as deputy register and recorder, from 1896 in 1898 inclusive, and at the
end of that time he opened a law office in Beaver Falls, where he has ever
since continued. His position in his profession is an assured one, founded
upon an able administration of private practice and an equally efficient
discharge of the duties of the office of district attorney, which he held in
1908-09-10-11. The natural qualities of the successful advocate are his,
personality, eloquence, and a speaking voice of fullness and strength, to
which are added a deep and profound knowledge of legal lore, acquaintance
with its workings, skill in examinations, and extensive practice, reaching to
all of its departments. He has been admitted to all state and federal courts
of his district, his wide practice extending to all. He is attorney for the
Dime Savings and Loan Association of Beaver Falls, the only legal con-
nection he has formed with any incorporated interests. As an aspirant
to office he has been a candidate of the Republican party, that having been
his political affiliation since he attained mature age, and he has served two
terms as school director of Beaver Falls. His fraternal memberships are
in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, and
he and his wife belong to the Presbyterian church.

Mr. McGoun married, October 12, 1892, Emma G. McKinney, born
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, daughter of Rev. W. H. McKinney, of New
Brighton, Pennsylvania. Children: i. Miriam G., bom June 22, 1893, a
student in Geneva College. 2. Jean, born November 7, 1895, lives at home.
3. John bom May 2, 1898. 4. Louise, born September 26, 1906. 5. Mar-
garet, born February 29, 1912.





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The Townsend or Townshend families of England and
TOWNSEND America, are of mixed Norman and Saxon origin, and
of great antiquity in county Norfolk, England. Walter
Atte Townshende, son of Sir Ludovic de Townshende, a Norman noble-
man whom Collins in his "Peerage of England" puts at the head of this
family, flourished soon after the Conquest. Sir Ludovic married Elizabeth
de Hauteville and settled in county Norfolk, becoming possessed of a large
estate said to have been granted them by William the Conqueror. The line
is traced through the centuries to Richard Townsend, of Cirencester, Glou-
cestershire, England, who had two sons, Richard and William. Richard (2)
Townsend was born in England, 1644 or 1645. He joined the Society of
Friends, 1672, settled in London 1676, married Anne Hutchins 3 mo. 25
day, 1677. He came to Pennsylvania with William Penn on the ship "Wel-
come" arriving at New Castle on the Delaware, October 24, 1682. He was
a carpenter and millwright, and had come to the New World prepared to
follow his trade, as about 1727 he wrote: "After a little time I set up a
mill on Chester Creek which / brought ready framed from London, which
served for grinding corn and sawing of boards and was of great use to us."
This was the first flour and sawmill in Pennsylvania. Barber in his "His-
tory of Pennsylvania" says : "About a mile and a half northeast of Chester
on the left bank of Chester creek and a short distance from the
mill of Richard Flowerdews, there still exists a cottage built princi-
pally of brick by Richard Townsend, for the accommodation of his
family while he was erecting this the first mill in the province." Wil-
liam Townsend died at the home of his nephew, Joseph Townsend,
in East Bradford, i 28, 1732; children: Hannah, married Isaac Cook;
James, born on the "Welcome," in Delaware river, 1682 ; Joseph,
born 5 mo. 16 day, 1687. William Townsend, son of Richard and
brother of Richard (2), the emigrant who came with Penn, never left
England. He had issue by wife Mary, and of this issue there is record
of Joseph who came to Pennsylvania and was a resident there during the
last ten years of the life of his uncle Richard Townsend, who died at the
home of his nephew. From Richard and Joseph Townsend, uncle and
nephew, descend the Townsends of Pennsylvania.

(I) Joseph, son of William and Mary Townsend, was born in Berk-
shire county, England, in 1684. In 1710 he married Martha Wooderson,
born 9 18, 1683, and in 1712, came to Pennsylvania with his wife and
sister Joan. Martha was a daughter of Julian and Esther Wooderson.
They were members of the Society of Friends, belonged first to Abing-
ton Meeting, coming thence to Concord Meeting in 1715, and in 1720
settling in Chester. Joseph was a weaver by trade. In 1725 he agreed
with John Wanton of Rhode Island for the purchase of a tract of eight
hundred acres in East Bradford, Chester county, and settled thereon
in that year, but did not get a deed until 1727. This land, adjoining the
borough of West Chester, has now passed out of the family nans. Joseph



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Townsend died 4 9, 1766, his wife died 3 2, 1767, and both are buried
in Friends' Birmingham Cemetery; children: Wilham, born 5 26, 171 1,
died II 13, I792r, unmarried; Mary, born 8 16, 1713, died 10 8, 1781,
married Henry Woodward; Joseph (2), of whom further; John, born
12 2, 1716, died 8 18, 1803, married Joanna England; Hannah, born
6 9, 1718, married (first) Nathan Sharpless, (second) Charles Ryant;
Martha, born i 26, 1721, died 4 3, 1748; Richard, born 5 23, 1727, died
5 4, 1738; Esther, born 5 23, 1727, died 11 i, 1728.

