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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



his present location, where he has since 

 conducted a successful business. 



Mr. Van Horn married, in 1888, Ella M. 

 Dilley, daughter of Louis and Caroline 

 (Larison) Dilley, of Kingwood, Hunter- 

 don county, New Jersey. To this marriage 

 has been born two sons, Lloyd and Earl. 

 Mr. Van Horn is an extensive real estate 

 owner in Lambertville, owning fifteen resi- 

 dent properties. He is a member of the 

 Society of Friends. 



LAWRENCE JOHNSON AND HIS 

 DESCENDANTS. The family of John- 

 son, from which Lawrence Johnson de- 

 scended, belonged to the yeomanry and 

 lived in Lincolnshire, England, having set- 

 tled in Barrow-on-H umber in 1684, after 

 the marriage of Robert Johnson and Mary 

 Hall, nee Ledgard. Here five generations 

 of the family lived and owned property. 

 Edward Johnson removed to Hull after 

 his marriage in 1796. Previous to 1680 

 the family had lived and owned property 

 at Grasby, in Lincolnshire. 



Edward Johnson had a large family of 

 children, and, believing that their prospects 

 for advancement would be greater in 

 America, he was induced by his sons to 

 sell his property in Hull, and emigrate 

 with his family to America.- On July 4, 

 1818, with his wife and ten children, he 

 sailed from Grimsby on the brig Gen- 

 eral Ripley" for New York, where the 

 vessel arrived August 28, 1818. The people 

 of New York looked so pale that Edward 

 Johnson thought it could not be a health- 

 ful place, and accordingly sailed immedi- 

 ately vip the Hudson to Albany, where he 

 bought a farm of one hundred and twenty- 

 fice acres near Cato, Cayuga county, 

 New York. 



Lawrence Johnson, son of Edward and 

 Ann (Clayton) Johnson, was born in Hull, 

 England, January 23, 1801, and was bap- 

 tized in Holy Trinity church, March 2, 

 1801. Immediately after coming to Amer- 

 ica with his parents in 1818, he found em- 

 ployment in the office of the "Troy Budg- 

 et," a newspaper published at Troy, New 

 York, but the following spring went to 

 New York city, where he was employed 

 in several printing establishments. About 

 1820 he settled in Philadelphia and estab- 

 lished a stereotype foundry, to which he 

 later added the industry of making type, 

 under the firm name of L. Johnson & Com- 

 pany, and built up an immense business. 

 He became interested in many prominent 

 enterprises in Philadelphia and elsewhere 

 in Pennsylvania, the development of coal 

 lands, building of street horse-car lines, 

 and many other enterprises, and acquired 

 a fortune. He was also president of the 

 Commonwealth Bank. He died in Phila- 

 delphia, April 26, i860. 



In the spring of 1851 Lawrence Johnson 

 purchased a farm and country seat in 

 Bristol township. Bucks county, known as 



"Lansdowne," where he spent much of his 

 time, and which has ever since been occu- 

 pied by members of his family. 



Mr. Johnson had married May 3, 1825, 

 Sarah B. Murray, of Philadelphia, who 

 died August 21, 1834, leaving one child, 

 a daughter. He married a second time, on 

 May 29, 1837, Mary Winder, daughter of 

 Aaron and Sarah (Van Horn) Winder, of 

 Lower Makefield township, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, who was born June 18, 1814, 

 and died February 16, 1877. (See Winder 

 Family). Lawrence and Mary (Winder) 

 Johnson were the parents of ten children, 

 viz: I. Edward Winder; 2. Anna Rebec- 

 ca; 3. Mary Ella; 4. Caroline Fletcher; 

 5. Howard Lawrence; 6. Russel Hamp- 

 den ; 7. Lawrence ; 8. Walter Richards ; 9. 

 Robert Winder; 10. Alfred Clayton. 



I. Edward Winder John.son, eldest son 

 of Lawrence and Mary (Winder) Johnson, 

 was born in Philadelphia, April 12, 1838. 

 In the summer of 1847 he accompanied his 

 father on a trip to Europe. He was edu- 

 cated at Mr. Fay's boarding school at 

 Elizabeth, New Jersey, and at Dr. Faires' 

 and other private schools in Philadelphia. 

 In 1856 he traveled under the care of an 

 agent of his father to Havana, Mexico, 

 Texas, and up the Mississippi river, and 

 to Cincinnati, Ohieu In the latter place he 

 remained for some months, working in a 

 branch type foundry established there by 

 his father. On October 23, 1857, he was 

 commissioned. as a midshipman on the flag- 

 ship "Powhattan," and on December 9, 

 following that frigate left Norfolk, Vir- 

 ginia, on a long cruise, with ex-President 

 Franklin Pierce and wife on board. She 

 sailed first to Maderia, St. Helena, and 

 Cape Town, preceeding thence to Hong 

 Kong, stopping on the way at Mauritius 

 and Singapore, and arrived at Hong Kong 

 in May, 1858, and proceeded to Japan in 

 the following July. Becoming ill in Japan, 

 Midshipman Johnson obtained a dismissal 

 from service on the LI. S. frigate "Pow- 

 hattan," and embarked as a passenger on 

 board the "Minnesota," October 2, 1858, to 

 return home, arriving in Boston, Massa- 

 chusetts, Jvlay 29, 1859. On September 26, 

 i860, he sailed from New York on the clip- 

 per "Messenger" for Hong Kong, intend- 

 ing to enter into business with A. W. Hab- 

 ersham, in Japan. He arrived in .Yoko- 

 hama, April 20, 1861, where he remained 

 for some time, engaged in business. On 

 learning of the outbreak of the civil war in 

 America he left Japan on the steamship 

 "Carrington," and arrived in San Fran- 

 cisco, California, October 20, 1861, from 

 which place he proceeded at once to New 

 York. He enlisted in August, 1862, in 

 Company G of the Anderson Cavalry, and 

 fought in the battles of Antietam and Mur- 

 freesboro. Afterwards his regiment was 

 reorganized, and he became a member of 

 Company A of the Anderson Cavalry. He 

 was also in the battle of Chickamauga, 

 under General Rosencrans. On December 

 30, 1863, he returned home on a furlough, 



