Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Blackwood, William
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Bristol Township


WILLIAM BLACKWOOD proprietor of bakery, P.O. Bristol, was 
born in the borough of Bristol, February 16, 1845.  He is a 
son of Philip and Mary (Wright) Blackwood, the former a 
native of New Jersey, the latter born in Bucks county and 
both of English origin.  Philip Blackwood was a wheelwright. 
 He had six children.  Our subject, the fifth child, 
received a common school education and learned the baker's 
trade.  He carried on a bakery in Philadelphia three years, 
then came to Bristol, where he has since been in the same 
business.  His store is a three-story brick building on the 
main street of Bristol.  He is also quite extensively 
engaged in the ice business and has recently built three 
ice-houses.  His success in business is entirely due to his 
industry and ability.   He is a man of undoubted integrity 
and is greatly esteemed in the community.  In politics he is 
a republican.  He is a director of the Cemetery Association 
and treasurer of the Bristol Building Association, and a 
member of the I. O. O. F.