HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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remains were not disturbed when the 

 site of Easton's colonial burying ground 

 was remodeled for the park surrounding 

 the new library. 



FRANCIS R. SWALLOW. Well 

 known and valued in Bucks county is 

 Francis R. Swallow, one of the summer 

 residents of Lumberville. Mr. Swallow 

 is a son of Charles R. Swallow, who 

 was born about 1812, near Ringold, New 

 Jersey, and was reared in Hunterdon 

 <:ount3\ He settled on a farm near 

 Rosemont, where for many years he fol- 

 lowed agricultural pursuits. About 

 1851 he moved to Lumberville and en- 

 gaged in mercantile business, which he 

 carried on for several years. About 

 1865 he removed to Lambertville, New 

 Jersey, where for a number of years he 

 ■conducted a mercantile business, which 

 he finally sold and became a commer- 

 -cial salesman for a wholesale shoe 

 house, a position which he continued to 

 hold during the active years of his life. 

 He married Eliza Robinson and five of 

 the ten children born to them are now 

 living: Harriet, who lives in Philadel- 

 phia; Emma, who is also a resident of 

 that city; Hannah, who is the wife of 



A. H. Horton, of Philadelphia; Francis 

 R.. mentioned at length hereinafter; and 

 Winfield, who lives in Philadelphia. 



Francis R. Swallow, son of Charles 

 R. and Eliza (Robinson) Swallow, was 

 born September 29, 1846, in Rosemont, 

 Hunterdon county, New Jersey, and 

 from his early bojdiood was in the store 

 with his father. At twelve years of age 

 he went to Lahaska, where he found em- 

 ployment in the store of William Bald- 

 ■erston. a worthy member of the Society 

 or Friends, with whom he remained , 

 imtil the second year of the civil war. In 

 August, 1862, he enlisted in Company 



B, One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth 

 Regiment for nine months' service. Two 

 months after the expiration of his term 

 he re-enlisted in Company B, One Hundred 

 and Ninety-Sixth Regiment for three 

 months' service, and after the expira- 

 tion of this his second term was em- 

 ployed for some months in Philadelphia. 

 In March. 1864, he again enlisted, this 

 time in Company I. Two Hundred and 

 Thirteenth Regiment for one year, serv- 

 ing until the close of the war. After 

 Mr. Swallow's retirement from military 

 service he went to Philadelphia and for 

 nineteen years was employed by the 

 ■old Carpenter Ice Company. In 1886, 

 in partnership with Thomas C. Jenkins, 

 he organized the Washington Ice Com- 

 pany, with offices at 13 Brown street, 

 and a shipping wharf at the Brown street 

 •shipping market wharf. From a small 

 heginning the business increased to 

 large proportions, the company running 



thirty-five wagons, the first wagons 

 and teams ever used in that business in 



Philadelphia. In 1899 they sold out ad- 

 vantageously to the trust, and for five 

 years Mr. Swallow and his partner 

 served as officers of the company. In 

 the autumn of 1903 Mr. Swallow again 

 engaged in the ice business, confining 

 himself strictly to the wholesale trade, 

 with offices at Broad and Cumberland 

 streets, Philadelphia. The title of the 

 present company, of which Mr. Swallow 

 is sole owner, is "The Washington Ice 

 Company." The business is carried on 

 principally by car-load lots and wagons 

 are run as far from the city as Bristol. 

 Mr. Swallow is also interested in the 

 New Knickerbocker Ice Company. He 

 is a member of Birney Post, No. 63, G. 

 A. R., of Philadelphia, and also be- 

 longs to Gothic Lodge, No. 519, F. and 

 A. M. In politics he is a Republican. 

 Mr. Swallow married in 1876 Mary A. 

 Diddleback, of Philadelphia, and nine 

 children have been born to them, five 

 of whom are living: Mamie E., who is 

 the wife of Charles Krupp, of Philadel- 

 phia; Frank W., who is a student in Jef- 

 ferson Medical College ; Isabelle Alay ; 

 Florence H.. and Lilliam Hazle. The 

 four last-named are at home with their 

 parents. In 1899 Mr. Swallow purchased 

 the old Fretz residence in Lumberville, 

 which he has since used as a country 

 home, his cit}-- residence being at 2042 

 Mount Vernon street, Philadelphia. 



JOSEPH JENKINS ERWIN, of 

 Spokane, Washington, though his lot 

 is now cast far from the place of his 

 nativity, cherishes a love of the good old 

 county of Bucks where his ancestors on 

 both maternal and paternal lines lived, 

 loved and labored. He was born in the 

 year 1844, and is a son of John and 

 Martha M. (Jenkins) Erwin, both of 

 whom came of Bucks county ancestry 

 and are descended from early settlers in 

 and near Bucks county, of Scotch-Irish 

 Welsh, Holland, and English extraction. 

 His maternal ancestry is given fully in 

 the sketch of his cousin, Zachary Tay- 

 lor Jenkins, which appears elsewhere in 

 this work. 



John Erwin. his great-grandfather, 

 was of Scotch-Irish origin, and a resi- 

 dent of Southampton township, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, where he died 

 February 7, 1823, at the age of fifty- 

 three years. The Erwin family were 

 early Scotch-Irish emigrants to Bucks 

 county, and took a prominent part in the 

 founding of the Republic, many of them 

 taking an active part in the revolution- 

 ary struggle. Hugh Erwin was a mem- 

 ber of the associated company of South- 

 ampton in 1775. and doubtless the pio- 

 neer ancestor of John Erwin. and prob-|^ 

 ably also a kin to Colonel Arthur Erwin, ' 

 of Tinicum, who came to Pennsylvania 

 about 1760 and was assassinated while 



