HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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ment recognized his valuable services 

 and his sacrifices, and granted him a 

 pension. 



Following his return home, where he 

 remained for a few months, Mr. Morgan 

 went on a prospecting tour to Los An- 

 geles, California, where he was given a 

 mail route. He continued in the strict 

 service of the government for thirteen 

 months, and then again came to Penn- 

 sylvania. Here he did some trading, and 

 after his marriage, which occurred in 

 1868. he settled in Horsham township, 

 where he remained for a year and a half. 

 He then moved to Plumstead township, 

 where he spent one year, and afterward 

 went to Jamison, where he engaged in the 

 operation of the Small farm for one 

 season. Later he conducted another 

 farm for tw^o years, and in 1874 removed 

 to the six acre lot whereon he yet re- 

 sides. Here he has since operated his 

 land and has attended to other busi- 

 ness interests. In 1881 he conducted a 

 mail route between Hatboro and La- 

 haska, being thus engaged for six 

 months. He has engaged in dealing in 

 horses and he has filled public positions. 

 In 188S Mr. Morgan was elected on the 

 Republican ticket to the office of con- 

 stable, and collected the delinquent 

 taxes, serving in all in that capacity for 

 fourteen years. In 1893 he went upon a 

 man's bond for the mail service, and 

 when the man abandoned the route Mr. 

 Morgan biegan carrying the mail for that 

 term, and was a successful bidder for 

 the next term. He has since remained 

 in the position, which he has capably 

 filled for twelve years, carrying the mail 

 from Bridge Valley to Rushland, making 

 two trips daily. For this he receives 

 four hundred dollars annually. He is a 

 man of determination, temperate in hab- 

 its, industrious and energetic, and de- 

 serves credit for what he has accom- 

 plished. 



]Mr. Morgan wedded Miss Sarah Jack- 

 son, who was born in Horsham township 

 in 1852. Her parents were Charles and 

 Rachel (Gordon) Jackson. Her father 

 is a farm laborer, and he and his wife are 

 affiliated with the Friends' meeting. 

 Their cliildren are Job S.; George; 

 Mary A., who died at the age of six- 

 teen years; and Sarah E. To Mr. and 

 Mrs. '^Morgan were- born eight children: 

 John, who has been an invalid -from 

 childhood: Viola, the wife of T. Belger; 

 Charles K., a farmer; Tacey, the wife 

 of F. Martindale; Oliver J., a la- 

 borer: William, a farmer; Fannie O.. the 

 wife of William Kirk: and Carrie. Mrs. 

 Morgan died December 18, 1898. and 

 since that time Mr. Morgan has ern- 

 ploved a housekeeper to manage his 

 household affairs. An honored veteran 

 of the civil war. and handicapped by the 

 loss of his foot, he has displayed marked 

 energy and enterprise in his business ca- 

 reer, making the most of his opportuni- 

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ties, and winning for himself an honor- 

 able name by reason of what he has ac- 

 complished and because of his unfalter- 

 ing perseverance. 



CHARLES J. MATHEWS, of Lang- 

 horne Manor, Bucks county, Pennsyl- 

 vania, the prominent Philadelphia mor- 

 occo manufacturer, was born in Phila- 

 delphia, July 23, 1862, and is a son of 

 Lawrence James and Mary Catharine 

 (Knight) Mathews. Lawrence Mathews, 

 Sr., the grandfather of the subject of 

 this sketch, was for several years a 

 prominent brick manufacturer in Kens- 

 ington, Philadelphia. In 1829 he located 

 on the Germantown road, in Kensing- 

 ton, but prior to that date had been 

 engaged in the manufacture of bricks for 

 some years in Kensington. In the spring 

 of 1850 he removed with his family to 

 Wrightsville. York county, Pennsyl- 

 vania, and subsequently located in Lan- 

 caster county, where he died. Lawrence 

 and Margaret Mathews were the pa- 

 rents of eight children, all of whom were 

 born in Philadelphia, viz.: Cecilia; Jame^, 

 to whom they conveyed the Kensington 

 real estate in April, 1850; Mary; Law- 

 rence J.; Emmaline; Edward; Susan, now 

 residing in San Francisco; and Martha. 



Lawrence James Mathews, second son 

 *of Lawrence and Margaret, was born in 

 Philadelphia, in 1832, and removed with 

 his parents to York county in 1850. He 

 married, in 1855, Anna Wilson, daugh- 

 ter of William and Anna Wilson, of 

 Lancaster county, who bore him two 

 children: Emmeline, who died young; 

 and Lizzie, now Sister Mary Joseph, in 

 St. Ursula Convent, Bedford Springs, 

 New York. Mr. Mathews married (sec- 

 ond) Mary Catharine Knight, in 1861, 

 and located in Philadelphia, the city of 

 his birth, where he engaged in the man- 

 ufacture of morocco goods in a small 

 w-ay^ establishing the plant now con- 

 ducted by the subject of this sketch, 

 which has grown from -that modest be- 

 ginning to an industry representing a 

 capital of millions of dollars, marketing 

 its extensive product in all parts of the 

 civilized world. Mr. Mathews died in 

 March, 1883. By his second marriage 

 with Mary Catharine Knight he had sev- 

 eral children, four of whom survive: 

 Charles J., Estelle. Alice and Nellie. 



CHARLES J. MATHEWS w^as born 

 in Philadelphia, and acquired his edu- 

 cation at the public schools of that city 

 and at Andalusia Hall preparatory 

 school in Bensalem township. Bucks 

 county. At the age of fifteen years he 

 entered his father's morocco manufac- 

 turing establishment to learn the busi- 

 ness. Beginning at the bottom, he thor- 

 oughly mastered every detail of the work 

 in all its branches, and became thor- 

 oughly familiar with the different pro- 



