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Born 1839, Wyandot county
From A centennial biographical history of Seneca County, Ohio (1902), History of Seneca County, Ohio, containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages ... portraits of early settlers and prominent men; biographies; history of the Northwest territory; h (1886)
ELIJAH NIEBEL, farmer. P. O. Fostoria, was born in Berwick, this county, January 10, 1839. son of Levi and Elizabeth (Ritter) Niebel, pioneers of Seneca County. Our subject was reared in Bloom and Loudon Townships and received a limited education in the common schools. He removed fi'om Bloom to Loudon Township with his father in 1855, where, with the exception of six years, during which he resided in Fostoria, he has lived on the farm he now owns and occupies. He was in the late war of the Rebellion, enlisting October 29, 1801. in Company D, Seventysecond Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was in the battle of Shiloh, siege of Vicksburg,' two engagements at Jackson, Miss., and was taken prisoner near Ripley, Miss., January 11, 1864, and sent to Andersonville, where he remained until the middle of September of that year, when he was transferred to Florence, S. C.; was paroled at Goldsboro, N. C., in March, 1805, and honorably discharged June 19, 1805, after nearly four years' service. October 3, 1805, Mr. Niebel was married to Emily, daughter of David and Hannah (Kiser) Young, pioneers of Loudon Township, this county. They had six children, fomof whom survive: Minnie, Clara, Delia and Arthur C. Mr. Niebel, wife and daughter are members of the United Bretlii-en Chiirch. He is a member of the G. A. R. He takes great interest in education. Politically he is a Repxiblican. He is a prominent farmer and enterprising citizen; owner of a fine farm of 155 acres, 115 of which are under cultivation and thoroughly drained.
As printed in History of Seneca County, Ohio, containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages ... portraits of early settlers and prominent men; biographies; history of the Northwest territory; h (1886). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
ELIJAH NIEBEL.
This honored veteran of the Civil war, and now a leading agriculturist of Seneca county, may be justly termed a self-made man, for from his early years he has been obliged to make his own way in the world, and bravely and victoriously has he met adversity. He was born in Wyandot county, Ohio, January 10, 1839, a son of Levi and Elizabeth (Ritter) Xiebel. The father was born in Erie county, Pennsylvania, in September, 18 16, and in 1832 removed with his parents to Wyandot county. After his marriage he began farming in Fairfield, Ohio, and th.ere the mother of our subject was called to her final rest in. 1841, and of her two children Elijah alone survives. His only brother, John, was killed by accident at the age of thirteen years. After her death the children found a home with their paternal grandparents until the father's second marriage, about two years later, when Miss Hannah Bish became his wife. From 1844 until 1856 the father made his home in Bloom township, Seneca county, and in the latter year removed to the farm two miles southeast of Fostoria on which our subject now resides, but some time in the '70s he left this place and removed to Fostoria, and since 1901 he has made his home in Hancock county with his son Henry.
Elijah Niebel, the subject of this review, received but limited educational advantages during his youth and early manhood, for in early life he was obliged to assist in the clearing of the home farm, but by
Google constant reading, study and observation in later life he has added greatly to his knowledge and has become a well informed man. On the 31st of October, 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil war, he nobly offered his services to his loved country and was assigned to Company D, Seventysecond Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving as a defender of the starry banner for three years and eight months. During his military career he took part in many of the hard-fought battles of the war, including those of Pittsburg Landing, the siege of Corinth, Vicksburg, Jackson and Brandon. After the last named engagement he retunied home on a thirty days' furlough, after which he returned to his regiment and took part in the battle of Paducah. He was captured on the nth of June, 1864, near Meridian, Mississippi, during the engagement at Price's Cross-roads, and was confined in the prison pen at Andersonville for three months, after which he was transferred to Florence, South Carolina, there remaining as a prisoner of war until the ist of the following March. He was then paroled, at Goldsboro, and returned to his home. His army experience is one of which he has every reason to be proud, for he was ever found at his post of duty, and for his promptness, bravery and strict fidelity to duty he won the praise of his officers and the respect and esteem of his comrades.
In 1866 Mr. Niebel took up his above in Fostoria, which continued to be his home for the following five years, during which time he was engaged in the arduous task of clearing land. For the succeeding twenty months he resided on his father-in-law's farm, in Loudon township, and he then became the owner of seventy-five acres of his present home place, where he has ever, since continued to reside. As the years have passed by prosperity has abundantly rewarded his well directed efforts, enabling him to add to his original purchase until his landed possessions now consist of one hundred and fifty-five acres of rich and productive land. His success, however, is not the outcome of propitious circumstances, but the honest reward of labor, good management, ambition and energy, without which no man can win prosperity.
On the 3d of October, 1865, occurred the marriage of Mr. Niebel and Miss Emily Young. Her father, David Young, was one of the early
Google pioneers of Seneca county, Ohio, coming to this locality from Stark county. They became the parents of six children, — Flora Belle, deceased; one who died in infancy; Sarah A., also deceased; Minnie, wife of William Mathers, of Bowling Green, Ohio; Qara, wife of J. H. Arnold, of that city; and Arthur C, of Toledo. Mr. Niebel is a stanch supporter of Republican principles, and socially is a member of Norris Post, No. 27, G. A. R., of Fostoria, and has revisited some of the scenes of former strife while he was a soldier. His religious preference is indicated by his membership in the First United Brethren church at Fostoria, of which he is a zealous member and active worker, and in which he has served in various official capacities, being a trustee at the time of the building of the present edifice.
As printed in A centennial biographical history of Seneca County, Ohio (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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