These descendants are further described as follows: Samuel, the eldest, studied law, but soon after entering upon practice left it as not to his taste, when he removed to his father's tannery, married Mary Harper, of Chester county, and there were born to them John, Ann H., Elizabeth S., and Hetty. Of these John married Eliza Holt, of Doe Run, Chester county, and they now (1878) live retired from business in Germantown. Ann H., the wife of Samuel Hartman, is deceased, leaving one son, John M., and two daughters, Kate and Mary, the former of whom is intermarried with J. Evans Isett.

It may be added here of John Markley Hartman, just mentioned above, that he is quite an eminent mechanical and civil engineer, doing business on North Front street, Philadelphia. He has constructed or planned a great number of blast furnaces that are scattered all over this country, South America, and Mexico. He has also been a frequent contributor to scientific periodicals on matters connected with furnaces and on metallurgical subjects.

Elizabeth S., daughter of Samuel, and granddaughter of John Markley, is the wife of Charles Lewis, and they have four children: William H., married to Mary Hartenstein; S. Markley, intermarried with Eliza Taylor; E. Taylor; Mary E., wife of R. G. Calvert, of Delaware county. Hetty, the youngest daughter of Samuel Markley, was married to Isaac Lewis, and is now deceased. She had a number of children, who survive her.

We return to describe the other children of John Markley. Betsy died unmarried. John died young, and without heirs. Hannah, who was intermarried with Bernard Drum, also died young of consumption, and childless. Philip S., the proper subject of this memoir, studied law, and became very eminent both as an attorney and a politician. His public life is described below. He married a widow lady named Helen Plumsted, who survived him. They had born to them two daugh

ters, Elizabeth and Jane.

The sixth child of John Markley was Sally, the wife of Rev. R. U. Morgan, a minister of the Episcopal church. They have had a large number of offspring, as follows: James, who, like his father, is an Episcopal clergy

man; Heber, Bankson, Richard, Anna L., the wife of Hon. J. L. Getz, of Reading, Pennsylvania; Elizabeth P., Ellen R., and Mary M. The seventh child of John Markley was Molly, who, at middle life, was intermarried with the late John Boyer, Esq., President of the Bank of Montgomery County. The youngest of John Markley's children was Hetty, who died a maiden lady at advanced life a few years ago. She, as her sister Molly had been, was eminent in works of charity as a member of St. John's Episcopal Church.

Having given the personnel of the family we return to describe Philip S. Markley as a public man. He was quite distinguished as a lawyer, being admitted to the bar in November, 1810, and had a large practice, but soon fell into the whirl of politics. His father before him had been a very influential Democrat, and he, walking in his footsteps, became active in party matters. So in 1819 he was appointed Deputy State's Attorney, probably serving during the whole of Governor Findlay's term of office, or from the spring of 1818 till 1821; though, by the record, he was nominated for State Senate and elected in 1819, continuing there till 1824. It would seem, therefore, that persons were then eligible to both offices at the same time, for we have ascertained to a certainty that Mr. Markley was Deputy State's Attorney in 1819 and 1820, when, as appears also by a newspaper announcement which lies before us, of the date of January, 1821, that "Alexander Moore was appointed District Attorney vice Philip S. Markley removed." Soon after the conclusion of his service as State's Attorney and Senator, he was taken up by the party for Congress and elected in 1823, serving during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses, from 1824 to 1828. His term in the national House of Representatives was during the famous rise of what was known as "Jacksonism," when Hon. Nathaniel B. Boileau and Hon. Jonathan Roberts, the great early lights and leaders of the party, retired from their places in disgust at the dawn of what was called "mere military statesmanship."

At the conclusion of his Congressional term, or shortly after, on the 17th of August, 1829, he was called by Governor Shulze, near the close of his administration, to fill the post of Attorney

General of the State, which he held one year, till the accession of Governor Wolf, in January, 1830. This was the last public office he occupied, but he continued at the bar till 1834. While attending an arbitration at Spang's hotel he dropped in a fit of apoplexy, and died instantly, in his 46th year.

It would not be within the possibilities of this work to hunt up his legislative record, and he has been so many years dead that even his personal qualities have faded from the memories of most of the living. His widow and some of his children reside in Philadelphia, very worthy and respectable people.

HON. LEVI PAWLING.

Riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.. -Proverbs XXIII, 5.

