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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXTV. 



born December 27, 1854, in Pineville, 

 Buckingham township, and obtained his 

 education in the New Hope public schools. 

 His lirst position of consequence was in the 

 motive power department of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Railroad in Lambertville, where he 

 served in the capacity of clerk. This was 

 in 1873, when he was not yet nineteen 

 years old. He remained in this position 

 about two years and a half, and in 1876 

 became clerk in the Lambertville Savings 

 Bank. In July, 1877, the bank was re-or- 

 ganized as the Amwell National Bank. Mr. 

 Van Hart continued to serve in the capacity 

 of clerk until January, 1880, when he was 

 made assistant cashier, in consequence of 

 the frequent illness of the cashier, Mr. 

 William V. Cooley. In January, 1892, Mr. 

 Cooley retired, and J\lr. Van Hart became 

 cashier, a position which he holds at the 

 present time. He is treasurer of the Cen- 

 tennial Building and Loan Company of 

 Lambertville, as well as of the Lambert- 

 ville Water Company and the Lambertville 

 Gas Light Company. He has served one 

 term as city treasurer of Lambertville. He 

 is a member of Alexisauken Council, No. 

 1 109, Royal Arcanum. In politics he is a 

 Republican. Mr. Van Hart married, De- 

 cember 27, 1882, Alary, daughter of Daniel 

 Gallagher, of Lambertville, and they have 

 one child : Eugene Clifton, who- was born 

 April 25, 1884, was educated at the Lam- 

 bertville public schools, and is now clerk m 

 the Amwell National Bank. 



HENRY W. SATTERTHWAITE, a 

 native son of Bucks county, was born May 

 23, 1853, and the farm upon which he now 

 resides in Falls township was also the 

 birthplace of his father, Giles Satterthwaite, 

 who was reared there and then took charge 

 of the farm, continuing its operation until 

 1861, when he was succeeded in the man- 

 agement by his son, Henry, while he re- 

 tired to private life. His wife bore the 

 maiden name of Susan Buzby. and was a 

 native of Moorestown, New jersey. They 

 had four children, of whom one died in in- 

 fancy, the others being Henry W., Mar- 

 garetta W. and Susan B., deceased. 



Henry W. Satterthwaite. reared to the 

 occupation of farming, began agricultural 

 pursuits on his own account in 1876, and has 

 since continued in that occupation. He had 

 acquired his education in private and 

 boarding schools, and received practical 

 training in the farm work under the direc- 

 tion of his father. He has since been watch- 

 ful of every opportunity pointing to success, 

 and he now annually harvests good crops 

 as the direct reward of his unfaltering labor, 

 well directed by sound judgment. In poli- 

 tics a Republican, he ever k-eps well in- 

 formed on the questions and issues of the 

 day. and is thus able to suoport his position 

 by intelligent argument. For sixteen years 

 he has held the office of school director. 

 Mr. Satterthwaite married Lucy Sharpless, 



a daughter of Charles Sharnless, of Ches- 

 ter county, Pennsylvania, and to them were 

 born six children, of whom one died in 

 infancy. The surviving children are : Fred- 

 erick G., born August 27, 1879; Walter S., 

 born September 30, 1880, and is employed 

 in the passenger department of the Penn- 

 sylvania Railroad Company ; John B., born 

 March 3, 1882, and is with Hanscom Broth- 

 ers, wholesale grocers at Philadelphia ; 

 Lewis P., born January 8, 1885; and Mary 

 S., born September 28, 1889. 



JOHN KRUPP HEDRICK, M. D. 

 Among the active practicing physicians of 

 Bucks county must be numbered Dr. John 

 Krupp Hedrick, of Quakertown. He is a 

 grandson of Henry and Elizabeth (Heist- 

 and) Hedrick, who were residents of Bucks 

 county more than sixty years ago. David 

 Hedrick, son of Henry and Elizabeth 

 (Heistand) Hedrick, mentioned above, was 

 born in 1842, near Chalfont, New Britain 

 township. He attended the schools of the 

 district, and in early life engaged in farm- 

 ing, but abandoned it in order to enter 

 into business as a butcher. He married 

 Sarah Krupp, and their children Vv^ere : 

 I. Benjamin K., born January i, 1869, is 

 a florist at Perkasie, rnarried Ida, daughter 

 of Jacob Heckler, of Hatfield township, 

 Montgomery county, and has two chil- 

 dren, Mabel and Walter. 2. Elizabeth K., 

 born November 16, 1867, married May 17, 

 1889, D. IM. Landis, M. D., son of George 

 and Barbara (Moyer) Landis, of Bloom- 

 ing Glen ; they have three children : Joseph- 

 ine, Grace and Florence. 3. John Krupp, 

 mentioned at length hereinafter. 4. Sallie, 

 born February 8, 1878, married. May 12, 

 1897, George Zeigler, son of Jacob Moyer, 

 lives in Quakertown, and has two children, 

 Lillie and Arthur. 



John Krupp Hedrick, son of David and 

 Sarah (Krupp) Hedrick, was born January 

 24, 1870, on a farm near Chalfont, New 

 Britain township. Until his fourteenth year 

 he attended the district schools, and then 

 went to Norristown in order to attend the 

 high school. At the age of eighteen he re- 

 turned home, and for the next five years 

 shared his father's labors and responsibili- 

 ties. He was advised by his brother-in-law, 

 Dr. Landis, to take up the study of medi- 

 cine, and in the autumn of 1893 entered 

 Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 

 graduating in 1898 with the degree of 

 Doctor of ^Medicine. For six months there- 

 after he took charge of the practice of Dr. 

 Landis, who was then in Europe, and in 

 the spring of 1899 began practice for him- 

 self in Quakertown, where he was the only 

 representative of the homoeopathic school. 

 Notwithstanding indications of the unpop- 

 ularity of that school w-ith the good people 

 of Quakertown, Dr. Hedrick was success- 

 ful, and has built up a large practice. In 

 politics he is a steadfast Republican, al- 

 though taking little interest in merely party 



