Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Slack, Abraham K.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Lower Makefield Township


   ABRAHAM K. SLACK farmer, P.O. Yardley, was born in Upper 
Makefield township, September 20, 1828, and is a son of 
Abraham and Francis (Girton) Slack.  His grandfather, 
Carnelius, was a son of Abraham Slack, one of three brothers 
who emigrated from Holland to America about 1740.  He 
settled in Makefield township and died in 1802.  He had four 
children.  Cornelius, the second child, died in 1828.  He 
had several children, among them Abraham, father of our 
subject, who for many years was a farmer and lived in Lower 
Makefield.  He married Frances, daughter of James Girton, by 
whom he had seven children, of whom Abraham K. was the 
youngest.  He was reared in Lower Makefield, where he has 
resided since he was six years old.  His wife was Caroline, 
daughter of Jacob and Mary (Brown) Cadwallader, of Lower 
Makefield township, and granddaughter of  Cyrus Cadwallader, 
an early settler of Lower Makefield.  By this union there 
were seven children:  Mary E., deceased, married Harry Paff 
and had four children:  Carrie, Willie K., Oscar R. and 
Claudine; William A., married Phebe I. Paff, and had one 
child, Lillie G.; Flora, deceased; Maurice C., deceased; 
Jacob C. married Mary, daughter of Thomas and Christiana 
(Reeder) Cadwallader, and had one child, Leroy C.; Cyrus K., 
deceased; and Anna A.