Dickinson County KS Archives Biographies.....Engle, Jacob H. June 14, 1850 - March 13, 1900 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Millie Mowry Rock2Plate@aol.com December 10, 2006, 10:03 pm Author: Biographical Annals of Lancaster, CO., Pa., 1903 by J. H. Beers & Co. Source: Biographical Annals of Lancaster Co., Pa., 1903 by J. H. Beers & Co., page 765-766. JACOB H. ENGLE (deceased), was born in Rapho township, June 14, 1850, and came to the farm where his family now reside March 27, 1899, and there he died March 13, 1900. His remains rest in the cemetery connected with the Cross Roads. Meeting house in East Donegal township. Rev. Henry and Fannie (Hoover) Engle, his parents, were of East Donegal township, and moved to the present Engle homestead in 1860. There the father lived retired for forty years, a successful and prominent farmer, and for about fifty years an active and influential minister of the Brethren in Christ. When he died Jan. 12, 1896, he was aged eighty-eight years, two months and six days. His wife died in 1881, and they were buried in the cemetery connected with the Cross Roads Meeting House in East Donegal township. Rev. Henry and Fannie Engle had the following children: Noah H., a farmer in Abilene, Kans.; Mary H. died in 1891, unmarried; Michael H. is a retired farmer in Elizabethtown, Pa.; Sarah H. lives in Maytown, the widow of Christian Hershey; Ann H, is unmarried, and has her home in Mt. Joy; Eli H. is a farmer in Mt. Joy; John H., who is engaged in the butcher business at Mt. Joy; and Jacob H. Jacob H. Engle was married in January, 1871, in Rapho township, to Harriet Missemer, by whom he had the following family: Norman M., a farm foreman at Woodland, Cal., and as yet unmarried; Dr. Howard M., of San Francisco; Walter M., at home; Joseph M., deceased; Henry J., at home; Robert M., deceased; Fanny G., M. Lena, Bertha M. and Bruce Q. C., all at home. Mrs. Harriet Eagle was born in Rapho township, a daughter of Jacob and Magdelina (Gantz) Missemer. They were both born and reared in Lancaster county. Jacob Missemer followed the milling business until his death in 1883, at the age of sixty-six; his widow died in 1890, at the age of sixty-seven. Their remains rest in the burying ground of the Cross Roads Meeting House in East Donegal township. They were members of the Lutheran Church. Their children. were: Susan, who married Rev. David Wohlgemuth, now a retired farmer and a Dunkard preacher at Florin; Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Gruber, a farmer in Rapho township; Kate, widow of Henry G. Snyder, with her home in Mt. Joy; Henry, who died in infancy; Sarah, who married Henry Martin, a farmer in East Donegal township; Mattie, who married David Brant, of Mt. Joy township; Anna, wife of Samuel Witmer, of Rapho township; Jacob, Henry, David, Adam, William, Joseph and Frederick, who all died in infancy; Harriet, Mrs. Eagle; Louise, who married Dr. W. B. Thome, of Mt. Joy township, whose sketch may be found on another page; and Mary, who married Edward Boyd, of Manheim. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Eagle were Jacob and Lena (Hoeman) Missemer, who were born in Berks county, Pa., and came to Lancaster county in an early day. Jacob Missemer married, for his second wife, a Miss Kraybill, of Lancaster county. Jacob H. Eagle, who was a farmer all his life, remained at home with his parents until his marriage, when he removed to a farm in Chiques Creek, where he remained twenty-seven years. His next move was to the farm where his family is now living. Mr. Eagle was in his life time a man of character and standing in the community, where his industry, integrity, and simple and unaffected manliness commanded ready recognition, and won a host of friends. For three years he was a school director. For many years he followed tobacco buying, and met with much success. Connected with no church, he was a man of fine character and absolute integrity, much beloved and esteemed by all who knew him. His legacy to his children was, above all, a good name and a spotless reputation. Millie Mowry Data Entry Manager Lancaster Co., PA. Additional Comments: Has Kansas connection in bio. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/dickinson/bios/engle127bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ksfiles/ File size: 4.6 Kb