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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



ham M. Moyer in order to learn the l)usi- 

 ness of a butcher. In tlie spring of i8yt), 

 after becoming thoroughly prohcieni, he 

 purchased Mr. Moyer's business, iiiciuwiiig 

 residence and buildings, and carries on a 

 brisk trade both in the town and in the 

 surrounding country. His fellow-citizens 

 have evinced their regard for him by choos- 

 ing him to till the olhce of school director 

 for three years. Politically he is a Re- 

 publican. He is a member of the New 

 Brilani Baptist church. Mr. Haldeman 

 married January i, 1887, Emma J., daugh- 

 ter of Albert D. Wilgus, of Warrington 

 township. Mrs. Haldeman died April 6, 

 1893. leaving one child, Mabel W. Mr. 

 Haldeman afterward married Bertha, 

 daughter of Harry F. and Mary Jacoby, 

 and they have two children : Mary Mildred, 

 born April 25, 1900; and Charles Herbert, 

 born -September 26, 1902. 



WILLIAM W. YARDLEY was de- 

 scended from one of the most prominent 

 early families of Pennsylvania, his ancestors 

 having been contemporaries with William 

 Penn and active in the material, educational 

 and moral upbuilding of the colony. He 

 was of the fifth generation of the family 

 in America, and traced his ancestry back 

 in direct line to Thomas Yardley, his great- 

 great-grandfather, who was a native of 

 England, whence he emigrated to America 

 in 1704, settling in Bucks county, Penn- 

 sylvania. He purchased the tract of land 

 upon which William W. Yardley w^as born, 

 lived and died, and it is still in possession 

 of the family. Among his ten children was : 



(II) William Yardley, who married 

 Sarah Kirkbride, a daughter of Mahlon and 

 Mary Kirkbride, on the 31st of March, 

 1756. 



(HI) Mahlon Yardley, son of William 

 and Sarah (Kirkbride) Yardley, wedded 

 Elizabeth Brown, daughter of John and 

 Anna Winfield Brown,. April 6, 1787. They 

 had eight children, including 



(IV) Charles Yardley, who was born 

 September 4, 1802, and was married March 

 25, 1830, to Mary Anna Warner. They 

 had five children : Willis, Franklin, Robert 

 Winfield, Edwin and William W. 



(V) William W. Yardley was born Sep- 

 tember 26, 1841, at the old family home- 

 stead in the borough of Yardley. A part 

 of the house was built by his grandfather, 

 Mahlon Yardley, about 1790, although it 

 has been enlarged and improved since that 

 date, and is now a modern, commodious 

 and attractive residence. Here William 

 Yardley devoted his entire attention to his 

 home and family, giving little time to out- 

 side affairs. He followed agricultural pur- 

 suits with good success, and was thus en- 

 abled to provide comfortably for his wife 

 and children. He had not yet, however, 

 completed a half century when he was called 

 to his final rest, September 14, 1890. On 

 the 30th of August, 1877, William Yard- 



ley was married to Aliss Mary D. Baily, 

 a daughter of Samuel H. and Maria Baily, 

 'and they became the parents of five chil- 

 dren : Anna W., born August 4, 1878, died 

 June 14, 1903 ; George W., born November 

 5, 1879, who was educated in the Yardley 

 high school and trained on the school-ship 

 "Saratoga," being now second ofiicer on 

 the transport "Sheridan," running between 

 Manila and San Francisco; Lillian B., born 

 October 21, 1880; Elma, born February 27, 

 1883, and was married September 2, 1903, 

 to R. Irving Tobey, general manager of the 

 Cold Springs Bleachmg Company of Yard- 

 ley; and Mary A., born January 3, 1884. 



EDWARD INSINGER, the proprietor 

 of the Continental Hotel at Yardley, des* 

 cends from a Swiss family. His father, 

 Albert Insinger, emigrated from Switzer- 

 land to America about 1840, accompanied 

 by his wife and three children, settling in 

 Philadelphia. By trade he was an engraver 

 of designs for printing calico, having 

 learned that business in his native land. 

 After reaching the new world he began 

 work on Third and Greene streets in Phila- 

 delphia, making engravings for bedsteads, 

 and occupied that position for about four or 

 five years. He then removed to German- 

 town, where he engaged in the carriage 

 painting business until 1869, after which he 

 began the manufacture of carriages on ^lis 

 own account in that city. He succeeded in 

 developing a profitable enterprise, owing to 

 the excellence of his output, and con- 

 tinued in the trade until his death, which 

 occurred in 1875. His business career was 

 marked by steady progression, for he had 

 little capital when he came to America, and 

 at his death was the possessor of a very 

 comfortable competence. He belonged to 

 the German Red Men of Germantown, in 

 which he filled all the offices. While liv- 

 ing in Philadelphia he served as a commis- 

 sioned officer in the state militia. His wife 

 bore the maiden name of Margaretta Brun- 

 er, and they were the parents of seven chil- 

 dren, three of whom were born in Switzer- 

 land — Lena, the eldest, is the wife of Martin 

 Craig ; Albert enlisted for service in the 

 civil war, and for three years and three 

 months was a member of Company E, 

 Ninety-fifth Regiment of Pennsylvania Vol- . 

 unteers ; Sophia, is the wife of Alford Lans- 

 dale; Alford is a machinist at Wayne 

 Junction. Germantown, and is now acting 

 as general manager of the Insinger Manu- 

 facturing Company; Edward is the next 

 of the family; Emile is a carriage builder in 

 Germantown ; Clara P. is the wife of Xaier 

 Harte. 



Edward Insinger, whose name introduces 

 this record, was born in Germantown, Penn- 

 sylvania, September 3, 1852, and acquired a 

 common-school education. In early life he 

 learned the trades of carriage building and 

 blacksmithing wMth his father, and W'as 

 thus employed for about six years,- after 



