Bio of Appel, Lawrence William (b.1842) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Appel, Lawrence William, (page 1150), a Highland farmer, resides on a fine 
farm of two hundred and forty acres in West Indian Creek valley. He was 
born in Baden, Germany, September 17, 1842, his parents being Adam and 
Catherine (Eckert) Appel. In 1845 Mr. Appel, Sr., died of yellow fever in 
Texas, and two years later the widowed mother emigrated with her family to 
Mercer county, Pennsylvania, where she engaged in agricultural pursuits. 
Lawrence working on her farm summers, and attending winter schools until 
he reached his twentieth year, when he went to Franklin county, 
Pennsylvania, and learned the blacksmith trade, which he followed in the 
oil regions and railroad shops for several years in Meadville, Pittsburgh, 
Sharon and Middlesex. He was in Pittsburgh at the time the raider Morgan 
menaced the peace of that city. While on a visit to his brother Stephen, 
in Highland, in August, 1866, he was induced to open a blacksmith-shop, 
near what was then known as Hampe's Mill. In 1869 he bought the farm where 
he now resides, from E. Lathrop. November 11 of the same year he was 
married to Margaret Arvilla, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Brawley) 
Harncame, natives of Pennsylvania, and Wabasha county pioneers. Mr. Appel 
is a member of the Catholic church. He was a member of the board of 
supervisors in 1880.