"Edward A. Ivins, second son of Edward A. and Anna (Brown) Ivins, entered the public schools of Penns Manor at the usual age, and after studying for some time became a student in the Friends Central School, of Philadelphia, conducted by Aaron B. Ivins, a relative. When he had completed his course of study he entered the employ of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company as clerk in the counting department, and remained there for eighteen years, this fact being ample proof that he was one of its most trusted and capable employees, discharging the duties assigned to him in a conscientious and painstaking manner. In June, 1900, prior to the death of his father, he returned to the old homestead and assumed its management, and since then has given his attention exclusively to the same, his energy and enterprise being resultant factors in making this one of the fine farming properties of the locality, having thereon all the improvements usually found upon the estate of a careful, energetic and progressive farmer.
Edward A. Ivins married Mary L. Thomas, who was born January 8, 1863, a daughter of Jonathan and Mary Ann (Knight) Thomas, deceased, who were well known residents of Bensalem township, and the parents of eleven children, among whom were the following: Ellwood, Carrie, wife of J. J. Broadhurst, of Langhorne; Howard, Reese, Henry, Russell, Mary, wife of Edward A. Ivins: Franklin, and Clinton Thomas; they also had a step-daughter Ellen Thomas. One child was the issue of the marriage of Edward A. and Mary L. Ivins, A. Russell Thomas Ivins, born January 19, 1892." [1]
[1] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 344, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].