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HISTORY Of BUCKS COUNTY. 



Beans, of Philadelphia ; 3. Harriet Jack- 

 son, born May 24, 1862, died March i), 

 1876; 4: Sarah Hopper (Mrs. Robert Ela.ik 

 Snyder), born August 30, 1868. 



The following children were born to Mr. 

 and Mrs. Robert B. Snyder : Amos Harrold, 

 September 16, 1897; and Marie Madaline, 

 July 14, 1899. 



THEODORE CORSON SEARCH, of 

 Philadelphia, who for the past thirty-five 

 years has been eminent in the manufactur- 

 ing and business circles of that city as well 

 as of the country at large, was born in 

 Southampton township, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, March 20, 1841, and is a 

 son of Jacob Miles, and Nancy (Corson) 

 Search, both of whom are deceased. 



Christopher Search, the grandfather of 

 Theodore C, was born in Bucks county in 

 1764, and died in Southampton in 1842. In 

 early life he was a blacksmith in Northamp- 

 ton township, but in 1797 purchased the old 

 Banes homestead in Southampton, and fol- 

 lowed the vocation of a farmer until 1838, 

 when he retired to a lot in Southampton, 

 where he died. He was twice married, his 

 first wife being Amelia Tolbert, daughter 

 of James and Hannah (Burleigh) Tolbert, 

 of Upper Makefield. by whom he had five 

 children, viz.: William; James T. ; Sam- 

 uel ; John, and Sarah T., who married Will- 

 iam H. Spencer. His second wife was Ann 

 (Miles) Banes, widow of William Banes 

 of Southampton, who was born August 4, 

 1776, and died December 23, 1865. The 

 children of the second marriage were : 

 Miles, born July 5, 1807, died young; 

 George W., born March 20, 1809, died in 

 Newtown, IBucks county; Jacob Aides, born 

 December 2, 1810, died October 11, 1893; 

 Margaret Mv, born September 22, 181 1, mar- 

 ried Elias Lefferts ; Anthony T., born Au- 

 gust 16, 1814 ; Christopher, born February 3, 

 1816; Ann Miles, born March 22, i8r8, 

 married Casper G. Fetter; and Griffith 

 Miles, born April 2, 1822. 



Jacob Miles Search was born and 

 reared in' Southampton township. He pur- 

 chased the homestead farm upon which he 

 had lived some years prior to his father's 

 decease, and conducted it until 1879, when 

 he erected a house on part of the farm near 

 Southamptonville, where he lived retired 

 until his death on October 11, 1893. He 

 was always actively interested in educa- 

 tional matters, and served for many years 

 in the school board of Southampton town- 

 ship. He was for many years trustee of 

 the Southampton Baptist church. He mar- 

 ried in 1837, Nancy Marplc Corson, born • 

 in Southampton, September 29, 1818, died 

 April 6, 1898. She was the third child of 

 Richard and Elizabeth (Bennett) Corson, 

 the former of whom was born in Bucks 

 county, December 4, 1768, and died October 

 29, 1845, and was the fifth son of Benja- 

 min and Sarah (Dungan) Corson. Benja- 

 min Corson was born March 6, 1743, and 

 was a son of Benjamin and Maria (Suy- 



dam) Corson, both natives of Long Island, 

 the former being a son of Benjamin and 

 Nelly Corson, who came to Bucks county 

 in 1726, when their son Benjamin was seven 

 years of age. The children of Jacob Miles 

 and Nancy (Corson) Search, were: El- 

 wood, born September 22, 1838 ; Theodore 

 C, the subject of this sketch; Henry Lott, 

 born September 8, 1846, living near Yard- 

 ley, Bucks county, Pennsylvania; Erasmus 

 N. M., born March 7, 1851 ; and Ann Eliza- 

 beth, who married Edwin W- Roberts. 



Theodore Corson Search was born and 

 reared on his father's farm in Southamp- 

 ton, and attended the country school there 

 until his seventeenth j'ear, when he en- 

 tered the First State Normal School at 

 Millersville, Pennsjdvania, and afterward 

 entered the Crozier Normal High School, 

 from which institution he graduated after 

 taking a three years' course. He served one 

 season as a teacher at Fallsington, Bucks 

 county, and resigned to accept the position 

 of principal of the high school at Middle- 

 town, Dauphin county, Pennsjdvania, which 

 he filled for two years, and later filled a 

 similar position in the Middletown Acad- 

 emy at Middletown for two years. In i866 

 he came to Philadelphia and was for two 

 years an instructor in the Quaker City 

 Business College, and one year principal of 

 the National Commercial Institute, and then 

 began his business career in the employ of 

 Davis, Fiss ■& Banes, wholesale wool mer- 

 chants. Four years later he became a junior 

 partner in the firm under the name of Fiss, 

 Banes, Erben & Co., manufacturers of 

 worsted and woolen yarns. In 1883 the 

 firm became Erben, Search & Co., and took 

 a high rank as manufacturers. The busi- 

 ness capacity of Mr. Search was univer- 

 sally recognized, and his advice and serv- 

 ices were sought by mercantile and finan- 

 cial institutions. He became a director of 

 the Bank of North America, a position 

 which he has filled for over twenty years. 

 He was elected president of the Colonial 

 Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and has 

 filled many other responsible positions. It 

 was, however, in the organization and per- 

 petuation of associations for the protec- 

 tion, development and improvement of 

 American manufacturing interests that Mr. 

 Search has been especially prominent. He 

 was for many years a member and presi- 

 dent of the Philadelphia Textile Associa- 

 tion, and a director of its successor, the 

 Manufacturers' Club ; was vice-president of 

 the National Association of Wool Manu- 

 facturers, of Boston ; and of the American 

 Protective Tariff Association of New 

 York. As president of the National Manu- 

 facturers' Association, for five years he did 

 effective _ work in the molding of public 

 opinion in favor of and shaping legislation 

 for the protection and fostering of Amer- 

 ican manufacturing interests. He was the 

 originator of the Philadelphia Textile 

 School, later merged into the Pennsylvania 

 Museum and School of Industrial Art, to 

 whicli he has given much time and attcn- 



