. Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey ... in, ofFreeland, Maryland. 3. Virginia, marriedJohn Holland, of Belair, Maryland. 4. Will-iam Thomas. 5. Josephine D., lives in Balti-more, Maryland, and is unmarried. 6. JosephSpalding, a farmer, living in Harford county,Maryland. 7. Mary Jarrett, widow of JohnN. Wilkerson, of Norfolk, Virginia. The fol-lowing is the inscription on the tombstone ofWilliam R. Bissell in the Churchville Presby-terian cemetery, Harford county, Maryland:In memory of our beloved Father, WilliamR. Bissell, who fell at the battle of Gettysburgon the 3
. Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey ... in, ofFreeland, Maryland. 3. Virginia, marriedJohn Holland, of Belair, Maryland. 4. Will-iam Thomas. 5. Josephine D., lives in Balti-more, Maryland, and is unmarried. 6. JosephSpalding, a farmer, living in Harford county,Maryland. 7. Mary Jarrett, widow of JohnN. Wilkerson, of Norfolk, Virginia. The fol-lowing is the inscription on the tombstone ofWilliam R. Bissell in the Churchville Presby-terian cemetery, Harford county, Maryland:In memory of our beloved Father, WilliamR. Bissell, who fell at the battle of Gettysburgon the 3rd of July and died of his wounds onthe 17th of July, 1863, in the 53rd year of hisage. I have fought a good fight, I havefinished my course, I have kept the faith. (H) William Thomas, eldest son of Will-iam Rombough and Margaret (Webster) Bis-sell, was born October 31, 1848, in Harfordcounty, Maryland, where his father carried ona farm. He received his cilucation at the pub-lic schools of Belair and the Harford Acad-emy, after which he learned the art of print-. (i/.l STATE OF NEW JERSEY. 657 iiig in the office of the Acyis & Ilelair, and then spent eight years in theemploy of Allen, Lane & Scott, a firm ofprinters, located at Philadelphia. Me subse-i|uently removed to Camden, New Jersey,where he became interested in real estate, andin 1894 transferred his interests to easternPennsylvania, and purchased land which hedeveloped and made into town lots. His w^as developing a tract of land in.\ew Jersey, which now comprises the townof .Alpha, containing three or four thousandinhabitants. He has met with great successin all his real estate dealings, and has been in-strumental in developing and settling manytracts of land, among them suburbs of Allen-town, York, the beautiful town of Paxtoiiia,near Harrisburg, and a tract on the ColumbiaTurniiike near Lancaster, all in Pennsylvania,also a tract near Dover, Xew Jersey. .\t thepresent time ( 1909) Mr.
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