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


WILLIAM H. GILKYSON merchant, P.O. Morrisville, was born in 
Edgewood, Bucks county, September 30, 1856, and is a son of 
Amos and Ellen (Howell) Gilkyson, the former a native of 
this county and of Irish descent.  His mother was born in 
New Jersey and was of English origin.  His father was a 
mason and a contractor and builder, but has retired from 
business, and resides in Philadelphia.  Our subject is the 
youngest of a family of four children.  He was reared in 
this county, attending the common schools here, and also the 
commercial college at Trenton, N. J., where he graduated in 
1874.  He then clerked in a store for one year, subsequently 
studied telegraphy and followed that as a business for two 
years and a half on the Pennsylvania railroad, on the New 
York division.  In 1880 he came to Morrisville, and in 1885 
embarked in his present business.  He is a democrat in 
politics and has been postmaster since 1885.  He has a good 
trade and his success is due to his own exertions.  He is a 
member of the Masonic fraternity at Trenton, N. J.