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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



the rank of lieutenant, is now proprietor 

 of a hat store in Philadelphia. Rebec- 

 ca C, who became the wife of J. Tyson, 

 of Abingdon, but both are now deceased; 

 Isaac is the third of the family; Oliver, 

 is a farmer of Warminster township ; 

 William is a practicing physician of 

 Haynesport, New Jersey; Charles C. 

 is a farmer of Wrightstown township; 

 Thomas E. is living in California; Jo- 

 seph S. is an attorney-at-law of Ho- 

 boken, New Jersey. 



Isaac Parry was born upon the home 

 farm, June 30, 1844, and under his fa- 

 ther's instructions learned the various meth- 

 ods of tilling the soil and caring for the 

 crops. In 1869 he was married, after 

 which he rented the homestead and con- 

 tinued its cultivation for two years. In 

 1872 he purchased the Hart homestead, 

 including the town site of Ivyland. He 

 removed to this farm, remaining there- 

 on for five years, and then sold forty 

 acres of the land to Edwin Lacey, who 

 desired to build the town of Ivyland 

 there. Later he sold the remainder of 

 the farm to Comly Walker, and in 1877 

 removed from the place. In 1878 he 

 took up his abode upon the old Parry 

 homestead, and in 1886 purchased the 

 interest of the other heirs in the prop- 

 erty, making his home thereon continu- 

 ously. In 1877 he bought the interest 

 of L. W. Damenhower in a coal and feed 

 business at Bradyville, and continued in 

 the business twenty-eight years. He se- 

 cured an extensive patronage through- 

 out the surroutiding country, and gave 

 his personal attention to his mercantile 

 interests, while his farm is operated un- 

 der his personal supervision. He is both 

 a practical and successful agriculturist 

 and business man. In his political 

 views Mr. Parry has always been a 

 stanch Republican, and his filled some 

 township offices, including those of audi- 

 tor and supervisor, j^et he has always 

 preferred to give his undivided attention 

 to his business affairs. In addition to 

 his agricultural and commercial inter- 

 ests, he is a stockholder in the National 

 Bank and in other corporations. He has 

 a wide and favorable acquaintance, is 

 known for his reliability and enterprise, 

 and stands to-day as one of the repre- 

 sentative men of his community. Mr. 

 Parry was married March 11, 1869, to 

 Miss Elizabeth Logan, who was born at 

 Jenkintown. Pennsjdvania, and is a 

 daughter of George and Jane (Shoe- 

 maker) Logan, belonging to one of the 

 old and honored families of eastern 

 Pennsylvania. The children of the Lo- 

 gan family were Elizabeth; Theodore, 

 now deceased; and Albanus. To Mr, 

 and Mrs. Parry have been born three 

 children: Samuel D., who is principal of 

 the Olney public school in Philadelphia, 

 Pennsylvania; George, a practicing dent- 

 ist of Jenkintown; and Charles K., who 

 is engaged in the lumber business of 



Philadelphia as a member of the Right- 

 er, Parry Lumber Company. The chil- 

 dren have been provided with good 

 educational privileges, thus fitting them 

 for the responsible and practical duties 

 of life. 



JOHN BURTON, of Tullytown, deal- 

 er in coal and general merchandise, was 

 born in Tullytown, Pennsylvania, Aug- 

 ust 12, 1864, and is a son of Elwood 

 and Anna H. (Bailey) Burton, of Tully- 

 town,. and a representative of a family 

 that have been prominent in the settle- 

 ment and development of Bucks county 

 for six generations. 



Anthony Burton, the emigrant ances- 

 tor of the family, was a native of Eng- 

 land, and was among the earliest settlers 

 in Bristol township, where he owned 

 land as early as 1684. His name ap- 

 pears among those who registered the 

 "ear marks" for their cattle in the old 

 book kept for that purpose by Phinehas 

 Pemberton in 1684. On March 16, 1695, 

 he and Thomas Burk purchased the 

 tract of land on which the town of Bris- 

 tol was subsequently built, and laid it 

 out in streets and building lots, and laid 

 the foundation of the present metropolis 

 of Bucks. It was incorporated by the 

 provincial council of Pennsylvania at a 

 meeting of that body held at the house 

 of Phinehas Pemberton in Falls town- 

 ship. Bucks county, on the petition of 

 "severall in that countie for a Market 

 Town, viz: att the Ferry agt. Burling- 

 ton, within the said township of Buck- 

 ingham, and that the sd persons have 

 projected the same Into ways & streets, 

 Haveing regard to the divisions of div- 

 ers men's Land by the sd streets in the 

 sd Town as how laid down," whereupon, 

 "It was resolved by the Gouvernor & 

 Council, that a town be there erected and 

 the ways & streets to be according to 

 ye model ye agreed upon." The town 

 being erected, grew to such importance 

 that Mr. Burton and other lot holders 

 on October 17, 1718, petitioned* the coun- 

 cil to erect it into a borough, which 

 was done, and its charter as engrossed 

 was agreed to by the board of provin- 

 cial councillors at a meeting held July 

 19, 1720. The name of Buckingham, 

 first selected for the new town, was soon 

 dropped, and it retained the name of 

 Bristol. 



Anthonj^ Burton was a man of liberal 

 education and wielded a wide influence 

 in the communitj'. He was commissioned 

 a justice of the peace on May 13, 1715, 

 and was regularly re-commissioned until 

 '^72)?f and probably held the position un- 

 til his death in 1739, the records for 

 the intervening period merely stating 

 "Justices now acting, re-commissioned." 

 He was a member of the established 

 church, and donated the land upon 

 which St. James Episcopal church of 



