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


DIETRICH KNOPPEL farmer, P.O. Ridge, is a native of Germany, 
and was born December 24, 1824, in Bicken, Hanover.  When 20 
years old he came to this country and learned the trade of a 
confectioner in Philadelphia.  He followed that business for 
thirty-eight years, when he retired to a farm he had 
formerly owned in this township, and had sold, and in 1884 
he again purchased it, and has since made it his home.  
November 11, 1850, he was married to Catharine Heppe, who 
was born in Ollendorf, Hesse Cassel, January 2, 1831.  They 
have had eight children, of whom four died young.  Those 
living are:  John, born November 19, 1850, living with his 
parents; Herman, born July 8, 1855, in Philadelphia; Lena, 
born August 25, 1865; and Harry, April 9, 1870; the last two 
at home.  All are unmarried.  Mr. Knoppel is a man who has 
had an honorable record and bears an unblemished character.  
The whole family are members of the Keller Lutheran church, 
and while living in Philadelphia, Mr. Knoppel was for nine 
years an elder in the church to which he belonged in that 
city.