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


   SEXTUS C. PURSELL Philadelphia, was born in Nockamixon 
township March 31, 1841.  He received his education in the 
public schools, the Milford, N. J. academy, and at the New 
York Conference seminary, at Charlotteville, N. Y.  October 
1, 1863, he entered the service of the Belvidere Delaware 
railroad company, as clerk in the superintendent's office, 
at Lambertville, N. J.  He remained in that position until 
December 1, 1867, when he resigned to accept the agency of 
the Lehigh Coal and Navigation company at Bethlehem, Pa.  He 
remained there but a few months when he was promoted to a 
position in the general office of the company at Mauch 
Chunk.  A change in the management of the company's railroad 
led to his resignation, and he returned to his native place. 
 May 1, 1870, he again entered the service of the Belvidere 
road, in the office of the superintendent, and in the fall 
of the same year was elected member of assembly for Bucks 
county, and was re-elected in 1871.  June 1, 1874, he was 
appointed ticket agent for the Pennsylvania railroad 
company, at Kensington station, Philadelphia, and he still 
holds that position.  He was married January 14, 1875, to 
Camilla I. Gwinner.  They have had three children, one of 
whom died in 1885 at the age of nine years.