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Below is a family biography included in the Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania published in 1904 by T. S. Benham & Company and The Lewis Publishing Company; Elwood Roberts, Editor. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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JOHN SUPPLEE is a son of George W. and Anna (Hale) Supplee, of Norriton township, where he was born October 15, 1850. He was educated in the public schools of the neighborhood, and on reaching manhood engaged in farming on the homestead for a time. In 1887 he removed to Whitemarsh township, purchasing a fine farm on which he still resides. In 1876 Mr. Supplee married Miss Mary Berkhimer, a daughter of Andrew and Hannah (Wood) Berkhimer, a well known farmer of Whitemarsh township. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Supplee are Andrew Wilbert, born June 6, 1878, and Etna, born September 28, 1890-both unmarried.
Mr. Supplee is a Republican in politics. He is a member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He and his family attend the Reformed church. He is a man who is much esteemed in the community.
George W. Suplee (father) died February 21, 1904, in his ninety-fourth year. He was a native of Norriton township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. He was a farmer by occupation, being engaged in that pursuit all his life. He married Anna Hale, of Chester county, Pennsylvania. He was a Democrat in early life, but later became a Republican. The children of George and Anna Supplee: Phebe, Margaret Hannah, Camelia, Mary, George, John, Henderson, and William and Charles, who were twins.
The Supplees are an old family in Montgomery county. They are of French Huguenot origin, although driven from France into Germany as the result of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes which carried such terror into the ranks of French Protestants, its sequel being the terrible massacre of St. Bartholomew. The first of the name was Andreas Souplis, which, in the process of time, was anglicized into Andrew Supplee. He was one of the early settlers of Germantown, and from him, it is believed, are descended all the American Supplees. Andrew Supplee bought a large tract of land at Matsunk, now Swedeland, in Upper Merion township, and located there. From him have sprung a very numerous progeny, including the Supplees of Norriton and adjoining townships.
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