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MARTIN MARKLE, formerly proprietor of Eagle Run Brewery, of Shamokin,

Northumberland County, has by his honest and upright dealings won the respect

and confidence of a large circle of friends among the leading business men in

his section of Pennsylvania.



  Mr. Markle was educated in the common schools and remained on the homestead

farm in Germany until he attained the age of seventeen years. In April, 1852, he

immigrated to the United States, arriving in New York April 23, 1852, remaining

in that city but a short time, however, and then removing to Slatington,

Northumberland County, Pa., where he entered the employ of the Lehigh Coal &

Navigation Company as lock-tender, which occupied his attention for nineteen years.



  In 1862 our subject engaged in the mercantile business and conducted a store

at the lock, which place is known to this day as "Markle's Lock." In December,

1871, he located in Shamokin and purchased the John B. Douty -brewery, now known

as Eagle Run Brewery, which he successfully operated until 1895, when he sold

his business to P. H. Furmann and practically retired from active business

pursuits, reaping the benefits of a reward •commensurate with a life of industry

and frugality.



  Our subject was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, February 12, 1835, and is a son

of George and Barbara (Souter) Markle, and a grandson of Jacob and Kathrina

Souter on the maternal side. His father held a civil office under the German

government for forty years; he died in Germany about 1890. Our subject is one of

a family of seven children, most of whom are accounted for as follows: George

Jacob, who came to America two years after our subject and settled in

Greenfield, Mass., where he conducted the Germania Hotel for a period of twenty

years,—he died September 22, 1898; Casper, who immigrated to the United States

in 1857 and since 1866 has resided in Greenfield, Mass., a cutler by trade,

having been engaged in that business ever since he left his native country; and

George and Christina, both of whom reside in Germany.



  Martin Markle was married, June 17, 1852, to Helena Eith. daughter of Casper

Eith, a native of Germany. By this union were born seven children: Hannah, wife

of Pius Schweibenz, who owns a brewery in East Mauch Chunk; William M., who at

the time of his death, August 18, 1898, was proprietor of the Central Hotel in

Shamokin; Amandus, who is in the employ of the Eagle Run Brewery; Helen, wife of

Daniel Stahl, foreman of the same brewery; George F., a resident of Uniontown,

Northumberland County, and a dairyman by avocation: Sarah, widow of Charles

Tretter, who resides with her father in Shamokin; and Cecelia, wife of Francis

Rankey, a manufacturer of paper boxes in South Bethlehem, Pa. Mrs. Markle died

November 9, 1898.



  Mr. Markle enjoys the distinction of being one of the most enterprising and

progressive citizens of his adopted home. He is a director of the First National

Bank of Shamokin and has been treasurer of the bank for thirteen years; a

director of the Shamokin Powder Manufacturing Company; assisted in organizing

the Shamokin & Mount Carmel Street Railway Company, and is one of its present

board of directors; and also a director and treasurer of the Shamokin Street

Railway Company. He is a Christian gentleman and a valued member of the Lutheran

Church. In his political views he is very decided and is a Democrat of the

Jeffersonian stamp. A portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Markle is shown on a preceding page.









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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

  Published by 

  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)









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