HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, 



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religion a Baptist, attending the old school 

 church at Southampton township. On Octo- 

 ber II, 1876, Mr. White was united in mar- 

 riage to Rachel M. Tomlinson, who was 

 born August 20, 1855, daughter of Henry 

 and Mary Tomlinson. Their children are : 

 George, born July 29, 1878, who married 

 Emma P. Dolton, daughter of Richard Dol- 

 ton, September 20, 1901 ; W. Harry, born 

 April 15, 1889. 



WILLIAM PENROSE. Pennsylvania 

 owes an inestimable debt of gratitude to 

 those English Friends who were among 

 the tirst settlers of the province. Will- 

 iam Penrose, of Quakertown, is a de- 

 scendant of one of these pioneers, who 

 brought to their home in the New World 

 principles which they not only professed 

 but practiced, and which have thus been 

 a lasting and powerful mtluence for good 

 in the province of Penn. 



Robert Penrose (i), son of Robert 

 and Jane Penrose, was born in York- 

 shire, England, moved to Ireland in 

 1669, and married Anna Russell, by 

 whom he was the father of three chil- 

 dren. His son, Robert Penrose (2), was 

 born in 1670 in Blackane, married Mary 

 Clayton in 1695, and had thirteen chil- 

 dren. With part of his family he came 

 in 1717 to Pennsylvania. His son Rob- 

 ert Penrose (3), who was born in 1697, 

 came to America after his father, and 

 about 1731 married Mary Heacock. 

 They were the parents of eleven children, 

 one of whom, John Penrose (4), was 

 born in 1740, in Richland township, mar- 

 ried Anna Roberts in 1764, and died in 

 1813. He was the father of ten children. 

 The ninth son, Evan Penrose (5), born 

 in 1782, married Rebecca Ball, and the 

 following children were born to them: 

 Jane; Aaron (deceased); Evan, men- 

 tioned at length hereinafter; and Mar- 

 garet, who became the wife of Eli W. 

 Strawn. 



Evan Penrose (6). son of Evan (5) 

 and Rebecca (Ball) Penrose, was born 

 May 8, 1813, on the homestead in Rich- 

 land township, attended the subscrip- 

 tion schools of his birthplace, and after- 

 ward became a pupil in the school taught 

 by Richard Hoopes, of West Chester. 

 He then learned the carpenter's trade, 

 which he followed for some time, but 

 the greater part of his life was devoted 

 to the management of the homestead. 

 •He was a Republican in politics, but 

 never took an active part in the affairs of 

 the organization. By birthright he was 

 a member of Friends' meeting, but was 

 not {:)rominentl3' identified with the so- 

 ciety. Mr. Penrose married. March 20, 

 1851, Anna Roberts, daughter of George 

 and Anna (Penrose) Hicks, born No- 

 vember 28, 1817. The famihr of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Penrose consisted of the following 

 children: i. Charles Robert, born March 

 10, 1853, died December 27, 1877. 2. Mary 



Jane, born March 7, 1856, married, in 

 1877, William, son of William and Sarah 

 (Gofman) McDevitt, of Philadelphia. 3 

 and 4. Evan EUwood and George How- 

 ard (twins), born October 22, 1857; the 

 former died April 5, 1858, and the latter 

 August 17, same year. 5. William, men- 

 tioned at length hereinafter. Mr. Pen- 

 rose, the father, retired from the active 

 labors of the farm in 1884, and his death 

 occurred December 24, 1888. The mother 

 of the family expired January 29, 1903^ 

 at the advanced age of eighty-five. 



William Penrose (7), son of Evan 

 (6) and Anna Roberts (Hicks) Penrose, 

 was born September 16, 1861, on the 

 homestead in Richland township, and 

 received his primary education in a 

 school held under the auspices of the 

 Friends' meeting and presided over by 

 Anna Blakey. Later he became a pupil 

 in a public school, and afterward at- 

 tended the Quakertown high school un- 

 til his seventeenth year. He then became- 

 the assistant of his father on the home 

 farm. For many years he was the owner 

 of this estate, which for more than a 

 century was the property of the Penrose 

 family, and proved himself an able, ener- 

 getic and successful farmer. In 1901 he 

 sold the estate and took up his abode in 

 Quakertown. In politics he is a Repub- 

 lican, but has always refused to hold of- 

 fice, preferring to devote his time to the 

 cultivation of his farm. He is a mem- 

 ber of the Reformed church of Quak- 

 ertown. 



Mr. Penrose married, in 1886, Jennie 

 Trumbauer, and they are the parents of 

 the following children: i. John Evan,^ 

 born May 26, 1888, and attended the 

 Quakertown public schools. 2. Henry 

 Speakman. born September 13, 1895. 3. 

 Annie Elizabeth, born October 11, 1899. 



4. Alfred, born October 29, 1903. 



Mrs. Penrose is a granddaughter of 

 John and Elizabeth (Baum) Trumbauer, 

 whose son John was born in 1808, in 

 Richland township, attended the sub- 

 scription schools, learned the shoemak- 

 er's trade, and later engaged in farming. 

 He was a member of the Lutheran 

 church at Trumbauersville, in which he 

 served as elder and deacon. Mr. Trum- 

 bauer married, in 1843, Lydia B. Scholl, 

 daughter of Michael and Lydia (Dono- 

 hue) Scholl. the former a farmer near 

 Telford, and their children were: i. 

 Henry S., born in 1845, is a carpenter at 

 Fairview, and married May Stoneback, 

 of Richland township. 2. Milton, born 

 in 1848, is unmarried, and lives on the 

 homestead. 3- Michael S., born in 1850, 

 lives in Quakertown, and married Eliza 

 Moyer, oi Milford township. 4. Levi S.,. 

 born in 1853, is a farmer and unmarried. 



5. Lydia Ann, born in 1855, and became 

 the wife of Gideon Groff, of Trum- 

 bauersville. 6. Mary Elizabeth, born in 

 1859. and married Nathaniel Keely, of 

 East Greenville, Montgomery county. 7. 



