Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Frankinfield, Simon
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Springfield Township


   SIMON FRANKINFIELD tailor, P.O. Coopersburg, Pa., is a 
grandson of Adam Frankinfield, who was born on the ocean 
while his parents were on their way to this country.  They 
settled in this township, where Adam lived all of his life, 
dying about sixty years ago.  He was three times married, 
his second wife being them other of Philip, who was Simon's 
father, and who was born on the home farm near Springfield 
church, removing after his marriage to the place where Simon 
now lives.  He was a carpenter by trade, and bore a good 
name as a citizen.  He died in 1885, aged 72.  His wife was 
Elizabeth Rinker, who died about ten years before her 
husband, at the age of 52.  They had eight children:  Hannah 
is deceased; Caroline, John and Joshua live in Bethlehem; 
Adam and Samuel live in this township; David lives in Lehigh 
county, and Simon, who was born August 30, 1822, in the 
small house built by his father on the place where he now 
lives.  He learned the trade of a tailor, and established 
himself in business in Locust Valley, whence he removed 
three years later to his present home, on which he has 
erected a new residence and shop adjoining.  He was married 
in 1849 to Eliza Brinker, born in Lehigh county in 1828.  
They have eleven children, one of whom, Wesley, is deceased; 
Catherine is living in Berks county; Adaline, wife of Jacob 
Rickert, lives in Ohio; Emma is wife of Monroe Grow, of 
Birgen, Northampton county; William works for his father and 
lives near by; Alice is wife of Frederick Peffer, of this 
township; Edwin is in Lansdale; Henry, Sallie, Caroline and 
Emma live with their parents.  Mr. Frankinfield bears an 
excellent reputation in the community.  He has been for ten 
years a licensed preached in the Evangelical Methodist 
church.