HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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land; 4. Alfred, born March 12, 1828; 



5. Abraham, born November 16, 1831; 



6. Harriet, born July 5, 1834, married 

 Alfred Johnson. 



WILLIAM S. HOGELAND, eldest 

 son of Isaac and Phebe (States) Hoge- 

 land, was born in Southampton town- 

 ship, near Feasterville, October 7, 1820. 

 Until ten years of age he resided with 

 his grandmother, from which time he 

 has resided on the farm where he was 

 born, inheriting it at his father's decease; 

 he conducted it until 1874, when he retired 

 from active work. He has served as town- 

 ship assessor at different periods for about 

 eighteen years, and has also filled the posi- 

 tion of auditor for the county. He has 

 been the owner for many years of the his- 

 toric "Buck Ta-«*ern" near Feasterville. He 

 has never married. 



JOHN HOGELAND, son of Abraham 

 and Mary Ann (Fenton) Hogeland, was 

 born on the old Hogeland homestead in 

 Southampton, January 19, 1834, and died 

 there August 10, 1886. He was reared on 

 the old homestead and acquired his edu- 

 cation at the local schools. On his mar- 

 riage to Keziah D. Willard, January 24, 

 1856, he took charge of one of his fathers 

 farms and conducted it until the death of 

 his father in 1865, when he acquired 

 seventy-two acres of the old homestead and 

 took up his residence thereon, and con- 

 tinued to reside there until his death, and 

 it is still the residence of his widow and 

 his son John. In addition to conducting 

 the home farm he carried on an extensive 

 butchering business. He was a conscient- 

 ious and upright man. and was much re- 

 spected in the community in which he lived. 

 In 1866 he united himself with the Old 

 School Baptist church of Southampton 

 and was a deacon and trustee of the church 

 for many years prior to his death. He mar- 

 ried, January 24, 1856, Keziah D. Willard, 

 born in Northampton township, July 23, 

 1837, daughter of James V. and Mary 

 (Delaney) Willard. of Northampton town- 

 ship, and a granddaughter of Jesse and 

 Margaret (Van Artsdalen) Willard of Ab- 

 ington. The children of John and Keziah 

 D. Hogeland were: i. James Willard, born 

 January .24, 1857, died ^larch 5. 1857 : 2. Al- 

 bert H., born January 10. 1858, graduated 

 at Lafayette College in 1877 as a civil en- 

 gineer, and secured a position in 1879 in 

 Minnesota on a local railroad, and later 

 accepted a position with the Great North- 

 ern Railroad Company, and has risen to 

 the position of chief engineer of the road. 

 He was married in Januar}-. 1889. to Eliza- 

 beth Trego, and has one daughter, Anna 

 T., born September 15, 1892; 3. Horace B., 

 born March 2, 1862, see forward : 4. Charles 

 M., born November 2, 1864, died young; 5. 

 Mary W.,born 1867, died 1870; 6. John, born 

 December 7, 1868, and was educated at the 

 local schools and at Millersville State Nor- 

 mal School, and has charge now of the 



homestead farm, which he has conducted 

 for the last fourteen years ; he married 

 December 31, 1890, Flora Krewsen, their 

 children are: Blanche, born July 26, 1891 ; 

 Horace W., born August 4, 1893; John B., 

 born May 30, 1897; and Paul P., born 

 February 15, 1902. 7. Justus M., born Jan- 

 uary 30, 1872, was educated at the Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota, and died in Minnesota, 

 July 27, 1894; 8 I. Blance, born March 5, 

 1876, died Dec. 3, 1878; 9. Newlin F., born 

 September 5, 1878, died November 24, 1898, 

 was educated at the Newtown high school, 

 supplemented by a course at Pierce's Busi- 

 ness College, Philadelphia, accepted a posi- 

 tion in a Philadelphia bank, and was paying 

 teller in the Fourth Street National Bank 

 at time of his death. 



HORACE B. HOGELAND, cashier of 

 the First National Bank of Newtown, is a 

 son of John and Keziah D. (Willard) 

 Hogeland, and was born on the homestead 

 farm in Southampton that had been the 

 home of his ancestors for three generations, 

 on March 23, 1862. He acquired his educa- 

 tion at the public schools, supplemented by 

 a term at a Philadelphia school. He en- 

 tered the Newtown bank as clerk on June 

 23, 1878, and after filling the positions of 

 bookkeeper and teller respectively was ad- 

 vanced to the position of cashier on Janu- 

 ary 19, 1904. He was married February 

 6, 1884, to Mary Lena Trego, daughter of 

 W. Wallace and Sarah (Bennett) Trego, 

 of Newtown, and they are the parents of 

 two chil'lren: Alice Fitch, born June 13, 

 1886, and Albert Wallace, born April 20, 

 188S. 



The ancestors of Mrs. Hogeland were 

 French Huguenots, she being a descendant 

 in the eighth generation from Peter and 

 Judith Trego, the former of whom was 

 born in France in 1655, and about 1685 

 emigrated to Pennsylvania and settled in 

 Miidleto.vn township, Chester, (now Dela- 

 ware) county, where their oldest son Jacob 

 Trego was born in 1687. 



Jacob Trego married Mary Cartledge, 

 daughter of Edmund and Mary Cartledge, 

 of Darby, Chester county, in 1710 and set- 

 tled in Merion, Chester county, from 

 whence he removed to Darby in 1717 and 

 died there in 1720. His widow married 

 John Laycock, of Wrightstown, Bucks 

 county, who had come from Lancashire, 

 England, in 1717, and purchased land in 

 the neighborhood of Wrightstown. 



John Trego, only son of Jacob and Mary 

 (Cartledge) Trego, was born in Merion, 

 Chester county, Pennsylvania, July 6. 1715, 

 and came with his mother and stepfather 

 to Wrightstown in 1722. In 1736 they con- 

 veyed to him a farm in Upper Makefield, 

 near the lines of Buckingham and Wrights- 

 town, where he lived until his death in 

 1791, leaving sons Jacob and William, and 

 four daughters. 



William Trego, born in Upper Make- 

 field. March 16, 1744, was the second son 

 of John and Hannah (Lester) Trego, and 

 lived all his life there, dying in 1827. He 



