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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



boyhood in the same fashion' as the 

 majority of boys reared on a farm — at- 

 tending the common schools and as- 

 sisting with the duties pertaining to farm 

 life. He remained at home with his 

 father — cultivating and tilling the farm 

 — until the death of the latter in 1861, 

 when he inherited the property, on 

 which he continued his operations until 

 1900, since which time he has lived re- 

 tired. He served as school director of 

 Doylestown township for three years, 

 and the cause of education has always, 

 found in him an active and willing sup- 

 porter. He is staunch in his advocacy 

 of Republican principles, contributing 

 materially to the success of that party 

 in his community. He is a member of 

 the Presbyterian church of Doylestown. 

 Mr. Garges was united in marriage to 

 Mary Elizabeth Roberts, daughter of 

 George and Anna Roberts, and three 

 children were the issue of this union: 

 Annie Leah, born March 16, 1864, wife 

 of B. Frank Bodine; Edward, born 

 April 6, 1865, a farmer of Warrington 

 township: and Isaac B., born Febru- 

 ary 9, 1867, a grocer of Philadelphia. 

 Mrs. Garges, the mother of these chil- 

 dren, died June 9, 1901. 



CHARLES H. RHOADES, livery- 

 man, Doylestown, was born near Brick 

 Tavern, Milford township, Bucks coun- 

 ty, June 4, i860, a son of Jacob B. and 

 Mary (Hockman) Roth. The family of 

 Roth (the original form of the name) 

 is a German one, many of the name 

 emigrating to Pennsylvania between the 

 years 1730 and 1800. One branch of the 

 family settled in Rockhill, where their 

 descendants still reside. The name be- 

 ing pronounced "Rote," came to be 

 spelled Rhoad, and in various other forms. 

 The subject of this sketch was, however, 

 descended from a later emigrant. Johan 

 Jost Roth, with wife, Louise Rodepil- 

 ler, (later Reedmiller), and children, 

 J'ohn Heinrich. Ludwig, and Herman, 

 migrated from Germany in the ship 

 "Fortune." from Hamburg, and settled 

 in Bedminster township. Ludwig_ Roth, 

 the great-grandfather of the subject of 

 this sketch, purchased a small farm 

 near Bedministerville in 1806, and died 

 there in 1824, leaving wife Elizabeth, 

 sons Mathew and George, and grand- 

 sons John B. and Jacob B., sons of his 

 deceased son Christian. 



Jacob B. Roth settled in Milford town- 

 ship in 184T, where he followed the 

 trade of a stone mason. As early as 1841 

 Tie purchased land near Brick Tavern 

 on the Bethlehem road. He was twice 

 married, his first wife being Roselna 

 Groude, by whom he had one child that 

 died young. He married (second) Mary 

 Hockman, who survives him, living with 

 her daughter in Doylestown. Jacob B. 



Roth died at Brick Tavern, Milford 

 township, November 6, 1866. His cliil- 

 ren were: Sallie, who married Eliab 

 Ritchie; and Charles H., the subject of 

 this sketch. 



Charles Hockman Rhoades, the sub- 

 ject of this sketch, was but six years 

 old at the death of his father, and his 

 sister Sallie was but two years his sen- 

 ior. As soon as the estate of his father 

 was settled, the widow Roth, with her 

 two children, removed to Doylestown, 

 where her brother Peter Hockman had 

 a livery stable, and about a year later 

 removed to Warrington, where his 

 mother was housekeeper for Joseph 

 Paul, Esq., for two years. The fam- 

 ily then removed to Fox Chase, Mont- 

 gomery county, where the boyhood of 

 the subject of this sketch was spent. He 

 was educated at the Abington Friends' 

 school, and on arriving at his majority 

 in 1881 he came to Doylestown, and, 

 in connection with his brother-in-law, 

 Eliab Ritchie, opened a livery stable 

 near the railroad depot, where he still 

 has his stand. A year later he bought 

 out the interest of his brother-in-law, 

 and has since conducted the business 

 alone. In T)olitics Mr. Rhoades is a 

 Republi<:an. He has served three years 

 as a member of town council, and has 

 filled other local offices. He is a mem- 

 ber of Aquetong Lodge. No. 193, I. O. 

 O. F., and of St. Tammany Castle, K. 

 G. E., of Doylestown. He was married 

 February 6. "1886. to Ella, daughter of 

 George and Anna Maria Burgstresser, 

 and has one daughter Edith, now fifteen 

 years of age. 



JOHN PHILLIPS BLACK. Among 

 the active business men of Langhorne, 

 Bucks county, is John Phillips Black, 

 who was born in that town March 16, 

 1839, and is a son of John and Rachel 

 Shaw (Wells) Black. 



John Black, the father, born in 1807. 

 was a cooper by trade, and followed 

 that trade for several years in Lang- 

 horne, where he purchased a home in 

 1850. He also assisted in building a 

 number of the older buildings in that 

 vicinity. He was a native of Bucks coun- 

 ty, and a son of James and Judith 

 (Searle) Black, the latter being a 

 granddaughter of Arthur Searle, an ear- 

 ly settler near the Neshaminy in South- 

 ampton, who married a daughter of 

 John Naylor of Southampton. John 

 Black married Rachel Shaw Wells, born 

 1814, daughter of Valentine (born 1784) 

 and Phoebe (Shaw) Wells of Middle- 

 town (born 1785) the latter being a 

 daughter of Gideon Shaw. John and 

 Rachel S. (Wells) Black were the par- 

 ents of nine children: John P., the sub- 

 ject of this sketch; Elizabeth, wife of 

 William Gillingham; Margaret, wife of 

 Barclay Wildman; Franklin S.. of Tully- 



