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Mr. Mitchell married, in Beaver Falls, in 1901, Mary E. Levis, of Rochester, daughter of Henry M. and Sophia (Myers) Levis, the former deceased, the latter living in Rochester. Children: Catherine, born June 30, 1903 ; James Sidell (2), born January 13, 1905.
The Moody family, which is well represented in Beaver MOODY county, Pennsylvania, at the present day, came to this country originally from Scotland, and has been mainly identified with agricultural pursuits.
(I) Robert Moody, the immigrant ancestor of this branch of the Moody family, was born in Scotland, died near Philadelphia. Early in life he was apprenticed to learn the trade of sail making. Upon his arrival in America he located in Northampton county, about ninety miles north of Philadelphia, and there engaged in farming. He gave his political sup- port to the Whig party, and was a member of the Presbyterian Church. He married Mary Hutchison and had children: I. James, married Isa- belle Ewing. 2. Anna, died young. 3. Elizabeth, married James Thompson, and lived in Catawba, Ohio. 4. Margaret, married John Bunting, and lived in Beaver county, Pennsylvania. 5. Mary, married David Dungan, and lived at Frankfort Springs, Pennsylvania. 6. John, see forward. 7. Martha, married S. H. Witherspoon. 8. Nancy, died in early youth. 9. Samuel, a preacher at Savannah, Ohio, drowned in the Ohio river, op- posite Wellsville, April 26, 1856; he married Margaret A. Dunawho.
(II) John Moody, son of Robert and Mary (Hutchison) Moody, was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, February 16, 1798. Like his father, his chief occupation was that of farming, in which he was very successful. He was the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of land in Greene township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. He took a deep interest in whatever concerned the welfare of the community, and gave his political allegiance to the Whig party. Mr. Moody married Margaret, born in Hookstown, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, daughter of Richard and Mar- garet (McCready) McClure, the former a well-known miller. Children: I.
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Mary, born 1833, died 1911; married Milo Thompson, and lived in Hooks- town; had children: Lucretia, married George Workman; Clark, married Ada Doak, one child, William; Harry, deceased; Maggie, married John Cot- ter ; two died in infancy. 2. Joseph, see forward. 3. Sarah, born 1838, died at the age of ten years. 4. Samuel, see forward. 5. Margaret Ann, see forward. 6. Elizabeth, born 1847, died at the age of six years. 7. Lucretia, born 1849, died at the age of four years.
(III) Joseph Moody, son of John and Margaret (McClure) Moody, was born in Hookstown, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, January 4, 1835. His education was the usual one of a farmer's son at that time, attending the district school during the winter months, and assisting in the cultiva- tion of the homestead farm during the summer. In 1856, when he had at- tained his majority, he decided to branch out for himself, and accordingly acquired a farm of thirty acres in Greene township, Beaver county. From there he went to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, purchased a farm of eighty-six acres, which he cultivated for a period of seven years. He then removed to Beaver county, where he purchased a tract of seventeen and one-half acres, which he sold in 1907. He is still, however, the owner of a fine house, but lives retired from business responsibilities. He is a staunch supporter of the principles of the Republican party, and his re- ligious affiliations are with the Presbyterian Church. On August 14, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Fortieth Pennsylvania Volun- teers and went to the front, September I. He served three years and was discharged May 4, 1865, at Camp Reynolds. Mr. Moody is a member of Beaver Post, No. 473, Grand Army of the Republic, and at the present time is quartermaster of the Post. Mr. Moody married Martha, born September 14, 1835, daughter of Thomas and Susan (Allen) Withrow, and their only child is Maggie Elmina, born February 17, 1878, who was graduated from the Beaver High School, and resides at home.
(III) Samuel Moody, son of John and Margaret (McClure) Moody, was born in Hookstown, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1840. He re- moved to Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and was in the employ of the Street Railway Company until the fall of 1893, when he returned to the home farm, and has since that time assisted his sister in its cultivation. He married, 1882, Mrs. Martha (Kennedy) Hood, daughter of David Kennedy, and widow of Gibson Hood, who had served as a soldier during the Civil War. By her first marriage she had two children: Austin, de- ceased; Jennie, was a resident of East Liverpool, Ohio, now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Moody had children: Margaret, married Emmet Wilson, resides in Liverpool; Bert ; Bessie, married Harry Boggs; Mabel.
