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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



Emma Ida, horn February 20, 1867, and 

 married (first) George Murphy, and had 

 one child ; Mr. Murphy died in 1892, and in 

 1903 she became the wife of Albert G. 

 Hinds. 7. Harvey S., born March 13, 1869, 

 married Mary Radclift, and has two chil- 

 dren. Two of these six sons, James Mon- 

 roe and Benjamin Franklin, are engaged in 

 operating their father's mill. 



Francis D. Hartzcl died October 2, 1888. 

 He had been a member of the Reformed 

 church at Hilltown for a number of years, 

 and was for several years an elder of the 

 church. 



WILKINS HOBENSACK, of Norris- 

 town, Pennsylvania, was born near Davis- 

 ville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, March 

 29, 1872, and is the youngest son of the 

 late Isaac C. and the late Joanna (Hoge- 

 land) Hobensack, and a grandson of Isaac 

 and Emily (Fetter) Hobensack. Isaac 

 Hobensack, the elcier, was a farmer in 

 Southampton township, Bucks county, until 

 1830, when he purchased a farm in War- 

 minster township and lived there the re- 

 mainder of his life, rearing a family of 

 seven children, viz. : Margaret, wife of Will- 

 iam L. Craven; Rachel, wife of James Hart; 

 Isaac C, above mentioned ; John, who re- 

 moved to Ohio ; William ; Mary Ellen, wife 

 of Thomas Mayberry; and Elizabeth, wife 

 of Thomas Hellings. 



Isaac C. Hobensack wa.s born at Church- 

 ville, Southampton townsfiip, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, February 4. 1828, and died 

 at Davisville, January 9, 1904. He was a 

 well known and prominent farmer, and 

 took an active interest in publi'' affairs. In 

 politics^ he was a stanch Republican, and 

 served as county commissioner of Bucks 

 cotmty for the term 1884-86. A more com- 

 plete account of his life and services is 

 given in the sketch of his sons, B. Frank 

 and William Hobensack, of Ivyland. His 

 wife, Joanna Hogeland, was born at Cor- 

 nell, Southampton township, Bucks county, 

 June 29, 1832, and was a daughter of Abra- 

 ham and Mary Ann (Fenton) Hogeland, 

 and her ancestry is given at length in con- 

 nection with The Hogeland Family. She 

 died at Davisville. Apni 17, 1905. 



Wilkins Hobensack is the youngest son 

 of Isaac C. and Joanna, and was reared on 

 the farm near Davisville, and acquired his 

 education at the Davisville Seminary and 

 Pierce School, Philadelphia. After leaving 

 the latter institution he was employed for 

 a short time with Messrs. Coale, Jobson & 

 Co., lumber dealers, and later with Dr. 

 W. A. Drysdale. electrical consulting en- 

 gineer. Philadelphia. In October, 1894, he 

 became private secretary to Hon. Irving 

 Price Wanger, of Norristown, representa- 

 tive in congress from the then seventh 

 (now eighth) district, comprising Bucks 

 and Montgomery counties, and has since 

 filled that position. In addition to serving 

 as secretary to Congressman Wanger in the 

 53d, 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th and 58th Con- 



gresses, he served as clerk to the commiuee 

 on expenditures in the postoffice department 

 in the 55th, sGlh, 57th and 58th Congresses. 

 Believing thoroughly in the principles of 

 the Republican party, Mr. Hobensack has al- 

 ways labored zealously for its success. He 

 is a member of the First Baptist church, 

 Norristown, having taken his letter from 

 the Davisville Baptist church. He is a Free 

 and Accepted Mason, as well as a member 

 of the Improved Order of Red Men, 

 Patriotic Order Sons of America, Inde- 

 pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and Han- 

 cock Chemical Fire Engine Company, No. 

 5, of Norristown. 



On September 23, 1896, Mr. Hobensack 

 was married in the Davisville Baptist 

 church by the pastor, Rev. D. W. Sheppard, 

 to Anna Heaton (born April 24. 1873), 

 youngest daughter of the late William and 

 Joanna (Dean) Heaton, a playmate of his 

 youth, and a descendant of Robert Heaton, 

 who came to Pennsj-lvania with William 

 Penn in the "Welcome" in 1683, and set- 

 tled in Southampton. In the spring of 

 1897 they removed from Southampton to 

 223 East Elm street, Norristown, and in 

 the fall of 1904 Mr. Hobensack purchased 

 a home at 927 West Marshall street, Norris- 

 town, removing thereto November 9, 1904. 

 His wife, who had been in ill health for 

 several months, did not live long to enjoy 

 her new home, dying March 21, 1905. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Hobensack were the parents of 

 two children : Harry Stout Hobensack, born 

 at Southampton, Bucks county, Pennsyl- 

 vania, March 31, 1898, and Ethel Carrell 

 Hobensack, born at Norristown, Montgom- 

 ery county, January 20, 1904. 



FARRELL MacKENZIE. Farrell Mac- 

 Kenzie, who following farming in New 

 Britain township, has here made his home 

 since 1898, was born in county Sligo, Ire- 

 land, in 1834, his parents being Richard 

 and Mary (Lyden) MacKenzie, in whose 

 family were the following named children : 

 Alice, Farrell, Thomas, John, Richard, 

 Alexander and Mary Ann. 



Farrell MacKenzie received only such ad- 

 vantages in his youth as were common to 

 people of moderate means. Having arrived 

 at 3-ears of maturity he" wedded Miss 

 Frances Burns, who was born April 9, 1846, 

 a daughter of William and Elizabeth { Mc- 

 Ginn) Burns. Mr. and Mrs. MacKenzie 

 were married in England on the 5th of De- 

 cember, 1862, and two days later they went 

 aboard a ship to sail for America, but the 

 vessel did not leave for the new world until 

 a week later. They landed at Castle Gar- 

 den, New York, on the 2d of February, 

 1862, and alrnost immediately afterward 

 went to Philadelphia, where Mr. MacKenzie 

 secured employment in the Morris and Tas- 

 cus Iron Works. A year later he removed 

 to New Jersey, where he followed farming 

 for fifteen years. Removing to Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, he purchased of 



