Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Feaster, Ephraim P.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Northampton Township


   EPHRAIM P. FEASTER, farmer, P.O. Newtown, was born in 
Northampton township, November 5, 1841. The first of the 
family in this country were three brothers who came from 
Amsterdam and settled, one on Long Island, one in Catawissa, 
this state, and the third, John Feaster, who was the 
ancestor of Ephraim P., in Holland, this county. John 
Feaster was born in 1708, and died December 19, 1775. His 
wife, Mary, was born in 1706 and died May 28; 1774. Their 
son David was born April 8, 1740, and died September 28, 
1808. He was married September 13, 1768, to Mary Hageman, 
who was born March 8, 1743, and died May 28, 1783. Their 
son, Aaron, grandfather of Ephraim P., was born October 30, 
1772, and died July 18, 1860. He was married May 29, 1801, 
to Matilda Cornell, who was born April 20, 1779, and died 
December 22, 1858. Their children were: Jane, who married 
Henry D. Phillips; Sarah A., who married Vorhees Quick; 
Maria, who married Theodore Morris; Elizabeth, who married 
Dr. C.S. Baker; Martha, who married Joseph C. Camm; David, 
father of Ephraim P., and John. David Feaster was born 
February 26, 1808, and was married February 26, 1836, to 
Mary, daughter of Ephraim and Sarah Phillips, of 
Lawrenceville, N.J., by whom he had four children: Mary E., 
Aaron and Theodore, deceased, and Ephraim P. Mr. Feaster was 
a prominent farmer of Northampton, and by his own exertions, 
accumulated a large property. He was an honest and upright 
citizen and took an active part in church matters, 
contributing largely of his means to the Dutch Reformed 
church of Addisville, in Northampton township, being the 
largest contributor towards the erection of the present 
church edifice, besides leaving $1,500 by his will to the 
church and for the care of the Feaster and Hageman cemetery. 
He died June 1, 1873. Mrs. Feaster was born September 10, 
1805, and is still living. Ephraim P. was reared on the old 
Feaster homestead in this township, which is still owned in 
the family, and resided there until 1876, when he removed to 
Newtown, where he now resides. He was married, April 19, 
1864, to Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Joseph and Elizabeth 
(Smith) McMakin, of Philadelphia, born January 31, 1865, by 
whom he had seven children: David, Frank, Lizzie, Joseph, 
Dora, Agnes and Beatrice. Mr. and Mrs. Feaster are members 
of the Dutch Reformed church. He is a member of the Masonic 
order and a republican.