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Birth:          2 Aug 1848 Middletown Twp., Bucks Co., Pa.
Death:          6 Feb 1931 Langhorne, Bucks Co., Pa.
Burial:         10 Feb 1931 Middletown Friends Burying Ground, Middletown Twp., Bucks Co., Pa.

Notes
1981 book (see for details)
1880 in Middletown, Bucks Co., Pa. life insurance agent
boarding with them is Anna Comfort
1900 in Middletown, Bucks Co., Pa. 2 servants insurance agent
1910 cannot find
1920 in Middletown, Bucks Co., Pa. farmer of small farm
1930 in Middletown, Bucks Co., Pa. retired, 2 servants
he and Elizabeth Lavinia are double second cousins
From http://www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks/samuelceastburn.html

SAMUEL COMFORT EASTBURN

Samuel Comfort EASTBURN. Among the most enterprising businessmen of lower Bucks 
county is Samuel Comfort EASTBURN, of Langhorne borough. He is a son of Joseph 
and Elizabeth (COMFORT) EASTBURN, and was born in Middletown township, Bucks 
county, August 2, 1848. An account of the first three generations of the paternal 
ancestors of the subject of this sketch is given in other pages, he being a descendant 
in the sixth generation of Robert and Sarah (PRESTON) EASTBURN, who came from 
Yorkshire to Philadelphia in 1713, and settled near Abington, Montgomery county, 
Pennsylvania, a year later. Samuel EASTBURN, the great-great-grandfather of Samuel 
C., removed to Solebury township, Bucks county, in 1729. His son, Robert 
EASTBURN, and his first wife, Elizabeth DUER, were the great-grandparents of both 
the subject and his wife, Elizabeth (MAULE) EASTBURN.

Aaron EASTBURN, youngest son of Robert and Elizabeth (DUER) EASTBURN, born 1 
mo. 10, 1773, married in 9 mo., 1796, Mercy BYE of Buckingham, and lived in 
Solebury, dying at the age of seventy-three years, 3 mo. 24, 1846, and Mercy, his 
widow, dying 2 mo. 21, 1848, aged seventy-four years. They were the parents of ten 
children, seven daughters and three sons. Joseph EASTBURN, the ninth child of 
Aaron and Mercy, and the only son who married, was born in Solebury township, 4 mo. 
18, 1814. He was reared in his native township of Solebury, but on his marriage, 11 
mo. 19, 1846, to Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth COMFORT, of 
Middletown, settled on a portion of his father-in-law's farm in Middletown. At the death 
of Samuel COMFORT in 1860, this farm descended to his daughter, Elizabeth C. 
EASTBURN, and a part of it is the present home of the subject of this sketch. The 
children of Joseph and Elizabeth (COMFORT) EASTBURN were: Samuel C., born 8 
mo. 2, 1848; Anna, born 6 mo. 24, 1852, married John G. WILLETTS; and Thomas, 
born 8 mo. 21, 1853. Joseph EASTBURN, the father, died 10 mo. 31, 1891.

The maternal ancestors of the subject of this sketch were among the early Quaker 
settlers of this section. John COMFORT was a resident of Amwell township, Hunterdon 
county, where he died in 1728. He brought a certificate from Flushing, Long Island, to 
Falls Meeting, 12 mo. 3, 1719. In 1720 he married Mary, daughter of Stephen and 
Sarah (BAKER) WILSON, and had by her three children: Stephen, Sarah and Robert. 
Stephen COMFORT married Mercy CROASDALE, and settled in Middletown township, 
where he acquired several large tracts of land. He died in 1772, leaving sons 
Stephen, John, Ezra, Jeremiah, Moses, and Robert; and daughters Grace and Mercy. 
Stephen COMFORT (2), married Sarah STEVENSON, and settled on his father's farm 
on the Neshaminy, near Parkland, and later purchased considerable adjoining land, 
most of which became the property of his son Samuel at the death of his father in 
1826. The other children of Stephen and Sarah COMFORT were, Stephen, David and 
Jeremiah. Samuel COMFORT lived upon the Neshaminy homestead until about 1850 
when he removed to the village of Attleboro, where he died in 1860, leaving children: 
Mary Ann; Jesse; Elizabeth, wife of Joseph EASTBURN, and Samuel. He was a 
prominent man in the community and filled many positions of trust.

