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which office he still holds. He has served 

 as president of the Farmers' Creamery 

 Company of Philadelphia. He holds mem- 

 bership in the Montgomery County Baptist 

 Church, in which body he served as secre- 

 tary of the board of trustees, and his politi- 

 cal allegiance is given to the Democratic 

 party. 



On April 5, 1894, Mr. Griffith was mar- 

 ried to Eva Anna Funk, who was born 

 in New Britain township, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, January 7, 1854, a daughter 

 of Joseph Funk, a sketch of whom appears 

 €lsewhere in this work. 



GEORGE DOUGLASS, postmaster 

 of Hulmeville, whose duties have been 

 discharged in a faithful and efficient 

 manner, receiving and meriting the ap- 

 proval of all loyal citizens, since his ap- 

 pointment by the late President McKin- 

 ley, May i, 1899, to the present time 

 (1905), was born March i, 1840, a son 

 of George and Edith (Dunlap) Doug- 

 lass, and grandson of James and Sarah 

 (Bowden) Douglass. Both his father 

 and grandfather followed the trade of a 

 carpenter, but during the latter years of 

 his life the former turned his attention 

 to the butchering business, which 

 yielded him a livelihood and the means 

 of laying by a comfortable competence. 

 George Douglass received his edu- 

 cation in the public schools of Hulme- 

 ville, and after completing the same 

 served an apprenticeship at the trade 

 of blacksmith, which he followed for the 

 long period of forty years. When the 

 Union was in peril the call to arms 

 could not have met with a more pa- 

 triotic response than that given by Mr. 

 Douglass, who served with distinction 

 during the civil war as a member of 

 Battery D, Second Pennsylvania Light 

 Artillery, participating in nearly a score 

 of engagements, including Antietam, 

 Fredericksburg, the Wilderness, and the 

 surrender at Vicksburg. As a soldier 

 he was courageous; as a citizen, active 

 and alert; as a husband and father, 

 faithful and devoted; as a friend, firm 

 and true, and throughout his long and 

 useful life he has been respected and 

 beloved by a wide circle of friends and 

 relatives. He is a Republican in poli- 

 tics, and for many years has been an 

 active worker in the ranks of that great 

 organization. He served several terms 

 in the borough council, and filled the 

 responsible position of burgess of the 

 borough. He is a member of Neshaminy 

 Lodge. No. 422, Independent Order of 

 Odd Fellows, of Hulmeville, and of 

 Hugh Martindell Post, No. 366, Grand 

 Army of the Republic. 



■Mr. Douglass married December 27, 

 1865, Elizabeth E. Goslin. of Newport- 

 ville, Pennsylvania, daughter of Ran- 

 dall and Ellen Goslin, and granddaugh- 



ter of John and Martha Goslin. Their 

 family numbered six children, as fol- 

 lows: I. George, born February 3, 1868, 

 married, March 2, 1892, Mary Elizabeth 

 Brown, of Oxford Valley, a daughter of 

 J. Jennings, and Amanda E. Brown, and 

 they have one child, Ethel May, born 

 INIay 24, 1893. 2. Howard Meredith, born 

 November 13, 1871, married, March 2, 



1893, Sarah Vansant Force, born June 

 25, 1870, and they are the parents of 

 three children: Verna Meredith, born 

 January 3, 1895; George Durell, born 

 May 15, 1899, and • Howard Meredith, 

 born September 7, 1903. 3. Margaret 

 Barclay, born November 27, 1873; she 

 was twice married, (first) March i, 



1894, to John H. Magill, wdio died No- 

 vember 25, 1901, and (second) to John 

 H. Moore, of Lambertville, New Jersey, 

 wdio had a daughter Bessie by a prev- 

 ious marriage: ISIr. and ]Mrs. Moore are 

 the parents of a son, George Douglass 

 Moore, born October 3, 1904. 4- Alfred 

 W., born June 11, 1876, died November 

 13, 1876. 5. Elizabeth May, born July 6, 

 1878. 6. John Jerry, born September 

 28, 1882, died February 29, 1884. 



HORACE T. SMITFL One of the 

 representatives of a numerous and noted 

 family is Horace T. Smith, of Upper 

 Makefield township. The branch of the 

 family to which ^Ir. Smith belongs is 

 traced through the following genera- 

 tions: 



Robert Smith (i) came from England 

 early in the eighteenth century. Tradi- 

 tion says that his father, who sailed for 

 Pennsylvania accompanied by his wife 

 and children, died on the passage and 

 was buried at sea. His widow, with the 

 children, proceeded to their destination, 

 and there is reason to believe that 

 Makefield was their adopted home. The 

 mother married again. The name of 

 Timothy Smith, a brother of Robert, re- 

 peatedly appears on the records of the 

 Friends' Meeting from 1710 to 1768. He 

 was one of a special committee appointed 

 to build Makefield meeting house in 1752, 

 and w^as six times sheriff of Bucks 

 countj'. His residence was on land orig- 

 inally owmed b}^ Joseph Milnor, in Make- 

 field, betw^een Dolington and Wrights- 

 town. Robert Smith, soon after his mar- 

 riage, moved to a farm in Buckingham, 

 on the southeastern line, adjoining the 

 Windy Bush farm of William Smith, 

 where he lived during the remainder of 

 his life. In 1738 he built a stone addi- 

 tion to his log house, ruins of which were 

 still standing a few years ago, this house 

 being used as a dwelling by the sixth 

 generation of the family. He was a 

 highly esteemed member of Bucking- 

 ham Friends' meeting. The first meeting 

 was held October 6. 1720, and he was 

 soon after appointed one of the over- 



