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


   A. R. JOYCE farmer and stock grower, P.O. Hulmeville, was 
born in Middletown October 19, 1821.  His parents, James and 
Rebecca (Risk) Joyce, were natives of Ireland but came to 
America with their parents when children.  His father was a 
Presbyterian minister and in later life a farmer.  He died 
in 1837, leaving a family of five children, of whom our 
subject was the third.  He was reared on the farm and 
attended the district school at Newtown.  He chose farming 
as a business, and has lived on the farm which he now owns 
since he was six weeks old.  He was married in 1848 to 
Deborah Ann, daughter of Samuel Hibbs.  Her parents were of 
English descent.  They have four children:  Margaret, wife 
of Thomas Gill; Lillie, wife of James Mahand; Anna, wife of 
Lewis Rose; and Andrew K., married to Anna, daughter of John 
Frake.  In politics Mr. Joyce is a democrat, but he has no 
desire for political office.