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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 



purchase lying in Warwick township, 

 and it lias descended from father to son 

 to the present day, being now occupied 

 by Charles T. Wilkinson, a grandson of 

 Abraham, the son of John and Jane 

 (Chapman) Wilkinson. (See sketch of 

 ■Charles T. Winkinson in this volume.) 

 Colonel Elisha Wilkinson, born 1772, 

 died March 15, 1846, youngest son of 

 John and Hannah (Hughes) Wilkinson, 

 became a very prominent man in Bucks 

 county. He was lieutenant-colonel of 

 the Ihirty-lirst Regiment Pennsylvania 

 militia, as early as 1807, and hlled that 

 position and that of colonel for many 

 years. He was sheriff of Bucks county 

 for the term of 1809-1811. During the 

 war of 1812-14 he was quarter-master" 

 of the Second Division, First Brigade, 

 Pennsylvania militia, of which his 

 brother-in-law, General Samuel A. 

 Smith, was brigadier-general. He later 

 became assistant quartermaster general 

 of Pennsylvania Volunteer militia. He 

 was proprietor of the inn at Bushington 

 from 1S05 to 1809, and from 181 1 to 

 1836 of the popular hotel at Centreville, 

 Buckingham township. He was a man 

 of fine appearance and a great horse- 

 man. He introduced into Bucks county 

 a very fine breed of Arabian horses, and 

 maintained a track near his tavern, 

 where his blooded colts were broken 

 and trained. He was twice married, first 

 on April II, 1792, to Anna Dungan, 

 xjaughter of Elias and Diana (Carrell) 

 Dungan, of Northampton township, who 

 bore him four children : John A., a mem- 

 ber of the Doylestown bar, wTio died in 

 1830; Ogden D., see forward. B'C'ei«U6T^ 

 born March 22, 1794, married October 

 18, 181 1, Crispin Blackfan, who was 

 prothonotary of Bucks count}' in 1821- 

 4, and later removed to Trenton, New 

 Jersey. '':^«iiT»lY died >Iay 8, 1818, and 

 Blackfan married her sister, ^ffMlftjk. 

 born August 14, 1796, died December 

 6, 1858. Anna (Dungan) Wilkinson 

 died May 31, 1810, aged thirty-six years, 

 and Colonel Elisha married (second) 

 Maria Whiteman, by whom he had six 

 children: I. Sarah Ann, who died at 

 Trenton. New Jersey, in 1880, unmar- 

 ried; 2. Ross Wilkinson, who was edu- 

 ■cated at West Point, and served as a ma- 

 jor during the civil war, and after its 

 close purchased a plantation in Louisi- 

 ana, where he died in 1880. He was Uni- 

 ted States .marshal of the district at the 

 time of his death. He married Hannah 

 Ann Folwell, of Philadelphia, and had 

 two children; his son, Henry Clay Wilk- 

 inson, was also educated at West Point, 

 and was adjutant of Coloney Woodman's 

 Forty-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania 

 Volunteers during the civil war. 3. 

 Samuel Smith Wilkinson left Bucks 

 countj' and settled in Dallas, Texas, 

 where he died, February 26, 1879. 4. 

 Edward Blackfan Wilkinson, was a dent- 

 ist, and located at Huntsville, Alabama. 



He died of cholera, while on a visit to 

 Paris, France, June 20, 1854., at the age 

 of twenty-five years, and is buried at 

 Mount Parnasse, Paris. 5. Elisha, died 

 in infancy. 6. Algernon Logan Wilkin- 

 son, born October 22, 1821, settled in 

 Huntsville, Alabama, in 1844, where he 

 practiced medicine, married, and reared 

 a family of children. 



Anna (Dungan) Wilkinson belonged to 

 one of the oldest families in Pennsyl- 

 vania'. Her father, Elias Dungan, was a 

 soldier during the Revolution, and a 

 prominent member and deacon of South- 

 ampton. Baptist church. He was a son 

 of Clement and Eleanor Dungan. and a 

 grandson of Jeremiah and Elizabeth 

 (Drake) Dungan, and a great-grand»on 

 of Rev. Thomas and Elizabeth (Weav- 

 er) Dungan, who came from Rhode Isl- 

 and in 1684, and established th^ first 

 Baptist church in Bucks county. (See 

 Dungan Family). 



Ogden Dungan Wilkinson, second son 

 of Colonel Elisha and Anna (Dungan) 

 AVilkinson, was born in Bucks county, 

 1807; married, March 6, 1834, Sarah 

 Snowhill Dill, born August 16, 1801, 

 daughter of George Dill and Ann Red- 

 inger, who were married at Germantown, 

 February 6, 1797, she being the daughter 

 of John Redinger and Elizabeth Beker, 

 who were married February 14, 1758. 

 George Dill was the son of John and 

 Elizabeth Dill; his father, John Dill, 

 was an officer during the Revolutionary 

 war. George Dill was born February 

 7, 1772, settled in Trenton, New Jersey, 

 and April 2, 1798, purchased his home- 

 stead property. He was one of the larg- 

 est real estate holders in Trenton, and 

 did much to build up and improve the 

 city. He was interested in numerous 

 business enterprises, was one of the 

 founders of the Mechanics' Bank and for 

 some years its president. Ogden Dun- 

 gan Wilkinson moved to Trenton, New 

 Jersey, in 1832. He and his brother- 

 in-law, Crispin Blackfan, builf the Dela- 

 ware and Raritan Canal, from Trenton 

 to New Brunswick. They were many 

 years in business together and opened 

 up and built up much of the cit^^ 



Ogden Wilkinson (or Colonel Wilkin- 

 son, as he was known, he having been 

 colonel of militia), was one of Trenton's 

 most influential citizens. He was inter- 

 ested in many of the business enterprises 

 and acted as director of several of the 

 banks and filled other local as well as 

 municipal positions of trust. He died 

 August 24, 1866. His wife died Febru- 

 ary 16. 1891. They were the parents of 

 several children, only one of whom, 

 Frederick Redinger, survived infancy. 



Frederick Redinger Wilkinson, Only 

 surviving child of Ogden D. and Sarah 

 Snowhill (Dill) Wilkinson, was born in 

 Trenton June 9, 1837; and graduated 

 from Princeton, in the class of 1857. He 

 married, January 24, i860. Harriet Sarah 



