BIO: Valentine EGLE, 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, pages 187-188.
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  EGLE, VALENTINE, was born October 27, 1756, in Bern township, Berks 
county, Pa.; died November 23, 1820, at Harrisburg, Pa.  At the age of 
nineteen he enlisted in Captain Ross' company, Col. William Thompson's 
battalion of rifleman, subsequently enlisting for one year in the First 
regiment of the Pennsylvania Line of the Revolution, and subsequently 
was lieutenant in Eighth battalion, Lancaster county militia.  He 
learned the trade of a hatter, and settled in Harrisburg, Pa., where he 
established himself in business and was a gentleman universally 
respected and esteemed.  He died suddenly from nervous shock and over-
exertion, caused by the complete destruction of his property by fire a 
few months prior.  He married, in 1796, by Rev. Anthony Hautz, pastor 
of Frieden's Kirche, in Cumberland county, Pa., Elizabeth Thomas, born 
May 2, 1772, in Londonderry township, Lancaster, now Lebanon county, 
Pa.; died August 5, 1867, at Harrisburg, Pa.  She was the daughter of 
Martin Thomas and Ursula Muller.  Her father was a soldier of the 
Revolution, and her mother's father, John George Muller, was a 
lieutenant, subsequently captain, in the Provincial army, serving in 
the Forbes and Bouquet expeditions to the westward.  Said a 
contemporary at the time of her decease: "During her long and eventful 
life she was highly esteemed by all who knew her.  She was an eye-
witness of many interesting scenes, not only in frontier times, at a 
period when the red man was occasionally to be seen revisiting his old 
hunting grounds, but during the struggle for liberty - the war of the 
Revolution."  She was indeed a remarkable woman, and the incidents of 
her life were such as few persons have experienced.  She was a devoted 
Christian, and her good deeds are the heritage of her descendants.