HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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in later years was independent in politics, 

 with prohibition tendencies. He married 

 Miss Mary Eliza Hibbs, daughter of Will- 

 iam and Elizabeth (Holcomb) Hibbs, of 

 Upper Makefield township, and their chil- 

 dren were as follows : Arthur H., proprie- 

 tor of the Preparatory Swarthmore Gram- 

 mar School; Edith, wife of T. Newlin Ely, 

 of Upper Makefield township; Walter H., 

 deceased; Alvan H., a farmer, residing at 

 Wrightstown township; Ernest H., of 

 Morristown, New Jersey, proprietor and 

 publisher of The Afternoon Daily ; B. Pal- 

 mer, mentioned hereintfter; William H., 

 a physician, at present practicing medicine 

 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Mr. Tom- 

 linson, father of these children, died June 

 II, 1901 ; he survived his wife many years, 

 her death having occurred August 6, 1890. 



B. Palmer Tomlinson acquired his edu- 

 cation in the public schools adjacent to 

 his home, and at Stewart and Hammond's 

 Business College, Trenton, New Jersey. 

 After his marriage he located on his 

 father-in-law's farm, and during the in- 

 tervening years has managed the same in a 

 thoroughly reliable manner, and, being a 

 man of progressive and practical ideas, the 

 property has yielded large returns for the 

 labor expended on it. He is a Prohibi- 

 tionist in politics. 



March 18, 1897, Mr. Tomlinson married 

 Ellie R. Johnson, daughter of Samuel A. 

 and Anna (Walton) Johnson. The John- 

 son family is an old one in Bucks county, 

 the pioneer ancestor of tlie family, Dirck 

 Johnson, having settled there upon his ar- 

 rival from Holland about the year 1684. 

 The second in line of descent from Dirck 

 Johnson was John Johnson, whose son, 

 John L. Johnson, purchased the first farm 

 north of Center Bridge, in Solebury town- 

 ship, and also the island known for many 

 years as Johnson's Island. Edwin Johnson, 

 son of John L. Johnson, was reared on the 

 old homestead in Solebury; after his mar- 

 riage he resided for one year on Johnson's 

 Island, and then removed to Upper Make- 

 field township. Samuel A. Johnson, son 

 of Edwin Johnson, was born September 

 27, 1846. He was reared and lived in Upper 

 Makefield township, on the present John- 

 son homestead, the property having come 

 to him upon the decease of his father. He 

 married Anna Walton, and they were prom- 

 inent members of the Friends' meeting. 

 Samuel A. Johnson died October 28, 1897. 

 Mrs. Anna (Walton) Johnson is a daugh- 

 ter of Samuel and Mercy J. (Snyder) 

 Walton, of Upper Makefield township. 

 Samuel Walton, born August 31, 1825, died 

 October 7, 1900, was a son of John and 

 Martha (Gourley) Walton, and a grand- 

 son of Jeremiah and Hannah (Malone) 

 Walton. John Walton was born in Mont- 

 gomery county. The Waltons were farm- 

 ers by occupation, and Friends in religion. 

 Mr. and ^Irs. Tomlinson, who are well 

 known and highly honored in the commun- 

 ity, are prominent members of the Baptist 

 church. 



BENJAMIN G. WOOD, the owner of 

 one of the fine farms of Warminster town- 

 ship, Bucks county, was born May 13, 

 1856, in Montgomery county, where his 

 ancestors had resided through several gen- 

 erations. His grandfather, Joseph Wood, 

 was born in the same county, while earlier 

 generations of the family had lived there 

 in colonial days. They resided in More- 

 land tow'nship, and were members of the 

 Horsham Friends' meeting. Joseph Wood 

 made farnring his life w'ork, and also fol- 

 lowed in the religious faith of his ances- 

 tors. He never aspired to public office, but 

 was the advocate of all that tended to pro- 

 mote the moral and material development 

 of the community. His children were : 

 Chalkley; Rebecca, wife of Hughs War- 

 ner ; Comly, John, Mary, wife of Lee 

 Garigus ; George ; Ann, wife of Jonathan 

 Davis ; Joseph, and Elizabeth, w^ife of Ab- 

 ner W. Walmslej'. 



George Wood was born on his father's 

 farm in Montgomery county and was there 

 reared. At the time of his marriage, he 

 settled upon a part of the old homestead 

 and his attention was given to general farm- 

 ing and marketing; his products being sold 

 in Philadelphia, where for many years he 

 had a stall in one of the city markets. He 

 was practical, energetic and determined in 

 his business aflfairs, and, prospering in his 

 undertakings, he added to his land, becom- 

 ing one of the prominent and prosperous 

 farmers of his locality. He remained upon 

 the farm until he sold it to the Pennsyl- 

 vania Railroad Company, when he retired 

 to Norristown, where he and his wife are 

 now enjoying the fruits of their former 

 labor, having acquired a comfortable com- 

 petence through the careful husbanding of 

 their resources. Mr. Wood is now eighty 

 years of age. In his early years he was 

 also interested in pike roads, and his hearty 

 co-operation was given to many public 

 measures for the welfare and upbuilding 

 of the county. He married Sarah Garigus, 

 a daughter of Benjamin Garigus, of an 

 honored early family of Pennsylvania. He, 

 too, was a farmer, with a wide and favor- 

 able acquaintance, and he was widely known 

 and active in the Friends Meeting. His 

 political support was given the Whig party 

 until its dissolution, when he became a Re- 

 publican. In his family were four chil- 

 dren : Lee ; ^largaret, the wife of J. L. 

 Jones; Ellen, wife of J. Meredith; and 

 Sarah. To George and Sarah (Garigus) 

 Wood were born two daughters and two 

 sons : Emma C., the wife of J. M. Jones ; 

 Wilmer A.; Benjamin G. ; and Anna G. 



Benjamin G. Wood attended the public 

 and private schools, acquiring a good Eng- 

 lish education, and received ample train- 

 ing at farm labor under his father's direc- 

 tion, assisting in the operation of the home 

 farm until 1881, when he was married and 

 took charge of the homestead. This he 

 continued to cultivate until 1890, when he 

 purchased the farm in Bucks county upon 

 which he now resides, it being the historic 



