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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



publican. He married October 26, 1837, 

 Ann, daughter of Israel and Rachel 

 (Parsons) Bailey, and they died respec- 

 tively April 30, 1853, and February 19, 

 1852. They were the parents of seven 

 children: i. Peter, born April 30, 1839, 

 died October 10, 1899; 2. Emily, born 

 February 19, 1841. 3. Harding, Decem- 

 ber 8, 1842; 4. George W., July 12, 1845; 

 5. Edward, February 17, 1848; 6. Anna 

 Mary, August 29, 1849. 7. Isaiah, born 

 December 5, 1851, died in infancy. 



Emily, oldest surviving child and eld- 

 est daughter of George and Ann 

 (Bailey) Bailey, resides in a handsome 

 home in Langhorne borough, near the 

 ancestral homestead, to which she is 

 devotedly attached on account of the 

 tender memories and honored traditions 

 belonging to it. Her life has been un- 

 selfishly devoted to the welfare of others, 

 and she is held in regard by the many in 

 the neighborhood who have constantly 

 been objects of her care and the re- 

 cipients of her bounties — bounties be- 

 stowed so modestly and unassumingly 

 that they go unheralded save by those 

 grateful souls to whose comfort she has 

 so generously contributed. She is also 

 sincerely beloved by the widely dis- 

 persed members of the family, who view 

 in her an affectionate and considerate 

 relative who by reason of her residence 

 near the old home and her loyalty to her 

 ancestry and kinspeople is in peculiar 

 degree their principal and most honored 

 representative. 



Harding, third child and oldest sur- 

 viving child of George and Ann (Bailey) 

 Bailey, married September 29, 1868, Lu- 

 cretia M. Garretson, and they are the 

 parents of five children: i. William, born 

 in 1870, died in infancy; 2. Luella M., 

 born 1872; 3. Lorin H., 1876: 4. Hazel, 

 1886; 5. Arvine, 1891. This family re- 

 side in Ohio. 



George W., fourth child of George and 

 Ann (Bailey) Bailey, married December 

 3.1, 1868, Ruthetta Butler, and they are 

 the parents of eight children: i. John 

 Butler, born 1870. died 1893; 2. Anna E., 

 born 1871; married December 24, 1901, 

 Horace C. Baldwin, of Whittier, Califor- 

 nia, and to them were born two children: 

 one died in infancy, and Clififord, born 

 March 28, 1904; 3. Laura M., born 1874; 

 died 1891; 4. Edward H., born 1876, mar- 

 ried Esther Harris. June r, 1904; 5. 

 Erwin G.. born 1880, married Carrie 

 Huntington, August 23. 1904; 6. William 

 J., born 1884; 7-8. Charles F. and Ches- 

 ter M., twins, born 1889; Chester M. died 

 in infancy, and Charles F. is still living. 



Edward IM., fifth child of George and 

 Ann (Bailey) Bailey, married Sarah Lee 

 Taylor, September 12, 1888. 



Anna Mary, sixth child of George and 

 Ann (Bailey) Bailey, became the wife 

 of Charles H. Carver, in January, 1872, 

 and to them were born three children: 

 I. Anna B., 1873; married Charles T. 



Windle, and they had one child, Edward 

 Howell, born 1897. 2. Rachel B., born 

 1876, is quite an artist, and in 1904 ex- 

 hibited at the Trenton State Fair, win- 

 ning seven prizes. 3. Edward L., born 

 1879, died 1881. 



SAMUEL R. KRAMER, Postoffice Per- 

 kasie, was born March 29, i860, on the 

 Ridge road, about two miles northeast of 

 Perkasie borough, in Rockhill township, 

 and was the youngest of seven children 

 born to Abraham and Elizabeth Kramer. 

 At the age of eight years his father died, 

 and for five years he was in the employ 

 of George L. Baringer, a farmer in Rich- 

 land Center, during which time and be- 

 tween the attendant duties of farm life 

 he received a common-school education 

 in the Quakertown public schools. In 

 1875 he was apprenticed to a jeweler in 

 Delaware county. Pennsylvania, June 4, 

 1877, he was apprenticed to J. E. Witmer, 

 of the Langsdale Reporter, at Langsdale, 

 Montgomery county, this state, and served 

 three years at the printing business. In 

 June, 1881, Hon. M. S. Sellers established 

 the Central News in Perkasie, and em- 

 ployed him to take charge of the mechani- 

 cal part, which position he held until the 

 death of the founder, February 7, 1882, 

 when he became a member of the firm of 

 Moyer & Kramer, and continued the print- 

 ing and publication business. In 1885, at 

 the age of twenty-four, he was elected to 

 the office of justice of the peace by his 

 fellow-citizens, for the term of five years, 

 and was re-elected for three succeeding 

 terms thereafter. He was married in 1881 

 to Miss Mary Swartley. of Gwynedd, IMont- 

 gomery county, Pennsylvania. The union 

 was blest with ten children, the following 

 of whom are living: Samuel R.. Jr.. Russell, 

 Lulu, Mamie, Stewart, Folwell and Ran- 

 dall. 



From a wooded hillside Mr. Kramer 

 created Menlo Park. He united Perkasie 

 and Quakertown by trolley. He produced 

 the Perkasie water works. He gave the 

 "upper end" a model weekly newspaper. 

 He was a charter member of many lodges, 

 and belongs to the following: F. and A. 

 M.. K. of P.. I. O. O. F., O. U. A. M. He 

 brought to Perkasie its largest industries, 

 persuading the proprietors to locate here, 

 and financed the building of factories. As 

 a surveyor he laid out important and profit- 

 able annexes to the borough. He was a 

 leading spirit in annexing Bridgetown to 

 Perkasie, and in freeing the Bridgetown- 

 Perkasie turnpike. He was successful in 

 pleading for municipal ownership of the 

 borough electric light plant. He was the 

 pioneer along the North Pcnn for modern 

 railroad stations, the first and finest of 

 which is located at Perkasie. To a great 

 extent Perkasie Bank is because of him. 

 Verily a busy and honored career — a course 

 uniformly run with integrity, and oppor- 



