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


   ALBERT E. RAMSEY hotel-keeper, P.O. Jamison, was born in 
Philadelphia February 7, 1842, his parents being James M. 
and Sarah J. (Dungan) Ramsey.  The Ramsey family were 
originally from Scotland, and William, the grandfather of 
our subject, was the only one who settled in Bucks county, 
his brothers going farther west.  William was a farmer.  He 
is buried at the Neshaminy graveyard,  James M. Ramsey was 
born in Bucks county.  He began life as a farmer and 
afterward kept store at Johnsville with his brother.  He 
afterward went to Fox Chase, where he kept hotel for a 
number of years.  He then removed to Philadelphia and kept 
the Farmers' hay market at Seventh and Oxford streets until 
his death, which occurred in September, 1870.  His widow is 
still living.  They had ten children, of whom nine are 
living and eight of them in Philadelphia.  Albert, our 
subject, was the second child.  After leaving school he was 
engaged in his father's hotel until his marriage, then went 
to Fox Chase and ran the hotel there until 1871, when he 
engaged in the coal business in Philadelphia.  Three years 
later until 1871, when he engaged in the coal business in 
Philadelphia.  Three years later he went to Bustleton and 
clerked and traveled on the road for J. P. Varee & Co. for 
two years.  March 1, 1876, he went to Breadysville, Bucks 
county, and kept a temperance hotel for thirteen months.  He 
then went to Ivyland and opened the big temperance house 
there, which he kept one year.  He then went to Centerville 
and kept hotel three years, then to Hartsville two years and 
in April, 1883, bought the Jamison Corners hotel, which he 
has conducted ever since.  He was married in Philadelphia 
February 5, 1868, to Miss Anna M. Baker, daughter of 
Frederick (Weaver) Baker.  Her parents are both deceased, 
her father having died in 1885 and her mother many years 
previously to that time.  Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey are the 
parents of five children, three living:  Frederick C., 
Walter E. and Clarence.  Deceased:  Julia O. and Byron.  Mr. 
Ramsey is a member of Rising Star lodge, No. 47, I. O. O. 
F., at Bustleton, also Improved Order of Red Men, at 
Ivyland, Knights of Golden Eagle at Jamison's Corners, and 
the Order of Sparta at Philadelphia.