(III) Margaret Ann Moody, daughter of John and Margaret (Mc- Clure) Moody, was born on the Moody homestead, south of Hookstown, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, 1845. She was educated in the public schools of the neighborhood, and has spent her entire life on the home farm, where she devoted herself to the care of her parents until their death at an ad-
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vanced age. She owns the homestead farm and personally superintends all farm operations. The farm formerly consisted of one hundred and sixty-seven acres, of which Miss Moody sold ninety-six acres.
The emigrant member of the Engle family of Pennsylvania ENGLE made the commonwealth his home by a combination of cir- cumstances that were, to say the least, unusual. Henry Engle was born in Metz, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany, and was one of the army that came to America under the French nobleman, General Lafayette, to fight for the Colonists in the war for independence. He survived that struggle without serious injury, but had imbibed so much of the American spirit of liberty and had become so ardent a champion of the cause he had so bravely aided to defend that when the foreign army, of which he was a part, embarked for Europe he and a companion deserted. Alone in a country with which they were almost unfamiliar, except for the part over which their campaign had carried them, they settled in the eastern part of Pennsylvania for a short time, and then, Henry Engle and his comrade separating, the former came to what is now Beaver county. For a time he conducted farming operations near Industry, and there died at the home of one of his several children, George, of whom further.
(II) George Engle, son of Henry Engle, was born near Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, in 1790, died in Industry, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, 1866. He was brought to Beaver county when a child by his parents and there spent his entire life. He followed his father's occupation, that of farmer, and purchased a farm of one hundred acres in Industry township, later adding thirty acres to the original tract. In 1836 he erected a substantial brick house, now used as a residence by his son, Enoch Engle, and here his death occurred. He was a Democrat in politics, but later became a partisan of the Republican party. Both he and his wife were members of the United Brethren Church, regular in their attendance and devout in their worship.
He married Amy Dannals, born in Salem county, New Jersey, in 1799, died in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, having survived her husband, a widow twenty-one years. She was a daughter of Stacey Dannals, a Swiss, who came to America prior to the Revolution and who fought in that con- flict in defense of the Colonial cause. After the war he settled on a farm in Brighton township, where his death occurred. He was the father of several children by two marriages. Children of George and Amy (Dan- nals) Engle: 1. George, a carpenter, died in Beaver county, Pennsylvania. 2. Henry, deceased, a farmer and wagon-maker, was for some years steward of the county almshouse. 3. Stacey D., of whom further. 4. Jemima, de- ceased, married Nicholas Todd. 5. John, died aged twenty-four years. 6. David, of whom further. 7. Washington, a farmer of Brighton township. 8. Franklin, died aged twelve years. 9. Joseph, a fruit grower of Industry township. 10. Enoch, born November 9, 1839, a fruit grower on the old homestead.
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(III) Stacey Dannals Engle, son of George and Amy (Dannals) Engle, was born near Industry, Pennsylvania. In 1862 Mr. Engle removed to Moon township, where he continued at his trade of wagon building, and combined this with farming, in which he was also successful. In 1881 he removed to Green Garden, purchasing seventy-seven acres of land there, which he cultivated until his death in 1883. He was a member of the Raccoon United Presbyterian Church, and a Republican in political opinion. He married (first) Mary Robertson, and had children: James, Eliza, George W., of whom further, Susan, Oliver C., of whom further, Ann, Enoch W. S., David and an infant, both deceased. He married (second) in 1867, Ann Jane Shannon, and had children, as follows: John G., of whom further; William Joseph, of whom further; Walker Dannals, of whom further.,
(IV) George W. Engle, son of Stacey Dannals and Mary (Robert- son) Engle, was born in Vanport, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. He was educated in the schools of that town and the college at Beaver. For some time he was engaged in teaching school and about eighteen or twenty years age located on the farm on which he is living at the present time. This consists of one hundred and sixty-three acres, all kept in a fine state of cultivation. He married Mary Ellen Shaffer and had children : James O., see forward; Mary, a teacher. Mary Ellen (Shaffer) Engle was the daughter of Samuel and Agnes (McCallister) Shaffer; granddaughter of Daniel and Mary (Wade) Shaffer; granddaughter of James and Nancy (Hood) McCallister ; and great-granddaughter of Daniel Shaffer Sr., who was a pioneer farmer in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, coming to that sec- tion about 1800. The Shaffer family were in all probability of German origin, and they were all members of the United Presbyterian Church. Samuel Shaffer was a blacksmith, and plied his trade at New Scottsville, Independence and Bunkerhill. Later he was a farmer. His children were: Mary Ellen, who married Mr. Engle; James M., Ann Eliza, Emma Rachel, William Melvin, Daniel Presley, Nancy Jane. Daniel and Mary (Wade) Shaffer had children: William; Samuel, who was born in 1829, became the father of Mary Ellen (Shaffer) Engle; John; Daniel and James, served as soldiers during the Civil War; Eliza Jane; Johanna; Mary; and another. Agnes (McCallister) Shaffer was the daughter of James and Nancy (Hood) McCallister, all farmers, whose children were: Agnes, mentioned above; David, who served as a soldier during the Civil War.
