Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Doron, Ellwood
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Bristol Township


ELLWOOD DORON coal and lumber-dealer, P.O. Bristol, is of 
German extraction, and is a son of John and Catharine (Lamb) 
Doron, both of whom were natives of the state.  His father 
was a miller.  He had ten children, of whom Ellwood was the 
oldest son.  Our subject was born in Frankford (now a part 
of Philadelphia) on March 5, 1827, and lived in Montgomery 
county until he was 21 years old.  He was educated in the 
common schools, and his father dying when he was 17 years 
old, he learned the trade of a miller, which he followed for 
four years in Montgomery county.  He then went to Ohio, but 
subsequently returned and followed his trade in Bucks county 
for twenty-two years.  He worked in Bristol for Dorrance & 
Knight one year and afterward engaged in butchering for five 
years, at the end of which time he formed a partnership with 
John Dorrance.  After his partner's death he carried on the 
mill business alone until 1870, when he bought a property on 
Radcliffe street, and established his present business, in 
which he has been successful.  In 1851 he was married to 
Elizabeth Hellings, who died in 1872.  They had eight 
children, but two of whom are living:  William E., who is 
married and has two children, and Kate, who lives with her 
father.  Mr. Doron served as burgess of Bristol for four 
years.  He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows, and Knights of Pythias, and is a man 
of undoubted integrity.