HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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1765, died May 30, 1827, at the age of sev- 

 enty-two years. He was .twice married ; 



first to Sarah , who died about 1749, 



and (second) to Phoebe Mott, born May 

 26, 1754, died July 23, 1847, aged ninety- 

 three years. The children of the first mar- 

 riage were as follows: i. Daniel, see 

 forward; 2. Phoebe, married Benjamin 

 Kelly, son of Joseph and Phoebe (Buck- 

 . man) Kelly, and had three children: Ben- 

 jamin; Elizabeth, married Thomas Miller; 

 and Sarah, married John Miller. 3. Eliza- 

 beth, never married. 4. Mary, born March 

 19, 1794, died January 22, 1866, married 

 John Stackhouse, and had two children, 

 one of whom, Phoebe, married 1847, Joseph 

 Brown, of Fallsington, and has two chil- 

 dren : Charles and Edward. 

 f Daniel Moon, eldest child of William and 

 Sarah, born July 5, 1789, died August 21, 

 1869, aged eighty years. He married Mercy 

 Lovett, born July 17, 17S9, died December 

 23, 1840, daughter of Evan Lovett and 

 Sarah Neeld (nee Stackhouse) and they 

 were the parents of eleven children: i. 

 William L., born August 25, 1810, died 1900; 

 married in 1839, Elizabeth Y. Williamson, 

 born July i, 1819, died July 26, 1891, daugh- 

 ter of Mahlon and Charity (Vansant) Will- 

 iamson, and had eleven children, five of 

 whom survive: Daniel H., born October 15, 

 1843 ; Mary Jane, widow of Andrew Crozer 

 Reeves, whose only child Andrew C. Reeves, 

 is prominent in the business interests of 

 Trenton, New Jersey; Mercy Ann, wife of 

 Frank W. JNIuschert, senior member of the 

 wholesale grocery firm of ISIuschert, 

 Reeves & Company, Trenton, New Jersey, 

 and has one child, William M. Muschert; 

 Georgiana Watson, of Langhorne, Pennsyl- 

 vania, who has three children, Elizabeth W., 

 Thompson, Elwood Watson, and Margaret 

 Watson; and Anna Elizabeth, wife of Will- 

 iam B. Parry, of Langhorne, who have two 

 children. 2. Evan L. Moon, born August 

 8, 1812, died April 19, 1898; married (first) 

 Ann Palmer, ]\Iarch 12, 1835, and had one 

 child, Owen, a more particular account of 

 whom is given below. Evan L. Moon mar- 

 ried (second) Mary Atchley, and had two 

 children, Jesse and Daniel, the latter of 

 whom married Mary Fell, daughter of 

 Henry R. and Rachel W. Fell, of Trenton. 

 New Jersey, and has four children ; Arthur 

 E., Elizabeth F., Rachel W., and Ridgway. 

 3. Sarah, born July 9, 1814, died Septem- 

 ber 7, 1883, married George Thompson, 

 who died in 1864, and had four children, 

 three boys and one daughter. ^lercy Ann, 

 who married B. Woolston Watson, in 1862, 

 and has three children. 4. John Moon, 

 died in infancy. 5. Owen, born 1817, died 

 at the age of thirteen. 6. Daniel, died ui 

 infancy in 1819. 7. John Hutchinson Moon, 

 born October 5, 1820, married in 1848, 

 Sarah Ann Crozer, daughter of Robert and 

 Grace (Wright) Crozer, and had six chil- 

 dren. 8. Andrew Moon, born October 16, 

 1823, died January 2, 1897 ; married, Feb- 

 ruary 20, 1845, Anna Mary Watson, daugh- 

 ter o'f Miles and Ann (Kelly) Watson, and 



had three children; M. Watson Moon, of 

 Fallsington, who married Charlotte Green 

 ^lull, daughter of Ebenezer and Sarah 

 (Green) Mull, and has three daughters, 

 Emma, wife of Willets B. Farley; Jennie 

 and Annie, unmarried. 9. Phoebe: Ann 

 :\Ioon, born October 5, 1825, married 

 (first) January 20, 1848, William 

 Kelly, who died in 1862, leaving one 

 child, Daniel Edward, who married 

 Mary F. Gilkyson, and had six chil- 

 dren; she married (second) in 1865, 

 John Hellings, and had no children. 10. 

 Benjamin, born September i, 1827, died 

 1S64; married Rebecca B. Miller, and had 

 one child Ella. 11. Anna Mary, born July 

 II, 1829, married, October 24, 1861, William 

 Penn Crozer, son of Robert and Grace 

 (Wright) Crozer, and has one child, Mercy. 



Owen Moon, only child of Evan L. and 

 Ann (Palmer) Moon, born January i, 1836; 

 married December 14, 1859, Elizabeth Buck- 

 man, daughter of Spencer W. and Sarah 

 (Williamson) Buckman, and their only sur- 

 viving child is Owen Moon, Jr., of the 

 "Trenton (New Jersey) Times." The ma- 

 ternal ancestry of Mr. Moon is given under 

 the heading of the Williamson Family. 



Owen Moon, Jr., son of Owen and Eliza- 

 beth (Buckman) Moon, was born at Penn 

 Valley, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, De- 

 cember 6, 1873. He received his primary 

 education at local schools and graduated at 

 Swarthmore College in June, 1894, with 

 the degree of B. Sc, and is a member of the 

 national college fraternity of Delta Upsilon. 

 In the fall of 1894 he removed to Trenton, 

 New Jersey, and in conjunction with a 

 course at Trenton Business College, took 

 up the study of law, but relinquished it a 

 year and a half later to devote himself to 

 a number of business interests. From 1896 

 to 1901 he was interested in the construc- 

 tion of a number of electric railways in 

 Philadelphia, Trenton, Bucks county and 

 elsewhere, as director and ofiicial of the 

 various organizations having them in charge. 



He was perhaps more largely interested 

 in trolley development in and about Tren- 

 ton than any other individual. He was 

 president of the Trenton, Morrisville and 

 Yardley Street Railway Company, who con- 

 structed a line of six miles connecting those 

 towns ; was a director and financial agent 

 of the Trenton, Lawrenceville and Prince- 

 ton Railroad Company, which constructed a 

 trolley line of ten miles connecting those 

 towns ; a director and treasurer of the Tren- 

 ton City Bridge Company, the owners of the 

 only Delaware river bridge at this point not 

 controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad 

 Company, and which bridge was purchased 

 from the former (Bucks county) owners, 

 on account of it being the key to any trolley 

 connection between Pennsylvajiia and Tren- 

 ton. These two trolley lines, upon their 

 completion, together with the bridge, were 

 sold to the Lehigh Valley Traction Company 

 interests, represented by Mayor Tom L. 

 Johnson, of Cleveland, Ohio, and are now 

 successfully operated by that company. Mr. 



