Biographical Sketch of Thomas WARRINGTON (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, pp. 549-51. "THOMAS WARRINGTON, deceased, was for more than twenty years a well known and highly esteemed citizen of West Chester, where he was engaged in mer- chandising and farming. He was a son of Thomas and Hannah (Lippincott) Warrington, and a native of Westfield, Burlington county, New Jersey, where he was born August 16, 1824. He grew to manhood in his native county, and received his primary education there, finishing his studies at Westtown boarding school in Chester county. After leaving school he found employment as clerk in a store for some time, and then engaged in teaching until his marriage in 1849, when he began farming in Burlington county, New Jersey. He followed this occupation for several years, until failing health compelled him to relinquish it, and in 1854 he removed to West Chester, this county, and embarked in the dry goods business. After a few years spent in merchandising he disposed of his stock of goods and purchased a farm in West Goshen township, which he operated for many years, though he continued to reside in the borough of West Chester until his death, which occurred February 6, 1875, in the fifty-first year of his age. Politically he was a republican, and in religion a strict member of the Society of Friends. "On April 12, 1849, Thomas Warrington was united in marriage to Anna M. Hoopes, a daughter of Curtis Hoopes, of West Goshen township. To their union was born a family of four children, three sons and a daughter. The elder of these is Curtis H., born October 23, 1851, who married Helen A. Smith (now deceased), by whom he had three children - Carrie R., born Nov- ember 19, 1877; Ellen S., born April 5, 1880; and Hannah M., born October 23, 1885. The second was Alfred F., born June 18, 1854, and died June 7, 1855. The third son, T. Francis, was born October 1, 1856, and married Josephine L. Smith, by whom he had two children, twins, both of whom died in infancy. She died April 13, 1881, and in 1885 he wedded Ellen S. Parvin, and their union has been blessed by the birth of one child. Anna L., born April 10, 1889. They live in Philadelphia, where Mr. Warrington is em- ployed in the drawing department of a large machine shop. The only daugh- ter of Thomas and Anna M. Warrington, Carrie R., was born November 25, 1861, and died September 20, 1863. "The Warringtons are descended from old English Quaker stock, the first of the name to come to America being Henry Warrington, whose father's name was John, and who was born in England about 1687. He came to this country in 1700 with his mother, Hannah, who had been left a widow, and who set- tled in Philadelphia, where she and a daughter resided for a number of years. Henry went to New Jersey to learn farming, and after attaining manhood, in May, 1719, purchased a tract of four hundred acres of land in Chester township, Burlington county, New Jersey, and began farming on his own account. He first married Elizabeth Austin, by whom he had four chil- dren: Ruth, John, Mary and Thomas. She died in 1728, and he then married Elizabeth Bishop, by which union he had a family of eight children. From this Henry Warrington, by his first marriage, was descended Thomas War- rington, father of the subject of this sketch. The elder Thomas was born and reared in New Jersey, and died at his home in Moorestown, Burlington county, that State, September 21, 1857, at an advanced age. He was a farmer by occupation, and married Hannah Lippincott, a daughter of Josiah Lippincott, of Westfield, New Jersey, by whom he had a family of four children. "The Hoopes family, of which Mrs. Anna M. Warrington is a member, is de- scended from Joshua Hoopes, a native of Yorkshire, England, who came to America with his son, Daniel, in 1682, and settled in Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, where they lived for some time. In 1696 Daniel Hoopes married Jane Worrelow and removed to Chester county, purchasing and settling on a tract of land in Westtown township, which is still in possession of his descendants. He had a family of seventeen children: Grace, born July 17, 1697, died March 6, 1721; Ann, born October 23, 1698, died March 13, 1704; Mary, born September 22, 1700, died in 1765; Hannah, born May 21, 1702, died in 1750; Joshua (great-grandfather of Mrs. Warrington), born April 19, 1704, died October 9, 1769; Jane, born May 14, 1706, died in 1789; Ann, born December 3, 1707, died in 1730; Daniel, born October 27, 1709, died in 1790; John, born August 17, 1711, died in 1795; Abram, born April 12, 1713, died in 1795; Thomas, born October 22, 1714, died in 1803; Elizabeth and Stephen, twins, born January 13, 1716 - Elizabeth died in 1804, and Stephen in 1762; Nathan, born January 16, 1718, died in 1803; Walter, born January 11, 1719, died in 1720; Sarah, born May 25, 1720, died in 1794; and Christian, born in 1723, and died December 31, 1815. "As will be seen by a comparison of dates, several of this large family lived to a good old age, and it is related that some of the older children were born in a cave, which was the first home of the family - in those primitive times, not an exceptional case by any means. Joshua Hoopes (great-grandfather) was a native of Westtown township, where he spent his life on the old homestead. He married Hannah Ashbridge, and was the father of nine children: Jane, born July 12, 1732, died May 16, 1812; George, born August 5, 1734, died February 23, 1805; Joshua, born July 15, 1836, died March 21, 1825; Mary, born April 4, 1739, died in 1812; Phoebe, born Octo- ber 15, 1741, died February 19, 1819; Amos, born June 9, 1745, died in 1805; Joseph, born March 10, 1748, died March 17, 1795; Israel, born June 1, 1750, died young; and Ezra (grandfather), who was born October 1, 1751, and died October 14, 1811, at the Westtown homestead. He lived all his earlier life on the old homestead, and a part of his married life in East Goshen township. In politics he was an old-line whig, and in religion a Friend or Quaker. He married Ann Hickman, and to them were born eleven children: Moses, born February 6, 1774, died December 7, 1818; Lydia, born July 12, 1775, who being an energetic girl, and the eldest girl of a large family, upon whom fell much of the responsibilities of life, used to attend the Philadelphia market with the produce of the farm, dairy and poultry, on horseback, as was the custom of those early days, and lived to be an aged woman, over eighty when she died; Caleb, born November 29, 1777, died April 25, 1863; Sarah, born May 4, 1780; Ann, born May 14, 1782, died October 17, 1833; Phoebe, born March 11, 1784, died November 22, 1862; Curtis (father of Mrs. Warrington), born February 20, 1786, died October 7, 1872; Ezra, born April 15, 1788; Hannah, born February 22, 1790; Lavina, born April 10, 1792, died October 13, 1867; and Elizabeth, born December 6, 1794, died August 2, 1876. "Curtis Hoopes was reared on the old homestead, and after attaining man- hood removed to West Goshen township, where he married and remained until 1853, when he came to West Chester, and soon afterward built the large residence now occupied by his daughter, on the corner of Walnut and Biddle streets. He was a whig and republican in politics, and married Sarah Roberts, by whom he had a family of seven children. The eldest was a daughter, born May 9, 1822, who died in infancy. The others were: Eliza- beth, born April 7, 1823, died April 20, 1825; Harriet, born October 20, 1824, died July 18, 1825; Lavina R., and Caroline E., twins, born April 8, 1826, of whom Lavina R., married Samuel Hannum, father of Curtis Hannum, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume, and Caroline E., married Charles P., Hewes September 12, 1850, and died childless on August 17, 1858; and Anna M., born January 1, 1829, who, on April 12, 1849, married Thomas Warrington, whose name heads this lengthy genealogy of two important families, descendants of English and Welsh ancestry."