Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Hinkle, Caspar
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Richland Township A-M


   CASPAR HINKLE proprietor of the Red Lion hotel, P.O. 
Quakertown, was born August, 1827, in Plumstead township, 
Bucks county, and is the oldest living male representative 
of the family.  His ancestors came to this county over two 
hundred years ago and settled in Plumstead township, and 
have since been represented in the county and take rank 
among its substantial and respected citizens.  The father of 
our subject was Anthony Hinkle, whose wife was Sallie 
Meitzler, to whom seven children were born:  Caspar, Eliza, 
Maria, Caroline, Sarah, Amanda and Francis.  Caspar removed 
with his parents to Berks county when eleven years of age, 
remaining there two years, when they removed to Lehigh 
county, where Caspar was reared to farming pursuits.  He 
remained under the parental roof until he was 23 years of 
age, when he engaged in farming on his own account until the 
death of his father in 1870, when he sold his property in 
Lehigh county and came to Quakertown. He took charge of the 
well-known Red Lion hotel which he had previously purchased 
in 1875 of Peter Smith, and which he has successfully 
conducted until the present time.  His wife was the daughter 
of Benjamin Smoyer, of Lehigh county.  They have had four 
children: Theodore, Oscar, Emma and George.  Oscar died, 
aged 23, and George at the age of 18. Emma was married in 
December, 1886, to Lewis Schotts, of Bingen.  Theodore is 
engaged in business with his father in the hotel.  He 
married Amanda, daughter of Solomon Wenner, and has two 
children:  Lena O. and George O.