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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



and indomitable spirit combined with 

 industry he has succeeded in life. He is 

 the owner of a handsome colonal res- 

 dence, which has been occupied continu- 

 ously by physicians since 1832. Dr. 

 Erdman is a lover of "antiques" and 

 among his collection of "old china" and 

 "antique furniture'' are many pieces 

 dear to him. He is a member of the 

 Bucks County Medical Society, the Le- 

 high Valley Medical Association, the 

 Pennsylvania State Medical Society and 

 , the American Medical Association. Dr. 

 Erdman married on June 3, 1903, Clara 

 Wendell Lovett, daughter of Edmund 

 and Clara (Weaver) Lovett, of Penns 

 Manor, Falls township, Bucks county, 

 who is a descendant of one of the oldest 

 English Quaker families in Bucks 

 county, members of which have been 

 prominent in the business, social and 

 political life of Bucks county for nine 

 generations. 



Frank and Mary Jane Fetter, of South- 

 ampton, Bucks county, and they are the 

 parents of four children, Flarold F., Helen 

 K., Alma, and Sara Margaret. 



GEORGE MELVIN GRIM, M. D., 

 of Ottsville, Bucks county, Pennsyl- 

 vania, is a son of Dr. George W. and 

 Elizabeth P. (Koons) Grim, an account 

 of whom is given in the sketch of his 

 brother Hon. Webster Grim, and was 

 born in Nockamixon township, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, March 8, 1863. 



After attending the public schools of 

 his native township, he attended the 

 high school at Spring City, Chester 

 county, and then entered the academic 

 department of Muhlenburg College, Al- 

 lentown, and graduated in 1880. He 

 also took a course in the Keystone Nor- 

 mal school at Kutztown, Pennsylvania, 

 graduating in 1884. After teaching three 

 terms in Nockamixon township he en- 

 tered Jefferson Medical College, Phila- 

 delphia, and graduated in the class of 

 1887, having previously read medicine 

 with his father at Revere. He began 

 the practice of his profession at Revere 

 in 1887, and a year later located at Otts- 

 ville, where he has since practiced his 

 chosen profession with success. He is 

 a member of the American Medical, 

 Lehigh Valley and the Bucks County 

 Medical Associations, and stands high 

 in his profession. He has always 

 been deeply interested in the cause 

 of education, has served for the past 

 twelve years as a member of the 

 local school board, and is one of the 

 active and prominent members of the 

 School Directors Association of Bucks 

 County, before which he has delivered a 

 number of addresses on school manage- 

 ment, hygiene and kindred subjects. He 

 is a member of the Knights of the 

 Golden Eagle and the Shield of Honor 

 Lodges. Religiously he is a member of 

 the Reformed church, and politically a 

 Democrat. He married, October 18, 

 1888, Sarah E. Fetter, daughter of B. 



WILLIAM B. LEIGH. Thomas 

 Leigh, the ancestor of that branch of 

 the Leigh family resident in Bucks 

 county and vicinit^^ Pennsylvania, was 

 born in Lancastershire, England, in the 

 year 1775. He was a son 'of William 

 Leigh, who it appears was in some way 

 connected with Sir Walter Raleigh as 

 the .maiden name of that gentleman's 

 wife was Ann Leigh. In early life 



Thomas Leigh married Alice and 



he became the father of eleven children, 

 all of whom were born in England. 

 Thomas Leigh came to America in 1816, 

 settling in Trenton. New Jersey, and 

 shortly afterward his eldest daughter 

 came over to keep house for him, his 

 w^ife and remaining children coming in 

 the year 1818. After a short residence 

 in Trenton, the family removed to the 

 vicinity of Fallsington in the old house 

 on the farm now owned by Daniel Kelly. 

 After residing in various places they set- 

 tled on the farm of John Wildman in 

 Lower Makefield, where his wife died in 

 1853. After this sad bereavement Mr. 

 Leigh resided with his daughter Ellen 

 about a mile west of Fallsington until 

 his death, which occurred in 1856. Their 

 remains were interred in the Friends' 

 Yard at Fallsington. Their children 

 were as follows: 



I. Nany, born 5 mo. 7, 1795. died 

 1848; she was the wnfe of John Lonsdale 

 and they were the parents of four chil- 

 dren: Thomas, Ellen. Alice, and James, 

 all deceased. 2. Catharine, born i mo. 3, 

 1797, died 1856; she was the wife of Jo- 

 seph Radcliffe, no issue. 3. Alice, born 

 I mo. II, 1799, died young. 4. Ellen, born 

 in 1801, died young. 5. Alice (second), 

 born 7 mo. 30, 1802, was the wife of 

 Samuel Morris, and they reared a large 

 family of children. 6. William, born 11 

 mo. 4, 1804, died young. 7. Joshua, born 

 12 mo. 4, 1806, died in 1881; he mar- 

 ried Esther Margerun, and they were 

 the parents of several children. 8. 

 Thomas, born 4 mo. 2. 1809. married 

 Martha Van Horn, who bore him four 

 children: Cynthia, Wallace. Augustus, 

 and Edward. In 1843 he moved to west- 

 ern Illinois and died there in 1894. 9- 

 Ellen (second), born 7 mo. 15, 1811, died 

 in 1899; in 1845 she became the wife of 

 William Brelsford. no issue. His death 

 occurred in 1876. 10. William (second), 

 born 2 mo. i, 1814, died 9 mo. 15, 1875; 

 in 1840 he married Louisa M. Schaffer, 

 who is living at the present time 

 (1905); their children were: Jolin S.. 

 born 9 mo. iS, 1841. married Anna Clark; 

 Thomas, born 4 mo. 14, 1843, married 

 Elizabeth Foster; Eliza H., born 5 mo. 



