HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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June 2y, 1879, a graduate of St. INIary's 

 Academy, Burlington, New Jersey; and 

 EUwood Lee, born July 13, 1881, who was 

 drowned in the Delaware river at the age 

 of eight years. ]\Ir. and ^Nlrs. Doron are 

 members of the Episcopal church of Bristol. 



WILLIAM HENRY IVINS. The Ivins 

 family, of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, worth- 

 ily represented in the present generation 

 by William Henry Ivins, was founded in 

 this country by Isaac Ivins, who came 

 from England about 1700 and located in 

 Mansfield, Burlington county, New Jersey, 

 where he established a country store, and 

 there resided until his death, July 19, 1768. 

 By his marriage to Sarah Johnson ten chil- 

 dren were born. Aaron Ivins, one of the 

 aforementioned children, married Ann 

 Cheshire, and among their children was a 

 son Aaron, who married Ann Cook (nee 

 Ivins), and they reared a family of chil- 

 dren, among whom was Aaron, who mar- 

 ried Hannah Eastburn, and they were the 

 parents of William Henry Ivins. Aaron 

 Ivins (father) was a member of the legis- 

 lature of Pennsylvania in 1837, when the 

 first free school bill in that state became 

 a law. He was an ardent supporter of the 

 measure, which met with great opposition 

 before its passage, but with the assistance 

 of such men as Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, 

 Judge Sharswood and other prominent 

 members of this legislature it was carried 

 through, and time has abundantly shown 

 the importance of this action in the great 

 improvement of general intelligence. Aaron 

 Ivins was a teacher and surveyor in early 

 life, but during his later years he devoted 

 his attention to farming, insurance and the 

 settlement of estates. 



William H. Ivins, son of Aaron and Han- 

 nah (Eastburn) Ivins, was born in Penn's 

 Manor, Pennsylvania, March 11, 1840. He 

 attended the public schools of . Philadel- 

 phia, graduating from the Central High 

 School of that city. In 1857 he entered Ain- 

 herst College, and after a year in that m- 

 stitution became a student of Union Col- 

 lege, Schenectady, New York, remaining 

 there until the summer of 1859. Havmg a 

 natural aptitude for the vocation of teach- 

 ing, he engaged in that line of work and 

 continued in the same until January, 186.1. 

 when he w^as appointed to a clerkship in 

 the War Department at Washington, D. C, 

 where he remained for nearly four years. 

 At the expiration of this period of time he 

 returned to Philadelphia, and for four years 

 thereafter was employed in the wholesale 

 wood and willow ware store of White & 

 Peachin as bookkeeper. In 1870 Mr. Ivins, 

 with one of his brothers engaged in the 

 furniture business on North Second street. 

 Philadelphia, where they remained until 

 1890, a period of twenty years, when they 

 disposed of the business. William H. Ivms 

 then entered the employ of Strawbridge & 

 Clothier, where he remained until 1900, 



since which time he has not engaged in 

 active business pursuits. Mr. Ivins was a 

 resident of Camden, New Jersey, for seven- 

 teen years prior to his coming to Langhorne, 

 in 1903, and for more than half a century 

 resided outside of his native county. He 

 is a citizen of undoubted integrity, and in 

 all the walks of life has acquitted himself 

 with honor and fidelity. He is president 

 of the school board of Langhorne, and is 

 interested and zealous in all educational 

 matters. He is a member of the Masonic 

 fraternity, being a charter member of 

 Apollo Lodge, No. 386, and also of 

 Palestine Chapter, No. 240, Royal Arch 

 Masons. He is a charter member of 

 Crusaders Castle, No. 5, Knights of the 

 Golden Eagle, of Philadelphia, and a mem- 

 ber of Chosen Friends Lodge, No. 29, Inde- 

 pendent Order of Odd Fellows, o. Camden, 

 New Jersey, where he filled the elective of- 

 fices. He is an adherent of the Friends' 

 faith, and a stanch supporter of the Re- 

 publican party. He is a director in the 

 Langhorne Library. 



!Mr. Ivins was twice married. His first 

 marriage was in May, 1883, to Catharine 

 Gartley Abbey, who died the same month. 

 His second marriage was on October -21, 

 1887, to Wilhelmina Buckman Linton, of 

 Newtown, Pennsylvania, daughter ot 

 Penquite and Ellen (Buckmanj Linton, 

 and granddaughter of Major Thomas and 

 Martha Buckman. One son was the issue 

 of this union, Aaron Henry, born Decem- 

 ber 17, 1890. He attended the Friends' 

 school in Camden, New Jersey, until the 

 removal of his parents to Langhorne, when 

 he continued his studies in the public 

 schools of that borough, and is now a stu- 

 dent in the celebrated George School, an 

 institution which stands high in educa- 

 tional circles, and which was endowed by 

 John M. George, of Philadelphia. 



WILLIAM HILLBORN, deceased, who 

 for many years bore an active and promi- 

 nent part in the agricultural interests of 

 Byberry township (now Philadelphia), was 

 an honored representative of a family which 

 has been identified with the great common- 

 wealth of Pennsylvania from early days. 

 He was born August 4, 1823, a son of 

 John (who was a prosperous farmer and 

 miller) and Mary (Smith) Hillborn, and 

 grandson of Amos and Ruth (Simpson) 

 Hillborn. 



William Hillborn passed his boyhood 

 days on the home farm, attended the 

 Friends' school, where he acquired a good 

 English education, and subsequently en- 

 gaged in farming, which occupation he fol- 

 lowed throughout the active years of his 

 life. Owing to the practical experience 

 he gained while assisting his father his 

 operations were attended with a large de- 

 gree of success. He was an honorable, up- 

 right man, of sterling integrity, a true 

 friend and pleasant neighbor, and was re- 



