HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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cilia, born June 30, 1793, married Will- 

 iam Hart; Eliza, born May 7, 1796, mar- 

 ried James Polk; Isabel, born May 15, 

 1794, married Joseph Ford; Mary, born 

 August 14, 1803, married Mark Evans; 

 James, born December 29, 1800, see for- 

 ward; Jane, born April 30, 1806, married 

 Charles Shewell; Margaret, born 1807, 

 died in infancy; and Rebecca, born Sep- 

 tember 7, 1814, married William Ward. 



James Wallace, only son of Robert 

 and Mary, was born on the old home- 

 stead in Warwick, December 29. 1800, 

 and lived thereon until 1850, when he 

 sold the old farm that had been the 

 property of his ancestors for one hun- 

 dred and twenty-five years, and removed 

 to Montgomery county, where he lived 

 for several years, and then removed to 

 Philadelphia, where he died January 27, 

 1866. He married, February 14, 1833, 

 Mary Ford, daughter of James and 

 Sarah (Bower) Ford, of Monmouth 

 county, New Jersey. James Ford be- 

 longed to the old family of Ford or 

 Foord, of Hamilton Square, Mercer 

 county. New Jersey, where he lies burfed 

 in the Presbyterian churchyard. He is 

 supposed to have been a descendant of 

 John Foord, who with other Scotch cov- 

 enanters came over in the "Henry and 

 Frances" in an expedition organized by 

 George Scot, Laird of Pitlochie, landing 

 after great hardships at Perth x-Vmljoy in 

 1685. James and Mary (Ford) Wallace 

 were the parents of six children, viz.: 

 Mar}'; Jane, born December 5, 1833, died 

 in 1891. married John Temple; John 

 Bower, born March 23, 1836, see forward: 

 William, born 1838, died 1840; Charles 

 Irvin, born December 15, 1840, died 1903, 

 married July 22, i86r, Anna H. Curtis ; Re- 

 becca, born 1844, died 1862; and James, 

 born 1849, died in infancy. Mary (Ford) 

 Wallace, the mother, was born April 4, 

 1805. and died in Philadelphia, Decem- 

 ber 14, 1864. 



John Bower Wallace, eldest son of 

 James and Mary, was born in Warwick, 

 Bucks county, March 23, 1836. and was 

 educated at the Hilltop Academy of 

 Samuel Aaron, at Norristown, and re- 

 moved with the family to Philadelphia. 

 He became one of the real estate asses- 

 sors of that city, and filled that position 

 for many years until his death March 9, 

 1877, being at that time president of the 

 assessors' association. At a meeting of 

 the board of revision of taxes and as- 

 sessors of Philadelphia, held March 10. 

 1877. the following resolution was 

 adopted: "Resolved, that in the death of 

 John B. Wallace the public lose an of- 

 ficer of rare ability, integrity and useful- 

 ness, and his colleagues and friends an 

 associate and companion whose deport- 

 ment and character as a Christian gen- 

 tleman leaves abiding traces on their 

 memories, and commanded their respect 

 and love." He married Maria Le Page, 

 torn July 25, 1834, .died August 23, 1870, 



daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Su- 

 sannah (Gill) Le Page. The former was 

 a son of Peter and Mary Le Page, of the 

 Isle of Guernsey, and the latter a daugh- 

 ter of Philip and Mary (Baker) Gill, of 

 the Island of Sark. Both families were 

 French Protestants, and came to Amer- 

 ica together in 1818, landing at Balti- 

 more, Maryland. Peter Le Page, Jr., 

 married Elizabeth Gill in Philadelphia, 

 November 24. 1824, and died in 1839. 

 His wife survived him many years dying 

 in 1892 at the age of ninety years. They 

 had five children: Peter, Sophia, Selina, 

 Mary and Maria. Peter, the only son, 

 went south when young, married there 

 and was an officer in the Confederate 

 army, and after the war resided until 

 his death in Savannah, Georgia. John 

 Bower and Maria Louisa (Le Page) 

 Wallace were the parents of four chil- 

 dren: William Stewart, the subject of 

 this sketch; John Le Page, who died at 

 the age of eight years; Mary Jane, born 

 March 18, 1866; and James, born Decem- 

 ber 14, 1869. both living. 



William Stewart Wallace, eldest child 

 of John B. and Maria L. Wallace, was 

 born in Philadelphia, May 30. 1862, and 

 acquired his education in that city. He 

 read law in the office of Hon. James 

 W. M. Newlin, and was admitted to the 

 bar of Philadelphia in April, 1883, and 

 has since practiced his profession in that 

 city. He is a member of the Law Acad- 

 emy, of which he was 'secretary in 1886; 

 of the Society of the Sons of the Revo- 

 lution, of the National and Pennsylvania 

 Scotch-Irish Societies, of the Historical 

 Society of Pennsylvania and the Bucks 

 County Historical Society; of the* City 

 Relic Society of Germantown. and a 

 member and secretary of the board of 

 trustees of Summit Presbyterian church 

 of Germantown. He married, June 8. 

 1888, Mollie Comfort Brand, daughter of 

 Jacob S. and Mary (Flack) Brand, of 

 Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. 



DR. EDWARD MORWITZ. physi- 

 cian, publisher and scientist, now de- 

 ceased, was held in honor during a long 

 and active life, principally for the val- 

 uable aid he rendered to the farmers and 

 florists of the region tributary to the city 

 of Philadelphia in affording to them the 

 advantages which he gained through a 

 long experience and costly but intelligent 

 experimentation. 



Dr. Morwitz was a native of Prussia, 

 born in Danzig in 1815. Ini85i he came 

 to the United States, locating in Phila- 

 delphia, where he busied himself in his 

 profession until 1872. In the latter year 

 he removed to Bucks county, where he 

 purchased the Cold Spring Farm, to 

 which he added by the purchase of ad- 

 joining tracts until it comprised about 

 two hundred and eighty acres. From the 



