BIO: John NEAGLEY, 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 250.
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  NEAGLEY, JOHN, son of Daniel and Margaret (Gable) Neagley, was born 
October 10, 1827, in Lykens Valley.  His ancestor, Jacob Neagley, an 
emigrant from Wurtemberg, Germany, settled first in Berks county, 
subsequently removing to Lykens Valley, where he permanently located.  
He had two sons, Joseph and George.  Joseph, born September 15, 1766; 
died July 12, 1828; married Maria Hoffman, born January 8, 1773; died 
February 18, 1840. Their children were:  Daniel, George, Elizabeth, 
Magdalena, Catherine, and Sarah.  Daniel, the eldest, born November 12, 
1797; died February 2, 1873; married Margaret Gable, and their children 
were:  George, John, Joseph, William, Daniel, Isaac, Mary, Catherine, 
Sarah, Margaret, and Hannah.  Of these, John Neagley received a limited 
education, and learned the trade of a cabinet maker at Liverpool, Perry 
county.  Upon his return home he established himself in business, but 
at the expiration of two years removed to Freeport, Ill., subsequently 
coming back to Pennsylvania, where, for a period of seventeen years, he 
conducted cabinet making and undertaking at Liverpool.  In 1869, he 
established a planning mill at Millersburg, which he now carries on.  
Mr. Neagley married, December 28, 1853, E. R., daughter of John and 
Anna Murray.