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1903 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF LANCASTER CO., PA.
Pages 729-730
Jacob Pickel, one of the successful and representative farmers and dairymen of Sadsbury township, was born in Bart township, this county, Sept. 1, 1845, son of Leonard and Mary E. (Miller) Pickel, natives of Bart and Pequea townships.
Leonard Pickel was a man well and favorably known in this county, and was equally at home in the trades of farmer, cooper, carpenter and horse dealer. His business connections were extensive, and it was while he was attending to some large transaction in Ogden, Utah, in 1881, that he died, at the age of sixty-five years. The mother survived until Sept. 2, 1895, dying at the age of seventy-two years. For many years Leonard Pickel was a prominent man in Lancaster county, was poor director and county commissioner for some years. The children born to Leonard Pickel and wife were: Ross M., who died at the age of sixty years; Ephriam, who is a farmer and carpenter, in Paradise township; Jacob; Samuel G., a farmer of Sadsbury township; Ellis, a grocery merchant of Lancaster; Saminah, deceased, who married James Martin; Elizabeth E., who married Jonathan Hoke, of Illinois; and Flora, who married Ray Reed, a bookkeeper, in Lancaster
Until his marriage Jacob Pickel remained with his parents, assisting his father in his various lines of business. The seventeen months succeeding his marriage were employed in the smelting furnace in Paradise township, and then he accepted the management of a farm of 218 acres, in Salisbury township, for Joseph Warton, and continued with him, as his reliable and efficient superintendent, for a period of thirty years. In 1899 he moved to his present well-cultivated and valuable farm, purchasing the same from Samuel Fogle. Here Mr. Pickel has made many valuable improvements, and now owns one of the best farms in this locality.
In February, 1869, in the Presbyterian parsonage, in Bart township, Jacob Pickel married Mary E. Smith, and the children born to this union are: Esther M., who graduated from MillersvilleState Normal School in 1892, married William P. Hoar, a lumber merchant of California; Leonard C., who married Cora Wise, daughter of Jacob Wise, has one child, and is a farmer in Chester county; Mary F., who married William Virtue, a farmer of Sadsbury township; has two children; Leeta M., is a music teacher, at home; and Emma R. is at home.
Mrs. Pickel was born in Paradise township, July 6, 1848, a daughter of Steward and Mary A. (Worth) Smith, both of Chester county. Shortly after their marriage they settled in Paradise township, where they became farmers, and there he died in 1885, at the age of seventy-six years, her death also being in April, 1885, at the age of sixty-four years. Both were members of the Presbyterian Church, and both were buried in the cemetery at Octoraro. Their children were: Susannah, the widow of Jesse Pickel, of Chester county; Hester, the widow of Lewis Pickel, of Sadsbury township; Emma, who married Miller Mendenhall, of Bart township; Robert, of Sadsbury township; Miller, deceased; Phoebe, who married Aaron Harnish, of Chester county; Joseph, of Philadelphia; and Mary E., Mrs. Jacob Pickel.
Mr. Pickel is a leading member of the M. E. Church in this locality, and has long been prominently identified with the Republican party. His upright dealing and kind neighborliness have made him many friends in the township, and he is much respected.
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