Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Opdyke, John B.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Warwick Township


   JOHN B. OPDYKE farmer, P.O. Bridge Valley, was born in 
Kingwood township, Hunterdon county, N. J., March 16, 1824, 
his parents being George and Amy (Reading) Opdyke.  The 
Opdyke family are originally from Holland, and Gyspret 
Opdyke, the progenitor of the family in this country, was 
commissary of the government in New York from 1635 to 1664.  
George Opdyke, grandfather of John B., was a resident of 
Kingwood township, Hunterdon county, N. J.   He married 
Zerviah Baker.  A daughter of George Opdyke, named Rachel, 
married Elijah, a second cousin, and they removed to Bucks 
county, Warwick township, in 1806.  He died in Doylestown 
township, and his wife in Warwick township.  Both are buried 
at Doylestown. They have two sons and a daughter buried 
there.  They have a son named Adam K., born in 1803, who 
lives at the ÒTurk,Ó in Doylestown township.  George Opdyke, 
the father of our subject, was born in Kingwood township, 
where he followed farming.  He married Amy Reading, a native 
of Kingwood township.  They had nine children:  George, Lucy 
and Nancy, deceased; Sophia B., wife of Asa Ent, died in 
Warren Co., Ill. (she had a son George, who was in the 104th 
Pa. Vols., and afterward in the regular army, being in the 
service eighteen years, and dying in it.  He was 
hospital-steward); Lucy Emily, wife of Daniel Poulson, lived 
in Delaware township, Hunterdon county; Joseph Reading, died 
at Morris, Ill.; Theodosia R., lives at the ÒTurk,Ó 
Doylestown township; John B., our subject; George W., lives 
in Buckingham township.  George Opdyke, father of the above 
died in December, 1831.  His widow died August, 1858.  They 
are buried at the Reading burying ground, in Kingswood 
township.  In 1836, when 12 years old, John B. came to Bucks 
county, to live with his uncle Elijah and was reared by him. 
 In 1859 Elijah removed to the Turk village, and John B., 
and his brother George farmed the place seven years.  George 
then married and moved away the following spring, and John 
B. has resided here ever since. John B. was married in this 
county, March 15, 1860, to Miss Ann Conard, of Warwick 
township, daughter of Abraham and Euphemia (Flack) Conard.  
The Conards are of German origin.  Mrs. Opdyke's parents are 
both deceased, and are buried at the Neshaminy cemetery, in 
Warwick township.  Mr. and Mrs. Opdyke are the parents of 
five children, of whom three are living:  George W.; Marion 
C., deceased; Amy F.; Jonathan, deceased; and John B., Jr.   
Mr. and Mrs. Opdyke attend the Neshaminy Presbyterian 
church.  He was auditor of the township for seven years.  He 
is a republican politically.