History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . epurchased the tannery in Germany,where he was carrying on business at his death. He was a youngman of education and refinement, and highly respected. One of hissisters was the wife of Dr. Charles Meredith, at whose house he died,the dwelling now belonging to the widow of the late Dr. John Rhoads,on the east side of North Main street, just below Court. The nextvictim to the fell disease was William W. Hart, the young member ofthe bar of whom we have spoken, the intimate friend of Mr. Di
History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . epurchased the tannery in Germany,where he was carrying on business at his death. He was a youngman of education and refinement, and highly respected. One of hissisters was the wife of Dr. Charles Meredith, at whose house he died,the dwelling now belonging to the widow of the late Dr. John Rhoads,on the east side of North Main street, just below Court. The nextvictim to the fell disease was William W. Hart, the young member ofthe bar of whom we have spoken, the intimate friend of Mr. Dick, andwas with him when he died. Young Hart, having occasion the nextday to write a letter to his brother-in-law, the late General John Davis,of Davisville, spoke of the death of his friend Dick, in the follow-ing pathetic terms : My friend, John L. Dick, died to-day at two oclock p. m., oftypus fever. How frail is man! Ten days ago he was in the vigor of I At Doylestown, on Saturday, February i8th, 1815, at the house of hisbrother-in-law. Dr. Charles Meredith, John L. Dick, aged twenty-seven years. 42. DOYLESTOVVN, OLD AND NEW. 43 health. Alas, how visionat-y our hopes of earthly happiness! Buttwo months since he married Miss Erwin,^ the daughter of the richestman in the county. How soon their fondest anticipations of futurebliss and domestic felicity were destroyed. As I have alreadystated, Mr. Hart, the writer of the letter I have quoted from, and thenext victim, was the nephew of William Watts, subsequently AssociateJudge of our Courts, and boarded with him. He lived in the housenow owned and occupied by George P. Brock. Young Hart wasseized almost immediately and died six days after his friend Dick. William Watts Hart, son of Josiah and Ann Hart, born January2nd, 1790, and, being intended for the bar, was educated was a student at the Union Academy. Doylestown, 1806-07,completed his academic studies at Philadelphia, read law in theoffice of Enos Morris, Esq
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