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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



his majority, when with his brother 

 John he purchased the plant of Mr. Pax- 

 son. Two years later he purchased his 

 brother's interest, and successfully con- 

 ducted the business until his death in 

 1896. Jie was a man of much more 

 than ordinary business ability, and h 

 many positions of honor and trust. He 

 was a director of the Farmers' National 

 Bank of Bucks county from 1874 until 

 his death, also a director of the Bristol 

 Rolling Mill Company, the Bristol Im- 

 provement Company and the Standard 

 Fire Insurance Company of Trenton, 

 New Jersey, and was frequently called 

 upon to act as executor, administrator, 

 agent and guardian in the settlement 

 of estates. He was a consistent member 

 of the Society of Friends, and was high- 

 ly respected and esteemed in the com- 

 munity. He married, September 8, 1859, 

 Anna H. Bailey, daughter of John W. 

 and Phoebe (Brown) Bailey, of Falls 

 township, and a descendant of two old 

 and prominent families of Bucks county, 

 and they were the parents of five chil- 

 dren; Ida C, wife of A. Brock Shoe- 

 maker, a prominent merchant of Tully- 

 town; John, the subject of this sketch; 

 Pierson, who died in infancy; Rayinond 

 A. ; and Lilian C, wife of Allen Cor- 

 son, of Philadelphia. Anna (Bailey) Bur- 

 ton resides in Philadelphia. The ma- 

 ternal ancestors of the subject of this 

 sketch were also among the most promi- 

 nent people of Bucks county. Richard 

 Hough, the father of Mary, the wife of 

 Anthony Burton (2) was the son of 

 Richard and Margery (Clowes) Hough, 

 of Makefield, the former of whom came 

 from Macclesfield, in the county of 

 Chester, England, arriving in the Dela- 

 ware river in the "Endeavor," 7 mo. 29, 

 1683, and settled in Makefield township. 

 He was a member of provincial council, 

 and was drowned in the Delaware in 

 1706, while on his way to attend a meet- 

 ing of the council. His wife, Margery 

 Clowes, was a daughter of John and 

 Margery Clowes, who also came in the 

 "Endeavor" and settled in Makefield. 

 Rachel Sotcher, who became the wife 

 of John Burton (l) was the daughter 

 of Robert and Mercy (Brown) Sotcher, and 

 granddaughter of John and Mary (Lofty) 

 Sotcher, the latter of whom were William 

 Penn's trusted stewards at Pennsbury, 

 and John. Sotcher • was for many years 

 a member of colonial assembly. George 

 and Mercy Brown, the parents of IMercy, 

 the wife of Robert Sotcher, was the 

 j^oungest child of George and Mercy 

 Brown, who came from Leicestershire, 

 England, together in 1679, and were 

 married at New Castle on their arrival, 

 and later settled in Falls township, 

 where they reared a family of eight 

 sons and three daughters. General Ja- 

 cob Brown was a great-great-grandson 

 of George and Mercy Brown. Phoebe 

 (Brown) Bailey, the maternal grand- 



mother of the subject of this sketch, 

 was of the same lineage. The Headleys 

 and Baileys were also among the earliest 

 settlers in Lower Bucks, where they 

 have left numerous descendants. 



John Burton was educated at the 

 Friends' Central School in Philadelphia,, 

 and later took a course in Trenton Busi- 

 ness College, after which he assisted 

 his father in the conduct of the general 

 merchandise and coal business at TuUy- 

 town, and succeeded his father in 1893. 

 He is a director of the Farmers' Na- 

 tional Bank of Bucks county at Bris- 

 tol, and a director of the Bristol Im- 

 provement Company, treasurer of the 

 William Penn Mutual Loan and Build- 

 ing Association, of Tullytown, and a 

 director of the Standard Fire Insurance 

 Company, of Trenton, New Jersey. In 

 politics he is a Republican. He mar- t;. 

 ried, September I. 1893, Sarah G. East- 

 burn, daughter of Thomas C. and Abi 

 (Crozer) Eastburn, who was born in 

 Bucks county, Penn's Manor, in 1866, 

 and is a descendant of Robert and Sarah 

 (Preston) Eastburn, who came from 

 Yorkshire in 1714, their son Samuel set- 

 tling later in Solebury, from whence 

 Samuel Eastburn, a grandson of the 

 above named Samuel, removed to Penn's 

 Manor in 1803. The Eastburns were 

 members of the Society of Friends. 

 John and Sarah G. (Eastburn) Burton 

 have one son, Pierson Mitchell Burton. 



JACOB H. SWARTZ. The name 

 which introduces this record is that of 

 an honored veteran of the civil war, 

 and one of the enterprising agriculturists 

 of Plumstead township, and was also 

 borne by his paternal grandfather, who 

 lived and died in Bucks county, where 

 he followed farming for many years. 

 The family, although its earlier history 

 has not been preserved, was undoubt- 

 edly one of the first established in Bucks 

 county. Jacob Swartz, the grandfather, 

 who served in the war of 1812, purchased 

 of Nicholas Swartz in 1812 the farm 

 upon which his grandson and namesake 

 now resides, and the property has since 

 been continuously in the family. Jacob 

 Swartz was united in marriage to Miss 

 Ann Black, and they became the parents 

 of six children: Sarah Ann, Thomas B., 

 Catherine, wife of Lewis HoYn; Henry, 

 Cyrus, and Sophia, who married. Abra- 

 ham Garis, and after his death Josiah 

 Tomblin. 



Thomas B. Swartz, the eldest son of 

 Jacob and Ann (Black) Swartz, was 

 born April 16, 1813, upon the farm now 

 owned and occupied by his son Jacob, 

 and his boyhood da3'S were quietly 

 passed in the usual manner of farmer 

 lads of that period. He learned the 

 blacksmith's trade in his youth and fol- 

 lowed it for a number of years, but about 



