BIO: David Bricker, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                               CHAPTER LX.

                       WEST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.

576  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  DAVID BRICKER (deceased), a native of Lancaster County, Penn., was a 
son of David Bricker, who immigrated to that county from Germany with 
his brother Christopher before the Revolutionary war.  He raised his 
family in that county, and there resided until his death.  He had a son 
- Christopher - who was a soldier in the Revolution.  David Bricker, 
our subject, married a Miss Erb; came to Newville, Cumberland Co., 
Penn., in 1794, and acquired an estate of over 400 acres, including a 
part of the town of Newville.  He lived to be nearly ninety years of 
age, his wife having died about four years before his death.  They 
raised a family of six children:  Levi (died in Westmoreland County, 
Penn.), John, Jacob (died in Mechanicsburg), David, Mrs. Mary Dork and 
Mrs. Margaret Ann Heffleman, all died at Newville, this county.  The 
second son, John, married Miss Eliza House, and settled in the Cross 
Roads District, in West Pennsborough Township, and here resided until 
his death.  He died February 16, 1875, at the age of eighty-four years; 
his widow now resides in Newville.  They raised a family of five sons:  
John H.; William H., of Beaver Falls, Penn., the present register of 
Beaver County; P. D., an attorney at Jersey Shore, Penn.; Samuel, of 
North Vernon, Ind.; George S., of Newville.