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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



1857, David Wilson Small, a judge and 

 prominent citizen ' t' Oconomowoc, 

 Wisconsin; Mary II.. born September 

 13, 1830, died November 16, 1873, mar- 

 ried, January 16, 1855, Nathan R. 

 Worth ington, of Solebury; Edward N., 

 above mentioned; Elias E., born Aug- 

 ust 5, 1837, died October 26, 1888, mar- 

 ried, October 27^ 1869, Eleanor Bab- 

 cock, removed early in life to Ocono- 

 mowoc, Wisconsin,. where his family are 

 all buried; Franklin,, born . August 10, 

 1840, married, . October 8, 1873, Flora 

 A. Bradbury, also reriioved to Wiscon- 

 sin, and is living at" Pewaukee, in that 

 state. 



Edward Nickleson Ely, eldest son of 

 Joseph and Ann; was born on. the old 

 family homestead in Solebury^ where 

 his boyhood . days were spent. He ac- 

 quired, his early education at the public 

 schools and later 'took a course at an 

 academy at Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. 

 At the age of seventeen years he went 

 to Somerville, New Jersey," to assist his 

 brother-in-law, Jacob C. Phillips, in the 

 grain business. In 1857 he went to Wis- 

 consin, and was employed for two years 

 as purchasing agent for Rockwell, Luck 

 & Company, large grain dealers and 

 millers . there. He then returned ■ to 

 Bucks county and engaged in the lum- 

 ber business with . Samuel Solliday, at 

 New Hope, until the spring ,of 1862, 

 when, 'ha-ving married, he removed to a 

 farm of one "hundred and thij-t3^-seven 

 acres at Yardley, which had .been in the 

 Howell family since 1812, and spent 

 the remainder of his . days there, dying 

 June 13, .1899.' • He was active :in local 

 affairs, and .gave his political allegiance 

 to the Democratic party, .\n whose coun- 

 cils he took an active part. He was a 

 member of .Doylestown -Lodge, No. 245, 

 F. and ' A. . M., and of - the Ancient 

 Order United Americail, Workmen. Religi- 

 ously he was ,a regular attendant of the 

 Episcopal cliurch, .of which his wife 

 was a -member. He. married, February 

 26, i862,,'Mai-y. E. Howell, daughter of 

 David and .Harriet L (Sandoz.) .Howellj 

 of Makefield, Bucks couijity, and a de- 

 scendant of one of the oldest families 

 about tlix; Falls of- the Delaware, the 

 earliest generations of which have re- 

 sided on the New Jersey side of the 

 river. The Howell family is mentioned 

 at length hereinafter. The children of 

 Edward N. and Mary E. (HowelJ) Ely 

 were: Howell, born December 4, 1862, 

 died July 29, 1865; Carrie Howell, born 

 April 9, 1868, married, June i, 1899, Will- 

 iam Stanley Mac Lewee and they have 

 one child, Dorothy, born December 3, 

 1900. Harriet Sandoz, born February 

 S, 1870. married, April 6. 1904, George 

 Kinnear Robinson and they have one 

 son, Donald Henry, born April 30. 1905. 



It is believed on good family tradition 

 that the first American ancestor of the 

 Howell familjr, Daniel Howell, came 



from Kent county, England. He came 

 to Ewing, New Jersey, from Long Is- 

 land, and there purchased and lived on 

 the land which has continued in the 

 family up to the present time and was last 

 inherited by a great-great-granddaugh- 

 ter, who married Alfred Muirheid. The 

 deeds for the land were from Samuel 

 Coxe and John Hutchinson dated 1702, 

 and from William Worrell dated 1705. 

 Daniel HQ"well married Mary, a sister 

 of Ebenezer Front's wife, and they were 

 the parents of eleven children." Daniel 

 Howell, died April 25, 1732, aged fifty- 

 two, and his wife died September 26, 

 1760, aged ..seventy-six. David Howell, 

 sqn of Daniel and Mary Howell, mar- 

 ried Mary Baker, who: bore, him seven 

 children. He died October 24,- 1775, aged 

 seventy, and she -passed aw-ay January 

 15, 1786, aged seyent3^7nine. Joseph 

 Howell, the fifth son of David and Mary 

 (Baker) Howell, purchased five hundred 

 acres of land .'near, Taylorsvilfe, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania. .He married 

 Jemima Burroughs, who lived to be one 

 hundred years old. Here- they enter- 

 tained, the officers .and . soldiers of the 

 revolutionary war, giyirjg-.up.. their beds 

 for the comfort of the soldiers. The 

 log house is still standing and is in 

 fairly good repair; it is owned by Edgar 

 Titus. Timothy Howell, son of Joseph 

 and Jemima (Burroughs) Howell, re- 

 moved from Taylorsville farm to Yard- 

 ley, near the Delaware , river, in 1810, 

 and in the spring of 1812 purchased a 

 farm, of pne hundred' .and forty acres 

 i-n Makefield. He and his wife Rebecca 

 were the parents 9f the' following chil- 

 dren: Sarah, married (first) a !Mr. 

 Fenton, .and . (second)-. Lewis Moore. 

 Susan, married ;( first) John Hogeland, 

 and (second) John Temple. Marj'-, died 

 unmarried.. Martha, married Samuel 

 Slack. Johji. married Elizabeth Rich- 

 ardson. David,, the ; father .pf*Mrs. Ely, 

 who was- a. farmer in Makefield and 

 died liiere- August .2, -1364, leaving a 

 .widow and the following children: ]\lary 

 E., wife of. Edward N. .Ely. .Martha A., 

 widow o£ Joshua Maris, residujg in Tren- 

 ton, New Jersey. -Emrna. -Carrie, wife 

 of Samuel W. 'Throp. of- Tcenton. H. 

 Amelia. Two other children, Ella and 

 Wilhelmina, died young. 



SAMUEL K. RADCLIFF was born Feb- 

 ruary 14, 1855, upon the old homestead 

 farm where he yet resides, in Warwick 

 township, Bucks county. His ancestry can 

 be traced back to John and Jane (Tor- 

 rence) Radcliff. the former a well known 

 and highly respected farmer of Bucks coun- 

 ty, where he continued his residence up to 

 the time of his death. His children were: 

 Mary, Elizabeth, Isaliella, Jane, James. Will- 

 iam, John and Charles. 



