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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 



inent in local political circles and held the 

 office of Alderman a number of years, lie 

 held other mnior positions, and further po- 

 litical honors awaited him, for in 11^85 he 

 was elected to the state legislature. He 

 married Miss Sarah A. Johnson, and they 

 became the parents of children : Lloyd ; 

 Emma, the widow of Luther li. Cornell ; 

 Annie, deceased, wife of Newton Myers. 



Lloyd Ridge, the eldest son of William 

 W. Ridge, was born in Bensalem town- 

 ship, July 10, 1847, and was a student in 

 the public schools of Philadelphia, after 

 which he spent one term in the jNlillers- 

 ville State Normal school. He was trained 

 to habits of industry upon the home farm, 

 and remained with nis father until twenty- 

 six years of age, at which time he took 

 up his abode upon the farm that is now 

 his home. He has made all of the improve- 

 ments here, and it is one of the best equip- 

 ped farm properties of Lower Makeheid 

 township, having splendid buildings, the 

 latest improved machinery, highly cultivat- 

 ed fields and good grades of stock. In con- 

 nection with general agricultural pursuits 

 he has conducted a dairy business, and for 

 the past thirty years has made a daily de- 

 livery of his dairy products in Trenton, 

 New Jersey. His success has come as 

 the direct result of diligence, perseverance 

 and sound judgment. Lloyd Ridge was 

 married to Miss Mary Wilson, a daughter 

 of Jesse S. and Martha C. Wilson, and 

 they have a wide and favorable acquaint- 

 ance in Lower Makeheld township. 



HARVEY S. KULP, senior member of 

 the tirm of Kulp Brothers, Perkasie, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, was born at Pleas- 

 ant Valley, Springfield township, Bucks 

 county, July 25, 1862, and is a son of Abra- 

 ham M. and Elmira (Slifer) Kulp. 



The emigrant ancestor of the Kulps of 

 Bucks and Montgomery counties was Diel- 

 man Kulp, a native of Germany, who came 

 to America in the ship "Mortonhouse," ar- 

 riving in Philadelphia, August 17, 1729. He 

 settled in Montgomery county on the Skip- 

 pack creek, and is buried in the old Skip- 

 pack Mennonite burying ground. Dielman 

 Kulp, Jr., settled in Bedminster township, 

 Bucks county, where he purchased a farm 

 of one hundred and sixty-two acres in 1754. 

 He died there in October, 1789, his wife 

 Elizabeth dying some years previously. 

 They were the parents of three children — 

 Henry ; Elizabeth, who married Henry 

 Rosenberger ; and Jacob Kulp. 



Jacob, son of Dielman Kulp, was born 

 in Montgomery county, April 16, 1737, ana 

 married May 22, 1760, Elizabeth Fretz, 

 born in 1739, daughter of John Fretz, the 

 pioneer ancestor of the Fretz family who 

 had settled in Bedminster in 1738. In 1761 

 Jacob Kulp purchased of the London Com- 

 pany 211 acres of land in Tinicum town- 

 ship, and lived thereon until 1774, when 



he purchased a farm of 162 acres in Hill- 

 town township, near Dublin, and later pur- 

 chased considerable other land in that vi- 

 cinity. He died in Hilltown in May, 1816. 

 The children of Jacob and Elizabeth 

 (Fretz) Kulp, were ten in number, viz.: 

 I. Isaac, born March 3, 1762, married Mary 

 Clymer, and left nine children. 2. John, born 

 September t>, 1764, married Barbara Funk, 

 and had one son Jacob, and two daughters. 

 3. Gertrude, born February 8, 1767, married 

 Jacob Hunsberger of Hatheld, Montgomery 

 county. 4. Jacob, born April 29, 1769, mai- 

 ried Catharine Delp, and removed to 

 Holmes county, Ohio, where he organized a 

 Mennonite church of which he was pastor. 

 He was ordained as a Mennonite minister at 

 Doylestown Mennonite meeting in i8i8» 

 and preached there until 1831, when he re- 

 moved with his family to Ohio. 5. Abra- 

 ham Kulp, born April 19, 1771, married 

 Sarah Hunsicker; see forward. 6. Deilman, 

 born July 23, 1773, married Hester Leicy, 

 and lived and died on the old homestead 

 near Dublin, had a son Henry and a daugh- 

 ter Anna, married Samuel Angeny. 7. Hen- 

 ry, born January 28, 1776, married Anna 

 Hunsicker, lived and died on the Hilltown 

 homestead ; had children Isaac, Jacob, Jo- 

 seph and Elizabeth. 8. Elizabeth, born De- 

 cember I, 1778, married Jacob Silvius; 

 lived near Doylestown. 9. Barbara, born 

 May 4, 1781, died June 26, 1783. 10. Cath- 

 arine, born November 14, 1783, married 

 Simon Musselman. 



Abraham Kulp, son of Jacob and Eliza- 

 beth (Fretz) Kulp, born in Tinicum town- 

 ship, Bucks county, April 19, 1771, was 

 reared on the old homestead in Hilltown, 

 near Dublin, where his father settlea 

 when he was three years of age. He mar- 

 ried in 1796 Sarah Hunsicker, and in the 

 spring of 1805 removed to Bedminster 

 township, where he had purchased a farm 

 of 114 acres near the Deep Run Mennon- 

 ite Meeting of which meeting he soon af- 

 terward became minister. He died in 1848. 

 His children were: i. Elizabeth, born 1797, 

 died 1876, married Samuel Gayman. 2. 

 Abraham, born 1802, died 1876, married 

 Catharine Shoemaker. 3. Anna, born 1804, 

 died 1885, married Martin Overholt. 4. Ja- 

 cob, born March 8, 1806; see forward. 5. 

 David H., born 1816, married (tirst) Eliza- 

 beth Detwiler, and (second) Elizabeth Al- 

 lebach. 6. Isaac. 7. Henry, died unmar- 

 ried in 1889. 8. Sarah, married Jacob High, 

 and 9. Barbara, born 1818, married Jacob 

 Moyer. 



Jacob H. Kulp, son of Rev. Abraham and 

 Sarah (Hunsicker) Kulp, born in Bed- 

 minster, ]\Iarch 8, 1806, married November 

 I, 1827, Mary ]\Ioyer, born in Springfielo 

 township, October 15, 1802, daughter of 

 Abraham and Elizabeth (Angeny) Meyer, 

 and granddaughter of William Meyer, a 

 native of Switzerland, who with three 

 brothers and a sister migrated to America 

 about 1742 and settled in Springfield, near 

 Pleasant Valley. Jacob H. Kulp on his 



