HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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married August i, 1901, to Dr. John M. 

 J. Raunick, of Harrisburg, a graduate of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, class of 

 1900, who now has an extensive practice 

 !at Harrisburg. 



AMOS TAYLOR PRAUL. Among tue 

 highly cultivated and therefore productive 

 farms in Southampton township, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, noted for their gen- 

 eral appearance of good management and 

 thrift, is the one owned and operated by 

 Amos T. Praul, who was born in that town- 

 ship, September 4, 1849. Isaac Praul, his 

 earliest ancestor of whom there is any au- 

 thentic record, had children : Grace, be- 

 came the wife of Charles Biles ; Rebecca ; 

 and John. 



John Praul, only son of Isaac Praul, 

 married Alartha Tomlinson, and they reared 

 a family of children to manhood and wo- 

 manhood, namely: i. Isaac. 2. Thomas, 

 married Sarah Tomlinson and by her had 

 children : Amanda, deceased, who was the 

 wife of Charles Eddows ; Sarah, Martha, 

 and Watson. 3. William, married Lydia 

 Worthington, who bore him six children: 

 Theodore, who married Jennie Jamison; 

 Edward; William, who married Jennie 

 Lough; Ida, who married (first) Harry 

 Patterson, and (second) Thomas Poinsett; 

 Lucinda, who married Stephen Carter; and 

 Thomas Wrigfield, who married Ella Biles. 

 4. Francis, mentioned in the following par- 

 agraph. 5. Charles, married Arnetta Tom- 

 linson, and they were the parents of eight 

 children : Emnor, who married Annie 

 Stradling; William, who married Martha 

 Barton ; Augustus, who married Susan 

 Hilliard; Albert; Mary, who became the 

 wife of Isaac Stradling ; Annie, who be- 

 came the wife of Amos Barton ; Ada, who 

 became the wife of David Beaton, and 

 Emma. 6. Philadelphia, who became the 

 wife of Cornelius Bowden. 



Francis Praul, son of John Praul, was 

 born in 1819. He married Caroline Tom- 

 linson, daughter of Amos, (born in 1786), 

 and Sarah (Doan) Tomlinson. Caroline 

 (Tomlinson) Praul was born May 6. 1826. 

 Their children were: i. John Edmund, 

 married Anna , and two chil- 

 dren were born to them : Alice and Caro- 

 line. 2. Amos Taylor, born September 4, 

 1849, mentioned in the following para- 

 graph. 3. Albert, married Rachel Con- 

 nell, who bore him two children : Walter 

 and Alabel. 4. Charles Morris, married 

 Clara Pierce and had two sons : Harold 

 and Morris. 5. Clinton S., married Clem- 

 entine Smack, and one child was the issue 

 of this union, Francis. 6. Anna M., be- 

 came the wife of Samuel Ford and their 

 chiklcen are : Martha and Chester. 7. Mar- 

 tha J., became the wife of David Hart ana 

 their family consists of two children, Stan- 

 ley and Marian. 8. Emma, became the wife 

 of Andrew Hibbs and six children were 

 born to them. 



Amos Taylor Praul, second son of Fran- 

 cis Praul, when one year old was taken by 

 his parents to Bensalem township and was 

 there reared and received his early educa- 

 tional advantages. Later he attendea 

 Friends' School at Langhorne and there 

 completed his studies. He turned his at- 

 tention to farming as a means of livelihood 

 and worked on his father's farm until his 

 marriage, after which he moved to South- 

 ampton township, near Trevose, where he 

 has since resided. In 1882 he purchased a 

 tract of land consisting of ninety-five acres 

 of arable land, on which he has since con- 

 ducted extensive operations, producing a 

 general line of farm products which find 

 a ready market. Mr. Praul is a Republi- 

 can in politics. He married Emily A. 

 Paxson, a native of Southampton town- 

 ship, born April 12, 185 1, a daughter of 

 Phineas and Rebecca (Tomlinson) Pax- 

 son. One son has been the issue of this 

 marriage, Clarance T., born December 31, 

 1876. He married Cora Wagner, daugh- 

 ter of Harry Wagner, of Bethayres, Penn- 

 sylvania, and one child was born to them, 

 Helen E., now deceased. 



GEORGE MORLEY MARSHALL, phy- 

 sician, residing at New Hope, Bucks coun- 

 ty, Pennsylvania, was born in Painesville, 

 Lake county, Ohio, March 13, 1858, son of 

 Seth and Esther Philena (Morley) Mar- 

 shall. Seth Marshall was one of the early 

 abolitionists. Like some others of strong 

 principle and fearless at this period, he did 

 not hesitate to imperil large business in- 

 terests that he might protect the fugitive 

 slaves in their flight to Canada, although it 

 was in defiance of the law and the pro-slav- 

 ery sentiment. His home was regarded as 

 one of the stations on "the underground 

 railro.ad." There still stands at the Marshall 

 homestead the old barn with its massive 

 frame of hewn timber, where many of these 

 unfortunates were given food and shelter. 

 The ancestor of this family who first 

 came to America was Thomas Marshall, 

 one time mayor of Boston, in Lincolnshire, 

 England. He emigrated in 1634 to Boston, 

 Massachusetts, where he was for many 

 years a deacon of the First Church and 

 dean of the board of selectmen. His son. 

 Captain Samuel Marshall, went to the de- 

 fense of the colonies, commanding a regi- 

 ment against the Indian conspirator King 

 Philip, and in December, 1675, was killed 

 while at the head of his force storming 

 Philip's Fort, in the Great Swamp fight. 

 For his exceptional bravery he is mentioned 

 in Bancroft's history, Hollister's Connecti- 

 cut, Hutchinson's Massachusetts, Drake's 

 Indian, and other histories of that period. 

 Thomas Marshall, next in line, married 

 Mary Drake, of the family of Sir Fran- 

 cis Drake. Thomas Marshall, grandson 

 of the latter, and great-grandfather of 

 George Morley Marshall, fought in the war 

 of the revolution. Esther Philena (Mor- 



