Genealogy of the Family

GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY

NINE GENERATIONS

FR OM ARTHUR AND MARY PARKE

1 720-1920

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PR EFACE

I t is an ordinar occurrence to hm the oli ician who as ires to y p t , p ain vo es for himself and fr ends to rea wi h ridicu e the enealo is g t i , t t t l g g t. He hinks it eases the mmo co n eo e. The edi rees of horses do s t pl p pl p g , g and fan c i eons he admi s have a cash v An et far m y p g t alue. d y ore import ant for the s uden of human affairs are the ed rees of mn B no t t p ig e . y ' b e possi l ingenuity of legislation can a society made up of ruﬂians and boors be raised to the intellectual and moral level of a society made up of we -bred mer han s and eomen c arsons and aw ers . One mi h as ll t y , p l y g t we ex ec to see a dra horse win the Derb ll p t y y. ' In oﬁering this Historic Genealogy of our branch of the American Parke fam to m kindred I do it wi h the assurance ha m s or is ily y , t t t y t y far m n m h e fro com ete. Our ki s en man of hem in eir v rnacu ar pl , y t , t l went back or over the mountain in the early days and esteemed it their duty to make n t N r rt a ears to have been o to wri e his or . 0 evious effo , t , t y p pp made oward wri in a Parke h s or hou h here are livm oda mem t t g i t y , t g t g t y e Al hou h bers of the ninth generation fromArthur and Mary Park . t g his w ork ma be crude an d imerfect the com i er felicimtes h mse f ha t y p , p l i l t t his kin o h r I mos cordia hank m man dred are n t without a isto y . t lly t y y re a o e l ti ns for their very grea t assistanc . WALLACE JOHN P .

anuar 1 J y ,

Key to the Characters R epresenting Each Generation fromArthur and Mary Parke

is First generation represented by a large number, as

1 , 2, 3, etc.

Second generation is represented by a small number as

1 2 3 4 5

Third generation is represented by a large capital let

B . ter in bold black type , as A, , C, etc

Fourth generation is represented by a large capital let ter in light face type, as A , B , C , etc .

Fifth generation is represented by small letter , bold

b c . face type , as a, , , etc

Sixth generation is represented by a small letter, light

. face type , as a, b , c , etc

Seventh generation is repres ented by letter in pare n

a . theses , as ( ) , (b) , (c) , etc

no . Eighth generation , s ymbol

I . Ninth generation , four children , whom shall name

PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

The descendants of Arthur and Mary Parke are of Sax on-Scotc h origin whose ancestors immigrated into Bally b egley , County Donegal , Ireland, after 16 10. Their name was orig inally written Park but some one during the early s lifetime of Joseph Parke , E q . , the second son of John ’ introduced the present method of writing the name . Squire i Parke had eleven children who all used th s method , which , of course , helped to introduce it . The two brothers of Jos

. 2 eph Park , Esq , Arthur d and John 2d , never changed the spelling of their names and those who removed west still adhere to the old Park . However , the many descendants in

Chester County of John 2d and Arthur 2d , have for years surrendered to the wheels of progress . I n 1720 our branch of the Parke family consisted of Wil liam , Arthur , Samuel , David and Jane Parke . All , perhaps , w were mar ried , with families , except Jane , who al ays lived with her brother, Arthur Parke . William Parke married

Jane Hood , daughter of John Hood , the mathematician .

They had eight children and always resided in Ireland .

1 . John Parke . on 2. Samuel , who was drowned during a storm Lough

L evithy . : 3. Robert Hood Parke , the father of twelve children ’ John , the Fagg s Manor school teacher Elizabeth , who died

P er civan C . in infancy ; Robert , Jr Madaline , John , Ethel ,

a . Hessie , Annie , Samuel , Eliz beth , William and James Parke

r . Of these children , Robert J , had a daughter, Alice, who i married a man by the name of Ewing, and they had f ve children . Their uncle , John Parke , the first child of Robert

r 20 1818, Hood Parke , J . , made his will on June , leaving 187 these children $6300 and a farm in Luzerne County , of “ acres , with instructions to his executors to inter his body ’ i in Fagg s Manor Cemetery beside my friends , w th a decent 4 , 17 7 , grave stone , inscribed with the year of my birth and that I lived to instruct , as teacher of youth , three genera $ tions of children . He left a legacy to the Treasurer of the PARKE FAMILY HISTO RY

Presbyterian General Assembly , for the teaching of young n Indians to read the Scriptures and o e to the s on of Mrs .

McCarter who had lost a leg . This David McCarter was a teacher in schools managed by Rev . James Latta , Pastor of

Upper Octoraro Church . He afterward became a Presby terian Clergyman and lived and died in Columbus , Ohio . This John Parke gives his residence as in Upper Oxford

Township , Chester County , P a . , near Russellville . His will 2 was witnessed by his d cousin , John Parke , 2d , and by his two sons , Arthur (3) and John (3) of wha t is now Highland P a d Township , Chester County , . , descendants of Arthur an

Mary Parke .

4. Martha H . McKay No children .

5. Jane Parke married Thomas Crocket, nine children

William Y . , Henry , Janie , Samuel , Margaret , James , Ezek iel , Robert and Thomas Parke .

6 . Margaret Montgomery had four children : Robert ,

William , John , a physician , and Margaret .

7 . Mary Parke , unmarried .

8. William Parke had four children : E . J . Alexander, H cKa r William . , Matilda M y and Marge y . Old William ll l n Parke , of Ba y b eg ey , County Donegal , Irela d , was a child at the time of the siege of Derry in 1690 and narrowly escap ’ ed being slain by a French officer in King James army . I quote the above data from a typographical family rec ord sent to Samuel R . Parke , about 1895, by J . J . Elder , of

Woodstock , New Bruns wick , who claims to be a great, great , great grandson of old William Parke through a branch of this family which located in New Brunswick , Can i ada , n 1834, from whom the mos t of our early Parke his a ll b l re tory has been obt ined . The Ba y eg ey homestead mained in the Parke family until quite recently . The last owner was a Samuel Parke . s Armthur and wife , Mary Parke , and son , Joseph , John and Sa uel , and Margaret who married William Noblitt , ’ Arthur s sister , Jane , and her brothers , David an d Samuel , with their families , removed to Fallowfield Township , Ches un ter Co ty , Pa about 1720. Arthur Parke died in the lat w ter part of January , 1739 , and his ife , Mary died about

1760. At the head of his grave in Octoraro Cemetery is a ’ memorial stone , legible within the writer s recollection .

Mr . and Mrs . Noblitt wi th their three daughters , Annie , 4 Margaret and Agnes , after 17 0, removed to northern Geor gia and there made their permanent home . Samul R . Parke , PARKE FAMI LY HISTORY v

while visiting the Atlanta , Ga Exhibition in 1894, called on

Robert Parke , a descendant of Joseph Parke , son of Arthur and , who interested himself in getting temporary p os “Mary sessi on of an ancient book containing the Noblitt genealogy from the days of Arthur and Mary Parke , prized most high l Nobl itts y by the of the present generation . A cursory reading indicated many descendants . Arthur Parke in his will devised his land estate to h is two sons , Joseph and John Parke , subeet to payment of leg acies to the other heirs . The two sons divided the real es tate between them , Joseph taking the southern part , about 25 v 0 acres , with the impro ements , entailed by a lifetime residence there of his mother and Aunt Jane . John took the northern part of 300 acres without improvements of u m ch value . Jos eph resided at the time and for some time after the death of his father on his father’ s farm along the

Susquehanna River , then occupied his Fallowfield estate for a time and afterward removed to South Carolina . His 1 0 mother and Aunt Jane both dying about 76 , he returned and sold his property in Chester County , Pa . During the

Revolutionary War , his property in South Carolina was very a w as much damaged and his son , John Arthur P rke , killed n in battle ; s o wrote George , so of Joseph Parke , to his cous ’

i 1783. r e in , Arthur Parke n Joseph Parke s three maining sons , discouraged by the losses sustained in the war , removed to Louisville , Kentucky . Robert Parke , after

n P a . a short soj ourn there , retur ed to Chester County , , and died November , 17 97 . Culbertson Parke went to what is now Cincinnati , Ohio , and his offspring is supposed to be in found in Indiana and Ohio . George Parke remained Ken

an d . tucky , married a Miss Coombs left descendants One u of them , George Arthur Parke , of Louisville , Kent cky , so reports in an effort to find his Chester County kindred . There is a tradition that Arthur Parke was an elder in a Presbyterian Church in Ireland and with his kindred who came over with him about 1720 formed the nucleus for the organization of the Upper Octoraro Church which w as

20 . founded on that date . In 17 , Rev David Evans , a Welsh

Presbyterian divine , was sent as a supply by the Presbytery V of New Castle to Upper Octoraro Church , Great alley,

Brand ywine Manor and Conestoga , where he was to preach

one fourth of h is time to each church .

The following year he reported to the Presbytery , that i with the exception of Brandywine Manor , he had carr ed PARKE FAMILY H I STORY

out their instructions . The Rev . Adam Boyd , who was the first regular pastor of this church , had a call extend ed to him for his services , prosecuted before Presbytery by Elders

Cornelius Rowan and Arthur Parke on September 14th , 1 24 7 , and was ordained and insta lled in this church on the

13th day of October, 1724. The Parke family are not Irish but of Saxon-Scotch ori g in . I n 16 11 , James I began the experiment of sending from Scotland a Presbyterian company of picked men and

women of the best sort , of a far higher level of intelligence

and training than the native peasantry of Ireland , in order an that they might outnumber d control the Catholics . At the beginning of the eighteenth century the percenta ge of

illiteracy in Ulster Province , North Ireland , was probably

smal ler than anywhere else in the world . There were then

more than a million of these Presbyterians in Ulster . About 2 17 0, they began coming in great numbers to America , b e ing dissatisfied w ith their Iri sh home on account of exces s

ive taxes and rents . The families that h ad been longest in Ireland had dwelt

there then but three generations , so that they were called Scotch-Irish by us from the mere fact of their having this transient residence there and have always been called

Scotch by al l the people of Ireland , both Catholics and Prot tants es . Between 1720 and 1770 more than half of the Presby terian population of Ulster came to America and formed more than one-sixth of the entire population at the time of

the Declaration of Independence . The ethnic origin of the Saxon-Scotch people I S very different from the Celtic origin in of the Irish race . The Scotch were principally Saxon ' blood and Presbyterian i n religion the native Irish Celtic l n r eli l and an blood and Roman Catholic in g on . The friction tag onismof the Scot and Celt in the early days was not s o

much a religious as a racial inheritance . No nobler race of men have ever lived than the Presby terian Scot descended from the Anglo-Saxon immigration “ of about A . D . 500 to 800. The Sotch , in energy , enter

prise , intelligence , education , patriotism , religion and moral

character, the maintenance of civil and religious liberty , and inflexible resistance to all usurpation in church and state were not surpassed by any class that s ettled in the $ in American Colonies . George Washington , the midnight M PARKE FA I LY HISTORY 11

hour of the Revolution , expressed his determination if all , other sources failed , to make his last stand among the - Scotch and the Scotch Irish on the frontiers . t Ar hur and Mary Parke were the par ents of four chil dren , namely 1 o J seph Parke , who married Alice Culbertson They . had at least four children . 1 John Arthur Parke , who was killed during the Revo l utiona ry War . 2 P , in Robert arke who died Chester County, P ennsy l in vania , November, 1797 . 3 Culbertson Parke , who made his final home in Cin cinnati , Ohio . 4 L George Parke married a Miss Coombs , of ouisville, K and entucky died there , survived by children . 2 Margaret Parke married William Noblitt and had

three children at the time of their emigration to Georgia . 1 Annie Noblitt . 2 r Marga et Noblitt . 3 Agnes Noblitt . 3 Samuel Parke , who died prior to 1740, was married and r su vived by children . in i Arthur Parke, h s will commends the care of these children to his executors . Samuel resided near Boston , s o Mass the late Dr . Charles Parke , of Bloomington , 111 records . 4 2 John Parke died July 8, 1787 , in his 81st year ; m . McKni h t Elizabeth g , who died May 21, 1794, in her 82nd

. h ad year They nine children , of whom Arthur 2nd , Joseph and John , the three eldest , remained in Chester County and owned their farms . The fourth son, William , removed to

York County, Mary and Jane to Mifflin County . Elizabeth married David Cowan and lived near Sadsburyville, Chester nd i County, Pa . David lived in Philadelphia , P a . , a s called a

w . . trader by his nephe and executor, John G Parke Samuel , l th y . ch 1 dren e ninth and youngest, died in earl life Of these I am able to give a nearly complete genealogy of only the de w 1th scendants of Arthur 2nd , Joseph and John Parke , who ,

in . their many offspring, mostly remained Chester County 1 u Arthur Parke 2d , owned a farm of one h ndred acres , which h is father sold him off the northern part of h i s estate . men- o l n The de ed tions the considerati n being, part , love and PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

affection . He was , as were all his kindred of all the early generations of which we have any knowledge , a strict and an loyal Presbyterian . He was elder of Octoraro Church for e 12 1736 e 11 44 years , and was born Septemb r , , and di d July , 4 1814 6 1736 . 1822; m . Jennet Hope , b . June , died April , She 24 1776 was a daughter of Thomas Hope , who died Oct . , , in

e . 9 177 1 in his 75th year , and Jenn t Hope , who died Dec , , her 7 oth on y ear, and who lived the Valley road between Pom

v . eroy and the city of Coatesville , P a . , where li ed Mrs Mary 27 19 19 Hope , who (1. March , , wife of the late Thomas Hope ,

1 4 w as . who d . March 10, 90 , and their great great grandson Thomas and Jennet Hope had eight children : Margar n et, who married Robert Cowa , son of Hugh Cowan ; Cath s on erine , who married James Cowan , also a of Hugh Cow P herson s on an ; Agnes , who married Robert Mc , of John s n McP h ers on ; Sarah , who married Thomas Scott , o of John - 2nd Scott ; Jennet , who married Arthur Parke , , mentioned above ; Robert , who married in May , 1795, Hannah Heslep , ' daughter of Thomas Heslep Adam , who married in April 1 1805, and died in September, 807 Richard , who married

Elizabeth Wilson , daughter of Joseph Wilson . Hugh Cow an , father of the a bove Robert and James and of Elizabeth , e n who married David Park , anmd David Cowa , who married Elizabeth Parke , removed fro Derry County , Ireland , with his three brothers , John , David and William Cowan , and lo cate i i d n Sadsbury Tow nship , n 1720. He was an elder of, and represented the Octoraro Church in Presbytery in 1730, 1 and died Jan . 3, 1782. His first wife , Ann Cowan , died

March 17 , 1734. Hers is the oldest recorded interment in ’ Octoraro Cemetery . Hugh Cowan s brothers , David and h William , married Mary and Susanna Fleming , only daug ters of William Fleming , the founder of this branch of the in Fleming family Chester County , P a . Hugh Cowan ap pears to have been the pioneer founder of the Sadsbury branch of the Cowan family . By his first wife he had two : l s t m sons , John , who died March 15, 1748, aged 21 years , u 2nd married ; , James , died October 1 , 1751 , aged 27 years ; married Catherine Hope , daughter of Thomas and Jennet

Hope . Hugh Cowan then married Mary Scott and had chil : 3rd dren , Robert , m . Margaret Hope , a sister of Catherine , ’ 4th James wife ; , Joseph , m . Mary , daughter of John Scott ,

. 5th . 6th Sr ; , Mathew , m Rachel Gray ; , David , m . Elizabeth , r l st 7th A daughter of John Pa ke , ; , nn and 8th , Hannah , PAR KE FAMILY HISTORY 13

9th . o never married ; , Margaret , m R bert Cowan ; l oth , Eliz a eth b . s , m David Parke , on of John , 1st.

The following are the descendants of Arthur 2nd . and

Jennet Hope Parke , ten children :

. 20 1 61 A Elizabeth Parke , b July , 7 , d . Aug . 20, 1839 ;

. . 13 1782 1 5 m Sept , , John Daniel , b . 7 0; d . March 8, 1832; they had nine children , all born near the Friendship M . E . in Church , Highland Township, Chester County , Pa . 27 1 81 A Jane Daniel , b . Nov . , 7 ; d . Feb . 16 , 1802; m . i William Gilliland n March 1801 . One child :

a James Gilliland , b . Feb . 4, 1802. 15 1783 B Hannah Daniel , b . May , ; m . James Quigg, ’ who was a member of Captain Holmes Company in the

War of 1812. Removed to Springfield , 111.

5 1 r C Arthur Daniel , b . July , 786 ; m . M s . Smith in

Juneﬂl 829 .

D Hugh Daniel , b . Aug . 14, 1788 ; d . Nov . 16 , 1878. He r was a captain of a military company in the Wa of 1812; m . 4 24 4 Elizabeth Harry, March 2, 18 3. She died Sept . , 18 4.

s . She was a sister of Dr . Samuel Harry , of We t Fallowfield 1 47 Capt . Daniel m . on Sept . 30, 8 , Sarah Phipps , who died

f . w as Jan . 11 , 1876 , in th e 80th year o her age She a sister of Caleb Phipps , of Highland Township , and of Elisha

e 9 . Phipps , of W st Chester, Pa . Capt . Daniel died , aged 0 y ,

m v n . 3 . , 2 (1. No children sur ived i fancy

8 . 91 . in 1 83 E Eliza Daniel , b . March 10, 17 ; d ; m Thom as Mewes , b . 1791 , d . 1873. Eleven children .

21 814 . a Esther Ann , b . March , 1 ; m Jacob Andrews ; tw o children . 1848 in a John HQAndrews , b . , foreman the Labor De - P a . ; . p artment of the Midvale Steel Mills , Coatesville, m 4 one : mar . 18 6 . Lettie McNe , b Have child in o 1878. (a) Anna N . Andrews , b . They reside C at esvill e, Pa . in 42. b Kate Andr ews , b . 18 Resides West Chester,

28 1902. : P a . ; m . Alfred Rambo , b . July , Two children

in 1911 . (a) Thomas Frank Rambo . Disappeared

12 . (b) Harry E; Rambo . Died when years of age

822. 17 1815 . 31 1 b John Mewes , b . Nov . , ; d July ,

14 1817 . . c Hannah Elizabeth Mewes , b . March , d Aug

31, 1822. PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

28 d Thomas Franklin Mewes , b . March , 1820; d . July

10, 1897 , unmarried .

a 12 1822 . . 17 1 1 e Jane Mewes , b . J n . , ; d Feb , 90 ; m .

Lorenzo Chatfield . No children . 8 1823 2 f James Latta Mewes , b . Aug . , ; d . Feb . 9 , 1916 ,

9 1848 Ann . 1 d . . . m. 2 aged 92 y . , 6 , ; m Nov , , Lydia Thorn , b 2 : 7 19 1 . March 15, 1821 ; d . Oct . , Seven children 4 22 18 9 . a Sarah Margaretta Mewes , b . Nov . , ; m Wil liam Martin , 13 children , all born in Woodbine , near Sads

r vill e n P a . f b u y , Chester Cou ty, , where they lived for orty five years . 1874 : (a) Howard Martin , b . ; m . Sarah Slaymaker no children .

1875 . . (b) Ruth Eva Martin , b . ; m Howard Hamill a Four children : Donald , Marion , Roll and Dorothy Hamill ,

of Cochranville , Pa . 1876 in ( 0) William Rolla Martin , b . ; farmer High McGow an m. land Township ; Rozelle ; three children , Eva ,

Clara and Filmore Martin .

(d) Bertha Pauline Martin , b . 1877 m . August Saal

bach ; no children . 1 (e) Byard Fred Martin , b . 878, resides at Rock R un ;

m . Lena Sweeny . Two children , Helen and Sarah Martin . n 1880 (f) Roy Warren Marti , b . ; m . Iva Grow . One

child , Annie Martin . 1881 (g) James Latta Martin , b . ; lives at Woodbine ;

m . Anna Osburn . One child , Wanda W . Martin .

(h) Clarence Lloyd Martin , b . 1883 ; m . Martha Mallal

icu. One s on, George Martin . 1 (i) Sarah Mabel Martin , b . 884; m . Joseph Shoe

maker . Two childr en , Ruth and Clarabelle Shoemaker.

(j ) Norman Griffith Martin , b . 1886 ; l st cashier in

the Coatesville National Bank ; m . Edith Cowan , Oct . 7 ,

1913.

(k) Mary Dora Mar tin , b . 1888.

(l) Jennie Victoria Martin , b . 1889 m . Preston Cham l i b er a n. One child , Earl Chamberlain .

(m) Edith Folsom Martin , b . 1891 ; m . Chester Bair, ( f Pomeroy , Pa . Two children , Sarah Bernice and Esther

Bai r .

b Mary Elizabeth Mewes , b . Dec . 30, 1850; d . July 6 , 89 1 0; . o m Elwo d H . Buckwalter, Dec . 29 , 1886 ; d . April 24,

1916 . One child : PARKE FAMILY HISTORY 15

( ) t . 1 a Mary Evelyn Buckwal er, b Aug . 6 , 1888. Coch ranville , Pa . 0 t . Oc 12 1852 Joseph Wilmer Mewes , b . , ; d . Dec . 25,

888 . 2 ; m Emma Eliza Dickinson , Dec . 3, 1880. Four chil 11ren :

(a) Joseph Warren Mewes , b . Oct . 15, 1881 .

o . 22 1883 (b) Lydia Le ra Mewes , b May , ; d . Oct . 4, 19 17 , in Philadelphia , Pa . 2 (c) Clara Emma Mewes , b . July 3, 1885.

. . 15 1888 A (d) Charles Latta Mewes , b Feb , ; d . ug . 29 ,

24 1 d Thomas Bayard Mewes , b . Nov . , 854; (1. Sept . 21 ,

e n 12 1856 An ie Laura Mewes , b . Oct . , , of Cochranville ,

2 f Edgar Alva Mewes , b . Aug . 1 , 1859 ; d . April 6 , 1916 ; r 8 6 m . Har iet Jones , Dec . 22, 1 8 ; d . March , 1908. One child . 6 8 (a) Florence Marion Mewes , b . Nov . , 1 87 , of Phila

delphia . 2 1 6 . g Lucinda Phipps Mewes , b . Sept . 1 , 8 ; d Septem

ber , 1865.

6 182 1901 . g Elizabeth Mewes , b . May , 5 ; d . ; m in

901 . Ten . 1823 . 1 1845 John W . Mewes , b . ; d children

873. 1848 . 1 a John H . Mewes , b . ; d

1850. b Crosby P . Mewes , b .

0 Clifford Mewes , b . 1852, of New Castle , Del .

1854 . 11, (1 Diller W . Mewes , b . ; accidentally killed Sept

1856 . eTh omas D . Mewes , b .

. 1858 m. . , f Anna E . Mewes , b . ; John E Robinson b

1855, of Baltimore , Md .

s . 1860 1860 . , , g Fanny Mewes , b . m Charles Luca b of

Coatesville, Pa .

1863 l , . h Lily S . Mewes , b . , of E kton Md

s . 1865. i Chester W . Mewe , b

1868; . 1885. j Cecil E . Mewes , b . d 15 19 1827 ; . , h Margaret Parke Mewes, b . June , d May

1905 unmarr ied . , 6 1892 9 1831 . . 1 , ; e . A . ; i David D . Mew s , b ug , d Dec uh

married . 15 r 4 1833 . , Josiah Edel Mewes b . Ma ch , ; d March j ,

1913 ; unmarried . PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

1 k Hugh Daniel Mewes , b . 839 ; d . Sept . 11 , 1863 ; mem ber of Company B , 97th Pennsylvania Infantry . Died of disease in the Civil War .

a 1 1793 F James D niel , b . June , ; d . May 26 , 1863; m .

1821 . . 15 1799 May 10, , Eliza Hindman , b Dec , ; d . May 20,

1830. Three children 22 1823 . . o a Rebecca Jane Daniel , b March , ; d Oct ber , 4 1906 ; m . Jan . 15, 18 3, Joseph Jefferis , a former resident of Cochranville , Pa . Nine children .

i an effer s . 28 1844 a James Daniel J , b . J , ; d . Jan . 6 , 1851 . f b Mary Elizabeth Je feris , b . March 10, 1846 ; d . Feb . 4 21, 18 9 . ff 2 4 c Elisha Grubb Je eris , b . Oct . 1 , 18 7 ; of Hanover . P a n . , formerly p assenger conductor o the Media Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad ; m . Mary D . Shaw, Aug . 14, 1879 .

No children .

d Anna Landis Jeffer is , b . July 11 , 1850; m . Passmore

6 9 . W . Hoopes , Sr Feb . 11 , 18 He died Sept . 6 , 1915. Pass more W . Hoopes , Sr . , was born April 1840, in West Gosh e n Town ship , Chester County , Pa . He w as a son of Lewis

P . and Mary H . Hoopes . He attended Pennsylvania State

College and w as a member of the class of 1862. He went to

Laur el to take charge of the farms of the late Hugh E . i Steele , and later located on the old Scattergood farm , n - East Bradford . Afterwards the family came to West Ches

‘ ter, where Mr . Hoopes became superintendent of Marshall e Square , continuing in that position nearly 14 years , and r e tiring when he was unable to perform its duti s . During the Civil War he enlisted in Company A . , l st Pennsylvania all Reserves , and served on the staff of General McC as guard , and also as provost guard at Fredericksburg . He was in the battles of Gaines Mill and Antietam , and was taken prisoner at Bethesda Church and served in Libby and An d er sonvill 4 e prisons for six months , until July 21 , 186 . Fifty s years after the war he and a former comrade , Sob escu Croml ei h P a g , of Parkesburg , . , were sent by the United States Government to Andersonville as Chester County guests of honor at ceremonies on the old scene of their for mer privations . Anna and Passmore Hoopes , Sr . , had eight children : ff 23 (a) Mary Je eris Hoopes , b . Aug . 31, 1870 m . May ,

PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

15 1899 . (h) Elizabeth L . Gitt, b . Dec . , 2 1 85 25 186 ; . . 16 8 h Jennie J . Jefferis , b . May , m Sept , , 2 4 186 . n : Reed C . Stro use , b . April , Three childre

5 1888 . 2 (a) Helen Hilda Strouse , b . Aug . , ; m April ,

1 u . 19 3, G y Snyder

13 1891 . (b) Mildred Jefferis Strouse , b . Aug . ,

1 1903. (c) Donald Earl Strouse , b . April , f r is i Joseph Grant Jef e , b . Nov . 1 , 1864; d . Jan . 9 , 186 5.

b The following are the children of Elizabeth P . Daniel , 1 89 E 24 3 1 6 . s . b . Oct . 30, 18 ; d . March , ; m Jesse Landis , q , of the Lancaster Bar ; b . Oct . 21 , 1821 ; d . Dec . 28, 1873. Six children :

a Mary Emma Landis m . Frank A . Diffenderfer,

Brooklyn , N . Y . Five children : 2 1 (a) Willie Josepha Diffenderfer , b . Feb . 1 , 875 ; d . 2 1 Aug . 9 , 19 1 .

(b) Mary Elizabeth Diffenderfer, b . Sept . 3, 1877 .

ff 12 879 . (c) Catherine A . Di enderfer, b . Oct . , 1

12 18 (1. (d) Charles Howard Diffenderfer, b . Oct . , 79 ;

Sept . 9 , 1889 . Tw ins . ‘

iﬁ e erfer 18 . (e) Florence Emma D nd , b . Dec . 3, 81 ' ﬁ man b Elizabeth Jessie Landis , m . John R . Kau , of : Lancaster City, Pa . One child

(a) Bessie , who died in infancy .

c Beulah Jane Landis , b . Aug . 3, 1853 ; d . June 13,

1888 ; m . B . S . Shindle . Two children :

(a) Jesse E . Shindle , b . June 10, 1883. 26 1 (b) Willis Agnew Shindle , b . April , 888 ; m . Mary

Catherine Hoover , b . Aug . 28, 1888. No children . (I 18 18 6 Charles I . Landis ; b . Nov . , 5 ; m . Sept . 5, 1888, 2 Jessie A . Witmer , b . Feb . 0, 1857 ; daughter of the late n Amos L . and Ama da Herr Witmer , of Paradise Township ,

Lancaster County , Pa . No children . a Judge Charles I . L ndis was born in the city of L ancas P ter , a . , Nov . 18, 1856 , a son of the late Jesse Landis , Esq . He attended the common schools of the city and afterwards

Franklin and Marshall College to the j unior year . On the death of his father he left college , and for six months clerked in the ofﬁce of Hager Bro . He then began the a d study of law under D . G . Eshleman , Esq . , n was admitted 18 to the Lancaster Bar on Sept . 8, 77,at the age of twenty years . In 1880 he wa s elected city solicitor and was elected again in 1882. He served on the School Board of the city PARKE FAMILY HISTORY 19

s ix . O 10 1899 for years n April , , he was ap pointed by Gov .

