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torn 1823, died 1904, at Doylestown, un- 

 married. Albina C, born 8 mo. 14, 1825, 

 the mother of the subject of this sketch, still 

 living with him in Doylestown ; married 

 February 19, 1851, Dr. Henry B. Night- 

 ingale; J. Randolph, born 1827, died 

 1876; married Sarah T. Ward, has one son, 

 George W. Price, living at Salem, New 

 Jersey; Mary R., born 1829, living in 

 Doylestown, single. Charlotte T., born 

 1830, died 1884; married Townsend Speak- 

 man. Huldah Ann, born 1832, died Jan- 

 uary I, 1899; married George C. Worstall, 

 of Newtown. Emma Elizabeth, born 1835, 

 died 1882; married Jonathan T. Schofield. 

 CHARLES R. NIGHTINGALE, born in 

 Doylestown township, December 5, 1856, 

 removed with his parents to Rosemont, New 

 Jersey, when two years of age. He was 

 educated at the public schools of that vicin- 

 ity, supplemented by a course at a semi- 

 nary at Ringoes, and a term at a private 

 school at Clinton, New Jersey. He taught 

 -school at Ringoes, Croton and other points 

 in Hunterdon county for ten years, and then 

 accepted a position as agent for a wholesale 

 dye house, traveling over Pennsylvania and 

 Maryland. During the nineties he was a 

 salesman for Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & 

 Co., and the American Book Company, most 

 of the time acting as their general agent for 

 school supplies, and traveling over the 

 states east of the Mississippi river. In 1900 

 he was elected a justice of the peace of 

 Doylestown borough, and is located in the 

 Hart Building, where he combines with his 

 official duties a real estate and general 

 business agency. In politics he is a Demo- 

 crat, and religiously is a member of the 

 Baptist church. He is a member of Doyles- 

 town Lodge, No. 245, F. and A. M.; Doyles- 

 town Chapter, No. 270, R. A. M., of which 

 he is a past high priest ; and a member of 

 Aquetong Lodge, No. 193, I. O. O. F. He 

 is unmarried. 



DR. WILLOUGHBY H. REED was 

 "born in Norristown, Montgomery 

 county, Pennsylvania, January 20, 1856, 

 and was educated in the public schools 

 of Norriton township. He learned the 

 trade of printing; graduated from the 

 Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 

 1879, and from Jefiferson Medical Col- 

 lege in 1882. He practiced medicne for 

 several years at Cape May Point, New 

 Jersey, and at his home at Jefifersonville, 

 Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. 

 After his marriage to Annie R. Jarrett, 

 November 8. 1884. he engaged in the 

 drug business at Norristown, Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Dr. Reed's ancestors were among the 

 prominent and early settlers of„the 

 province of Pennsvlvania. His ancestor, 

 Johann Philip Ried CRieth, Riedt. Reed), 

 was born in Germany, January 26, 1698, 

 and emigrated from Mannheim, Pala- 

 tinate, on the Rhine, Germany, and 

 landed at Philadelphia, in the province 



of Pennsylvania, in the ship "Friend- 

 ship." October 17, 1727. He settled on 

 a tract of land in Marlborough township, 

 Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county. 

 He was a farmer and one of the orig- 

 inal (1730) enrolled members of the New 

 Goshenhoppen Reformed church located 

 in Upper Hanover township. He mar- 

 ried Feronica Bergy, who was born in 

 the canton of Berne, Switzerland, on 

 February 13, 1702. Her folks fled in 

 the early part of the eighteenth cen- 

 tury into Germany on account of relig- 

 ious persecution, and afterwards Philip 

 Reed and his wife fled Germany to this 

 countr)' for the same cause. 



Philip Reed died in Marlborough 

 township, Philadelphia, September 3, 

 1783. His wife died at the same place 

 December 13, 1792, and both are in- 

 terred side by side in the New Goshen- 

 hoppen Reformed church burial ground. 

 They had children: Jacob, married to 

 Magdalena Leidy; Michael, married 

 Anna Maria Mowery; Andrew, married 

 Anna Maria Leidy; Catherine, married 

 Abraham Arndt; Eve, married (first) 

 Valentine Dickenscheid and (second) 

 Joseph Kochen; Margretha, married 

 Theobold Wink; Anna Maria, married 

 Michael Welker; Elizabeth, married John 

 Eberhard. 



Jacob, eldest son of Philip and Fer- 

 onica (Bergy) Reed, was the great- 

 grandfather of Dr. Reed. Jacob Reed's 

 active part for the American cause in the 

 Revolution made him conspicuous and 

 prominent in his day. He served as an 

 officer in the Philadelphia county mi- 

 litia as lieutenant-colonel and major of a 

 battalion of troops. In the "Pennsyl- 

 vania Correspondent and Farmer's Ad- 

 vertiser." published in Doyleslown, 

 under date of November 21, 1820, ap- 

 pears the following: "Died, In New 

 Britain township, on the 2d instant, 

 Colonel Jacob Reed, in the 91st year of 

 his age. He served his country faith- 

 fully during the whole of that eventful 

 period of the Revolution, and before 

 the close of the w^ar he was honored 

 with a colonel's commission." 



Lieutenant-Colonel Jacob Reed, in his 

 youthful days received a liberal educa- 

 tion in German and English, and was 

 reared a farmer. Early in manhood he 

 located on a farm in Hatfield township, 

 Philadelphia county, and about 1755 

 married Magdalena Leidy, daughter of 

 Jacob Leidy, an immigrant, and one of 

 the founders of the Indian Creek Re- 

 formed church, of Franconia township, 

 Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania. This 

 Jacob Leidv. the elder, is also the an- 

 cestor in this country of the late emi- 

 nent naturalist and physician. Professor 

 Joseph Leidv, of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania. In 1793 Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Jacob Reed removed with his family to 

 a farm he already owned in New Bri- 

 tain township, Bucks county, where he 



