HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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Washington Cadwallader 6), born and 

 reared on the old homestead, pursued his 

 education in the public schools and in 

 the Horsham Friends' school. He as- 

 sisted in the cultivation and improve- 

 ment of the home farm until after his 

 father's death, when he took charge of 

 the property and later became its pur- 

 chaser. He still continues general farm- 

 ing and he also keeps a herd of cows and 

 sells milk. He markets the products of 

 his farm in Philadelphia, and was a reg- 

 ular attendant at the city market for ten 

 years. His entire attention is devoted 

 to his agricultural pursuits. His farm 

 comprises one hundred and nine acre.', 

 of land, which is very productive. It is 

 situated within a mile of the Warrington 

 postoffice, and the house is a commo- 

 dious, two-story structure, standing on 

 an elevation that commands a splendid 

 view of the surrounding country. There 

 is also a large barn, modern in con- 

 struction, and all the outbuildings neces- 

 sary for the shelter of grain and stock. 

 He uses the best improved machinery, 

 has his fields under a high state of cul- 

 tivation and follows the most modern 

 ideas of farming in carrying forward his 

 work. There are apple and peach or- 

 chards upon the place, together with 

 small fruit and everything about the farm 

 indicates his careful supervision and 

 practical and progressive spirit. He is 

 a broadminded and intelligent business 

 man and competent farmer, and through 

 unfaltering diligence has achieved a very 

 gratifying measure of success. In addi- 

 tion to the control of other business af- 

 fairs, he is a director of the Whitehall 

 Fire Insurance Company and a director 

 of the Danboro Livestock Insurance 

 Company. He belongs to Hatboro Lodge, 

 No. 410, F. and A. M. They are num- 

 bered among the most highly respected 

 citizens of their locality, and the influ- 

 ence which Mr. Cadwallader exerts in 

 community affairs has been far-reaching 

 and beneficial. 



In 1893 Washington Cadwallader was 

 joined in wedlock to Miss Agnes Mere- 

 dith, who was born in Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, in 1873. She is a lady of 

 many excellent traits of heart and mind 

 and has been an able assistant to her 

 husband. Her parents, Charles and 

 Catherine (McKinstry) Meredith, are na- 

 tives of Bucks county and representa- 

 tives of early families of this part of the 

 state. The paternal grandfather, James 

 IMeredith. was a leading and successful 

 farmer of Warminster township, and his 

 business integrity and public-spirited cit- 

 izenship made him highly respected. 

 Charles ^^leredith was reared to farm 

 pursuits and when married settled upon 

 a farm and afterward conducted a hotel. 

 Later he served as jailer at Doylestown, 

 and is now a salesman of Philadelphia. 

 Those with whom he has come in con- 

 tact entertain for him high regard be- 



cause of his allegiance to honorable, 

 manly principles. His wife, Mrs. Cath- 

 erine Aleredith, died in 1875, in the faith 

 of the Neshaminy Presbyterian church, 

 to which Mr. Meredith also belonged. 

 His second wife was Mary Duckworth, a 

 daughter of Samuel Duckworth, a well 

 known farmer of Bucks county. There 

 was one child of the second marriage, 

 Frank. By the first marriage there were 

 two children: James H., who is now a 

 conductor on a trolley line; and Agnes. 

 Mrs. Agnes Cadwallader was only two 

 years old at the time of her mother's 

 death, and was reared by Hiram Cornell 

 and his wife (the latter her mother's sis- 

 ter), who gave her good educational 

 privileges and surrounded her with all 

 the loving attention she would receive 

 in the parental home. To Mr. and Mrs. 

 Cadwallader have been born four chil- 

 dren: James Russell, October 17, 1895; 

 Eli Franklin, February 12, 1898; Charles 

 Paul, March 8, 1900; and Eleanor J., May 

 I. 1902. A Republican in politics Mr. 

 Cadwallader takes an active interest in 

 public questions, frequently attendmg 

 conventions of his party and has la- 

 bored to secure the nomination of com- 

 petent and capable men. He has filled 

 varius township offices, and at the pres- 

 ent time (1904) is school director in his 

 district. He has been secretary of the 

 board since 1896, and has been most 

 loyal to every trust reposed in him, and 

 has been the supporter of every measure 

 which has concerned public progress and 

 improvement. 



WILLIAM HOBENSACK, who for a 



number of years has been closely identi- 

 fied with the business interests of Ivy- 

 land, was born in Southampton township, 

 Bucks county. May 17, 1862, upon a farm 

 belonging to his father, Isaac C. Hoben- 

 sack. The family history gives it that 

 three brothers of the name came from 

 Germany to America in colonial days 

 and from them were descended the rep- 

 resentatives of the family now in Penn- 

 sylvania. They have mostly been farm- 

 ers .and mechanics. Isaac Hobensack, 

 Sr., grandfather of William Hobensack, 

 was a native of Bucks count}', and 

 throughout his entire life followed farm- 

 ing, his death occurring in Warminster 

 township, at Johnsville. He took an ac- 

 tive interest in public affairs, gave his 

 political allegiance to the Whi-g party 

 and filled a number of township offices, 

 in which his loyalty in citizenship was 

 manifested. His wife was of the old 

 school Baptist faith, and both were held 

 in high regard in the communit}^ She 

 bore the maiden name of Emily Fetter 

 and by their marriage they became the 

 parents of seven children: Rachel F., the 

 wife of James Hart, who served in the 

 civil war; ]\Iargaret, who married Will- 



