HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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his father's death, and Hved thereon for a 

 time, subsequently removing to Langhorne, 

 where he died April i, 1894. He received 

 a superior education and was a school 

 teacher in Middletown before attaining his 

 majority. He later took up the study of 

 medicine with his uncle, Dr. Gove JNlitchell, 

 but abandoned it on account of poor health, 

 and returned to the farm. A few years 

 later he studied and mastered surveying, 

 and took up that business in connection 

 with conveyancing and real estate and gen- 

 eral business agency. He was a justice of 

 the peace for thirty years, and prided him- 

 self in never sending a case to court out 

 of the many suits that were entered before 

 him, being always able to induce the liti- 

 gants to settle their cases out of court. He 

 settled a great number of estates and filled 

 a great number of positions of trust. He 

 was for over thirty years a director of the 

 Farmers' National Bank of Bucks county, 

 and enjoyed the conhdence and esteem of 

 all who knew him. He was a member of 

 Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends. 

 CSee sketch of Allen Robert MitcheU.j He 

 married in 1850 Caroline Burton, daughter 

 of Anthony and Mary (Headly) Burton, 

 representatives of two old and highly re- 

 spected families of lower Bucks. Caroline 

 (.Burton) Mitchell died May 16, 1890. Their 

 only child was Mrs. Gillam. 



Harvey H. and Mary ^Mitchell) Gillam 

 are the parents of two children ; Caroline 

 Mitchell, born July 21, 1874, married Octo- 

 ber II, 1904, Malachi White, of Langhorne, 

 a representative of an old family in that 

 vicinity; and Mary Wyatt, born Alarch 4, 

 1879, who resides at home. 



GEORGE W. SCHEIP. Among the 

 younger generation of agriculturists, who 

 still retain the land tilled by their ancestors 

 for several generations, is George W. 

 Scheip, of New Britain township. He was 

 born on the farm where he still resides, 

 March 11, 1856, and is a son of John L. 

 and Maria (SchoU) Sheip. 



George Scheib (as the name was origin- 

 ally spelled), the paternal ancestor of the 

 subject of this sketch, emigrated from Ger- 

 many in the last half of the eighteenth 

 century, and in the year 1770 purchased 

 one hundred acres of land in New Britain, 

 of which the farm occupied by the present 

 George Scheip is a part. In 1792 he pur- 

 chased an additional one hundred acres ad- 

 joining on the southeast side, which he 

 conveyed to his eldest son John four years 

 later. George Scheib died in 181 5, leav- 

 ing a widow Elizabeth and five children ; 

 John, Margaret, Elizabeth, Catharine and 

 George, the latter being the grandfather of 

 the late Levi C. Scheip, of Doylestown. 

 Prior to the execution of his will in Feb- 

 ruary, 1803, George Scheib made an agree- 



ment with his eldest son John by which he 

 conveyed the homestead to him on condi- 

 tion that John convey to the younger son 

 George the lower farm, and provide for his 

 father and mother during the remainder 

 of their lives. 



John Scheib was probably born in Mont- 

 gomery county, where, like nearly all the 

 early German emigrants, his parents made 

 their first American home. He was reared 

 in New Britain, Bucks county, and on ar- 

 riving at manhood, married Catharine 

 Heller, of Montgomery county, and took up 

 his abode on the farm purchased for him by 

 his father, adjoining the homestead. In 

 1803 he took possession of the homestead 

 farm which was in that year conveyed to 

 him, and lived thereon until his death in 

 August, 1818, purchasing in 1813 twenty- 

 five acres of his former farm of his brother 

 George. His children were George; Eliza- 

 beth, wife of Andrew Bardt; Catharine, 

 iViargaret and Joseph. 



George Scheib, eldest son of John and 

 Catharine (Heller) Scheib, was born in 

 New Britain township about 1795, and 

 reared to the life of a farmer on the old 

 homestead purchased by his grandfather in 

 1770, which he inherited at his father's death 

 in 1818, and died there at the age of eighty- 

 nine years. He married about. 1820 Eliza- 

 beth Leidy, daughter of John Leidy, of 

 Hilltown, who bore him six children, five 

 of whom grew to maturity. 



John L. Scheip, eldest son of George and 

 Elizabeth (Leidy) Scheip, is the father of 

 the subject of this sketch. He was born 

 and reared on the old New Britain home- 

 stead, and married Maria, daughter of 

 Jacob and Catharine (Leidy) Scholl, who 

 was born in Upper Salford township, Mont- 

 gomery county, May 19, 1825. John L. was 

 born August 9, 1824. Both are still living 

 in New Britain. To them were born two 

 children : Isaiah S., deceaised ; and George 

 W. 



George W. Scheip was born and reared 

 on the old homestead in New Britain which 

 he now owns. He has always followed 

 farming, with its attendant industries o\ 

 fruit culture and stock and poultry raising, 

 taking especial pride in the production of 

 choice fruits of all kinds. Living a quiet 

 pastoral life, he has dignified the calling 

 of his forefathers. In politics he is a Dem- 

 ocrat, but has never sought or held pub- 

 lic office. He and his family are members 

 of the German Reformed church. He mar- 

 ried in 1876 Lydia, daughter of Henry Al- 

 bright, Esq., also of German ancestry, and 

 this union has been blessed with eleven 

 children, of whom three died in infancy; 

 those who survive are : William F., born 

 2\Iay 13, 1877, married Anna Mary Biehn, 

 daughter of Peter, and has one child, Pearl ; 

 Estella, born July 14, 1880, married Evererd 

 R. Ulmstead, and has two children, Mar- 

 tha and Herbert ; INIartha, born March 2, 

 1883; Viola, born February 20, 1885; Mary, 



