HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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Jonathan GuHck, son of Samtiel, born 

 in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, 

 in 1795, removed to Towamencin town- 

 ship, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, 

 in 1818, where he followed farming un- 

 til 1837, when he removed to Hilltown, 

 Bucks county, where he located on a 

 small farm adjudged to him in right of 

 his wife as part of the real estate of her 

 father, Obed Aaron, and later purchased 

 other land adjoining. He died in Hill- 

 town in 1873, at the age of seventy-sev- 

 en years. He married Urey Aaron, daugh- 

 ter of Obed Aaron, and granddaughter 

 of Moses and Elizabeth (James) Aaron, 

 the former a native of Wales, settled in 

 New Britain about 1725, and died there 

 in 1765. Thomas James, the father of 

 Elizabeth Aaron, was also a native of 

 Wales, and came with his father, John 

 James, from Pembrokeshire in 1712. 

 Obed Aaron was born in 1761 and died 

 in 1837. The children of Jonathan and 

 Urey (Aaron) Gulick were Merari, Har- 

 riet, Sybylla and Urey, all of whom are 

 deceased. 



Merari Gulick, only son of Jonathan 

 and Urey, was born on his father's 

 farm in Towamencin township, Mont- 

 gomery county, Pennsylvania, in 1819, 

 and removed with his parents to Hill- 

 town in 1837- In 1843 he purchased a 

 farm in Hilltown of 117 acres, winch 

 he conducted during the active years of 

 his life. He was an active and promi- 

 nent farmer of that section, and followed 

 the Philadelphia markets for some thir- 

 ty years. He married, in 1841, Chris- 

 tina Swartz, who was born in New Brit- 

 ain township in 1819, and died in Hill- 

 town in 1888. She was a daughter of 

 Christian Swartz, a prominent farmer 

 of New Britain township, of German 

 ancestry. He married Margaret FunV, 

 daughter of Rev. John and Elizabeth 

 (Lewis) Funk of Line Lexington, the 

 former a son of Martin Funk, who came 

 from Germany in 1737 and settled in 

 Hatfield, Montgomery county, and the 

 latter a native of Wales and a daughter 

 of Henry Lewis of New Britain. John 

 Funk was the founder of a branch of 

 the jMennonites known as Funkites. He 

 is said to have preached at German- 

 town while residing in Hilltown, making 

 the journey back and forth on horseback. 

 Christian and Margaret Funk Swartz 

 were the parents of eight children: 

 John, died young; Andrew F.; Eliza- 

 beth, wife of John Rosenberger; Mar- 

 garet, wife of Enos Gehman; "Christina, 

 wife 'of Merari Gulick; Lydia, wife of 

 John Heckler; Amelia, wife of John 

 Hunsberger; and Mary, wife of Samuel 

 Rosenberger. 



The children of Merari and Christina 

 (Swartz) Gulick w^ere: Mary, wife of 

 William D. Yocum, a farmer of Hill- 

 town; Urey, wife of Joseph B. Alla- 

 baugh, also a farmer in Hilltown; Jon- 

 athan, of Hilltown; Obed Aaron, a gro- 

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cer in Philadelphia; Merari, who died 

 at the age of two years; Samuel S., of 

 South Perkasie; Christopher S., of 

 Blooming Glen; and John S., born Feb- 

 ruary 17, 1861, died September 28, 1878. 



SAMUEL S. GULICK, son of Merari 

 and Christina (Swartz) Gulick, was 

 born in Hilltown township, October 10, 

 1856, and was educated at the public 

 schools. He was reared on his father's 

 farm and remained there until his mar- 

 riage in 1886, when he located at what 

 is now South Perkasie. In 1890 he was 

 elected a justice of the peace of Rock- 

 hill township, and was re-elected in 

 1895, and served until 1900. He is an 

 auctioneer, which business he has fol- 

 lowed for many years, crying hundreds 

 of sales in a single year. Since his 

 election as justice of the peace he has 

 conducted a general business agency 

 in connection with his official duties, 

 and has settled a great number of estates 

 and done a large amount of public busi- 

 ness. He .is the owner of several pri- 

 vate properties at South Perkasie, a 

 small farm located within the limits of 

 Perkasie borough, and his present resi- 

 dence in South Perkasie. He is direc- 

 tor of the Quakertown Trust Company, 

 and one of the progressive and promi- 

 nent business men of the growing town 

 of Perkasie. He is a member of Mc- 

 Calla Lodge, No. 596, F. and A. M., of 

 Sellersville, and of the brotherhood of 

 the Union. Politically he is a Republi- 

 can. He and his family are members 

 of the German Reformed church. He 

 married, March 13, 1886, Mary E. Shell- 

 enberger, daughter of Jacob S. and Cath- 

 arine (Rudy) Shellenberger, "and they 

 have been the parents of eight children: 

 Paul, Katie, deceased; Ella, Herman, 

 Esther, Emma, Samuel and Robert, de- 

 ceased. 



CHRISTOPHER S. GULICK, ex- 

 register of wills of Bucks county, now 

 (1905) deputy treasurer of the county, 

 was born in Hilltown township, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania. June 11, 1859, and 

 is the youngest son of Merari and Chris- 

 tina (Swartz) Gulick, whose ancestry 

 is given in a preceding ske-tch. 



He was reared in Hilltown township, 

 and has resided there all his life with 

 the exception of the three years, 1896- 

 98, during which he filled the office of 

 register of wills, when he resided in 

 Doylestown. He received his elemen- 

 tary education at the public schools of 

 Hilltown township, later attending 

 Sellersville high school, from which he 

 graduated at the age of nineteen years, 

 and began teaching in the public schools 

 of the county. He taught for one year 

 in Bedminster and ten in his native 

 township, eight of which were spent in 

 conducting the school at Blooming 

 Glen, where he now lives. In politics Mr^ 



