HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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years he held the position of postmaster of 

 New Hope, and for several years served as 

 town clcpk of the same place. For a number 

 of years he was a member of the town coun- 

 cil, and also of the school board. Fur 

 thirty-four years he has been treasurer of 

 Unity Lodge, No. 300, I. O. O. R, of New 

 Hope, and is past master of Amwell Lodge, 

 No. 12, F. and A. j\L, of Lambertville. He 

 is a Democrat in politics, and is a member 

 of the Methodist Episcopal church of New 

 Hope, in which he holds the office of presi- 

 dent of the board of trustees. Mr. Smith 

 married, in 1855, Hannah C, daughter of 

 Reuben Chamberlain, of Egg Harbor, New 

 Jersey, and they have three children : Clara, 

 who married Walter Balderston, of Trenton, 

 New Jersey; Sallie V., who is the wife of 

 Dr. Theodore Balderston, a dentist of 

 Lambertville, New Jersey; and J. Stock- 

 man, who lives in Trenton and is a travel- 

 ing salesman. Mr. Smith and his children 

 were recently called to mourn the loss of 

 the wife and mother, who passed away 

 August 29, 1903. 



WILLL\M HENRY ROCKAFEL- 

 LOW. The Rockafellow family, of Ger- 

 man origin, was established in New Jer- 

 sey in colonial days, and most of its rep- 

 resentatives in the different generations 

 have been farmers. William Rockafel- 

 low, paternal grandfather of W. H. Rock- 

 afellow, married Rachel Thatcher and 

 had a family of ten children: Aaron, 

 William, Tunis, Samuel, Rachel, Eliza- 

 beth. Jonas, John, Sarah and Margaret. 

 Of these Jonas, John, Sarah, Margaret 

 and William are ndw deceased. 



William Rockafellow, son of William 

 Rockafellow, Sr., was born in Hunter- 

 don county, New Jersey, April 9, 1816, 

 and spent the first thirteen years of his 

 life upon the old homestead farm in New 

 Jersey and then accompanied his parents 

 on their removal to Buckingham town- 

 ship, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where 

 he continued to make his home un- 

 til his death, devoting his energies to ag- 

 ricultural pursuits. Through long years 

 he resided upon one farm and developed 

 a valuable property there. In 1841 he 

 .wedded Mary A. Worthington, and they 

 became the parents of seven children: 

 Benjamin, who married Sallie Doan; 

 Anna, wife of Charles L. Smith; Sarah, 

 the wife of Henry Wilkinson; William 

 H.; Fannie, the wife of Albert Wilkin- 

 son; and Mary and Rachel, both de- 

 ceased. The father died July 27, 1890, 

 and his wife passed away some years 

 previously. 



William Henry Rockafellow. son of 

 William and Mary A. (Worthington) 

 Rockafellow. was reared on the old fam- 

 ily homestead, and his early education 

 vas acquired in the common schools and 

 ;upplemented by study in Doylcstown 

 eminary. In early manhood he was 

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married to Miss Anna B. Molloy, their 

 wedding being celebrated in 1880. She 

 was born in the oldest house now stand- 

 ing in Bucks county, it being the prop- 

 erty at the present time of her brother, 

 John B. Molloy, its location being in 

 Buckingham township, between Wycombe 

 and Pineville. Her parents w-ere Nich- 

 olas and Frances (Stradling) Molloy, 

 who resided near Pineville. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Rockfellow have one child, Ed- 

 mund Russell, who is bookkeeper for the 

 firm of E. K. Lamont & Son, hay and 

 corn brokers in the Bourse of Philadel- 

 phia, Pennsylvania. 



Soon after his marriage Mr. Rocka- 

 fellow assumed the management of the 

 home farm, which he rented up to the 

 time of his father's death, and then pur- 

 chased the property which he has con- 

 tinued to make his home. In connection 

 with its further development, cultiva- 

 tion and improvement he is now a direc-- 

 tor of the Danboro Livestock Company, 

 and a director and secretary of the For- 

 est Grove Creamery Company. His bus- 

 iness affairs are capably conducted, and 

 his keen discernment and sound judg- 

 ment, combined with unfaltering dili- 

 gence, have brought to him a gratifying 

 measure of success. He is a member of 

 the Buckingham school board, but other- 

 wise has not sought or accepted public 

 office. His political allegiance is given 

 to the Republican party, and he is a val- 

 ued member of the Masonic and 

 Odd Fellows fraternities, belonging to 

 Doylestown Lodge, No. 245, F. and A. 

 M.; Doylestown Chapter, No. 270, R. A. 

 M.; and Warrington Lodge, No 447, 

 I. O. O. F. 



WILLIAM CLARK MAYNE, of Phil- 

 adelphia, was born August i, i860, son of 

 David Coombs and Pauline Clark Mayne, 

 and a grandson of William and Sarah 

 (Coombs) Mayne. The grandfather was 

 a sea captain, sailing from London. The 

 family name is derived from Roger De La 

 Magne, who was a baron and came over 

 to England with William the Conqueror 

 from Normandy. Richard R. D. Mayne, 

 of the same family, is a rear admiral in 

 the British Navy. 



David C. Mayne and his wife Pauline 

 were the parents of two children : William 

 Clark Mayne, to be further mentioned ; 

 and a sister Anna, born January 19, 1873, 

 married William R. Thomson, of Phila- 

 delphia, and they have two children, John 

 and Eva. 



William C. Mayne was educated in the 

 public schools of Philadelphia, and was a 

 member of the University of Pennsylvania 

 in the class of 1881 in law. He was ad- 

 mitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1881. 

 when but twenty-one years of age, to the 

 supreme court of Pennsylvania, January 14, 

 1887. and to the supreme court -of the 

 United States, November 10, 1892, and also 



