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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



opened an office at the coiuity seat and en- 

 tered upon the practice of his profession. 

 July I, 1900, he formed a partnership wit.i 

 Hon. Mahlon H. Stout, under the firm 

 name of Stout & Kisor, attorneys and coun- 

 sellors at law, which continued until the 

 elevation of Mr. Stout to the bench in 

 January, 1904. Both members of the firm 

 were popular and successful lawyers and 

 built up a large clientage. Mr. Kiser has 

 since continued the practice of his chosen 

 profession alone with marked success. He 

 has always taken an active interest in all 

 that pertains to the best interest of the town 

 in which he lives. At the organization of 

 the Doylestown Board of Trade he was 

 selected as its president, a position he still 

 fills. He is a director of the Bucks County 

 Trust Company. Doylestown's leading 

 financial institution, and is identified with 

 several business and social institutions of 

 the town. 



Mr. Kiser married, June 5, 1901, Miss 

 Louisa Butler, an accomplished young lady 

 of Bridgeton, New Jersey. 



JAMES POLLOCK, the genial pro- 

 prietor of the Pollock House, Doyles- 

 town, was born in county Down, Ireland, 

 February 4, 1858. and is a son of James 

 and Esther (Kerr) PolloCk, who, with 

 their' two sons, James and Robert, and a 

 daughter, Sarah Jane, now the wife of 

 George Turkington of Plumstead. emi- 

 grated to America in 1866 and settled in 

 Philadelphia, where both parents died in 



1873. 



The subject of this sketch spent his 

 boyhood days in Philadelphia, and ob- 

 tained a meagre education at the public 

 schools. He was compelled to earn his 

 own livelihood at a very early age, and 

 sought such employment as w^as avail- 

 able to boys of his age. At the age of 

 eighteen years he opened a small store 

 for the sale of coffees and tea, and sup- 

 plemented the local trade by running a 

 team out into the country, taking orders 

 and delivering the goods. In 1880. he 

 removed to Doylestown and opened a 

 store there for the sale of cofifees and 

 tea, which he conducted for two years. 

 In 1883 he bought out the bottling estab- 

 lishment on State street, Doylestown, 

 and conducted it until 1891, when he 

 sold out and purchased the Lenape cigar 

 store, which he conducted for over a 

 year. About this time he purchased a 

 tract of land at West Court and Frank- 

 lin streets and erected several houses 

 thereon. In the summer of 1895 he con- 

 ducted a hotel at Atlantic City. Return- 

 ing to Doylestown he began the manu- 

 facture of bicycles, a business which he 

 conducted for nearly two years. In 1898 

 he purchased the Armstrong property on 

 the north side of the borough, and. open- 

 ing Shewell and Harvey avenues, laid 

 it out into building lots, many of which 



have been since built upon. In 1899 he 

 was proprietor of the Union House,. 

 Lambertville. In 1900 he purchased the 

 present site of the Pollock House, then 

 a restaurant, which he conducted for 

 two years, and then erected the present 

 hotel building. A unique feature of the 

 popular hostelry is the Sixteenth Cen- 

 tury Cafe, known as "The Jug in the 

 Wall," fitted up in the quaint style of 

 centuries past, that attracts a great deal 

 of attention from visitors to the county 

 town. Mr. Pollock has always taken a 

 deep interest in everything that pertains 

 to the improvement of the town. He was 

 one of the organizers and a member of 

 the first board of directors of the Doyles- 

 town Electric Company, and was super- 

 intendent of their plant for about one 

 and a half years. He was an original 

 stockholder and director in the Worstall 

 and Carl Wheel Works, and has been an 

 active promoter of other local enter- 

 prises. In politics he is an ardent Re- 

 publican. He has served three years in 

 borough council, and was one of the 

 most active members in the advocacy of 

 inunicipal improvements. Mr. Pollock 

 is strictly a self-made man, and by in- 

 dustry, integrity and a close application 

 of good business qualifications has won a 

 fair competence. 



He was married, April 4, 1879, to 

 Emma, daughter of Charles and Wil- 

 helmina Miller, of Philadelphia, who 

 has borne him two children : Emma, born 

 1880, died 1884; and Laura, born March 

 29, 1881, who resides at home. 



HON. CARLILE SHEPHERD, of Buck- 

 ingham township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- 

 vania, was born October 19, 1834, on the 

 farm adjoining his present residence, that 

 had been the home of his ancestors for 

 three generations. He is a son of Cornelius 

 and Jane (Fell) Shepherd, both natives 

 of Buckingham township. 



Cornelius Shepherd, the great-grand- 

 father of the subject of this sketch, is said 

 to have come to America from Germany 

 in 1752, accompanied by a brother and two 

 sisters. He located in Baltimore county, 

 Maryland, where he married into a family 

 who were members of the Society of 

 Friends, and became a member of the 

 Society. On 6 mo. 5, 1/75, he produced at 

 Buckingham Meeting a certificate from 

 Gunpowder Monthly Meeting in Maryland 

 for himself, wife Catharine and children 

 Rachel, Joseph, Alargaret, Jonathan and 

 Mary. The birth record of these children 

 as shown by the Buckingham records is 

 as follows : Rachel, born 7 mo. 3, 1762 ; 

 Joseph, born 5 mo. 31. 1764; Margaret, born 

 10 mo. 4, 1766; Jonathan, born 6 mo. 8. 

 1771 ; and Mary, born 6 mo. g, 1774. He 

 purchased the Buckinghatn farm of no 

 acres in 1789, and spent his remaining days 

 thereon, dying in 1819. He was disowned 



