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ANDREW LYLE HART, for many years a carpenter and contractor of Penllyn, was the son of Solomon and Hannah (Lyle) Hart. He was born November 22, 1826. He died November 25, 1874, at his home in Penllyn. After attending the free schools of the district for a number of years, young Hart became an apprentice to the carpenter trade. He had previously, however, been self sustaining by doing such work as he could find among the farmers of the neighborhood. On completing his apprenticeship, he was employed with different builders.

He married, January 12, 1852, Jane McCool, daughter of John and Mary (Sines) McCool, of Penllyn. Her father was a saddler. Mr. and Mrs. Hart had six children-Mary Elizabeth, born October 6, 1852, died July 10, 1853. Annie Wharton, born April 16, 1855. She attended school at Plymouth Meeting and at the Eight Square School, in Gwynedd township, until her fifteenth year. She married, March 28, 1878, Evan Jones Moore, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Rapp) Moore, of Lower Gwynedd. The third child of Andrew L. and Jane Hart was David DeHaven Hart, born in February, 1857, died May 10, 1902. He attended school at Plymouth Meeting and at the; Eight Square School in Gwynedd, and also Sunnyside Academy, a select school at Ambler. He married, in 1881, Mary Catharine, daughter of Henry and Sophia (Buchert) Titlow. They lived in Norristown, and had one child, Edna Sophia, born November 24, 1881. Allen Lyle, fourth child of Andrew L. and Jane Hart, born June 8, 1859, attended the Lower Gwynedd school and Sunnyside Academy, at Ambler. He learned the trade of a miller, and was engaged in this occupation for some time, but is now motorman of the Philadelphia Traction Company. He married, in 1883, Laura, daughter of Thomas and Susanna Miller, their children being Morris Robbins, born in October, 1883; Mildred Acker, born December 23, 1886, died in 1893; and Melville, born October 4, 1896. Emily, fifth child of Andrew L. and Jane Hart, was born November 18, 1863. She attended the neighboring schools until her fifteenth year. She married, May 27, 1885, Franklin Buzby, son of James and Mary Ann (Moore) Buzby, of Lower Gwynedd. They reside at Penllyn. Their children are: Grant Hart, born July 10, 1886, attends Temple College, Philadelphia; and Allen Lyle, born August 23, 1887, attends the public school, at Ambler. Harry, sixth child of Andrew and Jane Hart, born October 16, 1868, attended neighboring schools until he was eighteen years of age. He married, in 1896, Nellie, daughter of Martin and Catharine Neville. They reside at Penllyn, and have one child, Neville, born April 12, 1902. Mr. Hart is telegraph operator on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway.

Solomon Hart (father) born October 22, 1796, was the son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Fisher) Hart, of Whitemarsh township. He was born and reared on a farm. He married Hannah Lyle, and had several children, among then Andrew L., subject of this sketch, and Ellwood Lyle, born July 20, 1830, who is living retired at Centre Square, but was for many years a mason and contractor. He married, November 10, 1856, Kate, daughter of John R. Smith, and Elizabeth Young, of Plymouth township.

Andrew L. Hart, after his marriage, settled in Plymouth township, where he worked at his trade for Contractor Pierce, and also engaged in jobbing. In the spring of 1862 he removed to Penllyn, where he engaged extensively in contract work, erecting many large houses and barns in that section of Montgomery county. He is favorably remembered by many of the older residents of Gwynedd and neighboring townships as a man of very generous and kindly impulses, much interested in everything relating to the welfare of the community in which he lived. He was a Democrat in politics, but not an active party worker, preferring to give close attention to his business. He was a member of the Baptist church. His premature death was greatly regretted by a host of sorrowing friends.