Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Cadwallader, Samuel C.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Upper Makefield Township


   SAMUEL C. CADWALLADER retired farmer, P.O. Dolington was 
born November 7, 1815, in Upper Makefield township, on the 
old homestead on the farm where he now resides. He is a son 
of Jacob and Ann (Taylor) Cadwallader, natives of this 
county and of Welsh descent. The Cadwallader family is of 
Welsh origin, having emigrated to this country in the 
seventeenth century. There were four brothers who left Wales 
to come to this country, one of whom, Lambert, settled where 
Lambertville, N. J., now stands, and it is supposed that 
that town was named after him. Two of the others settled 
near Bucks and Montgomery counties, and the fourth settled 
in the western part of the state, and of his descendants we 
know nothing. Jacob Cadwallader was a farmer, and moved to 
the place where his son Samuel now lives in the year 1800, 
and spent the remainder of his days there. He died in 1843. 
He was the father of eleven children, all of whom are 
deceased except Samuel C.  The latter has always lived on 
the farm he now owns, and has made farming his principal 
occupation. He has been quite successful, and by industry 
and economy in his younger days is now enabled to enjoy a 
well-earned competence. In 1844 he married Hannah C., 
daughter of Jonathan Carr, of Plumstead township, by whom he 
has had six children, two of whom died in infancy. Those 
living are:  Macre Ann, Mary, Julia and James L.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Cadwallader are members of the Society of Friends. He 
has been school director for a term of twenty-three years, 
and supervisor and overseer of the poor six years. He has 
been guardian and trustee for twelve orphans, and executer 
and administrator for several estates. The Cadwallader 
family have been identified with the county for over a 
century and a half, and there are but few of them now left. 
Samuel C. is now in his seventy-second year, and although 
retired from active business is quite active and well-read, 
and still possesses the enterprise of his younger days.