(II) Joseph (2), son of Joseph and Martha (Wooderson) Townsend,
was born 4 8, 171 5, died i 3, 1749. He received from his father a portion
of the East Bradford estate, thereon built a house and cultivated his
farm until his early death. He married 3 17, 1739, Lydia Reynolds, born
April 24, 1716, daughter of Francis Reynolds of Chichester township,
Chester county, and his wife, Elizabeth Acton, granddaughter of Henry
Reynolds and great-granddaughter of William and Margaret (Exton)
Reynolds. Henry Reynolds, born in England in 1655, came to New Jersey
in 1676, landing at Burlington after a voyage of twenty-two weeks. He
married, January 10, 1678, Prudence, daughter of William and Prudence
Clayton, of Chichester township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, and settled
in that township where he resided until his death, October 7, 1724. Francis
Reynolds, third child of Henry and Prudence Reynolds, born October 15,
1684, inherited his father's homestead of two hundred and ninety acres in
Chichester, and lived there until his death in 1760. He married, in December,
1712, Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin and Christian Acton, of Salem,
New Jersey, who was born, February 26, 1690. Lydia, who married
Joseph (2) Townsend, was the second of their eight children. Joseph (2)
Townsend had children: Francis, married Rachel Talbot, in 1762; Benjamin,
of whom further; Esther; Joseph and Elizabeth.

(III) Benjamin, son of Joseph (2) and Lydia (Reynolds) Townsend,
was born on the Townsend homestead in East Bradford, Chester county,
Pennsylvania, in 1742. He and his brother Francis with their families
moved to Western Pennsylvania in 1786, Samuel, son of Francis Townsend,
not moving with his parents. Benjamin Townsend settled in Washington
county, Pennsylvania, and was the direct ancestor of the Beaver county
family of Townsend through his son Robert .

(IV) Robert, son of Benjamin Townsend, was born in Washington
county, Pennsylvania, April 9, 1790, his parents having settled there but
a short time previous to that date. When sixteen years of age he went to
Baltimore, Maryland, where he learned the trade of wire worker and be-
came familiar with the process of manufacturing iron. In 1816 he located in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and until 1828 was there engaged in iron manu-
facture, becoming prominent and prosperous. In 1828, in association with
Reese C. Townsend, Robert Beer and John D. Baird, of Pittsburgh, he
established a wire and rivet mill at Fallston, Beaver county, under the firm
name Townsend, Baird & Company. He continued his Pittsburgh and



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Fallston plants, being their active head until 1861, when years and failing
health compelled his retirement. He married and left issue.

(V) William Penn, son of Robert Townsend, was born in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, was there educated, and at an early age entered his father's
employ as clerk. He mastered all details of the business, and in 1840 was
admitted a partner in the Pittsburgh iron manufacturing business of R.
Townsend & Company. In 1864 he succeeded to the business of Townsend,
Baird & Company, wire manufacturers of Fallston, becoming sole owner.
In 1866 he associated his sons, Charles C. and Edward P., with him under
the firm name W. P. Townsend & Company, this firm continuing until
1894. When largely relieved by his sons of the executive management of
their large business, Mr. Townsend gratified his love of travel by frequent
and lengthy sojourns in Europe and in American travel. He married
Sarah A., daughter of Matthew F. Champlin, of New York State; children:
Charles C, of whom further; Edward P., of whom further; Amelia; Ehza-
beth and Helen. William P. Townsend died September 27, 1894, aged
seventy-eight.

