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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



estate and purchased 300 acres three miles 

 north of Doylestown, 200 of which he still 

 owns and upon which he still lives, enjoy- 

 ing the pleasures of a life in the country, 

 though doing business in the town, and al- 

 ways keeping in touch with the outside 

 world by telephone and free rural mail de- 

 livery. He first engaged in newspaper work 

 in 1883, as agricultural editor of "The 

 Prohibitionist," at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 

 and in March, 1885, bec?me associated wth 

 the late Judge G.- J. Cox, of Portage, Wis- 

 consin, under the firm name of L. H. Doyle 

 & Co., in the publication of "The Portage 

 Advertiser," which they disposed of in less 

 than a year. In September, 1885, he es- 

 tablished "The Columbia County Reporter," 

 at Rio, and published it until May i, 1895. 

 In 1902 he established a second paper at 

 Rio, known as "The Badger Blade," which 

 he still publishes and in connection there- 

 with conducts a first-class job office, both 

 ventures proving a success, "The Blade" 

 enjoying a large circulation, and his job of- 

 fice is doing an extensive business. In 

 politics INIr. Doyle is a Republican. He has 

 been a member of the Masonic fraternity 

 for thirty-five years, and a member of the 

 Independent Order of Odd Fellows since 

 the lodge was organized in Rio, and has 

 served as its representative in the grand 

 lodge of Wisconsin for several years. He 

 has been twice married ; first to Amanda 

 Jane Hall, who .was born February 23, 1833, 

 at South Dansville, Steuben county. New 

 York, and died at Whitney's Valley, New 

 York, September 16, 1857, to whom he w-as 

 married December 3, 1856. He married 

 (second) at Fountain Prairie, Wisconsin, 

 September 27, 1858, Mary Jane Edwards, 

 eldest daughter of David and ^Mary H. 

 Edwards, and a descendant of Reverend 

 Jonathan Edwards, the eminent divine. She 

 was born at West Troy, Walworth coun- 

 ty, Wisconsin, September 5, 1843, and died 

 at Rio, Wisconsin, January 5, 1902. They 

 were the parents of two sons: Edwards 

 Joseph, born November 16, 1863, at Water- 

 loo, Iowa, now residing at No. 298 Van 

 Buren street, Chicago ; and Lemuel Hobart, 

 born June 15, 1868, at Doylestown, Wis- 

 consin, and still residing on the farm there. 



CHARLES CARROL DOYLE, named 

 for Charles Carrol of Carrolton, the signer 

 of the Declaration of Independence, and 

 son of Samuel and Mary (Arbor) Doyle, 

 born in Bath. Steuben county. New York, 

 in 1793. was the grandfather of ]\Irs Henry 

 Clay McEldowney. At the age of nineteen 

 he enlisted in a New York regiment for 

 the war of 1812-14, and served until its 

 close, participating in the battle of Lundy's 

 Lane in 1S14. After the close of the war 

 he married Mary Robinson, then living near 

 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, an orphaned 

 granddaughter of Peter Wile, of Lancaster 

 county, Pennsylvania, who was a soldier in 

 the revolutionary war, and s-etlled near 

 Pittsburgh, where he died in July, 18O6. 



Charles Carrol and Mary (Robinson) Doyle 

 were the parents of the following chil- 

 dren: Margaret McCaffery, died in 1880; 

 Nancy Power, died in 1887; Susan, wife 

 of James C. Elliot, still living; Maria, 

 widow of Seth Wilmot ; Sarah, widow of 

 John Dobson ; Joseph Alexander, born in 

 1820, still living; William Bentley, born 

 1824, died 1891 ; and Henry Harrison, born 

 September 24, 1840. 



Henry Harrison Doyle, of Pittsburgh, is a 

 prominent business man of that city, being 

 engaged in the real estate and insurance busi- 

 ness. He married Susanna Evans, bom in 

 Pittsburg, daughter of John and Mary Evans, 

 natives of Wales. ]\Ir. Doyle is a veteran of 

 the civil war, having served first in Company 

 G, 28th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, 

 and later in Battery C, Independent Penn- 

 sylvania Light Artillery. The children of 

 Henry H. and Susanna (Evans) Doyle 

 are : Mary Emma, wife of Adam Reden- 

 baugh ; Henry Harrison, Jr., M. D., mar- 

 ried Clara Carey ; John, unmarried ; Anna- 

 bel, wife of Henry Clay McEldowney ; Jo- 

 seph Alexander, married Gertrude Stolzen- 

 bach; and Marion Robinson, unmarrried. 



EFFINGHAM B. MORRIS, a promi- 

 nent lawyer of Philadelphia, and who 

 has also long held official position with 

 various important transportation and 

 financial corporations, and whose resi- 

 dence is near Ardmore, Montgomery 

 county, is a representative of a family 

 which has been conspicuous is the his- 

 torj^ of the commonwealth from the 

 time of its earliest colonial existence. 



He was born August 23, 1856, in the 

 city of Philadelphia, in the famous old 

 jNIorris Mansion on Eighth street, below 

 Walnut, which at intervals of a genera- 

 tion has three times been occupied by 

 four generations of the family at the 

 same time. His father was Israel W. 

 Morris, one of the most accomplished 

 of the early mining engineers in the 

 anthracite region, and who was presi- 

 dent of the Locust Mountain Coal Com- 

 pany and other coal mining corporations 

 connected with the Leh'igh Valley Rail- 

 road. His lineal ancestor in the direct 

 line was Anthony Morris, who was a 

 justice of . the supreme court under 

 William Penn in 1696, first proprietary 

 of the province of Pennsylvania, and 

 who was the second mayor of the then 

 little city of Philadelphia. Captain 

 Samuel Morris, great-great-grandfather 

 of Effingham B. Morris, was commander 

 of the First City Troop during the revo- 

 tionary war, and was a trusted friend 

 of Washington and of others of the 

 leaders in the scenes attending the in- 

 auguration of the new government. 

 From the day of the first Anthony Mor- 

 ris in 1696 to the present, tlte mem- 



