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after their marriage, and followed the 

 trade of a mechanical engineer in that 

 city for many years. He was the father 

 of two sons, James Bentley and John Bent- 

 ley Candy. 



JAMES BENTLEY CANDY was born 

 in the city of Philadelphia, June 7, 1836. 

 He began his education at the private 

 school of Edwards & Parton, at the south- 

 west corner of Penn Square and Market 

 street, and later attended the Morris public 

 school and the high school, graduating 

 from the latter in 1852. He inherited from 

 his father a mechanical turn of mind and 

 much of his leisure time as a boy was 

 spent in the neighboring machine shop of 

 Mr. Harrison. On leaving school he entered 

 the employ of James E. Caldwell & Co. 

 to learn the jewelry business, but later 

 chose the calling of dentistry and took up 

 his studies under the tutelage of John De- 

 Haven White, M. D., D. D. S., Professor 

 of Anatomy and Physiology in the Penn- 

 sylvania College of Dental Surgery. ]\Ir. 

 Candy was a student at this college and was 

 an assistant in the clinical department at 

 the age of nineteen years. He graduated 

 at the age of twenty-one, and practiced 

 his profession in the villages of Yardley, 

 Dolington, and Attleboro, now Langhorne, 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He then en- 

 tered the employ of his preceptor, and sub- 

 sequently opened a dental laboratory at 

 108 South Eighth street, Philadelphia. He 

 was also in the employ of what is now 

 the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing 

 Company in the manufacture of artificial 

 teeth, in sections ; these were then entirely 

 handmade, and were mounted upon gold 

 or silver plates. 



At the outbreak of the civil war Dr. 

 Candy, having been a member of the Artil- 

 lery Corps of the Washington Greys for 

 nearly five years, was well skilled in the 

 manual of arms, and was called upon to 

 spend several months in the drilling of 

 squads of recruits for the front. H^ was 

 lieutenant commanding, of Company B, 

 Grey Reserves, Captain William H. Kern, 

 and at one time gave an exhibition drill 

 and company movements in Musical Fund 

 Hall, and was subsequently presented with 

 a sword for his proficiency in the art of 

 war. 



Returning to the practice of his pro- 

 fession, he located at 248 North Eleventh 

 street, where he practiced until April i, 

 1863, when, owing to the illness of his 

 wife, he removed for her benefit to Attle- 

 boro (now Langhorne), Bucks county, 

 where he has since resided, and has achieved 

 distinction and succes in his chosen pro- 

 fession. 



Dr. Candy is a man of strong individual- 

 ity, has always been a close student, and is 

 independent and fearless in the advocacy 

 of what he believes to be right. In the 

 matter of the incorporation of the village 

 of Attleboro into a borough he was one 

 of the most earnest advocates of the change, 

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and took an active part in the establish- 

 ment of grades and building and fence 

 lines, though these measures met with 

 strong opposition by some of the property 

 owners of the borough. He has always 

 been a strong advocate of the Democratic 

 party and its principles. In 1883 he was 

 appointed a notary public, and filled that 

 position with satisfaction to the public, 

 until he was appointed by President Cleve- 

 land, postmaster of Langhorne, which latter 

 office he held until the change in the ad- 

 ministration. He is a past master of Bristol 

 Lodge, No. 25, F. and A. M. 



On March 15, 1855, Doctor Candy was 

 married to Jennie Moser, of Philadelphia, 

 daughter of Henry and Catharine (Everett) 

 Moser, and of English and German descent. 

 Her grandfather, Henry Moser, was a 

 soldier in the revolutionary war under Gen- 

 eral Anthony Wayne, and his brother, 

 Burkhardt Moser, furnished financial and 

 material aid for the prosecution of the 

 war of independence. Dr. James B. and 

 Jennie (Moser) Candy were the parents 

 of six children; Kate Adele; Anna Bent- 

 ley ; Thomas Davy ; James Bentley, Jr. ; 

 Pierson Mitchell; and Laura Hudson. Kate 

 Adele died in her fifth year of diphtheria. 

 Anna Bentley married Wilmer Stevens 

 Black (an account of whose ancestry ap- 

 pears in this work) and they are the pa- 

 rents of two children : Edith Holbrook and 

 Cyrille Kershaw. James Bentley Candy, 

 Jr., married Harriet L. Headley, daughter 

 of John Burton Headley, of Winchester! 

 Virginia, and they have one child, James 

 Bentley (3), born September 22, 1904. Dr. 

 Candy's sons have been established by 

 him in the business of florists and land- 

 scape gardeners at Langhorne, in which 

 they are successfully engaged and give em- 

 ployment to a number of hands. The 

 Doctor is still hale and hearty, and gives, 

 promise of many years of usefulness. 



DR. JOSEPH BENNER HERITAGE, 

 of Langhorne, was born in Bustleton, Phila- 

 delphia county, October 5, 1809, and is a 

 son of Joseph Dearman and Annie Loisa 

 (DeWees) Heritage, both of English de- 

 scent. The first American ancestors of the 

 subject of this sketch came from England 

 prior to 1700, and settled near Salem, New 

 Jeisey, from whence the immediate an- 

 cestor of Dr. Heritage migrated to the 

 neighborhood of Horsham, Montgomery 

 county, where his great-grandfather, John 

 F. Heritage, was born. John F. Heritage 

 was a tailor by trade, and followed that 

 vocation during the active years of his life, 

 locating at Bustleton, Philadelphia county, 

 building the first house in what is now a 

 thriving business town. He also operated 

 a small farm there. He was a soldier in 

 the war of 1812-14. He married Ann Fet- 

 ters, a native of INIontgomery, and of Ger- 



