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HISTORY OF DUCKS COUNTY. 



they are the parents of one child, Hugh 

 Boyle, born February 7, 1897. 2. Rachel 

 Ella, born January 10, 1881 ; she attended 

 the public schools in Hulmeville, and grad- 

 uated from the West Chester Normal 

 School, June, 1899. She is an accomplish- 

 ed teacher, now teaching in Wyoming, near 

 Sundance ; while on her way west she visited 

 the World's Fair in St. Louis. 3. Mary 

 Elva, born August 6, 1890, who was edu- 

 cated in the public schools. Mrs. Webster 

 is a member of the Octararo Presbyterian 

 church. Mr. Webster is now living in 

 pleasant retirement, in his comfortable home 

 on the banks of the historic Neshaminy 

 river, at Hulmeville. 



HIEL G. QUINN, of Pineville, was 

 born in Buckingham, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, December 8, 1848, and is 

 a son of John and Mary Quinn. His 

 parents dying when he was a child, he 

 was reared in the family of Joshua A. 

 Kirk. In his seventeenth year he be- 

 came infected with the western fever, 

 and took a trip through Illinois and 

 other states of the middle west with the 

 intention of settling there, but returned 

 two months later to Bucknigham and 

 apprenticed himself to the butcher busi- 

 ness, wbich he has since followed. His 

 emplover was William VanPelt, and at 

 the end of a year Mr. Quinn and Joseph 

 Van Pelt purchased the business, devot- 

 ing their attention more particularly to 

 pork butchering, and have built up a 

 large business. Mr. Quinn is a prom- 

 inent Mason, being a member of Ken- 

 sington Lodge, No. 31^ of Philadelphia; 

 Kensington Chapter, No. 233, R. A. M.; 

 and Pennsvlvania Cpmandery, No. 70, 

 K. T., of Philadelphia. 



He married, in 1881, Maria T. Hamp- 

 ton, of Penns Park, daughter of H. El- 

 well and Elizabeth (Phillips) Hampton, 

 by whom he has two children: Cyrus G., 

 with the Fraternal Accident Insurance 

 Company of Philadelphia; and Florence, 

 a bookkeeper with the Marion Hosiery 

 Company of Philadelphia; both are grad- 

 uates of Pierce's Business College of 

 Philadelphia. 



THE CROUTHAMEL FAMILY. 

 The pioneer ancestor of the Crouthamel 

 family of Bucks county was Andreas 

 Krauthamel. who emigrated from Ger- 

 many in the ship "Edinburg." arriving 

 in Philadelphia, on September 30, 1754, 

 and settled in Bucks county, Pennsyl- 

 vania. Henry Crouthamel. son of An- 

 dreas, accompanied his father from Ger- 

 many when a lad, and on arriving at 

 manhood settled on a tract of land in 

 P.edminster township. Bucks county, 

 which he subsequently purchased of 

 William Allen, Esq. He died in 1816 



leaving a widow Catharine and nine chil- 

 dren: Andrew; Catharine, wife of Jacob 

 Nace; John; Henry; George; Elizabeth 

 wnfe of Michael Rush; Abraham; Jacob 

 and Samuel. 



George Crouthamel, fourth son of 

 Henry, was born in Bedminster town- 

 ship, and spent his whole life there, dy- 

 ing in 1855. He married a Rush, and 

 reared a family of five children: Cath- 

 arine, Nancy, Tobias, Henry and Peter. 

 He was a farmer and lived on a portion 

 of the old homestead in Bedminster, pur- 

 chasing later the Jacob Yost farm near 

 Keller's Church. 



Peter R. Crouthamel, youngest son 

 of George, was born in Bedminster town- 

 ship in the year 1812. He was reared 

 on his fathers farm, and early in life 

 learned the trade of a shoemaker, but 

 not taking kindly to an indoor life, 

 learned later the trade of a carpenter, 

 which he followed in Bedminster for 

 twenty-five years, in connection with the 

 conduct of a small farm conveyed to him 

 by his father in 1834, upon which he 

 lived until 1841, when he purchased of 

 the estate of his father-in-law Frederick 

 Ott, a farm of fifty acres.- In 1856 he 

 sold his Bedminster farm and purchased 

 one in Hilltown township, upon which he 

 lived until 1865. when he sold out and 

 removed to Illinois, where he resided 

 for one year, and then removed to Boone 

 county, Iowa, where he purchased a 

 farm on which he resided until his death 

 in 1892. aged seventy-eight j'ears, six 

 months ahd two days. He married Cath- 

 arine Ott, daughter of Frederick and Eve 

 Ott. of Bedminster, and granddaughter 

 of Peter and Catharine Ott, the former 

 of whom, as well as his father, Henry 

 Ott, w^as a soldier in the Revolutionary 

 w-ar. Pefter R. and Catharine (Ott) 

 Crouthamel were the parents of ten chil- 

 dren: Jonas, who married Elizabeth 

 Yost, and reared a family of six children; 

 Isaac, who married (first) Eliza Loux, 

 who bore him four children, and (sec- 

 ond) Sarah Winner, by whom he had 

 five children: Eli, who married Barbara 

 Sherm, and has a family of four chil- 

 dren; William, who removed to Iowa 

 wnth his parents, married and reared a 

 family; Noah O.. of Perkasie, ex-recorder 

 of deeds of Bucks county, a sketch of 

 whom follows: Philena. who died in Illi- 

 nois; Ephiah died in Iowa: Mary, who 

 died in Hilltown, Bucks county, at the 

 age of twelve years; Titus and George, 

 who died in childhood. 



NOAH O. CROUTHAMEL. Among 

 the successful business men of South 

 Perkasie is Noah O. Crouthamel, cigar 

 manufacturer. He w^as born in Bedmin- 

 ster township, Bucks county. October 

 12, 184T. son of Peter R. and Catharine 

 (Ott) Crouthamel. 



Noah O. Crouthamel was reared and 

 educated in Bedminster township. Early 



