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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



iiate of the medical department of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, of the 

 class of 1896, was born August 30, 1874. 

 He served the appointment as resident 

 physician at Mercy Hospital, Pittsburg, 

 Pennsylvania, and returned to his native 

 town to begin the practice of his pro- 

 fession. S. Edward Fretz, M. D., a 

 graduate of the same institution in the 

 class of 1900, was born August 30, 1878. 

 He served as resident physician in 

 Cooper Hospital, Camden, New Jersey, 

 and two years as assistant physician to 

 the Relief Association of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Railroad Company. He is now in 

 practice at Denver, Pennsylvania. 



On September i, 1898, Dr. Clayton D. 

 Fretz's wife died, aged fifty-two years. 

 He was married to his second wife, 

 Annie M. Fackenthall, a daughter •f 

 Aaron Meredith, late of Doylestown, 

 and the widow of Alfred Fackenthall, 

 Esq., of the same town, on August 14, 

 1900. 



The study of botany and the collection 

 of plants and flowers has afforded Dr. 

 Fretz much pleasure during his long 

 cgireer as a country practitioner. He has 

 added many new and rare plants to the 

 known flora of Bucks county, and about 

 forty to the state flora. His herbarium 

 contains a complete set of nearly all the 

 plants in the county, and a large ma- 

 jority of the plants east of the Missis- 

 sippi, including about 10,000 specimens, 

 and 4,000 species and varieties. He has 

 just completed a revision of Dr. I. S. 

 Moyer's catalogue ;Of the plants of 

 Bucks county. 



Politically Dr. Fretz is a Republican, 

 and was a delegate to the state conven- 

 tion of 1895. He served as a school di- 

 rector for p. period of fifteen years; is a 

 member of St. Paul's congregation of 

 the Reformed church, and has been 

 president of the Sellersville National 

 Bank since 1893. He is a member of the 

 Bucks County Historical Association, 

 the Bucks County Branch of the Penn- 

 sylvania Forestry Association, the Phil- 

 adelphia Botanical Club, the General 

 Alumni Association of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, MacCalla Lodge No. 596, 

 F. and A. M.; Doylestown Chapter. R. 

 A. M.; Pennsylvania Commandery, 

 Knights Templar, of Philadelphia; and 

 Sellersville Lodge No. 658, L O. O. F. 



HEINLEINS AND ^lORGANS of 

 Durham township, Bucks county. All 

 the Heinleins in America are descen- 

 dants of Matheis Heinlein, who with his 

 wife, son George, and daughters Sarah 

 and Eva. took passage in the ship "Ban- 

 nister." Captain John Doyle, from Am- 

 sterdam, and qualified at Philadelphia, 

 October 31, 1754. He settled in Durham 

 township on a tract of land nn the south- 

 ern slope of Bucher Hill. A farm now 



belonging to B. F. Fackenthal was part 

 of this tract, the other portion reaching 

 over the hill into Northampton county. 

 This entire tract became the property of 

 his son George. Eva, the oldest daugh- 

 ter, became the wife of George Bernhard 

 Horn. Sarah, the other daughter, be- 

 came the second wife of James Morgan, 

 ironmaster of Durham Furnace, and 

 father of Daniel Morgan, the famous 

 general of the Revolution. 



Daniel Morgan's biographer, in a fit 

 of romance, tells the story that the Gen- 

 eral, when a boy of fifteen, left his- 

 home solely by reason of his dislike to- 

 his stepmother. At the same time he 

 sets Daniel's departure in the year 1752, 

 which is the correct period, and just two 

 years before Sarah Heinlein arrived in 

 America. She was married to. James 

 Morgan in 1765, and, tradition says,, 

 "made an excellent wife for her hus- 

 band, hislping to rear the children from 

 his first wife." These were Mordica, 

 Abel, James, Samuel and Olivia. Abel 

 became a noted physician in Philadel- 

 phia. Mordica, James and Samuel were 

 lumbermen, and were purchasers of 

 large tracts of land in the upper Dela- 

 ware and Susquehanna river country. 

 Mordica purchased four hundred acres 

 in Monroe county in 1785, on which he 

 erected extensive saw-mills, and also- 

 four hundred acres in Luzerne county as 

 early as 1776. James and Samuel alsa 

 purchased four hundred acres each in 

 this same year. Mordica a»d James 

 finally settled at a place called Morgan's 

 Hill, in Wayne county, Pennsylvania, 

 where their stepmother, Sarah Heinlein, 

 passed her widowhood. General Daniel- 

 Morgan made a visit to his brortier on 

 one of his trips from the north, the place 

 being about twenty miles from the Dela- 

 ware river, along which the old mine 

 road traversed, the road generally used 

 by the troops in passing between the 

 Delaware and Hudson rivers. Probably 

 Daniel's cause for leaving home was 

 more through the spirit of adventure 

 than by any other reason. This same 

 characteristic we find in his favorite 

 cousin, Daniel Boone (Boone's mother 

 was a sister of James Morgan). The 

 Boone family lived about this time near 

 the Lehigh river, in Allen township, 

 Northampton county. Squire George 

 Boone and James Morgan were close 

 friends. Dr. Abel Morgan and Captain 

 George Heinlein never forgot their 

 friendship of their boyhood days, and 

 were close friends during the entire pe- 

 riod of the Revolutionary War. Dr. 

 Morgan was surgeon of the Eleventh 

 Regiment. Pennsylvania Line. 



George Heinlein was a very popular 

 man and became captain of the Durham 

 township militia, served all through the 

 war, anfl afterwards secured additional 

 land and pursued farming. He always 

 took an active part in public affairs, and 



