Montour County PA Archives Biographies.....ANGLE, Frank C. 1854 - living in 1899
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  FRANK C. ANGLE is a lawyer of much prominence in Montour County, but he is
  better known to the public as the proprietor and publisher of the Montour
  American, a weekly paper of high standing, and the Morning News, a daily
  containing the latest telegraphic news, abounding in items of local interest,
  and sensible and entertaining editorials which are well and carefully written
  and show the result of deep thought. Mr. Angle has been connected with the
  growth of Danville in many ways and has done more for the advancement of its
  interests than any other single individual in the same period. He is a native of
  Danville, having been born February 25, 1854, and is a son of William and
  Henrietta (Pursel) Angle.
  
    The grandfather of our subject was a leading agriculturist of Greenwood
  township, Columbia County, where he lived a long and useful life. William Angle,
  the father of our subject, was born in Greenwood township, Columbia County, and
  when a young man removed to Danville and established a general merchandise store
  opposite the Danville Public Library, which building has since been torn down.
  He was engaged in that business for over twenty years, and at the expiration of
  that period he had accumulated enough wealth to enable him to retire and spend
  his declining days in ease and comfort. He owned many valuable pieces of
  property in Danville and built a block of dwelling-houses on Church street. He
  served in the town council for several terms and was also a commissioner of
  water works. He was joined in hymeneal bonds to Henrietta Pursel, a daughter of
  William Pursel of Jersey Shore, Pa., and their happy union was blessed by the
  birth of the following children: Frank C, in whom the interest of this sketch
  centers; Lizzie H., the wife of J. E. Bruley of Syracuse, N. Y.; and William P.,
  a well known dentist and business man of Danville. In political views William
  Angle faithfully supported the principles of the Republican party. He was
  liberal in his religious views. He closed his eyes in final sleep at the age of
  sixty-three years, and his worthy wife now resides in Danville.
  
    Frank C. Angle, after completing the required course in the common schools,
  attended Lehigh University from which he graduated with the class of 1876. He
  then took up the study of law with Thomas Galbreth, a learned lawyer of
  Danville, and was admitted to the Montour County Bar ra 1879, after which he
  formed a partnership with James Scarlet and began practice. Subsequently the
  partnership was dissolved and Mr. Angle has since been engaged in practice
  alone. He is a man of high principles, shrewd and energetic, and he makes the
  case of a client a personal matter, putting forth his greatest efforts. In
  debates he is cool and collected, presents the facts clearly and argues
  forcibly. He has not only been engaged in the work of his profession, but has
  been closely connected with many public enterprises, especially where the
  welfare of the borough of Danville has been concerned. He is a member of the
  board of water commissioners of Danville; manager of the Danville Opera House;
  and is proprietor of the Atlas Manufacturing Company which was established in
  1875. He erected the building, in which he manufactures all kinds of wooden
  household novelties, and the company does an enormous business, also conducting
  a branch house in Williamsport. In 1878 our subject purchased the Montour
  American, which was founded December 11, 1855, by D. H. B. Brower, who was
  succeeded by Joel S. Bailey and Charles Cork in 1864. Mr. Brower again became
  the owner in 1871 and disposed of it to W. H. Bradley and Lewis Gordon. They
  conducted the paper for a few years, and were succeeded by Edward C. Baldy,
  William B. Baldy, and finally by Bennett & Frick, of whom our subject purchased
  the plant. Under his successful guidance it has prospered and become one of the
  best weekly papers in the county, having a circulation of 800 copies per week.
  In September, 1897, he established the Morning News, which has had an
  exceedingly rapid growth and has a circulation of 700 copies per day. Mr. Angle
  is a man of medium stature, of fine personal appearance, and by the pleasant and
  courteous manner which he manifests toward every one has become very popular and
  has made many friends throughout his section of the country.
  
     Mr. Angle and Sue Robison, a daughter of Theodore Robison of Easton, Pa.,
  took the marriage vows and they are the proud parents of two sons, namely:
  Theodore and Frank Purcel. In religious views our subject is an Episcopalian,
  and a member of Christ Memorial Church, of which he is senior warden.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  Extracted from:
  
  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
  
  
  
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