HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 



Bedniinstcr township, where Mr. Worman 

 follows the milling trade; Arthur, born July 

 13. 1^5. who is now learning the milling 

 trade; John Chester, born March 31, 

 1887; Ervin, born April 22, 1892; Cora, 

 born December 28, 1893, and died Feb- 

 ruary 12, 1894; Carrie, born September 

 28, 1895; Paul, born March 12, 1900. 

 Bertha. Arthur and John Chester are 

 members of the Lower Tinicum Lu- 

 theran church. 



CHARLES CRAVEN, of Northampton 

 township, is a representative of one of the 

 old families of Bucks county. He is a 

 great-grandson of James Craven, who lived 

 near Johnsville, Pennsylvania, where he 

 owned a large tract of land. His children 

 were : Thomas ; Isaac ; John ; Lena, wife of 

 Adrien Cornell; Elizabeth, wife of Jesse 

 Finney; and Mrs. Gilliam Cornell. 



Thomas Craven, eldest son of James 

 Craven, married Jane Krewson, and they 

 had four children: i. Matilda, married 

 Aaron Cornell. 2. Cynthia, married Isaac 

 Van Horn and had three children, James, 

 Thomas and Julia, the daughter becoming 

 the wife of Abraham A. Slack and the 

 mother of six children — ^Samuel M., who 

 was born August 11. 1871, and died No- 

 vember 4, following; Jeanetta C. and Mary 

 M., twins, born October 17, 1872 ; Sue V., 

 born February 12, 1874; Leonard M., born 

 July I, 1876; Jesse R., born April 22, 1881 ; 

 and died March 16, 1883. 3. James, who 

 wedded Mary Cornell. 4. Jane, became 

 the wife of William Moore and had four 

 children — Charles, Thomas, Annie and Jane. 



James R. Craven, son of Thomas Craven, 

 died December 20, 1848. He wedded Mary 

 Cornell, and they had four children : Annie, 

 wife of John Thompson ; Charles ; Eliza- 

 beth, wife of John Addis; and Matilda, 

 wife of John Pidcock. 



Charles Craven, only son of James R. 

 and Mary (Cornell) Craven, was born 

 in Northampton township, Bucks county, 

 January 26, 1843, and was there reared, 

 early becoming familiar with the labors of 

 farm life, while in the public schools he 

 acquired his education. He remained at 

 home until after the inauguration of the 

 civil war when he enlisted iiv June, 1862, 

 as a member of Company I, i5ixty-eighth 

 Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry, being 

 mustered into the L^nited States service on 

 the 7th of that month. He participated in 

 twenty-eight engagements and was twice 

 wounded. December 13, 1862, at the battle 

 of Fredericksburg, he was shot through 

 the right arm. and later at Petersburg he 

 was wounded in the leg. At the time when 

 he was mustered out of the service in 

 June. 1865, he was with the Army of the 

 Potomac. He had been at the front for 

 over three years, doing his full duty as a 

 soldier. 



Following the close of the war Mr. 

 Craven returned to the familv homestead 



and managed the farm until his grand- 

 father's death one year later, when he came 

 into possession of the estate of his father- 

 in-law, which then comprised about 

 eighty acres. In 1897 he purchasea 

 an additional tract of land of tifty 

 acres from Thomas Livesey, and is 

 still engaged in general farming, 

 having a valuable and productive farm, 

 which, cutivated according to modern 

 progressive methods, is yielding to him a 

 Very desirable financial return. Mr. Craven 

 is a member of John H. Fisher Post, No. 

 loi, G. A. R., at Hatboro, Montgomery 

 county. He is interested in the welfare and 

 advancement of his community, and mani- 

 fests the same loyal spirit in citizenship 

 that he displayed when upon the battle- 

 fields of the south. 



On the 17th of September, 1867. Mr. 

 Craven was married to Aliss Caroline Cook, 

 who was born August 16, 1842, on the old 

 family homestead in Northampton town- 

 ship, a daughter of Absalom P. and Mar- 

 garet (Wynkoop) Cook, the former a son 

 of Absalom Cook and a grandson of David 

 and Keziah Cook, of Lawrenceville, New 

 Jersey. The children of Charles and Caro- 

 line Craven are as follows: i. William 

 Cook, born July 15, 1868, married Jennie 

 Garner, who died September 28, 1901, and 

 had one son, Charles, born June 10, 1899. 

 2. Abraham Lincoln, born June 11, 1872, 

 and died January 17, 1903, married Annie 

 Ross, of Plainfield. New jersey, and at his 

 death left a son, Claude Lincoln, born July 

 I5> 1893. 3. Thomas, born November 9, 

 1874, married Ellen Brooks, February 2^, 

 1899, and they have one' daughter Caro- 

 line Cook, born February 10, 1903. 4. Fred- 

 erick Firman, born November 15, 1876. 

 5. Samuel Cook, born May 15, 1879. 6. 

 Charles Edgar, born March 5, 1884; the 

 two last named are at home with their 

 parents. 



EDWARD BOILEAU ROSE, one of 



Bristol's successful business men, was born 

 March 3, i860, in Southampton, Pennsyl- 

 vania, and is the son of George Granthon 

 and Susan (Boileau) Rose. His grand- 

 parents were John and Mary (Barwis) 

 Rose and Major Isaac and Anna (Bickley3 

 Boileau. 



Mr. Rose's boyhood was passed in New- 

 portville, whither his parents moved in 

 1866. He attended the public schools of that 

 place and afterward learned the carriage- 

 making business in his father's shop, and 

 for twenty years thereafter was engaged in 

 that business. He then became a dealer in 

 horses, carriages, harness, blankets and 

 everything pertaining to that branch of 

 business, and his enterprise was rewarded 

 with a gratifying measure of success. He 

 is at present engaged in the grocery and 

 truck business. From 1892 to 1898 Mr. 

 Rose filled the office of assessor of Bristol 

 township, serving two terms. He is a mem- 