William A . Stone additional law j udge as s uccessor to the late Judge Brubaker , and afterwards , being nominated as candidate of the Republican party , w as elected for a term of

10 r . yea s Upon the retirement of Judge Livingston he was , 13 1904 on Feb . , , commissioned as president j udge . I n the 1909 w as fall of he elected for a second term . He has served as j udge of the Second Judicial District for ﬁfteen years and is the ninth president j udge sinc e the adoption of the consti i tut on of 1790. He was president of the commission ap pointed to build the Thaddeus Stevens Industrial School and h as ever since been president of the Board of Trustees . He is president of the A . Herr Smith Free Memorial Library , of Lancaster City , trustee of the Henry G . Long Asylum for

Aged Women , and trustee of the Millersville State Normal

School .

25 1858. e Matilda Bunting Landis , b . Dec . , 1 17 1914 4 1 2 ( . . f James D . Landis , b . March 1 , 86 ; Jan , ;

l 24 1862. . m . Mary M cNea , b . Feb . , No children n D c Th e following ar e the children of Hannah An aniel , 22 1850 1 1898 . 1 2 . 3 b . March 15, 8 8; d . Aug , ; m March , ,

893. 12 1822 . . 4 1 William Burn , b . Sept . , ; d Aug , Eight children .

22 1851 . 6 a Mary Elizab eth Burn , b . March , ; d April ,

12 1853 . b . Mary Ella Burn , b March , ; m Samuel Calvin

eil vill e . . Hayes , of N s , Minn No children

15 1855 , c Elizabeth Jane Burn , b . Dec . , , of Harrisburg

nmr . Pa . U ar ied

29 1857 i , . (1 Rachel Ann Burn , b . Jan . , , of Harr sburg Pa

Unmarried .

16 1858 , e James Daniel Burn , b . Jan . , , of Oxford Pa m . Ellen Grifﬁth . Three children

2 1893. (a) Richard Grifﬁth Burn , b . Aug . ,

6 1897 . (b) Casper Green Burn , b . June ,

26 1900. ( 0) Hannah Mary Burn , b . Dec . ,

7 1861 . 12 1859 . , f Clara Burn , b . Oct . , ; d April h Mmi ch 2 1862 . g William Burn , b . May , ; m Viola Sa na i . at New Bloomﬁeld , Perry County , Pa Reside at Harr s

r . bur g . Six child en 25 i 13 1884; . . , (a) John Reuben Burn , b . Apr l , d Dec

1885. PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

30 1885 . Ja (b) William Minich Burn , b . Oct . , ; m Mary : cobs . One child

16 19 13. Mary Catherine Burn , b . Feb . ,

n 3 1887 . (c ) Sarah Newcomer Bur , b . July , 2 12 1889 ; . . 0 (d) James Clyde Burn , b . June , d Aug , : 1889 . Two children

25 1895. (e) David Hayes Burn , b . May , n 13 1897 (f) Hannah Marguerite Bur , b . May ,

1 1867 . h Arthur Herbert B urn , b . Dec . , ; m Louise : Burgess , of Renova , Pa . One child 1 ( a ) Robert Burn , b . Feb . 15, 890. 2 1 G Nancy Daniel , b . Feb . , 796 ; d . 1878 ; m . Isaac Selt 1 1 2 zer , Sr May 5, 8 9 ; farmer , of Highland Township . Four children : 3 1 a Samuel Seltzer , b . 18 1 , d . 867 ; m . Sarah Jane Val 2 entine, b . April 1 , 1829 , d . Dec . 22, 1894. Three children : E l ild 86 1 a w a Seltzer, b . 1 ; m . William Underwood , b . 18 57 ; farmer and stock dealer, of near Parkesburg , Pa . Three children : r (a) William Underwood , J . , b . 1892 ; m . Elizabeth

Lewi s .

(b) Frank Underwood , b . 1894.

Hannah Reed . Three children :

(a) Anna Seltzer , b . 1888.

(b) J . Melville Seltzer , b . 1890. 18 5 (c) Isaac Leroy Seltzer , b . 9 ; auctioneer . a 1865 2 : c Fr nk Seltzer , b . ; d . Oct . 6 , 1904 m . Ann Gib son . Three children : a 1 2 ( ) Juanita Seltzer , b . 89 .

(b) Florence Seltzer , b . 1897 . 19 (c) Willard Seltzer, b . 00. Family reside at Cochran ville , Pa .

. 1830 b Elizabeth Seltzer , b ; d . March 3, 1903. Un married . c a 1 D vid Seltzer , b . 834 m . Margaret Rebecca Patrick

. 1 1860 1837 Nov , ; b . . Eight children . r 1861 a Ca oline Seltzer , b . ; d . 1913. Unmarried .

b . 1863 ; . b Mary Jane Seltzer , m Joseph Elsworth Doan ,

. 16 1883 Oct , ; druggist , in Coatesville , Pa . They have had ﬁve children : PA RKE FAMILY HISTORY 21

. Jan. 11 18 (a) Thomas Howard Doan , b , 85 ; d . Sept . 17

1 (b) Donald Elsworth Doan , b . Sept . 0, 1886 ; d . Sept .

12, 1889 .

0 . . 26 1888 ( ) Margaret Janet Doan , b Dec , ; m . Oct . 26 , 9 9 1 0 , Guy Brown Griswold , of New York . Tw o children :

Mar y Jane Griswold , b . April 5, 1911 .

Guy Griswold . 9 89 ( d) Elizabeth Seltzer Doan , b . March , 1 1 ; m . June 5 1913 , , William Penrose Moore , of Coatesville , Pa . One child . 4 Jos eph Ellsworth Doan , Jr b . Jan . 1 , 1895.

c William Is aac Seltzer , b . Oct . 27 , 1865. o 2 (1 Charles Jac b Seltzer, b . June 0, 1869 ; druggist , a Philadelphia , P . ; m . Laura Scott , daughter of Robert Y . and

Anna (Dampman) Scott . They have three children :

(a) Robert Scott Seltzer, b . 1897 . r 8 (b) Charles Seltzer , J . , b . 1 99 .

e Elizabeth Ann Seltzer, b . March 8, 1873. e f David Daniel Seltz r, b . May 13, 1874. 8 g Susan Seltzer , b . Oct . 1 , 1 76 .

h Howard Seltzer , died in childhood . 3 2 1910 nmar d Isaac Seltzer, Jr . , b . 18 8 ; d . Dec . 7 , . U

Isaac Seltzer , Jr nearly all his life was a farmer , and an intelligent one . Few men from the ordinary avocations of life could express themselves with such eloquence and in lli te g ence as he . He could hold the undivided attention of a large audience without any previous preparation or ap on parent eifort . He could speak wi th equal ease the social , moral and political problems that interest the public of to b est day , and how to cultivate the soil to produce the me i result . Few n are as intensely rel gious as Isaac Seltzer e was . He let no opportunity pass to attend religious m et o ings , and always took a prominent part . He was a go d

man an h a e . , d s gon to his reward

7 1826 . 5 1798 . . 2 H John Daniel , b . July , ; d Sept , ; m

98 . 2 1 2 McCau h e . . 30 17 ; Feb . 0, 8 3, Margaret g y , b Nov , d : Feb . 4, 1868. Two children 2 20 1824 . . 6 a William Greer Daniel , b . March , ; d Sept , PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

2 8 18 7 . 2 b John Parke Daniel , b . April , ; d Oct . 8, 1856 ;

merchant , in Parkesburg , Pa m . Susan R . Fisher, b . July

4 15 1890. : 20, 183 ; d . May , Two children

a John Edwin Daniel , b . Marc h 29 , 1854; of P hil adel phia , Pa .

b Margaret Isabella Daniel , b . Jan . 20, 1856 ; d . Oct . 28,

18 1 1855 I David Daniel , b . Oct . 6 , 00, d . Sept . , ; farmer , who removed from Cochranville , Chester County , Pa to near Springville, Ill . , in 1848 ; m . Feb . 20, 1834, Rachel Stew art , of Sadsbury Township , Chester County , P a . ; b . 1810, d .

1877 . Seven children : 1 5 a James Stewart Daniel , b . Feb . 10, 83 ; m . Emily 4 18 e : Jackson , June 1 , 60. On child 1 a Kate Daniel , b . March 1 , 186 ; m . M . Powell . Three children :

(a) Imogene Powell . in er e ill II$ (b) Emily Powell . Both live J s y v e, . (c) Harry Powell married and has two children : Stew i art Powell and Flora Powell , who married a Mr . R e ng es , and

has three children , Mar y , Paul and Elizabeth R eing es , all of

Granite City , Iowa . They are of the ninth generation from

Arthur and Mary Parke .

b John Andrew Daniel , b . Nov . 30, 1836 ; m . Phoebe

Mofﬁtt. Had seven children : w 4 a George Ed ards Daniel , b . Nov . , 1857 .

b Mary Ella Daniel , b . July 30, 1859 . 1 c John Andrew Daniel , Jr . , b . Ap ril 5, 186 ; d . July 26 , 08 i 19 ; m . twice and had by his ﬁrst wife s x children :

(a) Laura Daniel .

(b) Milton Daniel .

( d) George Daniel ; died in early life .

(e) Lillian Daniel .

(f) Raymond Daniel . 2 R e n l Married d . Maggie Mc y o d s and had four children :

m. (g) Charles Daniel , , and has a child , Albert Daniel .

(h) John Daniel .

(i) George D aniel .

(j ) Baly Daniel . (1 Emma Daniel , m . a Mr . Harding and have one child :

(a) William Calvin Harding . PARKE F AMILY HISTORY 23

. B e William Calvin Daniel , m Mary eatrice Janey , and h as one child : ( a) ) L in ester Daniel , who resides California .

f Charles Daniel .

g Albert Daniel . ’ c David and Rachel Dan iel s third son w as Hugh Parke

. . 27 1839 2 Daniel , b Sept , , d . Nov. 8, 1843. 1 ( . . 20 1 44 David Brainard Daniel b Feb , 8 , m . Nancy an n Williams , d had o e child

a Frank Daniel , also married and has one child

(a) Boyd Daniel . e Calvin Quigg Daniel , b . May 10, 1846 . 10 18 f Walter Scott Daniel , b . Feb . , 50; m . Lena Bealer . Two children :

a Walter Samuel Daniel , m . Lena Darlington . One chiId :

(a) Lillian Daniel .

b James Brainard Daniel , of Granite City , Iowa . i g Arthur Boyd Daniel , who died n early life . 2 n B Arthur d a d Jennet Parke had a son, Thomas , (1. 2 8 4 62 Aug . 7 , 1 2 , in his d year ; m . Feb . 3, 1807 , Mary Bryan , 2 d . March 6 , 1849 , in her 87th year. N0 children .

C Arthur 2d and Jennet Parke had a daughter, Jane , b . i 1763 in n 1764; m . Dec . 1 , 1794, Joseph Parke , b . , d . De

cemb r 1802 . e . Three children

A Nathaniel G . Parke and

B Joseph Parke . Both resided in Nashville , Tenn . , and were blacksmiths .

C John Parke .

Jane Parke , widow, m . 2d Thomas Stewart , blacksmith ; d in 1840, in Cincinnati , Ohio . Six children . r r : D John P . Stewart, was ma ied and had one child

a Francis Stewart . : E Kezia Stewart m . and had three children

a Samuel .

b Joseph .

c Francis .

F Eliza Jane Stewart . Unmarried .

G William Stewart . m : H Matilda Stewart , m . Elias Da oon . Two children they reside in Pittsburgh , Pa .

a Elias Danoon, Jr . PARKE FAMILY HISTO RY

n n b Benj amin Da oo . i I Tabitha Stewart, m . William McKn g ht, and is buried with her father in a Presbyterian Cemetery in Cincinnati ,

Ohio . e r Jane Parke , widow of Jos ph Parke , J . , married

ff . Thomas Stewart in Bealsville , Mi lin County, P a , and after wards moved to Cincinnati , Ohio .

D Arthur 2d and Jennet Parke had a daughter, Mar 83 13 1 82 garet, b . Dec . 11 , 1764; d . Jan 28, 1 6 ; m . Sept . , 7 ,

21 1825. John Wallace , b . April 16 , 1755 ; d . Sept . , o n i J hn Wallace was a grandso of John , d . n 1774, and (1 1778 Elizabeth Wallace , . in , of Scottish lineage , of Tober more , County Derry , Ireland . Th ey had eight sons and some daughters . The oldest son was Thomas , who m . l s t Mary

Saint Clair and had two children , John and Charles . Charles

Wallac e , b . Sept . 15, 1760, d . May 15, 1842, married March 4 3, 178 , Ann Truman , b . July 19 , 1762, died April 12, 1808, a daughter of John nd Rachel Truman , prominent members of the Society of Friends . Charles and Ann Wallace owned the farm in Highland Township now owned by the heirs of the late Wesley Freeman . They h ad seven children 1 Charles Wallace , m . Eliza Cochran . Two children : A Catherine and nn Wallace . 2 Ann Wallace , m . Stephen Roney . Four children :

Elizabeth , Mary , Sarah Jane an d Caroline Roney . 3 Rachel Wallace , m . James Kenney . Six children :

James , William , Thomas , Ann , Charles and John Kenney . 4 Rev . John Wallace , b . Oct . 1 , 1791 ; d . in 186 6 . Pastor of Pequea Presbyterian Church , in Lancaster County , for 33 “ years . He was highly esteemed by his ministerial brethren and was known throughout the whole region of his labors as $ an eminently good and faithful man . He married first

Margaret Gibs on , in 1813. They had five c hildren : 1 u Tr man Wallace m . Eliza Babb . They had ﬁve chil dren , William , Dr . John , Clara , Howard and Ruthven Wal lace . 2 Jane Wallace m . Morris Dickinson . They had four children : Phoebe , Dr . Joseph , Rachel and John Dickinson . 3 Rachel Wallace m . William Robinson . They had four children : Bell Worrall , Annie , John and William Robinson . 4 Dr . John Wallace married , but no children survived infancy .

PARKE FAMILY H I STORY

26 1777 . 26 Thomas , b . April , died accidentally Oct ,

T n homas Wallace , the father of the childre mentioned above , was drafted during the Revolutionary War and was fatally wounded in a cavalry skirmish in Bucks County and P hilad el died Feb . 24, 1788, in the Germantown Hospital , phia , P a . , and was buried in Independence Square , Phila a and where Gen . Howe interred m ny dead soldiers . John on Margaret Parke Wallace had eight children , all born a farm one mile south of Parkesburg , P a . , now owned by the heirs of the late Thomas W . Guiney and the heirs of the late

Robert Reid .

l 1783 . 9 n . . 3 . A Mary Sai t Clair Wa lace , b Feb , ; d Feb , ’ al 1852; m . Constantine O Don d , Dec . 18, 1880. They had two children :

i . a John , who died n early life n : b Mary , m , 1st David Patterson , and had o e child

a David Patters on , Jr . 2 m an Mary m . d Ja es Shannon d had one child

b Mary J . W. Shannon, deceased ; m . William Young and had one child :

(a) Clara Young, m . a Mr . West . All lived in Phila delphia . . 1 B Jane Wallace , b . Sept . 5, 785 ; d . May 15, 1867 ; m . 2 April 7 , 1809 , Adam Reid , b . Nov . 1 , 1773, d . Nov . 4, 1822.

Came from Ireland about 1794 and settled in Philadelphia . l Adam Reid was a grandson of Bee y Reid and son of Samuel , h w o died May 16 , 1809 , of Bally Garvin , and Ann Pentland

Reid , of Pentland Hills . Samuel and Ann Reid had six chil dren : 1 Ann Reid . 2 Mary Reid . 3 William Reid . 4 Elizabeth Reid , m . William Love and had three chil 2- dren . Two of them died in the Civil War , 186 1865. 5 James Reid .

1 Adam Reid .

’ The Reid address was Gray s Abbey , County Antrim ,

Ireland . Jane Wallace and Adam Reid had ﬁve children who lived to adult age : 26 . 812 . 1 1 a James Reid , b Aug , ; d . Jan . 0, 1877 ; m . PARKE FAMILY HISTORY 27

McCau h e . 4 1 811 . Jan 2 Hannah g y , b May , , d . 7 , 1888. They had s ix children : E . s . 1842 a Alfred P Reid , q , b . ; d . 1912; m . Emma Bow ma 5 187 n 1 0 . June , , b in 1842. Th ey had three children :

r (a) Arthu Parke Reid , b . Jan . 10, 1877 . A graduate as of Lafayette College , cl s of 1899 . Attorney of the West

. E Chester Bar ; m thel Darlington , daughter of Charles H .

Darlington , of Phoenixville , Pa .

. . 4 1892 (b) Edith Comly Reid , b Aug , ; m . William A .

Dowlin , of West Chester, Pa . Th ey have two children : Wil n 3d liam Dowli , , and Donald Husted Dowlin .

r 11 (c) Laura Bowman Reid , b . Ma ch , 1897 ; m . Lee

Porter Wray . They have two children and reside in Ches a ter, P . , Porter and Richard Wray . Mrs . Alfred Reid is the A m daughter of John and nn Comly Bow an , and a grand a of e d ughter John Comly , the author of the once cel brated

Comly spelling book , s o well known by many of us older people .

Few members of the Chester County Bar were as able an d successful as Alfred P . Reid , who w as born in Highland 4 Township, Chester County , Sept . 3, 18 2. He acquired his early education in the schools of Highland Township , the ’ e Parkesburg Academy and Wyer s Academy , West Chest r, in P a . , and Lafayette College , graduating from the latter stitution in the class of 1864. He then pursued a course of

F uth e . legal study with the late Judge J . Smith y After a pas sing a successful examination , he w s admitted to the e bar on Aug . 14, 1886 . For a period of eight years he pra t tis ed his p rofession in the company of Hon . Washing on con Townsend . Af ter the dissolution of this connection he ducte d his profession alone and had the most extensive prae tice in the county . Although his professional work de mande a d the greater p rt of his time , he devoted considerable time to educational and political affairs . He served as pres ident of the Board of Trustees of the West Chester p ubh c

, schools, of th e West Chester State Normal S hool of the c . i Savm s Penn Mutual Fire Insurance Company , of the D me g of and a , Bank , of West Chester, the First N tional Bank and West Chester . He was formerly a member of , from 18 i 72, an elder n the First Presbyterian Church of West 1892 r Chester, and in aided in organizing and afte wards was PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

b and a mem er served as elder in Westminster Church , of the same plac e . 1 1844 b Adam Parke Reid , b . Jan . , ; d . Nov . 12, 19 13 ; 2 m . Dec . 1 , 1867 , Isabella C . Freeland , daughter of Hathorn and Lydia Freeland , of Soudersburg , Lancaster County , P a . , 4 b . April 7 , 18 1 , died Feb . 14, 1905. They had ﬁve children : 8 1 (a) James Clarence Reid , b . July , 870. Car ries on n the pla ing mill , coal and lumber business established by his 2 1 father in Parkesburg ; m . Annie Wilson June 5, 896 . who 2 d . July 1, 1905. Had two children : Helen J . Reid , b . 1897 w as valedictorian of the class of 19 15, Parkesburg High

4. School , and Annie Reid , born in 190

(b) Belle Freeland Reid , b . April 2, 1874; d . March 22,

191 . i 6 Her funeral services were n charge of her pastor,

Rev . F . M . Dowlin , who paid a beautiful tribute to the Chris tian character and useful life of the departed . He took for i “ w h $ h s text : Blessed are the dead o die in the Lord . He spoke of her work in the Presbyterian Church , of which sh e i was a member , her zeal and enthusiasm n all its interests and activities , and particularly of her influence with the young people with whom she loved to work and to which work sh e was most admirably adapted . The large number of young people present , many of whom had come from a distance , bore silent testimony to the love and esteem in infl which sh e was held , and that they owed much to her u ence in the early years of their lives and felt their later years strengthened and broadened by her counsel and en

’ courag ement. 31 18 (c) Nona Parke Reid , b . July , 76 ; m . Charles L .

Fulton . They reside at National City , California .

(d) Jeanette Reid , b . May 1 , 1879 ; d . Jan . 6 , 1880.

(e) Chester H . Reid , b . Dec . 13, 1880; telegraph opera,

P a . . 4 tor , Parkesburg , ; m Elizabeth Barnes Oct . 1 , 19 13. They h ave three children : 1 Robert Barnes Reid , b . Oct . 9 , 19 14. William Wallace Reid and 2 1 Richard Fulton Reid , b . Nov . 1 , 19 5. Twins . 2 48 c J . Edwin Reid , b . July 0, 18 ; d . Sept . 23, 19 15 ; m .

Catherine Freeland , May 13, 1875. Reside in Philadelphia ,

Pa . They have six children

(a) Eliza Darrah Reid , b . Aug . 17 , 1876 ; m . Nov . 2,

1898, William B . Rauch . They have four children : PARKE FAMILY HISTORY 29

. 2 Lewis Edward Rauch , b Oct . , 1900.

. 3 1 Alfred Reid Rauch , b May , 906 .

. 3 19 Florence Rauch , b May , 08.

. . 1 . 7 William C Rauch , b Aug , 19 13.

( ) . 21 18 8 b Mary Hannah Reid , b Ap ril , 7 ; m . April 1902 r . e , Howa d R Gessn r . They have three children : 2 Catherine Reid Gessner, b . Dec . , 1903.

r . 11 Ma y Reid Gessner, b Dec . , 1905. z Eli abeth Jane Gessner , b . May 8, 1911 .

. 7 188 (c) Emily Nichols Reid , b Feb . , 0; d . Dec .

. 4 1882 (d) James Alfred Reid , b March , ; m . Oct . 5, 4 D l r 190 , Carrie is t eb u t. They had two children : e James Edwin R id , b . July 25, 1905.

Alice Rosamond Reid , b . April 8, 1911 .

(e) Florence Reid , b . Feb . 4, 1884.

. 16 1885 (f) Edwin Parke Reid, b Oct . , d . Jan . 9 , 1901 . i All born n Philadelphia .

d Rebecca J . Reid , b . Oct . 9 , 1845. Resides with her -in- r sister law , Clara B . Reid , nea Parkesburg , Pa . 185 e Samuel Stewart Reid , b . 6 ; m . Emily Harp er . Two childr en :

(a) Samuel Reid , Jr .

(b) James Edwin Reid . They re side in Chicago , Ill .

1 1 1 1906 . . f Robert A . Reid , b . 86 ; d . Jan . 7 , ; m Clara B 4 Scott , b . 186 . Three children :

1892. (a) Mary Stuart Reid , b .

1894. (b) Walter Scott Reid , b .

(c) Helen Rebecca Reid , b . 1896 ; was salutatorian of l ’ f the c as s o 1915 of Parkesburg High School . All reside on part of old Wallace homestead in Highland Township , Pa . 2 4 1 91 . 5 12 191 . 8 . b Ann Jane Reid , b . June , ; d ; m Dec ,

183 4 180 17 1895. 4, Stephen Boggs , b . March 2 , 7 d . March , Six childr en : 24 8 1836 . . a Margaret Jane Boggs , b . Jan . , d Feb ,

1875. Unmarried .

16 1857 . 23 1837 . b Mar y Ann Boggs , b . April , d June ,

Unmarried . 3 840 r e c William Rice Th ornton Boggs , b . June 1 , 1 ; - 2 4 2 18 . h . 7 tired farmer ; m . Martha Stans erry Dec , Resides i : n Franklin, Neb . Four children 12 28 1875 . . (a) Ernest Ray Bogg s , b . Dec . , ; m Nov , : 1902, Lucy Johnston . Tw o children PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

Thelma Margarite Boggs , b . June 11, 1906 . Narcen Doy a Boggs , b . Dec . 16 , 1908. Narcena 18 1 (b) Margaret Boggs , b . Dec . , 877 ; m . Jan.

14 1908 . i , , Ellis Lester They reside n Annville , Texas . 2 18 4 (c) William Fletcher Boggs , b . July , 8 .

(d) James Wallace Boggs , b . June 11, 1886 . (1 Stephen Reid Boggs , b . Nov . 11th , 1846 ; merchant and 1200- in 4 farmer of acre ranch Colorado ; m . Oct . 1 , 1875,

Harriet Stansberry ; Sept . 2, 1879 . Two children : 1 (a) Eva Jane Boggs , b . Feb . 8, 1877 ; m . William T .

John , b . Jan . 28, 187 1 . Two children :

Elsie May John , b . Sept . 21 , 1898.

Bessie Eulalia John , b . July 31, 1905. 8 9 (b) John Stansberry Boggs , b . April 9 , 1 7 ; m . Oct .

16 , 1901, Daisy Lester, b . Nov . 13, 1878. Five children

Ralp h Stephen Boggs , b . Aug . 16 , 1903. 2 Joseph Raymond Boggs , b . Dec . 1 , 1904.

Irma Maud Boggs , b . Dec . 2, 1907 .

William Harold Boggs , b . March 4, 1911 .

Thelma Boggs , b . Nov . 2, 19 13.

e Adam Ira Wallace Boggs , b . May 28, 1852; retired farmer ; resides in Cochranville , P a . ; m . March 15, 1883,

Mary Emma Criswell , b . April 11 , 1856 . No children .

f James Crowell Boggs , b . Feb . 21, 1855 ; d . March 14,

19 11 ; m . Mary Wills , b . July 31 , 1851 ; d . March 22, 1902.

They had no children who survived them . They lived in

Athol , Kansas , and were farmers . 24 c Margaret Reid , b . Oct . , 1816 ; d . Feb . 24, 1900; m . 23 Robert Ramsay , d . March , 1867 , in his 58th year . Eight l all ﬁ l children , al born near Mortonville , East F ow e d Town ship , Chester County , Pa . 12 42 a James A . Ramsay , b . Oct . , 18 ; d . March 27 ,

1917 m . Amy Woodw ard . Resided near Modena , Pa . Five children n (a) Robert Woodward Ramsay , m . Jen ie B . Faddis . e : Reside in Coatesville . On child E eh eimer R . Wayne Ramsay , who m . Helen p p , of Down n ing tow , Pa . One child , Dorothy Jane Ramsay , the ninth generation from Arthur Parke .

(b) John Edwin Ramsay , of Romansville , Chester

u . County , P a . , m . S e C . Valentine One child , Walter Ram s ay . PARKE FAMILY HISTO RY 31

0) . I ( . . Walter R Ramsay ; resided at Riverside , R ; d . 19 18 44 . 11 , , . . i Jan aged years ; m Sarah White Two ch ldren , 1907 Lewis , b . , and Walter Reid , b . 1911 .

. s (d) James A Ram ay, d . 1899 .

(e) Charles I . Ramsay , of Modena, Pa .

. b William J Ramsay , Franklin ; m . Lottie Binnex . Five children :

(a) Robert Horace Ramsay .

a . M (b) Ada Margaret R msay , m Joseph cCorkle . - s a (c) Charles Ernest Ram y .

(d) Helen Iva Ramsay .

(e) John Franklin Ramsay .

c Elizabeth J . Ramsay , Unmarried .

a . . 11 185 d Ch rles P Ramsay , b Dec . , 7 d . Dec . 26 , 1875. a e Ellen M . R msay . Unmarried .

f Robert Emmett Ramsay , m . Mary Elizabeth Young . s on Have one , James Henry Young Ramsay . Farmers , of near Romansville , Chester County , Pa .

g J . Frank Ramsay , b . in 1853. Resides on the Ram a s y homestead with his two sisters , near Mortonville , P a.

h Hannah M . Ramsay, b . Aug . 17 , 1851 ; d . April 16 ,

1 2 d William M . Reid , b . March 25, 8 0; d . Dec . 25, 1886 .

Farme r in Highland Township , but retired to Parkesburg, 2 4 A P a . , in the later years of his life ; m . Oct . 5, 18 6 , nn Eliz 2 an 3 189 h ad ab eth Walton , b . Jan . 26 , 18 6 ; (1. J . 0, 7 . They two children who lived to adult age : a James Edwin Reid ; retired farmer ; in real es tate business in Parkesburg , P a . ; m . Fannie Baldwin . Had two children :

i . (a) Charlotte Reid . Died n infancy m r P hil adel (b) Willia Stuart Reid, ma ket business , phia , P a . ; m . Ethel Clements .

2 1854 . Jan . 1 b Mary Elizabeth Reid , b . June 1 , ; m ,

1880, O . P . M . Baldwin , Philadelphia commission merchant , : b . Jan . 16 , 1853. Three children

(a) William Baldwin . 5 1885; (b) George E . Baldwin , b . May , butcher and 17 1913 electrician , of Parkesburg, Pa m . Sept . , , Clara Keebler; N o children :

28 1916 . George Oliver Baldwin , b . Nov . ,

29 1917 . Mary Ruth Baldwin , b . May ,

. (c) Oliver H . Baldwin , of Parkesburg PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

2 1822 24 8 Elizabeth Reid , b . April 9 , d . Oct . , 1885. 1 1 88 0 7 . 4 C Arth ur P . Wallace , b . Dec . , ; d in 187 ; m . in 1 6 22 79 . 1881 Oct . 10, 18 , Julia Wilson , b . ; d in . Farmers - in Highland Township . Had eight children : i 182 a John Gardner Wallace , b . n 3, d . March 29, 1901 ;

19 1904. m . Elizabeth Best ; d . Dec . , Farmers and had seven children : i 1854 i 18 a Albert Wallace , b . n ; d . n 77 .

