Excerpt from Pennsylvania and Its Public Men Upon my father's side was good Quaker stock. My grandfather, Samuel, was a native of Burlington County. New Jersey, while my grandmother was a Townsend of Tidewater, Virginia. My grandfather lived his life at W'ood bury, New Jersey. Where he carried on a carpentry and pump-making business. He was a singularly silent man, an orthodox Quaker, and died from a cancer of the mouth' due to excessive smoking. His case being parallel to that which ended the life of Gen eral U. S. Grant. Upon my mother's side my grandfather, Elias Jester, came from the well-known family of that name, of Delaware. He came to Philadelphia when a young man, and obtained employment in a drygoods store. He subsequently entered into business. And when I was a mere lad he conducted a large establishment on South Street Opposite Pass yunk Avenue, under the firm name of Jester Burbage. He subsequently erected a store and dwelling at 1128 Pine Street, where he continued in business until his death. He was what is known as a Shouting Metho dist. My grandmother Jester was a Pennsyl vanian. My father renounced the Quakers and was read out of meeting at the Wood bury Quarterly. As a young man he saved money to educate himself at Pennington Seminary. And soon after his marriage he entered the ministry in the New Jersey M. E. Conference. He was first stationed at Bridgeton. New Jersey. Where my mother died when I was eighteen months old. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.