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HISTORY OF DUCKS COUNTY. 



Aaron R., and Stephen Woolston. His 

 second wile, wliose maiden name was Han- 

 nah Eastburn, bore him two children, one 

 of whom died in childhood, the other being 

 Wihiam Henry Ivins, of Langhorne, Penn- 

 sylvania. 



Edward A. Ivins, eldest son of Aaron and 

 Hope (Aaronson) Ivins, was born in Penns 

 Manor, July 30, 1828. The occupation to 

 which he was reared he made his life work, 

 being accounted one of the practical and 

 progressive farmers of his locality. He 

 enjoyed the confidence of the entire com- 

 munity, and was thoroughly trustworthy 

 in all the relations of life. He was united 

 in marriage to Anna Brown, who was born 

 in Penns Manor, May 23, 1830, a daughter 

 of Moses and Ann (Harvey) Brown, life- 

 long residents of Penns Manor. Moses 

 Brown was born in 1792, was a farmer by 

 occupation, and died May 16, 1874, aged 

 eighty-eight years. His wife, Ann (Har- 

 vey) Brown was born in 1794, and died 

 January 10, 1852, at the age of fifty-ei<Tht 

 years. They were the parents of five chil- 

 dren : Alice, who died in infancy ; Eliza- 

 beth, who became the wife of Thomas 

 Headley, and died at the age of eighty-five 

 years; Sarah, born 1820, died at the asre 

 of twenty-one years ; Mary, born 1825, died 

 in 1871 ; and Anna, aforementioned as the 

 wife of Edward A. Ivins. The family on 

 both sides were members of the Friends 

 Society. The children born to Edward A. 

 and Anna B. Ivins were as follows : Annie, 

 who died unmarried ; De Witt Clinton, a 

 resident of Plainfield, New Jersey; Edward 

 A., mentioned hereinafter; M. Harvey, a 

 resident of Langhorne, Bucks county, and 

 William Henry, deceased. Edward A. 

 Ivins, father of these children, died at 

 Penns Manor, August 12, igoo. 



Edward A. Ivins, second son of Edward 

 A. and Anna (Brown) Ivins, entered the 

 public schools of Penns Manor at the usual 

 age, and after studying for some time be- 

 came a student in the Friends Cent''al 

 School, of Philadelphia, conducted by 

 Aaron B. Ivins, a relative. When 

 he had completed his course of study 

 he entered the employ of the Phila- 

 delphia and Reading Railroad Com- 

 pany as clerk in the counting depart- 

 ment, and remained there for eighteen 

 years, this fact being ample proof that he 

 was one of its most truster! and capable 

 employes, discharging the duties assigned 

 to him in a conscientious and painstaking 

 manner. In June, 1900, prior to the death 

 of his father, he returned to the old home- 

 stead and assumed its management, and 

 since then has given his attention ex- 

 clusively to the same, his energy and en- 

 terprise being resultant factors in making 

 this one of the fine farming properties of 

 the locality, having thereon all the im- 

 provements usually found upon the estate 

 of a careful, energetic and progressive 

 farmer. 



Edward A. Ivins married Mary L. 

 Thomas, who was born January 8, 1863, a 



daughter of Jonathan and Mary Ann 

 (Knight) Thomas, deceased, who were well 

 known residents of Bensalem township, and 

 the parents of eleven children, among whom 

 were the following: Ellwood, Carrie, wife 

 of J. J. Broadhurst, of Langhorne; 

 Howard, Reese, Henry, Russell, Mary, wife 

 of Edward A. Ivins; Franklin, and Clinton 

 Thomas ; they also had a step-daughter, 

 Ellen Thomas. One child was the issue of 

 the marriage of Edward A. and Mary L. 

 Ivins, A. Russell Thomas Ivins, born Jan- 

 uary 19, 1892. 



SAMUEL J. GARNER, of Hatboro, 

 Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, was 

 born in Philadelphia, of Bucks county pa- 

 rents. May 2, 1852, but for the last thirty 

 years has been one of the leading citizens 

 of the thriving borough, just over Bucks 

 county's southwestern line. 



The family of Garner is of German 

 origin, and descended from Hans (John) 

 Garner, who came to Bucks county about 

 the middle of the eighteenth century and 

 settled in New Britain township, near the 

 present village of Colmar on the county 

 line. Samuel Garner, son of John, the 

 pioneer, was reared in New Britain town- 

 ship, Bucks county, and became a promi- 

 nent man and a large landowner there and 

 in Warrington. He reared a large family 

 of children, among whom was Samuel, the 

 grandfather of the subject of this sketch. 

 By a later division of the township most 

 of the land of Samuel Garner, Sr., in New 

 Britain township, was incorporated into the 

 township of Warrington and is still owned 

 and occupied by his descendants. 



Samuel Garner (2) was born in New 

 Britain township, Bucks county in 1798, and, 

 inheriting a portion of his father's real 

 estate, followed the life of a farmer there 

 and in Warrington during the active years 

 of his life, removing late in life to Doyles- 

 town township, where he died about 1877. 

 He took an active interest in the affairs 

 of his locality, filled a number of local 

 positions, and was a soldier in the Mexican 

 war. He married Mary A. Snare whose 

 father was for several years proprietor of 

 the old historic Green Tree Tavern on the 

 county line in Warrington township. On 

 the maternal side she was descended from 

 the Polks and other prominent Scotch- 

 Irish families of Neshaminy colony in War- 

 wick and Warrington. 



Samuel S. Garner, son of Samuel and 

 Mary A. (Snare) Garner, was born in War- 

 rington township, Bucks county, in March. 

 1828. and lived there until the age of 

 eighteen years, when he went to Philadel- 

 phia and learned the trade of a bricklayer, 

 and resided there the greater part of his 

 life. He married a widow Ray, whose 

 maiden name was Elizabeth Carr. He died 

 in 1890. 



Samuel J. Garner, the son of Samuel 

 S. and Elizabeth (Carr) Garner, born in 

 Philadelphia, May 2, 1852, attended school 



