HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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teachers of that day. Young Tomlin- 

 son labored upon the paternal farm 

 until he was seventeen, and at that early 

 age entered upon an apprenticeship to 

 the coachmaker's trade in a shop which 

 his father conducted in connection with 

 his farming labors. He was so em- 

 ployed for four years, and at the expira- 

 tion of that time, his father retiring, he 

 succeeded to the management. He con- 

 ducted the business with much success 

 until 1849, when he sold it and went to 

 Maryland, where he cultivated a plan- 

 tation for a couple of years. In 1851 

 he returned to Middletown and resumed 

 his coachmaking business, in which he 

 successfully continued until 1875, when 

 he retired to a finely improved and 

 highly productive farm which he had 

 previously purchased, and where he 

 made his home for thirteen years. He 

 then made a final removal to Lang- 

 horne, where he has since resided, occu- 

 pying a beautiful and comfortable home 

 where he enjoys that well merited ease 

 and contentment which should properly 

 crown so active and well spent a life. 

 He enjoys the esteem aYid confidence of 

 the community, to whose prosperity 

 and advancement he has materially con- 

 tributed, and among whom he is held 

 in peculiar regard as the oldest citizen. 

 He is the oldest surviving member of 

 and the only charter member now liv- 

 ing of Orionto Lodge, No. 177, I. O. 

 O. F., organized in May, 1846, and of 

 which he has been an active and con- 

 tributing member continuously down 

 to the present time, a period of forty- 

 eight years. He was for five years a 

 justice of the peace, and for many years 

 was a member and secretary of the old 

 Attleboro Fire Company. In religion 

 he is a Friend, and in politics a staunch 

 Republican, having affiliated with the 

 party when it organized in 1856 for its 

 noble purpose of staying the aggres- 

 sions of slaveholders and the prostitu- 

 tion of free soil to human slavery, a 

 crime against humanity and a sin against 

 God. Mr. Tomlinson married, July 4, 

 1847. Miss Lydia Ann Noble, of Phila- 

 delphia, daughter of Edward and Eliza- 

 beth (Tiller) Noble. Of this union 

 were born three children, all of whom 

 were educated in the Friends' and public 

 schools of Langhorne. They were: i. 

 Edward Hicks, born May 11, 1848, he 

 married Annie Reigan, and they became 

 the parents of the following children — - 

 Florence May, born 1874; Joshua Noble, 

 who married in 1904, Elizabeth Griffith: 

 Estelle, Clarence L., and one who died 

 in infancy. Florence May was married 

 to Ervin Fisher, of Philadelphia, and 

 they became the parents of two chil- 

 dren: Nevin and Oswald Fisher. 

 Elizabeth Jane, born September 29, 1850. 

 Frederick Noble, born June 17. 1855, 

 never married. Mrs. Tomlinson. mother 

 of this famih^ passed away January 28, 



1902, leaving to her mourning hwsband 

 and children the tender memories of a 

 beautiful spirit which shed the light of 

 love upon all who came into companion- 

 ship with her. 



GEORGE TOMLINSON, son of Aaron 

 and Jane (Headley) Tomlinson, and grand- 

 son of William and Rachel (Everett) Tom- 

 linson, mentioned in the preceding sketch, 

 was born in Middletown, February 15, 

 1840, and was educated at the public and 

 Friends' schools of Langhorne. He re- 

 mained on the farm with his parents until 

 twenty years of age. In 1861 he responded 

 to the call of his country by enlisting in 

 Company F, One Hundred and Fourth 

 Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers under 

 Captain Alfred Marple, and that veteran 

 of two wars. Colonel (now General) W. 

 W. H. Davis, and participated with his 

 regiment in the bloody battles of Fair 

 Oaks, the Seven Days Fight, Malvern Hill, 

 as well as in a number of other engage- 

 ments and skirmishes. On account of ill 

 health he was honorably discharged on 

 October 3, 1862, after having been confined 

 for some time to the military hosnital on 

 David's Island, New York. He returned 

 home, and after careful nursing regained 

 to some extent his normal hea.th, though 

 he never fully recovered from the results 

 of the campaign of hardships in the Vir- 

 ginia swamps. As soon as sufficientlv re- 

 covered he resumed the vocation of a 

 farmer, which he followed until 1883 when, 

 having purchased a house on Green street, 

 Langhorne, he retired to that borough, 

 where he has since resided, having built 

 his present residence in 1891. He has al- 

 ways taken an active intere-t in the affairs 

 of the town, and is a member of Sergeant 

 Hugh A. Martindale Post, G. A. R., No. 

 366, and of Orionto Lodge,. No. 177, I. O. 

 O. F. He was reared in the faith of the 

 Society of Friends, of which his ancestors 

 have been members for many generations. 

 In politics he is a Republican, and has 

 always taken an active interest in the suc- 

 cess of his party. He married, December 

 21, 1865, Annie Strouse, daughter of Sam- 

 uel and Susan (Lutz) Strouse, of Lang- 

 horne. ■ ■' : r^. 



EDWARD A. IVINS, of Falls, township, 

 a representative of one of the old and 

 honored families of Bucks county, may be 

 properly mentioned among the citizens who 

 are contributing their quota toward the 

 development of the agricultural interests 

 of the community. He is a native of Penns 

 Manor, the date of. his birth being Febru- 

 ary II, 1858. 



Aaron Ivins. grandfather of Edward A. 

 Ivins, resided at Penns Manor, Falls town- 

 ship, where he successfully conducted agri- 

 cultural pursuits for a number of years. 

 He married Hope Aaronson, and they were 

 the parents of three children : Edward A., 



