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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



church, and politically is a Republican. Mr. 

 Haldenian has been twice married. His 

 first wife was Anna Croll, daughter of 

 AlichaeJ Croll, by whom he had one son, 

 Edgar C, born July 17, 1881. He married 

 (second) Margaret Kcybold Ruoff, and 

 they have been the parents of three chil- 

 dren; I. Mabel, who died in infancy; 

 2. John R., in 1S86, married February 6, 

 1904, Eva Albright, daughter of Dr. litus 

 Albright, of Hatfield, Pennsylvania, by 

 whom he has one child Margaret ; 3. Eu- 

 gene, born in 1894. Mr. Haldeman is one 

 of the active and progressive business men 

 ■of Line Lexingtgn. 



FRANCIS CAVANAUGH, one of the 

 foremost and enterprising business men of 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and a member 

 of the hrm of Roberts, Winner & Company, 

 was born February 22, 1849, in Philadel- 

 phia, at what is now Sixth and Locust 

 streets. He received his education in the 

 public schools of his native city, and also 

 attended school at New Hope, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, whither he had gone 

 to reside with his uncle, Francis Moore, 

 and his grandmother, Catherine Moore. 

 After residing in New Hope for a time he 

 returned to Philadelphia, where at the age 

 of twelve years he entered into his first 

 regular employment as errand boy in a 

 grocery store, receiving in compensation 

 for his services the munificent sum of one 

 dollar and twenty-five cents per week. He 

 remained in this employment for about a 

 year, and, believing that he could better 

 himself in a financial way, at least, he es- 

 tablished himself with an ice company, 

 where he remained for some time. 



At the age of fourteen years he entered 

 the foundry of Lawrence Myers, at Twen- 

 ty-sixth and Lombard streets, where he 

 was employed for a year and a half, break- 

 ing pig-iron, working at the cupola, clean- 

 ing cast-iron, and other work, hard and 

 heavy, at a salary of four dollars a week. 

 He was then helper on an ice wagon for a 

 season, and, desiring to learn a trade, he 

 apprenticed himself to the firm of Stuart 

 & Peterson, founders, to learn stove-plate 

 moulding. When his term of service had 

 expired, and when he was about twenty- 

 one years of age, Mr. Cavanaugh removed 

 to Pittsburg, entering into the employment 

 with the firm of Smith & Sons, founders of 

 water-pipes, where he remained for three 

 years. In 1873 he returned to Philadelphia 

 and re-entered the service of his former 

 cmplovers, Stewart & Peterson, and was 

 there "engaged until the time of the great 

 panic which overspread the eastern United 

 States and threw many people out of em- 

 ployment. However, being of a resourceful 

 and energetic nature, INIr. Cavanaugh ■ was 

 not discouraged by this set back, but imme- 

 diately became engaged as driver of an ice- 

 wagon until such time as he could find 

 employment at his trade. Five years later 



(in 1878) he removed to Quakcrtown, 

 where he worked at his trade m the firm 

 of Thomas, Roberts & Stevenson, stove 

 manufacturers, where he remained until 

 the plant was destroyed by fire in 1880, 

 when he returned to Philadelphia, residing 

 there with his mother. He again estab- 

 lished himself with Stuart & Peterson, 

 where he remained but a short time, when 

 his former employers, Thomas, Roberts & 

 Stevenson, whose works had been destroyed 

 by fire, as above referred to, rented the 

 American Stove Foundry at Second and 

 Mifiiin streets, and Mr. Cavanaugh resumed 

 his connection with them, remaining until 

 1881. He then entered into a copartnership 

 with George Rogers, Harry Rogers, his 

 son, George S. Scypes, William S. Rob- 

 erts, William P. Winner, Ezekiel Thomas 

 and Charles A. Klump, and purchased the 

 ruins of the old foundry at Quakertown, 

 rebuilding the same, and in February, 1882, 

 commenced operations under the firm 

 name of Rogers, Roberts, Scypes & Com- 

 pany, Mr. Cavanaugh working as moulder. 

 In 1883-84 the Messrs. Rogers retired from 

 the firm, and the firm then stood Roberts 

 Sc\'pes & Company. Immediately after 

 this change took place Mr. Cavanuagh be- 

 came salesman for the establishment, and 

 during the four years that he occupied that 

 position he built up an extensive and profit- 

 able trade in southern New Jersey, Dela- 

 ware, Maryland, and the District of Col- 

 umbia. In 1886 he retired from the posi- 

 tion of salesman, and became foreman of 

 the foundry, which position he held until 

 1900 and he also had charge of the finances, 

 acquitting himself with credit and profit 

 to the firm. Since 1900 he has been 

 treasurer and general manager. The mem- 

 bers of the firm are William P. Roberts, 

 William P. Winner, and Francis Cavan- 

 augh, and the firm name is Roberts, Winner 

 & Company. In politics Mr. Cavanaugh 

 is a strong advocate of the principles of 

 the Democratic party, and takes a lively 

 interest in the welfare of that organization. 

 He is very active in local afi'airs, has served 

 as member of the Quakertown council, 

 and worked earnestly for the introduction 

 of the water and electric light systems. He 

 is held in the highest esteem by the people 

 of the community, demonstrated by the 

 fact that he served as president of the town 

 council for two years, in 1900 was elected 

 borough treasurer, and has recently been 

 elected to his fourth term to that office of 

 trust and responsibility. 



April 28, 1886, Francis Cavanaugh wa» 

 united in marriage to Ellen, daughter ot 

 Charles and Elizabeth (Leidy) Kemmerer, 

 of Philadelphia. The Kemmerers and 

 Leidys were old Montgomery and Bucks 

 county families of German origin. Henry 

 Kemmerer, the grandfather of Mrs. Cava- 

 naugh, came from Montgomery county to 

 Quakertown in 1816 to attend the Friends' 

 school, while there made the acquaintance 

 of Lydia Bartholomew, and married her in 



