Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Long, Mahlon, Rev
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Wrightstown Township


   REVEREND MAHLON LONG was born in Warrington township 
March 6, 1809, and is the son of Hugh and Mary Long. 
Receiving a good education he engaged in teaching, and after 
leaving that vocation was clerk in the Bucks county bank.  
Later he entered Princeton college, N. J., and graduated in 
1839 with the degree of B. A.   For two years he studied in 
the Theological seminary of Yale, and in 1845 was licensed 
to preach by the Fourth Presbytery of Philadelphia.  In 1847 
he became principal of the academy at Harrisburg, and there 
became widely known as a teacher and gentleman of much 
culture.  With his brother, Professor Charles Long, he, in 
1850, began the conduct of the well-known ÒTennentÓ school 
in Warwick township, which acquired a reputation as an 
educational institution, which extended far.  Many of its 
graduates have distinguished themselves in literature, 
politics and finance.  In 1857 Mr. Long purchased and 
presented to the Neshaminy church a plot of ground for an 
addition to its graveyard.  In 1842 his alma mater conferred 
on him the degree of M. A., and he afterwards received the 
same honor from Yale college, and he was made Doctor of 
Philosophy by the college of New Jersey.  In 1860 Mr. Long 
was married to Catherine, widow of Reverend George Ely, who 
was a daughter of Reverend R. B. Bellville.