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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 



and his familj' are members of Bucking- 

 ham Friends Meeting. 



He was married in 1868 to Mary, 

 daughter of Edward and Phoebe Ellen 

 (Sciiolield) Williams. They have been 

 the parents of seven children, viz.: Alvan 

 W., born September 22, 1869. now a suc- 

 cessful physician in Trenton. New Jer- 

 sey; Ellen, born December I, 1870, now 

 wife of Edward A. Jenkins, of Swarth- 

 more; Anna, born April 7. 1872. now the 

 wife of Richard C. Sellers, of Swarth- 

 more; Edith, born April 7, 1877, wife of 

 Samuel P. Green, of Kennett Square, 

 Chester county; Florence, born Novem- 

 ber 8, 1881. died November 22. 1886; 

 Mahlon, born July 12, 1884. died Novem- 

 ber 15. 1885; and Emily, born July 28, 

 1888, residing at home. 



MARY ATKINSON TURNER. 

 Charles S. Atkinson, eldest surviving 

 son of Mahlon and Sarah H. (Smith) 

 Atkinson, was born in Buckingham town- 

 ship, Bucks county, March 30, 1841. and 

 was educated at the public schools of 

 his native township and at the First 

 Pennsvlvania State Normal School at 

 Millersville. and the Claverack Academy, 

 on the Hudson, New York. In 1862 he 

 located in Solebruy. where he has since 

 followed farming in connection with va- 

 rious other business enterprises. In 

 1879 he purchased the agricultural works 

 at New Hope and carried on the manu- 

 facture and sale of agricultural imple- 

 ments for manv years. He married in 

 1862 Matilda R. Magill, daughter of 

 Jonathan P. and Mary (Watson) Ma- 

 gill. of Solebury. and they have one 

 child, Mary M. Atkinson, now the wife 

 of H. W. Turner, a veterinary surgeon, 

 who practiced his profession for a num- 

 ber of years at Lahaska, Bucks county, 

 and for several years past has been en- 

 gaged as veterinary surgeon for an 

 equestrian establishment traveling through 

 different parts of Europe and Amer- 

 ica. Dr. and Mrs. Turner have no 

 children. 



Mrs. Atkinson was a lineal descendant 

 of Jeremiah Wollaston, of New Castle 

 county, Delaware, who married Cathar- 

 ine, daughter of George and Catharine 

 (Hollingsworth) Robinson, at Newark,, 

 (now Kennett) Monthly Meeting of 

 Friends. 9 mo. 21, 1716. Their son, 

 James Wollaston, born 11 mo. 26, 1724^ 

 married Mary Chambers, 11 mo. 16,. 

 1752, at New Garden Meeting, Chester 

 county, was the great-grandfather of 

 Mrs. Atkinson. The Wollastons were 

 large landholders in Delaware. Thomas 

 Wollaston, the father of Mrs. Atkin- 

 son, was born in Delaware, and died in 

 Chester county at the age of eighty 

 years. 



Silas C. and Anna C. (Wollaston) At- 

 kinson were the parents of four chil- 

 dren: Alice M.. residing at home; Sa- 

 rah H., wife of Robert H. Engle, of Mt. 

 Holly, New Jersey; Jane; and Susan W., 

 the two latter named residing at home. 

 All the children are graduates of Swarth- 

 more College. The family are members- 

 of the Society of Friends. 



SILAS C. ATKINSON. Deceased, 

 son of IMahlon and Sarah (Smith) At- 

 kinson, was born in Buckingham town- 

 ship, on the old Atkinson homestead. 

 September 20. 184,1, and died on his farm 

 near Bycot. in October. 1876. He was 

 educated at the public schools of Buck- 

 ingham, and at the Excelsior Normal 

 Institute at Carversville. He married. 

 October 17. 1867, Anna C. daughter of 

 Thomas and Minerva (Pennoch) Woll- 

 aston, of Chester county. Pennsylvania, 

 and settled on the farm where he died. 

 and where his widow and family still 

 reside. He was a man of fine qualities, 

 and was universally esteemed in the 

 comnninity in which he lived. 



WILLIAM H. ATKINSON, of Buck- 

 ingham, son of Joseph and Eliza (Hibbs) 

 Atkinson, and grandson of Thomas and 

 Jane (Smith) Atkinson, some account of 

 whom is given upon other pages of this 

 work, was born at Pineville, Bucks coun- 

 ty. Pennsvlvania. August 10, 1850. 



Joseoh S. Atkinson, deceased, the fath- 

 er of the subject of this sketch, was born 

 in Buckingham township, August g, 

 182^ being a son of Thomas and Jane 

 (Smith) A"tkinson. He was a prominent 

 farmer and large landholder in Bucks 

 county. The first fifty years of his life 

 was spent in Buckingham township. 

 About T879 he purchased the Shaw farm 

 in Solebury township, near Lahaska. and 

 lived thereon for several years. He la- 

 ter built a house in Lahaska and retired 

 from farming. He died 3 mo. 27. T900. 

 His wife was Eliza, daughter of Will- 

 iam and Margery (Kirk) Hibbs, of Pine- 

 ville. by whom he had four children:, 

 William' H.. the subject of this sketch; 

 Thomas, who died on the Solebury- 

 homestead in TQ03: Mary, wife of George 

 Watsnn. of Dovlestown; and Albert, 

 who died in infancy. 



The subject of this sketch was reared 

 on the farm in Buckingham, attended the 

 nublic schools of the neighborhood, and 

 later the Excelsior Normal Institute at 

 Carversville and the Doylestown English 

 and Classical Seminary. On arriving at 

 manhood he took charge of the home 

 farm, his father beinsr occupied with 

 the management of his other nroper- 

 lics. and. on his marriage in 1879. his^ 

 father removed to Solebury. and he took 

 entire charge of the farm, which witW 

 six other farms he acquired at his fath- 

 er's death. 