(V) James O. Engle, only son of George W. and Mary Ellen (Shaffer) Engle, was born in Moon township, Beaver county, Pennsyl- vania, November 2, 1883. He was educated in the public schools of his native township, and very naturally drifted into the occupation of farm- ing. During the past three years he has also been identified with the opera- tion of a saw mill on the homestead farm. In both undertakings he has been successful. He takes a deep interest in all matters concerning the
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welfare of the community, and while refusing to hold public office he is consistent in his support of the Republican party. He and his wife are members of the Raccoon United Presbyterian Church. Mr. Engle mar- ried, April 20, 1908, Rosa Cochran, and they have had children: Catherine Mary, Enoch George, James Elmer.
(IV) Oliver C. Engle, M. D., a well known physician of Beaver county, Pennsylvania, now located at Aliquippa, was born at Vanport, Beaver county, March 17, 1856, son of Stacey Dannals and Mary (Robert- son) Engle. His early years were spent on a farm in Moon township, Beaver county, where he attended the public schools. Later he became a student at Beaver College and the New Sheffield Academy, and from there went to the engineering department of the University of Michigan. For a period of eight years he was successfully engaged as a teacher in the public schools, then matriculated at the University of Maryland, from the medical department of which he was graduated in 1887 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He at once established himself in the practice of his chosen profession, his first location being at New Sheffield, where he remained for sixteen years, and then removed to Scottdale, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where he was successfully engaged in practice until 1913. In that year he removed to Aliquippa, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he is now established. He is a member of the Westmoreland County, the Beaver County and the American Medical associations. In political matters he is a Progressive, and has the courage of his convictions. He has never desired to hold public office, preferring to give his entire time and attention to the arduous duties of his professional work. He and his wife are members of the United Presbyterian Church.
Dr. Engle married, in 1888, Rosa Shannon, born in New Sheffield, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1864, daughter of John and Elizabeth (McKee) Shannon, both now deceased. They have had children: Howard, graduated from the high school, now with the Frick Company of Scott- dale, married Jessie Seaman and has one child, William Oliver; Edna, graduated from the Woman's College of Frederick, Maryland, now a teacher in Domestic Science in the Normal School at Lebanon, Virginia ; Frederick, now a student in the Pennsylvania State College; Mabel, attends the Alle- gheny high school; Emma; Margaret.
(IV) John G. Engle, son of Stacey Dannals and Ann Jane (Shannon) Engle, was born at Raccoon Creek, March 9, 1868. He was educated at the Bunkerhill and Green Garden public schools, and supplemented this with practical and extensive reading in later life. He has always resided at Green Garden since his father took up his residence there, and is the owner of one hundred and thirty acres of land. In 1882 his father had planted two hundred peach trees, and Mr. Engle has added to this fruit orchard until he now has about three thousand peach trees in full bearing condition. He is also engaged in general farming to a great extent, and in addition grows other fruits. He makes a specialty, however, of the
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Elberta peaches. He is a man of remarkable business and executive abil- ity, and is personally connected with a number of other business enterprises. He was one of the promoters of the Raccoon Township Telephone Com- pany, and secretary and treasurer of that company; it consolidated later with the Beaver County Telephone Company, of which Mr. Engle is now a stockholder. He has served as justice of the peace; is an elder and mem- ber of the session of the Service United Presbyterian Church; and is a member of the local Grange, Patrons of Husbandry.
Mr. Engle married, November 16, 1898, Mary Belle, daughter of Alexander G. Ewing, and they have had children: Walter Paul, Grace Elizabeth, Frank Alexander, Jennie Gertrude, Donald Albert.
