HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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which his family also belong. He is a 

 member of the choir, and has served 

 ten years as treasurer of the Sunday 

 school, in which he has been a teacher 

 since 1864. 



Mr. Clymer married, January 29, 1869, 

 Andora, daughter of Samuel and Cath- 

 arine (Trumbauer) Troxel, of Mont- 

 gomery county, and they have one son, 

 Benjamin Franklin, who was born Sep- 

 tember, 1870, attended the Quakertown 

 public schools, and is now a commer- 

 cial traveller, residing in Wilmington, 

 Delaware. C. T. Clymer married in 

 1884, for his second wife, Margaret, 

 daughter of David and Rachel (Kulp) 

 Kulp, of Skippack township, Montgom- 

 ery county, and they have one son, Will- 

 iam Kulp Clymer, who was born June 

 20, 1886, and was educated in the Quak- 

 ertown public schools, graduating in 

 1903. He holds the office of assistant 

 postmaster. 



JOHN R. JOHNSON. Martin John- 

 son was the emigrant ancestor of the 

 family to which John R. Johnson, of 

 Lumberville, belongs. He came from 

 England, where his birth occurred on 

 the 5th of May, 1755, and located on 

 Bools Island, now Raven Rock, Hunter- 

 don county, New Jersey, where he ac- 

 quired extensive farming lands and 

 other property, becoming one of the 

 wealthy citizens of his community. 



John Johnson, son of Martin John- 

 son, was born and reared on the old 

 homestead secured by his father, and 

 he. too, followed the occupation of 

 farming. He married Sarah E. Bray, 

 and their son, Albert R. Johnson, be- 

 came the father of John R. Johnson. He 

 was born on the old homestead in Hun- 

 'terdon county. New Jersey, August 3, 

 1833, was there reared, and in later 

 years acquired possession of the old 

 home property, upon which he resided 

 until 1844, when he retired and removed 

 to Stockton, where he now resides. He 

 was very successful in his agricultural 

 pursuits, and acquired a very desirable 

 competence. He has long been a mem- 

 ber of the Presbyterian church. He 

 married Margaret A. Dilts, who died 

 April 8, 1893, at the age of sixty years, 

 six months knd twenty-two days. She 

 was a member of the Dunkard church. 

 They had six children, of whom five are 

 living: John R. ; Clark B., who occu- 

 pies the old homestead; Catherine, wife 

 of Wilmot Quinby. of Solebury town- 

 ship; Rachael, wife of Theodore L. 

 Green, of Union county, New Jersey; 

 and Sarah, wife of Eden B. Hunt, of 

 Stockton, New Jersey. 



John R. Johnson was born in Hunt- 

 erdon county. New Jersey, April 22, 

 1854, and the first nineteen years of his 

 life were spent upon his father's farm, 

 during which time he acquired a public 



school education. In 1873 he went to 

 Lambertville, New Jersey, where he ac- 

 cepted a position in a mercantile estab- 

 lishment and there laid the foundation 

 for his later successful mercantile ca- 

 reer. He remained there for two years 

 and in 1875 came to Lumberville, ac- 

 cepting a position in the store of Read- 

 ing & Shaddinger, acting as clerk in the 

 establishment for two years, when he 

 purchased the interest of Mr. Shad- 

 dinger, and the firm name was changed 

 to Reading & Johnson, this connection 

 being maintained until 1892, when Mr. 

 Johnson became sole owner of the bus- 

 iness. He has developed an enterprise 

 of considerable importance, and his an- 

 nual sales now bring a good financial 

 return, his business principles being 

 based upon the rules which govern strict, 

 unswerving integrity and unabating in- 

 dustry. Politically Mr. Johnson is a 

 Democrat. He belongs to Black City 

 Lodge, No. 391, I. O. O. P., of Black 

 City, and he and his wife are active 

 members of the Baptist church, to the 

 support of which he contributes gen- 

 erously. 



In 1879 Mr. Johnson married Miss 

 Marietta Bodine, of Stockton, New Jer- 

 sey, a daughter of William and Mary 

 (Bellis) Bodine. Her brother, Wesley 

 Bodine, now deceased, was for many 

 years sherifif of Hunterdon county. New 

 Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson had three 

 children, but lost their elder son, Raymond 

 D. Bessie K. and Wilmot Q. are at home. 

 The daughter is a graduate of the George 

 school, has been a close student since the 

 completion of her course there, now holds a 

 state certificate and at the present writing 

 (1904) is teaching in Solebury township. 



JOHN S. CORNELL, who has now 

 passed the seventy-seventh milestone 

 on life's journey, and throughout his 

 business career has followed farming, 

 is a representative of one of the old fam- 

 ilies of Pennsylvania, a son of John and 

 Elizabeth (Vandegrift) Cornell, and a 

 grandson of Gilliam and Janet je (Suy- 

 dam) Cornell. His grandfather, Gil- 

 liam Cornell, had a brother, Remsen 

 Cornell, who had two children, a son, 

 Adrien, and a daughter. 



Gilliam Cornell had eight children: 

 I. Adrien married Rachel Feaster and 

 had four children, David. William, 

 Henry and Jane. 2. Lambert married a 

 Miss Feaster, and their children were: 

 Gilliam. David, James and Aaron. 3. 

 James married a daughter of Remsen 

 Cornell, and his second wife was Mar- 

 garet Vandergrift, by whom he had four 

 children, Jacob, Remsen, Cornelia Ann 

 and Jane. 4. John was the father of 

 John S. Cornell, of Northampton town- 

 ship. 5. Gilliam inarried Elizabeth 

 Krewson. 6. Jane married Christopher 



