HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 



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Hundred. On the death of his first wife 

 he married, 4 mo. 10, 1742, Elizabeth 

 Hadley, daughter of Joseph and Amy 

 (Greeg) Hadley, of Mill Creek. By the 

 first marriage he had three children: 

 Grace, born 3 mo. 9, 1736, married i mo. 

 17; 1763, Moses Pennock; Daniel, (see 

 below); and Ann, born 10 mo. 7, 1739, 

 died young. By the second marriage 

 there were seven children: James, Sarah, 

 Amy, John, Ann, Joseph and Elizabeth. 

 Daniel Thompson, eldest son of James 

 and Sarah (Worsley) Thompson, was 

 born in Mill Creek Hundred, 11 mo. 16, 

 1737, and married 10 mo. 25, 1764, Eliza- 

 beth Chambers, daughter of William and 

 Elizabeth (Miller) Chambers, of White 

 Clay Creek, by whom he had nine chil- 

 dren: William, James, Eli, Deborah, 

 Sarah, John, Elizabeth, Daniel and 

 Joshua. John Thompson, born 5 mo. 17, 

 1777, married Elizabeth Reed, and their 

 daughter Jane was the mother of the 

 subject of this sketch, through her mar- 

 riage with Caleb H. Marshall, of Mar- 

 shalton, Delaware. 



-Alfred Marshall was educated in the 

 public schools of Marshallton, Dela- 

 ware, and later in Philadelphia, to which 

 city the family removed in 1863. On 

 leaving school he entered the Penn 

 Treaty Iron Works, of which his father 

 was proprietor, and thoroughly learned 

 all the details of the business that was 

 to become his life work. His father, 

 Caleb H. Marshall, died 12 mo. 16, 1888, 

 and the business was continued by his 

 sons under the firm name of Marshall 

 Bros. & Co. This firm was the first 

 manufacturer of galvanized sheet iron. 

 In 1892 they began the manufacture of 

 tin plate, establishing the first plant for 

 this industry east of the Alleghenies, 

 and making it a thorough success. The 

 firm sold out the tin plate departf^ient 

 in 1898 to the American Tin Plate Com- 

 pany, but still continues the iron and 

 steel business as jobbers, doing a large 

 and lucrative business. 



Mr. Marshall married December 19, 

 1878, Florence Virginia Mather, of Phil- 

 adelphia, daughter of Richard and 

 Esther (Coates) Mather. Mrs. Marshall 

 is a descendant through many genera- 

 tions of Quaker ancestors who have been 

 prominent in the history and develop- 

 ment of Bucks, Chester and Delaware 

 counties. She is a granddaughter of 

 Benjamin and Catharine (Rowland) 

 Mather, and a great-granddaughter of 

 Banjamin and Ann Mather. On the ma- 

 ternal side she is a descendant of Moses 

 Coates, who was born in Ireland of an 

 old English family who had crossed the 

 channel to escape religious persecution. 

 He married, in Ireland, Susanna Wel- 

 don, and, coming to this country, in 1731, 

 purchased 540 acres of land on the site 

 of Phoenixville, where his descendants 

 became owners and operators of the iron 

 works that have contributed so largely 



to the growth and importance of the 

 town. Coatesville, Pennsylvania, was 

 named for Moses Coates, a grandson of 

 the emigrant, who w.as the great-grand- 

 father of Mrs. Marshall, her grandpa- 

 rents being Caleb and Elizabeth (Gil- 

 bert) Coates. 



Mr. and Mrs. Marshall have been the 

 parents of three children: Clarence 

 Mather, born March 16, 1880, died March 

 5, 1883; Frederick Warren, born Sep- 

 tember 25, 1881; and Richard Mather, 

 born November 13, 1890. These children 

 attended the William Penn Charter 

 School, and Frederick W. is now a stu- 

 dent of the University of Pennsylvania 

 in the class of 1905. In 1889 Mr. Mar- 

 shall and his family removed to Lang- 

 horne Manor, where he had previously 

 erected a handsome home. He is a bus- 

 iness man of excellent judgment and 

 high standing in the community. He has 

 identified himself with the business, so- 

 cial and political interests of the county 

 and borough. He is a director in the 

 People's National Bank of Langhorne; 

 president of the Langhorne Electric 

 Light Company; president of the Junc- 

 tion Furnace and Foundry Company; 

 and senior member of the present firm 

 of Marshall Brothers in Philadelphia. 



GEORGE BAILEY, of Lower Make- 

 field township. Bucks county, Pennsyl- 

 vania, known for his zealous and useful 

 efforts in behalf of education, was a de- 

 scendant in the fifth generation from 

 Thomas Bailey, a native of Bristol, 

 which was in his day one of the most im- 

 portant mercantile cities of England. 

 Thomas Bailey came to America in 

 1682 and purchased land in Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania. He was a bodice maker 

 by occupation. From him the line of de- 

 scent to George Bailey is through 

 Thomas (2) and Mercy (Lucas) Bailey; 

 Edward (3) and Ann (Satterthwaite) 

 Bailey; and Edward (4) and Margaret 

 (Livezey) Bailey. 



George Bailey (5), son of Edward and 

 Margaret (Livezey) Bailey, was born in 

 Falls township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- 

 vania, January 15, 1816. He began his 

 education in the common schools in the 

 home neighborhood, and pursued what 

 was equivalent to an academical course 

 in the Friends' school of Falls town- 

 ship. He was of studious disposition and 

 devoted himself to his studies so assid- 

 uously that on leaving school he was en- 

 tirely capable of teaching, and he fol- 

 lowed that occupation for several years. 

 During his later life he followed farm- 

 ing, industriously and successfully. He 

 never lost his interest in educational af- 

 fairs, and was among the foremost in 

 laying the foundations for the normal 

 school sj^stem and in effecting its es- 

 tablishment. In politics he was a Re- 



