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Born 1831, Montgomery KN county
From A pictorial outline history of Darke County, Ohio with portraits and biography of prominent citizens of the county (1890), The history of Darke County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its cities, towns, etc.; general and local statistics; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; (1880)
HENRY M. BICKEL, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 8; P. 0. Hill Grove; was born Jan. 2, 1831, in Montgomery County. Ohio, and came with his parents to Darke County in April following; his father, Andrew Bickel, was born in Centre County, Penn., Sept. 2, 1805, and married Nancy Moyer, who was born in Virginia Aug. 27, 1810; both, hale and hearty, are now living on the farm they bought in 1830, at that time in an unbroken wilderness, in Washington Township, though they experienced all the hardships and privations so well known to all the early settlers of this portion of Ohio, but now, instead of the wilderness, amid the most fertile and productive agricultural land of the State, Henry M., the subject of this sketch, has owned the farm (234 acres) where he lives twenty'-three years; this also has he redeemed from wilderness and swamps to bountiful productiveness, being among, if not the very first man to £i blind tile," which is the making of the fine farms in Darke County; now he is surrounded by abundance and comfort; at 21 years, he was not worth a dollar, and possesses to-day the first silver dollar that he earned, by cutting eight cords of hardwood. June 12, 1856, he married Mary Crumrine; she was born in Darke County July 8, 1839; they have had six children, viz., John C., Lucy C. (deceased), Mary A., Dora (deceased), Harrison C. and Henry I.
As printed in The history of Darke County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its cities, towns, etc.; general and local statistics; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; (1880). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
HENRY M. BICKEL,
Oy al was born January 2, 1831, in Montgomery KN county, Ohio. He removed to this county with his parents in March, of the same year, locating in Washington township, where he received a common-school education. After finishing school he followed the construction of road beds for railroads for about two years and then began farming, having followed that calling ever since. He also taught school during the winter months in his early life. In his early manhood he was quite an expert with the axe, and the first dollar he ever earned was one he received for cutting and racking eight cords of four-foot wood, and he still possess the identical coin, which is a Mexican dollar. He was married June 12, 1856, to Miss Mary Crumrine, of this county. They have had born to them six children, four of whom are living; Lucy Jane and Dora D. died in infancy, and the surviving ones are John C., Mary Adaline, Harrison C. and Henry Irvine. In 1886 he was elected Treasurer of Darke county, and was re-elected in 1888. It is needless to say that Mr. Bickel is one of the most highly respected citizens in the county and he has been highly successful as a financier, having accumulated quite a fortune.
Judge Lewis C. Anderson.
As printed in A pictorial outline history of Darke County, Ohio with portraits and biography of prominent citizens of the county (1890). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: Andrew Bickel (b. 1805) Lewis C. Anderson (b. 1850)
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