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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



and Mrs. Snmnel Hillpot was Leah 

 Shive, born April ii, 1844, married John 

 King, a wheelwright of Plumstead town- 

 ship; 7. Fannie B., born December i, 

 1846, married May 12, 1870, to Lewis, 

 son of John and Mary Fluck, farmers 

 of Richland township. He was a Demo- 

 crat in politics and was postmaster of 

 Richland Center during Grover Cleve- 

 land's second administration. He died 

 February 20, 1888. and Mrs. Fluck mar- 

 ried, August 28, 1890, William H. Min- 

 inger, son of Joseph and Mary Mininger, 

 a carpenter and builder at Zion Hill, 

 Bucks county, Penrisylvania, and lives 

 in Quakertown. By her first husband 

 Mrs. Mininger had two children: John 

 Samuel, born April 16, 1878, married 

 Addie Moyer. He is engaged as car 

 tracer for the Reading railroad, and 

 lives at Lansdale, Pennsylvania; Arthur 

 Fluck, born March 28. 1881, lives at 

 home, unmarried, and is assistant 

 freight agent to the North Pennsylvania 

 Railroad of Quakertown. The eighth 

 child born to Mr. and Mrs. Hillpot was 

 Clarissa, born October 6, 1849, died No- 

 vember 17, 1857. 



THOMAS STINTSMAN. The good 

 business men and useful citizens of the 

 county have a worthy representative 

 in Thomas Stintsman, of New Hope. 

 Mr. Stintsman is a grandson of Samuel 

 Stintsman, who emigrated from Ger- 

 many and settled in Bucks county, 

 where his son, also named Samuel, spent 

 his life on the homestead, dying at the 

 advanced age of ninety-two. The Stints- 

 man homestead is situated near Point 

 Pleasant, in Plumstead township. 



Silas Stintsman, son of Samuel, sec- 

 ond bearer of the name, mentioned 

 above, was born in Plumstead town- 

 ship, and on reaching manhood en- 

 gaged in boating on the canal, owning 

 and controlling two canal boats. He mar- 

 ried Elizabeth Solomon, and they were 

 the parents of a son and two daugh- 

 ters: Annie A., who is the widow of 

 Edward McNutt, of Philadelphia; 

 Thomas, mentioned at length hereinaf- 

 ter; and Laura J., deceased. While 

 boating on the Hackensack, Mr. Stints- 

 man was accidentally killed by the cars 

 in consequence of delay in opening a 

 bridge through which his boat was to 

 pass. 



Thomas Stintsman, son of Silas and 

 Elizabeth (Solomon) Stintsman, was 

 born October 20, 1854, in Plumstead 

 township, and was about ten years old 

 at the time of his father's death. After 

 that event he went on the canal with 

 an uncle and until his seventeenth 

 year was employed in boating on the 

 Lehigh, Delaware, Raritan and Morris 

 canals. He then went to New Hope to 

 learn the boat-building business under 



his uncle, A. J. Solomon. In four years 

 he finished his apprenticeship and then 

 worked two years as a journeyman. His 

 uncle being elected county commission- 

 er, Mr. Stintsman took charge of the 

 yards and during two years built many 

 boats on his own account. The times, 

 however, being unfavorable to the busi- 

 ness, he accepted a position with C. S. 

 Atkinson in 'his agricultural implement 

 shops, where he remained fifteen or 

 eighteen years, holding during the lat- 

 ter four or five years the position of 

 superintendent of the shops. After re- 

 signing this position he was engaged 

 for a short time in contracting and house 

 building. July 3, 1896, he was appointed 

 postmaster of New Hope, taking his 

 place August i, following, and served 

 a full four years' term under President 

 Cleveland's administration. On the ex- 

 piration of his term he engaged in the 

 hardware business in partnership with 

 John W. Kooker, and the firm conduct- 

 ed a flourishing trade. In May, 1903, 

 Mr. Stintsman sold his interest in that 

 firm and established a general notion 

 store. Mr. Stintsman has served six 

 years as a member of the borough coun- 

 cil, the same length of time as treasurer 

 of the borough, for eighteen months 

 held the office of deputy coroner, and 

 for three years was a member of the 

 school board. He belongs to Delaware 

 Castle, No. 196, Knights of the Golden 

 Eagle,' and since 1888 has been secre- 

 tary to the order. He is also a mernber 

 of the Order of Heptasophs. In politics 

 he is a Democrat. Mr. Stintsman mar- 

 ried in 1880 Laura, daughter of Moses 

 L. Fryling, of New Hope, and of the 

 eleven children born to them nine are 

 now living: Catherine, who is engaged in 

 her father's store at New Hope; Eliza- 

 beth; Moses, who has the newspaper 

 route in the borough; Harold; Samuel; 

 Frank; Charlotte; Howard; and Harry. 

 All these children are at home with 

 their parents. 



FRANKLIN BUCKMAN. Prominent 

 among the old residents of Bucks coun- 

 ty is Franklin Buckman, of Upper Make- 

 field township. Mr. Buckman is a son 

 of Zenas Buckman, who was a farmer 

 in Newtown, and married Mary Worth- 

 ington. Of their nine children four sur- 

 vive: Spencer, who lives in Trenton; 

 Amos, who is a resident of Newtown; 

 George, who lives in Wrightstown 

 township; and Franklin, mentioned at 

 length hereinafter. ]\Ir. Buckman, the 

 father, died on his farm at Newtown at 

 the comparatively early age of forty- 

 five years. 



Franklin Buckman. son of Zenas and 

 Mary (Worthington) Buckman, was 

 born October Q, 1823. and when a child 

 was taken by his aimt, .Margaret Worth- 

 ington, who lived in Warwick township, 



