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


   AMOS C. PAXSON retired farmer, P.O. New Hope, was born in 
Solebury township, September 17, 1805, and is a son of 
Eliada and Mary (Cooper) Paxson.  James Paxson came from the 
parish of Bucks, England, in 1682, and settled in 
Buckingham, under which township heading is given a detailed 
history of the family.  His son Henry, born in 1683, married 
Ann Plumley in 1706, by whom he had twelve children, of whom 
Thomas, the eleventh son, was born July 17, 1726.  His son 
Aaron was the paternal grandfather of Amos C. Paxson.  
Eliada Paxson, father of the latter, was a farmer.  Amos C. 
learned shoemaking as a trade, and followed that for ten 
years.  In 1836 he engaged in farming, which he followed up 
to 1858, when he retired; and the homestead has since been 
carried on by his son-in-law, Robert Conrad. Mr. Paxson was 
twice married; first to Rachel, daughter of Mark and Hannah 
(Johnson) Ely, by whom he had nine children:  Hannah (Mrs. 
A. C. Worthington), Letitia (Mrs. William W. West), Moses, 
Beulah, Sarah A. (Mrs. Horace Smith), Mary Ellen (Mrs. 
Charles M. Updike), Lewis, Martha (Mrs. Robert Conrad) and 
Caroline (Mrs. R. P. Price).  His second wife was Rebecca 
S., daughter of Eli and Elizabeth (Hamilton) Smedley, of 
Lancaster county, Pa., by whom he had two children:  
Elizabeth S. and Dora.