HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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In politics Mr. Penrose was a Repub- 

 lican, but while giving his unfaltering 

 support to the principles of that party 

 by his ballot he neither sought nor held 

 public office. He married Tacy Ann 

 Kirk, daughter of John and Tabitha 

 Kirk, who still survives at the age of 

 eighty-three years. Her great-grand- 

 father, a mason by trade, born 1692, and 

 a son of John and Joan (Elliot) Kirk, 

 the pioneer ancestors of the family, 

 erected for Sir William Keith, the last 

 of the provincial governors of Pennsyl- 

 vania, Graeme Hall, the home of her 

 husband's ancestors in Horsham. The 

 children of Jarrett and Tacy Ann (Kirk) 

 Penrose were: Ellen S., born January 

 14, 1843, married Edward T. Betts, late 

 of Buffalo, New York, deceased; Eliza- 

 beth H., born January 4, 1845, wife of 

 Alfred Moore, of Horsham; William, of 

 Warrington, Bucks county, born July 

 31, 1847, mentioned hereinafter; Alfred, 

 born May 14, 1849. died in infancy; and 

 Samuel, also mentioned hereinafter. 



William Penrose, born in Horsham 

 township, Montgomery county, Penn- 

 sylvania, July 31. 1847, spent the days of 

 his childhood and youth upon the home 

 farm and early became familiar with the 

 duties and labors that fall to the lot of 

 the agriculturist. After his marriage he 

 began farming on his own account in 

 Warrington township, Bucks county, 

 upon the tract of land which is yet his 

 home. He has attended market and is 

 regarded as a practical and prosperous 

 agriculturist. He has one of the exten 

 sive and valuable farms of Warrington 

 township, comprising three hundred 

 acres, upon which are two sets of farm 

 buildings, houses, barns and outbuild- 

 ings. The farm is well equipped in 

 every way and its highly cultivated con- 

 ditions indicates the careful supervision 

 which he has given to it. He is now 

 largely living retired, having given the 

 management of the property over to his 

 son. His present residence is situated 

 on the Doylestown pike and trolley line, 

 and is a commodious two story stone 

 structure, built in modern style of ar- 

 chitecture. It is surrounded by a fine 

 stone fence, the gates being formed by 

 heavy pillars, and beautiful forest and 

 evergreen trees adorn the land, while in 

 the rear are many fine fruit trees. He 

 endorses Republican principles and is 

 deeply interested in the success of his 

 party, but has never sought or desired 

 office for himself. He was reared in the 

 Friends' meeting and has never de- 

 parted from that faith. 



William Penrose was married Decem- 

 ber 14, 1871, to Miss Hannah Paul, who 

 was born in Warrington township. Buck? 

 county, a daughter of Morris and Lydia 

 (Hallowell) Paul. Joseph and Mary 

 Paul, ancestors of INIrs. Penrose, came 

 from Yorkshire, England, about 1682, 

 and settled near the site of the present 



village of Fox Chase. Joseph Paul pur- 

 chased the farm now occupied by Will- 

 iam Penrose in 1727, and it descended to 

 his son James, who married 2 mo. 25, 

 T737, Mary Worth, daughter of Judge 

 Worth, of Maryland; she was a lady of 

 education and culture and a warm friend 

 of Lady Fereuson, who then lived at 

 Graeme Park. Joseph Paul, first child 

 of James and Mary (Worth) Paul, born 

 1739, became the next owner of the old 

 Warrington homestead. He married his 

 cousin, Hannah Paul, whose mother, 

 Sarah Morris, was a daughter of Mor- 

 ris and Susanna Morris, the latter a 

 prominent minister of the Society of 

 Friends for forty years, and although 

 the mother of twelve children she made 

 several religious visits to various parts 

 of the American colonies and three 

 voyages over the sea, attending the 

 Meetings of Friends, and the gracious 

 arm of divine providence was evidently 

 manifested in preserving and supporting 

 her through divers remarkable perils and 

 dangers, which she ever reverently re- 

 membered and gratefully acknowledged. 

 Her paternal grandfather, Joshua Paul, 

 was a descendant of an old colonial fam- 

 ily connected with the Friends' meet- 

 ing. Morris Paul was reared in War- 

 rington township, where he settled on 

 a farm after attaining man's estate, re- 

 maining one of the reliable and enter- 

 prising agriculturists of his community 

 up to the time of his death, his life be- 

 ing in harmony with his profession as a 

 member of the Society of Friends. His 

 onlv child became the wife of Mr. Pen- 

 rose. She was a lady of culture and in- 

 telligence, who proved a devoted wife 

 and loving mother and was also a con- 

 sistent Christian. She died of typhoid 

 fever in 1900, and their daughter Lydia 

 H. died on the 29th of April of the same 

 year when twenty years of age, also 

 from an attack of typhoid. The other 

 children are J. Howard, born May 10, 

 1873; Morris P., born November 8, 1875; 

 and William, born October 16, 1877. 

 Howard married Miss Edith Chapman, 

 and is in the office of the Reading Coa) 

 & Iron Company. Morris is connected 

 with the extensive lumber, coal, and 

 milling business in Pedricktown, New 

 Jersey. William Penrose. Jr., is oper- 

 ating the old homestead farm. On the 

 i6th of October, 1902, William Penrose 

 married (second) Miss Anna Hallowell, 

 who was born in Abingdon township, 

 ^lontgomery county, September 28, 1865, 

 her parents being Joseph W. and Hannah 

 (Lloyd) Hallowell, the former born in 

 Abingdon township and the latter in 

 Moreland township, Montgornery 



county, where both were representatives 

 of distinguished early families of this 

 state. Her father, Joseph W., was a «on 

 of John R. and Ann (Jarrett) Hallo- 

 well, the former descended from John 

 Hallowell and a native of Nottingham- 



