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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



ers of lower Bucks county, and the five 

 years of his residence with Mr. Hibbs 

 he always recalls with pleasure. At the 

 expiration of this period of time he re- 

 turned to Philadelphia, this time to be- 

 come an apprentice at stoveplate mould- 

 ing in the foundry of Stuart, Peterson & 

 Co., founders, who were then located at 

 Broad and Noble streets. He remained 

 at this place as an apprentice for four 

 years, and thereafter as a journeyman 

 until i8So, with the exception of eight 

 months during the year 1S76. when he 

 was employed by Schantz & Keeley, 

 stove founders, of Spring City, Penn- 

 sylvania. During the year, 1880. he as- 

 sisted in organizing the firm of Roberts, 

 Rogers, Scypes & Co., at Quakertown, a 

 party of moulders who took over the 

 works of the stove foundry of Thomas, 

 Roberts. Stevenson & Co., of that place. 

 Although the firm has had many changes 

 in its membership, the three men who 

 composed the firm of Roberts, Winner 

 & Co., consisting of William Penn Rob- 

 erts. William Paulin Winner, and Fran- 

 cis Moore Cavanaugh, have clung to the 

 plant which they helped to place, build 

 up and nourish with their intelligence 

 and energy. 



Mr. Winner has always taken an ac- 

 tive part in th-e local affairs of Quaker- 

 town. In politics he has been actively 

 engaged with the Republican party, serv- 

 ing as chairman of two committees of 

 the second ward, and developing the 

 strength of that organization ; until final- 

 ly, in 1898, Mr. Winner was nom- 

 inated and elected by the Republican 

 party to the state legislature, over his 

 opponent, George F. Rush. Democrat, 

 by a majority of four hundred and twen- 

 ty-eight. During this session, although 

 an untried and inexperienced member, 

 Mr. Winner was appointed on the com- 

 mittees of appropriations and apportion- 

 ments, most important committee, which 

 was an exceedingly great honor. This 

 session will be ever memorable in Penn- 

 sylvania state politics as the year when 

 Matthew Stanley Quay, as candidate for 

 United States senator, put to the test the 

 personal fealty to him of the peoo'e's rep- 

 resentatives as against party fealty and 

 independence. In this fight Mr. Winner, 

 though tremendous influences were 

 brought to bear upon him to change his 

 vote and influence from against Mr. 

 Quay to favorin.g him with his vote, 

 stood nut the fight in the interests, as 

 he believed then, of the people who 

 elected him, and the credit of the com- 

 monwealth, and so well were his services 

 appreciated by his constituents that in 

 1900 he again became his party's stand- 

 ard bearer for the legislature, and on 

 the platform of opposition to Quay, and 

 was this time elected by a majority of 

 seven hundred and eighty-three over his 

 opponent. David S. Harr, Democrat. 

 During the session of the legislature of 



1900-02 Mr. Winner, by the manner irr 

 which he had upheld what he thought 

 to be right during his previous tenure of 

 office, found that he had created many 

 enemies in his own party. But it was to- 

 no man's credit to stand by and uphold 

 the actions of the dominating party in 

 the session of that legislature. In no 

 history of local self-government (sup- 

 posedly free) were things generally car- 

 ried with so high a hand. Bills and ap- 

 propriations were rushed through that 

 legislative body in a manner that de- 

 stroyed every evidence of selfishness and 

 venality. The so-called Ripper bills 

 were pushed through, trolley car fran- 

 chises were grabbed, and no fair show 

 was offered any man who did not bow 

 and stand in with the so-called Republi- 

 can ring. Such was the condition of 

 things that "every man was supposed to 

 have his price." From being on com- 

 mittees of repute and worth during his 

 first term, Mr. Winner was relegated to- 

 so-called five wheel committees. How- 

 ever, he performed his duty as he found 

 it. and retired at the end of his term with 

 clean hands. 



Mr. Winner "married, December 23, 

 1879. Mary Magdalene, daughter of 

 Philip and Abigail (Ash) Simons, of 

 Spring City, Chester county, Pennsyl- 

 vania. Mrs. Winner was one of three- 

 children. She attended the Spring City 

 public schools and high school, complet- 

 ing her studies at the latter institution. ' 

 She has always taken an active interest 

 in music and art, especially the latter^ 

 and the work she has done as a painter 

 in oils has received special commenda- 

 tions. She is a member of the Oratorio- 

 Society of Quakertown, in which she 

 takes an active part, and is a participant 

 in all the worE connected therewith. 



ADDISON C. COPE, of Perkasie, Bucks- 

 county, Pennsylvania, was born in Hill- 

 town township, Bucks county, June 14, 

 1871, and is a son of Tobias G. and Hannah 

 Cope, and is a descendant both in paternal' 

 and maternal lines from early German set- 

 tlers in Bucks county, who, fleeing from 

 religious persecution in the fatherland. 

 found homes in the then wilderness of 

 upper Bucks county, where they and their 

 worthy descendants have contributed much 

 to the material wealth and development of 

 our beloved county. "Joost Coope" (other- 

 wise Yost or Joseph Cope), the paternal 

 ancestor of the family in Hilltown, emi- 

 grated to Pennsylvania in the good ship^ 

 "Adventurer," arriving in Philadelphia on 

 October 2, 1727, and, after taking the oath 

 of allegiance to the British crown, estab- 

 lished a home in Penn's colony, just over 

 the western borders of Bucks county, in 

 what is now IMontgomery county, removing 

 later to Hilltown, where his sons Abraham 

 and Adam purchased land in 1759. 



