Biographical Sketch of Isaac PASCHAL (1893); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsyl- vania, comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Phila- delphia, PA, 1893, page 523. "ISAAC PASCHAL, a representative farmer of Easttown township, and who served as a soldier in the army of the James and the department of the South, is a son of Abraham and Anna (Lincoln) Paschal, and was born on the present site of Media, in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, May 30, 1836. He received his education in the common schools of Delaware county, and was engaged in farming until September, 1861 when he enlisted in Co. C, 97th Pennsylvania infantry, and served along the coast line of Virginia, and North and South Carolina, where his regiment was engaged in siege service around several of the southern seaboard cities. His health became im- paired by exposure and fatigue, and he was discharged for disability at Hilton Head, South Carolina, in October, 1863. Returning home he followed farming in Delaware county until 1888, when he purchased and removed to his present farm of one hundred and fifty-one and a quarter acres of land in Easttown township, near Berwyn. His fine farm is well improved and carefully cultivated. It is all cleared and under tillage except twelve acres of woodland. He has always been a republican in politics, and is one of the member so the present school board of his township. Mr. Paschal is a good example of a self-made man, having acquired what he possesses by industry, economy and honesty. He is well respected by his neighbors, who esteem him for his many good qualities. Mr. Paschal mar- ried Amelia Acker, daughter of Conrad and Leah Acker. "Isaac Paschal is a lineal descendant of Rev. Blaise Paschal, who was a prominent preacher of the Society of Friends. Abraham Paschal (father) served as a soldier in the American army during the war of 1812. He was a blacksmith by trade, and in connection with blacksmithing gave consider- able attention to farming. He resided for many years near Media, in Dela- ware county, where he died in 1868, at eighty years of age. He was a Jacksonian democrat, and a consistent member of the Society of Friends. He married Anna Lincoln, and to their union were born eleven children, six sons and five daughters: Benjamin, Jesse, Abraham Jr., Isaac, John (dead), Elizabeth, Malin, Mary, Martha, Sarah, and Anna. Mrs. Paschal, who died in 1863, aged seventy-seven years, was a daughter of Jacob Lincoln, who was a lineal descendant of the Lincoln family from which was descended Abraham Lincoln, the 'Martyr President.' "