(IV) Rev. William Joseph Engle, son of Stacey Dannals and Ann Jane (Shannon) Engle, was born in Moon township, Pennsylvania, March 25, 1870. Until the age of eleven years he attended the public schools at Bunkerhill, walking three miles to school every day, and then became a pupil in the Green Garden schools, from which he was graduated. He then took a preparatory course at the New Sheffield Academy, going from there to Geneva College. In the meantime he had taught several terms in the public schools and one year in the New Sheffield Academy. After three years spent in study at the Allegheny United Presbyterian Seminary, he was assigned to a pastorate at Scroggsfield, Ohio, where he remained for a period of six years. The next three years he was the pastor of the United Presbyterian Church in Toronto, Ohio, and while there his health became impaired to such an extent that he was obliged to leave the ministry for a time at least. He accordingly came to Green Garden, Pennsylvania, March 16, 1910, and purchased a farm of eighty-six acres, planted this with peach trees, with which industry he has since been identified, and now has two thousand peach trees in fine bearing condition. During the second year of his residence at Green Garden, he became the supply preacher at Service, and has since acted in that capacity. While a student at college, Mr. Engle was president of his class for three years; was the captain of the football team in his senior year; in his sophomore year was the athletic editor of the college paper, the literary editor in his junior year, and editor in chief during his senior year. He was an active member of the literary society of the college, being elected president of it during his senior year. He was the second honor man of his class, 1898, doing the work of four years in the course of three.
Rev. Mr. Engle married, March 1, 1905, Sarah Belle Donelson, of Scroggsfield, Ohio, and they have had children: Oliver Donelson, born August 19, 1909, at Toronto, Ohio; Ralph Joseph, born May 7, 1911, at the homestead at Green Garden, Pennsylvania.
(IV) Dr. Walker Dannals Engle, son of Stacey Dannals and Ann Jane (Shannon) Engle, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, April 29, 1873. As a youth he attended the public schools, Sheffield Academy, and the Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, State Normal School. Leaving the
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latter institution, he taught school for several years, then entering the medical department of the University of Western Pennsylvania, at Pitts- burgh (University of Pittsburgh), and was graduated thence in 1901. His first practice was begun in Sheridan, Pennsylvania, whence he came to Aliquippa, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, his practice in that borough dating from December 6, 1902, until his death, January 16, 1913, almost exactly eleven years later. He was a ceaseless student of the abstruse points of his profession, and even after becoming well established therein took up post-graduate work at the Chicago Polyclinic Institute, also keep- ing abreast of the most modern developments in medicine by membership in the County, State and American Medical associations. From his youth he was reared in the United Presbyterian faith, while his wife was a Pres- byterian, both becoming members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Engle, during his lifetime, was a universal favorite in the community in which he lived, was admired as a man of culture and erudition, and was constantly busied at his profession. His were all the qualities that com- pose the ideal physician, learning, tact and cordial address, closely intri- cated with those attributes that are native to a gentleman, courtesy, honor, virtue and probity.
Dr. Engle married, June 25, 1902, Kate Bayne Torrence, born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1876, daughter of Thomas Armor and Emma (Withrow) Torrence, both natives of Beaver county, Pennsylvania, the former born in 1840, the latter October 4, 1843, died May 3, 1902. After the death of his wife, Thomas Armor Torrence married a second time, his wife being Mrs. Elizabeth White, of East Liverpool, Ohio, the marriage being solemnized in 1907. Thomas Armor is a son of William and Angeline (Armor) Torrence, natives of Beaver and Wash- ington counties, respectively, their parents pioneers of both counties. Children of Thomas Armor and Emma (Withrow) Torrence: Angeline Armor, died aged five years; Kate Bayne, of previous mention, married Walker Dannals Engle; Edna Frances, Frederick Earl, Alexander Mor- rison, Thomas Armor Jr., Mary Emma. Children of Walker Dannals and Kate Bayne (Torrence) Engle: Catherine, born December 12, 1903; Frances Jane, January 10, 1905; Dorothy, June 21, 1909, died January 6, 1910.
(III) David Engle, son of George and Amy (Dannals) Engle, was born in what is now Industry township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, January 22, 1830, died there May 9, 1864. His early life was spent on the home farm and it was in every way natural that he should choose that as his life occupation, purchasing a farm adjoining the old homestead, where he resided at his death. Although his manner of life was quiet and unpretentious, his well-known uprightness of character and correctness of conduct often made him the choice of his neighbors for township offices, all of which he accepted as the representative of the Republican party. In the United Brethren Church he was a leading member, sincere and earnest
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in his worship, consistent in his life and helpful in his labors for the church.
