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3870, to Miss Sybilla Hangey, a daughter 

 of Allen and Elizabeth (Heffner) Hangey. 

 They now have two children, having lost 

 their eldest child, Elizabeth, who was born 

 March 9, 1872, and died June 9, 1877. The 

 living children are: Allen, born July 4, 

 1877; and Maggie born December 30, 1882. 

 The daughter, possessing considerable musi- 

 cal talent, has served for four years as 

 •OTganist of the Reformed church of Silver- 

 dale, of which Mr. Landis is a member. 

 His political support is given the Renubli- 

 ■can party. 



THOMAS CURLEY, of New Britain 

 township, Bucks county, is a representa- 

 tive of the best type of Irish-American 

 ■citizenship. He is a son of John and Anna 

 (Connors) Curley, whose family consisted 

 •of the following children: Patrick; 

 Michael ; John ; Thomas, mentioned at 

 length hereinafter; Margaret, who lived in 

 New York ; Winona, who married a Regan, 

 and died at Turk, in Doylestown township ; 

 Julia, who died in Philadelphia ; Mary, who 

 •died in Ireland ; Delia, who died in Cam- 

 'den. New Jersey; and Minnie, who died in 

 Ireland. 



Thomas Curley, son of John and Anna 

 (Connors) Curley, was born January 26, 

 184s, in Ireland, and in 1862 emigrated to 

 the United States. He settled in Philadel- 

 phia, where he was employed as an errand 

 "boy by David Hayes, at Ninth and Elbert 

 streets. His brother Patrick, who worked 

 in the same place, enlisted in the army dur- 

 ing the civil war. Mr. Curley moved to 

 Hilltown, where for five years he was cm- 

 ployed by his cousin Francis Curley and in 

 1879 purchased a farm in New Britain town- 

 ship of Louis Weinrebe, of Doylestown. 

 This farm under his skillful management 

 lias proved very productive, supplying the 

 market with large quantities of fruit and 

 vegetables. Politically Mr. Curley is identi- 

 fied with the Democratic party. He is a 

 member of St. Mary's Roman Catholic 

 ■church at Doylestown. Mr. Curley mar- 

 ried, in November, 1882, Delia Rasby. a 

 native of Ireland, who landed in this coun- 

 try at the age of ten years. 



OLIVER P. TITUS. The pioneer an- 

 cestor of the Titus family was Titus 

 Syrachs de Vries, who emigrated from 

 Vries, a village of Drenthe, Holland, 

 about 1650, and settled on Long Island, 

 living at different periods at Brooklyn, 

 Flatlands and New Utrecht, and owning 

 considerable land. He was lieutenant of 

 a company of foot at Midwout in 1673, 

 and died about 1688. He married Jan- 

 -netje Tennis, daughter of Tennis Janse 

 Converts, who emigrated from Heem- 

 -stede. North Holland, in 1651, and their 

 ■children (all of -whom, and their de- 

 scendants adopted and kept the surname 

 -of Titus), were: Tryntje, baptized De- 

 cember 23, 1663; Tennis Titus; Syrach 



Titus, baptized December 28, 1679; Jan- 

 netje, March, 1682; Titus Titus; Francis 

 Titus. 



Tennis Titus, son of Titus Syrachs and 

 Jannetje Couverts, joined his mother in 

 the conveyance of 'his father's land at 

 Flatlands, May 14, 1695, and removed to 

 Newtown, Long Island, where he re- 

 sided until 1703, and at about that date 

 removed to Mansfield, Burlington 

 county. New Jersey, from whence two 

 of his sons, Francis and Jacob, migrated 

 to Bucks county about 1730. The former 

 married, June 19, 1734, Mary Clark of 

 Bucks county and settled in Middletown 

 township, where he died in 1784, leav- 

 ing seven children, viz.: Francis, Jr., 

 who married, August 17, 1763, Jane Fa- 

 gen, and died at Bristol in 1800, leaving 

 a son, Francis, and three daughters; 

 Martha, married Abraham Slack; Eliza- 

 beth married John Hcllings; John; Tim- 

 othy, married Martha Wright in 1764, 

 and lived and died at Bristol; Samuel; 

 and Tunis, who died before his father, 

 leaving five children. 



Jacob, the other son of Tennis, of 

 New Jersey, married Gazina Vande- 

 grift, daughter of Harnian Vandcgrift, of 

 Bensalem, and had ten children, viz.: 

 Elizabeth, who married Ephraim Phillips of 

 Burlington county. New Jersey; Olchia, 

 married Joseph Severns; Harman; 

 Catharine, married John Baker, of Mt. 

 Holly, New Jersey; Jacob, of Bensalem, 

 who married Elizabeth Moon; Sarah, 

 married Jacob Vandegrift; William; 

 Charity, who married Samuel Sutton, of 

 Byberry; and Seruch, married Deborah 

 Featherbe. and settled in Buckingham, 

 where he died in 1792, leaving sons Will- 

 iam, Seruch and David. 



Francis Titus, Jr., son of Francis and 

 Mary (Clark) Titus, owned land in Plum- 

 stead and Tinicum townships, and lived 

 for a time in Plumstead township, 

 though he removed to Bristol township 

 prior to his death in 1800. The descent 

 of the subject of this sketch from the 

 earlier generations of the family as 

 above noted is not entirely clear, but he 

 is thought to be a son of the third Fran- 

 cis of Bristol. 



"William Titus, said to be a son of 

 Francis Titus, Jr., married Fronica 

 Keeler, daughter of George and Mary 

 Keeler, of Tinicum township, and had 

 two sons, Lewellyn and Jacob. The 

 former went to California during the 

 gold fever in 1852, and still resides there. 

 He was at first engaged in mining, but 

 later purchased large tracts of timber 

 land, and operated a saw and grist mill. 

 He married and reared a family in Cali- 

 fornia. 



Jacob Titus was reared in Tinicum 

 township, and married there Elizabeth 

 George, daughter of Jacob and Hannah 

 George, the latter of whom died in 1831. 

 Hannah George was a granddaughter of 

 Edward Marshall, the famous walker 



