BIO:  PETER BRICKER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 613-614
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    PETER BRICKER, the father of Mrs. Eliza (Bricker) Corman, belonged to one
  of the foremost families of Cumberland county, coming from German stock which
  settled in Lancaster county, this State, at an early day. Brickerville, in
  that county, was named after the family. Jacob Bricker, the father of Peter,
  was born in Brickerville, and married Miss Mary Fry, who was also
  
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  of Lancaster county, and they had two children, Lewis and Peter. In 1812,
  when the latter was about six years old, the family moved to Cumberland
  county, settling in Newville, where he followed milling, and then moving to
  Silver Spring township. Before long he purchased the Silver Spring mill,
  which he owned for over forty years, prospering until he accumulated a
  comfortable fortune, his estate consisting of six farms (comprising over 900
  acres), his mill property and a house in Mechanicsburg, whither he removed a
  few years prior to his death. He reached the great age of eighty-four years,
  passing away in 1867. Though a large man, he was active and industrious, his
  prosperity being well deserved, and he had a sociable disposition, with a
  fund of good common sense, which made him at once popular and reliable.
  Politically he sympathized with the Republican party.
  
    Peter Bricker, the eldest son of Jacob, was born in 1807 in Brickerville,
  Lancaster county, and, as stated, came to Cumberland county with his parents
  when a young child. He learned the business of his father, and by energy and
  prudence succeeded even better, his property comprising nine farms besides
  the mill property in Silver Spring township. He raised a large family, giving
  them all good advantages, and led an upright, useful life, being in his day
  one of the most respected citizens of his part of the county. He married Miss
  Kate Buttorf, daughter of George Buttorf, of Cumberland county, and they
  settled on a farm given him by his father, which the latter had purchased of
  George Bobb in 1829. All his children were born in the old house built by Mr.
  Bobb in 1817, and here he continued to reside until 1860, when he moved to
  another of his farms, the one subsequently owned by Jacob Meily. To Peter and
  Kate (Buttorf) Bricker were born six children, namely: George, Peter, Jacob,
  Samuel, Mary and Susan. The mother of these children dying, he married for
  his second wife Miss Mary Bricker, of Cumberland county, daughter of David
  Bricker, and to this union came ten children, viz.: David, who is now a
  resident of Kansas; Lewis, deceased; Joseph, of Mechanicsburg; John, a farmer
  of Silver Spring township; Levi, a retired farmer of Silver Spring township;
  Christian, a farmer of Silver Spring township; Eliza, of Mechanicsburg, widow
  of Robert Corman; Catherine, wife of Daniel Musser; Clara, who married John
  Maxwell, of Cumberland county; and Ella, who died young.
  
    Peter Bricker died July 21, 1875, in Silver Spring township, where he had
  long been a prominent citizen. He was a Republican in political faith.