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


ELLWOOD PARSONS farmer, P.O. Morrisville, was born in Falls 
township, Bucks county, April 5, 1822, and is a son of Isaac 
and Lydia A. (Anderson) Parsons, natives of this county. His 
father and grandfather were successful farmers, who spent 
their lives in Bucks county and accumulated a competence.  
The family were of English origin.  Ellwood was the oldest 
of a family of eight children, consisting of three boys and 
five girls:  Ellwood, Charles A., Alfred M., Sarah A. 
(Robbins), Mary A. (Mull), Elizabeth (Parsons), Emma 
(Newbold), and Rose P. (Case).  Ellwood chose farming for 
his occupation and farmed here for ten years.  He then 
retired for three years, after which he bought a large farm 
of 217 acres on the banks of the Delaware river, two miles 
below Bordentown, N. J., where he lived for nine years.  He 
then returned to Bucks county and embarked in the lumber 
business in company with his brothers-in-law, Joseph C. and 
David Taylor, at Morrisville, continuing there for some 
years.  He then bought a country seat near Morrisville where 
he now resides.  When young he had the advantages of good 
schools.  He has been a director of the First National bank 
of Trenton for over twenty years.  He is one of the 
directors of the Bucks County Contribution Insurance 
company, and also of the Trenton City Bridge company.  He 
was married March 26, 1851, to Mercy A., daughter of William 
and Mary Taylor, and is of French and English origin.  Their 
children are:  Annie C., Mary T., Lydia A. and Ella.  Mr. 
Parsons is prominent among the successful business men of 
this vicinity, his success in life being mainly due to his 
own exertions and business qualifications.