BIO:  I. Leo Mingle, 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, Newberry Township, Pg 155

I. LEO MINGLE, M.D., was born September 15, 1839, in Berks County, Penn., and is 
the third of four sons in the family of ten children of Jacob and Hannah 
(Leoscher) Mingle (both deceased), of Berks County, Penn.  The father was a mason 
by trade, but spent the last thirty-six years of his life in farming.  Our 
subject was brought up to farming, attending the public schools until he was 
eighteen years of age, and then attended two years at Freeland Seminary, now 
Ursinus College, in Montgomery County, Penn.  He then taught school in Berks 
County for four terms.  In the fall of 1861 he began studying medicine under Dr. 
F. B. Nice, and in July, 1862, joined the State militia; after leaving it he 
resumed the study of medicine with his former preceptor, and remained with him 
until the fall of the same year, when he entered the Jefferson Medical College at 
Philadelphia, where he remained until the following spring.  March 8, he entered 
Long Island College, Brooklyn, N. Y., and remained until midsummer, when he 
returned home, opened an office and practiced one year.  In the fall of 1865, he 
again went to Jefferson College, graduated in 1866, and returning home resumed 
his practice again.  He practiced six years in Lebanon County, and eight years in 
Northumberland County, Penn.  In the fall of 1878, he came to Newberrytown, where 
he has a lucrative practice.  He was married, August 20, 1864, to Lydia A. 
(Loose), who died, leaving one child – Lu Annie L., May 29, 1865.  Dr. Mingle 
next married, November 5, 1868, Mary M. Herr; they have had three children:  Otis 
W. (deceased), Lillia G., and Almeda C.  Dr. Mingle and wife, belong to the 
German Reformed Church.