Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Doyle, James B.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Warrington Township


   JAMES B. DOYLE bank president, Philadelphia, is a native 
of Bucks county, born in Warrington township about fifty 
years ago.  He lived on a farm until he was 15 years of age, 
and then began learning the trade of a carpenter.  When 
master of his trade he went west, but later returned to 
Bucks county and shortly after went to Philadelphia.  This 
was in the early days of the war, and an opportunity 
offering he engaged in the building business on his own 
account, and by hard work and strict attention to business 
he became one of the leading builders of the city.  One of 
the best monuments of Mr. Doyle's skill as a builder is the 
elegant and substantial court-house at Doylestown, in his 
native county, of which a very complete description is given 
elsewhere in this work.  In the spring of 1886 Mr. Doyle 
concluded that the objects which in early life he had set 
out to accomplish were attained, and he determined to retire 
from active business life and spend the rest of his days in 
well-earned ease and comfort.  No sooner had he made this 
determination, however, than he was called to the presidency 
of the Northwestern National bank, then just starting.  He 
accepted the office, and under his supervision the bank is 
prospering.  Mr. Doyle's successful career shows what can be 
accomplished by young men of fair intelligence and honest 
and steadfast purpose, though possessed of but little of 
this world's goods as capital.