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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



graduate courses in various specialties in 

 the line of his profession, and is a member 

 of the D. Hayes Agnew Surgical Society 

 of Philadelphia, and enjoyed the personal 

 friendship of the eminent Dr. Agnew, for 

 whom it is named, though, during the life- 

 time of Dr. Agnew, neither of them were 

 aware of their connection by ties of blood 

 through their common descent from Abra- 

 ham and Hugh Scott. Dr. Scott is also 

 a member of the Bucks County Medical 

 Society, the Medical Society of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and the American Medical Associa- 

 tion. In politics he believes thoroughly in 

 the principles of the Republican party. He 

 has always taken a deep interest in the 

 affairs of the town in which he lives, and 

 has served as chief burgess for three years, 

 and a like term as a member of the local 

 school board. He is an ardent member 

 of the Presbyterian church, the church of 

 his fathers, and has been for many years 

 the superintendent of the Sabbath school 

 connected with that church at New Hope. 

 He and his estimable wife take an active 

 part in philanthropic and church work in 

 that vicinity, as well as in the social, literary 

 and educational institutions, of the com- 

 munity ; both are members of the Solebury 

 Farmers' Club. Their only child, Gail 

 Winters Scott, born in Philadelphia, July 

 2, 1889, was a graduate of New Hope High 

 School in 1905. , 



ISAAC M. HUNStCKER was born in 

 Hilltown township, Bucks county, Penn- 

 sylvania, January 17, 1848, and is a son 

 of Abraham and Catharine (Moyer) 

 Hunsicker. Valentine Hunsicker. the 

 pionet.- ancestor of the subject of this 

 sketch, was an early disciple of Menno, 

 and found a temporary asylum from re- 

 ligious persecution in Switzerland, from 

 whence he emigrated to Pennsylvania in 

 1717, and was one of the earliest settlers 

 in Perkiomen and Skippack township. 

 Montgomery, (then Philadelphia) county. 

 He was one of the founders of the Men- 

 nonite congregation at Skippack. and is 

 buried in the old burying ground ad- 

 joining the ancient meeting house at 

 Skippack. His son, Henry Hunsicker, 

 was a minister for fifty-four years, and 

 also a bishop of the Mennonite church, 

 and was succeeded by his son John; who 

 was a bishop and minister for ove,r forty 

 years. Several of the descendants of 

 Valentine Hunsicker have become em- 

 inent in tlie legal profession, and others 

 as ministers of the gospel in different 

 denominations. A great-grandson was 

 lately president of Girard College. 



Jacob Hunsicker, son of Valentine 

 and Elizabetli Hunsicker, located in Hill- 

 town township in 1757 on a farm pur- 

 chased for him by his father, and con- 

 veved to him by his parents in 1768. The 

 original farm contained 100 acres, and 

 he later pri chased 250 acres, partly in 



Hilltown and part in Rockhill township. 

 He was a successful and prominent 

 farmer. Strictly adhering to the tenets 

 ()f the Mennonite faith, he took no part 

 in affairs of state, either military or 

 civil, but was an important factor in the 

 establishment and development of local 

 institutions, and reared a family in whom 

 were instilled the best elements of citi- 

 zenship. He and his wife Elizabeth 

 were the parents of nine children: Jacob; 

 Isaac; Elizabeth, who married Jacob 

 Detweiler: Catharine, who married John 

 Bergey: Sarah, who married Abraham 

 Kolb; Barbara, who married John Bech- 

 tel; Anna, who married Henry Kolb; 

 Mary: and Egther. who married Isaac 

 Hunsberger. Jacob, the father, died in 

 December. 1812, his wife Jtlizabeth sur- 

 viving him. 



Isaac Hunsicker, second son of Jacob 

 and Elizabeth, was born in Hilltown and 

 resided there all his life. He inherited 

 from his father 130 acres of the home- 

 stead, upon which he lived until his 

 death in i860. He was one of the orig- 

 inal trustees of Perkasie Mennonite 

 meeting to whom the deed for the land 

 was made on which the meeting house 

 and graveyard were located. He mar- 

 ried Anna Overholt, and they were the 

 parets of nilie children, eight of whom 

 married IMoyers: Jacob, born in 1809, 

 died 1880. married Barbara Moyer; Abra- 

 ham, born December 8, 181 r, married 

 Catharine Moyer; Elizabeth, married 

 Samuel Moj^er; Hannah, married Isaac 

 ■ Moyer; Anna, married John Moyer; 

 Lydia, married Joseph Moyer; Leah, 

 married Enos Moyer; Mary, never mar- 

 ried; and Catharine, married Martin 

 Moyer. 



Abraham Hunsicker, second son of 

 Isaac and Anna Hunsicker, born on the 

 old homestead iii Hilltown, December 8, 

 i8ti, was the father of the subject of 

 this sketch. He inherited from his father 

 one-half of the homestead, and followed 

 the life of an agriculturist there during 

 the active j'ears of his life, carrying the 

 produce of his farm to the Philadelphia 

 markets by wagon, prior to the opening 

 of the N. P. R. R. He was a well-to-do 

 and intelligent farmer. He married in 

 18,35. Catharine INIoyer. born in Bed- 

 minster in 1818. daughter of Christian 

 and Anna ( Landis) Moyer, granddaugh- 

 ter of Christian and Mary (Landis) 

 ]\loyer. and ,great-granddaughter of Rev. 

 Samuel and Catharine (Kolb) Moyer of 

 Hilltown. Abraham Hunsicker died De- 

 cember 18. 1888. His children were as 

 follows: Lydia. deceased, first wife of 

 Abraham Hendricks, of Perkasie: Nancy, 

 who married (first) Benjamin Fellman. 

 and (second) Abraham Hendricks; 

 Elizabeth, wife of Ezra Moore, of Per- 

 kasie; Sarah, wife of William Renner, 

 of Perkasie: Isaac M.. the subject of 

 this sketch: and Abraham, who married 

 .\niia Overholt. 



