HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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minster, November 25, 1800, and died 

 there March 30, 1846. He married (first) 

 Elizabeth Lancaster, January 4, 1827. 

 She was born July 5, 1803, and died 

 September 19, 1829. They were the 

 parents of two children: John L., born 

 November 10, 1827, who has been for 

 many years actively associated with the 

 business life of Philadelphia and now 

 resides at 556 North Eighteenth street; 

 and Elizabeth L., who died April 23, 

 1848. Daniel Longstreth married (sec- 

 ond) October 25, 1832, Hannah Town- 

 send and they were the parents of seven 

 children ; Joseph T., born August 7, 

 1833, died July 12, 1834. Sarah, born 

 September 4, 1834, died in Baltimore, 

 March 14, i88r, married Charles R. Hol- 

 lingsworth. Moses Robinson died April 2, 

 1838. Edward C, born June 22, 1839, died 

 February 24, 1905. Samuel T., born August 

 2, 1837. Anna, born April 2, 1841, married 

 Robert Tilney. David S., born October 

 26. 1844, died July 9, 1845. 



Edward Longstreth, the fifth child, 

 was reared on his father's farm in War- 

 minster and received a good English ed- 

 ucation. On October 4, 1857, at the age 

 of eighteen years, he went to Philadel- 

 phia. A month later he began his ap- 

 prenticeship with M. W. Baldwin and 

 Company at the Locomotive Works. 

 Trained in the habits of industry, punc- 

 tuality and strict integrity, he was in 

 many ways a remarkable apprentice. 

 During his five years of apprenticeship 

 he was never known to be late in re- 

 porting for duty, and this trait character- 

 ized his after life. His energy, aptitude 

 and punctuality were so marked that 

 when less than three years of a five 

 years' apprenticeship had elapsed, he 

 was made assistant foreman of one 

 of the departments and was advanced to 

 the position of foreman of the second 

 floor of the works. While filling these 

 positions he applied himself to a study 

 of an improvement in the gauge system 

 with success, and his perfected system 

 has long been in use and is on^ of the 

 characteristic features of the Baldwin 

 Locomotive Works. Mr. Baldwin also 

 patented locomotive trucks and draft ap- 

 pliances of his improved pattern, which 

 are still used in the works. On August 

 I. 1867, he became foreman of the erect- 

 ing shop, and on January i, 1868, super- 

 intendent of the entire works. He be- 

 came a member of the firm January i, 

 1870. and continued the control of the 

 mechanical and construction depart- 

 ment, superintending the work of three 

 thousand men. By reason of impaired 

 health he retired from the active busi- 

 ness of the firm January i, 1886. Mr. 

 Longstreth was at one time vice presi- 

 dent of the Franklin Institute, and a di- 

 rector of the Williamson Industrial 

 School. In 1884 he was one of the most 

 energetic and active members of the 

 Committee of One Hundred, which de- 



feated the corrupt organization in Phil- 

 adelphia and aided Samuel S. King to the 

 mayoralty. Until his death, Mr. Long- 

 streth was a member of the Merchant's 

 Fund, a charitable organization; direc- 

 tor of the Delaware Insurance Com- 

 pany; a member of the Union League 

 and the Engineers' Club. He was a life- 

 long member of the Society of Friends, 

 holding membership in the meeting at 

 Fourth and Green streets, Philadelphia. 

 He was a member and for several years 

 one of the trustees and directors of the 

 Bucks County Historical Society, and 

 took an active part in the work of pre- 

 serving the records and archives of 

 the history of the county, in which his 

 ancestors had resided for manj genera- 

 tions. It was through his liberality that 

 the tablet was placed on the old York 

 road in Warminster to mark the place 

 where John Fitch conceived the idea of 

 steamboat navigation, and he was also 

 instrumental in having many other his- 

 toric places duly marked. The first 

 tract of land owned by the Society upon 

 which to erect a building for its archives 

 and collections was a gift from ]Mr. 

 Longstreth. He was a man much re- 

 spected and loved by his Bucks county 

 contemporaries, among whom he had a 

 large acquaintanceship. He died at his 

 home, 1410 Spruce street, February 24, 

 1905, lamented and honored by all who 

 knew him. Mr. Longstreth married, 

 June 7, 1865, Anna C. Wise, and they 

 were the parents of two sons: Charles 

 and Howard, and one daughter, Airs. 

 W. L. Supplee. all residing in Philadel- 

 phia. Mrs. Anna W. Longstreth, the 

 mother, died September 18, 1899. His 

 son Charles also served a five years' ap- 

 prenticeship at the Baldwin Locomotive 

 Works after his father had left the firm, 

 and is now the head of the United States 

 Metallic Packing Company, which con- 

 ducts a very large business in that and 

 other lines. 



THE SIEGLER FAMILY. Mathew 

 Siegler, for nearly thirty years a resident 

 of Doylesto'wn, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 

 was born in the province of Baden, Ger- 

 many, January 6, 18 12, and married there, 

 in 1837, Antoinette Eckerly, who was born 

 in Baden, June 16, 1812. Mathew learned 

 the trade of a stone mason, which he fol- 

 lowed in Baden until 1849, when he emi- 

 grated to Pennsylvania and located in Hill- 

 town, Bucks county, at the present site of 

 the borough of Silverdale. Having estab- 

 lished a home in his adopted country, he 

 sent for his wife and three children, who ar- 

 rived in Bucks county in 185 1. After fol- 

 lowing his trade in Hilltown for ten years 

 in 1859 Mr. Siegler removed with his fam- 

 ily to Doylestown, where he resided until 

 his death, July 30, 1888, being killed at a 

 railroad crossing west of the town, one year 

 after the celebration of the fiftieth anni- 



