BIO:  John MICKLEY, Hamiltonban Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 443

JOHN MICKLEY (deceased) was one of the best known residents of this county.  His 
grandfather, John Mickley, came from France and settled in Lehigh County, Penn., 
and latter’s son, John, Sr., was born February 19, 1769, in Northampton County, 
Penn.  He, John, Sr., was married to Margaret Biery, born July 2, 1778, also of 
Northampton County, and after that event removed to Franklin Township, this 
county, where he carried on blacksmithing.  Having accumulated some means he 
bought a farm in Hamiltonban Township, this county, and built the house, which 
his son, Daniel, now owns.  He died March 2, 1855, aged eighty-six, his wife 
having preceded him February 5, 1852, at the age of seventy-three.  They had ten 
children:  John, Elizabeth, Sarah, Daniel, Margaret, Hester, Margaret (second), 
David, Martin and Harriet.  Three are now living:  Daniel, David and Martin.  
The subject of this sketch was born March 1, 1796, in Franklin Township, this 
county, and was always a farmer.  For three years after his father’s death, he 
and his brother, Daniel, between whom the farm was divided, lived together.  
February 12, 1857, he was married to Harriet Heintzelman, also a native of 
Franklin Township, born December 26, 1830, and for two years after their 
marriage they lived on the homestead, but in 1857 removed to the house they had 
built on his share of the farm, where his widow, her son and youngest daughter 
now live.  He died on his farm February 23, 1882, when lacking but a few days of 
eighty-six years of age.  They had five children:  Mary Margaret Josephine, born 
April 6, 1858 (wife of Samuel Baumgardner, of Franklin Township, this county); 
Harriet Rebecca, born March 1, 1860 (wife of Latimore Myers, of Fairfield, this 
county); Sarah Jane, born November 25, 1861 (wife of William Culp, of 
Hamiltonban Township); John, born September 10, 1864, and Emma Florence Ellen, 
born June 25, 1868 (living with their mother).  In his life Mr. Mickley was a 
popular man, by reason of his many sterling qualities.  An ardent Republican in 
a strong Democratic county, he was twice elected to the important office of 
county commissioner, and the year he was married came within a few votes of 
being elected to the Legislature.  He and his wife were members of the Reformed 
Church in which for many years he was an elder and deacon.  Universally 
respected for his upright character, he died, regretted not only by his family, 
but by all who knew him.  Since the death of her husband Mrs. Mickley has 
successfully carried on the farm herself.  She is an energetic business woman, 
enjoying the respect of her neighbors.  Her son, who will inherit the farm, is a 
young man of good character and habits.