HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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1871. Henry H. Stout died January 12, 

 1854. Both are buried at Tohincon. 

 Their children were: Catharine, born 

 1798; Mary, born 1800; Samuel, 1802; 

 Magdalene, born 1805; Hannah, born 

 1807; Elizabeth, born 1809; Enos, born 

 April 17, 1813; Lydia, born January 18, 

 1815; and Annie, born 1821. 



Enns Stout, only son of Henry H. and 

 Elizabeth (Kern) Stout, was born and 

 reared on the Hilltown homestead, a 

 part of which he purchased on attaining 

 manhood, and erected buildings there- 

 on. At the death of his father he pur- 

 chased the remainder and lived thereon, 

 during life. He was a prominent and 

 influential man in the commtmity, and 

 a memebr of the German Reformed 

 church. He married, November 13, 

 1834. Catharine Kratz. daughter of John 

 and Magdalena (Swartlander) Kratz. of 

 Plumstead, his cousin, her mother 

 being a daughter of Gabriel and 

 Salome (Stout) Swartzlander. Catharine 

 w^as born May 2, 1809, and died March 

 31, 1890. Enos Stout died December 

 6, 1886. Their children were: Lewis K., 

 born December 22, 1835: John Henry, 

 born July 22. 1838: Reuben, born March 

 28. 1841; Allen K.. born May 21. 1843; 

 Edward Clayton, born March 3, 1846; 

 died January 28, 1862; and Wilhelmina, 

 born 1850, died 1862. 



Lewis K. Stout, eldest son of Enos 

 and Catharine (Kratz) Stout, and the 

 father of Dr. Oliver Stout, was born on 

 the Hilltown farm, and educated at the 

 public schools. He taught school in 

 Hilltown. Bedminster and Rockhill town- 

 ships, in all eight years. He was a jus- 

 tice of the peace of Rockhill township 

 for five years, 1874-1779. In April. 1886, 

 he removed to Philadelphia, where he 

 resided until May l. 1903, when he re- 

 moved to Perkasie. Bucks countv. Penn- 

 sylvania, where he still resides. He mar- 

 ried. October 28, 1865. Lavina ]\T. Alt- 

 house, born August 23, T844. daugbter 

 of Samuel and Sarah (Mitman) Alt- 

 house, of Bedminster. Bucks county, 

 and thev are the parents of seven chil- 

 dren, viz.: Henry Erwin, born Septem- 

 ber 15, 1866, died April 8. 1874; Annie 

 A., born January 14. 186S, unmarried; 

 Oliver A., the subject of this sketch; 

 Edward Clayton, born August 12, 1872, 

 graduate of the College of Pharmacy, 

 Philadelphia, a druggist at 4628 Wood- 

 land avenue, Philadelphia; Charles A., 

 also a graudate of the College of Phar- 

 macy and now a druggist at Eighth and 

 Diamond streets. Philadelnhia; Philip 

 Samuel, born August 20. 1877. graduat- 

 ed at the College of Pharmacy. Phila- 

 delphia, class of 1899, graduate of Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, class of 1904, 

 now demonstrator in pathology in the 

 University; Benjamin Franklin, born 

 January 18. 1880, a graduate of the Col- 

 lege of Pharmacy in 1903, a druggist 

 at Tonopah, Nevada. 



DR. OLIVER A. STOUT, second son 

 of Lewis K. and Lavina M. (Althouse) 

 Stout, was born in East Rockhill town- 

 ship, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, No- 

 vember II, 1869. He was reared in Rock- 

 hill, and received his elementary educa- 

 tion in the Rockhill public schools, sup- 

 plemented by two years at the Perkasie 

 high school, entered the College of 

 Pharmacy', and graduated from the three 

 years' course in 1891. He entered the 

 medical department of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, from which he graduated 

 in 1893. He was drug clerk for J. How- 

 ard Evans, at Sixth and Venanga 

 streets for one year; then located at 

 Twentieth and York streets, where he 

 practiced medicine for two years. In 

 i8q6 he purchased the drug store at 

 Fifth street and Glenwood avenue, of 

 J. Howard Evans, where he is still lo- 

 cated. He is a member of Welcome 

 Lodge. No. 453. F. and A. M., of PJiila- 

 delphia, of the Jr. O. U. A. M., the For- 

 esters of America, and the P. O. S. A. 

 He married. June 11, 1902, Gail Louise 

 Simpkins. daughter of Samuel Robert 

 and Louise (Patterson) Simpkins, and' 

 they are the parents of one child, Lou- 

 ise Martindale, born June II, 1903- 



ANNIE COMFORT. The ancestry of 

 Annie Comfort can be traoed back to 

 John Comfort, the first of the name 

 known in Bucks county. He brought a 

 certificate from -the Friends of Flushing,. 

 Long Island, to the Friends' monthly 

 meeting held in Falls township, Decem- 

 ber 15, 1719. Pleased with this portion 

 of the country he settled in Amwell, 

 Hunterdon county. New Jersey, where 

 he continued to follow farming through- 

 out his active life. On the sixth day of 

 .August, 1720. he married Miss Mary 

 Wilson, and they had three children: 

 Stenhen. Sarah, and Robert. 



(TI) Steohen Comfort, eldest son of 

 John Comfort, was married August 25, 

 1744, to Mercy Croasdale, and they had 

 nine children: John, Ezra. Jeremiah, 

 -Stephen, Grace, who became the wife of 

 Jonathan Stackhouse; Mercv, who be- 

 came the wife of Aaron Phillips; Moses, 

 Robert, and Hannah. 



(Ill) John Comfort, eldest son of 

 Stephen Corftfort, removed from Mount 

 Holly, New Jerse3^ in 1793, and settled 

 upon the farm where his descendants 

 are still living. He married Miss Mary 

 Woolman. a daughter of John and Sa- 

 rah (Ellis) Woolman. and six children 

 were the issue of this marriage: Samuel, 

 John, Stephen, Mary, who became the 

 wife of Moses Doan; Ellis, and Joseph. 

 John Comfort was the father of another 

 child. Ezra, by a second marriage. John 

 Woolman, father of Mrs. Comfort, was 

 a very noted man in his day in the So- 