He married Cynthia Knight, born in Industry township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, January 21, 1832, died February 7, 1890, daughter of David and Elizabeth (Mason) Knight, early residents of Industry township. David Knight was a farmer, owned a large tract of land, and was a Democrat in politics. Both spent their entire lives in Industry township. Children of David and Elizabeth (Mason) Knight: I. Amos, deceased; was a farmer of Industry township. 2. Lewis, deceased; was a farmer of Industry township. 3. Emanuel, lives in Industry township. 4. Cyn- thia, of previous mention, married (first) David Engle, (second) William Ammon. 5. Elmira, married W. J. Hoyt, deceased, a soldier of the Civil War; she lives in Industry township. 6. Elizabeth, married (first) Thomas Exby, (second) Jacob Sierer, both deceased; she resides in Paulding county, Ohio. 7. Lorenzo Dow, died young. Children of David and Cyn- thia (Knight) Engle. I. Elizabeth, born February 22, 1854; married John C. Williams, and lives in Brighton township. 2. Joseph, born January 15, 1856, died August 7, 1861, the victim of an attack of diphtheria. 3. Amy, born January 13, 1858, died August 13, 1861, of the same disease that caused the death of her brother. 4. Elmira, born December 30, 1860; married R. D. Fleming, and lives in Rochester, Beaver county, Pennsyl- vania. 5. David Jackson, of whom further. Children of William and Cynthia (Knight-Engle) Ammon: 1. Jennie, died aged two years. 2. Lydia, married William Davis, and lives on a portion of the old homestead. 3. Cynthia Birdell, married Joseph Russell, and lives in Beaver, Pennsyl- vania. 4. Margaret, married J. Albert Cooley, and lives in Niantic, Illi- nois.
(IV) David Jackson Engle, son of David and Cynthia (Knight) Engle, was born in Industry township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, Feb- ruary 10, 1863. He attended the public schools until sixteen years of age, during that period also acquiring an intimate knowledge of farming opera- tions. On arriving at the age of sixteen years he was placed in charge of the home farm, later became half owner and continued its cultivation until 1905. In the latter year he purchased and moved to a fifty-seven acre farm in Brighton township, on Dutch Ridge road, which he success- fully operated until the spring of 1912, when he sold it advantageously and bought a farm of thirty-five acres on the Tuscarora road. Here he erected a modern buff brick residence and in the spring of 1913 moved to his new home. He has always made a specialty of fruit and vegetable farming and at his present farm continues these operations along the same lines. Mr. Engle is a member of the Patrons of Husbandry, the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a Republican in politics, having served in various township offices. He is a good business man and a thrifty, suc- cessful husbandman.
Mr. Engle married, May 6, 1891, Mary L., daughter of Homer Steven- son. Children: Gertrude, educated at Beaver high school, Beaver College
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and Geneva College, now a teacher in the public schools of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania ; Carman, a graduate of Beaver high school; Margaret, also a graduate of Beaver high school; David, Pauline, Earl, Inez, Virginia, Gale, Jean, and Mary Louise.
The name of Shannon is well known in the history of
SHANNON Ireland, and to that country all the American Shannons trace their ancestry. These ancestors lived on the banks of the river Shannon, Ireland, and were mainly engaged in agriculture.
(I) - Shannon came to America prior to the days of the American Revolution and was engaged in the occupation of packing salt from Phila- delphia.
(II) John Shannon, son of the preceding, was born in Moon town- ship, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, the family having settled there at an early date. He married Elizabeth Walker, born in Hopewell township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1803, and among their children were the following named: John Adams, see forward; Mrs. Engle, who lives in the schoolhouse in Green Garden, Beaver county, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Hannah Summerville, who resides in Woodlawn, Beaver county, Pennsylvania.
(III) John Adams Shannon, son of John and Elizabeth (Walker) Shannon, was born in Moon township, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, in 1824, and died in Raccoon township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in February, 1899. He received what was considered a good education for those days, and for a considerable period of time was engaged in teaching school in Jackson county, Ohio. Later he took up the trade of carpentry and also engaged in farming, combining the two for a period of thirty years, when he abandoned the former, but continued to reside upon his farm on which his death occurred. The farm consisted of two hundred acres of well cultivated land, the products being of a general nature. Mr. Shannon married Susan Ewing, who was born in 1830, and who is now living with her son, John W., still in excellent health. They had children: Margaret, Elizabeth, Mary, James, see forward; Rosa, John W.
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