Arthur Emlen Newbold (1859-1920)

He was born at Jenkintown, near Philadelphia, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (1859). He went into banking in partnership with Robert Bacon, Charles H. Coster and Charles Steele. In later years, he was a partner in both Drexel & Co. and J.P. Morgan & Co. He was a director of the Fourth Street National Bank of Philadelphia, the Savings Fund Society, the Commercial Trust Company, and the Insurance Company of North America. He was a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and a member of both the Philadelphia and Germantown cricket clubs among others. He married Harriet, daughter of Fitz-Eugene Dixon and grand-daughter of George M. Dallas, 11th Vice-President of the United States. They had four children and lived between Philadelphia and Cheltenham Township at "Farleigh" (named for his wife's childhood country home, Farley) on the north side of Willow Grove Avenue at Laverock - see images. In 1912, their eldest son gave it a Norman makeover as "Laverock Farm".