HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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After being mustered out of the service 

 Mr. McDowell returned to his native county 

 where he was employed as a farm hand 

 for about a year. He then made his way to 

 Hartsville, Bucks county, where he entered 

 the employ of Alford Murray, with whom 

 he continued for thirteen years, and upon 

 the death of Mr. Murray he entered the 

 services of George Jamison, with whom he 

 remained for seven years. He afterward 

 spent two years in the employ of Charles 

 Freitz, and in 1882 he came to his present 

 home in Warwick township, farming the 

 place on shares for three years. In 18S5 

 he bought the farm comprising fifty acres 

 of tine land. On the place is a good farm 

 residence and barn. The buildings, however, 

 were in poor repair when they came into 

 his possession, but he remodeled and made 

 additions to the house and also the barn, 

 has erected a number of sheds for the 

 shelter of grain and stock and for the ma- 

 chinery, and has all the latest improved 

 implements that facilitate agricultural work. 

 In addition to general farming he has at- 

 tended the Philadelphia market and has 

 made a specialty of the raising of hay 

 which he there places on sale. There is 

 one event in the history of Mr. McDowell 

 that is well worthy of mention. He spent 

 the first three years of his business career 

 in the employment of Alford Murray, fol- 

 lowing his return from the war, remained 

 with him for thirteen years and when Mr. 

 ^Murray died was found by the -terms of 

 his will that he had left to Mr. AIcDowell 

 one thousand dollars in recognition of his 

 capable service, unfaltering fidelity and 

 honesty. 



In 1869 ]\Ir. McDowell was married to 

 Miss Ellie Fenton, who was born in Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, September 12, 1850. 

 bhe is a lady of intelligence and culture 

 and has been a faithful helpmate to her 

 husband. Her parents were John and 

 Rachel (Cline) Fenton, both of whom were 

 natives of Bucks county. Her paternal 

 grandparents were John and Betsey Fen- 

 ton, representatives of one of the old fam- 

 ilies of this part of the state, his ancestors 

 having settled in Bucks county when Penn- 

 sylvania was still numbered among the 

 colonial possessions of Great Britain. The 

 first of the name in America were of Eng- 

 lish lineage and his descendants have been 

 farmers and mechanics of Pennsylvania for 

 many years. John Fenton, Jr., father of 

 Mrs. McDowell, was reared and married 

 in Bucks county, and became a prominent 

 farmer of his locality, also conducting a 

 sawmill. He made his home in Hartsville. 

 Ever industrious and energetic, his business 

 career was characterized by all that is hon- 

 orable and straightforward in one's deal- 

 ings with his fellow men. In polities' he 

 was a Democrat. His death occurred in 

 Edison in 1894, while his wife survives at 

 the ripe old age of seventy-eight years and 

 finds a good home with ]SIr. and Mrs. Mc- 

 Dowell. She is a consistent member of the 

 Neshaminy church. In her family were 



Edwin, who is a miller by trade, but now 

 follows farming; ^Mrs. Elizabeth Krier, de- 

 ceased; and i\Irs. JNIcDowell. Unto Mr. 

 and Mrs. McDowell have been born two 

 children : Mary Lillian, who died at the 

 age of nine months; and Fenton, born 

 March 16, 1877. The son was provided 

 with a liberal education and in early man- 

 hood married Louisa Morgan, a daughter 

 of John Morgan, and a granddaughter of 

 Miles Morgan, connected with one of the 

 honored early families of Bucks county. 

 John Morgan is a carpenter and served in 

 the One Hundred and Fourth Regiment in 

 the war of the rebellion. His wife was 

 twice married, her first husband being John 

 Cook, who served in the Civil war and lost 

 one leg while fighting for his country. His 

 death occurred as the result of his army 

 experiences. The children of Fenton Mc- 

 Dowell are Robert D., born March 10, 

 1892; and ^lartha G., born July 17, 1904. 

 Mrs. Fenton McDowell is a member of 

 the Baptist church, while he is connected 

 with Neshaminy Castle, No. 139, Knights 

 of the Golden Eagle, of which he is a past 

 chief. 



In his political allegiance Robert Mc- 

 Dowell has always been a Democrat and 

 he has taken an active interest in all of 

 the issues of the day, yet has never aspired 

 to public oftice. He belongs to Hatboro 

 Post, No. loi, G. A. R., and attends the 

 Presbyterian church. He has lived a quiet 

 and unassuming life, yet his entire career 

 has been characterized by honesty in busi- 

 ness, fidelity in citizenship and trustworthi- 

 ness in social relations, and thus his career 

 has won for him the entire confidence and 

 respect of his fellow men. 



CHARLES M. CADWALLADER. The 



Cadwallader family has been represented 

 in Pennsylvania from the colonial epoch in 

 the American history down to the present 

 time. The first of the name of whom de- 

 finite record is obtainable was Johi> Cad- 

 wallader, who was of Welsh descent. His 

 parents came from Wales to this country 

 when it was still a part of the colonial 

 possessions of Great Britain and established 

 a home in Montgomery county, assisting in 

 the permanent development and improve- 

 ment of that part of the state, and giving 

 their influence for its moral growth, being 

 consistent members of the Hicksite branch 

 of the Society of Friends. John Cadwallader 

 (i) was a resident farmer of Horsham 

 township, Montgomery county. Benjamin 

 Cadwallader (2) was born in Horsham 

 township and was reared amid the refining 

 influence of a good Christian home in ac- 

 cordance with the tenets of the Friends 

 meeting and remained to his last days a 

 faithful follower of its teachings. After 

 his marriage he located on a farm in Hor- 

 sham township, where he resided for many 

 years and then removed to Bucks county, 

 purchasing a large tract of land in Buck- 



