BIO: WILLIAM BIGLER BEITZEL, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 283-284
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    WILLIAM BIGLER BEITZEL has become well and favorably known in Carlisle in
  his capacity of chief clerk at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. He has
  passed nearly all his life in this section of Pennsylvania, having been born
  Oct. 14, 1851, near Dillsburg, York county, son of William and Leah (Bentz)
  Beitzel.
    
    Mr. Beitzel grew to manhood on a farm. assisting during his youth in the
  labors of the home place, and he attended the public schools, receiving
  excellent educational advantages. He taught school in all eight terms,
  beginning in 1870, but meanwhile took advantage of every opportunity to
  improve his own store of knowledge, in 1873 attending the State Normal School
  at Shippensburg, in 1874 taking a business course at the National Normal
  School, Lebanon, Ohio, and in 1876 a course in telegraphy at Sandusky, Ohio.
  From January, 1878, to June, 1880, Mr. Beitzel was in charge of the editorial
  work of the Dillsburg Bulletin, and from June, 1880, until Dec. 31, 1881, he
  was clerk at the Cumberland Valley railroad station at his native place,
  Dillsburg. The day afterward he commenced his duties as station agent at that
  place, continuing there in that incumbency until Sept. 30, 1887. Meantime,
  from 1881 to 1887, he also acted as notary public. On Oct. 1, 1887,
    
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  he was transferred to the joint agency of the Cumberland Valley and
  Gettysburg & Harrisburg railroads, at Gettysburg Junction, Carlisle, Pa.,
  where he was retained until he tendered his resignation, Dec. 15, 1892, to
  accept his present position. Mr. Beitzel has been chief clerk at the Indian
  School continuously ever since, discharging the duties of that position with
  the faithfulness and efficiency which marked his work in all his former
  positions, and giving satisfaction to all concerned.
    
    On Oct. 23, 1890, Mr. Beitzel was united in marriage with Miss Margaret C.
  Williams, of Williams Grove, Pa., who died May 22, 1898. On June 11, 1903, he
  married for his second wife Miss Elizabeth Ettinger Forster, of Harrisburg,
  Pa. He is an earnest member of the Second Presbyterian Church of Carlisle, of
  which he was elected an elder in 1897.