Radnor Township.
Redeemer at Bryn Mawr. She died July 2, 1883. Florence is the wife of R. Mead Smith, of Philadelphia. Mary died Oct. 18, 1880, as the wife of John S. Watts, of Philadelphia. Philip P., who married the daughter of Isaac Caldwell, Esq., a prominent lawyer of Louisville, Ky., resides alternately in Louisville and Philadelphia; while Edward C., the youngest member of the family, is also a resident of Philadelphia.
Their mother, the second wife of Dr. Peace, died at 1602 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Feb. 21, 1876, and was buried at Bryn Mawr.
In the latter part of the seventeenth century, in the early days of the settlement of Delaware County (then Chester County), there came to its territory a widow and her three sons, and settled in Upper Merion township, Montgomery Co. This was Sarah Abraham and her three sons, Isaac, James, and Enoch, who came from England, and from these emigrants are descended the families of Abraham or Abrahams now scattered through Delaware and Pennsylvania, and in Illinois and Minnesota. James remained in Montgomery County, while Isaac settled finally in Lancaster County, and Enoch removed to Pittsburgh.
James purchased the large landed estate now occupied by the sons of Joseph Abraham, in Upper Merion township, Montgomery Co., of Lucretia Penn, in 1730, it being a part of the Penn manor.
The line of descent to Daniel Cornog Abraham, the subject of this sketch, is James, son of Sarah Abraham to his son Isaac, to his son Isaac, to his son Daniel, to his son Daniel Cornog.
Isaac Abraham, grandson of Sarah Abraham, was born April 28, 1717, and married Dinah Haverd, of Chester County, about 1750, to whom were born two sons and three daughters, - James, born 1751; Dinah and Miriam, born between 1751 and 1756; Isaac, born 1756; and Mary, born 1758.
Isaac married Jane Cornog, of Chester County, about 1778, and their children were Enoch, born 1779, died 1827; Daniel, born 1781, died 1861; David, born 1783, died 1813; Sarah, born 1786, died 1866.
Daniel was born Jan. 11, 1781, upon the farm at Wayne, now owned by Messrs. Childs and Drexel. This property was purchased about 1750 by his grandfather, Isaac, about the time of his marriage to Dinah Haverd. Daniel married, in 1807, Eliza Phillips, daughter of Deacon Jonathan Phillips, of Montgomery County, who was of Welsh descent. Their children were six daughters and five sons, of whom only two - David, the eldest, and Daniel C., the youngest - are now living.
The children of Daniel and Eliza (Phillips) Abraham were Martha, who died unmarried in 1878; Mary P., married Jacob Printup and lived near Schenectady, N. Y., and died in 1843; Jane A., married David Siter, of Delaware County, and died in 1861; Sarah C. B., who married Nathan Stetson, of East Bridgewater, Mass., and died June 9, 1870; David, now living near Centreville, Chester Co., Pa.; Jonathan P., who was a member of the State Legislature from Delaware County, and afterwards moved to Minnesota, married Sarah Thomas, of Newtown, Delaware County, he died at St. Peter, Minn., December, 1880; Phineas P., who died while at school at Haddington College, in 1836, aged eighteen years; Elizabeth D., remained single, died in 1845, near Centreville; Samuel P., married Elizabeth Evans, of Radnor township, died in Norristown, Montgomery Co., March 28,1878; Daniel C.; Anna T., who married the Rev. James F. Brown, now residing at Mullica Hill, N. J., and there died Dec. 23, 1880.
George W. T. Abraham, one of the sons of Jonathan P., deserves special mention. While only in his eighteenth year he endured all the hardships and privations incident to a soldier's life, and died in Andersonville prison, a victim to starvation and ill-treatment, after having refused liberty at the price of enlistment in the Confederate service.
Daniel Cornog Abraham was born upon the farm now owned by the heirs of Samuel P. Abraham, which lies between Wayne and his present residence (1884), on Feb. 1, 1823. His early education was acquired at the common schools of Radnor township, Delaware Co., and in Tredyffrin township, Chester Co. These meagre opportunities were supplemented by a short term at Haddington College. His occupation has been that of an agriculturist almost exclusively, and he has made his home in the township in which he was born. For a short time he was in business in Blair County, Pa., and also spent some time in Georgia, but his home has generally been Delaware County, and all of his interests and aspirations centre here. During the civil war he was in the Internal Revenue Department. He has been justice of the peace since 1873, being the third generation of Esquires Abraham. He has served faithfully and acceptably two and is now beginning upon a third term; has been school director three years, as also treasurer of the school fund. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and is now president of the board of the Great Valley Church, in Chester County. Mr. Abraham was a contributor towards the building and endowment of the Lewisburg University, and is a life member of the Delaware County Institute of Science. He was one of the most active members of the board of the Great Valley Baptist Church when it was remodeled in 1871, and this church was at that time made one of the finest in the neighborhood. In 1882 was the member of finance committee of the Bi-Centennial Association of Delaware County for the two hundredth anniversary of the landing of William Penn in Chester for his district of Radnor, and by his energy raised and paid in a larger amount of