BIO: Lewis 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 XXXIX. 

                        BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

406  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  LEWIS BRICKER, retired farmer, Mechanicsburg, was born in Newville, 
this county, August 6, 1812, a grandson of David Bricker, a native of 
Lancaster County, Penn., who married a Miss Erbe and moved to Newville 
in 1806, where he kept a hotel and died.  He had five children:  Jacob; 
Elizabeth, wife of Henry Gebler; David; Mary, wife of Peter Dock; and 
John.  Jacob, the eldest, was born in Cocalico Township, Lancaster Co., 
Penn., December 25, 1781, and married Miss Mary, daughter of Martin and 
Mary (Cap) Fry.  He was a miller at Newville, and afterward built the 
Silver Spring mills in Silver Spring Township; he died April 3, 1868; 
his wife was a member of the Lutheran Church.  To this couple were born 
five children, one now living, Lewis.  Lewis Bricker, the subject of 
this sketch, moved with his parents to Silver Spring Township, this 
county, when nearly a year old, and, when he was old enough, worked on 
his father's farm and in the mill here until his marriage with his 
first cousin, Miss Elizabeth Fry, who was born January 1, 1815, in 
Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, daughter of Peter and Sarah 
(Hauck) Fry.  After his marriage, Lewis Bricker settled on his farm in 
Hampden Township, this county.  Mrs. Bricker was a member of the 
Lutheran Church.  Of the twelve children born to this union nine are 
living:  Sarah, wife of John Smith, a baker and grocer of Princeton, 
Ill.; Martin, married to Miss Martha Mosser, resides on a farm near 
Camp Hill, this county; Mary, wife of George Martin, resides on a farm 
near Don Cameron, Perry Co., Penn.; Elizabeth, wife of Andrew Clark, on 
a farm in Silver Spring Township, this county; Jacob, married to Miss 
Susan Long (they reside on the old family farm in Hampden Township, 
this county); Theresa, wife of Franklin Fry, who works in the Bessemer 
steel works at Steelton, Penn.; Clara, wife of Dr. John Sibert, of 
Steelton, Penn.; Ida, wife of Thomas L. Long, a brick manufacturer at 
Oskaloosa, Iowa; and Rebecca, wife of John Becker, dentist, Steelton, 
Penn.  Mrs. Bricker died November 2, 1874, and Mr. Bricker then married 
for his second wife Mrs. Emeline Smick, widow of George Smick, a 
farmer, who died March 7, 1866.  Mr. and Mrs. Smick had two children:  
one 

407  BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

son, John W., born December 16, 1852, is a miller in Adams County, 
married to Miss Hannah H., daughter of Absalom and Sarah (Plank) Asper.  
Mr. and Mrs. Bricker are members of the Lutheran Church.  He is one of 
the few old settlers remaining, and has lived to see this county 
undergo many interesting and important changes.  He stands high in the 
estimation of all, and is a descendant of one of the oldest families in 
Pennsylvania.