The Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851: An Historical SketchHensel, W. U. (William Uhler)
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The Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851: An Historical Sketch
Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler)
Christiana (Pa.) -- History; Riots -- Pennsylvania -- Christiana
II. Grandchildren--Samuel Brinton, farmer, West Chester, Pa., R. F. D.;
Henry Brinton, 2408 Bryn Mawr Avenue, West Philadelphia; Edwin Brinton,
5584 Hunter Avenue, West Philadelphia; Mrs. Emma B. Maule, R. F. D.,
Cochranville, Pa.; Alfred Brinton, Christiana, Pa.; Mrs. Clara B.
Maule, Gum Tree, Chester County, Pa.; Harry P. Cooper, 14 Ruby Street,
Lancaster, Pa.; Mrs. D. W. Miller, Linfield, Montgomery County, Pa.;
Mrs. Anna Cooper, Santa Barbara, California; Mrs. George Paschall,
Jr., Port Kennedy, Pa., and Miss Mary Cooper, 2408 Bryn Mawr Avenue,
West Philadelphia, Pa. (W. L. Cooper, superintendent of the Bedford
division P. R. R., who recently met tragic death by drowning in the
Susquehanna river, was a grandson.)
III. Great Grandchildren--Roy Cooper, Fairmount, W. Va.; Herbert
Cooper, Parkesburg, Pa.; Helen Cooper, Santa Barbara, Cal.; Clement S.
Brinton, 213 Euclid Avenue, Haddonfield, N. J.; Francis D. Brinton,
West Chester, Pa.; Willard C. Brinton, 70 West 46th Street, New York;
Ellen S. Brinton, R. F. D., West Chester, Pa.; Robert F. Brinton, R.
F. D., West Chester, Pa.; Wilfred Cooper, Bedford, Pa.; C. Burleigh
Cooper, Christiana, Pa.; Harry Brinton, 2408 Bryn Mawr Avenue,
Philadelphia, Pa.; Lewis Brinton, Octoraro, Lancaster Co., Pa.; Thomas
Brinton, minister, Octoraro, Pa.; Mrs. Jesse Webster, Mrs. John
Dochter, Christiana, Pa., and Evan J. Lewis, George School, Bucks Co.,
Pa.
Castner Hanway suffered most in expense and anxiety from the trial. He
resided for years after it ended in Chester and Lancaster Counties, but
in 1878 removed to Wilber, Nebraska. His first wife, Martha, daughter
of Jesse and Letitia Lamborn, who was with him during his trial, died
August 20, 1855. Later he married Hannah, daughter of Moses and Mary
Pennock, who died January 1, 1864. Later he married a Miss Johnston,
a relative of Governor Johnston, who was the Chief Executive of
Pennsylvania in 1851. She is still living. Castner Hanway himself died
May 26, 1893; his remains were brought East and buried in the cemetery
at the famous Longwood meeting house of the Progressive Friends, in
Chester County, made memorable by anti-slavery meetings addressed by
Whittier, Lucretia Mott and others eminent in literature; and in which
quiet graveyard are the chaste tombs of Bayard Taylor, poet, novelist,
traveler, journalist and diplomat, and of his brother, Colonel Frank
Taylor, one of the heroes and martyrs of Gettysburg.
The Longwood Yearly Meeting soon after Hanway’s death adopted a
memorial prepared by Patience W. Kent, which said of him:
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