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uncle, George Williams, in the China and 

 East India trade. In 1847 he gave up active 

 business owing to ill health, and took up his 

 residence at Trevose, where he resided until 

 his death, May 30, 1893. He was a man of 

 great force o'f character, of earnest piety, 

 and much respected by those among whom 

 ■he lived. In early life he was a member of 

 the Society of Friends, as were all his fam- 

 ily before him. In later years he became an 

 Episcopalian. He was an attendant at 

 Christ church, Eddington, and Grace Prot- 

 estant Episcopal church, Hulmeville. For 

 a number of years he was vestryman and 

 rector's warden of the latter church, and 

 represented it at the Episcopal convocation 

 of Germantown. While he was possessed 

 of more than ordinary ability and took a 

 great interest in the public affairs of his 

 time, yet he was of a retiring disposition, 

 and, although he was often strongly urged, 

 he never held public office. While living a 

 retired life at Trevose he was active in 

 every work for the advancement of the 

 community. He was a fluent and graceful 

 writer, and a frequent contributor to cur- 

 rent newspapers and magazines on flori- 

 cultural and historical subjects. He was 

 especially interested in the latter subject, 

 and was one of the charter members of the 

 Bucks County Historical Society. 



Charles Langhorne Taylor, the subject 

 of this sketch, was prepared for college by 

 a private tutor, and at the Abington 

 Friends' School, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. 

 He entered the University of Pennsylvania 

 in 1893 and was graduated B. S. in 1897 ; 

 attended Harvard College, but did not 

 graduate; was graduated LL. B. from Har- 

 vard Law School, 1900; also graduated LL. 

 B. from the Law School of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, 1901 ; was admitted to 

 practice law at the Philadelphia bar on mo- 

 tion of George Wharton Pepper, Esq., in 

 1901 ; was admitted to the bar of the su- 

 preme court of Pennsylvania in 1904, and 

 has practiced his profession in Philadelphia 

 since 1901. In the latter year he was one of 

 the organizers of the Bucks County Coun- 

 try Club at Langhorne, near Trevose ; later 

 became one of its charter members, and a 

 member of the board of governors; was 

 elected secretary of the club in 1904. He is 

 a Republican in politics, and a member of 

 several clubs and societies, among which 

 may be mentioned the Harvard Club of 

 Philadelphia, the Bucks County Historical 

 Society, and Historical Society of Penn- 

 sylvania. 



BENJAMIN J. TAYLOR, of Bristol, 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania, president of 

 the Farmers' National Bank of Bucks 

 county and prominently associated with the 

 business interests of lower Bucks, was 

 born in Burlington county. New Jersey, 

 and is a representative of a distinguished 

 family that has been prominently identified 

 with the business, official and social life of 

 • Bucks and Philadelphia counties, and of the 



neighboring state of New Jersey for over 

 two centuries. 



Samuel Taylor, the emigrant ancestor of 

 the family, was a native of the parish of 

 Dore, Derbyshire, England, and sailed 

 from Bristol, England, in the fly-boat, 

 "Martha," in the year 1677, and landed at 

 the point where Burlington, New Jersey, 

 now stands. He was one of the proprietors 

 of West Jersey, owning one thirty-second 

 share in the lands of West Jersey, the 

 papers for which were executed by his 

 brother, William Taylor, of Dore, county 

 of Derby, England, who had purchased the 

 land of George Hutchinson, when in Eng- 

 land and sold it to Samuel, but being lost 

 before reaching America, the land was 

 conveyed to Samuel by Hutchinson in 1681. 

 He located in Chesterfield township, Bur- 

 lington county, owning large tracts of land 

 there and elsewhere. He died in December, 

 1723, leaving a family of eight children, 

 four sons, John, George, William and Rob- 

 ert, and four daughters who married into 

 prominent families of New Jersey. 



Robert Taylor, youngest son of Samuel, 

 was the executor of his father's will and 

 inherited a large portion of the homestead 

 tract, which descended to his son Anthony, 

 the great-grandfather of the subject 

 of this sketch, and remained in the tenure 

 of his descendants until quite recently. The 

 five hundred acre tract known as Brookdale 

 farm was Robert's portion. His son, An- 

 thony, who inherited Brookdale and lived 

 thereon until his death in 1785, was an ar- 

 dent patriot during the revolution and ren- 

 dered material service to the cause of na- 

 tional liberty. 



Anthony Taylor, Jr., third son of An- 

 thony, and great-grandson of Samuel, the 

 founder, was born at Brookdale farm in 

 1772, and when quite young was placed with 

 John Thompson, a prominent merchant of 

 Philadelphia, to be trained for a mercan- 

 tile and business career. On attaining his 

 majority he formed a partnership with 

 Thomas Newbold. whose sister Mary He 

 later married, and engaged extensively in 

 the East India trade, the firm name being 

 Taylor & Newbold. In 1810 Mr. Taylor 

 retired from active business pursuits and 

 settled at Sunbury," his fine country seat 

 in Bristol township, Bucks county, which 

 had been his summer home for some years 

 previously.. He later purchased several 

 other large tracts of land in lower Bucks 

 county, and at his death in 1837 was the 

 largest landowner in the county. Anthony 

 Taylor married, in 1802, Mary Newbold, 

 tenth child of Caleb Newbold, of Spring- 

 field township. Burlington county. New 

 Jersey, and a descendant of Michael New- 

 bold, of Sheffield Park, Yorkshire, Eng- 

 land, who in 1678 purchased one eighth of 

 three nintieth parts of the province of West 

 Jersey, and settled in Springfield townshif), 

 Burlington county, where he died in 1693, 

 leaving a large number of children and 

 grandchildren, some of whom were still Jn 



