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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



about 1848. He married October 27, 



1835, Mary Hough, born October 15, 1814, 

 in Doylestown tuwnship, daughter of Ben- 

 jamin and Hannah (Simpson) Hough, and 

 a first cousin to the moiher of General U. 

 S. Grant. She died at Newton, ScplL-niber 

 25, 1895. Their children are : Anna J., liorn 



1836, married Captain Henry Y. Pickering; 

 William, born February 17, 1838, died 

 October 27, 1902, married INIary FJlen Faff, 

 and has one daughter, Lily H., the wife of 

 Edward P. Hicks, of Newtown. Hannah H., 

 born 1839, married October 16. i860, Cap- 

 tain Thomas P. Chambers. Elizabeth J., 

 born July 4, 1844, married Major Samuel 

 Comfort. Wilhelmina, born 1847. ^lary, 

 born 1850, married George C. Worsfall. 

 John Herman, born December 12, 1854, 

 married April 23, 1902. Elizabeth, daughter 

 of Colonel E. A. L. Roberts, of Titusville, 

 Pennsylvania. 



J. Herman Barnsley, son of John and 

 Mary (Hough) Barnsley, was born in New- 

 town, December 12, 1854. He was educated 

 in the public schools and Newtown Acad- 

 emy and later took a course at a business 

 college. He has traveled extensively in this 

 country and abroad and spent several years 

 in Kansas. He filled for some time a cler- 

 ical position with the Standard Oil Company 

 at Titusville, Pennsylvania, and later opened 

 an office in Newark, New Jersey, and con- 

 ducted a brokerage business. He married 

 April 23, 1902, Elizabeth C. Roberts of 

 Titusville. He purchased the old home- 

 stead, "Sharon," near Newtown, Pennsyl- 

 vania, which he remodeled, and resided' 

 there one year when he sold the property 

 to jSIr. John J. Tierney, of West Virginia, 

 the present owner, and the following year 

 erected a handsome residence on North 

 Chancellor street, Newtown, where he now 

 resides. His only child, John, was born 

 March 15, 1903. 



HOWARD P. WHITE, of Doylestown, 

 coroner of Bucks county, was born in War- 

 rington township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- 

 vania, September 2, 1859, and is a son of the 

 late Jonathan and Mary Anna (Brunner) 

 White. The paternal ancestors of Mr. 

 White were residents of Solebury. Bucks 

 county, for several generations. Wil,liam 

 White having purchased a farm of 125 acres 

 on the Carversville road below Peters Cor- 

 ner in 1729. 



William White, the grandfather of How- 

 ard P. White, was a Iffelong resident of 

 Solebury, residing near Carversville. and a 

 shoemaker by trade. He married ^lary 

 Delaney, and they were the parents of sev- 

 eral children, among whom was Jonathan 

 White, the father of the subject of this 

 sketch. 



Jonathan White was born in Solebury, 

 September 2. 1825. and was reared in that 

 township. He learned the shoemaker's 

 trade with his father, and followed that 

 vocation for a few years. In 1857 he was 



appointed deputy sheriff by Albert Phillips, 

 the sheriff of Bucks county, and served 

 during the three years' term of Sheriff 

 Phillips, closing with the year 1853. Im 

 the fall of that year he was elected to the 

 office of clerk of Orphans' court, and served 

 in that office for three years. On his retire- 

 ment from office he became proprietor of 

 the Frog Hollow Hotel in Warrington 

 township, Bucks county, which he con- 

 ducted until the breaking out of the war. in 

 1861, when he enlisted in Company D, One 

 Hundred and fourth Pennsylvania Volun- 

 teers, Colonel W. W. H. Davis, Captain 

 Jacob Swartzlander, and was commissioned 

 sergeant of his company. He served dur- 

 ing three years of arduous service, partici- 

 pating in many hard fought battles, the 

 record of the gallant One Hundred and 

 Fourth being too families to the people of 

 Bucks county to be recounted here and -was 

 mustered out September 25, 1864. He re- 

 turned home badly broken in health, and 

 never fully recovered from the effects of 

 the hardships endured in the service of 

 his country. After a few months rest he 

 became the proprietor of a hotel at No. 1220 

 Market street which he conducted for three 

 years ; he then returned to Bucks county 

 and kept a restaurant at Buckingham at 

 the present location of the "Ottaway 

 House," where he died in 1868. He mar- 

 ried Mary Anna Brunner, daughter of 

 Thomas and Theresa (Fredericks) Brun- 

 ner, the latter a native of Germany, and the 

 former of German descent, his ancestors 

 having emigrated from Germany and settled 

 in New Britain several generations back. 

 Thomas Brunner was proprietor of the 

 Willow Grove Hotel for two 3'ears, and 

 then purchased the mills at .bridge Point, 

 now Edison, Bucks counfy, of which he 

 was the proprietor for-many years, residing 

 in Edison in all oyer fifty years. Mary 

 Anna (Brunner) White resides with her 

 son in Doylestown. Jonathan and Mary 

 Anna (Brunner) White were the parents of 

 two children : Howard Phillips and Arthur 

 Cernea White, the latter of whom died in 

 1896. 



Howard P. White resided with hi? par- 

 ents to the age of seventeen years, and then 

 became a clerk in the store of E. H. Worth- 

 ington, at Edison, and filled that position 

 for four years. In 1881 he went to Phila- 

 delphia and filled various positions there 

 for two years. In 1883-4 he was employed 

 at Cresson Springs, Pennsylvania. He then 

 pccepted a position as steward on Jay 

 Gould's yacht and later was bookkeeper of 

 the Philadelphia Art Club of Pniladelphia 

 for several years, resigning in 1897, since 

 which time he has been engaged in the mer- 

 cantile business at Doylestown. In the fall 

 of 190-I he was elected to the office of 

 coroner of Bucks county, and is now filling 

 that position. In politics he is a Republican, 

 and is one of the well known m-n nf the 

 county seat. He is a member of Aquetong 

 Lodge No. 193, I. O. O. F., St. Tammany 



