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


   ISAIAH DELANY retired, P.O. Feasterville, is a grandson 
of John S. Delany, who came from Ireland about the middle of 
the last century, and settled first in Philadelphia county, 
afterwards removing to this county.  He was born in 1732, 
and died in 1815.  His son, William, the father of Isaiah, 
was born December 31, 1775, and died February, 1863.  He 
learned the trade of shoemaking, and on his marriage settled 
in Hatboro.   In 1800 he removed to Northampton township, 
where he stayed for eleven years, when he came to this 
township. His wife was Mary Brous, of Philadelphia county.  
She was born August 23, 1773, and died June, 1864.  William 
Delany was a member of the old Baptist church at 
Southampton, of which he was for many years a deacon.  They 
were the parents of thirteen children: Joseph, William, 
Henry, Uriah, Amy, Edward and Phebe, all deceased; and Ann, 
Charles, Eliza, Mary and Isaiah, living.  The last was born 
August 27, 1806.  For six years he was employed in a store, 
after which he started on his own account in Feasterville, 
where he stayed for fourteen years.  He then bought the farm 
near there where he has lived ever since.  On March 20, 
1834, he married Susanna, daughter of John and Helena 
Lefferts, of this township.  She was born October 28, 1810.  
To their union three children were born:  Eliza Ann, who 
died in infancy; Anna M., who became the wife of Peleg A. 
Dyer, and died when 28 years old; and Mary Helen, wife of 
Lambert Cornell, a farmer at Churchville, in Northampton 
township.  Mr. Delany has been a school director of his 
township for thirty-two years.  In 1842 he was one of the 
promoters of the Mutual Beneficial Insurance company of 
Langhorne, of which he was director, and for some years past 
has been its president.  He and his wife are members of the 
Reformed church at Churchville, of which for several years 
past he has been a deacon, and is also its treasurer.  In 
his long and honorable life he has always borne the 
reputation of a thoroughly upright and honest man and a 
consistent Christian.