delphia. He married, 17 November, 1881, Stella E., daughter of Colonel John K. McIntire by his wife Evaline Von Tuyl, born at Dayton, Ohio, 15 May, 1861.

Children of George W. and Stella E. (McIntire) Elkins :

76. WILLIAM MCINTIRE ELKINS, born 3 September, 1882.
77. STELLA VON TUYL ELKINS, born 16 March, 1884.
78. GEORGE W. ELKINS, JR., born 3 March, 1886.

79. LOUISE BROOMALL ELKINS, born 13 April, 1890.

71. IDA AMELIA ELKINS, second child and eldest daughter of William Lukens Elkins by his wife Maria Louise Broomall, was born at Philadelphia, 23 August, 1859; married, 8 March, 1888, Sidney Frederick Tyler, son of George Frederick Tyler, Esq',† by his wife Louisa Richmond, daughter of Reverend John L. Blake, D.D. Mr. Tyler was born at Philadelphia, 23 December, 1850, and was graduated at Harvard university in 1872, after which he spent some three years in travel in Europe. Returning to Philadelphia in the fall of 1875, he began the study of law under Honorable George W. Biddle, and was admitted to the bar in that city in 1878, and shortly afterwards to the bar in Rhode Island and in Massachusetts. He resided at Boston in the latter state from 1879 until 1884, where he was actively engaged in the insurance business. In 1884 he returned to Philadelphia, and in the following year was elected president of the Shenandoah Valley railroad company, and held the office about six years. In 1886 he organized the Fourth street national bank of Philadelphia, and was elected its president, which position he still retains. He has held directorships in the Security trust company of Philadelphia, the Western national bank of New York, Baltimore traction company, Maryland, Schuylkill river east side railway company of Philadelphia, Edison electric light company of Philadelphia, and has served as director or vice-president in numerous other large corporations. In 1894 he was a member of the reorganization committee of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad company, and of the reorganization committee of the Savannah and Western railway company of Georgia; also of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf railroad company of Indian territory. He is a member of the society of colonial wars, Pennsylvania society of sons of the revolution, military order of the loyal legion, and of the Philadelphia and Rittenhouse clubs.

72. ELEANORE ELKINS, third child of William Lukens Elkins by his wife Maria Louise Broomall, was born at Philadelphia, 21 September, 1861; married, 1 No

* COLONEL MCINTIRE, Son of Samuel McIntire by his wife Elizabeth Peeling, of Virginia, was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 23 December, 1832, removed to Ohio with his parents, and is now one of the merchant-bankers and principal capitalists of Dayton, in that state. He married, at Romulus, New York, Evaline, daughter of Isaac Von Tuyl, of New York.

George FREDERICK TYLER was descended from Job Tyler, who settled in Andover, Massachusetts, as early as 1638, and a grandson of Captain Daniel Tyler, who served as adjutant of his command at the battle of Bunker Hill. Mr. Tyler is also a descendant of the celebrated theologian, Jonathan Edwards, president of Princeton college, and of Reverend Thomas Hooker, pioneer colonist of Connecticut.

vember, 1883, George Dunton Widener, son of Peter A. Browne Widener, Esq*,* by his wife Hannah Josephine Dunton. Mr. Widener was born at Philadelphia, 10 June, 1861, and on completing his education he engaged in business in connection with the vast railway interests with which his father was identified. He is the president of the Philadelphia traction and Union passenger railway companies of Philadelphia, and a director of the Union traction railway company, and of the land title and trust company of Philadelphia, also of numerous other corporations, and is a member of the Union League, Art, Manufacturers', Racquet, and Corinthian yacht clubs of Philadelphia, and the New York yacht club.

Children of George Dunton and Eleanore (Elkins) Widener, born at Philadelphia: 80. HENRY ELKINS WIDENER, born 3 January, 1885.

81. GEORGE DUNTON WIDENER, born 11 March, 1889.
82. ELEANORE WIDENER, born 10 April, 1891.

73. WILLIAM LUKENS ELKINS, JR., fourth child and youngest son of William Lukens Elkins by his wife Maria Louise Broomall, was born at Philadelphia, 26 September, 1863. He was educated at Swarthmore college, and since leaving that institution he has been actively and successfully engaged in business. In 1886 he organized the Pennsylvania iron-works, of which he is the president. He is also president of the Philadelphia gas and manufacturing company, the Pittsburg gas and coke company, and vice-president of the New England gas and coal company of Boston. He is a director of the Third national bank and the Seventeenth and Nineteenth streets passenger railway company of Philadelphia, the Syracuse gas and coal company of New York, and of other large corporations, and is a member of the Union League, Racquet, Philadelphia gun, Germantown cricket, and Corinthian yacht clubs of Philadelphia, and the New York yacht club. He married, 18 April, 1888, Kate, daughter of Honorable Charles Norton Feltont by his wife Charlotte A. Ashley.

Children of William Lukens, Jr., and Kate (Felton) Elkins:

83. FELTON BROOMALL ELKINS, born 23 March, 1889.

84. MARIE Louise Broomall ELKINS, born 24 August, 1892.

* PETER A. BROWNE WIDENER, Esq', born at Philadelphia, 13 November, 1834, is one of the leading capitalists of that city, and prominent among its public-spirited citizens. He was the treasurer of Philadelphia from 1871 until 1877, and has been for a quarter of a century actively identified with the organization and development of street railways in his native city, as well as in Baltimore, Chicago, New York, Pittsburg, and other cities of the United States.

HONORABLE CHARLES NORTON FELTON, Son of Benjamin Keyes Felton by his wife Julia Ann St. John, and a descendant of Lieutenant Nathaniel Felton, one of the early settlers of Salem, Massachusetts, by his wife Mary, daughter of Reverend Samuel Skelton, the first minister of Salem, was born in New York, 1 January, 1828, and removed to California in the early settlement of that state. He was assistant treasurer of the United States and treasurer of the mint at San Francisco, from 1869 until 1872; was elected as a republican to the California legislature in 1880, and to Congress in 1884, to which he was re-elected two years later, and 19 March, 1891, was chosen United States senator for the unexpired term of George Hearst, deceased, ending 3 March, 1893.