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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



public official enjoyed the unbounded re- 

 spect and esteem of all with whom he 

 came in contact. 



Mr. Van Pelt married, May 30, 1877, 

 Carrie A. Bodine, daughter of John R. 

 Bodine, and sister of General Robert L. 

 Bodine, who participated in the civil 

 war. One child was the issue "of this 

 union, Arthur C, who now resides in 

 Pittsburg. Mr. Van Pelt was survived 

 by his wife, who now makes her home in 

 Doylestown. Their son, Arthur C. Van 

 Pelt, born in 1879, is now residing in 

 Bellevue, a suburb of Allegheny City, 

 Pennsjdvania. He married Claudia 

 Geer, and has two daughters: Marian 

 and Margaret. 



Hope, Bucks county; Seth, who now has 

 charge of the home fafm; and Clara, 

 wife of Harry S. Woolsey, of Doyles- 

 town. 



WILLIAM VAN PELT, of Upper 

 Makefield, son of Isaac and Sarah (Cat- 

 tell) Van Pelt, was born in Wrightstown 

 township, Bucks county. May 27, 1833. 

 He was reared on the Wrightstown 

 farm, and acquired his education at the 

 local schools. In 1857 he married Han- 

 nah D. Tomlinson, daughter of Samuel 

 Tomlinson, of Pineville, Bucks county, 

 and took charge of the home farm, 

 which he conducted for four j^ears, when 

 he removed to Taylorsville, where he 

 conducted a temperance hostelry for one 

 year. He then removed to Searchville, 

 and conducted a small farm for one 

 year, and then removed to Titusville, 

 New Jersey, and engaged in the butcher 

 business. In the fall of 1861 he enlisted 

 in Company F, Twenty-second Regiment 

 New Jersey Volunteers, for a term of 

 nine months, and went to the front in 

 defense of his country. At the expira- 

 tion of his term of enlistment he re- 

 turned to Titusville, and was employed 

 in a store there for a short time. His 

 father being taken sick, he returned 

 home and took care of him until his 

 death, May 27, 1865. After his father's 

 death he removed to Pineville, and 

 worked at carpentering for a short 

 time, and then purchased a lot of land 

 and erected buildings and began buying 

 and slaughtering calves and poultry for 

 the New York market, and conducted a 

 local butchering business. In 1878 he 

 sold out his business to his half-brother. 

 Joseph Van Pelt, and Hiel Quinn. and 

 purchasing his present farm in Upper 

 Makefield, has since devoted Tiis atten- 

 tion to farming and stock raising. He 

 has bred and owns a number of high 

 bred horses. In politics Mr. Van Pelt 

 is a Democrat. He is a member of Cap- 

 tain Angel Post, G. A. R., of Lambert- 

 ville, New Jersey. 



Mrs. Van Pelt died October 17, 1900. 

 They have been the parents of seven 

 children, four of whom survive: Jose- 

 phine, wife of Augustus Poore, a con- 

 ductor on the P. & R. R. R., residing at 

 Doylestown; Isaac, residing in New 



JOSEPH VAN PELT, deceased, of 

 Pineville, Pennsylvania, was born in 

 Buckingham township, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, October 8, 1844, a son of 

 Isaac and Mary Ann (Richardson) Van 

 Pelt. He was reared on his father's 

 farm, and obtained such education as 

 could be acquired at the common 

 schools in the vicinity of his home. At 

 his father's death, in 1865, he went to 

 live with his brother-in-law, Joseph 

 Starkey, on the Buckingham farm. In 

 1869 he came to Pineville and entered 

 the employ of his half-brother, William, 

 in the butcher business. Ten years later 

 he began the business of butchering in 

 partnership with Hiel G. Quin, under 

 the firm name of Van Pelt & Co. Mak- 

 ing a specialty of pork butchering, they 

 built up a large and lucrative trade, 

 turning out a finished product of two 

 hundred and twenty-five thousand 

 pounds in a year. The success attained 

 by the firm was entirely due to the en- 

 ergy, perseverance and pluck displayed 

 in their management of affairs, and also 

 by honorable and straightforward busi- 

 ness principles which characterized their 

 career from the beginning. In politics 

 Mr. Van Pelt was a Democrat. 



Mr. Van Pelt married, December 31, 

 1874. Rachel R. Tomlinson, daughter of 

 William H. and Sarah (Phillips) Tom- 

 linson. Five children were born to 

 them, of whoin Jennie died at the age 

 of two years and eleven months, and 

 Harry in his sixteenth year. The sur- 

 viving members of the family are: Eu- 

 gene K., a bookkeeper in Philadelphia; 

 Mary A., a graduate of Doylestown high 

 school, resides at home; and Lewis W., 

 who also resides at home. William H. 

 Tomlinson, father of Mrs. Van Pelt, was 

 a son of Samuel and Hannah (Doan) 

 Tomlinson, and grandson of Joseph 

 Tomlinson, whose mother was a de- 

 scendant of William Buckman, who came 

 from Sussex county, England, arriving 

 here in the "Welcome," 8 mo., 1682. 

 Joseph Van Pelt died January 5, 190S. 



CHARLES LANGHORNE TAYLOR, 

 of Trevose, son of the late Charles Will- 

 iams Taylor, and Sarah (Paxson) Taylor, 

 his second wife, was born on the Trevose 

 estate in Upper Bensalem township, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, the home of the 

 Taylor family for several generations, and 

 the residence in Colonial times of the 

 Growdons, ancestors of the Taylor family. 



The founder of the Taylor family in 

 America was Thomas Taylor 6f Virginia, 

 who was a son of Thomas Taylor, of Lon- 



