- CANBY STEELE TYSON, b. Feb. 25, 1848; m. Emma Claypoole Newport; of them presently.
CANBY STEEL TYSON, only son of Ellwood and Hannah Ann (Steel) Tyson, was born in Abington township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, February 25, 1848. In 1868 he entered the Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Philadelphia, where he was employed for seventeen years, until 1885, when he was elected cashier of the National Bank of Germantown, with which institution he has since been prominently associated, having been elected its president in 1901, which position he still holds. On accepting the position of Cashier of the Germantown Bank, he removed to Germantown, and has since resided in the town his pioneer ancestor, Reynier Tyson, helped to found two centuries earlier. Mr. Tyson is a member of the Union League, the Germantown Cricket Club, the Bachelor's Barge Club, and a number of other social, local and patriotic organizations.
Canby S. Tyson married, April 15, 1873, Emma Claypoole, daughter of David and Susan (Satterthwaite) Newport, of Willow Grove, Abington township, Montgomery county, the former a minister of the Society of Friends is a descendant of Thomas Newport, of London, England, who settled in New Jersey about 1698, and on maternal lines from the Rodmans, Barkers, Ellisons and other prominent families of the Colonial period, an account of a number of which is given in these volumes, and the former a descendant of William Satterthwaite, an early settler in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and on maternal lines from Giles Knight of the "Welcome," the Claypooles, and others of like prominence.
