Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Duffy, Neil E.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Bedminster Township

NEIL E. DUFFY manufacturer, P.O. Ridge, is a native of 
Wilmington, Del.  His parents are both of Irish birth and 
are both now living in that place, and are each about 70 
years old.  He was born September 8, 1831, and learned the 
trade of coach-making in Wilmington with C. W. Horn.  In 
1874 he came to Dublin where he remained until 1879, when, 
being out of employment at his trade, he went into the 
clothing business, taking from a prominent Philadelphia 
house a number of garments.  These he distributed and 
collected personally, doing all his work with the one horse 
he then owned.  From this humble beginning he has grown a 
business which disburses in wages 1,500 a month among the 
people of the upper part of Bucks county, and employs seven 
horses and a number of men, and is steadily increasing. In 
1884 he made 59, 259 pieces; in 1885, 71,216; and in 1886, 
80,704.  His business gives profitable employment to a large 
number of people, and is no inconsiderable factor in the 
prosperity of a large number of rural homes.  March 25, 
1880, he was married to Margaret, daughter of Charles Scott. 
 She was born in Philadelphia, May 18, 1854.  They have 
three children:  Edith Ray, Cora, and Edward Scott.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Duffy are both members of the Deep Run Presbyterian 
church, and he has a decidedly enviable reputation as a 
shrewd, wide-awake man of business, upright and honorable in 
all his dealings.