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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



been advocates in more recent years of the 

 Republican jparty, but while progressive and 

 loyal in citizenship have never been office 

 seekers. 



Charles S. Balderston was rearea at 

 home, acquiring his education in the com- 

 mon schools and at the Doylestown English 

 and Classical Seminary. He then returned 

 to the farm and has continued to make it 

 his place of residence, receiving it as his 

 inheritage at the time of his father's death. 

 He has ever sustained the excellent repu- 

 tation made by the family in citizenship and 

 in business life. In politics he is a Repub- 

 lican, and is classed with the highly respect- 

 ed men in Solebury township. 



LEWIS M. LYNN a merchant of Yard- 

 ley, is a son of Alexander Lynn, who was 

 born in 1806 in Bucks county, where the 

 days of his boyhood and youth were passed. 

 He attended the public schools, learned the 

 painter's trade, and followed that calling 

 in connection with the manufacture of rope 

 for a number of years. Eventually, how- 

 ever, he severed his connection with in- 

 dustrial interests and purchased a small 

 farm, after which he carried on general 

 agricultural pursuits in addition to paint- 

 ing. In politics he was a stanch Republi- 

 can, and he held the office of constable of 

 Falls township for seventeen consecutive 

 years. He was also supervisor for a num- 

 ber of years, and owing to his knowledge 

 of public affairs his opinions were often 

 sought on matters affecting the general 

 welfare. He was public-spirited and pro- 

 gressive, and his efforts in behalf of his 

 township and county were far-reaching and 

 beneficial. He died in Falls tow^nship in 

 1892, respected by all who knew him. His 

 wife bore the maiden name of Ann Cutler, 

 and had nine children: Joseph; Cortland; 

 Miles V. ; Charlotte, wife of Edward 

 Severns; Elmira, wife of J. V. Lovett; 

 Lewis M. ; Deborah ; Alexander ; and 

 George B. 



Lewis M. Lynn was born on the home 

 farm in Falls township, August i7, 1846, 

 and pursued a common-school education, 

 after which he learned the painter's trade 

 with his father. When he was eighteen, years 

 of age he went to w'ork with his brother, 

 Joseph Lynn, of Newtown, here he resided 

 for seven years. In 1871 he began business 

 on his on account at Yardley as a painter 

 and paper hanger, and in 1897 broadened 

 the scope of his labors by establishing a 

 hardware store. There is but one business 

 man whose connection with commercial and 

 industrial interests in Yardley antedates 

 that of Mr. Lynn. His business career has 

 been characterized by progress and by suc- 

 cess due to ready recognition and utiliza- 

 tion of opportunity. Politically a Republi- 

 can, Mr. Lynn has served as a member of 

 the council of the borough of Yardley. and 

 has held many minor offices. Fraternally 

 he is connected with the Knights of the 



Golden Eagle, Eyrie No. 506, at Fallsing- 

 ton, Pennsylvania, of w^iich he is a charter 

 member. 



Lewis M. Lynn wedded Miss Mary F. 

 Johnson, a daughter of Dilplane and Re- 

 becca Johnson. They have live children: 

 Russell,^ who died in infancy; Victor V.; 

 Clara E., who was graduated as a trained 

 nurse in the Charity Hospital of Philadel- 

 phia, on the ist of June, 1904; Morris, 

 who died in childhood; and Herbert, who 

 died at the age of eighteen years. 



Victor V. Lynn, born in Yardley, in 1872, 

 pursued his education in the public schools 

 of the borough and of the btewart Busi- 

 ness College at Trenton, New Jersey. On 

 putting aside his text books he went to 

 Philadelphia, and for four years occupied 

 the position of shipping clerk with the firm 

 of Loudoun & Hill, dealers in sponges. 

 Returning to Yardley he assumed the man- 

 agement of his father's store, which he has 

 since conducted, and is regarded as one 

 of the leading young business men of the 

 borough. In the spring of 1904 he was 

 elected collector of taxes of the borough 

 of Yardley for a term of three years. He 

 married Miss Clara Knipe, a daughter of 

 William and Almira Knipe, of Bethlehem, 

 Pennsylvania, and they have one daughter, 

 Dorothy. 



HERBERT S. NASE, of Sellersville, 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania, w'as born in 

 that town May 13, 1869, and is a son of 

 Barndt and Diana (Strycker) Nase. The 

 Nase family is of German extraction, and 

 have been a prominent one in Rockhill 

 township for many generations. Michael 

 Nase, the grandfather of the subject of 

 this sketch, was born in West Rockhill 

 township, and was a farmer there all his 

 life. He and his family were members of 

 Jerusalem Lutheran church at Schlichters- 

 ville. He married Lydia Barndt, of an old 

 and prominent family in that section, and 

 they were the parents of eight children, as 

 follows : Sarah, wife of Charles Hartzell ; 

 Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Getman ; Isa- 

 bella, wife of William Shive ; Margaret, 

 w'ife of Jacob Nungesser; Rebecca, wife of 

 Elias Haring ; Lydia, wife of Levi Nase ; 

 Barndt, the father of the subject of this 

 sketch ; and Michael, who married Amanda 

 King. 



Barndt Nase was born January 27, 1843, 

 was reared in Rockhill township, and fol- 

 lowed the life of a farmer there until 1868, 

 when he removed to Sellersville, purchased 

 a residence there, and resided in Sellers- 

 ville, until his death, September 5, 1901. 

 He was an active and influential citizen and 

 took an active interest in local politics, 

 serving as a member of borough council 

 and school director for a number of years. 

 He was a member of Sellersville Lodge, 

 No. 658. I. O. O. F., and he and his family 

 were members of St. Michael's Lutheran 

 church. He married, November, 1867, 



