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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



Maggie. 7. Lizzie. The four last named died 

 in infancy. Mr. Ruth takes an active in- 

 terest in local politics and all that pertains 

 to the best interest of the community. He 

 is the owner of three large farms, one of 

 which was the home of his maternal an- 

 cestors, the Swartleys. While Mr. Ruih 

 does not personally conduct his farms he 

 devotes much of his time to their care and 

 supervision. He takes an active part in 

 church work and is one of the leading men 

 in the community in which he lives. 



HARVEY H. GILLAM, of Langhorne, 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in 

 Philadelphia, July 23, 1846, and is a son of 

 Harvey and Hannah H. (Hunt) Gillam. 

 His paternal ancestor, Lucas Gillam, son 

 of Lucas and Lydia Gillam, was born in 

 Bristol township about the year 1715. His 

 father and mother both dying when he was 

 a small child, he was, according to the cus- 

 tom of that time, bound out by direction of 

 the orphans' court of Bucks county and 

 learned the trade of a cooper, which he fol- 

 lowed in early life in Middletown township. 

 He was also a farmer, having purchased in 

 1751 one hundred acres in Middletown 

 township. He married 6 mo. 18, 1748, Ann 

 Dungan, daughter and only child of Jere- 

 miah Dungan, who was a grandson of Rev. 

 Thomas Dungan, who came from Rhode 

 Island to Bucks county in 1684 and estab- 

 lished the first Baptist church in the county 

 at Cold Spring in Falls township. Lucas 

 and Ann Dungan Gillam were the parents 

 of ten children: Susannah, wife of Jona- 

 than Linton, of Northampton; Jeremiah; 

 Lucas Jr.; Simon; Joseph; John; Sarah, 

 wife of Euclides Longshore; Joshua, James 

 and Thomas Gillam. 



Simon Gillam, third son and fifth child 

 of Lucas and Ann (Dungan) Gillam, mar- 

 ried 12 mo. 11, 1783. Anna Paxson, by 

 whom he had four children: Mary, born 

 10 mo. 22, 1784; William, born 10 mo. r, 



1786, died 12 mo. 31, 1842; Isaac, born 4 

 mo- I3i 1788; and Anna, born 10 mo. 30, 

 1794: died 2 mo. 8, 1798. Simon Gilliam was 

 a prominent man in the community and a 

 preacher among Friends. He was the owner 

 of four hundred acres of land in Middle- 

 town, and lived to a ripe old age. 



William, son of Simon and Anna (Pax- 

 son) Gillam, was born in Middletown town- 

 ship and died there 12 mo. 31, 1842. He 

 married 12 mo. 16, 1809, Susanna Woolston, 

 daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Har- 

 vey) Woolston. who was born 11 mo. 18, 



1787, and died 8 mo. 31, i860. The Wojl- 

 stons were early settlers in Burlington 

 county. New Jersey, 'rom whence Jonathr.n 

 Woolston, grandfather of the above named 

 Jonathan, removed to Middletown and mar- 

 ried Sarah Pearson n 1707. William and 

 Susanna Woolston Gillam were the parent:^ 

 of nine children : Elizabeth, born 9 mo. 



17, 1810; Anna, born 8 mo. 12, 1812; Har- 

 vey, born 7 mo. i, 1814; Jonathan W., born 

 10 mo. 25, 1816; William, born 11 mo. 15, 

 1818; Simon, born li mo. 24, i82o;Susanna, 

 born 4 mo. 18, 1823 ; Hannah, born 6 mo. 

 3, 1825 ; Mary, born 8 mo. 25, 1827. 



Harvey Gillam, Sr., was born on the old 

 homestead in Middletown, and on arriving 

 at manhood turned his attention to agri- 

 cultural pursuits, purchasing a farm two 

 miles east of Langhorne, which he con- 

 ducted for a few years. On account of poor 

 health he sold his farm and engaged in 

 merchandising at Langhorne for a few 

 years, and then purchased a farm of thirty 

 acres which he conducted a short time, and 

 then removed to Philadelphia, where he en- 

 gaged in the wholesale boot and shoe busi- 

 ness, later becoming a member of the firm 

 of Farrell & Herring, manufacturers of 

 safes, where he remained until his death. 

 He married Hannah Hunt, of Chestei 

 county, Pennsylvania, who died in 1857. 

 Harvey and Hannah (Hunt) Gillam were 

 the parents of four children : Mary Wyatt, 

 born 8 mo. 10, 1838, married William Al- 

 bertson, of Philadelphia; Williarn Henry, 

 born I mo. 9, 1841, died in 1871, leaving a 

 daughter, now Mrs. Howard Reifsnyder; 

 Morris Shallcross, who died in infancy; 

 and Harvey H., born July 23, 1846. Harvey 

 H. Gillam and his brother William Henry 

 removed from Philadelphia to the home of 

 their ancestors in Middletown, where they 

 purchased farms. William Henry died sud- 

 denly two years later at the age of thirty 

 years. 



Harvey H. Gillam was reared in Phila- 

 delphia, and received his education at the 

 Friends' Central School. In 1869 he pur- 

 chased a farm of one hundred and fifty 

 acres in Middletown, which he conducted 

 until 1888, when he rented it and removed 

 to Langhorne, and has since followed the 

 vocation of a real' estate and general busi- 

 ness agent. He has been a justice of the 

 peace for fifteen years, and has transacted 

 a large amount of public business, filling 

 many positions of trust in connection with 

 the settlement of estates, etc. He was one 

 of the promoters of the Langhorne, New- 

 town and Bristol Street Railway, and one 

 of its directors for a number of years ; and 

 is a director of the Farmers' National Bank 

 of Bucks county of Bristol, and of the 

 Langhorne Building and Loan Association. 

 He is a member of Bristol Lodge No. 25, 

 F. and A. M. Religiously he is a member 

 of the Society of Friends, and politically a 

 Republican. He was married October 2, 

 1873, to Mary Mitchell, a daughter of Pier- 

 son and Caroline (Burton) Mitchell, of 

 Langhorne. 



Pierson Mitchell was a son of John Allen 

 and Tacie (Stackhouse) Mitchell, of Lang- 

 home, an account of whose early ancestry 

 is given elsewhere in this work. He was 

 born in Middletown, August 29, 1822. on 

 the old homestead, which he inherited at 



