George N. Noggle

GEORGE M. NOGGLE.

Among the successful agriculturists and representative citizens of Darke county is Mr. Noegle, whose fine farmstead is located on section 3, Harrison township, his postoffice address being New Madison. He is a native of this township, having been born on a farm two miles south of his present place on the 7th of July, 1847, tne son °f Michael Noggle, who was born in Lee township, this county, January 10, 18 19. The latter's father, George No°-gle, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1775, and he died on the farm owned by our subject in the year 1853. His father was a farmer of the Keystone state, where he died, the family being of German extraction.

George Noggle, grandfather of our subject, was married, in Pennsylvania, to Catherine Hoenline, who was born in 1773, and they became the parents of five sons and five daughters, all of whom lived to maturity and had families. George Noggle was a man of great physical power and indomitable courage, being the hero of many a pugilistic encounter and never having been vanquished. He was very industrious and energetic and he cleared up two farms in this section of Ohio. He came here from Pennsylvania in 1 81 2, being one of the pioneers of Darke county, where he took up his above in 181 6. In 1825 he entered one hundred and sixty acres of land in Harrison township, section 15, and there he died in Tune, 1853, his widow surviving until 1860, when she passed away at the age of eighty-seven, her death resulting from a severe fall into a cellar of her home. She was a woman of fine presence, being of large stature and noble bearing.

The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Mary Mote, and she was born in this neighborhood June 14, 1821. On the 1 6th of January, 1840, was solemnized her marriage to Michael Noggle, the groom being twenty-one years of age and the bride sixteen. Mrs. Noggle was the daughter of Jonathan and Susanna (Kefler) Mote, the former of whom was of English ancestry, his birth having occurred in the state of Georgia. He was four times married, and of the first union six sons and five daughters were born, and there were several children by the second marriage. Of the eleven children of the first marriage and the three sons of the second all lived to pass the half-century mile post on life's journey and five of the number are still living, the eldest being in his eighty-third year. The mother of our subject died at the age of seventy-one.

Of the five sons and two daughters of Michael and Mary Noggle we offer the following data: Phcebe Jane, born April 26, 1 84 1, married and died in 1872, leaving five children; Alfred, born April 4, 1843, died at Richmond, Indiana, in 1895, leaving one son; Ephraim, born May 5, 1845, 's a farmer in Butler township, this county, and has six children; George M., the fourth in order of birth, is the immediate subject of this review; David, a successful farmer of Clark county, Ohio, has five children; Susanna, wife of Noah Brown, is mentioned in an individual sketch of that gentleman elsewhere in this volume; and Jonathan, born in 1855, died in infancy. The mother of our subject died in 1892, and the father on the 6th of April, 1898. They were people of the highest integrity and were among the honored pioneers of this section of the state. Like his father, Michael Noggle began work at an early age and he was soon injured to the severe labors of clearing up and reclaiming the frontier farms, having cleared up the farm now occupied by our subject and having spent two years in Wabash county. He inherited eighty acres from his father and he and his brother, David, took up and owned some four hundred acres in Harrison township. On the farm which is the home of his son, Georp-e M., of this sketch, he erected, in 1868, the fine brick residence which is one of the most spacious and attractive country homes in this section. He farmer on an extensive scale, being assisted in his operations by his four sons, being very successful in his ceedings in the product of his farms and realizing large profits at a time when these commodities commanded high prices. In 1861 he paid fifty dollars an acre for his land, and the final payment on the same was made within three years.

George M. Noggle has always lived on the old homestead and he early became familiar with the various duties involved in successful farming. He received such educational advantages as were afforded by the district schools and this discipline has been most effectively supplemented by his experience in connection with the practical affairs of life.

On the 1 6th of December, 1869, Mr. Noggle was united in marriage to Miss Cynthia A. Flatter, a native of this township, and a daughter of Perry and Elizabeth Flatter, both of whom are deceased, the father passing away in 1898. They were the parents of five sons and four daughters. To our subject and his estimable wife have been born nine children, namely: Elmer, who still remains on the old homestead; Harry, who died in infancy; Olive H.; Ella Viola; Andrew Porter; Clara Edna; Harley Webster; Russell G., who was born June 4. 1892, died at the age of fourteen months; and Ethel May, an animated little maiden of six years.

In politics Mr. Noggle renders allegiance to the Democracy, supporting the Bryan wing of the party, and he served four years as township treasurer, and has also 1 ten a member of the school board. Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order.

As printed in A Biographical history of Darke County, Ohio : compendium of national biography (1900). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.