BIOGRAPHY: George RIEGLE, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume II, page 708.

  GEORGE RIEGLE, Paintersville, Mifflin county, Pa., son of Jacob and Catharine 
(Markley) Riegle, was born near Paintersville, February 20, 1819.  His 
grandfather, Jacob Riegle, came from Berks county during the latter part of the 
eighteenth century and took up a tract of 150 acres near the present site of 
Paintersville.  He had been a soldier in the Revolutionary war, serving under 
Washington.  While on the battlefield, he received a gunshot wound in the hip, 
which left him lame for life.  He died at the age of sixty-five.  His children 
were:  Jacob; George; Benjamin; and Michael.  Jacob Riegle, after receiving a 
limited education in the district schools, learned carpentry, and at this he 
worked during the rest of his life, principally in Mifflin and Snyder counties.  
He married Catharine Markley.  Their children were: Catharine, died aged 
seventeen years; Elizabeth (Mrs. William Mayes), of Lewistown Pa., has two 
children; Sophia (Mrs. Simon Stroup), nine children; Margaret; Mary; Sarah, 
married, and resides in Michigan with her family; Jacob, died aged eighteen; 
John, married Susanna Keller, removed to Nebraska, where he died, has fourteen 
children; and George.
  George Riegle attended the common schools of his district, and on leaving 
them, went to farming.  When he was twenty-seven years old, he began farming for 
himself on his father's place, which consisted of 400 acres.  After the death of 
his father, he removed to his present homestead, received as his share of his 
parents' estate.  He began at once industriously to improve the land, clearing 
it, and bringing it to so high a state of cultivation, that he has been regarded 
as one of the most skillful farmers of his neighborhood.  He is a Democrat.
  Mr. George Riegle was married August 20, 1846, to Eva Ann, daughter of 
Christian and Catharine (Bishop) Fraind.  Their children are:  John W., born 
August 1, 1848, married Margaret Stuck, died, and left two children; Philip M., 
born October 16, 1851, married Alwilda Smith, four children; Christian David, 
born April 5, 1853, married Sarah Zook, five children; Matthew George, born 
October 15, 1855, married Nola Quay, seven children; Valeria Savannah, born 
April 1, 1862, died aged one year.  Mrs. Riegle died in August, 1873, at the age 
of forty-eight.  The family are members of the Lutheran church.