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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



December 9, 1900; and Agnes Gregg, born 

 March 4, 1902. 



Margaret M. (Ncall) Woodman, the 

 mother of Dr. Woodman, was born in 

 Easton, Maryland. One of her brothers, 

 Isaac J. Neall, was a member of the Penn- 

 sylvania legislature before he was twenty- 

 two years of age. He was also captain in 

 Colonel Baker's cavalry regiment, and died 

 while district attorney of Cincinnati, Ohio. 

 Another brother, Alfred, was also a member 

 of the Pennsylvania legislature, and died 

 while collector of the port of Philadelphia. 

 Another brother, James, was a magistrate 

 in Philadelphia for twenty years. Two sis- 

 ters, Annie Woolston, and Lidie R. Smith, 

 were residents of Bucks county. Another 

 sister, Fanny Moor, lives in Tacony. 



married. His first wife, Etta Earl, of Os- 

 wayo. Potter county, Pennsylvania, died 

 in 1891, leaving two children, Edith V. and 

 Thomas Lee. He married (second) in 1894,. 

 Helen Sunderland, daughter of Joseph and 

 Elizabeth (Ru?hmore) Sunderland, of 

 Tioga, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, by 

 whom he has one child, Robert H. 



THOMAS CLARENDON, of Bucking- 

 ham, was born at Orange, New Jersey, July 

 II, 1866, a son of Thomas and Margaret 

 (Jackson) Clarendon. His father, Thomas 

 Clarendon, was born in the north of Ire- 

 land, and came to America when a young 

 man, located in New York, and learned the 

 trade of a tanner. Later he engaged in the 

 wholesale leather business, with offices at 

 76-78 Gold street. New York city, where 

 he conducted a large business tor many 

 years. He acquired a large tract of land 

 where Clarendon, Warren county, Pennsyl- 

 vania, now staitds, which was sold by his 

 estate less than two years before the dis- 

 covery of oil thereon, and it is now worth 

 millions. He died in 1872 in Nice, Italy, 

 his body being brought home for burial. 

 His wife, Margaret Jackson, was born in 

 Scotland, and died in Brooklyn, New York, 

 in 1880. The children of Thomas and Mar- 

 garet (Jackson) Clarendon are: Margaret 

 L., wife of George G. Cookman, of Ger- 

 mantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 

 Robert H., of Tioga, Tioga county, Penn- 

 sylvania ; Anna A., wife of Guerard Van 

 Nestern, of Berlin, Germany; and Thomas, 

 the subject of this sketch. 



Thomas Clarendon, the subject of this 

 sketch, was born in Orange, New Jersey, 

 but his boyhood days were spent prin- 

 cipally in Brooklyn, New York, where his 

 parents then resided. He acquired his edu- 

 cation at Swarthmore College and at the 

 Bryant & Stratton Business College, Brook- 

 lyn. At the age of twenty-five years he 

 went to Niles Valley, Tioga county. Penn- 

 sylvania, and engaged in the mercantile 

 business. Five years later he sold out and 

 came to Bucks county and bought the old 

 Beans farm in Buckingham, where he now 

 resides. In politics Mr. Clarendon is a Re- 

 publican, but has held none but local offices 

 and has been a member of the Buckingham 

 school board for three years. He is a 

 member of Oswayo Lodge, No. 317, F. and 

 A. M. ; Tioga Chapter, No. 194, R. A. M. , 

 and Tyagathfon Commandery, No. 28, K. T. 

 He and family are members of the Episco- 

 pal church. Mr. Clarendon has been twice 



SERUCH TITUS KIMBLE, of Buck- 

 ingham, was born in that township on 

 February 17, 1849, and is a son of Abel 

 and Sophia (Strickland) Kimble. The 

 paternal ancestors of the subject of this 

 sketch were among the early settlers -in 

 Buckingham. Matilda Kimble then a widow^ 

 inherited from her brother Thomas Morrey,. 

 in 1735, 400 acres of land on the Neshaminy 

 in Buckingham, adjoining the Wrightstowu 

 and Warwick lines, which descended to her 

 children : Anthony and William Kimble ; 

 and daughters: Ann Bewley, wife of John; 

 Rosa, wife of Josiah Wilkinson; and Mary,, 

 wife of Charles Hickst. In addition to the 

 400 acres, Richard Morrey, the father of 

 Matilda, and Humphrey Morrey, her uncle, 

 conveyed several additional tracts to the 

 children of Matilda Kimble at about the 

 same date. The Kimbles were the first 

 settlers on this land, a large tract of which 

 is still owned and occupied by Charles. 

 Kimble, a brother of the subject of this 

 sketch. Humphrey Morrey, the grandfather 

 of Matilda Kimble, was the first mayor 

 of Philadelphia. 



William Kimble, son of Anthony and 

 Matilda (Morrey) Kimble, born about 

 1720, was the great-grandfather of the sub- 

 ject of this sketch. He settled in BucKing- 

 ham on land conveyed to him by his grand- 

 father, Richard Morrey, in 1746, and subse- 

 quently purchased of his nephew Thomas 

 Hickst 92 acres, and received as his por- 

 tion of his mother's estate in 1750 another 

 tract of land until his holdings amounted, 

 to about 275 acres. He died in 1812 at 

 an advanced age, leaving nine children. 



Richard Kimble, second son of William, 

 on arriving at manhood married and set- 

 . tied in Moreland township, Montgomery- 

 county, Pennsylvania, where he resided un- 

 til the death of his father, when he re- 

 turned to Buckingham and purchased the 

 old homestead of 264 acres and spent the 

 rest of his life thereon. He died in 1845, 

 leaving a widow Mary and seven children : 

 Abel, Isaiah, Chalkley, Sarah, Owen, Will- 

 iam and Rachel. 



Abel Kimble, the father of the subject ai 

 this sketch, was born in Moreland in 1807, 

 and removed with his parents to Bucking- 

 ham in 1815, and was reared on the old 

 Kimble homestead, where he died Novem- 

 ber 29, 1896, aged eighty-nine years. The 

 children of Abel and Sophia Kimble were : 

 Amanda, wife of David R. Heckler, now 

 deceased ; Charles, living on the old home- 

 stead ; Chalkley, living with Charles- Re- 

 becca, wife of Samuel Heckler of Hatfield, 



