HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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ber of Peerless Lodge, No. 28, Shield of 

 Honor, of Philadelphia. 



Mr. Rose married, December 30, 1883, 

 Ida, born December 7, 1861, daughter of 

 Jesse and Christiana (Everett) Cabe, of 

 Middletown township. She is the grand- 

 daughter on the paternal side of Elisha and 

 Martha (White) Cabe, great-granddaugh- 

 ter of Thomas and Rebecca (Brodnaux Van 

 Horn) Cabe, and great-great-granddaughter 

 of Thomas and Sarah (Bidwell) Cabe. 

 This Thomas was the first American an- 

 cestor of the Cabe family. On the maternal 

 side Mrs. Rose is the granddaughter of 

 Samuel and Sarah (Bennett) Everett, 

 great-granddaughter of Aaron and Mary 

 Hellings (widow of Richard Rue) Everett, 

 and great-great-granddaughter of David and 

 Amme Everett. Mr. and Mrs. Rose are the 

 parents of the following children : Mildred 

 born March 6, 1885, deceased; Mary Emily, 

 born May 12, 1887; Louisa Bolieau, born 

 March 21, 1890, deceased ; Christiana Ever- 

 ett, born July 16, 1892, deceased ; Ida Cabe, 

 born July 17, 1894; George Grantham, born 

 March 17, 1900; and Willis Weaver, born 

 July 8, 1902. 



REUBEN H. RICKERT. The Rickert 

 family is of German origin, and the de- 

 scendants of the progenitor in America 

 have lived here through five generations. 

 Daniel Rickert, the first of the name born 

 in America, opened his eyes to the light 

 of day on the old home farm in Hilltown 

 township, which has since been in posses- 

 sion of his descendants. He always car- 

 ried on agricultural pursuits and to that 

 occupation reared his sons. He married 

 Barbara Rosenberger, and they became the 

 parents of six children : Henry, John, Abra- 

 ham, Catharine, Magdaline and Isaac. 



Isaac Rickert, whose birth occurred at 

 the ancestral home in Hilltown township, 

 likewise devoted his attention to the till- 

 ing of the soil throughout his business 

 career. He married Catharine Ruth, a 

 daughter of Henry Ruth, who was likewise 

 a native son of Hilltown township. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Isaac Rickert were the parents of 

 nine children, namely : David, who married 

 Livy Funk; Abraham, who married Mary 

 Ann Fretz, a daughter of Abram Fretz ; 

 Daniel, who married Lucy Hunter; Annie, 

 the wife of Enos Loux ; Isaac, who was 

 a Mennonite preacher and married Salome 

 Gross ; Henry R. ; Barbara, the wife of 

 Aaron Moyer; and two children who died 

 in infancy. After the death of Isaac 

 Rickert, the father of these children, the 

 mother married Abraham Rickert, a brother 

 of her first husband, and they had two chil- 

 dren : Catharine, who became the wife of 

 William Moyer ; and Maggie, who was the 

 second wife of William Moyer. 



Henry R. Rickert, son of Isaac and Cath- 

 arine Rickert, was born in Hilltown town- 

 ship in 1829, and always followed the occu- 

 pation of farming. He was a member of 

 the Mennonite church of Blooming Glen, 



and his political allegiance was give to the 

 Republican party. His first wife was Eliza- 

 beth Hunsberger, who became the mother 

 of nine children, as follows : Mary Ann, 

 the wife of John Barndt ; Catharine, Levy 

 H. and Enos H., all deceased ; Reuben H. ; 

 Rosie, wife of Samuel Yother ; Salome, 

 wife of Harry H. Moyer; Maggie; .and 

 Mahlon, who married Delia Strohm. The 

 second wife of Henry R. Rickert was Cath- 

 arine Stover Freed, a daughter of Samuel 

 Freed, no issue. 



Reuben H. Rickert was born June 11, 

 1863, upon the farm which came into pos- 

 session of his German ancestor in colonial 

 days. He was educated in the Hilltown 

 public schools, and when a young man he 

 learned the creamery business. In 1885 he 

 went west to Kansas, where he lived for 

 two years, and subsequently he spent six 

 months in Colorado, being employed in 

 various ways. Later he continued his west- 

 ward journey to Califorrtia, where he de- 

 voted seven years to the business of hop- 

 raising, and then, because of his father's 

 ill health, returned to Bucks county to 

 take charge of the home farm, which he has 

 since managed, and his early training as 

 an agriculturist has enabled him to carry 

 forward this work along successful lines. 

 His political views accord with the prin- 

 ciples of the Republican partv, and he 

 therefore exercises his right of franchise 

 in support of its candidates. Religiously 

 he is connected with the Mennonite church. 



Reuben H. Rickert was married Febru- 

 ary 25, 1898, to Mrs. Lavina Leatherman, 

 a daughter of Aaron and Elizabeth (Trout) 

 Haycock. She had three children by her 

 first marriage, and two have been born of 

 the second union : Catharine and Harry 

 Freeman. 



J. ANDREW FRENCH. The French 

 family in Bucks county is of Welsh Imeage. 

 1 he progenitor in America was Andrew 

 French, who came to the new world when 

 this country was still numbered among the 

 colonial possessions of Great Britain and 

 settled in Montgomery county, Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Andrew French (2), his son, was born 

 and reared in Montgomery county and in 

 early life learned the wheelwright's trade, 

 which he followed for many years. In 1799 

 he removed to Branchtown, Philadelphia, 

 where he made a permanent settlement. He 

 was distinctively a man of aflfairs and one 

 who wielded a wide infiaence, recog- 

 nized as an important factor in mold- 

 ing public thought and action in his 

 community. He was a stanch Demo- 

 crat, and in 1816 was elected to. 

 the Pennsylvania legislature where he 

 capably served for one term, leaving the im- 

 press of his individuality upon the early 

 laws of the state. Questions affecting the 

 commonwealth and the nation were of deep 

 interest to him and he was a broad-minded, 

 public-spirited citizen whose intelligently 



