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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



born November 21, 1886; Catharine, born 

 June 8, 1889; Anna, born November 22, 

 1890; and Titus A., born November 3, 

 1894. 



EDWIN C. WALKER, of Southampton 

 township, Bucks county, was born in Hors- 

 ham township, Montgomery county, Penn- 

 sylvania, June 21, 1851, and is a son of 

 Elias and Amanda (Carson) Walker, both 

 of whom were natives of Montgomery 

 county. 



Peter Walker was a farmer in Mont- 

 gomery county, and married Sarah Land, 

 who bore him seven children; Elizabeth, 

 who married William Mclntyre; Christi- 

 ana, who married Samuel Radcliffe; Han- 

 nah; Lydia; Susan Jane; Elias; and Sam- 

 uel. Elias, son of Peter and Sarah (Land) 

 Walker, was born near Willow Grove, 

 Montgomery county, in the year 1826, and 

 lived the uneventful life of a well-to-do 

 . farmer in that locality, filling such local 

 positions as the interests of the commun- 

 ity demanded of him. He married Amanda 

 Carson, and they were the parents of four 

 children: Theresa; Edwin C. ; Ella, who 

 married Harry McNair, and they had one 

 child, a son, George Russell McNair; and 

 George, who married Emma Force, in 1900. 



Edwin C. Walker was reared on a farm in 

 Horsham township, and acquired a good 

 common school education. In 1876 he mar- 

 ried Fannie L. Johnson, daughter of Fred- 

 erick and Harriet Newell (Wait) Johnson, 

 and began life as a farmer, which vocation 

 he has since followed, first in Horsham and 

 later in Southampton township, Bucks 

 county, where he has a fine farm. In poli- 

 tics he is a Republican, but has never held 

 other than local office. He has served in 

 the office of township supervisor for two 

 terms, and filled other local offices. He and 

 his family are members of the Methodist 

 Episcopal church. Mrs. Walker is of Eng- 

 lish descent, her maternal grandparents be- 

 ing John and Sarah (Kyle) W\iit. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Walker are the parents of two chil- 

 dren ; Fannie, born in 1877 ; and Mabel, 

 born in 1884. 



SAMUEL R. LENGEL, of Hilltown 

 township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was 

 born in Uppei- Bern, now Tilden township. 

 Berks county, Pennsylvania, in 1859, and 

 is of German descent, his ancestors hav- 

 ing been residents of that section for sev- 

 eral generations. The pioneer ancestor of 

 the family, Johannes Lengel, emigrated 

 from Germany in I737 and settled in Berks 

 county, and his descendants are now widely 

 scattered. Paul Lengel the direct ancestor 

 of Samuel R., was born in Berks county, 

 and a tract of land was surveyed to him 

 there in 1780. His son, Johan Lengel. was 

 the great-grandfather of the subject of 

 this sketch. 



Peter Lengel, son of Johan, married 

 Mane Spisher, and they were the parents 

 of the toUowing children: Maria, Susan, 

 Adam, James, Paul, Peter, Eliza, Polly, 

 William and Emanuel. Adam, son of Peter 

 and Marie Lengel, was a farmer in Upper 

 Bern township, where he was born in 1S35. 

 He married Angeline Rentschler, and they 

 were the parents of eight children: El- 

 mira, Samuel R., Adam, Catharine, Ma- 

 tilda, Franklin, James, and Wilson. James 

 Lengel married Amelia Mathias. 



Samuel R. Lengel was born and reared in 

 Berks county, and worked on the farm for 

 his father until the age of eighteen years, 

 and then came to Hilltown, Bucks county, 

 where he followed butchering and attended 

 the Philadelphia markets. In 1885 he pur- 

 chased a farm of sixty-one acres, where he 

 still resides. He is a member of Souder- 

 ton Lodge, No. 612, I. O. O. F., and of the 

 Golden Eagle Castle at Telford. Politically 

 he is a Democrat, and takes an active in- 

 terest in the councils of his party. He was 

 the party nominee for clerk of the orphans' 

 court in 1899, but was defeated at the polls 

 with the rest of the ticket, the county then 

 being strongly Republican. Mr. Lengel is 

 a member of the Lutheran church. He 

 married Mary Ann Hunsberger, daughter 

 of Isaac and Anna (Bergy) Hunsberger, 

 of Hilltown, where Mrs. Lengel was born. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Lengel are the parents of 

 four children— Isaac H., Gertrude, Melvin, 

 and Adam. 



DARIUS SINE, proprietor of the feed 

 and coal establishment at Perkasie, so long 

 conducted by William Renner, is a native 

 of Bedminster township, Bucks county, be-, 

 ing a son of Joseph and Leanna (Kline) 

 Sine, of that township, where he was born 

 November 7, 1864. John Sine, the grand- 

 father of the subject of this sketch was of 

 German descent, though his ancestors had 

 been residents of Bucks county for several 

 generations. His wife was a Garis, of an 

 old Pennsylvania German family, and they 

 were the parents of five children, all born 

 in Bedminster township, viz. : John, Joseph, 

 Samuel, Elias and Catharine. Joseph Sme, 

 the father of the subject of this sketch, was 

 born in Bedminster township, in September, 

 1821. Early in life he learned the trade of 

 carpet weaver, which he followed for a 

 number of years in Durham, Nockamixon, 

 Tinicum and Bedminster townships. Some 

 time in the sixties he purchased a farm in 

 Bedminster, which he conducted until his 

 death in 1898. He was a school director of 

 Bedminster township, and always took a 

 deep interest in educational matters. He 

 jind bis family were members of Tohickon 

 Reformed church. His wife was Leanna, 

 daughter of John Kline, and they were the 

 ])arents of nine children, viz. : Frank K. ; 

 Sarah, wife of John M. Gruver; Edwin; 

 ^lissouri. wife of Levi Roth ; Amanda, 



