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


   HOWELL E. McNAIR P.O. Neshaminy, is the great-grandson of 
Samuel McNair, who settled in Horsham, Montgomery county, 
where he owned a farm, and where he died.  His son, Samuel, 
the grandfather of Howell E., lived with his father until 
his marriage, when he removed to Upper Dublin in the same 
county, living on a farm of his father's.  In 1819 he bought 
and removed to a farm in Warminster township, where he died 
in 1847, aged 76.  His wife was Cornelia Van Artsdalen, who 
died four years before her husband, in her sixty-fifth year. 
 Their children were:  Simon, Mary, Elizabeth, Samuel and 
William, all deceased. Two of the family survive:  Ann, who 
never married, and is now living in Philadelphia, and John, 
the father of Howell E.   He was born in Upper Dublin, 
September 30, 1804.  He has always been a farmer, and after 
his marriage took charge of the home farm in Warminster 
township, where he remained for seven years, and then 
removed to a farm which he had bought and still owns, and on 
which he lived for twenty-seven years, when he removed to 
his present home in Warminster township.  December 22, 1836, 
he was married to Rachel C., daughter of Robert Service.  
She was born in July, 1814, and December 22, 1886, she and 
her husband celebrated their golden wedding.  They had eight 
children:  Hannah S., deceased; Samuel W., living in this 
township; Mary and Martha, who died young; Robert S., a 
teacher, who lives in Warminster; and Howell E., who was 
born September 12, 1848, on the farm adjoining where he now 
lives.  He is a farmer, but in his youth was in the employ 
of the Lehigh Valley railroad company, at Mauch Chunk, and 
also taught school for two years.  After his marriage, he 
bought the farm where he now lives.  March 25, 1874, he was 
married to Hannah M., daughter of Frederick Hoover, of this 
township.  She was born June 5, 1846.  They had eight 
children; the eldest, Walter H., and the youngest Emma L., 
are deceased.  The survivors are:  Maria F., Helen G., 
Charles R., Arthur S., Addie W. and Irving L.   Mr. McNair 
has been three times assessor of the township, and in 1879 
was elected justice of the peace, and re-elected in 1884.  
He belongs to the A. O. U. W., of Hatboro.  He is an elder 
in the Neshaminy Presbyterian church of Warwick.  His wife 
is a member of the Reformed church of Pleasantville.