History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . am township, 13 William T. Rogers, son of William C. Rogers, was born in Philadelphiaand brought up in Warrington township, Bucks county. He learned the tradein Miners office and was prominent in politics and the Vohinteer MiUtia;served eight years in the State Senate, was collector of tolls on the DelawareCanal at Bristol, 15rigade Inspector, Major-General of Militia and died 1869. 14 Snyder was horn in Lehigh county, and learned the trade in the officeof the Adlcr at Reading. During t
History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . am township, 13 William T. Rogers, son of William C. Rogers, was born in Philadelphiaand brought up in Warrington township, Bucks county. He learned the tradein Miners office and was prominent in politics and the Vohinteer MiUtia;served eight years in the State Senate, was collector of tolls on the DelawareCanal at Bristol, 15rigade Inspector, Major-General of Militia and died 1869. 14 Snyder was horn in Lehigh county, and learned the trade in the officeof the Adlcr at Reading. During the Civil War, he served in the Signal Corpsof the UnicMi Army, and when peace was declared, returned to his trade. Hemarried a daughter of I-^lnathan Pettitt, Doylestown, sixty-five years ago pro-prietor of tile Fountain House. 15 General Bryan became a prominent and popular man, and fillednumerous public stations; Prothonotary of the county, Associate Judge, Clerkto the U. S. Senate Committee on Printing, Brigadier (ieneral of Militia andDemocratic candidate for State Senate, but defeated at the JOHN S. BRYAN. DOYLESTOWN, OLD AND NEW. 65 and was born and died three. After receiving a good English educa-tion, he and his brother, Edward M. Paxson, bought the LiteraryChronicle, of Newtown, changing the name to Newtown Journal,which they pubhshed for some time. During the Civil War, andpolitics ran high, Mr. Paxson, who lived on the New Hope turnpikebetween Doylestown and Centreville, nailed a board on his gate atthe road with the inscription: A friend of the Constitution and theUnion lives here. When Mr. Buchanan was elected to the Pres-idency, 1856, Mr. Paxson announced the fact in the Democrat in thiswise: A bachelor in the White House and all the old maids tickeledto death. It was republished in the London Times. The first issue of the Democrat, under Mr. Paxsons management,which appeared on Mav 14th, was awaited with no little had some previous experie
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