Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Tully, John W.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Falls Township


JOHN W. TULLY manufacturer, P.O. Tullytown, is among the 
descendants of the early settlers of Bucks county, and was 
born in Williamsport, Washington county, Md., in 1835.  He 
is a son of William and Esther Ann (Murray) Tully, the 
former a railroad contractor who operated in Virginia and 
Maryland.  His parents were of Irish origin. John W. was the 
youngest of a family of four children, three of whom grew to 
maturity. He was reared in Williamsport, Md., and attended 
the public schools there.  In 1845 he came to Bedford 
county, Pa.  In 1848 he came to Philadelphia and started to 
learn the machine business and served two years in the 
Baldwin locomotive works, and was then made foreman in the 
painting department of those works.  In 1857 he went south 
as superintendent of the paint department of the Wilmington 
and Manchester railroad, where he remained until 1860.  
Returning to Philadelphia, he accepted a position as master 
painter for the Lehigh Valley railroad, where he remained a 
number of years.  He engaged in manufacturing paints in 
1870, and in 1877 he opened a store in Philadelphia, which 
he still retains.  He came to Tullytown in 1883, and has 
since been engaged in manufacturing his patent iron filling, 
paints and varnishes.  He is the inventor of thirteen 
articles which he purposes to manufacture here, and will 
employ quite a number of men.  In 1860 he married Mary 
Young, daughter of Colonel Henry Young, of Philadelphia.  
They had two children:  Matthew L., deceased, and Martha E., 
who is now the wife of Charles S. McNally.  Mrs. Tully is a 
member of the Episcopal church.  Her husband is a member of 
the Catholic church, and in politics is a democrat.