BIO: Jacob M. Niesley, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                              CHAPTER LII.

                            MONROE TOWNSHIP.

512 	BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  JACOB M. NIESLEY was born in Monroe Township, Cumberland Co., Penn., 
in the year 1851.  He was married, in the fall of 1872, to Mary E. 
Pressel, of the same township.  Having been reared a farmer, he 
followed this occupation for several years, when, on account of ill 
health, he left the farm and turned his attention to clerking, moving 
to Churchtown and working for his uncle, George Brindle, in Boiling 
Springs, in whose employ he remained several years.  He then clerked 
for J. Frank Moist, in Churchtown, in J. N. Plank's building, and now 
in the same store, with A. G. Burtner as proprietor.  He now fills the 
important office of director of schools in his native town, following 
in the footsteps of his grandfather, George Brindle, who once helped to 
direct the affairs of the State, as Legislator, in 1843-44.