BIOGRAPHY: Louis N. SLAGLE, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, page 420.

  LOUIS N. SLAGLE, Lewistown, Mifflin county, Pa., was born at Patterson, 
Juniata county, Pa., July 11, 1861, and is a son of John E. and Christina 
(Haller) Slagle.  The family of Mr. And Mrs. John E. Slagle consisted of the 
following children:  Jacob, married Martha Bechtel, and has two children, Ellen 
and Julia;  John, married Annie Patterson, has two children, Dora and Anna;  
Louis W.;  Thomas;  and Savilla, wife of Dr. John Howard, residing in Trenton, 
N. J., and having a family of six children, Harry, Charles, William, John, 
Julia, and Elsie.  John E. Slagle died in 1883;  his wife survives him.  She is 
a daughter of John Haller, and both she and her husband were natives of Berlin, 
Prussia.
  The education of Louis N. Slagle was begun in his native town, and, his 
parents removing to Mifflin county in 1870, when he was but nine years old, it 
was carried on in the public schools of this county until he reached the age of 
thirteen.  He then began to earn his own livelihood, and was first for about two 
years a boatman on the Pennsylvania canal.  In his sixteenth year he began a 
three years' apprenticeship with the Lewistown Engine and Brass Company, in 
order to learn the trade of a machinist.  This term having expired, he was 
engaged for five years as a journeyman at Burnham, Pa.  He was then promoted to 
the position of foreman of the finishing department of the Standard Steel Works, 
in which he continued until he assumed the office of county treasurer of Mifflin 
county, to which he was elected on the Republican ticket in November, 1893, for 
a term of three years.  He has proved himself an efficient and faithful officer.  
Mr. Slagle is a member of Council No. 1394, Royal Arcanum;  of Lodge No. 97, I. 
O. O. F.;  of Lodge No. 56, I. O. of R. M.; and of Lodge No. 255, K. of  P., all 
of Lewistown.  He is also captain of the National Guard at Lewistown.
  Louis N. Slagle was married, June 26, 1887, to Mary C., daughter of James and 
Eliza A. (Sweitzer) Stackpole.  Mr. and Mrs. Slagle attend the Lutheran church.