HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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Jane, born 9 mo. 27, 1830, married Jo- 

 seph Mathias Flack, died 1902; Preston 

 J., born 2 mo. i, 1836, a sketch of whom 

 will be found in this work; Rachel S., 

 born 10 mo. 31. 1837, married John M. 

 Gray, a sketch of whom will ;ilso be 

 found in this work; Isabella, born 1840, 

 married John R. Rapp, died 1903; Henry 

 C, born 1842. a soldier in the One Hun- 

 dred and Ninety-fourth Pennsylvania 

 Volunteers, died 5 mo. 31, 1862, from 

 typhoid fever contracted in the army; 

 Louisa, born 1846. married Amos Ran- 

 dall, died 1S90: Adaline. born 1848. died 

 1903; and John A., the subject of this 

 sketch. 



Dr. John A. Fell, the youngest of the 

 ten children of Jesse and Priscilla Fell, 

 received a rudimental education at 

 Church's public school, after which he 

 attended the Doylestown English and 

 Classical Seminary. He spent two years 

 teaching school in Buckingham, one and 

 a half years of which he was principal 

 of Hughesian Free School. The next 

 two years were spent at Lafayette Col- 

 lege. He then entered the University of 

 Pennsylvania and graduated in the class 

 of 1874. In the same year he accepted a 

 position as resident physician at the 

 Bedford Street ^Mission Hospital, where 

 he remained until Jaifuary i, 1875, when 

 he began the practice of his profession at 

 Centreville. Buckingham. He practiced 

 at Buckingham initil April i. 1888, when 

 he removed to Doylestown and forming 

 a partnership with John B. Livezey. 

 opened a drug store. At the end of one 

 year the partnership w^as dissolved, and 

 Dr. Fell went to attend lectures at the 

 Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for 

 Medical Graduates, during the next four- 

 teen months attending the whole thirty- 

 four courses; he passed a successful ex- 

 amination in all of them, and was elected 

 on June 23, 1890, the first Fellow of the 

 College. Li the same year he opened 

 an office on Oakland avenue, Doyles- 

 town. where he now resides, and re- 

 sumed the practice of medicine. Dr. 

 Fell is considered one of the leading 

 physicians of Bucks county, and has a 

 large practice. He has devoted especial 

 care to study of the defects and diseases 

 of the eye, and has considerable local 

 fame as an oculist. He is a member of 

 the County. State and American Medical 

 Associations. He has been a member 

 of the board of health from its organi- 

 zation; was assistant surgeon of the 

 Sixth Regiment National Guard, from 

 1884 to 1895, has been a member of the 

 Doylestown school board since 1891. 

 now^ serving his fifth term. He is a 

 member of Doylestown Lodge. No. 245. 

 F. and A. M.; of Aquetong Lodge. No. 

 193. T. O. O. F. ; Doylestown Encamp- 

 ment. No. 35: and Sciota Tribe. No. 214, 

 I. O. R. M. He was married. May 18, 

 1887. to Clara, daughter of Henry D. 

 and Anna (Wambold) Livezey. and is 



the father of two daughters. — Anna born^ 

 February 17. 1888; and Dorothea,' born- 

 January 4, 1896. 



PRESTON J. FELL, eldest son of 

 Jesse and Priscilla Sands Fell, was born 

 February i, 1836. on the farm owned 

 and occupied by his father, grandfather 

 and great-grandfather, and still owns 

 and occupies a part of it. The farm, as 

 owned by his grandfather, Jonas Fell, 

 included the farm of Mrs. Joseph Ellis, 

 on the opposite side of the Buckingham 

 and Doylestown turnpike, and he lived 

 and died there. Jesse Fell, the father of 

 the subject of this sketch, took up his 

 residence on the farm now occupied by- 

 the subject of this sketch upon his mar- 

 riage, and his children were all born 

 there, and Preston J. has resided there 

 all his life. He was educated at Church's 

 Public school and at the Hughesian 

 Free School of Buckingham. As the 

 eldest son, the respon?ible care of the 

 farm devolved upon him at an early 

 age, his father having died when he 

 was but twelve years of age. He 

 conducted the farm until the young- 

 est child was of age, and then pur- 

 chased it, and has conducted it to- 

 gether with the nursery business ever 

 since. He married, November 3, 1870,^ 

 Cassie H., daughter of Joseph and Eliza- 

 beth Stover. The Stovers came to Bucks 

 county from Switzerland about 1727. 

 They were residents of Bedminster for 

 several generations. Joseph Stover lived 

 for a time on the old homestead of his 

 father. Henry Stover, but later removed 

 to Buckingham and purchased the farm 

 and mill property still known as the 

 Stover Mill. 



Preston J. Fell is a Republican in pol- 

 itics, and has always taken an active part 

 in the afifairs of his township and 

 county. He was director of the poor 

 for three years; has been a member of 

 the township school board for many 

 years, serving as secretary of the board 

 for five years; and he is also a trustee 

 of the Hughesian Free School, and pres- 

 ident of both the Buckingham and ■ 

 Doylestown Turnnike Company and the 

 Centreville and Pineville Turnpike Com- 

 pany, and is supervisor and director of 

 the former company. He is a prominent, 

 man in the community, and has held 

 many positions of trust. 



DR. FRANK SWARTZLANDER, 

 physician and surgeon, of Doylestown, 

 was born in Southampton township, 

 Bucks county. February 9. 1842, being a 

 .son of Joseph and Abigail (Rankin) 

 Swartzlander. the former of German and 

 the latter of English descent, though 

 both were descended throngh several 

 generations of American birth. On the 



