Dickinson County KS Archives Biographies.....Engle, Jacob H. June 14, 1850 - March 13, 1900
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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.

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