History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . , on being admitted topractice, settled at Springtown, this county. After practicing thereand in Hilltown, for a few years, he came to Doylestown, 1841, andtook the practice of Dr. James S. Rich, who removed to Churchville,and also purchased his dwelling on the south side of East State streetnear Broad, where he died, 1875. While living in Hilltown assisted in the capture of the Spaniard, Mina, the murdererof Dr. William Chapman, who broke jail while waiting trial. Thisgave h
History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . , on being admitted topractice, settled at Springtown, this county. After practicing thereand in Hilltown, for a few years, he came to Doylestown, 1841, andtook the practice of Dr. James S. Rich, who removed to Churchville,and also purchased his dwelling on the south side of East State streetnear Broad, where he died, 1875. While living in Hilltown assisted in the capture of the Spaniard, Mina, the murdererof Dr. William Chapman, who broke jail while waiting trial. Thisgave him considerable notoriety. Dr. Hendrie occupied the CommonPleas bench of Bucks county, for a term of five years as AssociateJudge. He had two sons and two daughters. The sons both gradu-ated in medicine, and served in the Civil War, James D. as QuarterMaster of the 104th regiment, and Scott, the younger. Assistant Sur-geon, James was badly wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks. One ofthe daughters, Julia H. married E. Morris Lloyd, a member of theBucks county bar, and died at St. Louis, Mo., 1892. James (;EOR(iE LEAR, AT 60. nOYLESTOWN, OLD AND NEW. 315 Hendrie, the elder of the two sons, died at Chicago, December 27,1900 at the age of seventy years. The Lears are a Warwick family of Celtic origin, George Lear,the father, being born there in 1818. He was brought up ona farm, and had no opportunity for acquiring an education except atthe common schools of the period, much inferior to the present day,as all will testify, who graduated from them. After leaving school, Mr. Lear did his share of work on thefarm, etc. As it is now well settled, that all men, who would maketheir mark on their generation, must climb upward from the bottomrung of the ladder, young Lear had the good sense to begin at theright place. When approaching manhood he was, in turn, a schoolteacher, and clerk in a store, in his leisure picking up quite a fund ofknowledge by reading. He also took a hand in the de
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