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


   STEPHEN B. TWINING stone merchant, P.O. Yardley, was born 
in Upper Makefield township, January 19, 1844, and is a son 
of Charles and Elizabeth H. (West) Twining.  His father was 
a native of Troy, N. Y., and a son of Stephen Twining, a 
member of the Society of Friends, and a farmer by 
occupation, who settled in Upper Makefield township in the 
early part of the present century.  His maternal grandfather 
was Mahlon West, a large landowner and resident of Hartford 
county, Md.  Our subject was reared in Upper and Lower 
Makefield townships and educated in the "Friends' Central 
school" and Bryant & Stratton's business college, of 
Philadelphia.  For the past twenty-two years, in company 
with his brother, Edward W. Twining, he has been operating 
stone quarries, furnishing large quantities of building 
stone by contract in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland.  
They are the largest dealers in their particular line in 
this section of the country.  Mr. Twining was married 
January 17, 1866, to Letitia W., daughter of Abram and Sarah 
A. (Taylor) Warner, of Falls township.  They have two 
daughters:  Sarah and Elizabeth.  Mrs. Twining's maternal 
grandfather was Yardley Taylor, a prominent citizen of 
Loudon county, Va., and a surveyor by profession.  He made 
the first surveys and the first map of Loudon county, Va., 
which was used by both armies in laying out their lines of 
march during the late war of the rebellion.  He wrote a 
history of Loudon county, a standard work, and was also a 
noted geologist.