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Samuel (Haldeman) Garner

Summary

  • Born: 1798
  • Died: 1877
  • Father: Samuel Garner
  • Mother: Mary Haldeman
  • Spouse: Mary Ann Snare

Biography

extracted from History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania: from the Discovery of the Delaware to present time by W. W. H. Davis (1905), pg. 344

Samuel Garner was born in New Britain township, Bucks County in 1798 and, inheriting a portion of his father's real estate, followed the life of a farmer there and in Warrington during the active years of his life, removing late in life to Doylestown township, where he died about 1877. He took an active interest in the affairs of his locality, filled a number of local positions, and was a soldier in the Mexican war. He married Mary A. Snare whose father was for several years proprietor of the old historic Green Tree Tavern on the county line in Warrington township. On the maternal side she was descended from the Polks and other prominent Scotch-Irish families of Neshaminy colony in Warwick and Warrington.

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