HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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8 mo. 26, T713, married in 1735 Richard 

 Church, who had brought a certificate 

 from a Friends' Meeting in Ireland two 

 years previously, and settled in Bucking- 

 ham. 



Richard Church obtained a patent for 

 267 acres adjoining the tract of his father-' 

 in-law, Joseph Fell, in 1741. This tract in- 

 cluded the present Church's school, founded 

 by his sons, and th^ mill at Mechanics 

 Valley, now owned by A. K. Steever. The 

 mill was erected by Richard Church in 

 1742. Richard Church was a prominent 

 man in the community, and an active mem- 

 ber of Buckingham Friends' Meeting. He 

 died 6 mo. 11, 1776, and his widow Sarah 

 died 10 mo. 11, 1797. He was the great- 

 grandfather of the late Eleazer F. Church, 

 who was the father of Watson P. Church. 



Eleazer F. Church learned the trade of 

 a printer in the office of the Doylestoivn 

 Democrat, under General John S. Bryan, 

 graduating in 1839. For the next ten years 

 Tie followed other pursuits, being engaged 

 in the mercantile business at both Mechan- 

 icsville and Centre Bridge. In March, 1850, 

 Tie started a newspaper in Baltimore, Mary- 

 land, called the Baltimore County Advo- 

 cate. It was published in the interest of a 

 separation of the county and city of Balti- 

 more in municipal affairs. From Baltimore 

 the paper was removed to Cockeysville, in 

 August, 1850, and from there to Towson, 

 the new county seat, in 1853, where INIr. 

 Church continued its publication until 1865, 

 when he sold it. In the same year he was 

 appointed inspector of internal revenue for 

 three counties in lower Maryland. In 1866 

 he purchased a half interest in the Herald 

 and Torchlight, at Hagerstown, Maryland, 

 but in a short time disposed of his interest 

 and returned to Towson and started an- 

 other paper under the name of the Balti- 

 more County Free Press. This he sold in 

 March, 1868. and returned to Bucks county 

 and established the Nezvtozvn Enterprise. 

 The paper was a success from the start, and 

 "has always been one of the most popular 

 weekly papers in the county. Independent 

 in politics, clean, newsy, and specially de- 

 voted to local matters, it has found its 

 way into a great majority of the homes in 

 lower Bucks, and has probably the largest 

 circulation of any weekly paper published 

 in the county. Eleazer F. Church continued 

 to conduct the Enterprise until his death, 

 June IS, 1893. He was a man of sterling 

 integrity and irreproachable character, of 

 pleasing address, and possessed of good 

 literary ability, and was exceedingly popular 

 as an editor and as a man. He married 

 Hannah Brock Price, daughter of John and 

 Elizabeth (Kirk) Price and had the fol- 

 lowing children: William, born 8 mo. 17, 

 1847, now a farmer near Taylorsville ; Wat- 

 son P., the present editor and proprietor of 

 the Enterprise; Mary E. born 6 mo. 11, 

 185 1, who married George M. Wright, and 

 died in Philadelphia October 6. 1899; Harry 

 F., born 2 mo. 16, 1853, who married Helen 

 W. Trego, and died in Newtown, December 



2, 1901 ; and Fannie M.. living in Newtown. 



Watson Price Church, born 2 mo. 7^ 

 1849, received a liberal education, and has 

 always followed literary pursuits. He was 

 associated with -his father in the conduct of 

 the Nezvtozvn Enterprise, and at his father's 

 death in 1893 he purchased of the executor 

 the entire plant and has since conducted the 

 paper and maintained its old-time popular- 

 ity. He was married June i, 1899. to Mary 

 Gillam, of Langhorne, daughter of the late 

 Simon and Elizabeth Richardson Gillam. a 

 lineal descendant of Justice Joseph Grow- 

 don,- of Trevose, Bensalem (who was a 

 member of provincial council, 1687-9, 1692, 

 1695, 1697-8 ; Justice of supreme court, 

 1698-9; judge of Bucks county, 1689, 1708; 

 member of assembly, 1684, 1686, 1690, 

 1693, 1704-5-6, 1713-4-5-6 and until 1723; 

 speaker of the assembly, 1690, 1693, 1700 

 to 1706 and 1713 to 1716, and again in 

 1722). through the marriage of his daugh- 

 ter Elizabeth to Francis Richardson of 

 Philadelphia in 1705. 



The children of Watson P. and Mary 

 (Gillam) Church are Watson Price Church, 

 Jr., born June 7, 1900. and Millicent Eliza- 

 beth Church, born August 15, 1901. 



ALFRED MARSHALL, of Lang- 

 borne Manor, Bucks county, was born 

 in Marslaallton, Delaware, October 29, 

 1848, a son of Caleb H. and Jane 

 (Thompson) Marshall, and comes of a 

 distinguished English ancestry. John 

 Marshall, paternal ancestor of Alfred 

 Marshall, was born in Derbyshire, Eng- 

 land, and migrated from Elton parish m 

 that shire in 1686 to America, and after 

 locating for about a year in Blockley 

 township, Philadelphia county, located 

 in Darby, Delaware county. He was a 

 member'of Darby Friends' Meeting, and 

 married there 10 mo. 19. 1688, Sarah, 

 daughter of Thomas Smith, that bemg 

 the first marriage solemnized under the 

 auspices of Darby Meeting. He was a 

 cousin of Abraham Marshall, the distni- 

 guished botanist and horticulturist, who 

 came from Gratton parish, Derbyshire, 

 in 1700, and settled in West Bradford, 

 Chester county. John Marshall died 9 

 mo. 13, 1729, and his widow 5 mo. 16, 

 1749. They had three children. John, 

 born 6 mo. 16, 1690, died 8 mo. 4, I749, 

 married Joanna Paschall. and (second) 

 Elinor Shcnton, a widow; William, born 

 2 mo. II. 1692, died 1727, married Mary 

 Sellers; Thomas, born 12 mo. 10, 1694, 

 (see forward). 



Thomas Marshall married 2 mo. 24, 

 1718. and settled in Concord township, 

 Chester county. His wife was Hannah 

 Mendenhall. daughter of Benjamin and 

 Ann (Pennel) Mendenhall. Thomas died 

 in 1741. and his widow married Peter 

 Grubb. Thomas and Hannah (Menden- 

 hall) Marshall had nine children. John 

 Marshall, eighth child, born 11 mo. 22, 



