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


   JOHN HOLCOMB retired farmer, P.O. Newtown, was born in 
Upper Makefield township, this county, December 4, 1802, and 
is a son of Samuel and Anna A. (Van Horn) Holcomb.  His 
father was a farmer of Upper Makefield, and reared a family 
of eleven children:  Sarah, who married Samuel Ross; Mary, 
who married Benjamin Beans; Elizabeth, who married William 
Hibbs; John, Anna A., who married David Phillips; Hannah, 
who married William Martindell; Samuel, Phebe, Matilda, who 
married Cary Langshore; DeWitt C. and George.  Our subject's 
paternal grandfather, John Holcomb, married Mary Green.  He 
was a son of Samuel, who married Eleanor Barber.  He was a 
son of John, native of England, who settled in Hunterdon 
county, N. J., in 1705, where he lived until his death.  
Samuel and his wife, Anna Amelia Van Horn, settled in Upper 
Makefield township in 1798.  Our subject was reared in Upper 
Makefield and was married October 10, 1824, to Elizabeth, 
daughter of Lambert and Phebe Hibbs, of Newtown township, by 
whom he has had five children:  Oliver H., Joseph, Phebe, 
William and Hannah.  Mr. Holcomb located in Newtown in 1838 
and was actively engaged in farming until 1861, when he 
removed to the borough, where he has since resided.  His 
farm in the township is occupied by his son Oliver H., who 
married Cynthia Scarborough in 1855 and has two children, 
William P. and Anna, the former being professor of history 
and civics in Swarthmore college.