BIO:  PROF. A. H. EGE, A. B., A. M., Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 696-697
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    PROF. A. H. EGE, A. B., A. M. Mechanicsburg can boast of an unusual number
  of scholarly men, and one of these is Prof. Ege, whose long connection with
  the educational interests of Cumberland county is well known. In addition to
  being a successful and popular educator, Prof. Ege has been identified with
  both business and public matters to such an extent as to make him an
  important factor also in these circles. Prof. Ege was born April 2, 1838, in
  Baltimore county, Md., a son of Rev. Oliver Ege, a minister of the M. E.
  Church, connected at that date with the Baltimore Conference.
    
    The founder of the Ege family in America was Bernard (Peter), Ege, who, at
  the age of fifty years, with his two sons, Jacob and Michael (I), aged
  twenty-five and twenty-three respectively, came to America from the Province
  of Wurtemberg, Germany, sailing from Holland in the ship "Freundschaft," and
  arriving in Philadelphia Sept. 20, 1738.
    
    Michael Ege (I) married in Philadelphia, in 1745, Anna Cathrine Holtz (Wood
  in English). He died Jan. 19, 1759, leaving two sons, George (born 1748) and
  Michael (II) (born 1753). These young boys were brought up by Baron Henry
  William Stiegle, their uncle by marriage, under whom they learned the iron
  business, both becoming iron masters. At their majority they became
  proprietors and operative iron masters - George in Berks county, near
  Reading; and Michael (II) in Cumberland county.
    
    Michael Ege (II) married, in 1772, Ann Dorothea Wolff, daughter of Peter
  Wolff, of Spring Forge, York county. He died Aug. 31, 1815, leaving seven
  children.
    
    Michael Ege (III), the third son of Michael II, inherited from his father
  the old Boiling Springs furnace, which he continued to operate with much
  success. His children were: Rev. Oliver, Andrew G., Michael, Charles, Peter,
  Edward and Mary (who married Judge Watts, of Carlisle).
    
    Rev. Oliver Ege, son of Michael (III),
    
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  was born Dec. 11, 1802, and he died Aug. 9, 1889. For nearly sixty years he
  was a man of power and influence in the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal
  Church. In 1843 he married Susanna P. Thompson, of Berwick, Columbia county,
  Pa., daughter of Hugh and Mary (Dodson) Thompson, and they had these children
  born to them: Rev. Thomas P., rector of the Episcopal Church at Oaks,
  Montgomery Co., Pa.; A. H.; Annie E., wife of Dr. S. W. Thompson, of
  Danville, Pa.; Francis H., who married J. E. Zug, of Prince George, Md.
    
    In his boyhood, Prof. A. H. Ege attended the public schools, and in the
  fall of 1857 he entered the Junior Class at Dickinson College, where he was
  most creditably graduated in 1860, with a degree of A. B., at a later date
  securing the degree of A. M. About 1860, in association with his father, he
  bought the Cumberland Valley Institute at Mechanicsburg, and in 1865 he took
  charge of the institution as principal. Prof. Ege devoted fifteen years to
  the interests of this school, meeting with great success, but in 1878, he
  gave up his connection with it, and took an extended tour in Europe. In 1883,
  in partnership with John T. Richardson, of Harrisburg, he established the Frog
  and Switch Department of the Carlisle Manufacturing Company, which was
  continued for six years, then sold, and a similar business was established at
  Curtis Bay, Md. This was soon disposed of also, and the partners went to
  Harrisburg, there establishing what is known as the Anthracite Wagon Company,
  which was chartered in 1895, with Prof. Ege president.
    
    In 1891 Prof. Ege married Anna J. Megary, daughter of William Megary, of
  Cumberland county. Since boyhood he has been an active member of the M. E.
  Church and for thirty years has held official relationswith it, as Recording
  Steward and Secretary of the board of trustees. He has worked zealously in
  the Sunday-school, and in fact has been deeply interested in every branch
  connected with that religious body. Since 1872 he has been a Prohibitionist,
  and has lectured and written many able articles on temperance topics. For
  some years he has been secretary and chairman of the Cumberland County
  Prohibition party, being well equipped for leadership. Prof. Ege is also
  prominent in the various Masonic bodies, is a member of Eureka Lodge, No.
  302, F. & A. M., Mechanicsburg, and has belonged to St. John's Commandery of
  Carlisle ever since 1873. For the last thirty years few men have been more
  variously active in Cumberland county than has Prof. Ege, and what is notable
  is that he is equally well at home as a teacher, lecturer, business man, or
  member of the social circle.