Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....White, Ephraim A.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Newtown Township


   EPHRAIM A. WHITE retired farmer, P.O. Newtown, was born 
in Falls township, this county, October 8, 1813, and is a 
son of George and Abby (Anderson) White.  His father was a 
farmer by occupation; in early life in Newtown, and later in 
Penn's Manor, where he died.  His maternal grandfather was 
Joshua Anderson, a farmer of Lower Makefield.  Ephraim A. 
served an apprenticeship at the blacksmith trade at Penn's 
Manor and at Wrightstown, and followed his trade at the 
latter place for five years.  In 1850 he located at 
Southampton and engaged in farming, moving to Newtown 
township in 1857, and continuing farming until 1868, when he 
retired, and removed to the borough.  He was married twice:  
his wives being sisters, daughters of Henry and Hannah 
(Davis) Watson, of Horsham, Montgomery county.  He has five 
children:  Hannah, Abbie, Anna Leah, Oscar and Laura.  Mr. 
White traces his descent from an English family of that name 
which settled along the Neshaminy above Bristol, on a farm 
of two hundred and fifty acres, prior to the coming of 
William Penn, and whose immediate descendants were among the 
large property holders and tax-payers between 1680 and 1750.