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


   WATSON KENDERDINE manufacturer, P.O. Lumberville, was 
born in Horsham township, Montgomery county, Pa., February 
3, 1830.  He is a son of John E. and Martha (Quinby) 
Kenderdine, who settled in Solebury in 1834, locating at 
Lumberton, where his father built the grist-mill, owned now 
by Wilson S. Paxson.  In 1847 John E. Kenderdine erected a 
saw-mill, which property is now occupied for business 
purposes by his son Watson, and in 1851 changed it to a 
planing-mill, and in 1854 to a sash-factory.  In 1862 the 
building was remodeled for the purpose of manufacturing bone 
dust and phosphates, which business has been carried on by 
Watson Kenderdine since 1865.  In 1886 his son-in-law, H. W. 
Rice, became a partner, the present firm being W. Kenderdine 
& Rice.  John E. Kenderdine was a thorough business man.  He 
made nearly all the early improvements in the vicinity of 
Lumberton, and was the projector of the Cuttalossa road.  He 
was foremost in all enterprises for the welfare of the 
public.  In politics he was an anti-Mason whig, and at one 
time was defeated for state senator by only two votes.  His 
children were:  James (deceased), Watson, Ellen (Mrs. 
Eastburn Reeder), Thaddeus S., Elwood (deceased), Robert, 
who was killed at the battle of Gettysburg, and was in the 
114th Pennsylvania Zouaves; Isaiah, and Lizzie (Mrs. E. 
Watson Fell).  John E. Kenderdine died in 1868, in his 69th 
year.  His son Watson was reared in Solebury township since 
the age of four years, and has been in his present business 
since 1865.  His wife was Hannah, daughter of Nathan and 
Martin (Stradling) Preston, of Plumstead township, by whom 
he has three children living:  Ellen K. (Mrs. Edward W. 
Phillips), Emma L. K. (Mrs. H. W. Rice), and Florence.  Mrs. 
Kenderdine is a wide-awake business man, and a well-known 
writer on agricultural and other subjects, and has a talent 
for writing poetry.  He has contributed many articles to the 
county papers.  He is a member of the Society of Friends, 
and politically is a republican.  The first of the family in 
America settled in Horsham township, Montgomery county.  
Thomas Kenderdine, at the age of eight years, came to 
America with his father from the town of Landless, 
Montgomeryshire, North Wales.  He married Dorothy Roberts 
and had seven children:  Benjamin, Joseph, Jacob, Margaret 
(married Richard Clayton), Mary (married James Robinson), 
Jane (married Samuel Jones), and Hannah (married Mathias 
Shoemaker). Jacob, the third son, had three children:  
Jacob, Jr., John and Joseph.   Jacob, 3rd, was the father of 
Thomas, Jacob, 4th, and John, twin brother of Joseph, who 
married Ann Edwards and had four children:  Hannah, Robert, 
Elizabeth and John E.