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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



inary. On leaving school he entered his fa- 

 ther's butchering establishment and meat 

 store, and in the spring of 1876 became a 

 partner in the business, and is still a member 

 of the firm of Lehman & Sons. He mar- 

 ried, November 21, 18S8, Mary C. McAnall, 

 adopted daughter of William McAnall. She 

 was born in Philadelphia, June 14, 1866. 

 They are the parents of two children : 

 Charles F., born September 21, 1889, now 

 a student at a preparatory school m Frank- 

 lin county, Pennsylvania; and Bertha, born 

 January 11, 1893, a student in the Doyles- 

 town high school. 



filled other than local offices. He is a 

 practical and successful farmer. To Mr. 

 and Mrs. Brunner have been born three 

 children: Wallace, deceased; Benjamin 

 Franklin, and Harvey Leroy. 



HARVEY S. BRUNNER, of Bucking- 

 ham township, Bucks county, is a worthy 

 representative of one of the oldest Penn- 

 sylvania German families in Bucks 

 county, and of that sturdy race who by 

 industry, frugality and rectitude have 

 added much to the wealth, prosperity and 

 moral standing of the county. Many of 

 his name have found homes in Bucks 

 .county, the first Brunner arriving in 

 Pennsylvania in 1728. The subject of 

 this sketch is a son of Solomon and Bar- 

 bara (Shelly) Brunner, both natives of 

 Springfield township, Bucks county, and 

 was born in Bedminster township, March 



I, 1857. 



Solomon Brunner was born in the 

 year 1822, and his wife Barbara two 

 years earlier. On their marriage they 

 settled in Bedminster township, where 

 he followed his trade, that of a car- 

 penter, later locating at Danboro. in 

 Plumstead township, where he resided 

 for three years. A few years prior to his 

 death, which occurred on March 14, 1896, 

 he removed to Telford, Montgomery 

 county, Pennsylvania. His widow is a 

 resident of Hatfield, Montgomery 

 county. They were the parents of eight 

 children, five of whom survive: Cath- 

 arine, wife of Abraham Rohr, of Bed- 

 minster; Isaiah, residing in Indiana; 

 Charles, of Hatfield; Harvey S. and 

 Thomas, of Bethlehem, Pennsjdvania. 

 The family were members of the Ger- 

 man Reformed church. 



Harvey S. Brunner was reared in Bed- 

 minster township and received his edu- 

 cation in the public schools, and at the 

 age of eighteen years began teaching in 

 his native township, which he followed 

 for two years. After two years devoted 

 to painting, he took up the carpenter 

 trade under Louis High, of Bedminster, 

 and followed that trade for nine years. 

 In 1886 he married Hannah Overholt, 

 daughter of Abraham and Hannah Over- 

 holt, of Bedminster, and for three years 

 conducted the farm of his father-in-law. 

 In the spring of 1890 he purchased his 

 present farm in Buckingham and moved 

 thereon. He and his family are mem- 

 hers of the Mennonite meeting. In pol- 

 itics he is a Republican, but has never 



HENRY CLAY LARGE. Among the 

 most successful, enterprising and scien- 

 tific farmers of Bucks county is Henry 

 Clay Large, of Buckingham township. 

 He was born in Buckingham on Febru- 

 ary 2, 1846, and is a son of William M. 

 and Anne (Watson) Large. The Large 

 family is one of the oldest in Bucks 

 county, though the lineal ancestors of 

 the subject of this sketch were residents 

 of New Jersey for three generations. 

 Joseph Large and Elizabeth his wife 

 came to Bucks county from Long Island 

 about 1690, and settled in Falls town- 

 ship, where he died about 1706, leaving 

 four sons: John, who settled in Bristol, 

 Joseph, the ancestor of the Larges of 

 middle Buckingham; Samuel and Eben- 

 ezer. Samuel Large settled in early life 

 in Kingwood, Hunterdon county. New 

 Jersey, where he purchased a large tract 

 of land. He was one of the original 

 members of Kingwood Friends' Meeting 

 in 1744, and was an elder until his 

 death, 6 mo, 9, 1765, and travelled ex- 

 tensively in this and other provinces in 

 the "service of truth." Jacob Large was 

 born in Kingwood and became an ex- 

 tensive farmer there. He married 8 mo., 

 1746, Mary Bunting, and raised a fam- 

 ily of nine children: Aaron; Elizabeth; 

 Samuel; Anne, married Isaac Lundy; 

 Mary, married John Allen; Ebenezer; 

 Rebecca; William; Sarah. William, 

 ' born 7 mo. 14, 1765, married Susanna 

 Palmer. 



William M. Large, father of the sub- 

 ject of this sketch, was born in King- 

 W'obd township, Hunterdon county. New 

 Jersey, June 17, 1812. being a son of Will- 

 iam and Susanna (Palmer) Large. His 

 father died when he \yas a babe, and at 

 the age of twelve years he came to 

 Doylestown and was apprenticed to 

 James Kelh^ then editor and proprietor 

 of the "Bucks County Intelligencer," to 

 learn the printing trade. He served his 

 term, and, arriving of age, remained in 

 the ofiice a few weeks, and then went 

 to Philadelphia in search of a job. Here 

 he encountered Seneca W. Ely, a native 

 of Buckingham, just returned from 

 Rochester, New York, where he, too, had 

 learned the printing trade, and the two 

 young printers formed a partnership, 

 purchased a press, and removed to Chil- 

 licothe. Ohio, where they started a print- 

 ing office. At the end of a year. Mr. 

 Large having been solicited by his pre- 

 ceptor to return and take an interest in 

 the business, came back to Doylestown 

 and entered into partnership with Mr. 

 Kelly. They ran the "Intelligencer" for 



