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tlon of the People's National Bank of 

 Langhorne he was made its cashier and re- 

 tained that position until his death, June 

 17, 1904. He was twice married; first to 

 Catharine Mather Croasdale, by whom he 

 had two sons — Isaac S., who died in early 

 manhood, and Allen Robert, the subject 

 of this sketch. He married (second) Anna 

 Croasdale, who survives him, and had hy 

 her two sons — Horace G., born 8 mo. 2^, 

 1869, for several years assistant cashier and 

 now cashier of the People's National Bank; 

 and George Rowland, born 10 mo. 18, 1873, 

 an electrical engineer. , 



Allen Robert Mitchell was born in Mid- 

 dletown, but spent his boyhood days in 

 Philadelphia, and acquired his education at 

 the Friends' school at Fifteenth and Race 

 streets, Philadelphia, and at Bryant and 

 Stratton's Business College. On leaving 

 school he secured a position in the store 

 of Keim & Biddle, jobbers and importers 

 of woolen goods, and, after filling re- 

 sponsible positions in their employ for sev- 

 eral years, in 1879 became a member of 

 the firm and assumed the management of 

 its financial affairs and has continued in 

 the business ever since. The present firm 

 name is J. R. Keim & Co., who in addition 

 to the importing business are proprietors 

 of the Shackamaxon Worsted Mills, and 

 manufacture a fine grade of worsted goods, 

 running over one hundred looms and em- 

 ploying five hundred hands, and have es- 

 tablished a market for their goods in all 

 parts of the United States. He is a mem- 

 ber of the Manufacturers' Club of Phila- 

 delphia. 



Mr. Mitchell married February 20, 1S79, 

 Ada Begley, of Philadelphia, daughter of 

 Thomas Smith and Sarah Phipps (Martin) 

 Begley, and granddaughter of Thomas and 

 Sarah (Smith) Begley, her maternal grand- 

 parents being Benjamin and Jemima 

 (Phipps) Martin. Mr. and ]\Irs. Mitchell 

 are the parents of three children : Edith 

 Maud, born November 25, 1879; Allen 

 Robert, Jr., born April 11, 1882; and Ada 

 Begley, born March 7, 1885, died February 

 20, 1892. Edith M. and Allen Robert were 

 educated at the Friends' Central school, 

 Philadelphia, and the latter entered 

 Swarthmore College, from which he gradu- 

 ated in the class of 1902. He is now 

 employed in his father's establishment. He 

 is a" member of the Delta Upsilon fratern- 

 ity, the Swarthmore Club and the Univer- 

 sity Club, of Philadelphia. Edith Maud 

 married Henry Ridgway Knight, of Phila- 

 delphia. 



Mrs. Mitchell is a descendant of Joseph 

 Phipps, from Reading, Berkshire, England, 

 who came to Pennsylvania in 1681 and set- 

 tled in Chester county, removing later to 

 Abington township, Philadelphia county, 

 where he died in 1716. He was, one of the 

 organizers of Abington Friends' meeting, 

 and especially active in public affairs. He 

 served as member of the first provincial 

 assembly held in Philadelphia in 1682, and 

 again in 1685 from Chester county. 



ROBERT SHOEMAKER DANA, M. 

 D., whose postofiice address is now Mor- 

 risville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was 

 born in Circleville, Pickaway county, Ohio, 

 November 10, 1833, is the son of Sylvester 

 Dana, A. M., and his wife, Elizabeth Brown. 

 On his paternal side he is of Huguenot 

 descent, the family having left France on 

 the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. 



Richard Dana was the first of the family 

 in America. He was born in France about 

 1612, whence with his parents and others 

 he fled to England in 1629, and emigrated 

 from there to America in 1640, landing in 

 the Plymouth colony. Afterwards he re- 

 moved to West Cambridge now (in 1830) 

 called Brighton, near Boston. His place 

 was called also the Hannewell farm, which 

 he once owned and sold to Edward Jack- 

 son in 1656. He died at West Cambridge 

 (or Brighton) April 2, 1690. He was the 

 father of Jacob, whose son Jacob was the 

 father of Anderson Dana, Sr., who was 

 born at Pomfret, Connecticut, October 26, 

 1735. He resided at Ashford, Connecticut, 

 until 1772, when with his family he moved 

 to Wyoming Valley, then called West More- 

 land, now in Luzerne county, Pennsyl- 

 vania; there he located an original section 

 of land about one mile below the centre 

 of the town, the section being laid out 

 long, and reaching from the lower flat 

 lands to and including a portion of the 

 mountain, giving each settler a variety of 

 flats, hill land and mountain. He was a 

 lawyer, and at one time clerk of the coun- 

 cil. In 1774 he was chosen a surveyor of 

 highways and "lister," also a member of 

 the school committee, and in May, 1778, 

 was chosen as representative of Westmore- 

 land to the Connecticut assembly, from 

 which he had returned to Wyoming in time 

 to participate in the battle which took place 

 there July 3, 1778, between the settlers and 

 the British, Tories, and their Indian allies. 

 In that engagement he acted as aide to 

 Colonel Zebulon Butler, was wounded in 

 the thigh and unhorsed. One of the men 

 escaping from the Indians when the battle 

 was lost, Rufus Bennett, reported that he 

 saw his son-in-law, Stephen Whiton, try- 

 ing to help him on his horse. That was the 

 last seen of either of them, and undoubtedly 

 they were immediately killed, as the Indians 

 were close upon them. 



His son, Anderson Dana, Jr., the grand- 

 father of Dr. Robert S. Dana, was born 

 August II, 1765. at Ashford, Connecticut, 

 and went with his father to Wyoming 

 Valley in 1772. He was nearly thirteen 

 years old at the time of the massacre, 

 and, in company with many others, among 

 whom he was the oldest male, he with 

 his mother and other children fled back 

 to Connecticut through the wilderness 

 east of the Valley, which was long 

 known as the '"Wilderness and Shades 

 of Death," on account of the number 

 of the fugitives from the Valley who 

 died there from hunger and privations. 

 His mother, knowing that her husband's 