(VI) Charles Champlin, eldest son of William Penn and Sarah A.
(Champlin) Townsend, was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, (Pitts-
burgh North Side), November 24, 1841. He was educated in the pubh'c
schools, entering the employ of his father, R. Townsend & Company, at
the age of fifteen years. He so continued until the outbreak of the war
between the states, then enlisted as a private in Company A, Ninth Regi-
ment Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps. Later he was transferred to
the First Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry, attaining the rank of adjutant.
He continued in the military service until honorably discharged on account
of ill health, then returned to the paternal home in New Brighton, Penn-
sylvania. In 1866 he was admitted with his brother Edward P. to a partner-
ship with his father in his extensive wire and rivet manufacturing business
in Fallston, the firm becoming W. P. Townsend & Company. The sons
were ever afterward the moving power in the business, which they greatly
enlarged placing it first among the industrial enterprises of Beaver county
in point of importance, as it already was in priority of establishment. In
1894 the sons became sole owners, the name changing to C. C. & E. P.
Townsend. They added a nail department to the wire and rivet works
and beean the manufacture of wire nails of all sizes. This business, now
owned and managed by the sons of the former proprietors, has been estab-
lished in Fallston since 1828, and has never been out of the family name, the
present g-eneration being the fourth to actively prosecute the business.
Charles C. Townsend was an active member of the Republican party and
firmly snpoorted its principles. He was the successful candidate of his
party for Congress, receiving 21,636 votes against 16,640 cast for his priii-
cipal and all other opponents. He served with honor in the Fifty-first
Congress, then returned to private and business life. He was an elder
of the New Brighton Presbyterian church and a citizen beyond reproach.
He died July 9, 1910.



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Hon. Charles C. Townsend married (first) in October, 1865, Julia
Sophia, daughter of Benjamin Rush Bradford (see Bradford family). He
married (second) June 2, 1902, Mattie K. (Keyt) Lynch, daughter of Wil-
liam H. and Isabella (Molen) Keyt, and widow of Harry L. Lynch of
Pittsburgh. Children of first marriage : Juliet ; Gertrude, died aged twenty-
two years; William P. (2) ; Vincent L. Bradford; Charles C. (2) ; Benja-
min Rush, and John M. With the exception of Benjamin Rush, who is a
banker of New Brighton, these sons are now active partners in the firm
C. C. & E. P. Townsend. Child by second marriage : Margery, born
February 2, 1906.

(VI) Edward P., son of William P. and Sarah A. (Champlin)
Townsend, was born in Pittsburgh, North Side, Pennsylvania, De-
cember 2, 1843, died in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1910.
He prepared for college in Pittsburgh schools, then entered the State Col-
lege. He began business life with his father, becoming familiar with the
details of the business to such an extent that in 1866 he was admitted to a
partnership, forming with his father and brother, Charles C, the firm of
W. P. Townsend & Company, wire and rivet manufacturers of Fallston,
Beaver county, a business established by his grandfather, Robert Townsend,
in 1828, in Fallston. The sons succeeded their father in ownership in 1894,
the firm name becoming C. C. & E. P. Townsend and so continues, eighty-
five years from its foundation, managed by the great-grandsons of the
founder and never out of the Townsend name. The wire rivet and wire
nail works that constitute the Fallston plant form one of the largest and
most important industrial enterprises of Beaver county, and have been the
means of adding greatly to the prosperity of the section in which they are
located. Edward P. Townsend was active and prominent in the business
and a potent factor in its successful operation. He not only managed his
own business successfully, but took an active part in the local government
of New Brighton, his home. He served as president of the borough council
for several years, and was leader in public improvement and in all that pro-
moted the public good. He was an active member of the Presbyterian
church of New Brighton, serving as a trustee for many years. He was a
Republican in politics, and a citizen true and loyal, highly respected in the
business world and honored in the community that knew his virtues best.
Mr. Townsend married (first) Emma, daughter of Rev. Benjamin C.
Critchlow, who was elected pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of
New Brighton, June 17, 1841, and continued its pastor until December 14,
1874, when he requested the dissolution of the relations that for thirty-three
years had existed. Children of Edward P. Townsend by first wife : Robert,
now president of C. C. & E. P. Townsend, the fourth of his name to manage
the affairs of this important corporation; Louis H., of New Brighton, and
Arthur C, of Chicago. Mrs. Townsend died in 1881, and Edward P.
Townsend married (second) in 1885, Grace, daughter of Dr. Justin C. and
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marriage: Elinor, married Springer H. Moore, of Philadelphia; and
Alfred E.

