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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



til 1886, when he removed to Doylestown, 

 where he has lived and practiced ever since. 

 He has been eminently successful in liis 

 chosen profession, and has built up a large 

 and lucrative practice. He is a member of 

 the Bucks County Medical Society, the 

 Pennsylvania State Medical Society and the 

 American Medical Association ; the local 

 representative of the State Board of Health 

 and a member of the board of United States 

 Pension Examining Surgeons. He is now 

 serving his second term as a member of 

 the borough council of Doylestown. He 

 is an active worker in the German Reformed 

 ■church of Doylestown ; a member of Doyles- 

 town Lodge, No. 24s, F. and A. M.; Aque- 

 . tong Lodge, No. 193, I- O. O. F. ; and Len- 

 ape Council No. 11 17, Royal Arcanum.' He 

 has always taken an interest in all that per- 

 tains to the improvement and development 

 of his town and county. In politics he is a 

 Republican. He was married November 16, 



1876, to Adelaide, daughter of Charles R. 

 -Grove, of New Britain, by whom he has 

 one son, Howard R., born November 26, 



1877, who is a clerk in the Doylestown 

 Trust Company. He was married in 1902 to 

 Miss Nellie Wolf, and resides in Doyles- 

 town. 



CLARENCE DECKER HOTCHKISS, 

 of the. editorial staff of the "Intelligencer," 

 Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 

 was born in Philadelphia, August 4, 1857, 

 and is a son of George W. and Williamma 

 (Bittenbender) Hotchkiss, of English and 

 German ancestry, respectively. 



He is a lineal descendant of Samuel and 

 Elizabeth Hotchkiss, who were married at 

 what is now New Haven, Connecticut, in 

 1632, from which date the ancestors of the 

 subject of this sketch were residents of 

 that locality and of New York. Samuel 

 Hotchkiss, the great-grandfather of Clar- 

 ■ence D., was commissioned a master in the 

 United States Navy, July 18, 1788, but re- 

 signed his^ commission ]\Iarch 16, 1799, and 

 settled in the Wyoming Valley, Pennsyl- 

 vania. He married Sarah Decker of Fort 

 Ticonderoga, New York. His son George, 

 reared in the Wyoming Valley, 

 had three children, Jeremiah, Eme- 

 line and George W. Hotchkiss. 

 George W. Hotchkiss, the father of Clar- 

 ence D., married Williamina Bittenbender, 

 sixth daughter of William Bittenbender, of 

 Easton, Pennsylvania, and removed to 

 Philadelphia and later to Doylestown, 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania. George W. 

 and Williamina (Bittenbender) Hotchkiss, 

 were the parents of five children, all of 

 whom are deceased except the subject of 

 this sketch. 



Clarence D. Hotchkiss attended the pub- 

 lic schools of Philadelphia and the 

 Wyoming Seminary, and subsequently took 

 the studies of a college course under 

 private tutors. Upon leaving school he 

 entered the drug l)usiness in Philadelphia, 

 but relinquished that business on the re- 



moval of the family to Doylestown, and 

 entered the office of the Duylcstozvn Demo- 

 crat. He subsequently served on various 

 papers in Philadelphia, Atlantic City, and 

 Lansdale, Pennsylvania, and subsequently 

 founded the Apprentices' Journal, a me- 

 chanical monthly journal, which he pub- 

 lished in Philadelphia for a number of 

 years, but sold his interest therein and re- 

 turned to Doylestown in 1885, and again 

 took a position on the staff of the Demo- 

 crat, which he retained until 1890, when 

 General W. W. H. Davis, the then editor 

 and proprietor, sold the plant to a syndi- 

 cate, who organized the Doylestown Pub- 

 lishing Company. Mr. Hotchkiss then took 

 a position on the reportorial staff of the 

 Intelligencer, daily and weekly. In 1892 

 he was promoted to local and news editor, 

 a position which he has since filled with 

 eminent ability. At the incorporation of 

 the Intelligencer Company in 1898 he be- 

 came a stockholder, and later a director of 

 the corporation, and takes a deep interest 

 in the conduct and success of this old and 

 reliable newspaper. 



Mr. Hotchkiss and his family are mem- 

 bers of the Doylestown Presbyterian 

 church, and he was the first president of 

 the Bucks County Christian Endeavor 

 Union, and has always been one of the 

 active workers of the organization. He is 

 one of the directors of the Intelligencer 

 Company, secretary of the Press League 

 of Bucks and Montgomery counties, trustee 

 of Doylestown Fire Company, No. i, and 

 has been secretary of the Doylestown Board 

 of Health since its organization in 1894. 

 He is a member of Doylestown Lodge, No. 

 193, and Doylestown Encampment, No.. 35, 

 I. O. O. F., being one of the most active 

 members of both organizations, filling im- 

 portant positions on their respective degree 

 staffs, and serving for many years as one 

 of the trustees of both. He is a member 

 of the Bucks County Historical Society, 

 and was for several years a member of 

 the Doylestown Glee Club. Mr. Hotchkiss 

 enjoys considerable local celebrity as an 

 amateur photographer, and is a member 

 of the Columbia Photographic Society of 

 Philadelphia. He married, June 19, 1878, 

 Albertine Walton, daughter of Dr. Thomas 

 H. Walton, for many years a druggist of 

 Doylestown, now deceased. Two children 

 of Clarence D. and Albertine (Walton) 

 Hotchkiss, survive : George S., of the 

 reportorial staff of the Intelligencer, and 

 Sarah W. 



HARVEY S. KISER, of Doylestown, one 

 of the rising younger members of the Bucks 

 county bar, was born in Springfield town- 

 ship, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Septem- 

 ber 16, 1871, and is a son of Edwin and 

 Emma (Seiner) Kiser, the former of whom 

 is serving his second term as county com- 

 missioner. 



The first paternal ancestor of this branch 

 of the Kiser family of whom we have any 



