HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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Kinsey; and Martha, born 1756, married 

 Edward Rice. Mary (Kinsey) Fell, was 

 born 2 mo. 29, 1715, and died 12 mo. 29, 

 1769. 



Joseph Fell, eldest son of Joseph and 

 Mary, born 8 mo. 31, 1738, on the home- 

 stead farm in Buckingham, married 10 

 mo, 21, 1767, Rachel Wilson, born 4 mo. 

 5, 1741, died 3 mo. 8, i8ro, daughter of 

 Samuel and Rebecca (Canby) Wilson, of 

 Buckingham, and removed to Upper 

 Makefield, where he purchased a farm. 

 He died there 3 mo. 26, 1789. He had 

 eight children, six of whom grew to ma- 

 turity, viz.: Joseph, born 1768, married 

 Esther Burroughs; John, born 1770, mar- 

 ried Edith Smith; Martha, married Ben- 

 jamin Schofield; David, married Phebe 

 Schofield; Jonathan, born S mo. 5, 1776; 

 Rachel, born 1783, married John Speak- 

 man. 



Jonathan, son of Joseph and Rachel, 

 was born in Upper Makefield township, 

 5 mo. 5, 1776, and married i mo. 2, 1799, 

 Sarah Balderston, and removed to North- 

 ampton township. Two years later he 

 removed to Falls township, near Mor- 

 risville, where he lived until 1831, and 

 then removed to the old homestead of 

 his ancestors in Buckingham, where he 

 died 7 mo. 27. 1849. His wife Sarah died 

 at Morrisville 11 mo. 23, 1802, and he 

 married 10 mo. 11, 1809, Jane Buckman, 

 born 12 mo. 12. 1784. died 3 mo. 25, 1874, 

 daughter of James and Sarah (Burroughs) 

 Buckman. By his first wife he had two chil- 

 dren — Jane, who married Seth Davis ; and 

 Rebecca, who died an infant. By his second 

 marriage he had six children, viz. : James, 

 born in 1810, married (first) ]\Iary Cad- 

 wallader, and (second) IMary Holcombe; 

 Sarah, who never married; Joshua, born 

 2 mo. 22, 1814, married Mary Watson, 

 has been postmaster and merchant at 

 Mechanicsville for many years; Eliza- 

 beth, born 1817, died 1853, unmarried; 

 Hannah, born 2 mo. 22, 1820, married 

 Thomas Story Smith, of Upper Make- 

 field; David, born 11 mo. 13, 1823, mar- 

 ried Margaret Atkinson. 



David Fell, the father of the subject 

 of this sketch, born in Penn's IManor, 

 near Morrisville, 11 mo. 13, 1823, was the 

 youngest child of Jonathan and Jane 

 Buckman Fell. As he was but eight 

 years old when the family moved to the 

 old homestead in Buckingham, his boy- 

 hood days were spent on the farm that 

 remained his home during the rest of his 

 life. He was a man of high character, 

 much esteemed in the neighborhood, and 

 held many positions of trust. Like his 

 ancestors for many generations, he was 

 a member of the Society of Friends, and 

 a regular attendant at Buckingham Meet- 

 ing. He died on the old homestead 8 

 mo. 9. 1887. He had married I mo. 3, 

 1850. Margaret, daughter of Abner and 

 Sarah Atkinson, who bore him three 

 children; Sarah Jane, born 11 mo. 7, 

 1850, married Horace Michener, living 



in Doylestown; Marj- Lester, born 9 mo. 

 26, 1853, married Thomas B. Claxton. 

 and died; and Lewis, the subject of this 

 sketch. Margaret (Atkinson) Fell is 

 still living in Doylestown. 



Lewis \W Fell was born on the home- 

 stead of his ancestors in Buckingham, 6 

 mo. 2, 1857, and remained thereon until 

 1881. He was educated at the public 

 school of the neighborhood and at the 

 Doylestown English and Classical Sem- 

 inary. In the spring of 1881 he accepted 

 a position in the store of his brother-in- 

 law, Evan T. Worthington, at Bucking- 

 ham, and two years later acquired an 

 interest in the business, forming a co- 

 partnership under the firm name of 

 Worthington & Fell, wdiich lasted for 

 six years, when he purchased the entire 

 interest in the store and has since con- 

 ducted it with marked success. The 

 store has the reputation of being one of 

 the best country stores in the county and 

 does a large, trade. Mr. Fell was ap- 

 pointed postmaster of Buckingham on 

 February 18, 1890. and has held the po- 

 sition continuously since. In 1896 Mr. 

 Fell was one of the organizers of a local 

 telephone company in Buckingham, 

 which was later purchased by the Stand- 

 ard Telephone Company, who estab- 

 lished their exchange in his store, which 

 is also the exchange for the Bell Tele- 

 phone Company. ]\Ir. Fell is a member 

 of Aquetong Lodge, No. 193, I. O. O. F., 

 of Doylestown. and was an original 

 member of Buckingham Castle, No. 208, 

 A. O. K. of the M. C, and has been its 

 treasurer since 1893. He is a member of 

 Buckingham Friends' Meeting. Po- 

 litically he is a Republican. 



Mr. Fell was married on January 20, 

 1881, to Emma Clara Worthington, 

 daughter of Elisha and Harriet (Lukens) 

 Worthington, who has borne him two 

 children: Arthur D., who assists his 

 father in the business; and Ashton W., 

 w-ho is private secretary to John 

 Shreeve. publisher . of the "Atlantic City 

 Review," Atlantic City, New Jersey. Mr. 

 Shreeve is also secretary for Congress- 

 man Gardner, and secretary of the Con- 

 gress of Labor. Both the sons are grad- 

 uates of Friends Central School, Phila- 

 delphia, and of Pierce's Business Col- 

 lege. 



ALLEN G. MOYER belongs to one 

 of the old and honored families of Bucks 

 county. The name was variously spelled 

 bv the ancestors, some using the form 

 of Meyer, while others continued the 

 spelling used by the subject of this re- 

 view and his immediate branch of tFe 

 family. 



His father. Christian Moyer. was born 

 near Sumneytown, ]\Tontgomery couaty. 

 about 1814. In early life he followed 

 milling, but later engasred in merchan- 

 dising at New Galena, Pennsylvania, for 