The Hayward family, Mrs. Edward P. Townsend's maternal ancestors,
were among the early settlers of Buffalo, New York. Her father, Dr. J. C.
Elliott, was an eminent physician and surgeon of Buffalo, and one who
during the Civil War won imperishable laurels for his skillful organization
of the hospitals under his control and for his untiring labors for the sick
and wounded soldiers. He was captured by the Confederates, held for
six weeks a prisoner in Libby Prison, Richmond, then exchanged for an
officer of high rank. The children of Dr. Elliott are Hayward, George,
Grace, widow of Edward P. Townsend, now residing at New Brighton,
Pennsylvania; and Russell.



All that pertains to the early history of the "Art and
BRADFORD Mystery" of printing in America is of exceeding interest,

not only to the antiquarian, but also to the student of
general history. Tracing the generations of the Bradford family of New
Brighton, Pennsylvania, back to the American ancestor, leads to William
Bradford, the first printer in the province of Pennsylvania and publisher
of the first newspaper in the Colony of New York. The first issue from
Bradford's press was an almanac called on the title page:

KALENDARIUM PENNSYLVANIENSE

or

AMERICA'S MESSENGER

being an

ALMANACK

For the year of grace 1686

By SAMUEL ATKINS

Printed and sold by William Bradford

The following notice aids in settling the question as to the time when

the press was first set up in Philadelphia county :

THE PRINTER TO THE READERS.
Hereby understand that after great charge and Trouble, I have brought the
great Art & Mystery of printing into this part of America, believing it may be
of great service to you in several respects; hoping to find encouragement not
only in this Almanack, but what else I shall enter upon for the use & service of
the Inhabitants of these Parts. Some irregularities there be in this Diary which
I desire you to pass by this year; for being lately come hither, my materials
were misplaced and out of order, whereupon I was forced to use, Figures and
Letters of various Sizes, but understanding the want of something of this nature
& being importuned thereto, I ventured to make public this: desiring you to
accept thereof & by the next (as I find encouragement) shall endeavor to have
compleat. And for the ease of Clark's, Scriveniers Warrants etc. & what else
presents itself wherein I shall be ready to serve you; and remain your friend.

W. BRADFORD.
Philadelphia the 28th.
loth Month 1685.
(I) William Bradford, the first printer in Pennsylvania, was bom
in Leicestershire, England, May 20, 1660, son of William and Anna Brad-
ford. He served his apprenticeship and learned the printer's art with Wil-



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liam Sowle, printer and publisher of Quaker books, in Grace Church street,
London, a friend of William Penn and George Fox. William Bradford
came to America in the "Welcome" with William Penn, arriving at New-
castle-on-the-Delaware, lo 27, 1682, and on September 12, 1683, was living
at or near Philadelphia. In August, 1685, he was in London, returning there
to obtain his bride, Elizabeth Sowle, daughter of Andrew Sowle, the printer
and publisher who although a subscribing witness to Penn's Charter of
Liberties for Pennsylvania and a "First Purchaser" of Pennsylvania Land,
one thousand acres in Upper Dublin township, county of Philadelphia,
never came to Pennsylvania. While in London, William Bradford received a
letter from George Fox, recommending him to prominent Friends in Amer-
ica, "As a sober young man who comes to Pennsylvania to set up the trade
of printing Friends' books" etc.

He married, in Devonshire Friends Meeting, April 2, 1685, and on
his return to America brought with him his bride and the printing press
on which the Almanack was printed. He brought with him a certificate of
Devonshire House Monthly Meeting recommending "William Bradford and
Elizabeth his wife as members of the Society of Friends," which was read
in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, held the 4th of the nth month, 1685, and
accepted. He seems to have been successful in his business until 1692 when
he became involved in the dissension that finally caused an open rupture in
the Society of Friends. He printed some of the writings of George Keith,
with whom he seems to have sympathized, and as a result was arrested and
imprisoned. When tried the jury disagreed, but Bradford, having incurred
the displeasure of the dominant party in Pennsylvania and receiving offers to
settle in New York, removed in 1693 to that city, set up his press and became
printer to the government. The first book from his press in New York
was a small folio volume of the laws of the Colony, bearing date of 1693.
In the imprint he styles himself "Printer to their Majesties" and directs to
his printing house "At the Sign of the Bible." He continued to print for
the government of New York and during thirty years was the only printer
in the colony. During this same period he was also printer to the govern-
ment of New Jersey. On October 16, 1725, he issued the first number of
The Nezv York Gazette, the first newspaper printed in New York. Benjamin
Franklin mentions that when he visited New York about 1723, William
Bradford was a printer and the only one in the city. Franklin applied to
him for work, Bradford then having little to do could not employ him,
but recommended him to his son Andrew, then a printer in Philadelphia.
William Bradford continued his residence in New York, retiring from busi-
ness several years prior to his death, making his home with his son William,
in Hanover Square. He was also intimately associated with the early manu-
facture of paper in America, having been one of the builders and owners of
the first paper mill on the Wissahickon and was owner of a paper mill
in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, as early as 1728, these mills being the first
erected in America for the manu-facture of paper. He continued the publi-



