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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



Bowman; Lillie, Mary Ann. deceased; 

 and three who died in infancy. 



Frederick F. Buehrle was born in Tin- 

 icuni township, Bucks conntj', November 

 14, i86r, and pursued a common school 

 education, entering upon his business 

 career in the capacity of a clerk in the 

 store of D. B. Crouthenear, of Ridge. On 

 leaving that employ he turned his at- 

 tention to farming, which he has since 

 followed in connection with the butcher- 

 ing business and fence building. His 

 life has been characterized by unfalter- 

 ing industry and has been crowned with 

 a fair measure of success. In politics 

 he is a stanch Republican, active in the 

 work of the party, recognized as one 

 of its local leaders and at the present 

 writing in 1904 is spoken of as a candi- 

 date for sheriff. He belongs to the Lu- 

 theran church at Kellers, Pennsylvania, 

 and is the champion of all measures that 

 have for their object the upbuilding and 

 substantial improvement of his county. 



Frederick F. Buehrle was married to 

 Miss Annie Bewighouse, the only daugh- 

 ter of Isaac Bewighouse, and they now 

 have two children: Sarah B. and Mary 

 Ann. 



JOSEPH HARRISON WILSON, for 

 nearly twenty years a prominent mem- 

 ber of the town council of Doylestown, 

 Bucks county, and one of the active bus- 

 iness men of the county town, was born 

 at Jenkintown, Montgomery county, 

 Pennsylvania, February i, 1854, and is a 

 son of Ebenezer C. and Sarah T. (Fell 1 

 Wilson. On both the paternal and ma- 

 ternal sides he is descended from early 

 English pioneers in Pennsylvania and 

 New Jersey. His paternal ancestor. 

 Captain Ebenezer Wilson, son of Samuel 

 Wilson, a merchant of London, England, 

 came to America prior to 1677, and set- 

 tled in New Jersey, from whence his de- 

 scendants later migrated to the Manor 

 of Moorland, now Moreland township, 

 Montgomery county. 



Joshua Wilson, great-grandfather of 

 the subject of this sketch, was an early 

 resident of Moreland township. He mar- 

 ried Rachel Harding, daughter of Isaac 

 and Phebe Harding, of Southampton. 

 Bucks county, and a descendant of 

 Thomas Harding, one of the earliest 

 English settlers in Southampton. 



Isaac Wilson, son of Joshua and 

 Rachel (Harding) Wilson, was born 

 1801. He was a farmer in Moreland, and 

 married Sarah Conrad, a descendant of 

 Thones Kunders. one of the founders of 

 Germantown. and they were the parents 

 of six children: Emeline, Ebenezer C 

 Thomas, Joseph, Alfred and Charles. Of 

 these Thomas married Mary Fell, daugh- 

 ter of Thomas and Sarah (Michener) 

 Fell, and was a farmer for many years 

 near Lahaska, Bucks county. 



Ebenezer C. Wilson, eldest son of 

 Isaac and Sarah (Conrad) Wilson, was- 

 born in Moreland township, Montgom- 

 ery county, Pennsylvania, November 17,. 

 1828. His early education was acquired 

 at Jenkintown, and at the age of sixteen 

 years he went to learn the shoemaker's 

 trade with James K. Miller, later of 

 Doylestown, and followed that trade for 

 some years. He later engaged in farm- 

 ing near Jenkintown, where he followed 

 that vocation for two years. He then 

 removed to a farm near Dublin, Bucks 

 county, where he resided for two years. 

 In 1870 he removed to Doylestown, 

 where he spent his remaining days. He 

 was street commissioner of the town at 

 the time of his death in 1892. He was a 

 soldier in the rebellion, a member of 

 Company C, Eighth Pennsylvania Cav- 

 alry. He was wounded at Dinwiddy 

 Court House, and was helped from the 

 battle field by General Custin, who saved 

 him from being captured. Mr. Wilson 

 was in the hospital in Washington when 

 President Lincoln was assassinated. He 

 married in 1853, Sarah T. Fell, born May 

 I, 1832, who survives him and is living 

 in Doylestown. She is a daughter of 

 Thomas and Sarah (Michener) Fell, of 

 Moreland, Montgomery county, Penn- 

 sjdvania, the former born in 1802, died 

 June I, 1841 ; and the latter a daughter 

 of Isaac and Mary (Dehaven) Michener, 

 and a descendant of John Michener, who- 

 came from England prior to 1690, and 

 later settled in Moreland township; she 

 was born January 4, 1803, and died in 

 Bucks county, March 5, 1876. Thomas 

 Fell, above mentioned, was a son of 

 Phineas and Rachel (Coates) Fell, of 

 Buckingham, the former born December 

 18, 1778, died 1818, was a son of Thomas 

 Fell, born January 11, 1746, married' 

 April 18, 1770, Grace Parry, daughter of 

 Philip and Rachel (Harker) Parry, of 

 Buckingham, and a great-granddaughter 

 of Thomas and Elinor Parry, who came 

 from Wales in 1693. Thomas Fell was a 

 son of Benjamin Fell, born in Cumber- 

 land, England. November i, 1703, by his- 

 second wife Hannah Iredell, of Hor- 

 sham. Ebenezer C. and Sarah T. (Fell) 

 Wilson were the parents of four chil-^ 

 dren: Emma, born April 14, 1856. wife 

 of Morris Cloud, of Doylestown; Joseph 

 Harrison, the subject of this sketch; 

 Isaac Thomas, born July 2, 1858, married 

 Priscilla Thompson, and resides in Phil- 

 adelphia; and Elw^ood Conrad, born July 

 10. i860, died 1882. leaving one son, El- 

 wood, of Philadelphia. 



Joseph Harrison Wilson was reared 

 on the farm in Montgomery and Buck* 

 counties and acquired his education in 

 the public schools. He came to Doyles- 

 town with his parents in 1870. at the age 

 of sixteen years, and two years later 

 learned the trade of a plasterer, which 

 he has since follo\ved in Doylestown and 

 vicinity, filling many large contracts, and 



