HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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othy Iredell, Ruth Thomas, and Hannah 

 Rowlette ; Anna Abbott, who died in her 

 fourteenth year; and Charles Iredell. Mr. 

 Thomas, the father, died in 1890. 2. 

 Louisa. 3. Joseph, who died in infancy. 

 4. Samuel Newbold, who resided many 

 years in Titusville, and married Margaret 

 Monier Spangler, of Philadelphia. Their 

 children were: George Spangler, who 

 married Orinda Corson Fausette, of 

 Trenton, New Jersey, and has one son, 

 Leslie Newbold; Harriet Louisa; Will- 

 iam Miller, who died on the eve of man- 

 hood; Charles Francis, who married 

 Elizabeth Hyde, of Titusville, and has 

 four children, Francis Raymond, Henry 

 Hyde, Helen Margaret, and Elizabeth 

 Mae; Marian Oakford; Henry Volkmar, 

 who married Margaret Valeria Mahoney, 

 of New York city; Rebecca Catharine, 

 and Florence Newbold. Mrs. Iredell died 

 in 1899, and her husband passed away in 

 1902. 5. Abbie Newbold. 6. Rachel, who 

 died in infancy. 7. Mary Howell. 8. 

 Charles, who married Annie Maria Er- 

 win, of Painted Post, New York, where 

 they resided for some time, and then 

 moved to Elmira. New York.. They had 

 one son, Arthur Erwin, who married Isa- 

 bella Paxson Rogers, of Bristol, and has 

 two children, Charles Vernon and 

 Frances Barrett. Mrs. Iredell died in 

 1898. g. Susan Trump. 10. Elizabeth 

 Newbold. 



Mr. Iredell was actively engaged in 

 his duties at the bank until within six 

 weeks of his death, which occurred Sixth 

 month, i6th. 1882. The officers of the 

 bank unanimously passed resolutions ex- 

 pressive of their high appreciation of his 

 services; of their sorrow at his decease; 

 and of their sympathy with his bereaved 

 family. One of the directors of the bank 

 thus wrote of him in the columns of a 

 local paper: "Above all was his devotion 

 to rectitude as an inward principle to 

 which all other things were made to 

 yield. During the long period of his 

 connection with the bank his integrity 

 of conduct and friendly attention _ to 

 those dealing with the bank were im- 

 pressed upon all and contributed to exalt 

 the character and credit of that excellent 

 and popular institution. And amidst the 

 numerous instances of recreancy to their 

 trust which have occurred amongst of- 

 ficers of moneyed institutions, that fidel- 

 ity which never faltered in the worst, or 

 wearied in the best of times, has made 

 his example more distinctly marked and 

 highly appreciated. At his post of duty, 

 in the fullness of his years and the ma- 

 turity of his character, he has passed 

 away, leaving behind him a name and an 

 example to be respected and followed 

 by generations of his countrymen." 



Mrs. Iredell was descended from Mi- 

 chael Newbold. who came from Ycrl<- 

 shire. England, in 1679, and settl.d on 

 the Assiscunk creek, just above Burling- 

 ton, New Jersey. He had numerous de- 



scendants and among them Joshua New- 

 bold, who married Rebecca Atkinson. Their 

 son, Samuel Newbold, married Abigail, 

 daughter of Samuel and Susanna (Han- 

 son) Howell. The former was de- 

 scended from John Howell, who came- 

 from Wales with his three children in 

 1690. The eldest of these children, Jacob 

 Howell, married Sarah, daughter of 

 Randal Vernon, who, with his two 

 brother, Robert and Thomas, had allied 

 himself with the Friends' cause in this 

 country a short time before the arrival 

 of William Penn. They belonged to a 

 family of note in England, being sons of 

 James Vernon, who was secretary of 

 state for Great Britain from 1697 to 1700, 

 and brothers of Admiral Vernon, in 

 honor of whom the Washington estate 

 received its name. Thus it will be seen 

 that the marriage of Samuel Newbold_ 

 and Abigail Howell united two old fam-' 

 ilies. Mr. and Mrs. Newbold were the 

 parents of a daughter, Rebecca, who was 

 married at Friends Meeting, Byberry, 

 Pennsylvania, to Charles Thomas Ire- 

 dell, as mentioned above. The death of 

 Mrs. Iredell occurred 4 mo. 23, 1893. 



JOSEPH RIDGWAY GRUNDY, 

 proprietor of the Bristol Worsted Mills 

 and one of the most prominent manu- 

 facturers and business men of Bucks 

 county, was born in Camden, New Jer- 

 sey, January 13, 1863, and is a son of 

 the late William Hulme and Mary 

 (Ridgway) Grundy, and a grandson of 

 Edmund and Rebecca (Hulme) Grundy, 

 and is a descendant on the maternal side 

 from the earliest English settlers on the 

 Delaware. 



Edmund Grundy, grandfather of 

 Joseph R. was a native of England, 

 came to this country when a young 

 man and located in Philadelphia, where 

 he became a prominent merchant. He 

 retired from business in 1856, at same 

 time moving to Walnut Grove Farm, 

 Bristol township, where he resided until 

 his death in 1878. He married Rebecca 

 Hulme, daughter of William and Rachel 

 (Knight) Hulme, of Hulmeville, Bucks 

 county, and they were the parents of 

 five children. 



William Hulme Grundy, the father of 

 the subject of this sketch, was the 

 'second child of Edmund and Rebecca 

 (Hulme) Grundy, and was born in Phila- 

 delphia, in December. 1836. He was 

 educated at a select school in that city 

 and at an early age became a clerk in 

 a mercantile establishment. Later he 

 entered into the mercantile trade for 

 himself in the city. In 1870 he began 

 the manufacture of worsted yarns, mov- 

 ing his plant to Bristol. Bucks county, 

 in 1876, establishing the Bristol Worsted 

 Mills, so long and successfully conducted 

 by the firm of William H. Grundy & Co., 