Samuel Comfort EASTBURN was reared on the Middletown farm, and received his 
education at the Langhorne Academy and at Westtown Boarding School. He later took 
a course at Crittenden's Commercial College, Philadelphia. He engaged in railroad 
surveying for a few years, and then in the dry goods business in Philadelphia, where 
he remained for ten years. In 1880 he took an agency for the Provident Life and Trust 
Company of Philadelphia, in the life insurance department, and has been connected 
with it ever since, now holding the position of general agent for Central Pennsylvania. 
Mr. EASTBURN is an enterprising and successful business man, and has been closely 
identified with most of the vast improvements in and about his native town of 
Langhorne in the last twenty-five years. In 1886 he organized and developed the 
Langhorne Improvement Company, purchasing for it the 620 acres of land upon which 
the present borough of Langhorne Manor is built. In 1887 he built the Langhorne water 
works, which now supply water to the three boroughs of Langhorne, Langhorne Manor 
and Attleboro, and in the same year he built the Langhorne brick works. In 1888 he 
organized the Langhorne Electric Light Company. He was treasurer and 
superintendent of the Langhorne Manor Inn, now the Foulke and Long Institute. He 
has been largely instrumental in the sale and development of suburban real estate, 
and has been for many years a foremost advocate of the improvement of the public 
roads. He has always been an ardent advocate of progress and improvement, and has 
been a potent force along these lines in the community in which he lives. In religion 
he is a member of the orthodox branch of the Society of Friends. In politics he is a 
Republican, though never a seeker or holder of other than local office, being for some 
years a justice of the peace, and filling other local offices.

He married May 3, 1876, Elizabeth L., daughter of Joseph E. and Sarah (COMFORT) 
MAULE, of Philadelphia, who was born 2 mo. 10, 1851. She is a granddaughter of 
John and Ann (EASTBURN) MAULE, the latter being a daughter of Robert and 
Elizabeth (DUER) EASTBURN, and a sister to Aaron EASTBURN, the grandfather of 
the subject of this sketch. The children of Samuel C. and Elizabeth (MAULE) 
EASTBURN are: Herbert Maule, born 3 mo. 25, 1877; Samuel Arthur, born 10 mo.3, 
1878; Joseph Maule, born 4 mo. 25, 1880; and Howard Percy, born 2 mo. 15, 1887. 
Herbert is the general agent of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company at Trenton, 
New Jersey; Samuel A. is district agent for the Provident Life and Trust Company at 
Williamsport, Pennsylvania; Joseph M. is superintendent of the Redwood Lumber 
Manufactory, at Samoa, California, for Hammond & Co.; Howard P. is a civil engineer 
in the employ of the Good Roads Commission of Pennsylvania. All of the brothers are 
successful in their chosen careers, and all are single.

Text taken from page 20 of:

Davis, William W. H., A.M., History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania [New York-
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1905] Volume III

Transcribed MAY 2000 by GRACE T. BURTON of PA as part of the Bucks Co., Pa., 
Early Family Project, www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks/bucksindex.html

Published May 2000 on the Bucks County, Pa., USGenWeb pages at 
www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks/
8 Feb 1931 Trenton Evening times

Parents
EASTBURN Joseph ()
COMFORT Elizabeth ()

Siblings
EASTBURN Samuel Comfort (2 Aug 1848 - 6 Feb 1931)

Marriage To MAULE Elizabeth Lavinia ("Lizzie") (10 Feb 1851 - 8 Nov 1941)
    m. 3 May 1876 

Notes

Parents
MAULE Joseph Eves (4 Jun 1818 - 19 Sep 1902)
COMFORT Sarah (19 Apr 1818 - 6 Mar 1883)

Children by MAULE Elizabeth Lavinia ("Lizzie") 10 Feb 1851 - 8 Nov 1941
EASTBURN Herbert Maule (25 Mar 1877 - Apr 1973)
EASTBURN Samuel Arthur (3 Oct 1878 - 9 May 1973)
EASTBURN Joseph Maule (25 Apr 1880 - 30 Jun 1950)
EASTBURN Howard Percy (15 Feb 1887 - 12 Nov 1953)

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