BIO: Jacob Michael AWL, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 214.
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  AWL, JACOB MICHAEL, son of Jacob Awl and Sarah Stroh, was born 
February 24, 1792, in Paxtang.  He was a grandson of the preceding 
early settler.  His father dying in his infancy, he was raised on the 
farm of his maternal grandfather, Michael Stroh.  In early life he 
settled in Harrisburg, where he spent the remainder of his days, dying 
there on the 5th of September 1849; was long a leading member of the 
Methodist church; at the time of his death the Democratic Union said he 
was "a gentleman of the purest piety and strictest integrity in all his 
intercourse with his fellow men;" while the Keystone stated that "no 
man enjoyed in a higher degree the confidence and respect of the 
community" - that "his life had been a continual exemplification of 
what the walk and conversation of a Christian should be."  Mr. Awl 
served as a soldier in the war of 1812-14.  He married, April 27, 1824, 
Fanny Horning, born February 17, 1803; died July 12, 1869, at 
Harrisburg.