York City, and his wife, Charlotte (Purchase) Ogilvie. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Ogilvie: Nellie, of previous mention; Frank B., John S., Donald M. Children of Fred Taylor and Nellie (Ogilvie) Pusey: I. John S. Ogilvie, born March 10, 1898; prepared in the public schools of Delaware county, now a student in the "Hill School," Pottstown, Pennsylvania. 2. Charlotte Elizabeth, born November 3, 1899; now a student at Miss Irwin's school (private) Philadelphia. The family home is at Lima, Delaware county, Pennsylvania.

Charles M. Walton is a noble illustration of what indepenWALTON dence, self-faith and persistency can accomplish in America. He is a self-made man in the most significant sense of the word, for no one helped him in a financial way, and he is largely self-educated. As a young man he was strong, vigorous and self-reliant. He trusted in his own ability and did things single-handed and alone. To-day he stands supreme as a successful business man and a loyal and public-spirited citizen. Most of his attention has been devoted to the contracting and building business, many magnificent structures in Philadelphia and elsewhere having been constructed by him. For the past twelve years he has been the efficient incumbent of the office of assessor in Norwood, which place has long represented. his home. He was a member of the first council and elected to a second term. Near Doylestown, in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, January 16, 1847, occurred the birth of Charles M. Walton, a son of James and Jane (Thomas) Walton. The Walton family is one of the oldest in Pennsylvania, the progenitor of the name in this commonwealth, having come hither eight years prior to the arrival of William Penn. Four brothers came here about 1675 from England. They landed at Wilmington, Delaware, and proceeded thence to Byberry, Pennsylvania, locating where the old meeting-house now stands. They were devout Quakers and they purchased land from the Indians. They erected the first church at Byberry and remained there, then practically a wilderness, until fall, when they returned to civilization, remaining at Wilmington during the winter months. In the following spring they returned to the vicinity of Byberry and there settled permanently. William Penn, on his arrival, did not acknowledge the deed the Walton brothers had received from the Indians and the matter was left to be settled by them and the Penn colony by arbitration. Two outsiders were chosen by each side and the Waltons were asked to suggest a fifth party. Very ingeniously they called for William Penn and the matter was quickly settled, the Walton deed gaining immediate recognition. William Penn gave them another deed to their property, and this is still on record in Philadelphia. The genealogy of the Walton family can be traced without any discrepancies from the original settlers down to the present time. Two Waltons, not knowing of the other's work, traced the genealogy in all its branches, and when the two completed volumes were compared at a later date, only two disagreeing facts of importance were found.

The Thomas family, the maternal ancestry of Charles M. Walton, dates back almost as far as the Walton side. The great-great-great-grandfather of Charles M. Walton was a Griffith and a native of Wales, whence he came to America and settled in the Penn colony in the early part of the eighteenth century.

Jacob Walton, paternal grandfather of Charles M. Walton, was a soldier in the Mexican war, a lieutenant, but being a Friend he never divulged the fact to any of the members of his immediate family. About eighteen years

ago, after his demise, his honorable discharge from service was found among his papers. James Walton, father of Charles M. Walton, was a wheelwright by trade, and he was also engaged in farming operations in Bucks county, where he owned a big saw mill. He married Jane Thomas, who bore him eight children, all of whom grew to maturity, the first to die being twenty-eight years of age. Four of them are still living. James Walton died in the year 1875 and his cherished and devoted wife died in 1896. Both are interred in Bucks county.

Charles M. Walton was reared to maturity on the old homestead farm in Bucks county, in the work and management of which he early began to assist his father. He attended the district schools and supplemented his early training with a course of study in the Excelsior Normal School. He then learned the trades of carpenter and miller, and in 1876 located in the city of Philadelphia, where he gradually won success and renown as a builder. He has since devoted his attention to the building business, and conspicuous among the beautiful structures he has erected is the library at the University of Pennsylvania. Many other fine buildings in Philadelphia and elsewhere stand as monuments of his handiwork.

In 1890 Mr. Walton established the family home at Norwood, in Delaware county, and here he is known as a citizen of sterling integrity and the utmost reliability. He is a stalwart Republican in his political convictions, and for the past twelve years he has served Norwood in the capacity of city assesHis fraternal affiliations are with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and with Hamilton Lodge, No. 274, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, into which latter organization he was initiated in 1874. In religious faith he is a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church, although his children are all Lutherans.

