BIO:  David S. Quickel, 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, Manchester Township, Pg 143

DAVID S. QUICKEL was born in Manchester Township April 6, 1837.  His parents were 
Henry and Magdalene (Strickler) Quickel, of York County, and of Dutch descent.  
The Quickel family in York County, descend from Michael Quickel, the founder of 
Quickel’s Church, in Conewago Township, about the middle of the eighteenth 
century.  David S. had two brothers and three sisters, of whom he is the eldest.  
He grew up on a farm and enjoyed the advantages of the common schools.  While yet 
young he commenced to read medicine, but abandoned it and took up dentistry, 
which he followed up to 1869.  He was married at Manchester, in 1860, to Leah 
Ginter, and in 1864 moved to Ohio, where he remained only one year, and then 
returned to Manchester, where he engaged at once in dentistry.  He was appointed 
postmaster in 1869, and has held the office fourteen years.  In 1872 he engaged 
in mercantile business, which he has followed since, gradually retiring from 
business, however, since 1880.  In 1873 he took up dentistry again, which he 
intends to follow in the future.  He had four children, of whom three are living:  
Annie M., Daniel S., and Harry David.  Being a Republican he has held the 
position of township clerk for twenty years.  He was also one of the 
incorporators of Manchester Borough.  In 1869 his little boy was burned to death, 
and in his efforts to save him, the father was severely burned, disabling him for 
four years.