Upper Darby Township.

present for his reward. With him, through life, whatever was worth doing was worth doing well. If he was not great in the eyes of the world, he was something better, for he found in his congenial calling an ample field for the generous disposition of his heart. Throughout his long career, in every relation of life, he set for us an example worthy of study and imitation. As a husband, father, and friend he not only practiced with rigorous exactness the duties of those relations, but invested them with such gentleness of temper and grace of manner as added uncommon charm and beauty to his daily life, and strongly endeared him to all who were privileged to be related to or connected with him. It was our pleasure to know the deceased for the past forty years, and the invaluable advice and many kind suggestions received from him will ever be remembered. None among the many who were acquainted with John Sellers, and the unstinted kindness of his never-failing considerateness, will feel that we have at all exaggerated the solid worth of an honorable citizen, a firm friend, and a good man."

Keystone Paper-Mill. - The tract on which this mill is located was taken up by John Blunston, Nov. 18, 1683, who sold two hundred and fifty acres, June 1, 1686, to John Hood. No record shows that a mill existed on the property until 1807, when George Sellers was in possession of a saw-mill, which was built subsequent to 1803, and was continued by him as a saw-mill until some time after 1830. It is located in the "Report of Manufactures of Delaware County in 1826" as being "on Cobb's Creek in Upper Darby, above Indian Creek, a large branch which extends into Philadelphia County, a saw-mill head and fall about 28 feet, Mill Race about one and a half mile long; owned and occupied by Geo. Sellers." The property was deeded by will to Sarah, daughter of George Sellers, who became the wife of George Pennock. From about 1830 to April 1, 1854, it was used as an oil-mill, at which time the unexpired lease of Samuel Hartranft was purchased by C. S. Garrett, who removed the oil machinery and substituted machinery for manufacturing paper. He continued paper-making at this mill till 1866, when, having purchased the water privilege, Mr. Garrett erected the present mills on property owned by him, about half a mile above the site of the old mills. The buildings were of stone, one, fifty by sixty feet, four stories high; one, thirty-five by thirty-five feet, three stories; and one, thirty by one hundred feet, one story high; and are supplied with two twelve-hundred-pound washing-engines, three six-hundred-pound beating-engines, one Jordan engine, one fifty-eight-inch Four-drinier machine. The power is supplied from a two-hundred-and-fifty horse-power engine and four one-hundred horse-power boilers. The product is mostly of card-papers, of which about four tons are made daily. Fifteen men and sixteen girls are employed.

In addition to the mills already given, the following industries appear of record, but their exact locations are not known to the writer. In 1766, Abraham Johnson was assessed on a grit- and saw-mill, which regularly appeared until 1774, when Martha Johnson owned a saw-mill, after which date the name does not appear on the assessment-roll connected with mills. From 1782 to 1790, John Evans owned and operated a grist-mill. The name of John Tyson occurs in 1782 as the owner of a grist-mill, and was continued to be so assessed until 1804. Jacob Lobb owned or operated a grist-mill in 1788, and from 1774 to 1779, Thomas Pilkinton operated a grist-mill. During the year last mentioned William Davis and Benjamin Brannon had distilleries. The former lived near the northern line of the township, on lands lately owned by Dr. George Smith, the latter on the Darby and Haverford roads, south of the Marshall road, where he kept a tavern.

Fernwood. - The village of this name is located near Cobb's Creek, in Upper Darby township, and on the line of the central division of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, formerly the West Chester and Philadelphia Railroad. The land was in the ownership of the Bonsell family for several generations until 1870, when it was purchased by a stock company which had organized in that year by the name of the Fernwood Cemetery Company. The corporators were Amos Bonsell, John Bower, Alfred R. Potter, Charles P. Bower, Frederick Hassold, Price I. Patton, Charles M. Towne, William J. Kelly, Christian Gross, and Godfrey Keebler. The one hundred and twenty acres of land purchased of Amos Bonsell was located on Cobb's Creek, bounded on the other sides by Church Lane, the Baltimore pike, and the line of the proposed Chester County Railroad. The plot was named Fernwood Cemetery, from the fact that at the time of purchase fourteen varieties of ferns were growing in large quantities within its limits, - a fortunate name, for the land in 1682 was surveyed to Joshua Fearne, the early settler. The grounds were laid out into lots, paths, and avenues, over thirty-five thousand perches of stone being used in the avenues; three thousand five hundred evergreen and deciduous trees were planted, besides many ornamental shrubs. The first burial within the grounds was made on the 5th of May, 1872, and at the present time this city of the dead has a population of over nine thousand quiet sleepers resting there. Upon the completion of the cemetery it was determined to establish a village near by, and to that end Price I. Patton and William J. Kelly purchased of Amos Bonsell fifty-seven acres of land adjoining the cemetery, which was laid out into streets and lots. The proprietors erected two houses on Fourth Street (facing the first) in 1872. In that year Adam Tracey purchased a lot and built thereon a dwelling-house, in which he established the first store in the village. In 1876 a stock company was formed for the purpose of building a large hotel, and in that year the Fernwood Mansion, a stone structure, was erected, at a cost of forty-two thousand dollars. It is forty by one hundred and thirty-