Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Black, Levi B.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Solebury Township


   LEVI B. BLACK agent, P.O. Lambertville, N. J., was born in 
Plumstead township, December 28, 1829, and is a son of Isaac 
and Cynthia (Carver) Black.  His grandfather was Henry 
Black, a farmer of Plumstead township and a son of Abram 
Black, a native of Germany, a Mennonite preacher and an 
early settler of Tinicum township.  Isaac Black was a 
carpenter.  His children were:  Sophia (Mrs. Hile Wood), 
William, Catharine, Anna (Mrs. Joseph G. Rice), Levi, Isaac, 
Ezra, Abram and Jesse.  Levi was reared in Plumstead and 
Solebury townships, and for fifteen years was in the 
mercantile business at Aquetong.  He married Amanda, 
daughter of Joseph and Cynthia (Scarborough) Large, of 
Solebury township.  They have had five children:  H. Ella, 
Mercianna, Caroline P., Remington (deceased) and Stella.