BIO:  Martin Gable, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 173

MARTIN GABLE was born June 9, 1824, in Darmstadt, Germany, and came to America in 1844,  
landing at New York, he soon removed to Baltimore, where he learned shoe-making, at which he 
worked twelve years.  He was educated in Germany, and following farming.  Two brothers followed 
him to America.  His parents, Jost and Elizabeth (Brodrecht) Gable, died before he left 
Germany.  He was married, in Baltimore, in 1849, to Miss Catharine Kettering, a native of that 
city.  She died in 1870, leaving one daughter, Fannie, now the wife of Joseph A. Klinefelter.  
Another child, Catharine, died in infancy.  He removed to York County, and has lived about 
Shrewsbury ever since 1856; came to Rail Road in 1877.  He followed shoe-making five years in 
York County, and huckstering about ten years; was collector for several years, and since 1877 
has kept the toll-gate at Rail Road.  He is a member of the Lutheran Church, as was also his 
wife.  He earned his property by his own industry.