1856 . b Frank Wallace , b . in Resides in Oklahoma . in 1857 c Eva Wallace , b . m . Walburn Dickey , of Ann, : Calif . Seven children 18 (a) Ebenezer Dickey , b . 79 . 1880: e (b) Mabel Dickey , b . m . Wells Bric McCoy . l 1882 (c) E va ena Dickey , b . : m . Pyle Thomas Glass .

( d) Gardner Wallace Dickey , b . in 1885.

(e) Charles William Dickey .

(f) Bertha E . Dickey .

(g) Henrietta Dickey . Ann , California . 18 (1 Ida M . Wallace , b . in 58, of Highland Township ,

Chester County , Pa . hi el 1 5 m 86 . e Ella P a Wallace , b . ; m Harry Edward

Hunt . Reside near Ann P . O Calif . Six children :

(a) Brady Gladys Hunt, b . in 1898. h i el - m t. (b) P a W . Hun

(f) Helen E . Hunt . 1 f Elizabeth Jane Wallace , b . 867 m . St . George Bond ,

Three children , Swarthmore P a . z 1 03 (a) Jean Elizabeth Bond , b . 9 . 1 4 (b) Ida Lucille Bond , b . 90 .

Highland Township . They have four children :

(a) Marguerite Ida Bradley .

(b) William Wallace Bradley .

(d) Edward James Bradley . 1824 b Mary Wallace , b . ; d . 1896 ; m . Eton Scott , d . July 21 , 1903. Three children :

a Margaret Scott, m . Dale Hamill ; farmer . No chil

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1 c John Scott, b . 857 ; clerk in Midvale Steel Company ,

Coatesville , P a . ; m . Rebecca Samples , April 17 , 1884. No children . 1 ( 1 Edward Scott , b . 186 ; farmer ; ownes the late John in ll l Kendig and Humphrey Scott homesteads East F a ow ﬁe d ,

Chester County , P a . ; m . Cora Kendig , b . 1874. They have ten children :

9 . (a) Emma Scott , b . 18 8 18 (b) Jackson K . Scott , b . 99 .

1902. (d) Eton John Scott , b .

(e) David Reece Scott , b . 1904.

(f) Mary Louise Scott , b . 1905.

1 0 . (g) Thomas L . Scott , b . 9 6 e P ar (h) Sylv ster von Scott , b . 1908.

( i) Margaret Elizabeth Scott , b . 1910.

(j ) Arthur Wallace Scott , b . 1911 . 8 3 e George Scott , b . 1 6 ; owns the Cap Stewart farm , in

Highland Township , Chester County , Pa . Unmarried . 1 1 mar f Florence Scott, b . in 867 ; d . Nov . 5, 19 7 . Un

Having given brief sketches of the Fleming , Gardner a rmar nd Stewart families , on account of their many inte riag es with the Arthur Parke descendants , it remains to trace the lineage of the Scotts , who also quite numerously intermarried with the Parke descendants . John Scott w as the American founder of this branch of the Scott family .

His name appears among the taxables of 1753, of Sadsbury

Township . He owned large tracts of land a short distance west of the present city of Coatesville . The large old s tone house where John Scott and his grandson , John Scott , Jr lived and died , still stands , a silent memorial and witness of the past . This family , with their many descendants , were always people of the highest standing and respectability .

i . John Scott, Sr b . n 1706 d . Dec . 16 , 1777 Had four children 1 2 1 Patrick Scott , b . in 1729 ; d . December , 8 5. Had n four children : Isabella , Margaretta , Elizabeth a d Margaret

Scott . 2 Th omas Scott , b . in 1731 ; d . Sept . 30, 1808 ; m . Dec . i 30, 1763, Sarah Hope , b . in 1739 ; d . n 1815. She was a sis ‘ t ter of Jennet , wife of Arthur Parke , 2d . They had eigh children : PARKE FAMILY HI STORY 35

Jr . . 1 1 4 a Joh Scott , , b Nov . , 76 d . March 8 182 m n ; , 4; . W1th er o w . 1772 , . 13 Rebecca b in ; d Aug . , 1862. They had eight children :

( ) , . Y a Mary Scott m Robert oung April 4, 1816 .

( ) . u 7 1802 ; . b Samuel Scott , b J ly , m Jane Boyd, daug h ter of Michael Wallace Boyd , Esq .

. 5 18 (c) John Scott, b July 05 m . Catherin Shannon , ; e .

. 7 1 (d) Rebecca Scott , b July , 810; m . Amos Shannon

Ap ril 7 , 1835.

. 20 1814 (e) Elizabeth Scott b June , ; m . Joseph Cowan

11 1833. April , Parents of Albert , Rev . John and the late

Rebecca Cowan , all born near Sadsburyville , Chester Coun t y , Pa .

t . 1800 . ; . 31 (f) Sarah Sco t , b Feb d Oct . , 1838 ; m .

. 25 1821 . 10 1799 Robert Hope Jan , ; b April , ; d . Jan . 22, 1877 parents of the late John and Thomas Hope and Rebec ca S . , wife of George W . Sloan .

(g) Robert Scott , m . Sarah Nicholson . Resided in

Philadelphia , Pa .

(h) Jane Scott, b . Dec . 8, 1817 ; m . 1st William K .

Sloan , b . Sept . 10, 1817 ; d . Jan . 10, 1844; m . 2d James f Bailey, of Mi flin County , Pa . 13 1 6 b Jennet Scott, b . April , 76 ; d . Dec . 29 , 1830; m .

Robert Witherow . They also resided in Mifflin County , Pa . 2 1 c Jean Scott , b . April , 768; m . James Witherow . in (1 Thomas Scott , b . April 19 , 1770; d . infancy Novem ber, 1770.

2 2 . e Mary Scott , b . Oct . 6 , 177 ; m Samuel Dorlan .

They lived near Brandywine Manor Church .

f Elizabeth Scott , b . July 9 , 1774; m . James Bailey .

g Thomas Scott, b . Oct . 2, 1776 ; m . Jane Long. Four children

(a) William Scott , m . Hannah Miller.

(b) David Scott, m . Rebecca Young .

(1. . (c) Elizabeth Scott , m . Alexander G . Morrison ; Oct 2 es 7 , 1870. A faithful and devoted pastor of the Coat ville

Presbyterian Church 33 years .

27 1812. (d) Rev . James Long Scott , b . Oct . , Labored as a missionary in India 27 years .

ov 2 1868 . h David Scott, b . Dec . 17 , 1778 ; d . N . 1 , ; m

26 1782 . . March 29 , 1804, Amy Humphr ey, b . Sep t . , ; d Sept

9, 1852. Six children

1-1 9 83 5 PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

(a) Humphrey Scott ; builder, contractor and farmer . n Resided near Humphreyville , Chester Cou ty , Pa . in w (1 (b) Eton Scott ; farmer Highland To nship ; . July

21, 1903.

Jeweler . l 5 1828 and ime a . (d) P h Scott , m May , , William Best had two children , Elizabeth Best, who m . John G . Wallace , in r . and William M . Best , J , who died of disease the Civil - War . He was a member of Company B , Ninety seventh

Penns ylvania Infantry . 24 1831 M cCom (e) Rebecca Scott , m . Nov . , , Robert m . on and made their home in Chillicothe , Ohio 1 1 80 31 1843 . (f) Sarah Scott, b . Oct . 0, 7 , d . July , m 1 1 28 1855 Thomas Heslep Hope , b . Jan . 0, 796 ; d . May , . He e was a grandson of Robert Hope , brother of Jenn t Hope i Parke . They also resided n Chillicothe , Ohio .

m . 3 Sarah Scott , . Mitchell

4 Mary Scott , m . Joseph Cowan , son of Hugh Cowan . They had seven children :

a Jane Cowan , b . 1753 ; d . Jan . 22, 1830, aged 77 years ; 4 m . George Richmond , b . 173 ; d . June 28, 1806 .

b Ann Cowan , b . in July , 17 55 ; m . John Sample . 58 c Mary Cowan , b . in July , 17 ; m . John Boyd , Dec . 18, 1 82 7 ; tanner , of near Cochranville , Pa served seven years in the Revolutionary War .

d Elizabeth Cowan , b . June 6 , 176 1 ; m . Rev . Nathaniel 4 W . Sample , pastor for 0 years of Leacock and other Presby n teria Churches in norther n Lancaster County , Pa . w e Margaret Co an , b . July 8, 1764; m . John Ramsey , n e farmer , of Lower Oxford Tow ship , Ch ster County , Pa .

f James Cowan , b . Nov . 12, 1767 ; d . Nov . 18, 1850; m . 1 1 in January , 797 , Mary Hope , b . June 11 , 1774; d . March 1 ,

1855. (See below . ) 2 1 2 85 . g Sarah Cowan , b . April 7 , 77 ; d . April 10, 1 ; m 17 95 1 2 . in October , , Michael Wallace Boyd , b . Nov . 9 , 76 ; d 2 2 Nov . 5, 18 7 . The following are the six children of James and Mary (Hope) Cowan : 1 r 1 97 1 2 Ma y Cowan , b . 7 d . 89 m . Robert Cowan , son of Adam Cowan . 2 2 . . 9 28 1887 . 6 179 . . m Joseph Cowan , b Nov , ; d Feb , 11 183 April , 3, Elizabeth Scott . PARKE FAM ILY HIS TORY 37

3 . . 7 18 1 , 0 . 31 Robert Cowan b Dec , ; d May , 1889 ; m .

Phoebe Moore . 4 . . 14 1804 Hannah Cowan , b Feb , ; d . Feb . 2, 1872 m . M h r John H . cP e s on . l 5 . . 14 1807 John Cowan , b Nov , d . March 17 , 1889 , un married . 6 . . 20 1810 1 James Cowan , b Feb , ; d . Jan . 3 , 1892; m .

Amy Martin . 1829 e Rebecca Wallace , b . ; d . March 22, 1914; m . April 10 8 6 1 6 . 8 , , R Bruce Ramsay , b . Jan . 1 , 1834; d . May 1 , 1915. i His home was n East Fallowfield Township , near Coates n ville . He was o e of the oldest and best known farmers of that part of the county . They had four children :

a Margaret E . Ramsay , m . Charles Kendig , who died in

1908. Six children : arvo (a) P n Kendig .

(b) John Ramsay Kendig .

( d) Mary Frances Kendig . r ~ liz (e) Sa ah E ab eth Kendig . D (f) Charles Kendig , R . F . . , Coatesville , Pa . ’ b Robert Bruce Ramsay, of Martin s Corner , Pa .

0 William Chester Ramsay , of Coatesville , carpenter, i n : u r e. m . Kate McG Two childre

(a) William Chester Ramsay , Jr .

(b) Donald Ramsay .

d Arthur P . Ramsay , m . Ritta White . Reside near : Doe R un, Pa . Three childr en

(a) Preston Ramsay .

(b) Paul St . Clair Ramsay .

(c) Gregg Ridgway Ramsay . 2 2 18 . 9 f William R . Wallace , b . Feb . 9 , 3 ; d March , 39 191 94; m . Margaret J . Ramsay , b . 18 ; d . 8. Two chil 13en :

a William Wallace, d . in infancy .

i 186 9 18 9 . b Laura Wallace, b . Apr l 9 , 9 (1. Sept . , 7

2 l t . 190 . s 1833 . an . 3 g Helen Wallace , b . ; d J , ; m Dr

2m . Charles C . Armstrong, of Pittsburgh , P a . ; m . d , David L

Smith , b . Feb . 4, 1827 d . 1902; of Allegheny County, Pa .

N0 children .

David L . Smith was a member of Company A , Second was s lieuten Virginia Volunteers , of which he elected fir t 38 PA RKE FAMILY HISTO RY

- and -d e ant . He was promoted to lieutenant colonel aide

camp on the staff of General Meade , of the Fifth Army 16 1866 Corps , in the Civil War , and was discharged March , ,

after a service of fo ur years and ten months . He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

for two terms . In 1870, Colonel Smith was elected alder ma in and o 1881 n Allegheny City held the p sition until , r on when , having married M s . Armstrong March 7 , 1880, a they removed to Chester County , P . , and oc cupied a farm

they h ad purchas ed from Isaac N . Haines , then of Pome

roy , Pa . Colonel and Mrs . Smith devoted all the tact and energy they possessed to the selling of building lots and the u upb ilding of the then small town of Pomeroy , about which

lay their farm land . They met with such success that very little of their farm remaine d to them at the time of their

decease . 39 orr e t 183 18 111 . W s . 6 h Annie Wallace , b . ; George , b in th e 5th d . Feb . 23, 19 12. He served nine months 17 Penn s sylvania Infantry, Company I , in the Civil War . He w a a P a farmer, but lived re tired in Parkesburg , . , during the lat

er years of his life . They had no children . 2 D Thomas Wallace , b . April 2 , 17 92; d . March 29 ,

1870. Unmarried . 4 E Tabitha Wallace , b . May 5, 179 ; d . Aug . 17 , 187 1 ; l s t m . , Samuel Glasco , Feb . 26 , 1823. One child

3 Margaret Ellen Glasco , died , aged 13 years . 2nd 2 2 m . Jan . 1 , 18 6 , Thomas Stewart , b . 1785 ; 18 ’ 65. w d . He as captain of a military compan y in the War 812 of 1 . They had fo ur children :

a William Stewart , d . April 14, 1855. Un married . b Martha Ann Stewart , b . 1831 ; d . 1907 . Unmarried . 1833 c Margaret Stewart , b . ; deceased ; m . Colonel An w dre Mosby . They resided near Richmond , Va . He was a in th e prom nent officer Confederate Army . They had one ciild :

a Florence Mosby , who died , aged 14 years .

. 183 . 6 d J Latta Stewart , b ; d . Nov . 1 , 1897 m . Mary n Hodgso , daughter of Alexander Hodgson , farmer , of near P a Cochranville , . , and neice of the late eminent s urgeon , Dr .

. D Hayes Agnew , of Philadelphia , Pa . She died in 1914. They had five children : PARKE FAM ILY HI STORY 39

a Margaret Agnew Stewart , m . Dr . J . Howe Adams , of

Paoli , Chester County . Three children :

(a) Marguerite Agnew Adams .

(b) D . Hayes Agnew Adams .

e b B rtha Stewart m . George Henderson , E s q . , who was n in 4 bor Philadelphia , 9 years ago , was educated in the d Frien s Central School , and was graduated from the Uni versity of Pennsylvania in 1889 and from the Law School in 18 - 96 . He practiced in the office of former Attorney Gen eral M . Hampton Todd , with whom he associated for several w a years . He s appointed by Gov . Brumbaugh , of P ennsy l ’ vania , to fill a vacancy on the Orphan s Court bench , of

Philadelphia , to succeed the late president j udge , Morris

Dallet . He is a member of the Law Association , of Phila delphia , the Pennsylvania Bar Association , the Union

League , the Historical Society of Pennsylvania , a member of the Board of Trustees of the West Chester Normal School and for several months served on the Exemption

Board of the Second District of Chester County , passing n upon cl aiins in the Army draft . Judge Henderso resides in the Gladstone and his country home is in Paoli . Th ey have three children :

(a) Dorothy Erwin Henderson , m . Oct . 30, 1915, Jar e d n Guenther, of Hamilton Court, Philadelphia . r 2 2 (b) George Henderson , J . , (1. Aug . 6 , 1917 , aged 2 years .

(c) Mary Henderson . Or c Mattie Stewart m . Kurtz Prevot Wilson , of New : leans . Reside in New York City . Have one child

(a) Kurtz P . Wilson , Jr .

d Susie Stewart m . C . Bernard Tiero . Have two chil

( a ) Erwin Agnew Tiero . r (b) Mary C ey hton Tiero . 8 21 1 70 . . e Willie Alexander Stewart, b . Feb . , ; d Dec

23, 1874. 2 22 1797 . . 2 F Margaret G . Wallace , b . April , ; d Sept ,

27 1829 . 1805 . . 1855 ; m . Daniel Ramsay , Aug . , ; b ; d Sept : 20, 1882. Two children

83 . I sa a Baxter Ramsay , b . 1 7 ; deceased ; dentist ; m bella Scott . Two children : 40 PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

a Daniel Stanley Ramsay .

in . b Alice Ramsay . They all resided Pittsburgh , Pa

1 9 . b Margaret Jane Ramsay , b . 83 ; m . William R Wal

29 1894. : 9 1832 . lace , b . Feb . , ; d March , Two children 2 2 180 . 23 1800 . G John Wallace , b . July , ; d March , a 18 8 1803 . J n . 18 99 H John H . Wallace , b . Sept . , ; d th , ; l st 15 1828 4 10 d . . aged 95 y . , m ; m , May , , Rebecca Rank d e m. 1 . on : 9 1830 23 . 6 7 ; in , who died Nov . , ; aged y , , child

1830. a Died in infancy , Sept . 9 ,

20 180 . 2 . 0 M . 2nd , June 12, 183 , Jane Patton, b June , d

1 885. : Jan . 0, 1 Seven children 1 3 6 a Martha Ann Wallace , b . April 7 183 ; m . June ,

e P a 27 1883. 1 . . . 883, Temple Jon s , of Downingtown , ; d Oct

N0 children .

b Margaret Rebecca Wallace , b . Sept . 16 , 1834; d . June 4 1867 18 1832; . 12, 1916 ; m . Levi Smith in ; b . Aug . , d July ,

in . 1908. They had one child , who died infancy Levi Smith served three years in the Thirtieth Pennsylvania Infantry ,

First Reserves , Company A .

8 6 1 1911 . c Isabella P . Wallace , b . April 7 , 1 3 ; d . Aug . ,

Unmarried . 83 (I John P . Wallace , b . Oct . 11 , 1 7 compiler of this

1 868 . an 9 Parke genealogy ; m . Feb . 1 , 1 , Sue D . Davis , b J ,

1846 . No children . n 3 7 e James Hayes Wallace , b . Ja . 15, 18 9 ; d . May ,

1888, in his 5oth year ; m . Oct . 2, 1867 , E . Matilda Harper , 184 24 1 b . 3 ; d . May , 908. Six children : 1 68 1 a John Franklin Wallace , b . July 11 , 8 ; d . Aug . ,

b 1 8 on Herbert Lee Wallace , b . Aug . 6 , 1 70; carries bakery business in the city of Denv er , Colorado ; m . Emma a H re , Sept . 18, 1896 . Three children fl (a) John Wallace , b . May 21 , 1897 . Died from in u i enza in an Engl sh Hospital . A drafted U . S . Soldier .

(b) Bertha Emma Wallace , b . Sept . 1 , 1898. 0 ( ) Mary Bell Wallace , b . Nov . 13, 1901 .

c Arthur Ernest Wallace , b . June 22, 1874; traveling salesman ; m . Edna Eno , Aug . 4, 1903. Resides in Los Ah geles , Calif . No children .

d Ada Bell Wallace , b . April 23. 1877 ; d . Oct . 31 , 1900.

Unmarried .

e William H . Wallace , b . Sept . 27 , 1879 ; employed in

42 PARKE FAMILY HISTO RY

of $ 1250 to Upper Octoraro Church , which materially aided in the erection of the present manse of the church . l ll 4 1 B Mary McC e an, d . 186 ; m . July 1 , 1825, Malcolm 1 3 1862. Leech , d . April , They removed , after their mar e ri ge , to Pittsburgh , Pa .

l ll a 8 184 in 4 th C Kezia McC e n, d . Nov . 1 , 6 , her 7 year ; 22 m . July 26 , 1827 , John M . Witherow, d . June , 1851, in his 48 th year . Five children :

a Mary Ann Witherow, d . Dec . 25, 1846 , in her 18th

832 12 b . 25 1 . 1900 Samuel Witherow, b June , ; d June , ; 2 m . Elizabeth Wright ; (1. Nov. 3, 1899 . Resided in Harris a burg , P . Four children :

a Ida C. Witherow, m . Charles H . Ossman . Three children :

(a) Mary E . Ossman ; m . Wilson Mitchell . Two chil

Genevieve 0. Mitchell

Mildred Mitchell .

0. (b) Charles Ossman ; m . Mabel Senior . One child .

Willard Ossman .

children .

b John G . Witherow ; m . Jean Thompson . Four chil

(a) Joseph T . Witherow . McClell (b) John an Witherow .

(d) Margaret B . Witherow .

c Jennie R . Witherow .

. d Martha R Witherow ; m . William Grant Schooley .

. . . 13 183 c Rev John L Witherow , b March , 6 ; d . Sept .

. d s u on ; . 2 m Anna J d Sept . 4, 1909 . They had one c 1

a Genevieve Witherow .

. r Rev John Lindsay Witherow was bo n near Lenover , Pa ’ and spent his early years on his father s farm . The early

loss of his parents threw him upon his own resources . He r e c el ved a preparatory education in the Tuscarora Academy o , unl ata , P a . , I J County and the Media Classical nstitute , Dela P a ware County , . Graduated from Princeton College in 1860 , i 8 and Princeton Theological Seminary n 1 63. Was PARKE FAM ILY HISTORY 43 licensed by the New Castle Presbytery while still in the seminary . He became pastor of the Abington Presbyter ian Church , ne ar Philadelphia . Five years later he he came pastor of the famous Arch Street Church , where he remained five years . His next pastorate was the Second

Church , of Ind ianapolis , and it was while he was there that he received a call from the Park Street Church , of Boston , in Mass . , and entered on his pastorate in 1876 . His success reviving this church caused wide comment . Ten years lat er he accepted a call to the pastorate of the Third Presby 12 terian Church , of Chicago , Ill . , where he remained for years . Strife then breaking out in the Park Street Church

en . at Boston , where he had been pastor t years , Dr Wither i ow wa s appealed to return , which he did n September , 1898. The Park Street Congregational Church w as the only church of other than the Presbyterian faith that Dr. Witherow ever

‘ re presided over, and while there h e add s sed in annual s er mons th e great missionary societies with which the church was affiliated . While serving as pastor of the Third Pres b eri y t an Church , in Chicago , Dr . Witherow assumed the presidency of the great Presbyterian Hospital there . I n 1895 he w as the moderator of the General Assembly of the P r sb teri y an Church of America . The following year he presided over a distinguished committee , of which Presi n dent Harriso , Chief Justice Harlan and other eminent civil ians were members , and which was charged with the dis f patch o important business of the denomination . Two years before his decease failing health compelled him to serve as - i pastor emeritus , his congregation refusing to accept h s 4 resignation . He died in the 7 th year of his age and the twentieth year of his pastorate over the Park Street

Church . 4 22 1 183 ; . . (1 Rebecca Witherow , b . March 7 , d Nov , 12 1898 1 8 8 2 . . 89 ; m . James B . Wright , b . Feb . 23, 1 3 ; d . Dec ,

Resided in Coatesville , Pa .

11 1841 . e Dr . James L . Witherow , b . Dec . , ; dentist ; m

2 mer e 25 1846 . One l . March 1 , 186 8, E ne Reece, b . Jan , chi d

o . a Charles R andolp Witherow , of Island P nd , Vt

Dr . Witherow and wife reside in Honey Brook Borough ,

l 11 1824 D An na Love McCl e l an , m . Nov . , , Thomas i Morgan . Had s x children : 44 PARKE FAMILY HISTO RY

2 182 r . 8 5 . . 2 11 Thomas Morgan , J , b . Nov . , ; d Oct 8,

t . 1895 ; m . Margare Had one son , Joseph Morgan 1827 2 b Mary Jane Morgan , b . Jan 5, ; d . July 7 , 1898. r Unmar ied . 1 c Isaac Morgan , b . May 24, 830; d . July 4, 1890. 2 18 1 (1 Sarah Morgan , b . Jan . 17 183 ; d . Aug . , 899 ; m . 15 182 5. Al in May , 1851 , John J . Thompson Love , b . Nov . ,

most all their descendants live in Colorado Springs , Colo . Six children : 8 2 P h e e 1 1 5 . an 24 m r . J . a William Love , b July , ; m , 1854 1877 , Henrietta Foster, b . May 21, . Had four children : 2 (a) Grace Agnes Love , b . Aug . 4, 1878. 8 (b) Arthur C . Love , b . Sept . 6 , 18 0; m . Mildred

1911 1890. Schaefer in b . in Have one child , Virginia S . 1 Love , b . March 8, 19 3. n 23 1 4 (c) Earl Thompso Love , b . Sept . , 88 ; m . in 1904 6 81 Mabel Carson , b . April , 18 . No children .

(d) Ray Foster Love , b . April 22, 1889 . 18 18 b Mary Adaline Love , b . Sept . , 54; m . John Ah 2 18 . 7 54 drew Van Eaton , b June , ; d . Aug . 3, 1912. Four children :

‘

. 1 1 (a) Maggie Ethel Van Eaton , b April 7 880; d . July

17 , 1895.

. 13 1882 (b) Albert Van Eaton , b Feb . , ; d . June 20,

( . 9 1884 c) Robert Love Van Eaton , b April , m . June 3 1909 . 24 1 , , Susie Bernhart , b March , 881 . P h emer ) . 1 (d John Van Eaton , b June 8, 1890.

. . . 22 1856 2 c Martha A Love , b Sept , ; m . May 1 , 1876 ,

. . 16 1848 William Jones Foster, b Feb , ; d . Sept . 21 , 1895. Five children :

( ) . . in 1877 in a Elsie L Foster, b m . 1907 , Percy Ged in i d gs , b . n 1868. ) . 9 18 Chester Arthur Geddings , b Sept . , 80; d . June 1 1892 ( ) . . 5 1882 c Minnie Geddings , b Sept , ; d . Aug . 6 , 1883. ( ) . 2 d Bertha May Geddings , b Dec . 8, 1886 . ( ) e Blanche Helen Geddings , b . April 15, 1888.

. . . 25 1860 L . d Sarah P ove , b Nov , ; d Sept . 13, 1888.

Unmarried .

. . Jan . 14 1864 21 e Newton C Love , b , ; d . Nov . , 1866 .

. Oct 1 f Joanna Elizabeth Love , b . 7 , 1867 . PARKE FAMILY HIS TORY 45

McCl ell e Kezia an Morgan , b . Sept . 23, 1833 ; d . in 1875 ; m . Samuel Ramsay . One son, who died in childhood . 13 3 f Joseph Barr Morgan , b . Dec . , 18 5 ; d . July 25,

1894; m . Elmina Shaub . Three children :

a William Morgan , m . Sarah No children .

b John Morgan , m . Maud Lutz . Three children . e r c Mary Morgan m . George Ke p o ts . Three children . l ellan 1 Mc . 1 1 E Thomas C , b April 7 , 8 0; d . Feb . 13, 1 1841 1868 . 8 ; m March , , Martha Wright ; b . Sept . 12, 1811 ; d . June 18, 1893. Eight children : McCl ell an . 2 4 a Prof John Witherow , b . Dec . 8, 18 1 ; d . 22 1896 . . 1869 June 6 , ; m Dec , , Elizabeth Johnson , of Coch ranville , Pa . No children . Mc l ell an b Samuel Parke C , b . June 20, 1843 ; d . April 12 18 17 , 1869 m . Dec . , 67 , Laura Houston . No children . l ll 18 Mc e an . 2 46 c David A . C , b June , ; d . Feb . 20, 1850. d Mc l ella 22 44 Thomas Lindsay C n, b . Sept . , 18 ; d . Nov .

3, 1846 . l ell an e Mary Elizabeth McC , b . June 1 , 1848 ; d . June

16 , 1893. l ell an 85 f Joseph Nas sau McC , b . Sept . 10, 1 5 d . Aug .

3, 1860. l ll 2 Mc e an P a . 111 g Alfred G . C , of Towerville , ; . June 9 .

1882, Reb ecca A . Long . They had two children : l ll a Isabel C . McC e an . l ell b James Witherow McC an .

h Martha Jane McCl ell an . F Ann Parke was the sixth daughter of Arthur 2nd 22 1793 and Jennet Parke ; b . 1769 ; d . 18 ; m . in October , , Ar : ch ib ald Moore ; carpenter and builder . Six children a A Elizabeth Moore ; m . Ingham Kinsey . They r mov 2 ed to Ohio about 18 0. i B Jenn e Moore ; m . George Eagle , deceased , who was long undertaker near Cambridge , Chester County , Pa . Six children : : a Mary Eagle ; m . Levi Buley . Six children

a George Buley ; m . Louise Herr .

b Sarah Buley ; m . John Reeser .

c Parke Buley ; m . Laura Stauffer .

d Frank Buley ; m . Jennie Plank .

e Elwood Buley ; m . Irene Miligan .

f Jennie Buley ; m . James H . Helms .

One h . b Cyrus Eagle ; m . Elizabeth Emery . c ild 46 PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

a Sar ah Eagle , who married Whitehill Reel . : c Parke Eagle ; m . Lucy Cavana . One child

a George Eagle .

. d Amos Eagle ; m . Catherine Reel . No children d : e Elizabeth Eagle ; m . James Emer y . Three chil ren

a Louis Emery .

b Elwood Emery .

c Kinzer Emery .

