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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



walk, covered with a picturesque tiled 

 roof is the institution known as Holj- 

 Providence House. It is a combination of 

 an industrial and intellectual iraining 

 school. Here the Sisters teach the children 

 the principles of domestic science, the im- 

 portance of habits of thrift, industry, and 

 economy so necessary for their future suc- 

 cess ui life. There are i/O children ni the 

 Institute, iio girls ranging in ages from 

 hve to twenty-one years ; and fifty-two boys 

 ranging from five to thirteen years of age. 

 When the boys reach the age of thirteen, 

 they are transferred to industrial or trade 

 schools to complete their education. The 

 girls remain with the Sisters until they are 

 twenty-one, and the Sisters endeavor to im- 

 press upon their minds the necessity and 

 dignity of labor, striving to hold befort 

 them the most exalted motives to enable 

 them to fultill faithfully their work on 

 earth. All are obliged to attend school daily 

 during the school session which lasts from 

 September i, to June 30. The girls have 

 the opportunity to complete the Grammar 

 School course. If proficient in the branches 

 which this course includes they receive 

 a certificate or diploma testifying to their 

 ability. In order to receive this certifi- 

 cate they must also have satisfactorily 

 passed the Dorriestic Science course whicn 

 includes cooking and dress-making, taught 

 according to scientific principles, and laun- 

 dry work. 



From the Mother House at Cornwells 

 three branches have sprung: One, St. Cath- 

 arine's Indian ' Boarding School at Santa 

 Fe, New Mexico, where 160 children are 

 taught by the Sisters, the plan followed 

 there being something similar to that at 

 Gornwells ; another, St. Frances de Sales, 

 Rock Castle, Virginia, where southern girls 

 are received from fourteen to twenty-one 

 years of age. Here they prepare themselves 

 for teaching and aim to become proficient 

 in other spheres of industry in order to 

 become. self sustaining in the future, and of 

 benefit to their people ; also another In- 

 dian Mission in a lonely wilderness in the 

 wilds and wastes of Arizona called St. - 

 Michael's, where; about one hundred Na- 

 vajo Indian children belonging to the vast ' 

 pagan tribe of twenty thousand souls are , 

 received and cared for, taught the princi- 

 ples of religion and human knowledge ac- 

 cording to their capabilities. 



Let us hope that the little seed planted 

 in Cornwells, Bucks county, may grow 

 and produce fruit for a rich harvest in the 

 hearts of the poor Negroes and Indians, 

 both for time and eternity, spreading its 

 branches far and wide for their benefit, 

 and enlisting the sympathies of the many 

 noble-minded men and women who are 

 connected with the history of the county. 

 This is the ardent wish of those whose 

 lives are to be spent in furthering the cause 

 of their elevation. 



JAMES B. CANDY. The family of 

 Candy in England are of French extraction, 

 whose progenitor was Jean de Conde, 

 younger son of Louis de Bourbon, the first 

 Prince of Conde, and the founder of the 

 family who took their name from the town 

 of Conde, near the borders of Belgium, 

 and the home of the royal family of Bour- 

 bon and Navarre. He was the friend and- 

 pupil of Gaspard Coligny, the famous Ad- 

 miral of France, and like him espoused the 

 cause and religion of the Huguenots and 

 became their leader in 1554. Condemned 

 to death by Francis II., he escaped through 

 the sudden demise of that prince, and at 

 the reopening of, hostilities between the 

 Catholic and Protestant" factions in 1562 

 he became again the recognized leader of 

 the Huguenots, and opened negotiations 

 with Queen Elizabeth, under whose pro- 

 tection he placed his family. He was killed 

 at the battle of Jarnac, December 15, 1569. 

 His eldest son Henry, second Prince of 

 Conde, returned to France, and his descend- 

 ants were prominent in the internecine 

 struggles at the court of that kingdom for 

 several generations. From the younger son 

 of Louis the English family is descended. 

 A grandson emigrated to the New Eng- 

 land colony in 1639 and settled in Boston, 

 from whence he removed to Windsor in 

 1650. Another descendant, John Condee, 

 with his nephew, Alexander, Condee, emi- 

 grated to Maryland and settled in Prince 

 George county. In Hanson's "Old Kent" 

 is this record; "Alexander Condee, bap- 

 tized ye 226. day of Aprill 1693." Through 

 their residence among the English the end- 

 ing of the name became changed. On a 

 tombstone in an old cemetery at New 

 Haven, Connecticut, is found this inscrip- 

 tion ; "Rebecca Canbe, wife of Zachariah 

 Canbe, died September 22, 1739,' aged 91 

 years." The family has been prominent in 

 England for many generations, some of 

 its members holding high governmental 

 and social positions. In the "Armorielle 

 L^niverselle" is recorded their coat-of-arms, 

 charged with three fleur-de-lis and a star. 

 Thomas Davy Candy, father of James 

 Bentley Candy, of Langhorne, Bucks coun- 

 ty, Pennsylvania, and a lineal descendant 

 of Jean de Conde, emigrated with his pa- 

 rents from Manchester, England, at the 

 age of two years. The family settled at 

 Poughkeepsie, New York, where Thomas 

 Davy Candy was reared and educated and 

 acquired proficiency as a mechanical en- 

 gineer. He later located at Paterson, New 

 Jerse\% where he married Ann Bentley. 

 She was a native of England, and had 

 come to America with her parents at the 

 age of one and a half years. Her family 

 had located for a time at Ellicott's Mills, 

 Maryland, and removed from there to Lan- 

 caster, Pennsylvania, where the parents 

 died, after which the family moved to 

 Paterson, New Jersey. Thomas D. Candy 

 removed with his wife to Philadelphia soork 



