Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Strawn, Eli W.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Richland Township N-Z


   ELI W. STRAWN retired, P.O. Quakertown, was born in 1822; 
was married in 1844 to Margaret, daughter of Evan and 
Rebecca Penrose, and has had five children:  Henry and 
Rebecca Jane, deceased; and Mary, William and Eli living.  
The parents of our subject were William L. Strawn, who died 
in 1840, and Jane W., daughter of Henry and Alice Wilson, 
who died in February, 1859.  Eli W. has always resided in 
Bucks county.  He received a common-school education, and 
his occupation has always been that of a farmer.  He is a 
member of the Society of Friends, and in politics is a 
republican.