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cation of The New York Gazette until 1743, when it was sold to James
Parker and Post Boy added to its title.

Although a Friend in England and Philadelphia, William Bradford
was for many years a vestryman of Trinity Church, New York (Episcopal),
and in the old burying ground near the north wall of that church his tomb-
stone may be seen. The original monument over the remains of William
Bradford and his wife in Trinity Church grounds was badly broken and
defaced at the time the present church edifice was erected. A new one of
marble was placed over the graves by the church vestry in May, 1883. He
died May 23, 1752, aged eighty-nine years. On the morning of that day
he took a long walk. The New York Gazette which announced his death
on the Monday morning following said :

He came to America seventy years ago, was printer to the Government of New
York upwards of fifty years, was a man of great sobriety and industry, a real friend
to the poor and needy and kind and affable to all. His temperance was exceedingly
conspicuous and he was almost a stranger to sickness all his life. He had left off
business several years past and being quite worn out with old age and labor, his
lamp of life went out for want of oil.

His wife, Elizabeth (Sowle) Bradford, died July 8, 1731, (tombstone)
aged sixty-eight years. William Bradford married (second) Widow Smith,
by whom he had no issue. Children of William and Elizabeth (Sowle)
Bradford: i. Andrew, born in Philadelphia, 1682; learned printing with
his father; was in partnership with him in New York until 1712, when he
moved to Philadelphia; he issued the first number of the American Weekly
Mercury, the first newspaper published in the Middle States, December 22,
1719, which he conducted until his death; he was a vestryman of Christ
Church, Philadelphia, and is buried in the churchyard of that parish with
his first wife Dorcas and his second wife, Cornelia (Smith) Bradford. 2.
William, of whom further. 3. Tacey, born 1689 ; married John Hyat, a
one-time sheriff of Philadelphia county, 1741-45.

(H) William (2) Bradford, son of William (i) and Elizabeth (Sowle)
Bradford, was born about 1689, and was taken by his parents to New York
in 1693. Like his brother Andrew he was taught his father's trade of
printer, but his health being poor on land he became a sailor soon after
he became of age, following the sea for several years. In his will he styles
himself "Pewterer." Several years before his father's death he was living
in Hanover Square, New York. His will, made August 31, 1742, was
probated January 24, 1759. He married, November 25, 1716, Sytie Sant-
voort, baptized April 14, 1695, died later than June 5, 1760, she being named
with son William as legatees and she sole executrix of the will. Sytie was
a daughter of Abraham and Vroutjie (Van Horn) Santvoort, both Dutch
colonial families. Children: i. Maria, married William Mercer. 2. Wil-
liam, of whom further. 3. Elizabeth, married Jacob Ogden, of Jamaica,
Long Island. 4. Abraham (or Andrew), died aged eighteen years. 5.
Cornelius, married (first) Esther Creighton, (second) Catherine, widow of
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(III) Colonel William (3) Bradford, son of William (2) and Sytie
(Santvoort) Bradford, was born in Hanover Square, New York, January
19, 1721. He was adopted and educated by his uncle, Andrew Bradford,
with whom he also learned the printer's trade and business, becoming his
partner in 1739. This connection was dissolved in December, 1740, and in
December, 1742, Colonel William Bradford began the publication of the
Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser, a paper devoted to the patriot
cause from the beginning of trouble with the mother country in 1765.
The paper from July, 1774, to October, 1775, bore the famous device of a
divided snake with the motto "United or Die." Colonel Bradford was an
ardent patriot, defending the cause with both pen and sword. He was a
lieutenant of Philadelphia Associators during the French and Indian War,
1756; captain in a Philadelphia Regiment, 1775; major in 1776; fought at
the battle of Trenton ; was wounded at Princeton and was promoted to the
rank of colonel. He was at Fort Mifflin and in other battles, retiring from