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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



township, in 1874. returning to the home-, 

 stead at the death of his wife in 1880, 

 and residing with his son Amos. He was 

 an enterprising and successful farmer and 

 business man, and held many positions of 

 trust. He and his family were members of 

 the Presbyterian church, of which he was 

 a trustee. He died in November, 1896. 

 He married in 1841 Rachel Scarborough, 

 of Wrightstovvn, daughter of Amos and 

 Elizabeth (Cooper) Scarborough, both na- 

 tives of Bucks county and of English 

 Quaker descent. Both the Cooper and 

 Scarborough families were among the 

 earliest settlers in Bucks county. William 

 H. and Rachel (Scarborough) Struckert 

 were the parents of five children, viz. : i. 

 Henry Clay, born August 7, 1842, see for- 

 ward ; 2. Sarah, wife of Dr. A. H. Clay- 

 ton, of Richboro, Bucks county ; 3. Amos,^ 

 born March 19, 1846, see forward ; 4. Will- 

 iam, a prominent lawyer of Do3destown ; 

 5. John C, a prominent lawyer of Bristol, 

 Bucks county. 



Henry Clay Stuckert, eldest son of 

 William H. and Rachel (Scarborough) 

 Stuckert, was born on the farm where he 

 still lives, August 7, 1842. He was reared 

 on the farm and acquired his education 

 at the common schools and at a normal 

 school at Upland, Chester county, Penn- 

 sylvania. On reaching manhood he took 

 charge of the home farm, which he event- 

 ually purchased of his father, and this he 

 has greatly improved and beautified ; he 

 is an enterprising and successful farmer. 

 He married in 1875, Emma J. Harman, 

 born in 1849, daughter of Daniel Y. and 

 Elizabeth K. (Bennett) Harman, and 

 granddaughter of John and Elizabeth 

 Addis) H arman. both of Holland descent, 

 .ohn Harman was an early settler in Upper 

 Makefield township. Daniel, the ninth of 

 his ten children, married first Hannah, 

 daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Simp- 

 son) Hough, of Doylestown township, by 

 whom he had six children. He married 

 second Elizabeth K. Bennett, daughter of 

 Miles and Hannah (Kroesen) Bennett, 

 both of Holland descent, and representa- 

 tives of early Knickerbocker families that 

 settled first on Long Island and removed 

 later to North and Southampton, Bucks 

 county. Daniel Y. Harman was in early 

 life a farmer, but later was a hotel keeper 

 at Newtown ; he was for several years a 

 justice of the peace. He died in 1855. By 

 his second wife, Elizabeth K. Bennett, he 

 had three children: Emma J., the wife of 

 the subject of this sketch; Lewis C, a mer- 

 chant of Philadelphia; and Franklin P., 

 who died at the age of seven years. The 

 children of Henry Clay and Emma J. (Har- 

 man) Stuckert are: Frederick, an attorney 

 at law at Bristol, Bucks county, Pennsyl- 

 vania; William R., see forward; Louis H., 

 a bookkeeper at Trenton, Ne_w Jersey; 

 Henry, a student at Jefferson Medical Col- 

 lege, Philadelphia ; and Anna P.. residing 

 at home. Mr. Stuckert and family are 

 members of the Presbyterian church. 



AMOS STUCKERT, of Warrington, 

 the second son of William H. and 

 Rachel (Scarborough) Stuckert, was 

 born on the Warrington farm March 19^ 

 1846, and on his marriage in 1873 took 

 up his residence where he still resides,, 

 on the original homestead, buying the 

 farm of his father. He is an enterpris- 

 ing and successful farmer, and has in- 

 troduced all the latest improvements in 

 farm machinery. He married in 1873, 

 Esther N. Fesmire, daughter of H. C. 

 and Sydonia (Chappelle) Fesmire, of 

 Moreland township, Montgomery 



county, Pennsylvania, where Mrs. 

 Stuckert was born December 6, 1852. 

 Her grandfather, Peter Fesmire, was a 

 native of Germany, who settled in Mont- 

 gomery county in early life, was a suc- 

 l^joessflil farmer. His son, Henry C, the 

 third of seven children, settled in More- 

 land township, where he lived for a num- 

 ber of yeafs and then removed to Dela- 

 ware, where he lived for three years on 

 ah experimental farm, and then returned' 

 to Glenside where he died in 1900. His 

 widow still survives, residing at Glen- 

 side at the age of seventy-eight years. 

 She is of French Heugenot descent, and 

 a daughter of John Santell, a life-long 

 resident of Montgomery county. 



Mr. and Mrs. Stuckert have been the 

 parents of eleven children, viz.: George 

 J., died at the age of eighteen years; 

 Esther B., wife of Professor William H. 

 Black, who was captain of a company \n 

 the Spanish-American war, and is now 

 principal of a school at High Bridge, 

 New Jersey; Elizabeth, wife of Albert 

 Reed, a machinist; John C, a farmer, 

 married Eva Jamison; Grace, wife of 

 H. J. Worthington; W^illiam H., residing 

 at home; Sarah, married B. R. Yerkes; 

 Sidney, residing at home; Clarence, who 

 died young; Anna and Claud, who reside 

 at home. Mr. Stuckert and his family 

 are members of the Presbyterian church. 



WILLIAM R. STUCKERT, second 

 son of Henry Clay and Emma J. (Har- 

 man) Stuckert, was born on the old 

 homestead in Warrington township, 

 March 23. 1877. He was educated in the 

 public schools of Warrington. the 

 Doylestown High School and Ursinus 

 College. After completing his course 

 of study at college in 1899. he taught 

 school for one year in Bucks county, and 

 then entered upon the study of the law 

 in the offices of his uncles, William and 

 John C. Stuckert, and was admitted to 

 practice in the Bucks county courts in 

 December, 1902. In March. 1903. the 

 law firm of William and J. C. Stuckert 

 was dissolved, and W'illiam R. Stuckert 

 was taken into partnership by his. uncle, 

 William Stuckert, under the firm name 

 of William & William R. Stuckert, with 

 oftices at Doylestown and Newtown, and 

 he at once took cliarge of tlie Newtowit 

 office and entered upon the active prac- 



