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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



resided there, being one of the prominent 

 and successful farmers of that section. He 

 married November 5, 1859, Sarah Ann 

 Fluck, daughter of Jesse Fluck, of Hill- 

 town. 



H. FRANK LEIDY, only son of Samuel 

 G. and Sarah Ann (Fluck) Leidy, was born 

 in Hilltown, October 24, 1862. He was 

 educated at the local schools and reared to 

 the life of a farmer, and has never followed 

 any other vocation. Fie has always been 

 actively interested in all that pertains to 

 the best interests of the community in which 

 he lives, and has held a number of posi- 

 tions of trust. He is a director and treas- 

 urer of the Unionville and Hatfield Turn- 

 pike Company, and director of the Hill- 

 town Cemetery Association. In politics he 

 is a Democrat, but has never sought or held 

 other than local offices. He married De- 

 cember 19. 1885, Lydia Leidy, daughter of 

 Samuel Leidy, and they are the parents of 

 one child, Sarah Andora, born July 8, 

 1897. 



GEORGE S. CADWALLADER. The 

 Cadwallader family, to which George S. 

 Cadwallader belongs, was founded in 

 America by one of three brothers, natives 

 of Wales, who emigrated thence to the 

 new world, locating in Chester county, 

 Pennsylvania, another in Montgomery 

 county, this state, while the record of the 

 third is lost. All of the Cadwalladers 

 through successive generations have been 

 members of the Society of Friends. One 

 of these brothers, Jacob Cadwallader, was 

 a direct ancestor of George S. Cadwal- 

 lader. His son, Jacob Cadwallader, was 

 born in Montgomery county, and became a 

 resident of Lower Makefield township, 

 Bucks county, where he followed farming 

 and reared his family. 



Jacob Cadwallader, son of Jacob Cad- 

 wallader (2) was born in Lower Make- 

 field township in 1804. He was at one time 

 a resident of Upper Makefield township, 

 where he resided for two years, and later 

 spent two years in Buckingham township. 

 In 1841 he removed to Solebury town- 

 ship, purchasing the farm now owned by 

 George S. Cadwallader from the old Beans 

 estate. He was active and successful in 

 business, leaving to his heirs a good prop- 

 erty. On the organization of the Repub- 

 lican party he became one of its most stal- 

 wart members, never failing to cast his 

 ballot for the men and measures of the 

 party. He belonged to the Friends' Meet- 

 ing, and died in that faith in 1886, when 

 about eighty-two years of age. His wife, 

 Mary Leland, was a daughter of Joseph 

 Leland, who piloted Washington across the 

 Delaware when he captured the Hessians 

 on Christmas day at Trenton. Jacob ana 

 Mary (Leland) Cadwallader had two chil- 

 dren: Franklin; and Anna, wife of Howard 

 M. Betts, of Solebury township. 



Franklin Cadwallader was born in Upper 

 Makefield township in 1837, and when he 

 was in his fouth year his parents removed 

 to the farm which had formerly been a 

 part of the Beans estate, and where he re- 

 sided until his death, succeeding to the 

 ownership of the property on his father's 

 demise. He always followed farming, and, 

 like his father, sustained an excellent repu- 

 tation as a business man and citizen. Al- 

 though he, too, was a Republican in prin- 

 ciple and voted with the party on national 

 questions, at local elections where no issue 

 was involved he frequently cast an inde- 

 pendent ballot. He married Rachel Slack, 

 and of their six children two survive : 

 Elizabeth, wife of J. Titus Slotter, of Sole- 

 bury township ; and George S. 



George S. Cadwallader was born on the 

 old family homestead once the property 

 of his grandfather, January 6, 1873. Hav- 

 ing acquired his education in the public 

 schools he worked with his father on the 

 farm until the latter's death in 1897, when 

 he assumed the management of the prop- 

 erty for his mother, who, however, died 

 in May of the following year. He then 

 purchased the farm, and has since _ con- 

 tinued its cultivation, the result of his la- 

 bors being highly satisfactory as his meth- 

 ods are practical and modern. He is ac- 

 counted one of the progressive young farm- 

 ers of Solebury township. George S._ Cad- 

 wallader married Miss Sarah Smith, a 

 daughter of A. Jackson Smith, of Bucking- 

 ham township, and by this marriage there 

 is one son, Frank T., born November 10, 

 1897. Like the others of the family Mr. 

 Cadwallader is a Republican, his study of 

 the questions of the day leading him to en- 

 dorse the attitude of the party on vital 

 issues. 



ADEN H. BRINKER. Among the 



representatives of that class of men known 

 as practical and progressive agriculturists 

 the name of Aden H. Brinker occupies a 

 prominent place. He has gained success 

 in that occupation by close application and 

 ceaseless activity, and his reliable trans- 

 actions have contributed in a large meas- 

 ure to his prosperity. He was born in 

 Warrington township. Bucks county. Penn- 

 sylvania. r^Liy 4, 1848. Aden Brinker, 

 grandfather of Aden H. Brinker, lived and 

 died in Bucks county, and his son John, 

 father of Aden H. Brinker, was a native 

 of the same county, where his whole life 

 was spent, his active career having been 

 devoted to farming. He married Miss 

 Amelia Hibbs, and their children were: 

 Edward. John, Aden H., mentioned here- 

 inafter: Jacob, who wn? killed in tho army: 

 and Susan, wife of Albert D. Wilgus, of 

 Chalfont. a farmer. 



Aden H. Brinker acquired in the com- 

 mon schools of his neighborhood an edu- 

 cation which prepared him for the active 

 duties of life. In early life he gained a 



