HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 



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U. W., of Yardley, Pennsylvania, and has 

 filled all of the chairs. 



On the 17th of December, 1868. Lendrum 

 Stockton married Miss Abbie White, and 

 they have three children : Charles, who 

 married Aliss Frances Balderston, a resi- 

 dent farmer of Lower Makefield township; 

 Anna, at home; and Sarah T., the wife of 

 William Buckman, a son of Henry Buck- 

 man, of Wrightstown, Pennsylvania. 



PETER HOGELAND MORRIS. The 

 family of which Peter Hogeland Morris, 

 of Newtown, is a representative, is of 

 Welsh origin, and has been resident in 

 Bucks and Montgomery counties since a 

 very early period, and in these counties the 

 name of Morris is very frequently met with. 

 The founders of the family were Baptists. 

 William Morris settled in Plumstead town- 

 ship about 1790. He was a shoemaker by 

 trade, and in 1798 purchased a tract of 

 twenty acres on the Durham road above 

 Gardenville, where he followed his trade 

 and trained his sons to cultivate the soil. 

 In 1805 he removed to a tract of two and 

 a half acres which he purchased of Jona- 

 than Smith, on the Ferry road between 

 Gardenville and Point Pleasant. He subse- 

 quently acquired thirty acres of land in 

 the same neighborhood. He married Han- 

 nah , by whom he was the father of 



the following children : Elizabeth ; Zebulon ; 

 Alice; Enos; Catharine; Elias; William; 

 Theodore, mentioned at length hereinafter ; 

 Mary; and Sarah Ann. Mr. Morris died 

 on his farm in November, 1835. 



Theodore Morris, son of William and 

 Hannah Morris, was born in 1814 in Plum- 

 stead township, and received such meagre 

 education as the time and place afiforded 

 to lads who were expected to contribute 

 their share of labor toward the support of 

 a large family. In 1833, on the occasion 

 of his marriage, he moved to Gwynedd, 

 Montgomery county, and in the autumn of 

 1835 purchased his father's thirty-acre farm 

 in Plumstead. On the death of his father 

 in November of the same year he took up 

 his abode on the homestead, and the re- 

 mainder of his life was spent in that vicin- 

 ity. He married in 183^ Hannah Layman, 

 of New Britain township, and they were 

 the parents of the following children : Evan 

 J., who lives in Doylestown ; Mary, who 

 became the wife of Andrew Jackson Case; 

 William T.. mentioned at length herein- 

 after ; Mathias. deceased ; Charles, who is a 

 resident of Philadelphia : Catharine, who is 

 the wife of Edward Smith, of Doylestown ; 

 John A., who lives in Plumstead ; Jemima, 

 who is the widow of George i:±ultz ; and 

 Belle Martin. Mr. Morris, the father, died 

 April 19, 1896. 



William T. Morris, son of Theodore and 

 Hannah (Layman) Morris, was born in 

 1841, in Plumstead township. He was twice, 

 mjirried, his first wife being Elizabeth, 



daughter of Peter Hogeland, of Upper 

 Makefield; a descendant of Dirk Hogeland, 

 who emigrated from Holland to Staten 

 Island in 1653. Mr. and Mrs. Morris were 

 the parents of a son, Peter Hogeland, men- 

 tioned at length hdreinafter. After the 

 death of his wife Mr. Morris married Nellie 

 Dimmick, of Pottsville, Pennsylvania. 



Peter Hogeland Morris, son of William 

 T. and Elizabeth (Hogeland) Morris, was 

 born March i, 1868, in Plumstead town- 

 ship, and at the age of thirteen entered the 

 service of Charles M. Shaw, of Lahaska, at 

 the same time attendixig the Buckingham 

 Friends' School, obtaining a thorough edu- 

 cation. At seventeen he became a clerk 

 in the general store of Frank L. Worthing- 

 ton, at Doylestown, and in 1886, when Mr. 

 Worthington opened a clothing store, Mr. 

 Morris was transferred to that department. 

 In 1887 he entered the employ of Wilmer 

 W. Carr, at Ivyland and in 1892 under the 

 firm name of Carr & Morris, opened a gen- 

 eral store at Richboro, which he conducted 

 for three years. In 1895, in partnership 

 with his former employer, Frank L. Worth- 

 ington, he opened a clothing and furnish- 

 ing store at the corner of State street and 

 Washington avenue, in Newtown, Penn- 

 sylvania. Five years later he purchased his 

 partner's interest therein, and has since con- 

 ducted the business in his own name. By 

 industry and thrift and a careful attention 

 to business principles he has built up a 

 flourishing trade. In 1904 he bought of 

 Henry M. Pownall a lot on the east side 

 of State street, and has erected thereon 

 a fine three-story store and dwelling. Mr. 

 Morris married, March 3, 1892, Lillian, 

 daughter of William and Anna (Coon) 

 Hampton, of Solebury. ]Mr. and Mrs. Mor- 

 ris have no children. 



C. HOWARD MAGILL, express agent, 

 Doylestown, was born in Doylestown, May 

 27, 1844, a son of Alfred and Jane S. 

 (Mann) Magill, both natives of Doylestown 

 township, and of Scotch-Irish descent. 

 Robert Magill. the great-grandfather of C. 

 Howard Magill, came from the north of 

 Ireland about 1760 with his brothers Henry, 

 William and James, and settled near Doyles- 

 town. Robert and Henry engaged in the 

 mercantile business at Doylestown, at the 

 corner of State and Main streets, where 

 Reichel's bakery now stands, as early as 

 1767, on land purchased of Archibald Craw- 

 ford, comprising twelve and one-half acres. 

 In 1773 they purchased of William Doyle, 

 the pioneer innkeeper of the town, the 

 seventeen acres lying between State, Main, 

 Court and Broad streets, and in 1770 the 

 farm now the property of John Hart. 

 Henry removed to Bedminster in 1776 and 

 deeded his interest in the farm and the 

 Crawford lots to Robert. Henry died in 

 Bedminster in 1799. leaving a widow Doro- 

 thy, a son Henry, whose whereabouts he 



