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


ANDREW J. HIBBS retired merchant, P.O. Bristol, was born at 
Newportville, Bucks county, June 1, 1829, and is a son of 
Mahlon and Margaret (Brodnax) Hibbs, the latter a daughter 
of Robert Brodnax.  His ancestors were among the earliest 
settlers of Pennsylvania.  Mahlon Hibbs was a mason in early 
life, but abandoned it, and kept a hotel at Newportville for 
twenty years.  He subsequently moved to Bristol, and was 
toll-keeper on the canal until he retired, a few years 
before his death, which occurred in 1876, when he was 79 
years old.  His wife died in 1854.  She was a member of the 
Episcopal church.  They had nine children:  John G. 
(deceased); Robert B., a farmer in Bristol township; 
Angeline, a widow; A. J. and Julia, twins, the latter a 
widow residing in Philadelphia; William Henry, residing in 
Bristol; Mary E., who married Wm. R. Wright, and resides in 
Doylestown; and two children who died in infancy.  Andrew J. 
Hibbs was reared in Bucks county, receiving a common school 
education, and early in life clerked in a store.  In 1850 he 
embarked in the mercantile business in Bristol, and was 
actively engaged in business for twenty-seven years, when he 
retired.  July 8, 1852, he was married in Philadelphia to 
Christine G., daughter of Elijah Thorp, of Bucks county.  
Mr. Hibbs is a democrat, and has often been a delegate to 
county and state conventions.  He was a delegate to the 
Chicago convention that nominated Cleveland for president in 
1884.