HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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Academy of Medicine, and is a member 

 of the Society of Medical Jurispru- 

 dence. In religion he is an Episcopalian, 

 being a member of the Church of the 

 Transfiguration. In politics, although 

 by inheritance and conviction a Demo- 

 crat, he has, since the free-silver craze 

 took possession of the Democratic 

 party, been an independent. His mili- 

 tary record, briefly, is as follows: Dur- 

 ing the great railroad strike in Pennsyl- 

 vania in 1877 he with others^ organized 

 in Doylestown Company G of the Six- 

 teenth Pennsylvania Regiment, in which 

 he was made corporal. When the strike 

 was over the company was made per- 

 manent as part of the Sixth Regiment, 

 and he was a corporal in that company 

 until 1S80, when he took up his residence 

 in New York city for the practice of his 

 profession. He has never married. 



4. Cora May Purdy, born in Somer- 

 ton, October 16, 1861. She was edu- 

 cated in the public schools and Eden 

 Hall. Convent, Torresdale, Pennsylvania, 

 although she was then, as she is now, 

 like all her family, an Episcopalian. She 

 was married, November 15, 1884, to 

 former Mayor Edward S. McElroy, of 

 Beverly, New Jersey, whose ancestors 

 emigrated from the north of Ireland in 

 1717 and settled in Bucks county, Penn- 

 sylvania. Their children are: Sarah 

 Purdy, born August 19, 1885 Cora 

 Purdy, and Rebecca James, twins, born 

 July 21, 1887; Richard Dale, born June 

 25, 1890; Mary Trotter, born January 3, 

 1897. These children are all living with 

 their parents in Beverly, New Jeirsey. 



5. Frank Vansant Purdy, born in Som- 

 erton, October 20, 1865. He was edu- 

 cated in the public schools of Doyles- 

 town, and was for a time a druggist, 

 serving for three years in Dr. George 

 T. Harvey's drug store in Doylestown, 

 after which he assisted his father in the 

 hotel business until the latter was ap- 

 pointed postmaster, when Frank became 

 his chief clerk. After his term expired 

 he was appointed conductor on the Penn- 

 sylvania Railroad dining cars, which 

 position he held until he died, April 16, 

 1904, the cause of his untimely death be- 

 ing pneumonia. He was very popular, 

 both as an official and as a man. He 

 never married. 



Sarah, wife of John Mann Purdy, died 

 of smallpox, at New Hope, Pennsyl- 

 vania, February 12, 1872. About two 

 years later (October 13, 1874) Mr. Purdy 

 married Caroline Pearson, born October 

 23, 1848, daughter of Chrispin and Cor- 

 delia Worthington Pearson, of New 

 Hope, Pennsylvania, the former of 

 Scotch and the latter of Welsh descent. 

 Of this marriage were born five chil- 

 dren: 



I. George Smith Purdy, born in 

 Doylestown. July 27, 1875. while his 

 father was sheriff. He was educated in 

 the Doylestown high school, and is 



(1904) a superintendent in Jacob Reed's 

 Sons' large clothing establishment in 

 Philadelphia. He is noted for his busi- 

 ness energy and integrity. He is un- 

 married. 



2. Charles Cox Purdy, born in Doyles- 

 town, May 26, 1879. He was educated at 

 the Doylestown High School and 

 Pierce's Business College, Philadelphia, 

 and is an artist. He lives in Holmes- 

 burg, and is unmarried. He has seem- 

 ingly inherited the religious fervjDr of 

 his ancestors to a greater degree than 

 any other member of the family now 

 alive. He is a teacher in the Episcopal 

 Church Sunday school. 



3. Anna Van Hart Purdy, born in 

 Doylestown May 28, 1880. She was 

 educated in the Doylestown high school. 

 She lives with her parents in Holmes- 

 burg, and is unmarried. She is a very 

 active member of the Episcopal Church. 



4. John Mann Purdy, Jr., born in 

 Doylestown, January 22, 1885. He at- 

 tended the public schools, the School 

 of Industrial Arts of Philadelphia, and 

 is now attending the Drexel Institute in 

 that city. At the annual exhibition of- 

 students' work at this school in June, 

 1904, he received the first prize for ele- 

 mentary drawing. He gives proinise of 

 becoming an excellent artist. 



5. William Clossen Purdy, born De- 

 cember 29, 1888. He attended the pub- 

 lic schools of Bucks and Philadelphia 

 counties and is now attending the 

 Northeast Manual Training School of 

 Philadelphia. That he will prove as 

 useful, honorable and patriotic as were 

 his ancestors who bore the same chris- 

 tian name, is the confident expectation 

 of the familJ^ 



WILLIAM STEWART WALLACE, 

 of Philadelphia, though not a native of 

 Bucks county, takes more pride in his 

 Bucks county ancestry, who were resi- 

 dents of that county for six generations, 

 than many who still reside in that his- 

 toric county. He is a son of John 

 Bower and Maria Louisa (Le Page) 

 Wallace, and was born in Philadelphia, 

 May 30, 1862. 



The Wallaces are of Scotch origin 

 and w-ere among the many sons of 

 Scotia who in the last half of the seven- 

 teenth century settled in the province of 

 Ulster, Ireland, where .they found a tem- 

 porary asylum from religious persecu- 

 tion and the internecine struggles inci- 

 dent to the restoration of the Stuarts; 

 from thence a number of them migrated 

 to Pennsylvania a generation later. 

 Robert and John Wallace were landhold- 

 ers in Tinicum township in 1739. and 

 were probably the ancestors of all of 

 the name who appear in that township, 

 and in Warwick and Warrington town- 

 ships a few years later., but no records 



