Biographical Sketch of John FRICK (1881); Chester County, PA

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From THE HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, by Futhey and Cope (1881);

pg. 554

FRICK, John,-The Frick family is of Swiss origin, being among the early German 
emigrants of the Baptist persuasion who settled along the Schyylkill in Chester 
and Montgomery Counties.  Jacob Frick, September, 1733, came over on the 
"Pennsylvania," merchantman, of London, John Stedman, mater, from Rotterdam.  
He, with his brother, John, settled one mile east of Pottstown, and later 
removed to Chester Valley, two miles from Valley Forge, where they lived during 
the Revolutionary war, near the scene of the Paoli massacre, and on their farm 
the British and Hessians encamped after the battle of Brandywine.  Jacob Frick, 
born 1717, married Elizabeth Urner, who was born in 1724; he died in 1799, and 
she in 1757.  Their son John married Catharine Grumbacher, from which union was 
born Jacob Frick.  He married Mary Sower, daughter of David, and Granddaughter 
of Christopher Sauer. [Bio submitted]
  To Jacob and Mary (Sower) Frick were born eight children, of whom three 
survive.  of these, John Frick was born April 26, 1811, and was the oldest 
child.  He moved with his parents, when two years old, to the farm he now owns, 
and on which he has ever since resided.  Feb. 4, 1836, he married Mira Reinhart, 
daughter of Daniel Reinhart, to whom were born four children,-one daughter died 
in infancy; Harriet Emily (deceased), married to Rev. A. J. Rowland, pastor of 
Tenth Baptist Church, Philadelphia; Ann Sarah, and Isabella R.  Mr. Frick taught 
school in his younger days; was many years a surveyor, and still occasionally 
does surveying when called upon.  Farming has been his general avocation.  He is 
a member of the German  Baptist or Brethren Church.  He has frequently served as 
a school director, and ever taken a deep interest in the progress of the free 
schools.  He is a worthy citizen, and a lineal descendant of a noted ancestry.