HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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in life he learned the carpenter trade 

 with his father, and followed that voca- 

 tion for five years. In 1865 he went to 

 the city of Philadelphia, where he filled 

 the position of a clerk in a cigar store 

 for one year. In 1866, he started the 

 manufacture of cigars in Philadelphia. 

 In 1875 he removed to what is now 

 South Perkasie, where he purchased a 

 property which he still owns, and started 

 a cigar factory there. In 1898 he built 

 himself a fine residence on. Market street, 

 Perkasie, where he still resides, and has 

 a cigar factory on Arch street, Perkasie. 

 In politics Mr. Crouthamel is a Repub- 

 lican, and has always taken a lively in- 

 terest in the councils of his party, and 

 has served as delegate to district, con- 

 gressional and state conventions at dif- 

 ferent periods. In the fall of 1893 he 

 was elected to the office of recorder of 

 deeds of Bucks county, and filled that 

 office with ability for three years. He 

 •was census enumerator for his district in 

 1890. He has always taken an active 

 part in the affairs of his town and 

 neighborhood. He is a director of the 

 Quakertown Trust Company. Relig- 

 iously, he is a member of the Evangeli- 

 cal Church of Perkasie. He is affiliated 

 with Perkasie Lodge, No. 671, I. O. O. F., 

 and Perkasie Council, No. 359, O. 

 U. A. M. 



Mr. Crouthamel married in 1865 Re- 

 becca Freed, daughter of Joseph and 

 Sarah (Cufifel) Freed, and they have 

 been the parents of eight children, viz.: 

 Mary Catharine, born January 5, 1867, 

 married Horace H. Texter, of Hatfield, 

 and has five children — Naomi, Florence. 

 Susa R., Laura C. and Sarah; Sallie, born 

 April 24, 1868, and Maurice, born July 

 II, 1870. both deceased: Laura, born July 

 29, 1872, married Isaac Rosenberger, who 

 •died October 13, 1896, leaving one child, 

 Esther Rebecca; Joseph, born August 

 16, 1874. married Tillie Deibert, and has 

 one child, May; Albert, born October 16, 

 1876, married Theresa Kresge, and has. 

 one son Ralph: Forest, born June i, 

 1880. married Edna Bowen; Arthur, born 

 April 4, 1882, died in infanc}^ 



HARRIET LUKENS WORTHING- 

 TON. The name Worthington is de- 

 rived from the locality whence the fam- 

 ily came. Its etymology is three Saxon 

 words. "Wearth in ton," that is. "Fprm in 

 town." Twenty miles northeast of Liver- 

 pool, in Leyland hundred, parish of 

 Standish, county of Lancaster, England, 

 is the town of Worthington. Here and 

 in the adjacent manors resided the fam- 

 ily of Worthington for many genera- 

 tions, being established, from the time 

 of the Plantagenets, in high repute. The 

 main stock can be traced in the public 

 archives back to Worthington de Worth- 



ington, in the reign of Henry III, 

 1236-7, who was the progenitor of all the 

 Worthingtons of Lancashire. The old 

 Hall of Worthington, where the family 

 lived for seven hundred years, was 

 pulled down less than fifty years ago. 



In the early part of the eighteenth cen- 

 tury, there was resident in Byberry, Phil- 

 adelphia county, Pennsylvania, three 

 brothers, John, Thomas, and Samuel 

 Worthington, said to have been natives 

 of Lancashire. The date fixed by tradi- 

 tion for their arrival is 1705, but since 

 at that date they were mere children, it 

 is probable that they were accompanied 

 by parents, or the date of their arrival 

 is incorrectly given. 



Elisha Worthington, the husband of 

 the subject of this sketch, born near Mo- 

 zart, in Buckingham township, in March, 

 1819, is a descendant of John Worthing- 

 ton, of Byberry, who was married in 

 1720 to Mary, daughter of Thomas 

 Walmsley. His wife Mary died 4 mo. 18. 

 1754, and John died i mo. 14, 1777, aged 

 about eighty years. They were the pa- 

 rents of eleven children: i. Elizabeth, 

 born I mo. 15, 1721; married in 1744 Jo- 

 seph Tomlinson. 2. Mary, born 12 mo. 

 9, 1723-4, died single. 3. Thomas, born 

 2 mo. 2, 1726, married Hannah Duncan. 

 4. Hannah, born 12 mo. 7, 1727-8. 5. John, 

 born 2 mo. 17, 1826 . died 1744. 6 William. 

 born 7 mo. 20, 1732, married Esther 

 Homer. 7. Isaac, born 6 mo. 13, 1735, 

 married Martha, daughter of John Car- 

 ver, of Buckingham. 8. Joseph, born 6 

 mo. 12, 1837, a sketch of whom follows. 

 9. Martha, born i mo. 19, 1740. 10. Ben- 

 jamin, born 12 mo. 19, 1742-3; married 

 Sarah Malone. 11. Esther, born 12 mo. 2, 

 1749. Of these, William, Isaac and Jo- 

 seph settled in Buckingham, though 

 Isaac removed later to West Chester, 

 Pennsylvania. 



Joseph Worthington, eighth child of 

 John and Mary, born in Byberry, 6 mo. 

 12, 1737, married (first) Esther Carver, 

 in 1767, and two years later purchased 

 125 acres of land in Buckingham, on the 

 east side of the Durham road, south of 

 Buckingham mountain, where William 

 Doan lately lived. This continued to be 

 his home until his death in 1822, though 

 he later purchased several large tracts 

 of land in Buckingham, among them 205 

 acres purchased of his brother Isaac in 

 1783, lying along the Neshaminy and ex- 

 tending across it into Warwick. He 

 owned nearly if not quite 500 acres in 

 Buckingham, i;nost of which he either 

 conveyed or devised to his children. Jo- 

 seph and Esther (Carver) Worthington 

 were the parents of two children: Jo- 

 seph, who removed to Virginia; and 

 John, who removed to Ohio. After the 

 "death of Esther. Joseph married, in 1773; 

 Sarah Malone. by whom he had two chil- 

 dren — -Abner and Sarah, the latter of 

 whom married a Tomlinson. He mar- 

 ried (third) Esther, daughter of Anthony 



