Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Dubois, John L.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Doylestown A-L


JOHN L. DuBOIS attorney-at-law, P.O. Doylestown, was born in 
Doylestown, April 16, 1832, and is a son of Charles and Mary 
L. (Latta) DuBois, the former a native of Bucks county, and 
the latter of Christiana, Del.  The DuBois family came from 
France about two hundred years ago and settled near 
Kingston, N. Y.  They were Huguenots.  The grandfather of 
our subject, Uriah DuBois, was a minister, and founded the 
Presbyterian church at Doylestown, in 1804.  He was its 
pastor until his death, which occurred in 1820.  Our 
subject's father was a lawyer, and practiced in Bucks county 
forty years, and died in 1865.  His wife resides in 
Doylestown and is in her 76th year.  They were the parents 
of eleven children, of whom seven are living.  John L., is 
the oldest, and has always lived in Doylestown.  He attended 
school here until 1847, when he went to Norristown and 
attended a boarding school kept by Samuel Aaron.  He 
attended this school for one year.  He then went to boarding 
school at New London, Chester county, Pa., kept by William 
F. Wyers, where he remained about one year, and then entered 
La Fayette college at Easton.  He was graduated in 1852, and 
then came to Doylestown and read law under his father.  He 
was admitted to the bar in 1856 and has since been 
practicing at Doylestown.  He was president of the town 
council for about three years, and held the office at the 
time water was introduced into the borough.  He has for 
several years been treasurer of the Doylestown Improvement 
Company.  He was married June 11, 1863, to Emma Rex of 
Montgomery county.  They are the parents of two children, 
Bertha and John.  Mr. and Mrs. DuBois are members of the 
Presbyterian church.  He is an elder in the church and has 
been superintendent of the Sabbath school for eighteen 
years.