Frederick Bicking
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Frederick Bicking was born in Winterburg, a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany and came probably first to Philadelphia and then to East Brandywine Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, before the revolution.
In Pennsylvania he owned and operated a paper mill, establishing the Bicking paper dynasty that would last well into the 19th century. The Continental Congress allocated funds to purchase Bicking's paper for currency production. He is mentioned in several of the minutes of the Continental Congress and in the George Washington Papers.
Frederick Bicking married Mary Catherine Unverzagt of Otwiller, Germany on May 26, 1752 at St. Michael's & Zion Lutheran Church in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Mary Catherine Unverzagt, daughter of Johannes Unverzagt, was also a German Palatine.
Of Frederick Bicking's five sons, three were paper makers in Pennsylvania.
John Bicking had a paper mill near present day Fisherville.
