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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



ingale was a true hearted Mason; a pub- 

 lic spirited citizen; a most congenial 

 friend; a kind husband apd indulgent fa- 

 ther; a considerate, sympathizing, and 

 skillful physician; a man endowed with 

 superior mental powers, and a heart as 

 unselfish as ever beat in human breast." 

 Dr. Nightingale was married at Doyles- 

 town, February 19, 1851, to Albina C, 

 daughter of Samuel G. and Sarah (Betts) 

 Price, of Buckingham, who still survives 

 him, living in Doylestown. The children 

 of this marriage were: 



1. George T., born at Rosemont, Jan- 

 uary 3, 1852, died July 4. 1856. 



2. Henry B., born at Houghville, May 

 7, 1855, is a prominent physician in Phila- 

 delphia, where he has a wife and family. 



3. Charles R., the subject of this 

 sketch. 



4. Samuel W., born April 19, 1859, was 

 a brass worker in Bellfield's brass works 

 for twenty years, has been a farmer and 

 a traveling salesman for school supplies, 

 and is now (1904) living in Doylestown. 



5. Randolph P., born December 12, 

 i860, spent most of his life in a book- 

 store at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania; in 1888 

 he entered Jefferson Medical_ College, 

 but was forced to relinquish his studies 

 on account of ill health in 1890. and was 

 taken to Colorado for his health by his 

 younger brother, John Billington, and 

 died there of phthisis, September, 1890. 



6. John Billington, born at Rosemont, 

 New Jersey, September 25, 1862. At 

 the death of his father, being but eleven 

 years of age, he went to live with his 

 uncle George C. Worstall on a farm near 

 Newtown, where he remained until the 

 spring of 1881, when he went into the 

 office of the "Newtown Enterprise" to 

 learn the printer's trade, and was there 

 until 1884, when he went to Kansas with 

 J. Herman Barnsley to look after the lat- 

 ter's real estate interests there. In 1885 

 he traveled extensively in California and 

 along the Pacific coast, and returned to 

 Kansas City, Missouri, where he entered 

 the employ of Steins Brothers, contract- 

 ors, and was with them in Missouri and 

 Denver, Colorado, until 1891. when with 

 two companions he started for the Crip- 

 ple Creek gold fields and spent three 

 years prospecting for gold, for nearly 

 the whole period in hard luck, finally 

 striking a pocket from which they ex- 

 tracted $23,000 in two hours. In 1896 he 

 was appointed water commissioner by 

 the government, and had charge of the 

 distribution of water for irrigation, and 

 was also under sherilif for Rio Grande 

 county, Colorado, for three years. The 

 high altitude finally affected his health, 

 and he returned east in 1900 and settled 

 in Doylestown, where he still resides and 

 has been the representative and district 

 manager of the International Corres- 

 pondence School for nearly two years. 

 He married at Del Norte, Colorado, De- 



cember 27, 1894, May Sumner; three chil- 

 dren born to them died in infancy. 



7. Edward W. Nightingale was born 

 at Rosemont, February 22, 1864; married 

 Mary R. Donaldson, of Doylestown; is 

 now a printer in Philadelphia. 



8. Florence Nightingale, born at 

 Rosemont, New Jersey, October 5, 1868, 

 married L. Dorr Barbiere; is now living 

 in Doylestown with one daughter, Mar- 

 gery. 



The maternal ancestors of the subject 

 of this sketch were early settlers in New 

 Jersey and Pennsylvania. David Price 

 was born in Maidenhead (now Law- 

 renceville) New Jersey, about 1700, and 

 is supposed to have been the grandson 

 of John Price, who came to Philadelphia 

 from Worcester, England, in 1683. James 

 Price was a landholder at Maidenhead 

 as early as 1698. David Price in 1756 

 purchased two hundred acres of land in 

 Middletown township, Bucks county, and 

 died there in 1765, leaving sons Nathan 

 and James, and daughters; Rebecca, who 

 married Daniel Price, of Kingwood, 

 New Jersey; Eleanor, who married Ben- 

 jamin Stackhouse; Sarah, who died single 

 in Merion in 1767; and Susannah, who 

 married Joseph Mahr, of Northampton 

 county, in 1773. Nathan Price, eldest 

 son of David, resided for some years in 

 Bucks county, and then removed to Hunter- 

 don county. New Jersey, where the remain- 

 ing years of his life were spent. He was 

 sheriff of Hunterdon county in 1807-9. His 

 wife is suppoed to have been a daughter of 

 Timothy Smith of Bucks county. He had 

 sons John, Smith, James and David, and 

 daughters Rebecca, Elizabeth, Sarah and 

 Phebe. Three of his sons (John, Smith 

 and James) became residents of Bucks 

 county, though John eventually returned to 

 New Jersey, from whence his son George 

 removed to Upper Makefield, Bucks county, 

 where descendants of his still reside. Smith 

 Price, second son of Nathan, born Septem- 

 ber II, 1748, settled in Plumstead township, 

 Bucks county, on attaining manhood, and 

 spent the remainder of his life there, dying 

 October 16, 1816. He was a storekeeper at 

 Fardenville for many years, and was a 

 large landholder in Plumstead township. 

 He married, September i, 1776, Martha, 

 daughter of Joseph Carver, of Bucking- 

 ham, and had by her one son, John, who 

 married Elizabeth Kirk, and has left 

 numerous descendants in middle Bucks. 

 Martha Price died April 11, 1793, and 

 Smith married (second) two years later 

 Hannah (Burroughs?), by whom he had 

 six children : Jonathan, born January 25, 

 1796. died November 21, 1817; Joseph; 

 Samuel G., born March i, 1799; Dr. Smith 

 M. ; Burroughs ; and Marv, who married 

 William Rich. 



Samuel G. Price, born March i, 1799, 

 married Sarah, daughter of John and Han- 

 nah (Kirk) Betts, born 11 mo 16. 1803, and 

 had seven children, viz. : Clementina D., 



