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


   JAMES JEFFERSON GREER retired merchant, P.O. Dublin, was 
born in this township in 1801.  About the year 1732 two 
brothers, Matthew and John Greer, came from Dublin, Ireland, 
and located in Bucks county.  They were unmarried, and one 
of them was quite young. They purchased three hundred acres 
of land, and Matthew married Jane Savidge, by whom he had 
six children. Matthew was the second child, and lived on the 
farm until his death.  He married, Sarah, daughter of James 
Snodgrass, of Bucks county.  They had six children, two of 
whom died when young.  James Jefferson was the second son.  
His father died in 1811, when the farm was divided between 
four of the children, John, James Jefferson, Jane and Ann.  
Our subject remained on the homestead farm until he was 27 
years old.  He then married Eliza, daughter of Griffith and 
Mary (Matthias) Jones.  Mr. and Mrs. Greer have three sons 
and three daughters:  Joseph, engaged in the mercantile 
business at Newtown; John, on the home farm; Mary, at home; 
Sarah, married and living in Philadelphia; James, a lawyer 
in Philadelphia; and Jane Ann (Mrs. Andrews, of Washington, 
D. C.).  For fifty-eight years Mr. Greer has been engaged in 
the mercantile business, and his long continuance in that 
trade has made his name a familiar one throughout the 
county, and he is universally respected.  Mrs. Greer died in 
1870.  Mr. Greer is now 86 years old, and has but recently 
given up business.  He was president of the Doylestown and 
Dublin turnpike, but soon resigned that position.  He has 
always been a member of the Presbyterian church, and 
politically he is a stanch democrat.