Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-19
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and found him dead
Musgrave the Scottish referred Son Locnbar
Of James Whitaker born Cone in Lancashire grandson Of John.
also Of Cone born in Leeds England where his father
manufacturer cloth The whtakers Lancashire Anglo
Saxon family known at High Whitaker and the Home since the
eleventh century and distinguished in literature and in the Church
Several Of them times inmates Kirksa Abbey
still well preserved Among them William Whitaker, who
headed the Reformation England; Alexander whitaker the rector
Jamestown who married Poahontas Roe; John whitaker
the historian of Manchester and Thomas Durham Whitaker who
wrote the history of Whaley.
Revolutionary History
Attention Joseph because
his career in every sense failure he transmitted certain
haracter-mental physicaxhh left
their oil Of his descendants His father intended
ministry Of England
His ncnatons another line The father
determined and the resoue The result that
his enlisted Colonel cavalry The
regiment America the rebeous coonists
who fighting in the of Washington He participated in
which
General Charles Lee in New Jersey in 177S The tradition that
he convinced the merit of the American which
tradition have little faith all events he became
the service While the its from the Head Of Elk
Philadelphia in the campaign Of 777 he mounted his horse and
rode away There pursuit and shots fired, but he
escaped uhurt and thereafter made his home in hy region in
the northern of Chester County He had small farm with
house it, but the ground and stony and the
crops unwilling soil He wood for
the eghbong furnaces but he had not been trained this kind
almost other woodchopper could excel him. He
Sarah Updegrve and had family thirteen children
1t life of hardship in which there continual struggle
get enough did spare
prayer gift direction Despite poverty
his failures he intensely proud and able assert and
superiority neigh
bohood which he lived 1t is manifest that he had power Of
will which be overridden by be
pressed by adverse He about five feet eight
height, curl
cheek readiness of speech his
barren and nufu life was the ground from which were
family. His wife, Sarah worthy with
heart the daughter Jacob granddaughter Of Isaac
and of Abraham On den Cra who came
Hc the elayopy
in 1888 and mmortazed by Whittier in his The Penn
syvana Pilgrim He Burgess of Germantown and member
the Pennsylvania Assembly His grandfather Herman Op den
Grae delegate the Mennonite convention which met in
Dordecht 1852 there signed the confession of faith which
both Europe and America Abraham
moved the Skppack His employed by the
Potts families about their iron works Pine Forge and Colebroo
and his grandson Jacob crossed the Schuy River Chester
county, "eIe oanue u'' was U a' coventry IN Pa
nrhp with William Branson and Nodecai Lincoln the greareat
grandfather of the President Jacob Updgrove married Sarah,
daughter of Richard Butler He and Butler both wood
choppers aboers around these fog where
the industry which has created the prosperity of Pennsylvania
began There fatality the preservation of pedgrees in
other things. For thirty give the daily details of the
and uneventfu life of Richard Butewhat he did,
drank, what he In this atmosphere with
such antecdens grandfather Joseph Whitaker raised
family his heard of the making of from his
childhood Of them they older becnme onmaers
From him these physical tendencies:
the stomach often running into dyspepa certain
and vital tenacy which all attacks
disease and leads length Of m ending death from failure
the Along with these tendencies pride rmness and
a disposition masterfu 1t remarkable fact observable
down the fifth generation that individual who in
youth show the traits of other foeather they older dis
play mental and physical characteristics Of Joseph Whitaker
of vital strength While
be speak with confidence subject involved that Of
inheritance nevertheless thought that while the convou
brain which enabled grapple with dincut prob
law while the bench by Of Matthias Pennypaker
which led Governor undertake alone the
sensational journalism knowing it's harm,
from that other ancestor who did fear offend
both and king.
mother therefore, with the exception Of the Highland Celtic
which from the clan of Musgave and the infusion of
Dutch derived from the family OPP ae pure
the direct paterna line forehers though perhaps
little from habit and religious repression ob
nate aggressive sensible cean
generations least satisfied them had
bawdy house retained which did not belong
to him.
CONTINUED TOMORROW
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