1828 . . 11 f Kezia Eagle ; m . Charles Buley ; b . ; d Dec ,

in . 19 14. Ten children . All born Cambridge , Pa

a George Buley ; m . Anna Garmen .

b Anna Buley ; m . Amos Miller ; merchant at Rock Run ,

Chester County , Pa .

c Abner Buley ; m . Laura Hoover .

d Kezia Buley ; m . Joseph Cairns .

Br eck enb r id e . e Jane B uley ; m . Daniel g

P a . f Emma Buley ; m . Jacob Diehm , of Parkesburg, ; 2 8 (1. March 6 , 191 .

g Caroline Buley ; m . John Christman .

h Cyrus Buley ; m . Martha Clay .

Ha ers ett. i Sarah Buley ; m . Humphrey p p

j Amos Buley ; m . Geneva Clay .

C . Kezia Moore ; m . Joseph Becher ; no children ; resided ‘ in Honey Brook Towns hip, Chester County , Pa .

D Arthur Moore was married and had two sons , Edgar and Elwood Moore , who enlisted in the Civil War and were never heard of afterwards .

E Mary Moore ; died in early life .

F Nancy Moore , married a Mr . Sandue and had several children .

G Hannah Parke , b . 1771 ; d . prior to 1857 . The last ’ survivor of Arthur and Jennet Hope Parke s ten children . All born in the west end of the old farm house on the George l l L ind e . y farm in Highland Township , Chester County , Pa f She married Jacob Hershberger , November, 1797 , and a terw ar ds William Calhoun . Six children by Jacob An : A n Hershberger ; m . Jacob Bitner. Four children h a T omas P . Bitner .

b Tabitha Bitner .

c Barnet Bitner . d Daniel Bitner . B Thomas P . Hershberger ; m . Hannah Bitner . One ch ild PARKE FAM ILY HIS TORY 47

n a Jane Hershberger ; m . Alexa der Thompson .

Jr . C Jacob Hershberger, , and Mary, his wife , had two children :

a Merton Hershberger .

b Emily Hershb erger . i D Arthur Hershberger ; d . n 1837 .

E Samuel Hershberger .

F Joseph Hershberger . These children were all born near Bealsville , Mifflin County, Pa . 5 1 4 H Tabitha Parke ; d . June , 8 7 , unmarried , in her ’ 73d year . Owned her father s homestead . r I John Arthur Parke , J . , d . in infancy . 7 2 J Martha Parke , b . 17 7 ; d . July 9 , 1811 ; m . James 21 8 8 5 Patton , b . June , 176 ; d . Feb . , 18 8. James Patton w as th e son of Thomas Patton , b . 1725 ; d . Aug . 4, 1812, who i r came to Amer ca from the County Ty one , Ireland , in 1744. r He located ﬁ st on the forks of the Delaware River, Phila P a and r 1 3 delphia , . , mar ied Isabella Hayes , b . 7 2, d . Oct . 6 , 1811 in 1772 , but removed to Pequea , Lancaster County , Pa on the Churchtown road , north of the Pequea Valley and three miles west of Honey Brook Borough , Pa . James and Mar tha Parke had six children : 2 a A Jane Patton , b . June 0, 1800; d . J n. 10, 1885 ; i 2 18 3 11 18 39. n 183 , John H . Wallace , b . Sept . 8, 0 ; d . Jan . ,

Seven chil dren . (See page 2 1 B Isabella Patton , b . Sept . 7 , 180 ; d . Nov . 19 , 1878.

Unmarried . n 1 C Maria Patto , b . March 9 , 1803 ; d . in 1880; m . Sept . 1 182 2 2 , 8, Levi Chamberlain , b . Aug . 8, 179 ; d . Jul y 29 ,

1849 .

. o Mr Chamberlain was b rn in Dover, Vermont, Aug . 28, 17 92 and i ﬁf - , d ed aged ty seven years . His early life was a spent with n uncle in Boston , Mass . , by whom he was trained to the mercantile business . When of age he began this sort of work for himself with such success as to have the almost certain prospect of accumulating wealth . He became a member of the Park Street Church in 1818 and his heart was ever afterward drawn toward the gospel ministry . After consulting with j udicious friends he gave up his mercantile business and commenced a preparatory course of study in the academy in Andover , Mass . , for the ministry . Indications of the disease that ultimately proved o fatal , along with the exigency of the missi nary work , led 48 PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

to a change in his life plan . Placing his little property where its avails would help forward the cause of missions , he accepted an invitation to j oin the ﬁrst reenforcement of the mission to the Hawaiian Islands and arrived in Honolulu

April 27 1823. He entered upon his new labors with a self devotion which never wavered . He brought to his work a

, , vigorous mind , a sagacious j udgment, a body though frail exceedingly active and efﬁcient , and a spirit supremely de e voted to his Redeemer and the good of his fellow m n . His toils were incessant and perplexing , but he shrank from no - . e sacrifice , no self denial He was ready to take the low st place , the poorest fare , the hardest toil ; ready to be a hewer of wood and drawer of water in building the temple of the

Lord on those then heathen islands . The range of his mind w as by no means restricted to the secular conc erns of the mission . His correspondence with his brethren of the mis sion and his patrons at home touched on almost every vital u l nter es t, and was tr ly wonderful in its quantity , its matter and the neatness and accuracy of its execution . Long and wearisome days he devoted to the examination of native schools , and being himself proﬁcient in penmanship he took pleasure in imparting the art to the more advanced of the ’ native pupils . Mr . Chamberlain s experience , j udg ment and piety gave him influence with his brethren as a counsellor . - He leaned to the side of self denial , prudence and caution . a His opinions were frankly and kindly expressed . The H 4 walian Mission suffered a great loss on July 29 , 18 9 , by the - death of Levi Chamberlain who , for twenty six years was f the senior superintendent of its secular a fairs . Probably no man has lived on those islands who was more generally respected and beloved . As a husband , as a father , as an agent entrusted with great responsibilities , as a member of the mission and the foreign community he wa s the same conscientious , devoted Christian . Levi and Maria Patton Chamberlain had eight children :

r 8 a Wa ren Chamberlain , b . July 17 , 1829 ; d . Dec . , 19 14 P n i . n 4 ; m Celia e nah Wright , b . April 2, 185 . Five r child en . - Warren Chamberlain , w h o was eighty ﬁve years of age , died at the residence of his son , W . W . Chamberlain , on

Spencer Street , Honolulu , Hawaiian Islands . He was the v i a oldest son of Le i Chamberlain , born in Kaw a ah o, in a u 1 grass ho se , July 7 , 1829 . In the year 1836 , when but

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mar 16 1869 . Un c Harriet Gordon Forbes , b . July ,

' 6 10 1875 . . cl Anna Isabella Forbes , b . Sept . , d Nov ,

‘ 24 1833 ( 1 Martha Ann Jenkins Chamberlain , b . June , ;

4 1913. . d . Aug . , Unmarried 5 9 183 . e Rev . James Patton Chamberlain , b . June , ; d

1 . March 9 , 19 1 ; m Helen Maria Lightbody at Stockbridge ,

5 1866 . : Wisconsin , Oct . 2 , Two children

1869 . a John Evarts Chamberlain , b . Nov . 5, Resides

. at Mt . Vernon , Oregon . Unmarried 2 1 b Helen Maria Chamberlain , b . July , 873, at Stock 8 1896 bridge , Wis . ; m . Worth Osborn Aiken April , , at La : Crosse , Wis . Three children

9 1897 . (a) Bertram Smythe Aiken , b . Nov . ,

3 903. (b) Martha Osborn Aiken , b . April 1 , 1

28 1911 . (c) Malcolm Chamberlain Aiken , b . June ,

Reside at Makawao Maru , Hawaiian Islands . i i Rev . James P . Chamberlain was born in the Hawa an Islands in the old historic coral house eastward from Ka ‘ He i h u n . w a a ae Ch rch , in Ho olulu was one of the band of. missionary children whose attendance is noted at the open ing of the P unah on School , in 1842. Later he attend ed the

Royal School under the principalship of Rev . E . G . Beck l with . Leaving Hono ulu in 1854, at nineteen years of age , he entered Williams College , Massachusetts , and from thence went to Bangor , Me Theological Seminary . His r ﬁrst pasto ate was in a mining town in California . After — $ — wards , for many years more than thirty h e preached in the state of Wisconsin . About the year 1895 he moved to

Eastern Oregon , where he took up a homestead of 160 acres at Mt . Vernon , Grant County . Rev . James P . Chamberlain , ma like his honored father, Levi Chamberlain , was a n of C r sterling hristian character . He died March 9 , 1911 , s u vived n by his wife a d two children , John Evarts Chamber f o . lain , Mt Vernon , Oregon , and Mrs . Helen Aiken , of Maka wao Maru , Hawaiian Islands . f Levi Tenney Chamberlain , b . April 30, 1837 . Uh married . 1 g Isabella Chamberlain , b . Nov. 3, 1838 ; d . May 6 , 1901 ; m . Frederick Swartz Lyman Feb . 16 , 1861 . Six i ch ldren , all born in Honolulu , Hawaiian Islands

m . a Ellen Goodale Ly an , b . Nov. 30, 186 1 PARKE FAMILY HISTORY 51 r b F ederick Snowden Lyman , b . May 7 , 1863 ; m . Mary

. 7 1 9 A Babcock Jan . , 88 . No children .

c Francis Anderson Lyman , b . May 7 , 1863 ; m . Mary

C . 12 1895 Aldrich March , . Two children , b oth born at

Madison , Wis . : m (a) Francis Aldrich Ly an , b . Nov . 3, 1896 .

(b) Howard Bertram Lyman , b . July 11 , 1902. '

e . . 16 186 m d Levi Chamb rlain Lyman , b Dec , 6 ; . Nettie 6 1 E . Hammond July , 897 . Tw o children ; both born at

Heilo , Hawaii .

(a) Kathryn Isabel Lyman , b . July 11 , 1898.

(b) Orlando Hammond Lyman , b . Nov . 19 , 1903. v m e Ernest E arts Ly an , b . Feb . 10, 1872; m . Ella Day ton , Feb . 10, 19 11 , at Honolulu 2 f Esther Rosalie Lyman , b . Jan . 5, 1876 ; m . William l s e McC u k y at Heilo , Hawaii . One child : l e (a) Robert McC usk y , b . Feb . 7 , 1912, at New York

City, N . Y .

D Thomas Hayes Patton , b . July 17 , 1804; d . Sept . 27 , 1 4 8 4; far mer, of Salisbury Town ship, Lanca ster County,

in 8 1811 . v Pa ; . Leah Evans , in 1831 ; b . March 1 , Fi e chil dren : 2 a Sylvanus Patton , b . July 10, 183 ; d . 1909 ; farmer , of Honey Brook Township ; in . l st Mary Ann Irwin , March

1 , 1855. One child .

a Annie Patton , b . March 14, 1856 ; m . Joseph Fisher . Three children : 4 (a) Thomas Hayes Fisher, b . Sept . 4, 188 . 20 1 8 (b) Arthur Fisher, b . March , 88 .

894. (c) Alice Fisher, b . April 8, 1

The Fisher home is at Glen Moore , Pa . 1 (I. 19 3. 3 Sylvanus Patton m . 2d Alice Marshall , 4 and b Evans Patton , b . April 11 , 183 ; stock dealer n carp enter, of La ncaste r County , P a. ; in . Catheri e Emery , : of South Hermitage, Lancaster County , Pa . Six children

a Susan Patton.

b Ellie Patton . ne c Dorrie Patton ; m . James Littrell . O child

(a) Cora Elizabeth Littrell .

d Catherine Patton .

mer h ren. r . e Mary Patton ; m . Pr of. Samuel G o No c ild

f Arth ur Patton, died when young . 62 PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

This family when grown up , removed to East St . Louis,

d . Ill . , an afterward to the state of Missouri

c Martha Patton , b . Feb . 23, 1836 ; m . B . Mercer , b . 12 April 4, 1835 ; d . May 1, 19 ; carpenter . They had three children

a George H . Mercer, b . June 22, 1862; in creamery business . 1 1863 b L . Lizzie Mercer, b . Aug. 1 , . 18 18 0 c Walter E . Mercer, b . April , 7 ; carp enter and ’ builder ; m . Adelai de E . Eberle , dec d ; reside in Seattle ,

Wash . One child :

(a) Eberle Evans Mercer, b . in 1917 . 1 d Josephine Louise Patton , b . July 30, 838 ; d . July 31,

2 44 e Thomas Hayes Patton , b . Sep t . 7 , 18 ; (1. Sept. 13, 1894 t ﬁ m r il ; phospha e agent for I . P. Thomas r ; m . Cla a W son. No chil dren .

E Ann Patton , b . Dec . 4, 1806 ; d . 1889 ; m . Hugh Rob r 3 183 6 1 2 m inson Buchanan Ma ch , 6 ; d . March , 86 ; far er, of Salisbury Township , Lancaster County , P a . Two chil dren lived to maturity . He was for many years an elder in the Hone y Brook Presbyterian Church .

a Is aac Clingan Buchanan , b . Jan. 10, 1837 ; d . Dec . 20,

914 m. 18 r 1 ; , in 65, Ma y Miller, of Cambridge , Lancas ter

County , P a . ; farmer, who resided near South Hermitage , same county . Had nine children :

a Amaretta Buchanan , b . Dec . 25, 1865 ; m . John Gault, of the same place , now of Lancaster City . They have one child , Mary Gault .

b John Robinson Buchanan , b . 1867 . An c n Eliza Buchanan , b . 1869 .

d Mary Ermine B uchanan , b . 187 1 ; m . Lot Rodger L in i 1 1899 . tw n a nd coln June , Have o ch ldre . S muel a Rodger

Clingan Lincoln , of Churchtown , Lancaster County , Pa .

e Martha Frances Buchanan , b . 1875.

f Ella Maria Buchanan , b . 1878. 2 g Sarah Florence Buchanan , b . 188 ; professional u w n rse ith the American Army in France .

h Edna Lillian Buchanan , b . 1883.

i Walter Clingan Buchanan b . 1886 . 2 On Dec . 4, 19 14, the relati ves and friends assembled at the home of the late Isaac Clingan Buchanan to pay the last trib ute of affection to the memory of a man of unusual PARKE FAMILY HIS TORY 53

worth to the community where he resided . He was nearly - seventy eight years of age and w as only sick from Friday evening to Sunday evening . Death was caused by heart failure . He had been spared to be the father of a large w as family of children , and his the first death in it . Had he lived twenty-one days longer he could have celebrated with his faithful helpmate their golden wedding . He was long a member of the Pequea Presbyterian Church , was for merly a trustee and later an elder of the church . b r Ma tha Ann Buchanan, b . Feb . 3, 1843 ; resides in

Honey Brook Borough , P a . , 1809 F Arthur Parke Patton , b . ; d . 1834. Unmarried . This completes the record of the known descendants of 2 Arthur d and Jennet Hope Parke . 2 E s . . 21 173 Joseph Parke , q , b Dec . , 7 d . July 2, 1823 ; s on 1 c i the second of John ( ) and Elizabeth M Kn g ht Parke , and grandson of Arthur and Mary Parke . He w as a j ustice o f the peace for many years , a member of the Assembly for si x years , and progenitor of many and influential descend ants . He married l st Ann Grubb Sinclair, widow of George

‘

Sinclair , and daughter of Nathaniel Grubb , a member of the r ﬁ Assembly, t ustee of the Loan Of ce , owner of considerable real estate in Philadelphia , and possessor of a large farm and mill property in Willistown Towns hip , Chester County , r where M s . John G . Parke was born and resided during her early years . Nathaniel Grubb marr ied Ann Moore and they had eight children : e Ann Parke , Charity Calvert , Margaret Vernon , Phoeb r and Worrall , Samuel Grubb , Ma y Grubb , Thomas Grubb n Nathaniel Grubb . Thes e children were grandchildre of - John and Frances Grubb , of n ear Chester City , Delaware

a 1 9 . County , P a . , where they resided as early s 67 Joseph and Ann Grubb Parke had three children

1 25 1837 . A John G . Parke , b . Nov . 21 , 176 , d . Oct . , ; m 4 1832 in 62d April 24, 1792, Jane Gardner, d . Oct . 1 , , her ss in year . John G . Parke w as a member of the A embly w as a 1818, a j ustice of the p eace for many years ; elected as in t ruling elder of Upper Octoraro Church , and w a prom en w s the man in the community in wh ich he lived . He a owner of 200 acres of land through which the Penns ylvania t Railr oad w as , in 1830, being constructed . He devo ed all is w his energ y to the building up a town on h estate , ith what success is evidenced today by the b orough of Parkes 54 PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

His burg with its three thousand inhabitants . wife , Jane in . Gardner, was a daughter of Dr Joseph Gardner, born 1795 and 1752 and died in September, , Isabella Cochran ,

born in 1754 and died the same month as her husband . Both in are buried at the head of Christine Creek , Maryland . Jo s eph Gardner was one of the ﬁrst graduates of the Univer as s ity of Pennsylvania . He was very popular a physician

and much esteemed socially . His ﬁeld of practice extended I n from Honey Brook to Oxford , Pa . the Revolutionary War he was an active man among the patriots of his coun

ty , and raised two companies of troops for the army , which son were sent into the ﬁeld . Dr . Joseph Gardner was the

of Francis Gardner , who came from Coleraine , Ireland , in now 1733, and settled near the Beaver Dam in what is

Honey Brook Township , Chester County , Pa . Francis

Gardner was a man of strong mind , sound sense and deter

mined will , and was an active patriot during the R evol u i and t onary War . His wife was a Wallace , they had ﬁve

children , Dr . Joseph , And rew , John, Eleanor , and Francis , 1 Jr . Dr . Joseph Gardner was a member of the Provincial

Assembly for three years , and was chosen councilor in 1779 . He was also a member of the Continental Congres s in 1784

1785. He resided in West Caln Township , Chester County , a er on the farm of the late Rich rd McP h son, one mile north of Sadsburyville . Dr . Joseph and Isabella Gardner had three children :

. 14 1832 i Jane Gardner Parke , d Oct . , , n her 62d year ; m . John G . Parke , as mentioned above .

. . 19 1 Dr Francis Gardner , b Jan . , 773 ; d . Jan . 21 ,

1815 m. 17 9 , in May , 7 , Mary Hart . Studied medicine and n graduated at the U iversity of Pennsylvania . While his father remained in the county he assisted him in his exten v si e practice and afterward continued on his ow n account .

His home was in Valley Township , where he died and was ’ . om buried in St John s Churchyard , in C p assvill e . They i s had f ve children , two son and three daughters . The sons

. Jr . were Dr Francis , , and Thomas H . Gardner, late of Ox P a , . E ford The latter married veline , daughter of John ,

Jr . , and Elizabeth Witherow Cowan Fleming . They had i : E b ﬁve ch ldren Frank , Mary , liza eth , Jennie and Alice . Of

, . these Frank Gardner m Emma Roberts ; Mary Gardner m . o . E , R bert A vans of California , and Jennie m . Rev . Dr . Wil PARKE FAMILY HISTORY 55

P a liam Bingham , of Oxford , Chester County , . , in 1886 . She 1840 and was born April 6 , , died Jan . 14, 1893. Dr. Bing in 1822 in 19 2 ham was born and died 0 . He had been p as tor of the Great Valley Presbyterian and Avondale Church e an s d a theological professor in Lincoln Uni versity . 3 in 1 1 Robert Cochran Gardner, b . 78 ; d . in 1808, aged

27 years . He was captain of a merchant vessel and devoted - several years to a sea faring life . The following are the six sons and their descendents of

Jane Gardner and John G . Parke .

A Samuel Parke , E sq . , b . May 6 , 1795; d . April 28, l i 1859 ; resided and practiced aw n the city of Lancaster, Pa .

Unmarried .

25 1844. 1 1796 . B Joseph G . Parke , b . April , ; d May ,

Unmarried . 1 18 12 1797 . 2 60 C Francis G . Parke , b . Aug . , d . Feb ,

21 1799 . 13 1823 . . ; i . n March , , Sarah Hart Gardner , b Oct , d

Feb . 6 , 1848 ; daughter of Dr . Francis and Mary Hart Gard ner , and granddaughter of Thomas and Mary Hart . They had ﬁve children : 1 2 a Isabella Cochran Parke , b . Dec . 5, 18 3 ; d . Dec . 5, 1 5 91 ; m . Andrew Mitchell . They had no children . Isabella n -s C . Mitchell was a woma of marked characteristic , possess ing a high sense of honor, a warm and generous spirit , to en gether with a remarkably active mind and body . She j oyed wonderful health for her years until a short time b e fore her decease . Her life had been devoted to the families and of her brothers and sisters , of whom she was the oldest sh e b e last survivor . Mrs . Mitchell ever remembered that longed to an old Presbyterian family, her grandfather, John

. G . Parke , having been one of the pillars of Octoraro Church She always took a keen interest and active share in church work , ever lending a sympathizing ear to distress and sub s tantial assistance to the needy . t 13 1825; . 1892 . l s b Francis G . Parke , b . Oct . , d ; m

o P a . Sarah E . Fleming, of Elvers n , , daughter of George and

1856 . 20 1830 . 29 Sarah Perkis Fleming , b . Aug . , ; d June , They had one child : in 1911 and a Mary Frances Parke , who d . , had mar 1 83 ried Henry J . Branson , Jan . 1 , 8 , president of the Ches - ix l i . s ter Valley Nationa Bank , of Coatesv lle , Pa They had children : 56 PARKE FAMILY HISTO RY

(a) Anna M . Branson . i of . , (b) Isabella P . Branson , m Reagan Cartwr ght

1 1917 . 884 . . . 1 , Phoenix , Arizona ; b ; d Oct

Edward H . Branson .

(e) Sarah F . Branson .

(f) Laura Branson .

All born in Coatesville , Pa .

d 7 1859 . . . 2 E K Francis G . Parke m June , , Mary err Two children : 12 1863 h Andrew K . Parke , b . May , ; resides at Oak

Creek , Colorado .

c Francis Parke , b . Aug . 26 , 1866 ; office manager of

P a a . the Miller Paper Company , of Downingtown , . ; m . J n

30, 1901 , Harriet Longley .

c General John Grubb Parke , b . Sept . 22, 1827 d . Dec . ,

16 , 1900, w as a soldier and civil engineer . He graduated at the United States Military Academy , West Point, July 1 ,

1849, and was assigned to the topographical engineers as an ca brevet second lieutenant , d afterwards promoted to a p taincy . On Nov . 23, 1861 , he was commissioned brigadier general of volunteers and was assigned to the command of a ’ brigade in General Burnside s expedition to North Carolina , - 186 1 1862. He was in command at the capture of Fort Macon and received the brevet of lieutenant-colonel April 2 - 6 , 1862, for his services . He w as promoted to maj or g en eral of volunteers July 18, 1862. In th e Maryland cam p aig n of the Army of the Potomac he served as chief of staff of the Ninth Corps , being engaged in the battles of South 14 n i Mountain Sept . , and Antietam Sept . 17 , 1862, a d n the en pursuit of the Confederates to Warrenton , Va . When G . Burnside succeeded to the command of Army of the Poto mac , Gen . Parke w as retained as his chief of staff and took i part n the battle of Fredericksburg , Dec . 13, 1862. He was in command of the Ninth Corps on the march to Vicksburg

4 . and was present at the surrender of that place July , 1863 He w as engaged in all the operations of the Tennessee cam ai i t e p g n, including the siege of Knoxville , and n h Rich mond campaign of 1864 he participated in the battles of the

Wilderness and Sp ottsyl vania in command of a division . He was again in command of the Ninth Corp s before Peters of burg , and in all the subsequent operations of the Army

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17 1855 m . Benjamin I . V . Miller , Oct . , , who died in May : 1875. They had four children 19 1 5 a Guyon Miller, b . Sept . , 8 6 ; m . Annie G . Tutton 90 l 28 1 3. Oc t. 9 , 1879 , who died Sept. , No chi dren . Alex

ander P . Tutton , whose term under President Grant , of col

lector of the port of Philadelphia had j ust expired , organ - ized with the assistanc e of his s on-in law in 1881 under the

ﬁrm name of Guyon Miller Co. , the Downingtown Manu facturing Company for the manufacture of paper mill ma

chinery , This company makes all kinds of paper mill ma l chinery , and of such superior qua ity that they receive or

ders from all parts of the United States and Canada . Their extensive plant is situated on Washington avenue and they

employ a regular force of about ﬁfty hands .

. 25 185 b Frank P . Miller , b Jan . , 9 ; m . Sallie R . Mc Il vain Dec . 6 , 1883. One child :

M cIlvain (a) Anna Miller, b . Dec . 6 , 1887 .

. 18 1 Mr Miller , in 9 , organized and had incorporated the

Frank P . Miller Paper Co . which had be en in existence since 1881 . Since incorporation the capacity of the mill has been increased until it is now the largest of its kind in the United

States , and they are building a stone addition to their mill , on the opposite side of the road , on Brandywine v A enue . The increased demand for their product will nec es s itate doing this at once , and other kinds of paper and paper boards will be manufactured .

. . 24 c Sarah G Parke Miller , b Feb . , 1866 .

. d Joseph G Parke Miller, died in January , 1844, in in fancy .

All the children of B . I . V . and Mary Hart Miller have always resided in Downingtown , Pa .

. . . 26 1799 , . 2 D Hon Robert Parke b Oct , , d May 0, 1883, s ix was the fourth of the sons of John G . and Jane Gardner

Parke . Few men were as successful in business transac i t ons as Judge Parke . By his good business tact he became for his day one of the wealthiest men in western Chester County . He was a member of the Legislature in 1843-45; was an associate j udge of Chester Co . by appointment of n Gover or Pollock to fill an unexpired term in 1856 , and was afterwards elected by the people for the full term of five 1858 years from December , , to December, 186 3. He was one of the organi zers of the Parkesburg Bank in 1869 ; its firs t PARKE FAM I LY HI STORY 59

s a president for a term of four year , nd ever afterward , until

his a . w s man dece se , a director of the bank Judge Parke a a of kindly, genial , friendly disposition , a l iberal contributor to his church and all good enterprises . He died poss ess ed o o of the wealth and h n rs of this life like a shock of corn , 4th fully ripe , in his 8 year . He never married . 2 n E John Parke , b . March 9 , 180 ; d . April 6 , 1865. U married . 22 1807 F David Parke , b . April , d . March 11 , 1888 ; i resided in the homestead mansion n Parkesburg , P a . , where

a . . m his f ther, John G Parke , lived and died He was a far er , poss essed of over 375 acres of land . He married Mary 2 Brandt, b . Aug . 31, 1819 ; d . July , 1906 . Eight children : 22 1839 29 18 4 a Col . John B . Parke , b . Oct . , ; d . Dec . , 9 . - He was lieutenant colonel of the Second Infantry , U . S .

Army ; m . Annette Lumbert . Two children 186 1912 a Louraine Parke , b . 7 d . ; m . Nancy Lybby , of Salt Lake City , Utah . One child : s in m (a) David Parke , reside the State of Nevada . U married . b Mc ook C . 27 1 William Parke , b March , 869 ; d . Aug . 2 7 , 1880. 4 b Joseph G . Parke , b . 18 0; civil engineer ; resides in

Mexico ; m . Bessie Rousseau . One child :

a Mary Brandt Parke . Resides in Washington, D . C . 4 42 3 18 3. c Mary Jane Parke , b . Sept . 7 , 18 ; d . Sept . , 21 186 d Sallie Frances Parke , b . 1844; m . Nov . , 7 , John ne : D . Wilson , b . March 2, 1836 ; d . in 1909 . O child

a Douglass Wilson , b . March 17 , 1881 ; civil engineer ; m . Alice M . Houghton Noch ; resides in Portland , Oregon.

e Emma Elizabeth Parke , b . 1846 ; m . J . Glen Fisler ; b . 25 49 i Sept . , 18 ; reside n Brooklyn, N . Y . Two children :

a Glen Parke Fisler, b . July 14, 1890. 2 b Helen Vernon Fisler , b . April 30, 189 .

4 . e . f Isabella Parke , b . 18 8; m . Samuel J Torb rt ; b 4 : 18 0 d . March 3, 1880. Three children t 20 1907 a a a Robert Parke Torbert, m . 1st Oc . , , M rg r

an 15 1914. One C . Power , of Alexandria , Va . , who died J . , child : 2nd 28 1911 . (a) Marian Isabella Torbert , b . May , ; m 60 PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

ll . 29 Blanche Irving How ders h e , of Washington , D C June ,

1915. 19 1879 in b Warwick Miller Torbert , b . March , , Port

a . land , P . ; clerk in War Department

Tis s ow sk . 1900 . b Mazie Torber t, d . in ; m Anthony y Tw o children : k ( a) Antoinette Tis s ows y . ’ be a 11 (b) Isabella Tiss ow sk y . All Isa lle Torbert s f m y

C . reside in Washington , D .

. 1 52 . g Robert Parke , b . 8 ; m Mary Armstrong Two children :

1878. a Bessie J . Parke , b . 2 in 8 . b Mabel Parke , b . 18 All reside New York City ,

N . Y . 30 1918 14 1850 . . h Samuel D . Parke , b . July , ; d Oct ;

. i 4 . , m . in 187 , Mary C Miller, a daughter of John P M ller of : one of the oldest families of Reading , Pa . Three children

1882. a Catherine L . Parke , b .

1884. b M . Elizabeth Parke , b . 8 i c Eleanor Parke, b . 18 7 . All reside n Parkesburg,

1 1802 s on B Joseph Parke , b . May 1 , 1763, d . Dec . , ; of

n An . in Joseph Parke , Es q. , a d n Grubb Parke ; m December, 5 r 1794, Jane Parke , b . in 176 . She was a daughter of Arthu : Parke , 2d . They had three children

A Nathaniel G . Parke , Joseph Parke, both of Nash ville, Tenn and John Par ke . i 4 4 m i C Kez a Parke , b . Jan . 2 , 1767 d . July 21, 18 2; . , n ell an 4 14 , Colonel Joseph McCl b . April 28, 17 7 d . Oct. , 1322 ,

Colonel McCellan was born in Middleton Township ,

Delaware County , P a . , the oldest of eight children of James , i r . n l d February , 1793, and Martha McClel an, d . in Novembe , 1793 , who removed to Sadsbury Township , Chester County , ll about 1770. Joseph McCle an inspired by an appeal of A , r Rev . William Foster, then the pastor of Upper Octora o

Church , to the members of his church on their duty to enlist in the service of their country , delivered in the beginning of fl the year 1776 , resolved to accept the advice . By the in u ence of friends he secured a lieutenancy in a company in 6 command of Abraham Marshall , and on July 15, 177 , he was appointed a captain in the battalion commanded by Col .

Samuel Atlee . He was afterwards transferred to the Ninth PARKE F AJMI LY HIS TORY 61

Regiment of the Pennsylvania line , to serve during the war . From the time of his enlistment until his resignation March 22 1781 in , , he was generally with the main army New York , s New Jersey, Penn ylvania , Maryland and Virginia. He w as in o e u the battles of L ng l a d , Brandywine and Monmouth . He was man and a remarkably steady temperate, a strict dis ci linarian and in r p , reliable the pe formance of every duty. 4 In 178 Col . Joseph McCl ellan was elected a commissioner of

. I n 1786 rr Chester County he ma ied Kezia, daughter of Jo se h r E s . I n u 1790 as t p Pa ke, q A gust, , he w elec ed lieutenant of Chester County , with the rank of colonel . In 1792 he was ec r ff and in 94 el ted she i 17 , upon the outbreak of th e Whisky in est n n s i r mt se Rebellion w er Pe n ylvan a , he p o p ly rai d a t ro a a an m volun eer t op of c v lry d led the to headquarters , rea dy for action . I n 1797 Col . McClellan was elected a mem ber of the State Senate and in 1814, on the establishment of th e Bank of Chester County, he w as elected its ﬁrst p res i dent . Up on the visit of General Lafayette to the United a n 24-1 2 l ell St tes i 18 8 5, Col . McC an was appointed chairman ’ of a large committee to invite the nation s guest to visit the battle ground of the Brandyw ine .

In the Court House i n West Chester, he welcomed th e dis i “ t ng uished veteran Wi th these words : General Lafayette, it affords us supreme pleas ure that we have been chosen by our fellow citizens to greet you upon your visit to the scenes of your youthful gallantry on the banks of the Brandywine, and bid you a sincere and cordial welcome to the bosom of our c ountry . Language indeed can but feebly portray the j oyous and grateful emotions with which we behold amongst us , after a lapse of eight and forty years , the illus i d tr ous friend of human rights , who relinquished the en ear ments of his own domestic circle in a distant land to aid the fathers of our country in their struggle for independence , and who , on this ground , sealed with his blood his devotion ir e to the cause of American liberty . I n you , s , we r cognize with the profoundest respect and veneration the early , dis interested and steadfast champion of our Washington , our — Wayne and their gallant compatriots in arms the youthful volunteer who shared the toils of our fathers to secure the nd blessings of republican freedom to our land , a who , by the favor of Heaven , h as been preserved to witness the happi $ ness and receive the benediction of their grateful offspring . 62 PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

c l ellan on This was the last appearance of Col . M C a pub

n . 13 1834 lic occasion . He died o his Brandywine farm Oct , , - after a short illness , in his eighty eighth year . His body ’ was interred in his father s grave in Octoraro Cemetery .

McCl ellan Col . was a true soldier , a good citizen , a profess ing Christian and an upright man . On a stone at the head “ of his grave in Octoraro Cemetery is this inscription : Here ll 2 1 4 repose the remains of Joseph McCle an, born April 8, 7 7 , ' officer of R evol u died October 14, 1834. An approved the in . s tion . An estimable and highly esteemed citizen A and in cere Christian . In life respected venerated , death h is lamented . In commemoration of many virtues and pub lic services this stone is erected by those who delight to $ cherish his memory . There is also a memorial stone erect ed to his memory in the Birmingham Lafayette Cemetery , i where was fought the battle of Brandywine , n which he took an active part . He was survived by his widow and two “ l his chi dren , with a number of descendants , to cherish r memory , to inherit his enviable eputation , and emulate his $ noble example . The following were his four children :

l ell n 2 A Ann McC a , b . Aug . 5, 1787 ; d . Aug . 19 , 1860; m . 5 1804 Dec . , , William Hemphill , b . Dec . 6 , 1776, d . Oct . 2, 181 - 7 . The Hemphills are of Scotch Irish descent , and lo cate their Irish home in County Derry , 25 miles northeast of

Londonderry , Ireland , from whence Alexander Hemphill , the founder of the West Chester Hemphill family, with his two sons , James and Joseph , and daughter, Mary , and her h us d ban , John Fox , came to Edgemont , Delaware County ,

1 40. about 7 Alexander afterward removed to his s on,

James Hemphill , who had located in Goshen Township , where the father died in 1768. James , his s on, m . Dec . 26 , 1750 , Elizabeth Wills , b . Dec . 30, 1731 , daughter of Thomas An and n Wills , of Middletown . James bought a farm of 175 acres in Goshen in 1758 and lived on it until h is death in 1809 . He served as a township ofﬁcer in both E dg mont and

Goshen , and for 41 years was a trustee of the Middletown

Presbyterian Church . The childr en of James and Elizabeth

Wills Hemphill were James Anna , Mary , Catherine , Eliza beth , Susannah , Peter, Willi am and Alexander. William was b r in o n Goshen Dec . 6 , 1770, educated in the schools of West and Chester Wilmington , and in October, 1794, he was ap PARKE FAMILY HISTORY 63

prenticed to James Wilson , of Wilmington , to learn book a binding . Two years afterw rd he returned home and com menced in to study law the ofﬁce of his cousin , Joseph

Hemphill . I n May , 1799 , he was admitted to the Chester and in 1 County Bar , November, 803, he was appointed the deputy attorney g eneral for the county , which office he held a for ﬁve years . That he w s one of the leaders of the bar is attested by the records of the courts of Chester County , his name appearing as counsel in almost one-third of the cases tried from 1805 to the time of h is death . That he was a

$ progress ive citizen is shown not only by the fact that in front of his residence on High Street—where the Chester ‘ County Bank now stand s—was laid the ﬁrst brick pavement in the town , but also by the fact that he was the most ener getic solicitor of funds and the largest contributor to the

West Chester Academy , the normal school of that day , 1832. He was one of the organizers of the West Chester Fire Com pany in 1799 , and was for several years its treas urer . He w as prominent in the councils of the Federal Party and in

1811 became the candidate of that party for state senator , and though defeated by a small maj ority; he had the satis faction of running well ahead of his ticket . Ann (McCl ell an) and William Hemphill had four children :

a James Alexander Hemphill , b . Oct . 5, 1805; d . Dec .

14, 1879 . Unmarried .

11 18 0 in . b Joseph Hemphill , b . Dec . 7 , 1807 d . Feb . , 7 ;

Nov . 22, 1841 , Catherine Elizabeth Ballett , of Philadelphia ,

a 13 1878. P a . , b . Feb . 14, 1811 ; d . M y , s h is Joseph Hemphill , one of the foremo t lawy ers of instr uc day, was prepared for his legal profession under the - - He tion of his brother in law, Hon . Thomas S . Bell . was admitted to the bar in 1829 and engaged in active practice until his death , Feb . 11, 1870. He was devoted to his pro fession and brought to it talents of the first order . He served as deputy attorney general for Chester County from - e n . In 1861 1839 to 1845, and declined a r appointme t he was the Democratic nominee for the president j udg esh ip of r w as th e Chester and Delaware County Judicial Dist ict, but is t c a defeated by the Republican candidate . H dea h o c sion and n al ed wide spread reg ret, o the day of his funer mem bers of the local b ar testified to their admiration for his character by th e adoption of th e following resolution , offer “ in ed by Alfred P . R eid , E sq. : That the death of Joseph 64 PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

Hemphill the bar has lost one whose ability , acquirements and integrity adorned the profession ; that in his love for and devotion to the law, in the scrup ulous exactness and cheerfulness with which he accepted all its conclusions , his uniform courtesy and fidelity to the bench and b ar , his brethren had an example which they cannot follow too close and n ure ly ; that his social qualities , urbanity unselfish at marked the perfect gentleman in all the relations of life ; that in his death we all feel that we have lost a friend and brother ; that h is enlarged views and the keen appreciation of the character of the profess ion and his unwearying ef and e to u to the forts , both by p recept exampl , keep it p i r m standard he had formed of it, have been felt n ou idst, where he had for forty-three years been actively engag ed ‘ $ in its duties . Joseph Hemphill and Catherine Elizabeth Ballett had seven childr en :

a Joseph Hemphill , b . Sept. 17 , 1842; m . Feb . 28, 1867 ,

Eliza Ann Lytle , daughter of Colonel Edward H . Lytle , of

Blair County, Pa .

’ Joseph Hemphill , in 1860, entered his father s office as a student of law, and on Oct. 31, 1864, having p assed an ex cellen t examination , he was admitted to the bar and soon afterward went into partnership with his father , which last ’ ed until his father s death . From that time , till his eleva tion to the bench , he was a practicing attorney . He w as i elected n 1872 to the constitutional convention , and his ser i vices n that body , during that and the following year, were both conspicuous and useful . His valuable services in framing the State Constitution , his excellent j udg ment and - well balanced legal mind , his high standing at the bar, and his great personal popularity in the county , led the Demo cratic party , in 1889 , to name him as its candidate for addi tional law j udge , and in the fall of that year he was elected by a maj ority of thirty-two votes in a district that had for years been overwhelmingly Republican . Judge Hemphill 6 18 i took his seat Jan . , 90, and n June , 1897 , upon the death u of J dge Wadell , he became president j udge of the courts of

Chester County . Upon the expiration of his term in 1899 - he was nominated by the Democratic party for r e election , and was indorsed by every party in the county with a ticket in the field . In 1909 , although opposed by a popular and

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28 1826 1875 ; m . Dr . Wilmer Worthington , Sept . , ; b . Jan .

11 1873. 4 . . 22, 180 ; d Sept , Chester County history contains no more highly honor f ed name than that o Wilmer Worthington as physician , philanth r opi s t , and statesman . It is to be said of him that he was a model physician , skillful , benevolent and sympa thetic . Devoted to his patients , regardless of personal dis comfort , he responded with alacrity to whatever call with 1 - 4 out regard to compensation . For three years , 839 18 1 , he was physician at the Lazaretto . He was founder of the

Chester County Medical Society . Prime mover in the or g anization of the State Medical Society , of Pennsylvania .

Dr . Worthington was one of the editors of the Medical R e porter , was a director of the Bank of Chester County , of the

West Chester and Philadelphia Railway Company , and pres ident of the Board of Managers of Oakland Cemetery . He 18 o was elected , in 33, to the Lower H use of the State Legis I el ectd l atur e. n 1863 he was to the State Senate , and was - r e elected in 1866 . He was speaker in 1869 . While serv ing as senator, Dr . Worthington w as chairman of a senate committee appointed to visit the charitable and penal insti i tut ons of the state , and to inquire into the expedienc y of appointing a board of public charities . The report made by the committee was s o clear and convincing that the board was appointed the following year ( 1870) and Dr . Worthing ton was appointed a member and soon afterw ards was made general agent an d secretary of the body . During the first year of his service in that capacity he traveled more than h eleven thousand miles , and his report at the end of t e year was a remarkably clear and compr ehensive account of a ma jor ity of the prisons and almshouses of the State of Penn sylvania . Dr . Worthington and Elizabeth Hemphill had eight chifdr en

a Dr . William Hemphill Worthing ton , Jr d . 1865 ; was an army surgeon during the late Civil War ; in . Phoebe

Gheen . Ann b Jane Worthington ; i n . 1st Henry B . Pepper , of

Philadelphia . One child :

(a) Henry B . Pepper , Jr deceas ed .

. 2md m Elij ah J . Ballett , of Philadelphia .

c Amos Edward Worthington , d . in early life . (1 Emily Elizabeth Worthington , i n. Charles A . Wood , P ittsb r of ug h , Pa . PARKE FAMILY HISTORY 67

e Bolmar r t e Antoin tte Wo thing on , d . in early life .

f Malinda Marshall Worthington , m . Abner Hoopes , of

West Chester , Pa . Two children :

(a) Sarah Andrews Hoopes , m . Lewis C . Baker, Jr of

Philadelphia .

(b) Wilmer Worthington Hoopes , m . Martha Lippin

Dall ett g Kate Worthington , m . Thomas Marshall , president of the National Bank , of Chester County , Pa. No children .

h Caspar Pennock Worthington . Ann 27 1812 d Kezia Hemphill , b . Aug . , ; d . Sept . 23, i 183 1859 . n 0 . . ; m , Hon Thomas S Bell , of West Chester, b . 1 Oct . 22, 1800; d . June 6 , 186 .

Thomas S . Bell , a distinguished j urist and lawyer, was 2 born in Philadelphia , Oct . 2 , 1800. He came to Wes t Ches m ter as a stranger , but soon ca e to be known as a capable lawyer and made rapid advancement in his profession and in public life . He was deputy attorney general for Chester - County, 1823 1828 a member of the constitutional conven tion from the senatorial district of Chester and Montg om - ery Counties in 1837 , and was r e elected to the State Senate r in 1838, but was denied his seat on account of alleged erro s i n the election returns . I n 1829 he was a memb er of the board of visitors to the West Point Military Academy . I n 1839 he w as appointed to succeed Judge Darlington as pres ident j udge of the Chester and Delaware Judicial District an and served until 1846 . He was appointed associate j us tice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1846 and 1851 served with ability and efficiency until December 1 , , when the tenure of office was changed by a new cons titu tional provision . I n 1855 he became president j udge of the i j udicial district comprising the counties of Wayne , P ke , a and Carbon and Monroe , and was a sen tor from Chester

Delaware Counties from 1858 to 1860. Judge Bell was twice married ; first to Caroline , a daughter of Judge Darlington ,

e . and second to Kezia, a daughter of William H mphill He had fiv e children by his l as t marriage :

a Captain William Hemphill Bell , who was a graduate of West Point and an officer in the United States Army . 21 1836 in b Colonel Joseph McCl ell an Bell , b . Nov . , ,

West Chester , Pa . In 1857 he crossed the plains to the then outpost territory of New Mexico as first assistant to Cap 68 PARKE FA MILY HISTO RY

tain Edward Beale , chief engineer in charge of the expedi tion whose obj ect was for the purpose of surv eying the 35th parallel of latitude west fr om the Rio Grande to the Pacific O 186 1 cean . In December , , in the beginning of the Civil o E War , he was commissioned first lieutenant under C lonel and R . S . Canby assigned to the command of Company I ,

Third United States Cavalry . The company saw its initial o 1 1862 fight at Val Ver de , New Mexic , April , , and lost all its office r s in this engagement except Col . Bell , who was wo unded in the l eg and chest . He served with the Army of

Virginia under General Pope , taking part in the battle of

Cedar Mountain , Sulphur Springs , Chantilly, Second Bull

r . a R un , and othe engagements He became dj utant gener al of the Military Division of the Missouri under General 1866 M cCl ur e Pope . He married in January , , Harriet , of in Milwaukee , Wis . , at which event , declining a commission the Regular Army , he resigned from the army in November ,

u u . 1866 , and embarked in the grain b siness in Milwa kee . Col Bell was a man of great energy and activity and much moral u co rage . He was a social favorite of all who had the previ lege of his more intimate acquaintance and his friends were f u o nd amongst all classes . Col . Bell died in March , 1895, survived by his wife and eight children :

c Colonel Thomas S . Bell , who , as lieutenant colonel , fell on the bloody field of Antietam , was born May 12, 1838, and killed Sept . 17 , 1862. These sons of Judge Bell were distinguished officers in the United States Army .

d Ann Rosalie Bell , m . Harry Clifford Hemphill ; b . A 2 u . 5 183 7 d . Nov 19 g , ; . 3, 0 Six children :

(a) Martha Bryan Hemphill , m . William A . L . Ingram , of West Chester , Pa .

(b) Ann Bell Hemphill , m . Henry Speakman , of Ber w n y , Pa .

( ) . d Ethel Hemphill , m Clarence Cunningham , of

West Chester , Pa .

(e ) Caroline Hemphill .

(f) Roscoe Hemphill . e e Carolin Bell , wife of Dr . William Goodell , of Phila delphia , who was for many years physician of the Preston and one of the foremost gynecologists in the United gnm oa ees . PARKE FAMILY HISTORY 69

McCl ell an u B Col . Joseph and Kezia had a da ghter ,

Martha , who married Isaac Rodgers . They had two chil dren :

M cGr aw . a Mary Ann b Joseph M . Rodgers . l ll Mc e an . 26 C Joseph Parke C , d Feb . , 1851 m his 56th lin z 1 Wh e . ud i year ; m . s t Miss ; m Mary Ellis M ller, b . June 1 4 85 . : 19 , 1795 ; d . Sept . 6 , Six children Mc l ellan a James D . C ; hotel man , who had a widely ex tended reputation as one of the most popular of P enns y l va nia caterers . He married Elizabeth Litzenberg . Eleven children : l ell an a James L . McC .

l llan b Jennie McC e . l ll an c Chrissie McC e , West Chester, Pa . M l ellan cC . d Sarah Kezia , m David Ruth , of Malvern,

Pa . Three children :

(a) Bessie Ruth .

(b) Mary Jane Ruth . l ell an u (c) James D . McC Ruth , Chestn t Hill , Pa . l ll e Ellie McC e an . l l f Mary McC el an . l ll g Joseph McC e an .

h Henry Parke McClellan . l llan 1 Martha Ann McC e , m . J . W . Friend , of Pitts burgh , Pa . Four children :

(a Charles Wood Friend .

(b) Theodore Wood Friend . l ll (c) Elizabeth McC e an Friend .

(d) Rebecca Jane Friend .

j Ann Hemphill Mcclellan , m . Harry J . Friend . l ell k Elizabeth Litzenberg McC an, m . J . W . Bitz .

ll an b Francis Ellis McCl e . Unmarried . l c Martha Ann McCl e lan, m . James Jones . One child

a Henry C . Jones . l ll n d Joseph Findley McC e a , m . Mary W . Boyer . Four children :

a Emma McCl ell an, m . James P . Power, of Brownsville ,

Pa . One child :

(a) Elsie McCl ellan Power . M l ll Oberh olt b Susan cC e an, m . Christian , of Scottdale ,

Pa . One child : 7 0 PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

lt (a) Ernest McClellan Ob erh o .

Ada . 0 Joseph McCl ell an, m . West

(1 Ellis McClell an, of New York City .

la Hildru . e Robert Miller McCl el n , m . Ella p Three children :

Mc l ellan . a William H . C ll n b Harriet McCle a . l ll an c Ella McC e .

l 1914. f Henry Parke McClel an, d . April 18, l Co . D Elizabeth McCl ellan, daughter of Joseph and

n 1796 . Kezia Mcclellan, d . in infa cy November, 1 2nd Joseph Parke , E s q widower , m . Ann Maxwell ;

21 in 67th . r d . Oct . 3, 18 , her year They had eight child en 8 th D Colonel James Parke , d . May 15, 1 62, in his 86 1812 1806 year ; brigade maj or in the War of ; m . March , , 27 1874 88 Mary Clingan ; d . Sept . , , aged years and two : months ; born July 27 1786 . Five children i m . . 7 1872 n 66th A Willia Clingan Parke , d Aug 1 , , his year ; unmarried ; he was a veteran of the Mexican and Civil

Wars . 2 8 8 B Margaretta Parke , b . Nov . 8, 180 ; d . Aug . 2 ,

2 1 . 12 1858 ; m . Oct . 1 , 837 , George Fleming, Sr , b . March ,

1806 ; d . Feb . 1870.

William Fleming , the earliest member of this branch of the Fleming family in Chester County , was a native of

Greenock , Scotland . Tradition is sponsor for the story that he had an uncle who , in the latter part of the seventeenth u cent ry , sailed as master of a ship from Greenock to the E a stern Shore of Maryland for tobac co and wheat and that William w as induced to accompany his uncle on one of his voyages . When they arrived in the Chesapeake Bay it was harvest time and he went on shore , by the advice of his un cle to help farmers as it would take some time before th eir ship would be ready to make the return voyage . While thuls employed the ship sailed without him , and he then learned that his uncle had indentured him as a servant to a farmer . William served his time out and then made his way to the settlements on the Delaware . Here he resided with an Eng lishman , Richard Moore , in Concord Township, now Dela ware County , and married Mary , one of his daughters . In 17 14 he removed with his family , consisting of his wife and eight children , John , William , Henry , George , James , Pet er, Mary and Susanna , and settled in what is now the city of

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l t (a) Ernest McClell an Ob erh o .

Ada . l . 0 Joseph McClel an , m West

. d Ellis McC ellan, of New York City l ‘ — fl flf — ildr u . T e Rober l f H p hree L e al Notices children : g l ll l a a W E K E JOS EP H BI l I Y S AM UEL : A A H . R K CHAR T . ' b Harr PA E , T N M AR Y and ELI $ A B E H O NA H A . 1 J T B I C E 1\ children of Deborah Cope , A AH lla O . C PE M AR OS JONATH AN AND P AR K E . J EPH 914. f Hep $ children of R ebecca Webb ; , L I C NNU M E AB ETH PARK E . A E H A D E h za L I $ : Joseph and k J OB E ecutor s of Abiah P ar e : A C E Kezia McCl efi x

1 s , m s A k , JOSGDI tor s of Tho a P ar e their heir to s s ucce ss or s a d ‘ u s admini s tra r , n 18 e xec tor . . . 3 s d Oct , as s ign . Ta k e notice Y ou 3 1 8 hereby noti D e s’ u s Col fl ed tha t the O rphan Co rt of Che ter county h as a warded year ; b ri g ao. commanding you to lin a Cou o he 27th Mary C g rt n t m 4 t 10 a . 19 8. a months ; b Ol ‘ 1872 in 66th A Wl lh ; P enn yl ni particularly de scribed i n , his s va a , ar j l E s B M y er s M ’ the mtiti of lli , and ec an and Cl Vl l ear numar our tI y ’ lvl er s d uly fi l ed i n s aid C g a re tc y , m l w s ho uld not be relea s ed fro the fo lo wars . s ing charge s and legacie . Orp h ans A u 28 B Marg 1 Charge s created in the fi; d . g . , Cou ceeding in th e e s a e f J o a rt pro t t o n 2 a , 1 1858 . 00 ha P a k e wh o died n o bou , : m t n r . o r t b March f s J on in fa vor of the children o the aid l 1806 d ' F eb h i w D eb orah a than P a rk e and s Wido , k Wl lh am P ar e Of th l S b ranCh 2 Charge in the amount of 20 pound s er ac e c ea ed in he ’ l l l f Ab ah Of the Flem p r . r t t o i as a natl ve Of 1 1200. P a k e da ed M a ch 3 . r . t r i a th e m un Greenock , S 3. Ch rge in a o t of the Story that a ted in th e Will of T h oma s enth “ 18 7 . he had an I d a d i uary u . 3 éel t eg s ai d ur h as fi xe a e Co t th e m D . s . as 27 t 948 10 , b er h . 1 . at a T a tirue ro a tie s in e e s to a ea r 553 3 em 0 r p r in t r t pp that in Court to s ho w cau s e wh y the land de Wl lh am s cribed in s aid petition s houl d not be h is was s d is charged from the lien of s aid charge . e heodo e 0 R oge s . A o ey f P voyages . V T r r tt rn or ti ti oncrs harvest timc 1 cle to help Us e th e C l ass ifi ed A d C ol umns ship would i e . While thuls for k R es ul t“ f employed tl . i then learned

at h i s un ant to a farmer . o w “8 W ay t° alam: i an s iM id W th Eng ' R 1 lishman , ip , now Dela

n ma r i d M r h i . ware County , a u r e ary , one o s daughters In 17 14 a he removed with his family , consisting of his wife nd i i e ght ch ldren , John , William , Henry , George , James , Pet er , Mary and Susanna , and settled in what is now the city of

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30 1877 . a William Henderson Fleming , b . Aug . , m

Anna Keenan ; reside at Glen Moore , Pa .

1 1880 . b Mary Blanche Fleming , b . March , ; m Eugene

L . Beam . 24 1883 0 Clara Margaretta Fleming , b . Jan . , ; resides

‘ in New York City ; professional nurse .

1 1886 . . (1 Sarah E . Fleming , b . Jan . , ; m Clarence M r Mille . 14 1899 e George Parke Fleming , b . May , ; of Elverson , 2 19 17 M cCor d P a . ; m . June , , Clara , of near the same place ; daughter of Hervey M cCor d .

2 2 1885 . 8 1810 . C Kezia Parke , b . Oct . , ; d July , ; m N v 2 18 5 o . 8 0 March 19 , 1833, Hon . John B . Rutherford , b . , ; 2 d . Oct . 10, 189 . They had nine children , all born in or

a s near Paxtang , P . , and all have attended the Paxtang Pres b y ter ian Ch urch . The original home of the Rutherfords r e was Jedb urg h , Scotland , where many of the name still i side . A representative of this family took up h s residence 1 in Co unty Tyrone , Ireland , about the year 689 . The immi gr ant to America about 1728 or 1729 was Thoma s Ruther ford , a son of this representative . Thomas , s oon after his arrival here , ma rried the Scotch lassie for whom he had for r saken the home of his nativity , named Jean Murdock , bo n 5 1 12 i i April , 7 . The Murdocks and Thomas resided n the vicinity of the Donegal Presbyterian Church , in Lancaster .

u P a . Co nty , , until 1744, when they removed to Derry Town ship , Dauphin County , P a . , where they resided until 1755, at which date they p urchased and moved to the property or farm situate at what is now Paxtang Station , Swatara

Township , Dauphin County , P a . , three miles east of Harris - u P a . b rg , John Brisbin Rutherford was a great grandson of Thomas and Jean through their son , John , and grandson , u u Sam el R therford . Here are the nine children of Hon .

John B . Rutherford and Kezia Parke : u a Samuel R therford , died in infancy . u ‘ b Mary L cind a Rutherford , b . March 10, 1835 ; m .

. 12 186 1 Mc l ure Dec , , James C , who w as b . March 8, 1824; d . u J ly Six children , all born near Glen Moore , r u Cheste Co nty , Pa .

a Margaret Moore McCl ure . Mc l r e b Florence C u .

c Jennie Rutherford McCl ure . PARKE FAM ILY HISTORY 73

Mc l e (1 Mary Parke C ur . l e Gertrude McC ure . l McC ure . . . d f J B Rutherford All of Phila elphia, Pa .

c Eliza Jane Rutherford , b . May 8, 1837 ; m . Rev . Sam uel Dickey .

Rev . Samuel Dickey was the second son of Rev . E b enez

D . er Dickey , D . , and was born at Oxford , P a . , April 17

14 1884. 1818, and died Jan . , With the exception of his col lege an d seminary years he spent all his life in his native place , and at his decease was j ustly spoken of as the most fl ial in unt citizen of the lower part of Chester County . He was graduated from Lafayette College in 1837 , having had u the advantage of residing while there with his ncle , Dr . u - d George Junkin , the p blic spirited an energetic founder and president of the college . Thence he proceeded to Prince - u ton Seminary , where he took a post grad ate as well the _ as u sual course . In 1841 he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New Castle and was unanimously called to be pastor of the Union Ch urch , Colerain Township , Lancaster

County , about seven miles from Oxford . Here he labored for nine years . Precious memories of his ministry survive among the people of his charge which , howev er , he was sor r ow f ll u y compelled to resign on account of ill health . In

1858 Mr . Dickey found congenial work as president of the

Oxford National Bank . This office he held for nearly a as quarter of a century , during which time the directors , “ they said in their memorial minute had the benefit of hi s wise counsel , untiring energy and great personal influence , whereby the bank h as been safely guided through severe pecuniary crises and firmly established in the confidence of $ the business community . Mr . Dickey was , at the time of e of his death , a director of the Baltimore Central lin rail way s , and was superintendent and treasurer of the Peach un Bottom railroad . He ser ved for nine years as co cilman of Oxford Borough ; was trustee of Lincoln University and a h is member of the executive committee , and at the time of death had been treasurer of the board for eighte en years , giving to the institution besides his many contributions , much valuable time , wi se counsel , and gratuitous labor . Dr.

