The Butter family also had paper mills in the area, and Frederick Bicking from Winterburg, Germany, was the patriarch of the Bicking paper families.
Frederick Bicking (John Frederick Bicking) was born in Winterburg in the County of Sponheim in western Germany and came probably first to Philadelphia and then to East Brandywine Township before the American Revolution.
Winterburg is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.