HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, 



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owner having been a relative of General 

 U. S. Grant, who several times visited 

 there. Elias H. Radcliffe conducted the 

 farm for many years along practical, pro- 

 gressive lines that won a fair measure 

 of success. He had a wide acquaintance 

 and the favorable regard of many friends. 

 In politics a Republican, he never de- 

 sired political preferment, wishing rather 

 to devote his entire attention to his ag- 

 ricultural interests. He spent his last 

 years in the home of his daughter, Mrs. 

 Holbert, and died November 24, 1901, 

 -while his wife's death occurred October 

 18, 1899. Emily L. (Coulter) Radcliffe 

 was the daughter of Paschall and Sarah 

 <Wolf) Coulter, and granddaughter of 

 John Coulter, who was the proprietor of 

 ■a. large farm near Germantown, also the 

 owner of an extensive coal yard there, 

 and was one of the capable, enterprising 

 business men of that place. The chil- 

 ■dren of Elias H. and Emily L. (Coulter) 

 Radcliffe were: Caroline Coulter, who 

 ■died May 29, 1853, aged eleven months. 

 Ellen C, wife of Oliver Gellner, of Tren- 

 ton, New Jersey. Emily S., wife of 

 Maurice E. Allen, of Ambler. Sallie V., 

 -wife of William M. Holbert. of Warring- 

 ton. Robert A., a miller by trade, a mem- 

 ber of the firm of Hoffman & Radcliffe, 

 of Frenchtown, New Jersey. Modesta 

 v., wife of Dr. William F. Henson, of 

 Germantown, Pennsylvania. John C. 

 who resides at the homestead. Margaret 

 Wolf, who died May 14, 1882, aged eigh- 

 teen years. William M., a practicing 

 phvsician of Pennington, New Jersey. 

 Stephen C, of Ambler, Pennsylvania. 

 Mary, wife of Harvey S. Hartzell, of 

 Chalfont. Pennsylvania. Paul R., who 

 is principal of the high school at Clinton, 

 New Jersey. 



Mr. and Mrs. Holbert are the parents 

 of two sons: William Rodney, born April 

 26, 1892. Howard Cadwallader, born 

 September 26, 1894. I" the maternal 

 line Mrs. Holbert is descended from one 

 of the old and representative families of 

 Germantown, Pennsylvania. Early gen- 

 erations of the family were represented 

 by those who followed the sea, some 

 of the name becoming captains of 

 vessels. 



John Coulter died in Philadelphia, De- 

 cember 16, 1857, in the eighty-sixth year of 

 his age. The deceased was one of our 

 oldest and most respected citizens, ana 

 was in realty one of the fixtures and fea- 

 tures of Germantown. At an early pe- 

 riod of his life, he was among the most 

 prominent ship owners and importers of 

 Philadelphia — was for a series of years a 

 director of the Bank of the United 

 States; but for the last thirty or more, 

 he lived in retirement upon his exten- 

 sive farm in the very heart of the town, 

 comprising about one hundred and 

 twenty acres, which was cultivated in a 

 way to challenge the admiration of every 

 observer. He was a serious sufferer by 



the spoliations of the French upon our 

 commerce and looked year after year for 

 that just restitution which the govern- 

 ment of the United States pledged itself, 

 by treaty to make to all proper claim- 

 ants. Thus, one by one the pillars of our 

 old edifice are crumbling to the earth 

 until a little while, there will not be one 

 left to look up to and to honor. But 

 their memories which we cherish can not 

 be taken away from us. 



TOBIAS CRESSMAN HINKLE, de- 

 ceased, who was a resident of Richland 

 Centre, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was 

 born August 29, 1830, on a farm in Rich- 

 land township, fourth son and fifth child 

 of Elias and Rebecca (Cressman) 

 Hinkle. The father was born on a 

 farm, and had but limited educational op- 

 portunities, but acquired from observa- 

 tion a respectable fund of knowledge 

 which enabled him to acquit himself 

 creditably in all his life transactions, 

 while his exemplary conduct commanded 

 for him the respect of all about him. He 

 took an active part in community af- 

 fairs, was a consistent member of the 

 Lutheran church, and in politics gave his 

 support to the Democratic party. 



Tobias Cressman Hinkle remained at 

 home until he was eighteen years of age, 

 assisting in farm labor, and acquiring 

 such education as the schools of the day 

 would afford. He then went to Bunker 

 Hill, a small settlement on the Allentown 

 pike, in Richland township, to learn the 

 shoemaker's trade under Jacob Fellman, 

 with whom he remained as apprentice 

 and journeyman for a period of nine 

 years. In 1859 he set up in business on 

 his own account in a shoe store at Bun- 

 ker Hill, and was thus profitably engaged 

 until 1870. Determined upon seeking a 

 broader field for his effort, he then re- 

 moved to Quakertown, where he opened 

 a small shoe store on Front street. This 

 proved a most satisfactory change, his 

 busines • developing to considerable pro- 

 portions, and justifying his seeking a 

 partner. In 1885 he associated with him- 

 self Milton A. Biehn, a former appren- 

 tice, and brother to his wife. This co- 

 partnership was known as Hinkle & 

 Biehn, and was maintained until Mr. 

 Hinkle retired in 1893, being succeeded 

 by his sons, Harry Wilson Hinkle and 

 Nelson Biehn Hinkle. The changed 

 partnership involved no new firm natne, 

 the old one being preserved to the pres- 

 ent time. In religion, Mr. Hinkle was a 

 member of the United Evangelical As- 

 sociation, in which body he was a trus- 

 tee and a member of the building com- 

 mittee, and he was also active in what- 

 ever was for the advancement of the 

 church or the extension of its usefulness 

 and influence in the community. In pol- 

 itics he was an original Republican, Tiav- 



