Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Comfort, Charles B.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Lower Makefield Township


   CHARLES B. COMFORT farmer, P.O. Yardley, was born in 
Falls township, in Penn's Manor, December 22, 1855.  He is a 
son of Albert and Lydia W. (Beans) Comfort, natives of Bucks 
county and of English descent.  The Comfort family 
originated from England.  Josiah, the grandfather, was a 
resident of Falls township all his life.  He was a tanner by 
trade, which occupation he carried on with a  man by the 
name of Allen, the firm being Comfort & Allen.  In his later 
life he was a farmer.  The father of Charles B. was a 
farmer, and his younger days were spent in Falls township.  
He moved to Lower Makefield township, where he died in 1859, 
the day he was 30 years of age.  He had but one child, 
Charles B., who was reared on a farm and has always followed 
farming.   He moved to where he now lives in 1876, when he 
commenced life for himself.  He has a very valuable farm, 
well improved. In 1881 he married Annie Satterthwaite, by 
whom he has two children:  Albert D. and Charles B., Jr.  
Mr. and Mrs. Comfort are members of the Society of Friends.  
Mr. Comfort is an intelligent and enterprising citizen.