Source: "Southeastern Pennsylvania", by J. Bennett Nolan, Supervising Edit-
or, Vol. III, Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Philadelphia, 1943, pp. 254-5.

"Thomas Lewis Passmore - After many years spent as a farmer and now devoting 
his retirement to the operation of a general fire insurance business at Avon-
dale, Thomas Lewis Passmore is one of the distinguished citizens of his com-
munity, a man who has devoted much of his time through the years to the pub-
lic interest, both as an official and as a banker and business man.

"Thomas Lewis Passmore was born at Strickersville, Chester County, Pennsyl-
vania, on November 20, 1866, a son of Lewis and Ellen (Cope) Passmore.  
Lewis Passmore, a descendant of one of the first families to become estab-
lished in Chester County, was born at Doe Run, Chester County, on January 
19, 1826.  During his lifetime, he followed the family devotion to the soil, 
spending all his sixty-three years as a farmer and being still active when 
he died on May 5, 1899.  Ellen (Cope) Passmore, his wife, who was born near 
West Chester, Chester County, on February 10, 1830, died on December 5, 1874.

"After obtaining his formal education at the Friends School at Westtown, 
Pennsylvania, Thomas Lewis Passmore followed the family tradition and estab-
lished himself as a farmer and for some fifty years followed this occupation 
on his farm near Chatham, Chester County.  Finally, in 1936 he retired from 
the soil, but, turning to insurance, he soon discovered he was operating a 
thriving general fire insurance business at Avondale.  Always interested in 
political problems and civic concerns, he has devoted himself to the public 
service practically all his life, having been active as a member of the 
Republican party.  He served for approximately twenty-five years as a school 
director of London Grove Township, was a justice of the peace for many 
years, in addition to holding office at the present time as burgess of Avon-
dale, an office to which he was appointed and then elected in 1941.  Among 
the various organizations to which Mr. Passmore has devoted himself may be 
mentioned his present offices as president and director of the Building 
Association of London Grove, his directorate on the board of the National 
Bank of Kennett Square and his position as secretary and treasurer of the 
Southern Mutual Automobile Protective Association of Avondale.  Mr. 
Passmore, who is a member of the Society of Friends, belongs to the Avondale 
Rotary Club and the Avondale Grange.

"Thomas Lewis Passmore has been twice married.  On November 13, 1890, he 
married Gertrude Seal, a daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Pettit) Seal.  By 
this marriage, Mr. Passmore was the father of two children: 1. Lewis, 
deceased.  2. Mary, who is the wife of Raymond C. Kendig of Long Beach, 
California, and the mother of three children: Thomas P., Edwin W., and 
Ellen.  Mrs. Gertrude (Seal) Passmore died on March 2, 1899.  Thomas Lewis 
Passmore married (second), on October 16, 1901, Emma L. Brosius of Chatham, 
Pennsylvania, a daughter of Mahlon G. and Anna M. (Pusey) Brosius.  By this 
marriage, Mr. Passmore is the father of three children: 1. Anna Brosius, 
born September 17, 1904, who is the wife of Dr. Edward A. Webb of Avondale 
and the mother of two children: Ruth Ann and William P.  2. Edith Cope, born 
March 25, 1908, and at present the librarian at the George School in Bucks 
County, Pennsylvania.  3. Sara L., born June 13, 1912, who is the wife of 
Frederick W. Yocum of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania."