Rash's Surname Index
Notes for William SHARPLESS
WILLIAM SHARPLESS, one of the remarkably successful business men of southern Chester county, and the proprietor of the Toughkenamon and Kennett Square creameries, is a son of William, Sr., and Sarah A., (Yarnall) Sharpless, and was born in Middletown township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, June 10, 1849.
He enjoyed the educational privileges of the common schools of Delaware county, which he left at an early age to engage in farming. At the end of ten years he disposed of his farming interests and embarked in his present creamery business at Toughkenamon. His creamery, which is well fitted up, is operated on the latest and most scientific principles and its products are recognized as first class in every particular. His main building is forty by fifty feet in dimensions, while all other necessary buildings have been fully supplied. The daily products of the creamery average five hundred pounds of butter, one thousand quarts of cream, and one hundred pounds of cottage cheese. The creamery business of Mr. Sharpless now aggregates seventy thousand dollars per year, and from its present rapid rate of increase promises to go above one hundred thousand dollars at no far distant day in the future. Being connected by rail with Philadelphia and Baltimore, he has constant markets for all of his products.
Besides his Toughkenamon creamery he owns a creamery and dwelling house and some choice building lots on Willow street at Kennett Square. By his energy, industry and judicious management he has established an enterprise that is highly beneficial to his section of the county.
"On the 18th of November, 1872, Mr. Sharpless was united in marriage with Sarah, daughter of Eber Hurford, and they have one child living, a son named Warren, who was born August 20, 1879. They had buried a son and a daughter previous to that time.
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