Biographical Sketch of The MICHENER Family(1893); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsyl- vania, comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Phila- delphia, PA, 1893, page 547. "MICHENER FAMILY. John and Sarah Michener were the American progenitors of the family, and in 1715 removed to Abington. They had six children, and their descendants are quite numerous to-day in Chester county. Their son, William Michener, was the father of Mordecai Michener, who married Sarah Fisher, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Scarborough) Fisher, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and a granddaughter of John and Sarah (Hutch- inson) Fisher, of Yorkshire, England. Mrs. Sarah Michener's brother, Barak Fisher, married Mary Butler, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Gilbert) Butler, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, who, in 1763, removed from Bucks county, Pennsylvania to Frederick county, Virginia, where they reared a large family, one of whom (Elizabeth), was the mother of Rachel (Brown- field) Searight. Rachel married William Searight, a prominent democrat and leading citizen of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and now, in the eighty-eighth year of her age, is living with her son, James A. Searight, president of the Peoples' bank of Fayette county, at Uniontown, Pennsyl- vania. Mordecai and Sarah Michener had eleven children, and their son, Mordecai Michener, Jr., married Alice Dunn, and reared a family of four children, of whom the youngest was Dr. Ezra Michener, a prominent physi- cian, and the author of several valuable works in relation to the geo- graphy and conchology of Chester county."