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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



shire, England. Emigrating to America 

 he became one of the first settlers of 

 Pennsylvania. John R. was one of the 

 directors of the old York pike road. 

 Joseph Hallowell was a brother-in-law 

 of Edwin Sattefthwaite. who was a 

 grandson of Betsey Ross, who made the 

 first American flag and who made the 

 ruffles for General Washington's shirt 

 fronts. The Satterthwaite family were 

 among the oldest and most respected 

 members of the Abingdon meeting. The 

 children of John R. Hallowell were: 

 William, Lydia, Mrs. Martha Saiter- 

 thwaite, Joseph and Penrose. Joseph Hal- 

 lowell was reared to farm pursuits and 

 always carried on the work of an agri- 

 culturist. However, he extended his ef- 

 forts to various other lines and was con- 

 nected with many enterprises, his good 

 management winning him desirable suc- 

 cess. He was recognized as one of the 

 substantial men of his county. After his 

 retirement from the farm he resided at 

 Jenkintown, becoming one of the in- 

 corporators of the Jen^cintown Bank and 

 a director thereof for many years. He 

 was a man of plain deportment, but re- 

 liable and trustworthy at all times, and 

 his freedom from self laudation and os- 

 tentation commanded the good will of 

 all who recognized and appreciated true 

 worth. He died at Jenkintown. April 

 3, 1904, leaving a wife and four children. 

 His widow still occupies the residence 

 at Jenkintown and she, too, is a mem- 

 ber of the Friends' meeting. They were 

 parents of four children: Edwin S., a 

 prominent farmer of Abingdon, Penn- 

 sylvania; Emma L., who is living with 

 her mother; Fanny, born August 12, 

 1856, died March 25, 1900; and Anna, the 

 wife of William Penrose. Hannah 

 (Lloyd) Hallowell, the mother of these 

 children, was descended through Ben- 

 jamin Lloyd and Sarah Child, whose 

 marriage took place 6 mo., 1775, and is 

 also descended from George and Sarah 

 Shoemaker, of Warrington, who were 

 married in 1662, and George and Sarah 

 (Wall) Shoemaker, who were married at 

 Abington Meeting, 12 mo. 14, 1694. T3en- 

 jamin H. Shoemaker commemorated the 

 two hundredth anniversary of the mar- 

 riage of the latter named by a dinner, 

 Sixth day evening, twelfth month four- 

 teenth, 1894, at seven o'clock. George 

 Shoemaker, Jr., and Sarah Wall, his 

 wife, were the great-great-great-grand- 

 parents of Benjamin H. Shoemaker. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Penrose have one son, Joseph 

 Hallowell, born July 31, 1903. They 

 are prominent socially in the commun- 

 ity where they reside, and the circle of 

 their friends is almost co-extensive with 

 the circle of their acquaintance. 



Samuel Jarrett Penrose, born at Hor- 

 sham, May 5, 1852, was reared in that 

 township and educated at the Friends' 

 school, at LoUer Academy, Hatboro, the 

 Excelsior Normal Institute at Carver- 



ville, and Swarthmore College. At the 

 close of his school days he accepted a 

 clerical position with the firm of Ellis 

 P. Moore & Co., lumber merchants in 

 Philadelphia, where he remained for 

 eighteen months. He then returned to 

 his father's farm in Horsham, and was 

 engaged in agricultural pursuits until 

 his marriage in 1881 with Mary C. Far- 

 ren, daughter of John and Elizabeth 

 (Fretz) Farren, of Doylestown town- 

 ship, whose ancestry is given under the 

 title of "The Fretz Family" in this work. 

 He continued as a farmer in Horsham 

 until 1884, when he removed to his 

 mother-in-law's farm in Doylestown 

 township, where he has since resided, he 

 and his wife having inherited it at the 

 death of Mrs. Farren, and devotes his 

 time to the care of his three farms com- 

 prising 278 acres. Mr. Penrose is now 

 serving his second term as director of 

 the poor of Bucks county, and is also a 

 director of the Doylestown Trust Com- 

 pany, vice-president and director of the 

 Philadelphia and Eastern Railway Com- 

 pany, and director of Fellowship Norse 

 Company. Their children are: Cyril, 

 Ralph F., and Norman, all of whom re- 

 side with their father. The mother of 

 these children is deceased. 



HON. HARRY J. SHOEMAKER, 

 one of the prominent members of the 

 Bucks county bar, and an officer of sev- 

 eral of the important corporations of the 

 county, was born in Horsham township, 

 Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, De- 

 cember 25, 1855, and is a son of James 

 and Phebe (Shoemaker) Shoemaker, of 

 that township. He comes of a distin- 

 guished ancestry that have been potent 

 in the affairs of their respective com- 

 munities since the founding of Penn's 

 colony on the Delaware. 



His paternal ancestor, Peter Shoe- 

 maker, was born in Kreigsheim, a rural 

 village on the Upper Rhine, "two hours 

 ride from the City of Worms," in the 

 year 1622. He was one of the earliest 

 converts to the principles of George 

 Fox, the founder of the Society of 

 Friends, and suffered persecution for his 

 religious faith as early as 1665 when he 

 had goods to the value of two guilders 

 taken from him in payment of a fine 

 for attending a meeting of Friends at 

 W^orms. He was also imprisoned and 

 fined at subsequent periods for his re- 

 ligious faith. He was one of _ the 

 Friends seen by Penn on his visit to 

 Kreigsheim early in 1683, and was in- 

 duced to join a company of Palatines in 

 founding a colony in Penn's new prov- 

 ince of Pennsylvania. He was a car- 

 penter by trade, and before leaving 

 Krcighsheim entered into an agreement 

 with Dirck Sidman, of Crefeld, on Au- 

 gust 16, 1685, to proceed to German- 



