Biographical Sketch of David WALTON (1881); 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: "History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with Genealogical and Biographical Sketches", J. Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope, Louis H. Everts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1881, pp. 757. "DAVID WALTON was born May 17, 1798, and was reared on the farm, receiving only a limited school education. When sixteen years old he went into the dry-goods store of Townsend Sharpless, in Philadelphia, where he clerked three years. He then returned to Londongrove, and was fourteen years in the mercantile business. He then followed farming until 1853, when he retired from active business. He married Elizabeth Pusey, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth Pusey, and has had the following children: Jesse P., deceased; Bennett S.; Elizabeth, married to Robert L. Pyle, one of the most successful merchants of the county. David R.,; and Franklin Cardell, deceased young. Mr. Walton's wife died Aug. 4, 1853. "He served thirteen years on the school board. He was postmaster nearly forty years at Londongrove, and resigned about 1868, when his son Bennett S. was appointed, and now acceptably fills that position. He has been repeatedly called to act as administrator, executor, guardian, etc., and has settled many estates, and had a dozen of wards at one time. His son Bennett S. has served several years as director of the poor, and is now a director in the new bank at West Chester. He is also a good surveyor, and does much conveyancing. Mr. Walton has resided at Londongrove sixty- one years, and accumulated by his industry and business tact a nice com- petence. He passed several winters in Florida, at the head-waters of St. John's River. In the winter of 1860-61 he traveled in the Southern States just previous to the fall of Fort Sumter, and witnessed the preparations of the South for the coming rebellion. On this tour he was accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Robert L. Pyle, and the wife of his son Jesse P."