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

   HOWARD S. DOAN wheelwright, P.O. Edgewood, was born in 
Lower Makefield township, May 15, 1843, and is a son of 
George and Mary (Vanartsdalen) Doan.  His paternal 
grandfather was Thomas Doan, a son of Israel Doan, born 
about 1730.  The latter was a farmer of Plumstead township, 
and during the revolution had his cattle driven away by the 
British.  He was a son of Israel Doan, born in 1699, and a 
grandson of Daniel Doan, who came from Plymouth, Mass., in 
1696, and settled in Middletown township.  Thomas Doan was a 
farmer of Bucks county, and had four children:  Eliza (Mrs. 
Benjamin Wolsey), deceased; Rachel (Mrs. Peter Bailey), 
Rebecca (Mrs. Henry Watson), and George.  The latter was 
reared on his father's farm, and at the age of 17 was 
apprenticed to the wheelwright trade, serving five years.  
He engaged in business for himself in Springville, this 
county, in 1834.  In 1836 he went to Lower Makefield, where 
he has since resided.  In 1832 he married Mary, daughter of 
Joseph and Sarah Vanartsdalen, of Langhorne, by whom he has 
had five children:  Sarah (Mrs. O. M. Thornton), Rachel 
(Mrs. George Meyers), Howard S., Frank and Ella (Mrs. Jacob 
Heuscher).  Howard S. Doan was reared in Lower Makefield 
township, and learned the wheelwright's trade with his 
father, and has carried it on for himself in Edgewood since 
1874.  He was married January 1, 1867, to Mary, daughter of 
Charles and Rachel (Slack) Young, of Lower Makefield.  They 
have two children:  Augustus C. and Lillie M.