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


   JOSEPH HART deceased, son of Colonel William Hart, was 
born in 1792, in the village of Hartsville, which derived 
its name from the Hart family.  He married Miss Mary Carr, 
of Hartsville. He was for a time engaged in the mercantile 
business in Philadelphia, but at length permanently returned 
to his residence in Hartsville, and superintended the 
cultivation of his farm.  He died November 4, 1872.  His son 
Byron Hart was born in Hartsville in 1826, received his 
preparatory education at a classical school at Hartsville, 
entered Yale College in1847, and was graduated in 1851.  He 
studied medicine under Professor John H. Mitchell, and 
attended lectures at the Jefferson Medical college, whence 
he graduated in 1854.  He engaged in the practice of 
medicine and surgery in Philadelphia, and married Miss Ella 
Levine, of that city.  He died in New York, at the house of 
his brother-in-law, October 7, 1864.  He was a kind, 
faithful, intelligent and skillful physician, and was much 
loved and esteemed by all you knew him.