HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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was commissioned sergeant of Captain 

 Thcmas Robinson's ranging company in 

 that county, February lo, 1781 ; the lieu- 

 tenant being IMoses Van Campen, the cele- 

 brated Indian fighter. This William Doyle 

 became a colonel in the army operating 

 against the Indians on the frontier in the 

 period following the revolution and up to 

 the second war with Great Britain. He 

 served under General Harrison at the bat- 

 tle of Tippecanoe, and was brevetted briga- 

 dier-general for conspicuous bravery in 

 that action. He died soon after the close 

 of the war of 1812-14, and was buried at 

 Fort Meigs, Ohio. The town of Doyles- 

 town, Ohio, was so named in his honor. 



Samuel Doyle, the grandfather of Lem- 

 uel H. Doyle, was born in Bucks county in 

 the year 1752. He served as a soldier dur- 

 ing the revolutionary war, during the lat- 

 ter part of which he was a member of Cap- 

 tain Thomas Robinson's ranging company 

 from Northumberland, and was a friend 

 and associate of jNIoses Van Campen, the 

 noted Indian fighter who commanded the 

 company as lieutenant in many expeditions 

 against the Indians of the frontier. He 

 obtained a patent for 400 acres of land in 

 Point township, Northumberland county, 

 where he resided until about 1794, when he 

 formed one of a colony of Pennsylvanians 

 that settled at Painted Post, later called 

 Bath, Steuben county. New York, where he 

 died in 1817. He married Mary Arbor, 

 who was born in Monmouth county. New 

 Jersey, and died at Bath, New York, in 

 1836, at the age of eighty-four years. They 

 reared a large family of children, of wnoui 

 Charles Carroll Doyle was the eldest and 

 Joseph, the father of Lemuel H. Doyle, 

 was the youngest. A daughter was the 

 first white child born in the new settlement 

 of Bath. Charles Carroll Doyle, eldest son 

 of Samuel and Mary (Arbor) Doyle, born 

 at Bath, Steuben county, New York, in 

 1793, served in the war of 1812-14, and at 

 its close settled in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 

 where he died in July, 1866. He married 

 IMary Robinson, of Pittsburg, a grand- 

 daughter of Peter Wile, of Lanca.ster 

 county, Pennsylvania, who was a soldier in 

 the revolutionary war. Charles Carrol and 

 Mary (Robinson) Doyle were the parents 

 of three sons and five daughters, among 

 whom was Henry H. Doyle, a prominent 

 business man of Pittsburg. 



Joseph Doyle was born in the village of 

 Bath, Steuben county, New York. June 4, 

 1805. He received a common school edu- 

 cation in the crude frontier schools of that 

 vicinity, and was reared to the life of a 

 farmer, which vocation he followed in Steu- 

 ben and Allegheny counties. New York, 

 until 1852, when he engaged in the mercan- 

 tile business at Swainville, New York, and 

 became the first postmaster there. He con- 

 tinued in the mercantile and hotel busi- 

 ness the remainder of his life. In Jan- 

 uary. 1866, he removed to Doylestown, Wis- 

 consin, where he died August 29, 1883. 

 He was a member of the Baptist church. 



and in politics gave his allegiance to the 

 Republican party, after its formation. He 

 was three times married, first on January 

 10, 1832, to Hannah Seager, born in Dry- 

 den, Tompkins county. New York, ]\Iay 7, 

 1807, died in North Almond, Allegheny 

 county. New York, October 5, 1S39. The 

 children of this marriage were : Lemuel 

 Hasting, the subject of this sketch; Mary 

 Maria, born at Mount Washington, Steuben 

 county. New York, June 26, 1835 ; and 

 William Nelson, born at Mud Creek, Steu- 

 ben county, August 21, 1837. Joseph Doyle 

 married (second) January 24, 1842. at 

 Burns, Allegheny county. New York, Betsy 

 Starr, who died May 14, 1844, leaving an 

 only child. Vine Starr Doyle, born August, 

 1843, now residing at Doylestown, Wiscon- 

 sin. Joseph Doyle married (third) on Sep- 

 tember I, 1844, Phebe Penfield, and six chil- 

 dren were born to this union : Charles Ar- 

 nold, born June 24, 1845, at North Al- 

 mond, now living at Pardeeville, Wiscon- 

 sin, who has been for forty years in the 

 employ of the Chicago, Alilwaukee & St. 

 Paul Railroad Company ; Joseph Alonzo, 

 born April 4, 1847, now residing at Hunts- 

 ville, ISlissouri, who has been for nearly for- 

 ty years in the employ of the Wabash Rail- 

 road Company; Hannah Melissa, born De- 

 cember 14, 184S, at North Almond, Alle- 

 gheny county ; Delia Elvira, born April 

 14, 1852, at Whitney's Valley, New York; 

 Henry Albert, born March' 17, 1854, at 

 Swainsville, New York; and Julia Ellen, 

 born at the same place, November 20, 1855. 

 William Nelson Doyle, the second son, re- 

 sides at Nile, Allegheny county. New York. 

 He served for three years during the civil 

 war as a member of Company K, I36ta 

 Regiment New York Volunteers. 



Lemuel Hastings Doyle, born at Mount 

 Washington, New York, November 26, 

 1832, was educated at the common schools 

 of Allegheny county, New York, supple- 

 mented by a term at the academy at Nun- 

 da, Livingston county. New York. At the 

 age of twenty years he removed to Colum- 

 bia county, Wisconsin, near the present 

 site of Doylestown, Wisconsin. In Novem- 

 ber, 1859, he removed to Waterloo, Iowa, 

 but returned to Columbia county, Wiscon- 

 sin, in June, 1865, and purchased 235 acres 

 of land on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. 

 Paul railroad, then just completed, and in 

 August of the same year laid out the vil- 

 lage of Doylestown and was appointed the 

 first postmaster there, holding that position 

 for fifteen years. He was also station agent 

 and express agent for seven years, resign- 

 ing and naming his brother, Charles A. 

 Doyle, his successor. He was also super- 

 visor of the town of Otsego, in which the 

 villages of Doylestown, Rio and Otsego 

 were located; was secretary and director of 

 the Columbia County Agricultural So- 

 ciety for seven years ; postmaster of 

 Rio, August, 1889, to August, 1893 ; 

 member of the village board, village 

 clerk, justice of the peace and police jus- 

 tice. In 1878 he sold his Doylestown real 



