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of David Twining. This land he farmed 

 for about one year and then joined his 

 father at Newtown, with whom he remained 

 until his marriage, when he moved to the 

 farm of Aaron Knight, his father-in-law, 

 which farm he cultivated for twenty-five 

 years, renting it until it was sold. In 

 April, 1904, he removed to the farm on 

 which he now resides in Southampton 

 township and since then has made a 

 specialty of dairy farming. Mr. Dolton 

 was united in inarriage to Phoebe T. 

 Knight, who was born in Southampton 

 township, September 29, 1856, a daughter of 

 Aaron and Hannah (Tomlinson) Knight. 

 Seven children were the issue of this union, 

 six of whom are : Aaron, born August 10, 

 1880, married Blanche Atkinson and they 

 are the parents of two children : Aaron and 

 Florence. Emma, born August 10, 1882, 

 wife of George T. White. Bertha, born 

 July 25, 1884, died August 9, 1885. Mary 

 E., born December 26, 1885. }^Iabel, born 

 January 28, 1887. Richard, born April 6, 

 1888. 



CHARLES E. COPE, the well known 

 hotel proprietor of Atlantic City, and the 

 Water Gap, was born at New Hope, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, December 28, 1852, 

 and is descended on the paternal side from 

 Yost Cope, one of the earliest German 

 settlers in Bucks county. 



George B. Cope, father of Charles E., 

 v/as born and reared in Plumstead town- 

 ship, Bucks county. Soon after his mar- 

 riage he engaged in business in New Hope, 

 Bucks county, where he was a successful 

 merchant and general business man, be- 

 ing engaged for some years in boat build- 

 ing and other local industries. He was a 

 Democrat in politics, and for many years 

 took an active part in the councils of his 

 party. He was elected to the office of 

 treasurer of Bucks county, and served for 

 three years. He later removed to Burling- 

 ton, New Jersey, and engaged extensively 

 in cranberry growing. He died at the age 

 of seventy years. His wife was Frances 

 M. Crook, of an old New Hope familv, 

 and they were the parents of ten children 

 of whom eight survive : Ella, widow of 

 Edgar Haas, of Solebury ; Charles E.. the 

 subject of this sketch; G. Frank, of Sum- 

 mit's Point. New Jersey ; Clara, widow of 

 Sexton Woodward, of Philadelphia ; An- 

 netta, wife of Blanchard White, an at- 

 torney of Pemberton, New Jersey ; Cath- 

 arine, wife of Dr. Seagraves, of Pember- 

 ton ; Bertha, wife of William Watts, a 

 hotel proprietor at Atlantic City ; J. Pardy, 

 of Atlantic City. 



Charles E. Cope was reared at New Hope 

 and acquired his education at the public 

 schools and the State Normal School at 

 Millersville. Pennsylvania. At the age of 

 twenty years he left his father's cranberry 

 farm and returned to Bucks county, where 

 he took up the butchering business, first 



in Pineville, later at Forest Grove, and 

 Buckingham, and finally in Doylestown, 

 where he conducted a meat market for some 

 years. Selling out his business he con- 

 ducted the Upper Hotel at Buckingham for 

 two years, and then removed to the Water 

 Gap, where he conducted a summer resort 

 for three years. His father dying about 

 this time and leaving him his partially de- 

 veloped cranberry farm, encumbered, 

 Charles as the eldest son was called home 

 to take matters in charge. Needing money 

 to develop the property, Mr. Cope went 

 to Atlantic City and engaged in the hotel 

 business, and from his earnings there de- 

 veloped the cranberrv bog, thus placing 

 the property upon an earning basis, so that 

 in three or four years cranberries were pro- 

 duced by the carload, and a large income 

 was provided for the widowed mother and 

 her children. Mr. Cope then deeded the 

 property over to his mother, and has since 

 continued the hotel business at Atlantic 

 City and the Water Gap. He assisted his 

 brothers to start in business for themselves, 

 and both of them have been successful, 

 Frank, the elder having retired from active 

 business. Mr. Cope has been the proprietor 

 of the "Clifton," "San Marcus," "Alber- 

 marle," "Kenilworth," the "Grand Atlantic," 

 and the "Jackson" hotels at Atlantitc City, 

 and still retains the latter, as well as the 

 Kittatinning House at the Delaware Water 

 Gap, both of which he conducts. In 1898 

 he purchased a tract of land at Wycombe, 

 Bucks county, upon which he has erected 

 several houses and business places. 



Mr. Cope married, in 1879, Emma 

 Thompson, daughter of the late Abraham 

 Thompson, of Wrightstown, for many years 

 a prominent farmer of that townshio, and 

 who filled the office of county commissioner 

 several years ago. He belonged to an old 

 family in that vicinity, of Scotch-Irish ex- 

 traction. Mr. and Mrs. Cope have no chil- 

 dren. He is a member of Doylestown 

 Lodge, No. 245, F. & A. M.. Atlantic City 

 Lodge, B. P. O. E.. Pequod Tribe, I. O. R. 

 M., and Atlantic City Lodge, I. O. O. F. 



MRS. J. WARREN PAXSON, of Sole- 

 bury township, is descended from the well 

 known Beans family of Bucks county, be- 

 ing a great-granddaughter of Nathan Beans, 

 who at one time was the owner of a clock 

 that is now in possession of Mrs. Phillips. 

 It was made for him by Seneca Lukens, 

 of Horsham, Pennsylvania, in 1787. 



Stephen Beans, son of Nathan Beans, 

 was born March 8. 1776. in Warminster 

 township, Bucks county, but after attaining 

 his majority removed to Northampton 

 township, where he was engaged in farm- 

 ing for many years. He. however, returned 

 to Warminster township and located in 

 Johnsville, where he died on the 20th of 

 August, 1866. He married Nancy Ramsey, 

 and their son was Robert Beans, who was 

 bcr-. in Norlhnmpton township, March 28, 



