Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Twining, Jesse B.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Northampton Township


   JESSE B. TWINING, retired, P.O. Richboro, was born in 
Northampton township, September 25, 1817, his parents being 
Jacob and Priscilla (Buckman) Twining. Jacob Twining was 
born in Wrightstown township, but on the death of his father 
he moved to Northampton township. The mother of our subject 
was born in Falls township. Both are buried at the Friends' 
burying-ground at Wrightstown. Jesse B. was reared in 
Northampton township, but when 15 years old went to Newtown 
to learn tailoring. He followed that business at intervals 
until 1841, when he entered a store at Penn's Park as clerk, 
and remained there one year. One year after quitting this 
employ he, in connection with William McDowell, entered into 
the mercantile business at Wrightstown, which continued for 
six years, when Mr. Twining was married, and soon removed to 
the farm, which he had bought three years before. Farm life 
was suited to his tastes, and he followed agricultural 
pursuits until 1886. He now rents out the land, though he 
and his wife reside on the place. He was married in 1848 to 
Hannah, daughter of Charles and Sarah (Buckman) Beans, of 
Lower Makefield township. Mr. and Mrs. Twining were the 
parents of six children, of whom three are living: Sarah, 
wife of William Smith, lives in Northampton township; Jacob, 
farming in Newtown township; and Albert C., married to 
Margaret W. Hoagland, lives at Asbury Park, N.J., where he 
is cashier of the First National bank. Mr. and Mrs. Twining 
are Orthodox Friends, and members of the Buckingham meeting. 
Mr. Twining was for six years a school director in 
Northampton, and secretary of the board. He is president of 
the Girard Avenue Farmers' Market company, Ninth and Girard 
avenue, Philadelphia, which has a capital stock of $175,000, 
and which was built at an expense of $262,000.