufacture of furniture, after some 

 years becoming a member of the firm 

 of Reeves & Eastburn, in which he con- 

 tinued for a member of years. His 

 health failing, he was induced to accept 

 a position as book-keeper for a mining 

 company in New IMexico, and removed 

 there with his family, and remaiped 

 twelve years, entirely regaining his 

 health in that delightful climate. While 

 in New JNIexico his duties required him 

 to make his home in a rough mining 

 camp among a turbulent element, not al- 

 ways controlled or animated by the re- 

 fining influences of civilization, where 

 every one except he went armed, and 

 human life was held exceedingly cheap. 

 Mr. Eastburn always refused to carry 

 arms, and, by his fearless though kindly 

 defense of right and justice, won an in- 

 fluence among the rugged miners, and 

 successfully enacted the role of peace- 

 maker in many little disturbances in the 

 camp, where he had the respect of all who 

 knew him. He returned to Bucks county 

 in 1894 and purchased a handsome 

 home on Richardson Avenue, Langhorne, 

 where he lived until his death on Febru- 

 ary 26, 1897, and where his widow still 

 resides. He held to the faith of the So- 

 ciety of Friends, in which he and his 

 ancestors had been reared, and his firrn 

 though kindly disposition won the re- 

 spect and esteem of all who knew him. 

 Mr. Eastburn married, April 12, 1859, 

 Aliriam Ivins, daughter of George Mid- 

 dleton and Sarah (Buckman) Ivins, of 

 Penns Manor, Bucks county, where her 

 paternal ancestors had resided for sev- 

 eral generations, she being a grand- 

 daughter of Aaron and Miriam (Middle- 

 ton) Ivins, and great-granddaughter of 

 Aaron and Ann {"Cheshire) Ivins. On 

 the maternal side she is a granddaughter 

 of James and Sarah (Burroughs) Buck- 

 man, the former of whom was a son of 



William and Jane I'uckman, and a de- 

 scendant of William Buckman, who* 

 came from England and settled at New- 

 town in 1684, and the latter a daughter 

 of John and Lydia Burroughs, and 

 granddaughter of Henry and Ann 

 (Palmer) Burroughs, who came from 

 New Jersey and settled in Lower ]\Iake- 

 field, being a son of John Burroughs,, 

 who was born at Newtown, Long Island, 

 in 1684, and died in Ewing, New Jersey,, 

 in 1772, and the last named John being 

 a son of John and Margaret (Wood- 

 ward) Burroughs, of Long Island and 

 a grandson of John Burroughs, who 

 came from England to Massachusetts 

 prior to 1639, and died at Newtown, 

 Long Island, in 1678, at the age of sixty- 

 one years. To Mr. and Mrs. Eastburn 

 were born two children, both born in 

 Philadelphia, viz.: Henry Kirkbride, 

 born November 19, i86i; and Edward 

 Ivins, born March 17, 1866. Henry K. 

 Eastburn is now engaged in the wool 

 business in Philadelphia; he married, 

 January 17. 1884, Carrie Gideon, of Phil- 

 adelphia. Edwin I. is also a resident of 

 Philadelphia. 



Mrs. Eastburn, accompanied her hus- 

 band to New Mexico, and spent twelve 

 years in that territory. She now resides 

 in Langhorne borough where she is 

 highly esteemed by a large circle of 

 friends. 



EASTBURN REEDER, one of 4he 

 most prominent farmers and dairymen- 

 in Bucks county, was born June 30, 

 1828, upon the farm on which he now 

 resides, and which had been the prop- 

 erty of his ancestors for five generations 

 from 1763. 



Charles Reeder, great-great-grand- 

 father of the subject of this sketch, born 

 in England, 6 mo. 24, 1713, came to 

 America in 1734 and settled first near 

 Philadelphia, removing later to Upper 

 Makefield township, Bucks county, 

 where he purchased 200 acres of land 

 in 1765; he died there in 1800. He mar- 

 ried in 1737, Eleanor Merrick, daughter 

 of John and Eleanor (Smith) ]\Ierrick, 

 of Lower Dublin township, Philadelphia 

 county. John Merrick was a Friend, a 

 native of Herefordshire, England, v«ho 

 came to Pennsylvania and settled in 

 Lower Dublin township. In first month, 

 1702. he declared intentions of marriage, 

 at Abington Friends' Meeting, with Elea- 

 nor Smith, and was married the follow- 

 ing month. He died in 1732. His eldest 

 son John subsequently removed to 

 Wrightstown, having married Ilananh 

 Ilulme. and was the ancestor of the 

 Merricks of lower Bucks. Charles and 

 Eleanor (Merrick) Reeder were the pa- 

 rents, of eleven children, viz.: Joseph, 

 born mo. 3, 17.18, removed to New Jer- 

 sey, (his son John is supposed to be the 

 ancestor of the Rceders of Easton, 



