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first licensed as a tavern in 1852 to 

 Daniel Y. Harman, on the petition of 

 about one hundred residents of the town 

 and vicinity, and against the remon- 

 strance of about half that number and 

 was re-licensed the following year. For 

 the next five years the license was re- 

 fused by the court. In 1858 a license 

 was granted to Amos W. Buckman, and 

 it has remained a regularly licensed 

 place every since. Mr. Buckman con- 

 ducted the tavern until 1864. and was 

 succeeded by Samuel Thatcher, and he 

 in turn three years later by Mahlon S. 

 Harding, who remained for two years, 

 and then sold out to James Wesley Hel- 

 lings, who in less than a year sold the 

 tavern to Samuel L. Ettenger, who 

 owned the property for many years, and 

 was its proprietor at three different pe- 

 riods during the next ten years, it being 

 conducted in the intervals by his ten- 

 ants, Burtis Magill, George W. Shinn, 

 Mrs. Alice Shinn, and Frederick Schie- 

 fer. From February, 1880, to May, 1891, 

 it was conducted by Edward A. Tomlin- 

 son. who was then succeeded by Mr. 

 Keith. During the year 1904 Mr. Keith 

 made extensive improvements, practi- 

 cally renewing and remodeling the 

 whole structure. 



JAMES CONRAD, for many years 

 the popular funeral director of Mozart, 

 Buckingham township, Bucks county, 

 was born in Warwick township, July 12, 

 1835, and died January 20, 1905. He was 

 a son of Charles and Mary (Patterson) 

 Conrad, and grandson of William and 

 Hannah (DeCoursey) Conrad. Both the 

 father and grandfather were farmers 

 and lifelong residents of Buckingham 

 and Warwick townships. Charles Con- 

 rad was born in Buckingham in 1800, 

 and died there in 1873. He was the fath- 

 er of four children, three of whom sur- 

 vive, John Conrad, of Rushland: Rob- 

 ert, of Philadelphia; and the subject of 

 this sketch. 



James Conrad was reared in Bucking- 

 ham and received his education at the 

 public schools. At the age of eighteen 

 years he apprenticed himself to the car- 

 penter trade, and after finishing his ap- 

 prenticeship, followed the trade for 

 several years, erecting many buildings 

 in that section of Bucks county. He 

 also engaged for some time in the manu- 

 facture of pumps. In 1870 he began the 

 business of an undertaker, which he fol- 

 lowed up to his decease, conducting a 

 large number of funerals in central 

 Bucks county during the last thirty 

 years. Mr. Conrad was a man of high 

 standing in the community, and filled 

 many positions of trust. He served as a 

 school director, and was one of the 

 trustees and directors of the Hughesian 

 free school. In politics he was a Repub- 

 lican. He was a member of Doylestown 



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Lodge, No. 245, F. and A. M., and 

 Doylestown Chapter, No. 270, R. A. M. 

 He was married March 13, 1862, to Mar- 

 tha C. Worthington, daughter of Will- 

 iam and Seraphina (Taylor) Worthing- 

 ton, of Buckingham. She was a native 

 of Wrightstown, but her girlhood days 

 were spent in Buckingham. She died in 

 April, 1902. Their only child Minnie 

 Jane died at the age of twenty-one 

 years. 



HENRY GARGES. Among the men 

 who have achieved financial success in 

 the management of their farming inter- 

 ests, and have thus been enabled to re- 

 tire from active business pursuits during 

 the latter years of their life, is Henry 

 Garges, who was born on the old home- 

 stead near Doylestown, Bucks county, 

 Pennsj'lvania, August 19, 1830. 



John Garges, grandfather of Henry 

 Garges, lived and died near Doylestown, 

 Bucks county, where he followed farm- 

 ing as a means of livelihood during his 

 entire active career. He owned the farm 

 adjoining that of Henry Garges, now in 

 the possession of the (Tounty Historical 

 Society. He was a member of the old 

 Mennonite church. His family consisted 

 of -four sons an"d five daughters, namely: 

 William, Henry, John, Abraham, Mary, 

 wife of Abram Gile; Sarah, wife of John 

 ]\I\-ers: Elizabeth, wife of Philip Gile; 

 Percilla, wife of William Borrows; and 

 Margaret, wife of William Fritz. 



Abraham Garges, father of Henry 

 Garges, was born on the old homestead 

 near Doylestown, Bucks county, in 1784. 

 In early life he served an apprenticeship 

 at the trade of blacksmith, which occu- 

 pation he worked at in connection with 

 farming for a number of years, thereby 

 providing a comfortable home for his 

 family. He was one of the first school 

 directors of Doylestown township after 

 the free school system was inaugurated, 

 this giving evidence of the appreciation 

 in v^diich he was held by his fellow citi- 

 zens. In 1845 he removed to War- 

 wick township, and also -served a> 

 school director there for a number of 

 years. He held membership in the old 

 Alennonite church, and his political 

 views were in accord with those of the 

 old Whig partJ^ He was united in mar- 

 riage to Leah Ruth, and eight chil- 

 dren were born to them: William, de- 

 ceased, who was a farmer of New Brit- 

 ain township; INIary, wife of James C. 

 Fell; Rebecca, wife of Joseph Funck; 

 Henry, mentioned hereinafter; Sarah 

 Ann, wife of Oliver P. Shutt; Prucilla, 

 wife of Henry Haines; Amy L., who 

 died in early life; and Lewis, a farmer 

 of Dojdestown township. Abraham 

 Garges (father) died in Doj'lestown 

 township, i\Iay 5, 1861, aged seventy- 

 seven years. 



Henry Garges spent the years of his 



