HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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inal promoters of a trolley road from 

 Doylestown to Easton, and was one of 

 the most active and energetic in push- 

 ing the work to a completion, being one 

 of the original directors of the Philadel- 

 phia and Easton Railway Company, 

 who built the road, and is secretary and 

 treasurer of the company. He is also 

 solicitor and director of a number of 

 other important corporations. He has 

 served for a number of years as school 

 director of Doylestown township, and 

 fills the position of secretary of the 

 board. He married, November 28, 1878, 

 Ella B. Wright, daughter of John H. 

 and Elizabeth (Harding) Wright, of 

 Penn Manor, and they have been the 

 parents of two daughters: Elsie C, who 

 died November 30, 1898, at the age of 

 eighteen years; and Edith E., who died 

 in infancy. 



EZRA PATTERSON CARRELL 

 was born in Warminster township, 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania, November 

 25) 1857, on the Carrell farm (now owned 

 by H. Warner Hallowell), on which he 

 resided twenty-three years. His father 

 was born and died on the same prop- 

 erty, having lived thereon seventy-three 

 years. 



Ezra P. Carrell was educated until his 

 thirteenth year, in the public schools of 

 the township. After a two years' course 

 at the Excelsior Institute of Hugh Mor- 

 row, in Hatboro. Pennsylvania, his edu- 

 cation was finished by a four years' 

 course at the private school of Rev. 

 George 'Hand of the same place. He is 

 by occupation a farmer, as has been hl^ 

 ancestors for at least four generations 

 before him. He was located first in 

 Warminster, next at Willow Grove, and 

 for the last fourteen years on his pres- 

 ent farm near Jamison, Pennsylvania, 

 which he purchased at that time. Al- 

 though a Republican, he has always 

 been very independent in politics and 

 always ready to vote for a better man on 

 the opposite side. He has never held a 

 political office, never wanted nor would 

 accept one, yet has always been readj^ 

 and willing to serve his fellow citizens 

 in any other capacity, and through their 

 choice has served in many positions of 

 trust, as manager and director in vari- 

 ous associations and companies. A 

 busy, progressive farmer, he has not al- 

 lowed his occupations to dwarf his 

 other attainments nor his educational 

 advancement, but has kept himself 

 abreast in all matters which tend to 

 the betterment and enrichment of the 

 lives of those about him. Interested in 

 genealogy he has in later j'-ears devoted 

 much time to research into the history 

 of his family, and is the secretarj^ and 

 genealogist of the Carrell Reunion As- 

 sociation. In religion a Presbj'terian, 

 as has been his family for many gener- 



ations, he has always interested himself 

 in church work, taking an active part in 

 it. At present he is a Sunday school 

 teacher, Sunday school superintendent,. 

 and ruling elder in the Neshaminy Pres- 

 byterian church in Warwick. On De- 

 cember 22, 1881, he was married to Mary 

 McCarter, daughter of James and Re- 

 becca A. McCarter, of Ivyland, Pennsyl- 

 vania. The AlcCarter family is an old 

 English family which has lived in Chel- 

 tenham township, Montgomery county, 

 Pennsylvania, for many generations. 

 Rebecca Aikley (Shoemaker) McCar- 

 ter, the mother of Mrs. Carrell, is of the- 

 well known Shoemaker family of Shoe- 

 makertown, (now Ogontz) also in Chel- 

 tenham township. Three children have 

 blessed their union: Esther, died in in- 

 fancy; Margaret L., and Edith. 



Mr. Carrell is the son of Ezra Patter- 

 son Carrell and Margaret Long (Beans) 

 Carrell. ]\Ir. Carrell, Sr.. who died a 

 few 3'ears ago, was one of the substan- 

 tial men of Warminster township, al- 

 ways taking an active interest in the af- 

 fairs of the vicinity. A man of edu- 

 cation and refinement, hospitable, gen- 

 erous and honored by his neighbors for 

 his probity and integrity, he held for 

 many years the office of ruling elder in 

 the Neshaminy church in Warminster, 

 and later in Neshaminy in Warwick. 

 Always interested in church work, he 

 served long and well in the capacities of 

 teacher and superintendent in the Sun- 

 day school, and for many years as chor- 

 ister in his church. He fully justified in 

 his life the words of his pastor, who 

 prefaced his remarks at his funeral by 

 these words: "Before me lies the re- 

 mains of an honest man. The world 

 says that no man can be honest and suc- 

 cessful, but the life of Mr. Carrel fully 

 refutes this." Margaret Long Carrell,. 

 his wife, is the daughter of John C. 

 Beans and Elizabeth Yerkes. The 

 Beans family have been residents of 

 Warminster for many years. Mrs. Car- 

 rell's grandfather, Thomas Beans, was 

 the keeper of the old hotel at War- 

 minster, then a post station on the mail 

 line between Philadelphia and ^ew 

 York, and was a breeder of running- 

 horses, having a half mile track on the 

 large tract of land which he owned. The 

 holdings of the contiguous estates of 

 the Beans and Yerkes families was the 

 largest in this section, several hundred 

 acres of which is retained in the fami- 

 lies. The Beans family trace their gen- 

 ealogy back to Donald (Bane) of Scot- 

 land, immortalized by Shakespeare. Mrs. 

 Carrell was educated by a private 

 teacher, and later finished her education 

 by a course at a young ladies' seminary 

 in Wilmington, Delaware. She is still 

 living at the home place in Warmfnster. 

 ^Ir. and Mrs. Carrell had five children: 

 Joseph, who is a farmer in Warminster 

 township; John Beans, one of the lead- 



