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HISTORY 01' BUCKS COUNTY. 



1815, married Jane Rapp; and Sarali, born 

 May 30. 1818. married Jonas Yerkes. 



JOSEPH MORRISON, eldest son of 

 John and Hannah (Yerkes) Morrison, 

 born October 18, 1794, died July 30, 

 1880. became one of the most distin- 

 guished citizens of Bucks county. He 

 was born in Delaware county, and 

 learned the trade of a miller with Amos 

 Addis, in Moreland, and on his marriage 

 to the daughter of his preceptor he re- 

 moved to Northampton township, Bucks 

 county, where he owned and operated 

 the Rocksville Mills for fifty years. Early 

 in life he took an active interest in the 

 organization of the local militia, and 

 eventually filled every commissioned po- 

 sition in the organization from captain to 

 brigadier-general, and was esteemed the 

 best informed man in the county on mil- 

 itary tactics. He was elected to the 

 office of commissioner of Bucks county 

 in 1836, and served three years. In 1840 

 he served a term as county treasurer. He 

 filled the responsible position of re- 

 corder of deeds for the term 1852-4. He 

 served as associate justice of Bucks 

 county courts for fifteen years, 1863 to 

 1878. He married in 1822 Eleanor Ad- 

 dis, born December 11, 1802, died Janu- 

 ary 8, 1870, daughter of Colonel Amos 

 Addis, who for many years operated a 

 mill in Moreland township, Montgomery 

 county, Pennsylvania. He was born in 

 Moreland or Oxford township, and was 

 a son of Nehemiah and Grace Addis, and 

 a grandson of John Addis, an early set- 

 tler in Oxford township, Philadelphia 

 county, where he died in 1724. Richard 

 and John Addis, the pioneers of the fam- 

 ily in Northampton township, Bucks 

 county, from whose family, Addisville 

 (now Richboro) took its name, were 

 older brothers of Nehemiah Addis. The 

 children of Joseph and Eleanor (Addis) 

 Morrison were: Amos Addis, born May 

 27, 1823. married Mary Coxhead; John, 

 born March 13, 1827, died in Tennessee 

 in 1864, while a soldier in the Union 

 army; Johnson, born November 16, 

 1827, married Mary Hobensack; Ruth 

 Ann, born July 30, 1830, married J. 

 Krewson Cornell; Charles B., born 

 March 31, 1832, married Mary A. Feas- 

 ter; Eliza Ann. born September 9, 1835; 

 Mary Ellen, born October 12, 1839, mar- 

 ried Joseph F. Whitall of Southampton; 

 Hannah Rebecca, born May 7. 1841; and 

 Andrew Jackson. Judge Joseph Morri- 

 son, married (second) Mary Ann Lash- 

 ley,, widow of Lambert Lashley, of 

 Wrightstown, and died at the Anchor, 

 in Wrightstown. July 30, 1880. 



Professor Andrew Jackson Morrison 

 was born and reared in Northampton 

 township and acquired his education at 

 the Central High School of Philadelphia, 

 the Tennent Academy at Hartsville, 

 Bucks county, and the University of 

 Pennsylvania. He has devoted his whole 

 life to the cause of education. He was 



successively principal of the Tillyer,. 

 Wheat Sheaf, Landreth, Irving, and 

 Northern Liberties Grammar Schools, 

 and of the Kaighn Grammar School of 

 Camden, New Jersey. From 1881 to 

 1883 he was professor of mathematics in 

 the Central High School, Philadelphia; 

 from 1883 to 1898, senior assistant su- 

 perintendent of public schools in Phil- 

 adeli)hia; and acting superintendent dur- 

 ing the year 1891. Since 1898 he has 

 filled the position of principal of the 

 Northeast Manual Training School of 

 Philadelphia. In 1901 the honorary de- 

 gree of Doctor of Philosophy was con- 

 ferred upon him by Cedarville College. 



Professor Morrison has always kept to- 

 the fore front in the cause of education. 

 He has served two terms as president of 

 the Teachers' Institute of Philadelphia, 

 and two terms as president of the Edu- 

 cational Club of Philadelphia. He is an 

 active member of the National Educa- 

 tional Association and of the State 

 Teachers' Association, as well as of all 

 the teachers' organizations of Philadel- 

 phia. He and his family are members 

 of the Second Reformed Church of 

 Philadelphia. He is a member of 

 Phoenix Lodge, No. 130, F. & A. M., 

 and of Kensington Chapter, No. 2:i2>, R- 

 A. M. He is also a member of the 

 Penn Club, and of the Schoolmen's Club. 



Professor Morrison was married at 

 Feasterv>ille, Bucks county, March 9, 

 1865, to Julia H. Jones, daughter of Asa 

 Knight Jones, and they are the parents 

 of five children, viz.: Anna Jones Mor- 

 rison, born January 18, 1866, graduate 

 of the Girls' Normal School; Jennie 

 Singer Morrison, born December 5, 

 1867. now the wife of Rev. H. W. Har- 

 ing, D. D.. of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; 

 Egbert Heisler Morrison, born March 

 T4, 1870, a graduate of the Central 

 High School, now agent for the Gar- 

 lock Packing Company; Clara Maria 

 Morrison, born October 16, 1877, a grad- 

 uate of the Girls' Normal School, re- 

 siding at home: and Horace Stanton 

 Morrison, born March 20, 1879, a grad- 

 uate of the Northeast Manual Training 

 School and of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, now associate editor of the 

 Publications of Commercial Museums 

 of Philadelphia. 



H. S. PRENTISS NICHOLS. Esq., 

 of Philadelphia, was born in Columbia,. 

 Lancaster county. Pennsylvania, No- 

 vember 2. 1858. and is a son of Dr. Jo- 

 seph D. and Emilj' (Darrah) Nichols. 

 His grandfather was also a phj^sician 

 and a native of New Hampshire. Dr. 

 Joseph D. Nichols, was the proprietor 

 of an academy at Columbia, Lancaster 

 county, and died in T874. His wife 

 Emily Darrah was a daughter of Robert 

 Darrah, of Warminster Bucks county. 