Dickey was twice married , l s t to Eugenie , daughter of Hen r in y Cazier , of New Castle , Delaware County . She died

1862 . , leaving two daughters , Mr s . Sarah E Hopkins and 7 4 PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

in 1868 Mrs . Mary I . Price . His second marriage was to - . Jennie , daughter of Ex Senator Captain John B Ruther

P a . : ford , of Harrisburg , , by whom he had three children i n . a Guy Rutherford Dickey , who died infancy McCormick b Prof . Samuel Dickey , of Theological Sem

r . . . ina y , Chicago , Ill ; m Louise R Atherton , daughter of Ah - a P a . nie Melanie and Thomas H . Atherton , of Wilkes B rre , They have two childr en :

(a) Parke A . Dickey .

(b) John Miller Dickey .

P a . . c Irvine R . Dickey , Esq . , of Oxford , ; lawyer ; m Adelaide Jones ; two children : k (a) Samuel Tyler Dic ey .

(b) Irvine Rutherford Dickey .

d Adeline Margaret Rutherford , b . March 22, 1839 ; : m . William Franklin Rutherford . Three children

a Richard Rutherford .

b Annie E . Rutherford ; m . S . R . Dickey . m B m. c Jane Rutherford , m . Sa uel Gray oxh a Four children :

(a) Helen Rutherford Boxh am. a (b) Esther Gray Boxh m. m (c) A deline Boxh a .

(d) Franklin Boxham. 4 e Samuel Parke Rutherford , b . Sept . 18, 18 1 ; d . May 9 2 2 i , 191 ; m . Dec . 0, 1866 , Elizabeth Bunn , b . Dec . 9 , 1845, n

Rockville , Chester County , Pa . They had thre e children :

a Dr . Frank Parke Rutherford , b . Sept . 24, 1867 of 234 44th S . street , Philadelphia ; In . Sept . 17 , 1902, Emma B . 2 Ramsey , d . Jan . 9 , 1918.

b Rev . John Marshall Rutherford , b . June 9 , 1870; now pastor of the Presbyterian Church , of Waynesboro , P a . ; m . 19 1906 uly , , Ethel A . Miller, b . April 1 , 1886 . Two chil gren :

(a) Elizabeth Miller Rutherford , b . June 11 , 1908.

(b) John Marshall Rutherford , b . Feb . 2, 1910.

c John B . Rutherford , b . Jan . 3, 1873 ; of Philadelphia ;

. 22 19 13 banker ; m Oct . , , Rachel Jones Riley . u u 843 f John Q incy Adams R therford , b . Nov . 9 , 1 ; m .

ec. 12 1868 , , Margaret B . Elder, b . Oct . 4, 1846 . Nine chil Dren :

a Howard Ainsworth Rutherford , b . Oct . 17 , 1889 ; m .

Mary Boyd . PARKE FAM ILY HI ST ORY 75

b Ralph Brisbin Rutherford , b . March 26 , 1872.

. . 2 8 3 1 7 (1. c Nancy Elder Rutherford , b Aug , ; Sept . 21,

(1 l an Nov 18 Virginia E e or Rutherford , b . . , 1875; m .

Rev . D. F . Richards .

e Isabella Parke Rutherford , b . Sept . 17 , 1877 .

f John Q . A . Rutherford , Jr b . July 26 , 1879 . r g Margaret Brown Ruthe ford , b . March 15, 1881 . a h M thew Robinson Rutherford , b . Aug . 23, 1883.

i Arthur Parke Rutherford, b . Sept . 28, 1889 . 4 g Francis Wilson Rutherford , b . Dec . 4, 18 5 ; m . Feb . E ldc 14 1878 r . 3 1 , , Eleanor Shearer , b Ap ril , 850. Seven children :

a Jos hua Elder Rutherford , b . Dec . 3, 1878 ; m . Mar r garet McCoch an . r b Thomas Murdock Ruthe ford, b . March 1, 1880; d.

Oct. 14, 1908. 4 8 2 c Norman Parke Rutherford . b . Jan . 1 , 1 8 .

(1 Frank Wilson Rutherford , b . Nov . 16, 1886 . 21 e Marian Gertrude Rutherford , b . Nov . , 1888 ; d .

Nov . 16 , 1893.

f Samuel Bunn Rutherford , b . Oct . 21, 1890.

g Jean Matilda Rutherford , b . March 8, 1895. 4 m h Kezia Virginia Rutherford , b . Nov . 9 , 18 7 . U mar

1 . i Marian Gertrude Rutherford , b . Feb . 10, 850; m S .

Ralston Dickey . Two children :

a Frances Ralston Dickey .

b John B . Rutherford Dickey ; extension specialist in soil fertility in the extension division of the New Jersey State Agricultural College ; graduated from Pennsylvania i State College n 1913.

13 . . 19 D Nathaniel Irwin Parke , b . Feb . 28, 18 ; d Oct ,

E 1 1848 32md James M . Parke, d . May 6 , , in his year by the accidental discharge of a cannon .

1858 . E Letitia Parke , b . 1778 ; d . Dec . 20, m March

18 3 1865. 06 , Henry Fleming , Esq . , b . 17 8 ; d . Eight chil dren E s A Lucretia Fleming , m . William Whitehead , q five childr en :

a . One . a Paul Wh itehead , m . Mary J . D vis child 7 6 PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

a Ann Whitehead .

b Letitia Whitehead , m . Phineas Garrett .

c William H . Whitehead , of the Kittredge Building, v 124th P enns l Denver , Colorado ; eteran of the Regiment , y vania Volunteers ; m . Sarah J . Townsend . Three children :

a . a Henry T . Whitehe d

b Lucretia Whitehead .

c Josephine Wh itehead .

d Mathew Whitehead ; m . Jennie M . Ford . Two chil

a . J . Letitia Whitehead

b Ellen C . Whitehead .

e Mary F . Whitehead ; m . Barton B . Durnell . One child :

a Helen B . Durnell .

B Mary Ann Fleming .

C Caroline Fleming .

m. 1 st 2nd . D Solon Fleming , Jane Fisler ; Fidelia R

C ar ver . N0 children .

E Henry Fleming , of Brooklyn , N . Y b . April 11, 1812 ; d . March 31 , 1900, leaving only the memory of a man u of tr e worth , an honest , kindly heart and upright life ; m . 1s t A , Garretson ; m . 2nd nn Williams . Seven children :

a Aurelia E . Fleming , m . Samuel Wright , of Sedalia ,

Missouri .

b Fabius Fleming .

c Ella Fleming ; m . Thomas Priddy .

d Letitia Fleming.

e Bessie Fleming .

f Caroline Fleming .

g J . Bayard Fleming .

F Fabius Fleming , m . Mary Railsback . Two children

a Henry L . Fleming .

b William Scotia Fleming .

G Marcellus Fleming , m . l st Althea Flagler ; 2nd Mar Holl en ue tha q st. One child :

a Kezia Fleming ; m . Richard Hayes . They have three children :

a Howard Hayes .

b Althea Hayes .

c Edward Hayes . PARKE FAM ILY HISTORY 7 7

H Kezia Fleming .

n r . Henry Flemi g , J , in after life of West Chester , was a s on of John Fleming , Jr and was born in Sads bury Town ship . For many years he was acting magistrate , selected - by common consent , less for sought for popularity than for acknowledged private worth , strict integrity and inflexible u character . When a yo ng man he was a volunteer in the war with England in 1812-1814; was made captain of a com r a pany and ma ched to C nada with Gen . Brown ; was capta r ed and taken to Q eub ec where he remained a prisoner of war for eighteen months . He was one of the fo unders of the in First Presbyterian Church , West Chester , P a . , of which he was a pillar . u There is a c rrent tradition that William Parke , br oth r er of Arthur Pa ke , the founder of our branch of the Parke B ll family in this country , who remained in the old a y b eg l ey 2 home in 17 0, in Ireland , had a great grandson , they called m h i here Irish Johnny , who visited his kindred in this coun try ab out 1797 . He became greatly infatuated with his third cousin , Letitia Parke , afterwards the wife of Henry ’ Fleming , Esq . Rumor spread among Letitia s neighbors that r e Johnny was soon to be a Benedict , but he skipped out and turned to the old sod to an old flame , Margaret McKay , and o married her . In 1827 , Johnny being dead , Margaret , t ’ sooth her grief , came over to visit her husband s kinsmen in

America . She found Letitia Parke to be the wife of Henry

Fleming , Esq . , of West Chester , and that they were devoted d Christians , eminent in character and usefulness , and foun ers and pillars of the First Presbyterian Church located there . With open arms they cordially welcomed the grief stricken Margaret to partake of their hospitality . d 18 1780 . r . . . F . Geo g e Washington Parke , Esq , b Oct , ; 2 8 u Feb . 5, 1 60, was the owner and occ pied the farm and mill property of his father , Joseph Parke , Esq . , and was 2-1845 and us register of wills from 184 , a j tice of the peace 2 - 3 e from 18 8 18 7 . He lived the last of his days a retired lif 1 in the borough of Parkesburg , Pa . He m . st Mary Flem 1 81 ing, b . June 11 , 1785; d . Feb . 7 1 7 . They had six chil dren :

1 1806 . 1804 . . 3 A Mary Letitia Parke , b . Oct . 1 , ; d Nov ,

25 1882 . 8 6 . . B Caroline Parke , b . June 19 , 1 0 ; d Aug , ; m

24 1897 . : Evan Jones , Dec . 3, 1835 ; d . June , Five children 78 PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

24 1836 a Mary Jones , b . Sept . , ; resides in Washington , l Mau tb . 25 1882 . D . C m . Jan . , ; Scace L y , deceased No children .

10 1838 . . 12 189 b Jacob D . Jones , b . Feb . , ; d Oct , 7 . r Unmar ied . 25 1839 19 13 c George W . Jones , b . Aug . , ; died in ; m .

13 1866 . r : Julia C . Pratt , b . June , They had two child en 24 1867 a Edith P . Jones , b . May , . _ 18 b Howard Parke Jones , b . Aug . 7 , 69 . 1 1844 i (1 John Fleming Jones ; b . Nov . 3, ; resides n

P Ann . . 25 Philadelphia , a . ; m . Mary Atlee Latta , b Sept , : 1850. Tw o children 14 8 a Caroline Whitehill Jones , b . June , 18 0.

b John Latta Jones , b . Sept . 11, 1890.

e Phoebe Anna Jones , b . May 28, 1847 ; resides in 2 Washington , D . C . ; m . l s t Eugene L . Grant , Sept . 10, 187 ; 2 4 nd $ . 7 189 deceased ; In . 2 achariah E Thomas , June , ; de ceased . 1 1 8 C John F . Parke , b . May 5, 80 ; d . Aug . 15, 1859 ; In .

April 24, 1855, Mary Frances Rogers , b . Mar . 10, 1814. No 1 children ; resided in Bloomington , 1 1.

D Joseph Maxwell Parke , b . Feb . 6 , 1810; d . Feb . 18,

1898, was a prominent lawyer of Westminster, Carroll Coun ty , Md . He represented this county in the legislature of - 1839 40. He w as also a delegate to the constitutional con vention of Maryland of 1851, and served nineteen years as regis ter of wills of the same county . He became identified with the press of the county , having purchased the Demo r c at and Carroll County Republican , of which he remained the editor and publisher for eight years . His knowledge of testamentary law w as probably more extensive than that of any member of the bar in his county . I n fact , few if any lawyers in this state were as familiar with that branch of legal learning . He was also well equipped for the p rac tice of other branches of the profes sion and for a number of years was a commissioner in chan cery . Mr . Parke was one of the best known and highly venerated citizens of Carroll

County . He was a man of uncompromising integrity of character and sincere piety . He was a member of Grace i Lutheran Church , of Westm nster, an d until a late period , a in teacher the Sunday School . He was a man of noble pres ence and his venerable form was a conspicuous figure in the - streets of Westminster for fifty eight years . Until a very

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- e first cousin of the late ex President , Grover Clev land . They : had four sons , as follows 8 1 a Francis Neale Parke , b . Jan . 6 , 1 7 , attorney at law, of Westminster , Md . Unmarried . 25 187 2 b Geor g e Joseph Parke , b . March , ; in the iron and steel business at Norfolk , Va and a member of the 1906 Eagleston , Parke Company ; m . in June , , Eliza Berret : George . Two children 2 1 (a) Mary Eugenia Parke , b . Feb . 3, 907

(b) James George Parke , b . June 30, 19 11 .

c Robert Abne r Parke , b . Nov . 5, 1873 ; secretary and r r treas urer of the B . F . Schrive Company , of Westminste

Carroll County , Md . ; m . Margaret Catherine Reese , June 1 , : 1909 . They have three children r 11 (a) George Motter Parke , b . Ma ch , 19 10. 11 1912 (b) Josephine Lynch Parke , b . Oct . , . 17 1913 (c) Margaret Reese Parke , b . Oct . , .

d Henry Albert Parke , b . June , 187 5; d . August , 1876 .

e Albert Maxwell Parke , b . March 13, 1844; d . April 11,

f Mary Letitia Parke , b . Dec . 22, 1845 ; m . 1st July 7 , 18 r 2 68, J . Mortimer Thi l ey ; m . nd in 1884, Allen Hubbard ; 3r 1 m . d in 889 , Shepherd Wood . No children . 4 4 4 g Philip J . Parke , b . March 26 , 18 7 ; d . April , 18 8. 4 2 h Emma Catherine Par ke , b . Oct . 25, 18 9 ; d . Sept . 5,

12 i Josephine Amanda Parke , b . July , 1851 ; m . March 31 18 , 83, James Edwin Taylor . Two children :

a James Parke Taylor . d b E na Taylor .

j John Fleming Parke , b . March 11 , 1854; m . Alberta u Gr mbine . They had eight children :

a Margaret Parke , died in early life .

b Hazel Alberta Parke , died in early life .

c Florence May Parke .

d Joseph William Parke .

e Bessie Gertrude Parke .

f Charles Fleming Parke . a g H rry Clinton Parke .

h Frances Catherine Parke . 4 k Adelaide Motter Parke , b . March , 1856 ; d . March 6 , PARKE FAMILY HISTORY 81

l . 15 1859 Gertrude Parke , b May , ; d . July 8, 1859 .

. . 6 1812 E Samuel Slaymaker Parke , b Oct , ; d . Feb . 2 1884 in o Ill ; resided most of his life Bloomingt n , . ; m . Nov. 2 1839 0, , Lucretia Maria Kellogg . Eleven childr en :

a a . . 28 184 Mary Lucreti Parke , b Sept , 0 m . Roland N .

Evans , May 10, 1870. One child :

a Ida Lucretia Evans , b . Jan . 21, 187 1 . b r . . 30 1842 Caroline Marcia Pa ke , b Aug , d . Nov. 21, l

. 16 1844 c George Winfield Parke , b April , ; m . Jan . 29, 3 187 , George Ingersoll . One child : a Lois Lucretia Parke , b . Dec . 26 , 1873. ( 1 21 1 46 Charles Samuel Parke , b . April , 8 ; d . July 10,

e Charles William Parke , b . Feb . 9 , 1848 ; In . Feb . 1 , 1 873, Ella Sherwood . One child .

a Charles Samuel Parke, b . 1875.

Charles William Parke , widower, m . 2nd Dora Kauff man ih April , 1883. Three children

b Helen Hattie Parke , b . April 1 1884.

c Edith Parke , b . Dec . 25, 1886 .

d Kenneth Parke , b . Jan . 5, 1890.

f Helen Parke , b . Nov . 20, 1849 ; m . May 22, 1872, Louis

Lee Burr . One child :

a Fleming Albert Parke Burr , b . Sept . 7 , 1886 . r 1 1852 13 1859 g Frank Pa ke , b . March 7 , ; d . Jan . , . 1 h Caroline Parke , b . July 30, 1854; d . Sept . 7 , 855. 21 i Edmund Kellogg Parke , b . Sept . 4, 1856 d . Feb . ,

88 1 1858 . 3 1 5 s j Clara Parke , b . June , ; m . Nov , , Jame n H . Price . O e child : 21 1 8 a Parke Valentine Price , b . April , 88 . 3 1886 k John Fred Parke , b . Feb . 8, 1862; m . July , ,

Eva Downey . Three children : 8 a Charles Fred Parke , b . Dec . 5, 188 . 0 b Grace Laura Parke , b . Dec . 8, 189 .

11 1892. 0 George Edmund Parke , b . Oct . , 28 2 1815 . F George W . Parke , Jr b . April 9 , ; d April ,

A . . 18 1828; 1902; m . Jan . 1 , 1857 , Rebecca nn Rogers , b Oct , : d . Aug . 24, 1898. Two children

185 . . a Gertrude Elizabeth Parke, b . Oct . 7 , 7 ; d Aug

1858. 82 PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

b Caroline Augusta Parke , b . Aug . 17 1859 ; m . Jan . 17

1882, Theodore Arthur Braley , editor of the Daily Bulletin ,

Bloomington , Ill . No children . 2n 11 1 F Geoorg e W . Parke , Sr m . d Sept . , 820, Mary

21 1863 82 . 8 m. 14 . Ross , d . June , , aged y , , d Three chil dren . 2 G Winfield Scott Parke , b . Oct . 11, 18 1 ; d . May 10,

1843. Unmarried .

H Dr . Charles Ross Parke , b . June 25, 1823 ; m . Oct . 3

a s 1865, Lucy Didlake Keith . Dr . Charles Parke w s a promi 1 nent physician of Bloomington , 11 . His wife died March

19 , 1906 , when he removed to Louisville , Kentucky , and soon after died there . They had one child , E ddie D . Parke , who died early .

I Thomas Jefferson Parke died at the age of 40. Uh married . 2 1 G David Parke , b . Feb . 3, 7 85 ; d . June 26 , 1846 ; m . 1 1 15 1 1 Feb . 6 , 8 , s t Margaret Fleming , d . May 3, 1819 , in her 2 2 7th year ; m . nd Catherine Maxwell and had s ix children :

A Kate Parke , died in childhood .

B Joseph Parke , died in childhood . Twins . C i Wilhelmina Parke , d . n March , 1906 . Unmarried . D Mary Parke ; resides with her daughter in Nash

. ll ville , Tenn ; m . a Mr . Ti etson. They have one child Till et n a Jeanette so ; m . Joseph Hayes Ackley . seven children : T ll a Jeanette i etson Ackley .

b Joseph Hayes Ackley . Deceased .

c Catherine Parke Ackley .

d Pauline Ackley .

e William Hayes Ackley . Deceased .

A . f Maria Livingstone ckley Deceased .

g Richard Montgomery Ackley .

E Kate Parke , may have married a Mr . Bingaman . She 1885 died in in Vand alia , Ill . a F Joseph Maxwell P rke , b . March 8, 1827 ; d . Nov . 23, 1907 ; . m Elizabeth J . Smith , b . in Columbus , Ohio , Oct . 12, 1839 . . 7 19 ; d Aug , 08. He was a millwright and own ed and operated mills at Vera , 111. They had five children :

a Catherine Smith Parke , b . March 18, 1858 ; d . Aug . 2 8, 1858. PARKE FAMILY HI STORY 83

b l ' p . . 4 18 1 m Na oleon Maxwel Parke , b Sept , 6 ; . Mary

Wesner . They had one child :

. Jan . 28 a Hazel Maxwell Parke , b , 1889 .

c . . 13 1864 Effa May Parke , b Feb , ; m . D avid John stone Loudon ; family recently from Scotland . They had two daughters :

. 6 a Grace Parke Loudon , b April , 1892.

b Janet Elizabeth Loudon , b . in 1896 .

. 1 1867 d Grace Ball Parke , b May , d . Aug . 20, 1867 . r 4 1868 e David Franklin Pa ke, b . July , ; d . March 5, 1 913 . ; m Martha Smith . They had three children :

a Harriet Alice Parke , b . March 8, 1906 .

b Joseph Maxwell Parke , b . May 27 1910. 0 Herbert Paul Parke , b . Aug . 7 , 19 12. N v 2 . u o 5 H Rev Sam el Parke , b . . , 1778 ; d . Dec . 20, 1869 ; pursued his preparatory studies at the Brandywine

Academy conducted by the Rev . Nathan Grier at the Forks of Brandywine ; graduated from Dickinson College in Sep 1 tember, 809 ; was licensed by the Presbytery of New Cas i tle , Apr l 7 , 1813 ; was ordained and installed pastor of the

Presbyterian Church , of Slate Ridge , York County , P a . , and also of Centre Church , same county , giving the latter one third of his time . Having ministered to both of these con r e a ion g g t s about thirty years , he resigned the pastorate of the Center Church , but continued to occupy the pulpit of the

Slate Ridge Church for forty years . He discharged the duties of the ministry with great fidelity until 1857 , when , on account of the infirmities of age , he resigned . He mar u ried Nov . 8, 1814, Martha , da ghter of the late Rev . Nathan and Susanna Smith Gri er . S usanna Smith was a daughter of Col . Robert and Margaret Vaughan Smith , and grand daughter of John and Susanna Smith , Scotch pioneers , the founders of this very numerous branch of the Smith family in this country . Rev . Samuel and Martha Grier Parke had eight children :

22 1859 . 2 815 . . A Susanna Parke , b . Dec . 7 , 1 ; d Aug ,

Unmarried .

11 1847 . 2 181 . B Ann Parke , b . April 3, 7 d March , m : Nov . 27 , 1838, Christopher Geiger . Three children

15 1839 . 3. Samuel Par ke Geiger , b . Nov . ,

1841 . b Mary Jones Geiger, b . May 3,

17 1843. c Anna Has s eltine Geiger, b . June ,

1888. 19 . 24 C Martha Parke , b . April 27 , 18 ; d March ,

Unmarried . 84 PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

16 1820 son . . D Dr . Nathan Grier Parke , b Dec , , was a

. of the manse , his mother having been a daughter of the Rev

Nathan Grier and his father was the Rev . Samuel Parke . He pursued his preparatory studies at the Slate Ridge Acad my and his collegiate at Jefferson College , where he gradu 4 ated in Oct . 18 0. His theological course was completed in 1839 1844 at Princeton , N . J , graduating in the class of , having previously been licensed to preach by the Presby ’

19 1843. . tery of Donegal , April , Dr Parke s ministerial 844 work began on June 9 , 1 , with three members of the Presbyterian faith in a little red school house in the village '

P a . of Pittston , Luzerne County , , giving half his time to Scranton and receiving a salary of one hundred dollars p er year . In 1846 a substantial brick church building was erected in Upper Pittston , in which , on July 7 , Dr . Parke was ordained as an evangelist and the new church was ih corp orated as the First Presbyterian Church , of Pittston , 6 1847 P a . , in which he was installed pastor on June , , and over which congregation he continued as pastor for fifty 95 one years . In June , 18 , he resigned his pastorate , but his - people insisted on his serving as pastor emeritus , which mark of honor he held until his death , which occurred on v - June 28, 1903. Dr . Parke de oted s ixty out of eighty fou years to ministerial work , to helping weak and fallen men to peace , happiness , purity and a higher life . He lived to s ee this part of the country redeemed from an unbroken wilder ness , and flourishing towns and cities spring up , and his lit tle church spread over a co uple of counties , grow into scores a of l rge and wealthy ch urches , and magnificent sacred edi fices take the place of the school house and the humble v homes where preaching ser ices were first held . Not only in behalf of Presbyterians , but in the cause of all denomina tions , Dr . Parke has lent his valuable services . His name is beloved and revered by every denomination and sect in the two valleys . No one can compute the good this noble , brave and patriotic citizen , this pure , devoted and fervent servant of God has done for the upbuilding and spiritual good of

Northeastern Pennsylvania . In 1867 Dr . Parke visited Eu rope as one of the representatives of the Old School P r esb y a terian Church of this country in the Assemblies of the Free

Church , and of the United Presbyterian Church , of Scot

. f o . land The honor D . D was conferred on him by the col l lege of Washington and Jefferson . He married , Juhe 8, PARKE FAMILY HISTORY 85

1847 A nn 25 , Elizabeth Gildersleeve , born Sept . , 1822,

R ev . e - granddaughter of Cyrus Gildersl eve , a Wilkes Barre o f pastor of former years , and daughter W. C . Gildersleeve , - a Wilkes Barre merchant . They had seven children :

. 22 a William Gildersleeve Parke , b April , 1848 ; m . 10 1870 1 Sept . , , Helen Eva Ackley , b . May 5, 1853. Seven children :

a William Camp Gildersleeve Parke, b . Nov . 1 , 187 1 . 2 b Elizabeth Parke , b . Jan . 6 , 1874; m . Percy Bal lan tine , of Newark , N . J son of John and Janett Boyd Ballan tine . Six children : 3 (a) Peter Ballantine , b . 190 .

(b Robert William Ballantine , b . 1905.

( d) Elizabeth Janett Ballantine , b . 1910.

i (e) Norman Alexander Ballantine , b . l 912.

(f) Percy Ballantine , b . 1915.

c Norman Hulick Parke , b . Aug . 27 , 1877 m . Julia

Floyd Phyfe , of New York City , daughter of James and Ah nie t y e. Four children :

(a) Julia Floyd Parke , b . 1904.

(b) Elizabeth Gildersleeve Parke , b . 1905. s A i 1 12 (c) nn e Parke , b . 9 .

( d) Helen Ackley Parke , b . 1915. 2n 2 4 1 d Nathan Grier Parke , d b . March 8, 188 ; m . 0 ive Bemis Williams , daughter of Edward Higginson Wil

D . . and and Jr . S v liams , , , Jennie Oli e Bemis , grand f mo ‘ il s on o Dr . E . H . Williams , formerly partner in Ba n rW liams Company , now Baldwin Locomotive Works . Dr . Wil liams is descended from a Robert Williams , who was b ap tiz emi rat ed at Great Yarmouth , England , Dec . 11 , 1608, and g m ed to Massachusetts in 1637 . With him came a Willia d Parke, of Preston, England, a member of an Ancient an Honorable Artillery Company and deputy to the General - 1 63 an man . Court of 636 1 7 , d a of wealth This William

Parke had two daughters , one of whom , Martha Parke, mar ried a son of this Robert Williams 28 88 . 1 7 . e Helen Parke , b May , ; m John Levens Lilley , One : s on of the late Governor Lilley , ofC onnecticut . child

(a) Helen Parke Lilley, b . 1913.

f Ann Parke , b . July 12, 1892.

18 1895. g Maxwell Bosworth Parke , b . July , 86 PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

Dec 13 1849 1) Norman Grier Parke , b . . , ; d . Feb . 14,

5 1852 c . . . 13 Theodore Gardiner Parke , b June , ; d Feb ,

d . . 28 1854 . 22 Mary Louise Parke , b Sept , ; d May ,

e Annie Melanie Parke , b . Feb . 5, 1857 ; 111. Thomas : Henry Atherton , Oct . 7 , 1880. Six children 2 81 a Louise Parke Atherton , b . Sept . 9, 18 ; m . Prof .

Sameul Dickey . (See Page 74 for children . )

b Thomas Henry Atherton , Jr b . Jan . 16 , 1884.

0 Melanie Gildersleeve Atherton , b . July 11 , 1886 ; m . n ne David Up deg raph , missionary i India . Have o child b . Feb . 4, 1916 .

(1 Sarah Henry Atherton , b . Jan . 6 , 1889 .

e Elizabeth Grier Atherton , b . Oct . 27 1892. 1 f Eleanor Riggs Atherton , b . Oct . 24, 895. 4 f Samuel Maxwell Parke , b . May , 1859 ; m . Bertha

Louise Sandercock , Oct . 6 , 1908, at Ariel , P a . ; b . Nov . 18, k 1875. They have one child , Mary Gildersleeve Par e , b . J uly

25, 1914. 24 3 g Charles Riggs Parke , b . March , 186 ; m . Oct . 25, 2 i 1888, Alice Cutts Scammon , b . Oct . , 1866 , n Boston , Mass . a 14 1 22 E Dr . Joseph Maxwell P rke , b . Aug . , 8 d . Mar . 24 9 , 18 0; m . July 19 , 1853, Lucinda S . Neel . 1 24 2 F Sarah Parke , b . Sept . 9 , 18 ; (1. Sept . 12, 18 6 . e 2 G Robert Smith Parke b . F b . 10, 18 7 ; m . Miss White

H Harriet Newill Parke , b . Jan . 7, 1829 ; d . April 28,

The story of the Griers furnishes a notable example of the influence of pious parents upon their offspring . John

Grier, with his brother Mathew , came to Bucks County, Pa from the north of Ireland in 1732. He soon after mar ried

Agnes Caldwell . Like their Scotch ancestors , being strong l y attached to the doctrines and institutions of the Presby terian Church , they drilled them into the minds and hearts of their children , all of whom became worthy and useful members of society . These children , as far as the writer knows , were : 1 Colonel Joseph Grier , who died Nov . 10, 1830, in his 8oth year , and his wife , Ann , died March 11 , 1826 , in her 77th year . They removed from Bucks County, P a . , about

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an 8 1867 1 d James King Grier , d . J . , , in his 7 s t year .

