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Historic Langhorne Association genealogy files
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Held at: Historic Langhorne Association [Contact Us]160 W. Maple Ave., Langhorne, PA, 19047
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Historic Langhorne Association. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
Overview and metadata sections
Located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the borough of Langhorne is a small town whose name is used broadly to describe the majority of surrounding Middletown Township. The center of town is located at the intersection of two prominent roads, Maple and Bellevue Avenues. Once Lenni-Lenape paths, these roads run between Bristol and Durham, Pennsylvania, and between Philadelphia and Trenton, New Jersey.
Settled by Quakers beginning in 1680, the area grew as an important transportation center between Trenton and Philadelphia, becoming the stagecoach transportation hub of Bucks County. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the town, which served as a stop along the rail line, became a popular summer vacation destination for wealthy Philadelphians who constructed large homes and businesses.
Langhorne was known as Attleborough until 1876, when it was incorporated and named for Jeremiah Langhorne, an early resident of the area and former Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
This collection consists primarily of secondary source materials, including family trees, photocopied primary-source documents, research notes, and a few photographs, relating to families based in the area of Langhorne, Pennsylvania. The collection is organized alphabetically by family name.
The following family names are represented in the collection:
Althauss
Ambler
Armstrong
Atkinson
Bailey
Baker
Ball
Beaumont
Beckwith
Black
Blake
Bonsall
Boyer/Macht
Bracegirdle
Branyan
Buckman
Bunting
Cadwallader
Caesar
Canby
Candy
Canfield/ W Eaver
Carver(3)
Coe
Comfort
Comly/Gill/May
Cornell
Crosdale
Cushman/Christian
Darrah
Derry
Dickson/Christian
Doan
Dodge
Eastburn
Evans
Fell
Flowers
Fulton
Gamble
Gilbert
Gillam
Gleeson
Gross/Vansant
Grundy
Gumpper
Hall
Hallowell
Hancock
Haride (Lukens)
Harding
Harris
Hart
Harvey/Hellyer/Kreusen
Hayhurst
Heckman
Heffelfinger(2)
Heritage
Heston
Hibbs
Hicks
Holcombe
Howell
Hough
Huddleston
Hubert
Ingham
James
Hanney
Jenks
Johnson
Langhans
Lauble
Larzalerre
Leedom/Arton/Stout/Comly/Vansant
Lovett
Macht
Magill
Mahler
Mather
May
Mitchell
Moyer
Newbold
Noe
Norton/Horwatt
Oakley
Palmer
Palmer/Newbold
Parry(2)
Paxson/Townsend
Parson
Paxson
Penn
Perry/Knight
Pickering
Praul
Price
Randall
Reeder
Reid
Richardson
Richardson/Townsend
Ridge(2)
Riggs
Rodman
Satterthwait/Emily Bailey
Satterthwait/Palmer
Saurman
Sayre/Irwin
Sharpless
Simpson
Simpson Supplements
Slaven
Stackhouse
Story
Talley
Tayor
Thomas
Thorton/ Townsend
Tomlinson
Tomlinson/Branche
Townsend
Twining
Umberger
Vanartsdalen
Vandegrift
Vanhorn
Vansant
Vogenberger
Wahl
Walmsley
Warren(2)
Watson
Webster
Weldy
Wells(2)
Wildman
Williamson (2)
Winder
Worstall
Worthington
Wright
Yardley
Files compiled by Historic Langhorne Association member H. Lawrence McCloy have been added to over time.
Summary descriptive information on this collection was compiled in 2012-2014 as part of a project conducted by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to make better known and more accessible the largely hidden collections of small, primarily volunteer run repositories in the Philadelphia area. The Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR) was funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This is a preliminary finding aid. No physical processing, rehousing, reorganizing, or folder listing was accomplished during the HCI-PSAR project.
In some cases, more detailed inventories or finding aids may be available on-site at the repository where this collection is held; please contact Historic Langhorne Association directly for more information.
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- Historic Langhorne Association
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding aid prepared by Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Faith Charlton through the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories
- Sponsor
- This preliminary finding aid was created as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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