Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Kirkbride, Edward S.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Falls Township


EDWARD S. KIRKBRIDE Penn's Manor, farmer and seed-grower, 
P.O. Morrisville, was born in Columbia, Boone county, 
Missouri, in the year 1852.  He is a son of Jonathan and 
Mary W. Kirkbride, both natives of Bucks county, descendants 
of Joseph Kirkbride, who came to America with William Penn 
in 1682, and was one of the earliest settlers of this 
county. The father of our subject went to Missouri when 20 
years of age, and was a merchant in Columbia forty years, 
when he retired from business and removed with his family to 
Philadelphia.  Edward S. was a clerk in the commission house 
of C. G. & W. M. Baugh, Market street, Philadelphia, for 
several years.  In 1877, he preferring the country, his 
father purchased for him the farm on which he resides, and 
he engaged in farming and seed-growing with success.  In 
1878 he married Mary, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Parsons) 
Robbins, of same place.  They have one daughter, Mary Maud.  
He is a republican in politics.