HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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town church since 1868. In politics he is 

 a Republican, but has never sought or 

 held office except that of school director. 



HENRY H. VAN ARTSDALEN, of 

 Feasterville, Southampton township, 

 Bucks county, was born near Feaster- 

 A'ille, November i, 1842, and is a son of 

 James and Rachel (Hough) Van Arts- 

 dalen. He is a lineal descendant of Si- 

 mon Jansen Van Artsdalen, who emi- 

 grated from Holland in 1653 and settled 

 on Long Island, his great-grandfather 

 being Nicholas Van Artsdalen, men- 

 tioned in the preceding sketch, who was 

 born July 14, 1736, son of Simon and 

 Jane (Romeyn) Van Artsdalen, the pio- 

 neer ancestor of the family in Bucks 

 county. Nicholas Van Artsdalen mar- 

 ried, December 29, 1759, Jannetje or Jane 

 Vansant. Being the youngest surviving 

 son, he remained upon the old home- 

 stead which was devised to him at the 

 death of his father, and died there in 

 November, 1805. His widow Jane sur- 

 vived him, dying in August, 1813. They 

 were the parents of seven children, four 

 sons, Simon, James, John and Chris- 

 topher, and three daughters. Anna, mar- 

 ried Garret Stevens, Jane, who married 

 John Kroesen, and Margaret, who mar- 

 ried Jesse Willard. 



James Van Artsdalen, son of Nicholas 

 and Jane, was the grandfather of the 

 subject of this sketch. He was born 

 on the old homestead and inherited a 

 portion of it at his father's death, and 

 died there August 29. 1834. His wife 

 was Elizabeth Staats, daughter of Daniel 

 and Mary (Praul) Staats, and a grand- 

 daughter of Peter Praul. They were the 

 parents of eight children, as follows: 



Silas, who married Effie Cox and had 

 children, Silas and Elizabeth. Nicho- 

 las, who married Louisa Knight and had 

 •children, Joseph, Cursey and James. 

 Cornelius, who married and had chil- 

 dren. Daniel. Truxton, and Mrs. Silas 

 Twining. Daniel, who married Maria 

 Clayton and had children, George, Jona- 

 than, Elizabeth, and Lucinda. Jesse, 

 ■who married and had a family. James, 

 father of subject of this sketch. George, 

 who married and had children, Walter, 

 Emanuel and Lydia. Phebe, who mar- 

 ried Allen Dyer, and had children. Peleg 

 and James. 



James Van Artsdalen. Junior, was born 

 on the old homestead in 1803. and re- 

 ceived his education at local schools. 

 He learned the trade of a wheelwright 

 and followed it at Feasterville, until 

 succeeded by his son in the seventies. 

 He purchased a house and lot in 

 Feasterville of Aaron Feaster in 1834, 

 and died there in i8qi. He married, about 

 1828, Jiachel Hough, who was born in 

 1805 and died in 1888. They were the 

 parents of six children, as follows: 



Charles, born November 3, 1830, married 

 Mary Elizabeth Cornell, and had one 

 daughter who married James Cornell, 

 and has a son, Charles Cornell. Martha, 

 born 1832, married Christopher Clayton 

 and has three children. Spencer, died 

 young. Mary Elizabeth died at age 

 of seventeen years. Eliza Ellen, mar- 

 ried Michael Irwin and had two chil- 

 dren, both deceased. Henry H., born 

 November i, 1842. 



Henry H. Van Artsdalen was reared at 

 the Feastersville home purchased by his 

 father in 1834, and acquired a common 

 school education at the local schools. He 

 learned the trade of blacksmithing and has 

 carried on the business for upwards of forty 

 years. In politics he is an ardent Demo- 

 crat, and has always taken an active 

 interest in the councils of his party. 

 He served one term as auditor of the 

 county, and has filled local offices at 

 different periods. He was his party's 

 candidate for director of the poor in 

 1902. but was defeated. He married 

 Annie, daughter of Benjamin and Mary 

 (Clayton) Worthington, and they have 

 been the parents of three children: Min- 

 nie, born March 26, 1867. died October. 

 1900. married Israel Stack and had one 

 child. Anna; Henry, who died young, 

 and Benjamin, born November 14, 1880. 



WILLIAM JOHN COOLEY, Esq., 

 of the Philadelphia 'bar, though not a 

 native of Bucks county was reared from 

 childhood within its borders and still 

 retains his residence at New Hope, 

 where his grandfather was a prominent 

 manufacturer many years ago. Mr. 

 Cooley was born at Trenton, New Jer- 

 sey. July 9. 1877. and is a son of John P. 

 and Catharine Young (Umbleby) 

 Coolev. On the paternal side he is de- 

 scended from an old New Jersey fam- 

 ily, and on the maternal side his grand- 

 father. William Umbleby, came from 

 England at the age of eight years and 

 located in Chester county. Pennsylvania. 

 He was a manufacturer of cordage, and 

 later removed to New Hope, Bucks 

 county, where he owned and operated 

 the flax or cordage mills for many years. 

 He was a man of a high sense of honor 

 and of a deep religious nature, and was 

 for many years a local preacher of the 

 Methodist Episcopal church. He had 

 one son, John, and two daughters, Mary, 

 the wife of William H. Closson, and 

 Mrs. Cooley. On the death of Mrs. 

 Cooley. in Trenton. New Jersey, the 

 subject of this sketch was reared by his 

 uncle, William H. Closson, of New 

 Hope. 



William J. Cooley was educated at. the 

 New Hope high school, Pennington 

 (New Jersev) Seminary, and at the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania. He graduated 

 from the law department of the latter 



