HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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engaged in the real estate business, and is 

 the owner of one of the largest granite 

 quarries in the United States. He takes an 

 active part in public affairs, and has served 

 two terms in the legislature of Ohio, on* 

 in the house of representatives and one n^ 

 the senate. He was nominated for congress 

 in the I7th-28lh district of Ohio, but was 

 defeated by a narrow margin. His po- 

 litical principles are those upheld by the 

 Democratic party. He is a member of the 

 Congregational church. Mr. Braddock 

 married, March 4, 1869, in Fredericktown, 

 Ohio, Margaret Burson, as mentioned above, 

 Mrs. Braddock is seventh in descent from 

 Joseph Burson, the emigrant ancestor. She 

 is a" member of the Protestant Episcopal 

 church. Mr. and Mrs. Braddock are the 

 parents of five children : Katherine, men-' 

 tioned at length hereinafter; Edward Bur- 

 son, who is a lawyer and unmarried; Wal- 

 ter David, who is a Rock Island Railway 

 official, and married Christine, daughter of 

 Commander Houston, of the United States 

 Navy; Margaret ]Mae, who is the wife of 

 Hale, son of Henry Hale Sturges, a banker 

 of Mansfield, Ohio; John Sellers, Jr., who 

 married Katherine, daughter of Hon. Dan- 

 iel McCoy, of Grand Rapids, state treasurer 

 of ]\Iichigan. A striking proof of Mr. 

 Braddock"s public-spirit is furnished by the 

 fact that he has laid out two additions bear- 

 ing his name in Mount Vernon, Ohio; and 

 two additions, one for white and the other 

 for colored citizens, in Little Rock, Ark- 

 ansas. 



Katherine Braddock, daughter of John 

 Sellers and Margaret (Bursonj Braddock, 

 and eighth in descent from Joseph Burson, 

 the emigrant ancestor, was born September 

 19, 1870, in 3>lount Vernon, Ohio, and grad- 

 uated from the Mount Vernon high school, 

 also from the H. Thane .Miller School, of 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, class of 1889. She has 

 studied art extensively, and also music, and 

 during her residence in Cincinnati belonged 

 to the May Festival Chorus of 1896 under 

 the direction of Theodore Thomas. She 

 is a member of the United States Daugh- 

 ters of 1812, by virtue of lineal descent 

 from Nicholas Headington, of Maryland, 

 who served with distinction in the war of 

 1812. She is also regent of the Little Rock 

 Chapter of the Daughters of the American 

 Revolution, being a lineal descendant of 

 Raphael Braddock, of Maryland, mentionea 

 above. She is also a member of the Aesth- 

 etic club ; president of the Tuesday Musical 

 Club; and one of the directors of the 

 Musical Coterie. She is a member of the 

 Protestant Episcopal church, having been 

 confirmed in 1894 in St. Paul's church. 

 Mount Vernon, and being now connected 

 with Christ church, Little Rock, Arkansas. 

 She belonged to the choir of the former 

 church for more than ten years. Since 

 January, 1899, she has been a member of 

 the Daughters of the King, of the Protest- 

 ant Episcopal church, inid also belongs to 

 St. Cecelia's Guild, in which until recently 

 she held the office of secretary. She was 



married at Christ church, Little Rock, Ar- 

 kansas, December 7, 1898, to John Barrow, 

 mentioned below. 



John Barrow was born 'n 1868, and is 'lie 

 son of Judge J. C. Barrow, a retired lawyer 

 and capitalist, who was a slaveholder prior 

 to the Civil war and throughout that con- 

 flict served on the Confederate side. His 

 wife was Jean, daughter of Elijah Frmk 

 Strong, of Connecticut, the founder of llie; 

 family, John Strong, having come over m 

 1630 and helped to found Dorchester, 

 Massachusetts. Mrs. Barrow's mother be- 

 longed to a Huguenot family of the name 

 of Barrineau. John Barrow is a graduate 

 of the Little Rock high school and the Bap- 

 tist College, Russellville, Kentucky. He 

 spent one year at the United States ]\Iili- 

 tary Academy, West Point, New York, and 

 then entered the law school of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, grad- 

 uating in 1890. He has practiced law in 

 Little Rock ever since, and at one time rep- 

 resented" Pulaski county in the Arkansas 

 legislature. Mr. and Mrs. Barrow have 

 had two sons ; the elder, born October 8, 

 1899, died in infancy; the yo'unger, John 

 Council Barrow, Jr., was born December 

 5, 1900. 



ALEXANDER CHRISTY, of Bridge- 

 water, Bensalem township, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, is a man of undoubted 

 integrity, greatly esteemed in the 

 community, and his success in busi- 

 ness is entirely due to his industry and 

 ability. He was born in Belfast, county 

 Antrim, Ireland, November 10, 1830, a 

 son of Henry and Mary (Macelvenna) 

 Christy, who were the parents of nine 

 children, Alexander being the only sur- 

 vivor. Mr. Christy is a lineal descen- 

 dant on the maternal side 01 General 

 Montgomery, of the American army, 

 who was killed in the storming of Que- 

 bec, during the revolutionary war, and 

 whose remains are buried at St. Paul's 

 church, New York city. 



Alexander Christy obtained his edu- 

 cation in the common schools of his na- 

 tive county, and at the age of sixteen 

 years emigrated to the United States, 

 hoping thus to secure greater business 

 opportunities and also to enlarge his 

 sphere for usefulness. His first em- 

 ployment in the new world w^as as a 

 farmer, but shortlj- afterward he en- 

 gaged in the business of a cattle dealer, 

 continuing in the same up to the pres- 

 ent time, and achieving great prosperity. 

 In 1886 he purchased a farm in Bris- 

 tol township, consisting of one hundred 

 and forty-six and a half acres, which he 

 conducts in the most approved and 

 scientific manner, residing thereon dur- 

 ing the summer months, and in his home 

 in Philadelphia during the winter sea- 

 son. H[e is an extensive ownef of real 

 estate in the city of Philadelphia, from 

 which he derives a goodly income, and 



