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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



Gulick is a Republican, and has always 

 given an unfaltering support to the prin- 

 ciples of that party, and done effective 

 service in its behalf in his home local- 

 ity, and keeping himself well informed 

 as to the questions and issues of the day. 

 In 1885 he was elected to the office of 

 justice of the peace in Hilltown town- 

 ship, and filled that position for five 

 years, doing a large amount of official 

 business and assisting in the settlement 

 of estates. He also took up the business 

 of auctioneering, and did considerable 

 business in that line. On the termina- 

 tion of his term as justice, in 1889, 

 he was appointedr-, under President 

 Harrison, deputy collector of internal 

 revenue for the district in ^vhich Bucks 

 county is included, and served in that 

 capacity for four years. In 1894 he em- 

 barked in the mercantift business at" the 

 thriving village of Blooming Glen, in 

 partnership with M. H. Leidy, under 

 the firm name of Leidy & Gulick, which 

 continued until his election to the office 

 of register of wills, in the fall of 1895. 

 On assuming the duties of this office 

 in January, 1896, he transferred his in- 

 terest in the store to Abram M. Moyer, 

 and removed with his family to Doyles- 

 town. Thoroughly diligent and consci- 

 entious in the transaction of his offi- 

 cial duties, and courteous to all with 

 whom he came in contact, he made a 

 very popular and efficient official, and 

 made many friends throughout the 

 county. On the termination of his term 

 of office in 1899, he returned to Bloom- 

 ing Glen, and in August of that year 

 purchased his former store of the firm 

 of Leidy & ]Moyer, and conducted the 

 business 'Until February. 1904, when he 

 sold out to the present firm of Apple & 

 Shaddinger, and, purchasing a residence 

 of his former partner. M. H. Leidy, 

 followed farming and auctioneering im- 

 til May, 1905. w^hen he was appointed 

 deputy county treasurer, under John B. 

 Poore, and assumed the duti.es of that 

 office, retaining his residence at Bloom- 

 ing Glen. 



Mr. Gulick is a member of McCalla 

 Lodge, No. 596, F. and A. M., of Sellers- 

 ville ; of Doylestnwn Chanter, No. 270. 

 R. A. M.; of Perkasie Lodge, No. 671, I. 

 O. O. F., and of Doylestown Encamp- 

 ment. No. 35. I. O. O. F.. of which he 

 is a past chief patriarch. Mr. Gulick has 

 always taken an active interest in all 

 that pertains tn imorovement and devel- 

 opment nf the material interest of the 

 community in which he lived, and has 

 filled a number of positions of trust. At 

 the organization of the Perkasie Na- 

 tional Bank he was elected one of the 

 original board of directors, and _ has 

 served continuouslv in that position 

 since. He is a member of the Reformed 

 church. 



He married. February 28. 1885. Emma 

 H. Moyer, daughter of Rev. Abraham 



and Hester (Hunsberger) Moyer, of 

 Hilltown. She was born in Hilltown, 

 October i, 1864, and was the tenth of 

 eleven children. Her father. Rev. Abra- 

 ham F. Moyer, was born in Upper Sal- 

 ford, Montgomery county, Pennsylvan- 

 ia, September 19, 1822, and was a son of 

 Abraham and Elizabeth (Fretz) Moyer, 

 grandson of Christian Meyer, great 

 grandson of Henry INIeyer, who came to 

 Pennsylvania about 1725, at the age of 

 one year,- with his father, Hans Meyer, 

 from Germany or Switzerland, who set- 

 tled in Skippack, now Salford township, 

 Montgomery county, and purchased 

 land there in 1729, which is still in the 

 tenure of his great-great-grandson, Ja- 

 cob L. Moyer. Henry, the son of Hans, 

 married Barbara Miller, who came from 

 Germany at the age of eighteen years, 

 and inherited the homestead at the 

 death of his father, in 1748. He reared 

 a family of seven children, many of 

 whom have left descendants in Bucks 

 county. Rev. Abraham F. Moj-er came 

 to Bucks county when a lad, and lived 

 with his maternal uncle, Martin Fretz. 

 From the age of sixteen to twenty-one 

 he was a clerk in a store, but later be- 

 came a farmer in Hilltown. He was 

 ordained minister of the Mennonite 

 congregation at Blooming Glen Novem- 

 ber 6, 185s, and continued to minister to 

 that flock until his death. He was an 

 active and faithful Christian teacher, 

 and much respected in that community. 

 He was 'twice married. His fir=t wife, 

 and the mother of his eleven children, 

 was Hester, daughter of Jacob and Mary 

 Hunsberger. of Hilltown, who died Feb- 

 ruary 28, 1873. He married, in 1874, 

 Anna, widow of Henry M. Hunsberger, 

 of Montgomery countA% and daughter of 

 Abraham L. Moyer. 



The children of Christopher S. and 

 Emma H. (Mover) Gulick, are: Arnon 

 M., born July 8, 1886; Mabel M., born 

 April 13. 1889; Gertrude Hester, born 

 December 3, 1891; Blanche M., born 

 February 15, 1894; Russel Blair, born 

 March 5, 1898: Howard M., born Janu- 

 ary 6. 1901; and LeRoy M., born April 

 12, 1904. 



SAVACOOL FAMILY. The paternal , 

 and pioneer ancestor of the Savacool 

 family of Hilltown and South Perkasie 

 was Jacob Savacool (or Sabelkool, as 

 the name was then spelled), who was 

 born in German^' in the year 1713. and 

 emigrated to Pennsjdvania at the age of 

 eighteen years, arriving in Philadelphia 

 on board the ship "Brittnnia." Michael 

 Franklin, master. September 21. 1731. 

 Like all the other early German settlers 

 of Upper Bucks he made his waj'^ into 

 Bucks through the present county of 

 Montgomery. The earliest record of 

 him Ts his purchase on Time 14, 1742, 

 of 102J/2 acres of land in Rockhill town- 



