Dr. Christopher Heydrick and Mary Case

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Husband Dr. Christopher Heydrick ¹

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           Born: 7 Apr 1770 - Montgomery Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 9 Feb 1856 - Venango Co, PA 2 3
         Buried:  - Mill Creek Cemetery, Utica, Frenchcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 4

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         Father: Abraham Heydrick (      -      ) 1
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 13 Apr 1793 3

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Wife Mary Case ³

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            AKA: Mary Care
           Born: 1768
     Christened: 
           Died: 1835
         Buried:  - Mill Creek Cemetery, Utica, Frenchcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 4

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         Father: Capt. Peter Case, Sr. (      -      ) 3
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 F Harriet Heydrick ³

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           Born: 
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         Spouse: Nathaniel P. Hood (      -      ) 3

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2 F Caroline Heydrick ³

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           Born: 
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           Died: 2 Mar 1874 5
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Thomas J. Brown (1801-1883) 3
           Marr: 1821 5

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3 M Charles H. Heydrick ^{3 6}

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           Born: 5 Mar 1799 - Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA 3
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           Died: 16 Nov 1883 - Frenchcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 3
         Buried:  - Mill Creek Cemetery, Utica, Frenchcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 4

         Spouse: Mary Ann Adams (1803-1838) 3 6
           Marr: 1826 3

         Spouse: Ann Adams (1815-1904) 3
           Marr: Aft 1838

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Christopher Heydrick

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He was educated privately at home, under the direction and with the friendly assistance of David Rittenhouse, the eminent philosopher, mathe-matician, and patriot. He studied medicine with Doctor Benjamin Say, of Philadelphia, and was graduated from the medical department of the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania in 1792. After his graduation he was physician to the Philadelphia hospital, and a member of several of the most prominent learned societies of the time. He continued his practice at Chestnut Hill until 1819.
In 1802-3 he made a visit of inspection to lands owned by his father in the third, fifth, and sixth donation districts. Delighted with the tract on French creek at the mouth of Deer creek, then the site of an Indian village known as Custaloga's Town, he purchased it from his father, intending some day to make it his home. In 1819 he removed to Mercer and there practiced his profession. Part of his French creek tract had been for years cultivated by the Indians, and he gave an improvement lease to James Mar-tin, son of John Martin, Sr. Martin erected buildings and enlarged the Indian improvement. The farm had been fairly opened to cultivation, and was later in possession of his son, Charles H. Heydrick. Advancing years admonished the doctor that he must soon abandon his profession. So he removed to the farm and passed the remainder of his days with his son.
To a mind vigorous and receptive by nature, Dr. Heydrick added the thorough culture of the schools and that wisdom which comes from observation and contact with his fellow men. He lived in the memory of those who knew him as a genial old gentlemen, ripe in knowl-edge and experience, which he was always willing to impart for the benefit of those around him. [HVC 1890, 1007]

One of Mercer's earliest practitioners, he was born in Philadelphia County, Chestnut Hill, in 1770. After having fitted himself by a thorough literary education, he studied medicine under the instruction of the celebrated Dr. Benjamin Say, of Philadelphia, and in 1792 graduated with high honors at the University of Pennsylvania. Six years afterward, in 1798, he was elected a member of the Philadelphia Society of Medicine, and during the same year and for some time afterward he was physician of the Philadelphia Hospital. In 1815 he was elected resident member of the Cabinet of Sciences in Philadelphia. Having been engaged in the practice of medicine in Chestnut Hill and Philadelphia from 1792 to 1820, he at the latter date removed to the borough of Mercer. He resided in this place several years, and had a very successful and lucrative practice. But from his youth having a passion for agriculture, he determined to abandon his profession, and to enjoy for the remainder of his life his favorite pursuit; and having this object in view he removed from Mercer to a farm in the valley of the French Creek, Venango County, where he continued to reside until his death. During the last ten or twelve years of his life he was afflicted with blindness. [HMC 1888, 275]

The First Physician in French Creek Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, was Christopher Heydrick, and his immigration took place in 1818, from Philadelphia, where he had a very extensive practice - so extensive, it is said, as to be burdensome, and induce him to leave in order to escape his labors. He was a man of wealth, and a skillful physician, and his practice extended over much of Mercer, Crawford, and Venango counties. [HMC 1877, 41]

1 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1007.

2 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 275.

3 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1008.

4 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 6, Frenchcreek Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1998), Pg 21.

5 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1045.

6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 424.