HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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Friends' Meeting. Mr. Scattergood has 

 been prominent and popular in the social 

 circles of his locality, and was one of the 

 organizers of the Pastime Club, of Yard- 

 ley, of which he served as president for 

 eight years. 



HENRY H. MOORE, of Perkasie, 

 Bucks county, was born in New Britain 

 township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, De- 

 cember 26, 1870, and is a son of Jesse H. 

 and Sophia (Hedrick) Moore, of New 

 Britain. Jesse P. Moore, the grandfather 

 of the subject of this sketch, was a black- 

 smith by trade and lived during his whole 

 manhood in New Britain township, where 

 he reared a family of four children — Jo'nn 

 H. ; Jesse H. ; Sarah, who married Abra- 

 ham Hunsberger; and Eliza, who married 

 Daniel Nyce. Jesse P. Moore died June 

 20, 1893, his wife Mary surviving him. 

 Jesse H. Moore, the second son, married 

 Sophia Hedrick, and is a farmer in New 

 Britain township. 



Henry H. Moore was born December 26, 

 1870, in New Britain township, Bucks 

 •county, Pennsylvania, where he was reared 

 and acquired his education at the public 

 school. During his early manhood he fol- 

 lowed various occupations, and in 1895 pur- 

 chased a farm in New Britain township, 

 where he resided for five years, selling it 

 and purchasing a farm of seventy-two acres 

 in Hilltown in 1900, where he now resides. 

 He is a member of the Mennonite church 

 at Blooming Glen, and politically is a Re- 

 publican. He married, February 6, 1892, 

 Mary Ellen R. Moore, born July. 26. 1873, 

 in New Britain township, daughter of John 

 M. and Sarah Jane (Rosenberger) Kulp. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Moore are the parents of 

 four children: Sarah Gertrude, born April 

 4, 1893; Mary Sophia, born August 30, 

 1894; William Harvey, born September 25, 

 1900; and Henry Franklin, born Septem- 

 ber 30, 1904. 



DAVID D. CRESSMAN, ©f Sellers- 

 ville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was 

 born in that borough February 13, 1877, 

 and is a son of Abraham S. and Hannah 

 (Derstine) Cressman, the former for near- 

 ly half a century one of the leading busi- 

 ness men of the town. The Cressman fam- 

 ily is one of the very oldest German- 

 American families in Bucks county. The 

 pioneer ancestor of the family was George 

 Cressman, who settled in Franconia town- 

 ship about 1729. Soon after this date he 

 purchased a tract of land in Rockhill town- 

 ship, which he conveyed to his son Jo- 

 hannes (or John) Cressman in 1747. Jo- 

 hannes Cressman was probably also a na- 

 tive of Germany, and was born about the 

 year 1700. After residing for some years 

 in Rockhill township he returned to Fran- 

 conia township, where he died in the sprmg 

 of 1786. His children were Anthony, John, 

 Elizabeth, Mary, Catharine and Hannah. 



Anthony Cressman, eldest son of Johan- 

 nes, was born May 9, 1731, and died in 

 Rockhill township, Bucks county, March 3, 

 1789. He was a farmer and considerable 

 landowner in Rockhill, and he and his wife 

 jNIagdalena were the parents of seven chil- 

 dren, four sons : Jacob, Abraham, John, 

 and Adam ; and three daughters : Elizabeth, 

 wife of Daniel Schleffer ; Catharine and 

 Sarah. 



Jacob Cressman, eldest son of Anthony 

 and Magdalena, was born in Rockhill town- 

 ship, October 27, 1755. At his father's 

 death the homestead farm of 139 acres 

 was adjudged to him by the orphans' court 

 and he purchased several large tracts ad- 

 joining, becoming one of the largest land- 

 owners in Rockhill township. He died June 

 IS, 1832. He married Elizabeth Nace, of 

 Rockhill, and they were the parents of 

 twelve children, viz. : Samuel ; Magdalena, 

 who married Henry Kerr ; Catharine, who 

 married Peter Roudenbush ; Elizabeth ; 

 Margaretha, who married (first) Charles 

 Leidy, and (second) Per Demigh; Susan- 

 na ; Jacob, who married Magdalena Hart- 

 zell ; Maria, who married Abel Kerr ; Abra- 

 ham ; Henry; Philip and Hannah. 



Henry Cressman, tenth child of Jacob 

 and Elizabeth (Nace) Cressman, was born 

 in Rockhill township, December 15, I'^QS, 

 and died April 5, 1884. He was a farmer 

 in Rockhill township, and actively iiu^..- 

 ested in the affairs of that locality. He mai- 

 ried Mary Stout, and they were the pat- 

 ents of ten children, viz.: Livy, born i'cb- 

 ruary 15, 1820; Maria, born November 15, 

 1821 ; Magdalena, born July 17, 1823; Saui- 

 uel, born July 21, 1825; Abraham S., born 

 August 2, 1827; Henry, born February ix, 

 1830; Elizabeth, born January 12, T832; 

 Enos, born May 26, 1834; Aaron, U^^rn Au- 

 gust 16, 1837; and Jacob, born Augusi 

 8, 1844. 



ABRAHAM S. CRESSMAN, son 01 

 Henry and Mary (Stout) Cressman, born 

 August 2, 1827, was reared on his father's 

 farm in Rockhill township, and was edu- 

 cated at the public schools of Branch Val- 

 ley. In early life he learned the black- 

 smith trade with his uncle Jacob, and fol- 

 lowed that vocation for about three years. 

 After a few years spent on the larm, he 

 started the manufacture of cigars at Branch 

 Valley in 1861, and was engaged in that 

 business until 1869, when he removed to 

 Sellersville and purchased the Washing- 

 ton House, but not finding the business 

 of keeping a hotel congenial, he sold out 

 at the end of one year and built and op- 

 erated a general merchandise store oppo- 

 site the Sellersville railroad depot. In 1873 

 he purchased the feed, . coal* and lumbe? 

 business of Joseph A. Hendricks, which 

 he carried on for twenty years, doing a 

 large business. In 1892 he sold out to Fos- 

 benner & Lewis, and retired from active 

 business, living a quiet life in his hand- 

 some residence erected in 1874, until his 

 death on May 30, 1905. Mr. Cressman lived 