He was an extensi ve farmer who , with his wife , were pil lars of support to Old Brandywine Manor Church . His

8 1882. wife , Mary Ann Coleman , d . June , She long main ta ined her s upport as leader in the church choir of Brandy wine Manor . 2 1 8 e Fanny Grier , b . April , 7 9 , was the wife of Ewing

Lewis , who resided near Honey Brook Borough , Pa . She 8 1 a died Nov. 14, 1880. He died April 8, 1 6 . F rmer .

f Elizabeth Grier , b . Jan . 22, 1800, d . Sept . 3, 1863 ; Mc l ur e 1 1 5 2 m . William Wallace C , b . Dec . , 79 , d . Aug . 2,

1879 . Merchant near Brandywine Manor Church .

g Maria Grier , wife of James G . Long and mother of

Thomas S . Long , late pastor of the Bloomsburg Presbyter Ne 29 18 an 2 ian Church in w Jersey , was b . July , 03, d . J . , 5 180 2 1868. James G . Long was b . March , 0, d . March ,

1878. James Long and wife were farmers . He , as well as i his son , James Long , were elders n the Coatesville Presby terian Church .

h Martha Grier , m . Hays .

i Isabella Grier , b . 1808 ; d . Feb . 2, 1890; m . John Har 1 2 ris Long , b . 810, d . Feb . 29 , 185 .

j Dr . Joseph F . Grier . He finished his medical studies in 1828 and practiced at home till the fall of 1837 , when he removed to Lewisburg , Union County , P a . , where he contin ued till his death in February , 1908. ’ John Grier s wife , Jane Hays , was a daughter of John

Hays , brother of Isabella Hays , who married Thomas Patton 1754 6 1 1 in and d . Oct . , 81 , aged 7 9 years . 3 . 1 5 Rev James Grier , born in 7 0 and died Nov . 19 , 1791 , 41 aged years , was ordained in 1777 and settled in a church

P a . n in Bucks County , , and his only so , John Ferguson Grier, 1 84 . 7 b in , settled at Reading, P a . , and organized the First

Presbyterian Church , of that city , in which he was instal led

. 23 1814 pastor , Nov , . He died Jan . 26 , 1829 . 4 Frances Grier , who married Capt . James Ralston , was the mother of four children :

a John Ralston , principal of the Rockville Academy, who was a ruling elder of the Brandywine Manor Church for 36 r yea s and choir master there for more than 30 years . He 21 1 died April , 880.

. 22 1885 in t md b James Ralston , d May , , he 82 year of his age . He bore a name which h as been honored and es PARKE FAMILY HISTORY 89

' teemed in old Brandywine Manor Church for several gener i r at ons . The brothe s , John and James Ralston , were farm er s ; each owned the half of the old Capt . James Ralston homestead at Rockville , Chester County , Pa . Jan 2 c Christian Ralston , d . . , 1884. Unmarried .

. . 8 1875 in 78th d Agnes Ralston , d Sept , , her year ; m .

Rev . J . N . Grier, DD . 5 in Nathan Grier, b . September, 1760, was the young est member of his family . He received h is early training for the ministry from his older brother , Rev . James Grier , then entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1781 , was ordained in 1783, and licensed to preach by the Presbytery

i 8 . of Philadelphia , n October , 17 6 Received a unanimous call from the Brandywine Manor Presbyterian Church as the successor of Rev . John Carmichael in 1787 , and was in 2 stalled its pastor, Aug . 2 , 1787 . He died March 30, 1814, aged 56 years , six months . His wife , Susanna Smith Grier, 2 1 died January , 18 2. They were married Nov . 13, 1787 , and had five children :

11 1 . 28 a Rev . Robert S . Grier, b . May , 790, d . Dec , E mmitt ur -e 1865. Was pastor of the sb g and P in y Creek, 5 Md . , Presbyterian Churches for 1 years . D 2 1 b Rev . J . N . C . Grier , D. . , b . June 8, 179 ; d . Sept . 5,

1880. Was pastor of the Brandywine Manor Presbyterian

Church for 54 years and seven months . The pastorates of father and son together extended over a period of 82 years . m d Dr . Grier was a an of great force of character, an this gave him a very strong influence in the community and s e cured for him a prominent and leading position among his I ministerial brethren . n 1837 , when the temperance reform began its onward movement he espoused its cause and and brought to its advocacy all the courage , positiveness de 3 termination of his character . He married Sept . 9 , 181 , 8 Nancy Ralston , who died Nov . 7 1 73, oldest daughter of m , Capt . Ja es and Frances Ralston , leading members of his congregation .

c Nancy Grier, who married in 1809 , Rev . Robert ’ White , who was ordained and installed pastor of Fagg s and Manor Presbyterian Church , Dec . 14, 1809 , continued its pastor until his death in September, 1835.

d Martha Grier, who m . Nov. 1814, Rev . Samuel Parke mentioned before .

4 . e Sarah Grier, b . in 1804, d . in 188 ; m Dr . Robert 90 PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

1 36 Was a h 1794 . . 26 8 . Thompson , b . Sept . 18, ; d Feb , p ysi oian of extensive practice and resided at Cochranville , Pa . ’ Six of Nathan Grier s grandsons beca me ministers of th e h Gospel , namely : Nathan Grier W ite , Robert M . White , and Smith F . Grier, Lafferty Grier, Nathan Grier Parke

John C . Thompson . These descendants of John and Agnes Caldwell Grier are nearly all long since dead , but who can estimate the in an tell ectual , moral d spiritual benefits derived by the old Brandywine families from the settlement of the Griers among them $ 1 I William Parke , b . Oct . 9 , 179 ; d . April 12, 1869 ; far

P a . . Han mer , of Sadsbury Township , Chester County, ; m 1 nah Kenworthy , b . Feb . 20, 18 8, in England ; d . Jan . 20, : 1885, in Sadsbury Township . Seven children

A Harriet Parke , b . 1840; d . 1910; m . Eli Dyson . Had five children :

a Parke Dyson , b . 1868.

b Sarah Dyson , b . 1870.

c Hannah Dyson , b . 1873.

d Lena Dyson , b . 1879

e Robert Dyson , b . 1883.

All born and reside near Norristown , Pa . 1842 B William H . Parke , b . ; farmer, of Daleville , L on donderr y Township , Chester County , P a . ; m . l st Rebecca 2u Valentine ; no children ; m . d Flora May Cas selberry . Have one child : x a Joseph Ma well Parke , b . 1897 . C . 1844 12 9 Lucy Parke , b ; d . Feb . , 18 5. Unmarried .

D Joseph K . Parke , b . 1846 ; lives retired in Parkes burg , Pa .

. 848 . 1 (1 E Hannah L Parke , b ; . Sept . 19 , 1864.

F John W . Parke , b . March 31 , 1850; was owner of his ’ 2 father s homestead ; d . Aug . 1 , 1917 . He lived more than ‘ thirty-two years alone on a large farm near the borough of u Parkesb rg , Pa . He accumulated much money through his thrifty habits . Until about a year before h is death he enjoyed the best of health and had done the most of the a farm work on his large f rm himself . About that time he began to suffer from heart trouble which , neglected , soon in compelled him to seek relief the Coatesville Hospital , but s u un ccessfully . PARKE FAMILY HISTORY 91

. 1851 (1 an 9 G Letitia Parke , b ; . J . 1 , 1916 ; m . Albana

. . 854 (1 an 1 S Casselberry , b 1 ; . J . 6 , 1916 . Two children :

a Elsie Casselberry , b . 1888. b r 1892 F Ve na Casselberry , b . ; m . rank Cloud .

. 1793 J Agnes Parke , b ; m . Rob ert Cochran , of Coch P a ranville , . ; removed to Richmond , Indiana , after mar e n riag . No childre .

. 1 96 K Harriet Parke , b 7 ; m . Mathew Cochran . Th ree children :

A Joseph Cochran .

B E liza Cochran .

C David Cochran .

and Mathew Cochran family also resided in Richmond ,

I nd the two brothers having married two sisters . Here ends the record of descendants of Joseph Parke , the second ni h son of John and Elizabeth McK g t Parke . 3 John Parke son of John and Elizabeth McKnig ht

Parke , and grandson of Arthur and Mary Parke, d . Nov . 15, in 84 1823, in the old homestead the th year of his age . Upon attaining mature manhood he engaged extensively in farming interests and became a large and prosperous far i mer . Politically he was a Federalist . He married n 1780, 3 82 in 1 t Ann Denny , who died June , 1 0, her 7 s year . She was the daughter of William and Agnes Parker Denny and granddaughter of John Parker . Her brother, Maj or Eben i ezer Denny , w as a prominent officer n the Revolutionary e in War . Arthur Parke owned at the time of his dec ase , in January , 1739 , a farm along the Susquehanna River Cum i n berland County , P a . , which he willed to h s so , Joseph ’ Parke , who then resided on it . Ann s father , William Den in ny , removed from Chester County , Pa to that vicinity i e 1745. The Dennys and Parkes may have , n this way , b come acquainted and related . Ann Denny Parke had a sis ter, Mary , who married Richard Parkinson , both of whom i n Ann and died n early life , survived by two small childre , $ Margaret Parkins on . The former was taken by her aunt , An o n Parke , of Chester County , the latter by her uncle , J hn

Officer , of Carlisle , Pa . They married brothers , Samuel in and Robert F uth ey . Agnew F uth ey , banker, teacher , f and superintendent of the public schools , o Chester County , F uth e son and . was. the of Ann , Judge J Smith y , president n j udge of the Chester County Court for nine years , historia 9 2 PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

F uth e and lawyer of eminence , was a son of Margaret y ,.

John 2md and Ann Denny Parke had five children . 1 81 13 1829 in A Elizabeth Parke , b . July , 7 , d . Dec . , ,

4 1808 . Mc l ell an the 49th year of her age ; m . Feb . , , Thos C ,

18 1834. 6 17 74 . . b . Sept . , ; d Dec , He was a grandson of 98 1 41 Robert McCl ellan , born about 16 , died 7 , the founder l of his branch of the McCl e l an family in this country . He came to America with the Scotch emigrants from the Prov

172 1725. ince of Ulster , North Ireland , between 0 and He settled in Middletown Township , Chester ( now Delaware)

County . He was married twice , three children by his first wife : 1 i nd William , whose descendants are n York a Adams

Counties . 2 Jane , m . Miller . 3 Isabel , m . Hunter . Robert then married Elizabeth Ewing and they had seven children : 4 James , m . Martha Caldwell , the parents of Colonel d Joseph McCl ellan. James died in February , 1793, an Mar tha in November , 1793, and they are buried in Upper Octor aro Cemetery . Martha was a daughter of Henry Caldwell by his first wife , name unknown . James and Martha Cald well , with their eight children , removed from Middletown

Township , Chester (now Delaware) County , about the year 1 770, into Sadsbury Township . They were substantial and industrious farmers . Col . Joseph McClell an was the oldest of their children . The brothers , James and Samuel McCl el - lan , lived within less than one half mile of each other in Sadsbury Township at the time of their first settlement there . After the death of Robert McCl ell an , his widow married Henry Caldwell , who died in 1758 after which event she made her home with her son , Samuel , in Newton Town ship and moved with him to his Sadsbury home in 1759 and soon after died there the same year . 5 Thomas , d . in 1809 ; m . l s t Elizabeth 2nd

Janet Trimble , b . 1731 . He belonged to the Chambersburg branch of the McCl ell an family .

Robert , d . in 1808. 7 . in D 1732 . ec 9 18 Samuel , b ; d . , 07 ; m . Mary Lindsay, . i 10 1759 ( 1. 19 1777 Apr l , , who June , , aged 42 years . Samu el 2m . d Ann 2 1778 m Love , July , ; b . 1746 ; d . in July , 1842. PARKE FAM ILY HI STORY 93

Sam uel McCl ellan was a carpenter as well as the owner of a large and valuable farm . 8 . McMi h Rebecca , m Charles c a el . 9 i 1 . n 777 . M Elizabeth , d m Samuel cCrea , belonged to McCl ell an m the Chambersburg branch of the fa ily .

Mary , m Caldwell , a brother of her brother ’ James wife . Elizabeth Mcclellan was the oldest member of James ’ and Margaret Ewing s family , Margaret , wife of William

Lindsay , who bought the James Ewing homestead the year 174 2 James died in 0. ud , William Lindsay and wife were M l ell the parents of Mary Lindsay cC an, the first wife of Mc l ell C an . r 4 3 d . th Samuel , Jane , Rebecca , wife of John

. 5 6th Cohoon th , William . , Thomas Ewing . The following are the children of Samuel McCl ellan and his two wives an d their descendants :

1 M l ll a James cC e n , b . July 18, 17 60; m . Jennie d . March , 1814. 2 Mc l ell an 6 181 C . . 8 56 Robert , d Nov , , aged years ; m . h (1 1 18 3 i Hanna Whiting , who . Aug . , 3 , n her 68th year . 3 l ll Mc e an . . 5 18 3 i John C , d Nov , 1 , n his 47th year ; m .

Mary Parke , in 17 90; she died March 4, 1841, in her 75th n year daughter of Arthur Parke , 2 d . l l Elizabeth McC e l an, b . May 1 , 1769 . 5 l ll Margaret McC e an , b . March 3, 177O. 6 l ell i Thomas McC an, d . Dec . 18, 1834, in h s 6 1st year ; 2 m . l st Elizabeth Parke , Feb . 4, 1808 ; d . Dec . 13, 1 8 9 , in

4 1868. her 9th year ; m . 2nd , Margaret Daniel , who d . Feb . 4, 7 l ll Mary McC e an , b . June 19 , 1777 d . in infancy .

Samuel McCl ell an m . 2nd July 2, 1778, Ann Love , only

1746 . . 7 daughter of John and Alse Love , b . about ; d Feb , : in her 96th year . They had two children 8 ll Mary McCl e an , b . Oct . 3, 1780. 9 1 1 82 . . 3 Ann Love McCl ell an , b . April 15, 7 ; d Aug , 3 1830; m . Feb . 29 , 1816 , James Boyd Stewart , b . April ,

177 9 ; d . Nov . 28, 1837 grandson of Walter Stewart . Sam l ll ’ uel McC e an s second wife , Ann Love , the only daughter of

John and Alse Love , belonged to a now widely extended branch of the Love family in this country . John Love , of - in Scotch Irish origin , removed from the North of Ireland r 1725 and settled in West Fallowfield Township , Cheste ’ County , P a . , within the bounds of the Fagg s Manor Presby 94 PARKE FAMILY HISTORY

an terian C ongregation . He was elder of the church from the time of its regular organization in 1739 until his death

51 . in 1790, a period of years He attended the first Presby in 1706 terian Synod in 1730. He was born February , , and

20 1790. died aged 84 years , and his wife , Alse , died April ,

They had four children ( 1) John , of whom we know noth

20 1825 . n 28 1739 . . . Ja . ing ; (2) Thomas Love , b , ; d Dec , ; m u about 17 67 Martha Guthrie , da ghter of James Guthrie , of - : Scotch Irish Presbyterian ancestry , whose family were 1 r Adam Guthrie , who m . Mercy I win , of Nantmeal

P a . Township , Chester County , , daughter of George and

Jane Matlack Irwin .

John , died unmarried .

Ann , m . Gilkerson , of Chambersburg , Pa .

Mary , m . Murphy , of Virginia .

Jane , m . Samuel Martin .

h e . 29 m. s . Martha , b . 1746 ; Thomas Love ; d Dec ,

1 2 1843 Abigail , b . 17 6 ; d . in ; m . Alexander Andres 1 58 846 Sr . , b . 7 ; d . 1 .

Marj orie , m . Emmett ; moved to Ohio about

James Guthrie owned between 600 and 7 00 acres of land on both sides of the Octoraro Creek in the immediate vicinity of Andrews Bridge , which spans the creek . Thomas Love was a second lieutenant in the Revolutionary War on the staff of General Samuel Cochran . The corner stone of f the old homestead o Thomas Love , one mile south of Steel “ ville on the Octoraro Creek , still retains the inscription , T .

1768. man L Thomas Love , like his father , was a of earnest piety and was an elder in the Fagg ’ s Manor Church for more than 60 years . Thomas and Martha Guthrie Love n d had four childre , of whom we have some knowledge , name l z y John , James , Robert and Ann . 1 8 i John Love , b . Dec . 6 , 176 , n Chester County ; (1. Sept . 25 1834 c i e , , in M M nn County , Tenness e ; m . Margaret Flem ing, b . in Chester County , Pa Sept . 17 , 1777 ; d . May 12, 1841 . Had seven children :

a Elizabeth Love , m . James Seaton .

b Margaret Love , m . William Walker .

c Mary Love , m . William Walker .

d Martha Love , m . Samuel Martin .

9 6 PA RKE FAMILY HISTORY

1768 we find no less than 47 clergymen of different denomi

1739 . nations , direct descendants of Thomas Love of

4 1809 . 18 1819 . h Hannah Love , b . Aug . , ; d April , Uh married .

1811 . 15 1883. i Mary Love , b . Dec . 9 , ; d March , Uh married . ' 2 14 . . 25 18 3. J Rebecca Love , b . Jan . 5, 18 ; d Nov , 3 1 19 1 74. 17 1 72 ( . . 7 Robert Love , b . Aug . , 7 ; Sept , 4 2 1 4 13 1801 . A nn Love , b . Sept . 1, 77 ; d . Oct . , ; m Nov .

177 1 . 21 1830. 26 , 1793, Gabriel Morrison , b . ; d May , They had four children i a Thomas Love Morrison , b . Dec . 4, 1794; d . n October,

1826 ; m . Mary Struble , of Union County , Pa .

b Alexander Wilson Morrison , b . Dec . 6 , 1796 ; d . Sept. lmn Mc a o t . 2 . C . . 8, 187 ; m Margaret The late Dr John A

Morrison , of Cochranville , was a great grandson of Gabriel

Morrison .

c Prudence Morrison , b . Dec . 26 , 17 98. 11 1 d Julia Ann Morrison , b . Sept . , 800; d . Sept . 20,

1867 m . James K . Simpson . No Children . 3 l ll Ann , 2nd . wife of Samuel McC e an , w hose American ancestors have for three generations j ust been traced .

4 u l ll a Sam el McC e n , about whom we know nothing . The following are the descendants of Elizabeth Parke and Mc l ell a Thomas C n , sixth child of Samuel and Mary Lindsay Mc l ella C n , who s ucceeded his father in the ownership of the old Mcclellan homestead near Lenover, Pa . They had nine children : l ll A Samuel Denny McC e an, b . Dec . 18, 1808 ; d . June 28 1 , 878. He owned 50 acres of the north side of his fath ’ er s farm and married Mary E . Ferree , born 1822, died May 24 1853 , , leaving no children surviving them . Mc l ell an B John Parke C , b . April 9, 1810 d . March 29, 1872 . Unmarried . Mc l ell an C James Latta C , b . Oct . 26 , 1811 ; d . April 15, 1895 ; owned for many years the old McCl ell an homestead ;

. 26 1840 2 m March , , Rachel Paxson , b . April 7 , 18 1 ; d . Aug . 6 19 2 , 1 . Four children : l ll . McC e an . 1 4 a Thomas P , b April , 18 3 ; d . June 17 , 1913 ; . u m Emma S tton Armstrong , b . in 1847 d . March 29 , 19 18 L onder derr ; farmers in y Township , Chester County ,

Pa . Three children : PARKE FAM ILY HIS TORY 97

a William James Mcclellan , b . Dec . 3, 1872 m . Laura

G . Polk . Four children

(a) Imogene Polk McClellan . e M (b) Thomas Lawr nce cCl ellan.

Manor Church . a Mc l ell n C a . u 7 1875 b Mary L tta , b J ly , d . July 31, 29 1896 1906 ; In . July , , Nathan J . Haines . One child :

(a) E linor Haines , lives with her father in West Ches ter, Pa . l ell n r c John Parke McC a , b . Ap il 27 1882 m . Frances

Stively . One child : l ll (a) Louise McC e an. Mc l ellan 24 1844 a C . . . b. b K te , b Oct , ; m Edwin Heston ,

May 28, 1828 ; d . May 1 , 1909 . Six children :

a Parke Heston , b . Oct . 28, 1873. 4 m t . 26 187 . 14 1 18 b Willia Hes on , b June , ; m March , 9 , r M s . Lela R . Courtney, of West Grove , Pa .

c James Heston , b . Feb . 21, 1877 .

d Gertrude Heston , b . Jan. 8, 1879 .

Bessie Heston , b . 1885.

f Rachel Heston , b . 1887 . All of Parkesburg, Pa . l ll c Samuel T . McC e an, b . Aug . 22, 1853; d . Dec . 23,

1916 ; m . Ida J . Reynolds , of Atglen , P a . , b . Feb . 14, 1857 . Four children : l ll a Robert L . McC e an, b . Jan. 11 , 1885. l n ms ne b Chester R . McCl e lan ; m . Martha Han u . O chi1d : l l (a) Jane McC e lan. ll c James L . McCle an, m . Carrie Reed . l ell d Grace McC an. l n 2 1859 (1 John Parke McC ella , b . March 0, ; of Parkes 2 8 1862; . 2 1900. burg , P a . ; m . Alice Hepp , b . Feb . , d March , 5 1889 8 1889 . . . One child , George H . Hepp , b . May , ; d Sept ,

21 1813 . D Anna Maria Mcclellan , b . April , ; d March

15 1835 . 15 29 , 1900; m . Oct . , , John Adams Love, b April , 20 1882 : 1800; d . Feb . , . Seven children

4 1837 ; . . 1 1867 a Robert Parke Love , b . Sept . , m Oct , , Two 1835 . Amelia Fahnestock , b . Aug . 8, ; d May children :

20 1868 . . a William Fahnestock Love , b . Aug . , ; d Aug 98 PARKE FAMILY HISTO RY

897 cons um 30, 1 was a Presbyterian clergyman ; died of p tion ; never married . 72 2 b Robert M cCl ell an Love , b . Sept . 4, 18 ; m . June 9 ,

8 1872. 0 . 1909 , Clara Logan , b . Feb . , N children Reside at

w . Asteria , Ne Mexico 19 1 1 1839 . 8 . b Lo uise Jane Love , b . May , ; d in ; m May

21 1825. 1 , 1877 , Anderson W . King , b . August , Have one child : 1880 a Bertha Montgomery King , b . Feb . 7 , , of Red lands , Calf .

4 . 21 c Rebecca Frances Love , b . July 29 , 18 1 ; d . Jan , One : 186 . 1880; m . Sept . 16 , 8, William Johnston child

29 1870 . a Anna Love Johnston , b . April , m Edward 1 5 : 8 87 . Benoist , b . June , Two children

10 1910. (a) John Louis Benoist , b . June ,

9 19 13. (b) Frank Ansel Benoist , b . July , Reside near

St . Louis , Missouri . 4 in (1 Samuel Denny Love , b . June 16 , 18 4, Steelville , 9 187 1 Chester County , Pa . m . Feb . , , Hannah Erford , b .

Aug . 31 , 1846 . All residing near Omaha , Neb . Have three children : 4 a Verna Ansel Love , b . Nov . 1 , 1876 ; d . July 23, 1893.

b Gertrude Katherine Love , b . Aug . 31, 1880; m . Nov .

28, 1908, Denny A . Weller , b . Oct . 25, 1880. Two children :

(a) Mary Davis Weller, b . Dec . 26 , 1909 .

(b) Verna Weller, b . Nov . 18, 1911 .

c Ray Erford Love , b . March 29 , 1882, McCook , Neb 12 191 m . June , 3, Clara Mae Holtz , b . Oct . 4, 1889 .

e John Victor Ansel Love , b . March 24, 1846 ; d . June 9 , 1908 1s t ; . . m Belle Edson ; m . 2nd Margaret Waugh ; resided in Redland , California . No children :

f Walter Lowrie Love , b . Nov . 24, 1854; m . Lois Web

. 8 1854 11 ster, b July , ; reside near Peoria , 1 . Four children

a Louise Frances Love , b . Feb . 11 , 1881 ; m . Bert Wil liams . Two children :

(a) Helen Williams , died in infancy .

(b) Walter Edward Williams , b . April 11 , 1905. 2 1 b Ida Belle Love b . Nov . 9 , 884; m . Edward Darling ton . Two children a ( ) Robert Love Darlington , b . January , 1907

(b) Paul Webster Darlington , b . August , 1911 .

c Anna Guthrie Love , b . Aug . 11, 1887 m . Fred Riedel bauch . One child : R eidel au h 11 (a) Lois Wilhelmina b c , b . 19 .

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25 1908 a Bessie Mcclellan , m . Sept . , , Harry Essing

221 33rd . ton , of North street , Philadelphia , Pa Two chil dren :

(a) Frances Essington .

(b) Arthur Essington . l 19 1 b Nellie McClel an, m . April 19 , 6 , Hiram Frame , of

Bryn Mawr, Pa . l Thomas McCl e l an , the father and grandfather of the above childr en In . 2nd Margaret Mccaughey Daniel . They had two children . Not descendants of Arthur and Mary

Parke . 1 l ll 1 Sarah Love McC e an , b . Sept . 2 , 1831 , d . Feb . 9 ,

19 13 ; m . Isaiah Fawkes Matlack , b . Nov . 27 1826 ; d . Dec .

3, 1904; merchant , of Parkesburg , P a. They had two chil dren .

a Mary Fawkes Matlack , b . March 9 , 1854; d . Nov . 16 ,

b a Margaret Louise M tlack , b . June 2, 186 1 ; m . Walter 2 1 Gormley , b . Feb . , 858 Reading Railway employe . Three children :

(a) Ruth Gormley , b . June 15, 1886 .

(b) Walter Matlack Gormley, b . March 18, 1894.

(c) William James Latta Gormley , b . Dec . 16 , 1895. 2 McCl ellan 3 4 Thomas , b . March , 183 ; d . June 28, 1892; unmarried ; Pennsylvania Railroad employe . a B Jane Parke , Jr . , b . March 18, 1783 ; d . J n . 23, 1818.

Unmarried .

31 1858 i . 21 1785 . O t. . c , ; C Arthur Parke , b May , ; d n 11 1868 Wi l 1 1793; . . Mary J . Reynolds , b . July , d Aug , ; of : min ton . g , Del Four children 913 28 1821 . . 8 1 ; A Ruth Ann Parke , b . Sept . , ; d Aug ,

4 . 30 1843 . in 18 6 m . Jefferson Stroud , Nov . , ; d

(1. B Elizabeth Amy Parke , m . Abraham W . Turner ; : Dec . 11 , 1906 . Four children

i . a Arthur Everett Turner ; deceased ; m . Mary G . Ph le Five children : 0 i a Alice Ruth Turner, m . George B . Suplee . Two ch l

in . (a) Mary G . Suplee , died infancy

(b) George B . Suplee , Jr .

r . b Arth ur Everett Turner , J . , m . Vera Marshall e e c J n tte M . Turner .

(1 Gazene Turner ; died in childhood .

e Stewart J . Turner , m . Elizabeth Graves . PARKE FAM ILY HISTORY 101

b Anna Mary Turner .

c . . 5 1860 James Parke Turner, b Oct , ; d . March 5,

d Samuel Reynolds Turner, P . R . R . employe . All the members of this family reside in Philadelphia who survive at this date . 1829 C Margaret Jane Parke , b . ; d . Feb . 25, 1912; m . 1826 Moses Ross , b . ; d . May 13, 1896 ; merchant and real es i r tate dealer n Pa kesburg , Pa . Two children who lived to adult age . i . . n 1857 ; . a Mary J Ross , b m Charles C . Owens , b . 1845 a ; merchant and oldest born resident of P rkesburg , Pa . one They have child , Margaret Rebekah Owens , born 1894.

b . . a 22 18 0 G A P rke Ross , b . Dec . , 6 ; d . Feb . 18, 1903 ; m . Mary Mcconnell . Two children : 1893 a Sarah Margaret Ross , b . ; In . Feb . 3, 1915, A . ill R ansav e Frome , of Camden , N . J . Have two children :

(a) Margar et Frome , b . 1916 .

(b) Dorothy Frome , b . 1918. 1 4 2 b Mary Ross , b . 89 ; m . June 6 , 1918, George Mill Mc a ll ard C nne , of Philadelphia, of the Penn Mutual Life Ih surance Company . 1 n D Samuel R . Parke , b . Oct . 9 , 833 ; d . Ja . 1, 1899 .

