Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Matlack, Francis E.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Warminster Township


   FRANCIS E. MATLACK retired, P.O. Warminster, is a 
grandson of Caleb Matlack, who was a resident of Holmesburg, 
Philadelphia county, where he died in 1793. His son 
Abraham, the father of our subject, was born at Holmesburg, 
and died in Petersburg, Va., in 1825. He was a carpenter by 
trade, and was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a man 
of excellent character. His wife was Elizabeth Elliot, of 
Philadelphia, who died before her husband, in Richmond, Va. 
 She was buried in an old churchyard, which has since been 
deeded to the city of Richmond, and greatly improved and 
beautified. Their children were: Caroline, Mary Wiley, 
Caleb, and Francis E., who was born August 27, 1812, in 
Philadelphia. Being left an orphan at a very early age, he 
returned to Philadelphia, where he learned the trade of 
shoemaking, at which he worked till 1866, when he bought the 
farm in Warminster township, which has since been his home. 
In April, 1837, he was married to Miss Mary Titus, whose 
parents were residents of Bristol. She was born near 
Doylestown in 1814, and died in July, 1881. To their union 
six children were born: Elizabeth, who died in infancy; Mary 
Elizabeth, unmarried, living with her father; Horace and 
Francis, both deceased; Caroline, married to Horace G. 
Phillips, Jr., living on her father's farm; and Francis 
second, who died in infancy. Mr. Matlack has always been an 
industrious, careful man, and is now enjoying the fruits of 
a life well spent. He is an attendant of the Neshaminy 
church of Warminster, and bears the repute of an upright man 
and a good neighbor.