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In 1882 Mr. Walton was united in marriage to Miss Mary F. Griswell, a daughter of Eduard and Joanna Griswell, members of pioneer families in Delaware county, Pennsylvania. This union has been prolific of five children, whose names are here entered in respective order of birth: Elsie G., Emma C., May Frances, Charles M. Jr., and Joanna D., the three younger ones being at home. Elsie G. married Clifford Bonsall; Emma C. married Harry N. Robbins.

Mr. Walton has lived a life of usefulness such as few men know. Godfearing, law abiding, progressive, his life is as truly that of a Christian gentleman as any man's can well be. Unwaveringly he has done the right as he has interpreted it. While undoubtedly he has not been without that honorable ambition which is so powerful and useful as an incentive to activity in public affairs, he regards the pursuits of private life as being in themselves abundantly worthy of his best efforts. In community affairs he is active and influential, and his support is readily and generously given to many measures for the general progress and improvement. His life history is certainly worthy of commendation and of emulation, for along honorable and straightforward lines he has won the success which crowns his efforts, and which makes him one of the substantial residents of Norwood.

In making a selection of men whose sketches form the SHOEMAKER biographical portion of this work, great care has been exercised to select none but those who have in some measure left "footprints on the sands of time." Men whose efforts and deeds are matters of public interest, and whose bodies shall have been laid in the dust.

memories will linger long after their Worthy to hold an important posi

tion in this class is Richardson Shoemaker, than whom there is not a more prominent resident in Lansdowne, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, or one who is better entitled to the high esteem in which his fellow citizens hold him. He has been a pioneer and leading spirit in many important business enterprises which have tended materially to increase the prosperity of the town, and is a descendant of one of the oldest families of the state of Pennsylvania. The name was very probably Schuhmacher in Germany, and has been literally translated.

George Shoemaker, who was married in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1662, died at sea while on his way to this country with his wife and family. His widow, Sarah, and their eight children, arrived at Philadelphia, January 20, 1686, and soon afterward purchased two hundred acres of land in Cheltenham township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, on the York road, the place now being called Ogontz. Her children were: George, of further mention; Sarah; Barbara; Abraham; Isaac; Susanna; Elizabeth; Benjamin. George, son of George and Sarah Shoemaker, also born in Germany, married, December 14, 1694, Sarah Wall.

Abraham, son of George and Sarah (Wall) Shoemaker, married Amelia Levering.

William, son of Abraham and Amelia (Levering) Shoemaker, married at Abington Friends' Meeting, 10 mo., 25, 1752, Susanna, a daughter of Aubrey and Margaret Richardson, of Cheltenham, and granddaughter of Joseph Richardson, whose seat was Olethgo, on the Perkiomen, in Providencetownship.

William, son of William and Susanna (Richardson) Shoemaker, was born in Cheltenham township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1761. He was a farmer all his life, and removed to Delaware county about the year 1800. He was a member of the Society of Friends. He married Sarah Miers, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Draper) Bowman, of Philadelphia. Children: Eliza; Thomas B.; William D.; Miers; Edward; Richardson, of further mention; Manlove; Joshua.

Richardson, son of William and Sarah Miers (Bowman) Shoemaker, was born at Shoemakerville, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, in 1813. He was the proprietor of a country store in his native town and operated quarries on Ridley creek from which he furnished the stone for the Delaware Breakwater at Lewis, Delaware, by three schooners which were also his property. He was a member of the Society of Friends, an overseer in Chester Meeting under the Darby Quarterly Meeting. He married at Philadelphia, in 1861, AnnieGray Clark, born at Fifth and Pine streets, February 18, 1825. She was a daughter of Lewis and Sarah (Morton) Clark, granddaughter of Judge Morton, and great-granddaughter of George Gray, of Gray's Ferry, Philadelphia. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker: Lewis Clark; Richardson, of further mention; Sarah A., born December 31, 1865.

Richardson, son of Richardson and Annie Gray (Clark) Shoemaker, was born at Shoemakerville, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, March 1, 1864. His education, which was an excellent and practical one, was obtained in the public school at Fernwood, the Friends' Central High School at Fifteenth and Race streets, Philadelphia, and at the Pierce Business College, from which. institution he was graduated in 1883. He found employment as a clerk in the lumber yard office of J. Alfred Bartram, with whom he remained until 1892, and while there commenced the livery business which has since grown to such proportions. This was in 1889, at Bartram Lodge, and at the same. time he inaugurated the stage line running to and from the railroad station, and this has been operated continuously since it was first established.

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