Samuel R . Parke was born in Highland Township , Ches ter County , P a . , a son of Arthur and Mar y Reynolds Parke ’ and was reared on his father s farm and received his early education in the public schools . He afterward attended ’ in Blair Hall , at Fagg s Manor, this county , grad uating 1 2 85 . He then devoted h is attention to farming . He mar i ried , n 1858, Annie E . Martin , a daughter of Thomas Mar tin L n 2 , of o dong r ove Township . She died in 186 , survived b y two sons , Arthur T . and William E . Parke . Mr . Parke then sold his farm and removed to Parkesburg, Pa and en i h s uc gaged n the grain , coal and lumber business . T is he c f ll e or aniz ess u y conducted until 1869 , when he and oth rs g o and b e ed the private banking firm of Parke , Smith C . , i g an a general banking business . He was cashier unt l April I n 1880 a 22, 1873, when he was elected president . this b nk became the Parkesburg National Bank and Mr . Parke w as in continued as president . He was continuously the 26th banking business for thirty years . On October ,

1882, he again mar ried , wedding Miss Ida S . Wilson , a daughter of Amos G . Wilson . By this union he has two

and . children , Mary R . , mar ried to Samuel Dodd, Samuel R 102 PA RKE FA MI LY HHSTORY

Jr . Mr . Parke was elected to the office of county surveyor P ark s ur for a te r m of three years , and also as burgess of b g

Boro ugh and j ustice of the peace . He was a member and

deacon of the Upper Octoraro Church , and was also a trus tee and superintendent of the Sunday School connected with a this church . He also served as tre surer of the Parkesburg

Iron Company . He was vice president and a director of the Parkesburg Water Company and a director in the Parkes

burg Building and Loan Association . Mr . Parke died Janu 16 ary 12, 1899 and his wife , Ida S . Wilson Parke , on March ,

1903. 12 1859 i a Arth ur T . Parke was b . Oct . , , n Highland Was Township , Chester County , Pa . prepared for college

in the Parkesburg Academy and entering Princeton College ,

took a full classical course , from which he was graduated in

the class of 1879 . He entered on the study of law in the 2 ne in Fall of 188 , taking a course of o year Columbia Law l a d f er w d Schoo , in New York City , n a t ar s s tudied with A . P .

Reid , E sq . , being admitted to the Chester County Bar in

1884, and immediately opened a law office at West Chester,

Pa . Mr . Parke is a liberal Republical politically , and in r e li i n g o a member and elder of the First Presbyterian Church , r West Chester, Pa . He ma ried Clara R . Chambers , of Lon r dong ove Township , Chester County . They have four chil dren :

a Arthur T . Parke , Jr .

b William Parke .

c Eva Parke .

d Elizabeth Parke .

b Dr . William E . Parke .

Dr . Parke was graduated from Princeton College in 1883 and from the medical department of the University of n in Pennsylva ia 1886 , and has been engaged in the practice of his profession ever since in the city of Philadelphia . Dr . 1739 17th Parke of North Street , m . Nov . 6 , 1918, Miss

Grace Woods .

c Mary R . Parke , m . Samuel Dodd . Three children : R Samuel . , William and Dorothy Randall Dodd . He is an

electrician , of Strafford , Pa .

. 1 d Samuel R Parke , Jr b . 893, of Harrisburg . Grad uate of Princeton University , class of 1911 ; engineer in the a ; . 1 19 1 Dep rtment of Health In March , 6 , Elizabeth , daug h

. ter of Mr and Mrs . John Edward Lauch , of Pittsburgh , Pa .

. 28 178 D Mary Parke , b April , 7 ; d . July 11 , 1867 ; of

R 104 PARKE F iAMtl L Y HHSTO Y

A McCl urg . 18 l am . 31 1855 Wil i , , 1900; In . May , , b May

5 1903. . 1824; d . Nov . , Four children

17 1856 . a Lowrie Mcclurg , b . Oct . , ; d June

1903 . . m . May 16 , , Georgiana Stahl , of Elkhart , Ill b July

1 . 5, 187 r b Sarah McCl urg , b . June Unma ried .

1 1864 . . 7 l . . 3 ; c William A . McC urg , Jr . b Oct , m Oct ,

2 1865. On e . . 0 1900, Mrs . Mary Jane Griffen Pound , b Dec , child :

l r 28 1 01 . . 10 u . 9 (a) Jane Lowrie McC g , b . Aug , ; d Oct ,

- W . McCl ur h as : illiam A g , Jr two step children 1 88 George Henry Pound , b . May 30, 8 .

Mary Elizabeth Pound , b . Aug . 4, 1889 m . Oct. 1 , 1913,

Edgar F . Fowler . l r 14 8 6 d James A . McC u g , b . Oct . , 1 6 ; m . Jean C . Pat terson , b . Feb . No children . a 25 1833 in Den m . . J n . b Maj or Ja es A Lowrie , b , , died ver , Colorado , Jan . 18, 1888. Graduated at Miami Univer a s ity in 1851 . He enlisted in the War of the Rebellion s a private in Company K , Thirteenth Pennsylvania Infantry , was soon after promoted to the p osition of assistant adj u a tant general , with the rank of m j or on the staff of Major General Negley and afterward served in the same capacity on the staff of Ge neral Absalom Baird , four years in all , from 1861 to 1865. He married Nov . 24, 1863, Mary J . 24 3 Park , of Pittsburgh , Pa b . Nov . , 18 5; d . Feb . 5, 19 14.

He practiced law in Pittsburgh and Denver . They had three children :

a Margaret P . Low rie , b . Oct . 27 , 1867 ; d . July 15, 191 6 . Unmarried . 12 2 b Louisa Bell Lowrie , b . Sept . , 186 8 ; m . Oct . 2, 1895 , Albert Hawkes Sutton , b . Sept . 22, 1870; d . March 10, 1 904. They had four children :

(a) James Lowrie Sutton , b . Dec . 4, 1896 . e r (b) Albert Hawk s Sutton , J . , b . March 11, 1898 ; d .

Sept . 25, 1898.

c Elizabeth Parke Lowrie , b . Sept . 12, 1868 ; d . July 3, 1 . T D. Rev Samuel . Lowrie , D. , b . Feb . 8, 1835; m . Sept . PARKE FAM ILY HIS TORY 105

0 6 , 186 , Sarah Ann Hague , of Pittsburgh , P a . , b . Dec . 15, 6 1862 1837 ; d . March , . One daughter :

3 Rachel Lowrie , b . July 11 , 1861 .

Rev . Samuel T . Lowrie married Elizabeth A . Dickson ,

(second wife) daughter of Rev . H . S . Dickson , of West

P a . 5 1 6 an 3 4 Chester , , March , 8 7 b . J . 2 , 18 7 d . Sept . 30,

1907 . Four children : 2 a Rev . Walter Lowrie , b . April 6 , 1868, m . Feb . 9 ,

1918 e . , Barbara , daughter of G orge A Armour , Princeton , N .

J .

b Sarah Dickson Lowrie , b . March 28, 1870. 1 0 Harriet W . Lowrie , b . June 5, 187 1 ; m . June 23, r - 1896 , And ew Fine Derr, of Wilkes Barre , P a . ; b . May 29,

1853 ; d . Nov . 19 , 1915. Four children

(a) Elizabeth Lowrie Derr, b . March 21 , 1898. 2 (b) Katherine Dickson Derr, b . Sept . 1 , 1899 .

Andrew Fine Derr, Jr b . July 10, 1903.

(1 Margaret H . Lowrie , b . Sept . 26 , 1875 ; m . May 10,

1899 , Harry W . Sage , of Albany, N . Y . Three children

(a) Mar garet Lowrie Sage , b . March 24, 1900.

(b) Harry Sage , b . June 19 , 1902.

University in 1852. He spent four years in the Western

Theological Seminary, Allegheny , P a . , and was licensed by the Presbytery of Ohio , Jan . 8, 1856 . He then took a course of study at HJeidelb erg University , Germany , from - 1856 57 , and in Berlin in 1863. He was pastor at Alexan a 1858 dria , in Huntingdon County , P . , from December, , to

April , 1863. In 1864 he was with the army under General

Sherman in Tennessee and Georgia , doing duty in hospitals and camps as a delegate of the Christian Commission . a I n October , 1864, he went to Philadelphia , P a . , nd w as instrumental in building up the Bethany Mis i sion n that city, with which enterprise he was connected i until April , 1869 , when he became pastor of the church n - th e Abington , near Philadelphia , from 1869 74. Pastor of 9- 5 Ewing Church , New Jersey, from 187 8 , of the Wylie 1- 5 o Memorial Church , Philadelphia, 189 9 . Profess r of New

Testament literature and exegesis , Western Theological 4-7 r Seminary , of Allegheny , 187 8 ; corresp onding secreta y 1893-1906 of the Presbyterian Historical Society , ; vice -12 p resident of th e Presbyterian Board of Belief 1900 . 106 PA RKE FA MI LY HISTO RY

Dr . Lowrie was the author of Explanation of the Epistle to $ “ ’ $ 844 1899 1888. He the Hebrews , 1 , ; The Lord s Supper , 1901 also translated , in , Beyond the Grave , from the Ger

1866 . . man of Dr . Herrmann Cremer, Dr Lowrie resides at n 1827 Pine street , Philadelphia , Pa and has bee without a pastoral charge since 1895. Th om B Caroline Thompson , second child of Samuel p

27 1895 . . son and Mary Parke ; b . 1811 ; d . Nov . ; m R Cum mings ; buried in Philadelphia . No children .

C Eliza Thompson , third child of Samuel Thompson

814 15 1875 . and Mary Parke , b . Jan . 3, 1 ; d . April , ; m

8 1870. k ct 23 1814 . 2 lWashing ton McClintoc , b . O . , ; d July , Eight children : 2 a Oliver McClintock , b . Oct . 0, 1839 , of Pittsburgh ,

7 1866 . 28 P a . ; m . June , , Clara Courtney Childs , b June , : 1842. Six children 4 3 1868 . . 1 a Norman McClintock , b . June 1 , ; m Feb ,

1906 , Ethel Lockwood , daughter of Henry R . Lockwood , D .

12 1874. : D . , of Syracuse , N . Y b . April , Three children

l 28 1 6 . intock . . 90 (a) Eleanor Lockwood McC , b Nov , r 2 8 (b) Oliver McClintock , J . , b . Aug . 7 , 190 . c lintock 13 1915 (c) Henry Lockwood M C , b . Jan . , .

b Walter McClintock , b . April 25, 1870. lint k 4 c Emma Childs McC oc , b . Sept . 25, 187 ; m . June

3 19 2 . , 0 , Thomas Darling , Esq . , son of E . P . Darling , Esq , of - Wilkes Barre , P a . ; b . May 29 , 1863. Four children r (a) Thomas Darling, J . , b . July 25, 1903.

(b) Edward Darling, b . Jan . 2, 1906 . 0 ( ) Clara Childs Darling , b . April 17 , 1907 . s (d) El ie Lowrie Darling , b . March 27 , 1914. Mc lintock d Harvey Childs C , b . Jan . 16 , 1885 ; m . Nov . 11 1911 r , , Fanny , daughter of Charles DeHa t Brower, Esq . ,

o . of New Y rk ; b June 15, 1855. Two children : li Mc nt k r . (a) Harvey Childs C oc , J , b . Nov . 2, 1912. a Mc lint ck 1 (b) B iley Brower C o , b . May 5, 19 8. c li t e Elsie Thompson M C n ock , twin , b . April 16 , 188 6 . 16 19 13 l ; m April , , Frank D . Noch o , of Detroit ; b . Oct . 5 1833 , . O ne child :

McNic l (a) Jeannette o , b . March 16 , 19 19 . c lint k 18 6 f Jeannette Lowrie M C oc ; twin b . April 16 , 8 ;

. . 10 1918 m Oct , , Wallace N . Osburn , of Detroit , Mich .

linto 1 1 . . b Walter Lowrie McC ck , b . June 18, 84 ; d Mar 3 19 11 . u 9 18 4 , ; m J ne , 6 , to Mary Garrison , third daughter

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24 a Frank Weyman Kennedy , b . Jan. , 1876 ; In . March

02 . chilldren : 10, 19 , Sophia Burns Moore Two 4 2 190 . (a) Caroline H . Kennedy , b . Aug . , 5 7 190 . (b) Betty M . Kennedy , b . Oct . , 1 b Walter McClintock Kennedy , b . Aug . 30, 880: d .

1 80. Nov . 26 , 8 2 c Charlotte Elizabeth Kennedy , b . Jan . 2, 1888; 111 . l Maj or Eustace Maude Richardson Cox , of South Wrexa l

on . An in Manor, Bradford Avon , Wilts officer the English

Army. l h Frank Thompson McC intock , m . May 4, 1884, Stel : la Updike , daughter of T . Bowdoin Up dike . Five children

a Bowdoin Updike , b . March 10, 1885. 1 b Frank Stockton Updike , b . Jan. 3, 887 .

l 2 1890. c Kenneth Up d ik e, b . April 6 , 21 1892 d Madeline Updike, b . Oct. , . 9 e Rodman Updike , b . Sept . 25, 18 6 .

D Robert Denny Thompson , fourth child of Samuel

' Thompson and Mary Parke, b . Nov. 29, 1815; (1. Jan . 25, 12 1 14 1883 ; m . Mary V . Losey , b . Sept . , 18 8; d . April ,

1876 ; of New Brunswick . No children .

E Jane Thompson , fifth child of Samuel Thompson 8 2 18 i and Mary Parke , b . Aug . 4, 1 17 d . Aug . , 77 m . n

1838, Joshua D . Williams , b . May 18, 1805; d . July 16 , 1875. F our children : 8 a Emma Williams , b . Sept . 2 , 1839 ; Norristown, P a . ; m 18 18 8 1 4 . June , 7 , Robert J . Patton ; d . June 15, 91 .

b Ada Park Williams , d . March 9 , 1848.

c m . 31 1848 Jessie Elliott Willia s, d March , .

d Edwin H . Williams , b . Nov . 25, 1853 d . in Novem b er , 1883.

F Francis Thompson , sixth child of Samuel Thompson r and Ma y Parke , b . Sept . 2, 1820 d . Sept . 30 1846 . Uh m ; , arried .

G Mary Thompson , seventh child of Samuel Thompson 23 and Mary Parke, b . Feb . 8, 18 ; (1. Jan . 7 , 1846 ; m . in Oct . 184 , Rev . Louis W . Williams , b . 1806 ; d . April 7 , 1857 . One c1 i 141 h a Mary T ompson Williams , b . Dec . 24, 1845 ; d . July 27 1 1 9 5 . 3 186 , ; m Dec . , 7 , Rev . Bellville Roberts , Presbyter P a ian minister, Norristown , . ; b . Sept . 29, 1827 ; d . Aug . 23, 1914 . Four children : e a B llville Roberts .

b Fannie Lovett Roberts . PARKE FAMILY HISTORY 109

e c Mary Hy n tta Roberts .

(1 Louis Williams Roberts .

H Catherine Thompson , eighth child of Samuel d an Jan . 26 182 Thompson Mary Parke , b . , 6 ; d . March 24,

19 16 ; . Jan . 28 1847 m , , Daniel Reisinger, of York , P a . ; d .

Oct . 26 , 1897 . They had five children :

a . . 12 1847 Frank Reisinger, b Nov , ; d . Sept . 23, 1909 . a b Cl rence Reisinger, b . Feb . 24, 1848.

c Mary E . Reisinger, b . July 17 , 1850.

d . Catherine Reisinger, b Aug . 26 , 1853. i All three reside n Sewickley , Pa .

e . 4 1857 Charles Reisinger, b Sept . , m . Dec . 16 , 1891 ,

Clara Beringer, of Pittsburgh , Pa . Three children :

a Clarence Reisinger, b . May 30, 1893.

b Conrad B . Reisinger, b . June 18, 1895.

c Richard Eaton Reisinger, b . March 6 , 1897 .

I Sarah Parke Thompson , ninth child of Samuel

and . . 31 1827 Thompson Mary Parke , b Oct , d . Oct . 1 ,

1889 . 2 1850 Mc rd m July , , James Sturgis Co , b . Jan. 11 ,

1822; d . Dec . 3, 1894. They had five children :

a . 10 1851 E Annie Mccord , b July , ; m . Rufus . , Shap 4 ley , Philadelphia lawyer, Oct . , 1877 . Had one child l d a Hi da McCor Shapley , b . May 6 , 1881 ; d . July 27 ,

191 r . 0; m . Henry J . Doris , J , Feb . 15, 1908. No children .

b Walter Lowrie Mccord , b . June 28, 1854; d . in June

1893 in . 1 ; m . Aug 877 , Anny Benny , who died Nov . 7 , 1916 , aged 60 years . Four children :

a Benny McCord , b . in May , 1878 In . Feb . 4, 1904, i Adelaide Patterson . No ch ldren .

b Mabel McCord , b . May , 1879 . Unmarried .

c Walter Lowrie McCord , Jr b . in 1882; married to a

Miss Reed , who died in January, 1917 . in 1 m. 906 (1 Sarah Thompson McCor d , b . in 1884; ,

William Snead . Th ey have two children , born in 1909 .

c r 1858. . c Arthur Parke M Co d , b . June 9 , Unmarried e i e B s d s in Pittsburgh , Pa .

r 186 0 . . (1 Joseph Alexander McCo d , b . April 1 , ; d Oct in 18, 1916 ; m . Oct . 17 , 1896 , Eleanor B . Reed ; resides Port land , Oregon . One child :

r 15 1897 . a David T . W . McCo d , b . Nov . ,

1867 In . e r r . 18 ; e James Sturgis McCo d , J . , b . Dec , Jun

5 . : 28. 190 , Margaret Louise Patrick One child

9 1906 . r Dec . a Margaret Lilia n McCo d , b . , n J Emily Thompson , tenth child of Samuel Thompso 110 PARKE FA MILY HI STO RY

2 4 19 18 21 18 8 . . . and Mary Parke , b . Sept . , ; d Feb , ; m John

14 1857 . B . Herron , January , of Pittsburgh , Pa Five chil dren : 1 185 a Mary Thompson Herron , b . Dec . , 7 ; m . Rev .

Charles Herron , D. D. , a professor in the Omaha Presbyter

a 1 1887 . ian Theological Seminary , Nebrask , Dec . , No children .

b Cornelius Chase Herron . Unmarried .

P a . . . c Harry J . Herron , of Pittsburgh , ; m Laura H h : 22 1901 . Potter , Oct . , Three c ildren

5 1903. a John Potter Herron , b . Aug . ,

19 4 . 15 b Alice Miller Herron , b . Dec . 15, 0 ; d . Dec ,

30 1908 0 Frank Thompson Herron , b . June , .

P a . ( 1 George Lyon Herron , of Pittsburgh , ; m . Blanche : Edmundson , Nov . 2, 1899 . Two children 3 1 a Thompson Brown Herron , b . July 1 , 190 .

b John Edmundson Herron , b . July 16 , 1903.

i . e John B . Herron , d . n infancy 3 n 18 E John Parke , 3rd , b . Aug . 2 , 1789 ; d . Ja . 6 , 77 ; In .

12 1789 . 31 Feb . 16 , 1814, Frances Stewart , b . Aug . , ; d July ,

1880.

She was a granddaughter of Walter Stewar t , who died in April , 1778, and Margaret Andrew Stewart , who died

Sept . 7 , 1848, in her 38th year , the pioneer ancestors of the

Stewarts who came to West Sadsbury Township , Chester

County , in 17 19 from County Derry , Ireland . Walter Stew art , ih his will dated April 29 , 1778, mentions his sons Ah drew, James and Alexander , deceased , his two g randch il - - dren , Walter and William , and his daughter ih law Martha , w ife of his son deceased , Alexander , who died in September, 1 4 80 . Walter Stewart was a far mer who lived on a larg e farm a mile north of Atglen borough , now in part of th e

Kauffman farm . He was a captain of one of the companies of a battalion of Continental troops that were ordered by men Congress to be raised in Pennsylvania . Few have the record for excellence of character that was possessed by W alter Stewart . They had three children : 1 James Stewart , who went west . 2 Alexander Stewart , who died prior to 1778. 3 n . 26 1804 A drew Stewart , d Dec . , , in his 68th year ;

. 1 . 6 18 4 m Nancy Boyd ; d April , , in her 68th year . They had fourteen children : 1

. . 26 1772 Elizabeth Stewart , b Oct , ; d . April 14, 1797 .

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(b) O . P . M . Baldwin , m . Mary Reid . Have three chil

an . dren : William , George d Oliver

(1. an. 12 1903 . r (c) Mortimer S . Baldwin , J , ; m Lau a

.Williams . No children . r 2 ( d) Wilber Baldwin , m . Sarah Armst ong ; d . Feb . .

z and . 1902. Two children : Eli a Chester Baldwin One son (e) Fannie Baldwin , m . Edwin Reid . , Wil liam Stewart Reid .

(f) Martha Baldwin . 1 1 1 9 Mary Stewart , m . a Mr. Irwin, Feb . 2 , 7 3 ; d . June 2 27 , 181 . 6 Agnes Stewart, m . John C . Hamill . 7 ’ Mary Stewart , m . her sister Mary s husband, Irwin . 8 Andrew Stewart, d . D ec . 26 , 1848, in his 68th year. 9 Enoch Stewart b . June 14, 1783 ; d . April 7 , 186 1 ; m . 3 842 in 1st Jan . 25, 1821 , Mary Boyd , who died July , 1 , h er

md . in 1809 . in 1877 . 45th year ; In . 2 Rebecca Sloan , b , d 1 ° Elij ah Stewart m . after he went west and had many children . 1‘ 2 1 4 Hannah Stewart, b . May 0, 1785; d . May 3, 86 ; lived with her neice , Mrs . T . J . Gibson , in Highland Town ship , Chester County , Pa . 1 1 Alexander Mitchell Stewart , b . May 21, 1787 ; d . Jun e

5, 1789 . 24 William Stewart, d . Aug . , 1794, in his third year .

Frances Stewart, the wife of John Parke , 3rd , farm of er , Highland Township , Chester County , Pa . They had Six children Ann A Sarah Parke , b . 1817 ; d . 1900; m . Ezekiel

. 1812 1890 Young, b ; d . ; farmer and stock deal er . They had four children :

. 184 a Thomas C Young , b . July 6 ; m . Mr s . Mary Fer ree Meeks . No children .

Mr . Young is one of the large property owners of Park esb ur g ; director for many years and Since June 6 , 1916 , president of the Parkesburg National Bank and one of our most influential and wealthy citizens .

b Fanny Young, b . June 1849 .

. 8 2 1 5 . c Clara Young , b Feb All of Parkesburg , Pa .

. D D d Rev William Stewart Young , . b . July 11 , 1859 , was educated in the Parkesburg public schools and Classical

Institute , West Philadelphia Academy West Chester State m , Nor al School , and Lafayette College , where he was gradu 1 ated in the class of 883. Took special study in psychol PARKE FAMILY HISTORY 113

in ogy Lafayette College for two years . Mr . Young mar 11 1883 ennette ried May , , Miss J Lewis , who died in Los

. . 26 1887 . 2nd 25 Angeles , Calif , Oct , Married , June , 1889 ,

Adele Nichols . Occupied mission fields in Woodburn , Gew ais , Turner , Pleasant Grove and Marion , Oregon , when , on account of failing health of his wife , he removed to Los Ah Nov 18 1884 geles , Calif . , . , . Engaged in pastoral work at

Glendale Presbyterian Church for one year . During this year the Bayle Heights Church was organized and the first

u . 1 church b ilding erected In September , 896 , Mr . Young resigned his pastorate of these churches and became p as 18 tor, January , 97 , of a newly organized Pr esbyterian church named Knox . Remained pastor till 1907 In Nov 1 u ember , 906 , he assumed the s perintendence of Hollenbeck Home for Aged and became secretary of its board of trus r u tees . S e ved as tr stee and secretary of trustees of Ocei ll e in dental Co g e . s ce its organization in 1887 . Was acting 1905-19 president of the college from 06 , securing during this time an endowment of Was stated clerk of the Synod of California Since October , 1892, and permanent stated clerk of Los Angeles Presbytery almost continuously r° Since 1890. Received the honorary degree of docto of di vinity from Wabash College in June , 1901 . Rev . William

Stewart Young and Mrs . Adele Young were the parents of five children , all born in Los Angeles , Calif . :

21 1890 . a Arthur Nichols Young , b . Nov . , ; m Nellie

u 1 1 1 15. May Bailey , of Pasadena , Calif . , J ne , 9 She is a

’ ‘ daughter of Mr . and Mrs . Dwight Bailey . They were mar ried in Hollenbeck Memorial Chapel by his father , William u Stewart Young . Arthur Nichols Young grad ated from Occidental Colfeg e in 19 10 and took the degree of doctor of philosoph y in Princeton University in 1914, where he is now in the department of economics . They have one daughter, i Elizabeth May , born n September , 1916 .

u 2 1892. b Pa l Thomas Young , b . May 6 ,

A u 1 1893. 0 Walter Stewart Young , b . g . 3 , 24 1895 d John Parke Young, b . Oct . , .

1897 . e Sarah Adele Young , b . Jan . 29 ,

5 1890 . n 4 1819 . . B Adali e Parke , b . Oct . , ; d Nov , ; m

16 1816 . Dec . 24, 1846 , William T . Fielis , b . Dec . , d April

28, 1888. Five children : 25 1848 a Mary Frances Fielis , b . April , ; resides in

1873 v . 1840; P . 16 Cochranville , a . ; m . Jan , , Le is Miller , b : d . Jan . 16 , 1893. One child 114 PA RKE FA MILY HI STORY

9 1878. a Amy Miller , b . Aug . , 7 19 14 1850 . . . 15 , , b Anna M . Fielis , b . Dec , ; d Dec at

Avondale , Pa . 07 30 1854 (1. . 6 19 . , c Walter P . Fielis , b May , ; Sept unmarried ; farmer near Lincoln University .

22 1856 . d He nrietta C . Fielis , b . Oct . , ; m James Town

a . send ; no children ; reside near Avond le , Pa

18 1861 . 15 e John Andrew Fielis , b . Oct . , ; d July ,

1 Um 30 1822 . . 3 189 . C Mary Parke , b . Jan . , ; d Oct , married .

7 1824 . . 24 D Margaret Jane Parke , b . Nov . , ; d Jan ,

13 1851 , . . 1904; m . Feb . , , Thomas Jefferson Gibson b Jan

17 1895. : 821 . 15, 1 ; d March , Five children

16 1851 ; . 8 a John Andrew Gibson , b . Nov . , d June ,

17 1854 . 3 b . . . . ; , Emmer E J Gibson , b Aug , d June

6 2: . . 9 1857 . , Frances Jane Gibson , b Aug , d June

12 1893 1 . 9 186 . d Effie May Gibson , b . July , ; d Oct , ; 4 : 20 188 . m . R . Finney Martin , Nov . , Three children

1888. a Virginia Martin , b . 1891 b Chester Martin , b . . 3 189 . c J . Ray Martin , b . 1 18 e Ward Parke Gibson , b . Jan . 1 , 66 ; farmer , near

29 1892 . , Pa m . Dec . , , Ida Weaver Three chil P( raernk:esburg 1896 u 31 . a Paul Weaver Gibson , b . J ly , 26 1900 b Parke Jefferson Gibson , b . July , . r u 27 1902 c F ederick David Gibson , b . J ly . 2 2 E John Andrew Parke , b . 18 7 ; d . 190 ; farmer , near 3r d Parkesburg , P a . Was one of six children of John and u Fannie Stewart Parke , b t the only son and last survivor of four successive generations of John Parke from 1706 to

1902. He was universally respected and loved by the peo ple among whom he resided . He filled many positions of u trust . The poor man in need of a bondsman was s re to h unt up John Andrew Parke . Many a dollar he lost in this sort of work , b ut he persisted to the close of his life in help i n g the poor . He could not refuse their appeal . He denied himself many of the ordinary comforts of life to do a kindly turn for others . Descended from a long line of careful , r thrifty fa mers , the phenomenal change to his life of pure

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se Cunningham ; Susan , Eliza , Harriet and John Kyle Cow

an . 4 49 8 17 . McK i h 7th . Jane Parke , b . Aug . , ; m a n g t. i lr McKni h They had two ch d en, James and William g t. The latter mar ried Tabitha Stewart and they resided with her

parents in Cincinnati , Ohio . 22 8th . David Parke , b . Jan . , 17 51 ; d . in A ugust

17 98, of yellow fever in Philadelphia . He married Eliza beth Cowan , a daughter of Hugh Cowan . They had at least

two children : John Parke , a grocery merchan t , of P hil ad el 1797 phia , who died in , of yellow fever , and Mathew Parke ,

who removed early in life to Olena , Ohio . h e 9t . 15 Samuel Parke , born S pt . , 1756 ; died in in $ fancy .

(The End . )

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and se Cunningham ; Susan , Eliza , Harriet John Kyle Cow

an . 4 M K i A u 8 1 9 . c n 7th . Jane Parke , b . g . , 7 ; m a g h t. r Kn They had two ch idl en, James and William Mc ig ht. The latter married Tabitha Stewart and they resided with her

parents in Cincinnati , Ohio . 2 8th . David Parke , b . Jan . 2, 17 51 ; d . in August

17 98, of yellow fever in Philadelphia . He married Eliza beth Cowan , a daughter of Hugh Cowan . They had at least

two children : John Parke , a grocery mercha nt , of P hiladel 1797 phia , who died in , of yellow fever, and Mathew Parke , v who remo ed early in life to Olena , Ohio . h 9t . e Samuel Parke , born S pt . 15, 1756 ; died in in ‘ fancy .

(The End . )