The Pawling family, according to tradition, came from New York State during the last century, settling on the Schuylkill between Trappe and Fatland Ford, at the crossing of the Ridge turnpike road. It is doubtless from the same generic head as the Pauldings of that State, the orthography being changed, as is quite common in a new country. Our earliest authentic information of the Pennsylvania family is in the record that "Henry Pawling, Jr., Jonathan Roberts, Sr., George Smith, Robert Shannon, and Henry Conrad, were appointed by act of Assembly in 1784 to purchase ground near Stony creek, and thereon erect a court house and prison for the use of Montgomery county." This Henry Pawling was also one of the first Associate Judges of the county, and doubtless resided in Providence township. He had three sons and one daughter. The sons were Henry, William, and Levi, the latter the subject of this memoir. William lived on the farm at Pawling's Bridge, in Lower Providence, till about 1835, the time of his death, leaving three sons, Henry, Thomas, and Albert. Eleanor, the daughter of the elder Henry, married James Milnor, a lawyer practicing in the county but residing in Philadelphia, who subsequently retired from that profession, took

orders, and became rector of St. George's Episcopal Church, New York.

Levi Pawling came to Norristown, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in November, 1795, thus taking his position with William Moore Smith and Thomas Ross the elder. He soon attained considerable distinction as a lawyer. On the 17th of October, 1804, he married Elizabeth, daughter of General Joseph Hiester, the ceremony being performed by Rev. Henry A. Muhlenberg. The children born to them were three sons and four daughters. The sons were Joseph H., James M., and Henry De Witt. The first was many years in government employ at Washington, and died in 1847, aged 39 years. James M. studied law with his father, and rose rapidly at the bar, but died suddenly in 1838, in his 27th year. He was intermarried with Lydia Wood, and they had two children, Levi, who was accidentally drowned when in his 20th year, and Fannie, who is married to Dr. Dana, of Morrisville, Bucks county. The widow of James M. Pawling married W. H. Osborn, also of Morrisville.

The next son is Dr. Henry De Witt, who was born in 1810, -studied medicine, graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, and soon after entered upon the frigate Potomac as Assistant Surgeon in the United States Navy, serving three or four years <on a cruise in the waters of South America. Returning home he located at King-of-Prussia, where he has been engaged in a very extensive practice over parts of three or four counties since 1835 or 1836. He was intermarried with Anna B., the daughter of Levi Bull, of Chester county, who died in 1862, leaving several children. Dr. H. D. W. Pawling's two eldest sons, Nathan and Harry, studied medicine with their father, and for a time assisted him in his profession. In 1871 Harry opened an office in Norristown, and has secured a large practice. His brother Nathan, who remained to assist his father, was accidentally killed in 1872. George W., the youngest son' has been trained an apothecary and pharmaceutist. On the 12th of December, 1877, Dr. Harry Pawling married Clara, youngest daughter of William H. Slingluff, of Norristown.

The daughters of Hon. Levi and Elizabeth Pawling were in

termarried as follows: Elizabeth, the eldest, married Hon.. Thomas Ross, of Doylestown, and survives her husband, who died years since They had two sons, Henry P., President Judge of our county, and George, attorney-at-law, Doylestown, who was a member of the late Constitutional convention. The next daughter, Rebecca, was the second wife of Henry Freedley, Esq., who died soon after her marriage, leaving one surviving daughter, Ellen. The third daughter, Ellen, was the first wife of Henry Freedley, Esq., who died February 5th, 1850, while still young, leaving one son, Henry, now grown to manhood, and recently admitted to the bar, and one daughter, Rebecca, intermarried with John J. Corson, of Norristown. The fourth and youngest daughter of Levi Pawling is Mary, the wife of S. N. Rich, Esq., of Philadelphia, whose son George is a member of the Philadelphia bar, and whose daughters are Fannie and Clara.

We return to narrate further the public career and personal incidents of the life of Hon. Levi Pawling.

Entering his profession just after the organization of the county, he was for many years the Nestor of the bar, enjoying a very large practice, and living in the most munificent style of any in the borough. At one time, and for many years, he owned the flouring and saw mill at the foot of Swede street, and ran it in partnership with James Bolton, the father of General William J. Bolton. He also owned a farm which embraced all the land north of Airy street lying between Stony creek and Saw Mill run, and extending back one-fourth of a mile. The farm house on this land was near what is now the corner of Green and Chestnut streets. For a number of years before it was cut into town lots it was called the "Davis Farm." Mr. Pawling, at an early date, also erected on Main street, a little west of Swede, perhaps the most stately double-roomed mansion in Norristown, where he lived till he retired from business, and which, with the adjacent office, was occupied by his son James M. till the latter's death in 1838. The building in which Martin Molony recently died embraces about half of the old mansion. After the death of the son just named he con-tinued to reside with the daughters who occupied part of the: