[p. 832] a member of the firm of Campbell & Robel, plumbers and gas fitters, at Ellwood City and at Coraopolis, was born in Chippewa Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, October 30, 1876, and is a son of Lewis F. and Sophia (Cleis) Robel.
The parents of Mr. Robel settled first in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, near Uniontown, and later moved to Beaver County, where the father followed farming. He died in 1889, having survived his wife since 1882. They had the following children: Charles F., a missionary, who has charge of the Union Gospel Mission in Omaha, Neb.; Mrs. J. A. Campbell, who resides at Beaver Falls; Lewis C., who resides at Washington, D. C., is an engineer, and Jacob H., of Ellwood City.
Jacob H. Robel attended school at Canton, in Stark County, Ohio, and the High School at Duluth, Minn., after which he engaged in contract work for one year and then became bookkeeper for the Commercial Sash and Door Company, at Pittsburg, and later for the Beaver Falls Gas Company. In search of health, Mr. Robel then took a trip through the South, visiting Florida and Georgia for some two years, and was in the latter State when the Spanish-American War was declared. He enlisted in Company L, Second Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, in which he served until the war was over. In 1898 he engaged in business with his present partner, Mr. Campbell, at Coraopolis, and four years later the partnership was made permanent and for two years he has been a resident of Ellwood City. This firm has done almost all of the work in their line for the Pittsburg Company and has had a contract with the Ellwood City Water Company ever since it has been here. The large contract for the plumbing and gas fitting and also the installing of the sewerage system for the brewery at Aliquippa, Beaver County, was awarded to the firm of Campbell & Robel, and it completed the work in a most satisfactory manner. The business address of the firm at Ellwood City is No. 312 Fifth Street.
Mr. Robel is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He is a Mason, belonging to Ellwood Lodge, No. 599, and to the Knights of Malta, Coraopolis, and Aliquippa Commandery. In politics he is identified with the Republican party.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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