Bio of ENGLE, John D. (b.1860), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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JOHN D. ENGLE - Vol III, pg 467-468
One of the highly esteemed citizens of Minneapolis is John D. Engle, the subject
of this sketch, more familiarly known as J. D. Engle. He was born in
Grantsville, Maryland, on the day of the election of Abraham Lincoln to the
presidency of the United States, November 6, 1860. His parents were Walter and
Sarah Wiley Engle. His grandfather, Samuel Engle, was a well-to-do farmer and
landowner. His maternal grandfather, Holmes Wiley, was a powerful pioneer of the
Cumberland mountains. Each of these ancestors lived to the age of eighty-five.
Mr. Engle's father, Walter Engle, at the close of the Civil war, in 1865
emi­grated from the old home in Maryland to the new west and settled in Preston,
Minnesota. He there became a successful farmer and breeder of shorthorn cattle.
He was a man of stanch character and an uncompromising advocate of social and
political reforms. In 1882 he raised his flag in honor and support of the
standard bearers of the then new prohibition party and was later successful in
helping to make his town and county saloonless, the first in the state. He lived
to the age of eighty-four.
John D. Engle was educated in the public schools of Preston, Minnesota, and
later attended Hamline University. He was principal of the school at White Bear
Lake, Minnesota, and was there married, on June 14, 1886, to Miss Eunice
Dowling, also a teacher there. She was born in New York state and after
graduating from Cornell University, came west. She was the daughter of Michael
and Clarissa Lockwood Dowling. Her father was a Civil war veteran who served
four years with the Seventy-seventh Regiment, New York State Volunteers. Her
mother's ances­tors were descended from the early English settlers of New York.
Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Engle: Grace Rosamond, who died in
infancy; Marguerite Lucy, who is the wife of John Brewster Mitchell, valuation
engineer of the Great Northern Railroad; Eloise Clara, who married Eugene
Bryant, son of Judge Wilbur F. Bryant; Walter Scott, who married Miss Nellie
Glenn of Lewistown, Montana; and Donald Richard, who married Miss Helen Sullivan
of Minneapolis. Both sons are engaged in the real estate business. Eugene Bryant
served during the World war with the Thirty-third Division, One Hundred
Thirty-first United States Infantry, Illinois Volunteers.
Mr. Engle's family home is a fine residence in Prospect Park, built on a wooded
eminence overlooking the city, and with spacious grounds.
In 1893 Mr. Engle became Northwest manager of the Everett O. Fisk Teachers
Agencies, with offices in Minneapolis. After fifteen years service in this
connection he established the J. D. Engle Teachers Agency. Mrs. Engle, a woman
of much business ability, has for a number of years been associated with him in
its management. Under the skillful management of these two heads, the J. D.
Engle Teachers Agency has become a national institution for the supply of
teachers for the schools and colleges of the west and the middle west. More
recently Mr. Engle has asso­ciated with himself his two sons in the real estate
business, having formed the
Engle Company, which is becoming a prominent factor in this city in that line of
business. Mr. Engle is essentially public-spirited and is one of the forceful
and energetic promoters of the city's advancement. He has been active in
Improvement Associa­tion work and president of the Tax Payers Association. His
efforts in connection with the latter organization resulted in the addition of
millions of hitherto un-taxed properties to the assessment list. He is a member
of the Commonwealth Club, the Civic & Commerce Association and the Royal
Arcanum. He is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he
is a leading official.
Mr. Engle is a man of exceptional character, of pleasing and genial personality
and greatness of heart, which qualities have won for him a host of friends. He
is preeminently noted for his activity in prohibition and law enforcement work.
He was county chairman of the prohibition committee, chairman of the law
enforce­ment committee of the Civic Federation and for many years a member of
the Min­nesota State Prohibition Central committee and of the National
Prohibition com­mittee. He was the party's candidate for various offices,
including that of member of the Minnesota legislature and mayor of Minneapolis.
One of his achievements was the utter destruction of the vicious "wineroom"
curse of Minneapolis. As a prohibitionist Mr. Engle was a member of that group
of undaunted, unconquerable foes of the American saloon who were foremost in
creating the sentiment which later resulted in the passage of the eighteenth
amendment to the Constitution of the United States.