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


   ASHER MATTISON farmer, P.O. New Hope, was born in 
Solebury township, December 24, 1847, being a son of Joseph 
and Mahala (Vanselas) Mattison.  His grandparents were 
Richard and Mary (Pownal) Mattison.  Richard Mattison came 
from Hunterdon county, N. J., and settled in Solebury 
township about 1800.  He had a family of nine children, of 
whom Joseph succeeded to the homestead.  He has two 
children, Asher and Richard.  The latter is a manufacturing 
chemist in Philadelphia, of the firm of Keasby & Mattison.  
Asher Mattison resides with his father.  He was married 
February 12, 1885, to Huldah, daughter of Wilson and Rachel 
(Fell) Pearson, of Solebury.  Mary Pownal, paternal 
grandmother of Asher, was a descendant of George and Elinor 
Pownal, who came from England in 1682.  Two weeks after 
their arrival he was killed by a falling tree near 
Yardleyville.  George Pownal, Jr., his sixth and youngest 
child, was born in Bucks county, near Yardleyville, November 
11, 1682, eleven days after his father's death.  He married 
Hannah Hutchinson in 1707, and settled in Solebury.  They 
had four children, of whom Reuben was the third, and was 
born March 8, 1719.  He married Effie Burd and had eleven 
children, of whom Reuben, the third child and first son, was 
born November 6, 1750.  He married Mary Lee and had two 
daughters, of whom Mary married Richard Mattison, the 
paternal grandfather of our subject, and had nine children.  
Only two of these survive, Joseph Mattison, father of Asher, 
and Martha.