History of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania and a genealogical and biographical record of its families, Vol. III, Part 23

Author: Roberts, Charles Rhoads; Stoudt, John Baer, 1878- joint comp; Krick, Thomas H., 1868- joint comp; Dietrich, William Joseph, 1875- joint comp; Lehigh County Historical Society
Publication date: 1914
Publisher: Allentown, Pa. : Lehigh Valley Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 854

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graveyard at Heidelberg Church. They had a large family and among their children were: Elizabeth (1769-1839), married to Conrad Bloss; Eva (1770-1839), married to J. George Bloss; Jacob; John and Christian, born May 7, 1789, died July 21, 1854.

Jacob Metzger was born in Maxatawny, July 27, 1776, and before the year 1800 had settled near the Heidelberg Church where he owned up- wards of 200 acres of land which is now divided into three farms. He died on April 17, 1845. He was married to Anna M. Schlichter, born July 31, 1776, and died on April 9, 1860, in her 84th year. Both are buried at the Heidelberg Church. Their five children were: John, Maria (1801-1868), married to Michael Wehr; Katie, married to Daniel Peter; David and George.

John Metzger, son of Jacob, was born March 20, 1807, and died Sept. 20, 1889. He owned and lived upon a small farm near the Heidelberg Church. His wife, Elizabeth, was a daughter of Jacob Snyder. Their children were: Edwin, Messina, Jonas, Mary, Harrison, Lewis, Moses and Wilson.

Moses Metzger, of Heidelberg township, was born in that district in 1846. He learned the shoemaking trade but spent most of his life upon the farm. He owns and occupies a valuable 62- acre farm since 1873, and in that year he built the present brick house. He was the custodian and care taker of the graveyard and cemetery of the Heidelberg Church; and it is said for Mr. Metzger that these sacred acres had never been kept in a better condition than during the years that he had charge over them.

He was married in 1872 to Louisa Krause, a daughter of Daniel and Mary (Klotz) Krause, of Heidelberg township. They are members of the Reformed congregation of the Heidelberg Church. Their seven children are, viz : Samuel, of Laurys ; Alice, married to A. J. Harter, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume; Lillie married to Blassius Hoffman; Percy M., of Al- lentown; Owen and Harvey, who died aged 13 years.

Owen W. Metzger, of Allentown, a member of the firm of Wetherhold & Metzger, shoe merchants at 714 Hamilton street, was born in Heidelberg township, April 8, 1882. He was educated in the public schools, Slatington Semi- nary and the Allentown Business College. In 1900 he entered the employ of H. Leh & Com- pany, in their shoe department, and later repre- sented their sales' department in the western states for a period of nine years. On April II, 1908, he formed a partnership with G. A. Weth- erhold and they opened up a modern shoe shop at their present address.

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Socially Mr. Metzger is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, belonging to Greenleaf Lodge, No. 561, F. & A. M., and the Sons of Veterans, of Allentown.

On April 5, 1906, he married Sadie Fretz, a daughter of William Fretz, of Doylestown, Pa. They have a daughter, Dorothy F.

John Metzger, son of Conrad, was born Oct. 2, 1786, and for some years he was a laborer at Cementon, but the last nine years of his life he made his home with his son, Elias, at Ruchsville with whom he died on May 24, 1856, aged 71 years, 7 months and 22 days. His widow Maria (Polly) nee Siegfried, was born April 18, 1785, and died at Siegersville Nov. 13, 1863, in her 79th year. They are buried at Egypt. Their children were: Elias, Nathan, Elizabeth, married Ephraim Burger, of North Whitehall; Mrs. Stephen Miller, of Bath, Pa., and Mrs. Sallie Buchman.

Elias Metzger, son of John, was born in 182- and he died in 1886, and is buried at the Jordan Lutheran Church. He was a blacksmith for many years at Siegersville. His wife was Mary Sieger. They had these children: John, Clinton, deceased ; Mary and Samuel.

Nathan Metzger, son of John, was born Sept. 8, 1814, and when a young man he lived in the vicinity of Siegerville and from there came to Allentown and for some years was a clerk in the store and later he conducted a clothing store on Hamilton street.

He died suddenly on Oct. 12, 1877, while he was on his way to call upon his friend, Jonas George. He was buried in the Union cemetery, in Allentown.

On Nov. 22, 1851, he was commissioned clerk of Court of Quarter Sessions, clerk of Orphans' Court and clerk of the Courts of Oyer and Ter- miner. He was appointed a member of the relief committee after the great fire in 1848, rendering valuable services to the town.

He married Rebecca Worman. She was born Feb. 23, 1818, and died Dec. 26, 1884. Their children were: Thomas B. and Maria, who was the wife of Dr. Henry Grim, an aged physician, of Allentown.

Thomas B. Metzger, Esq., a native of Allen- town, was born Dec. 25, 1839, and died at New Tripoli Oct. 2, 1908. He is buried on Fair- view cemetery, at Allentown.

He was admitted to practice at the Lehigh county bar April 7, 1862, and in Oct., 1868, was elected district attorney. He was a delegate to the national convention at St. Louis that nomi- nated Samuel J. Tilden for president.

He and wife are buried on the Fairview ceme- tery. His wife, Susan Schweitzer, was a daugh-

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ter of the late Simon Schweitzer, who lived at 926 Hamilton street, where Col. Trexler now lives. Mr. Schweitzer was a manufacturer of pianos and was borough surveyor of this city. They had children as follows: Lillian E. (m. John T. Williams, of Catasauqua), Ralph R., Malcolm, who is proprietor of a drug store at Bethlehem, Pa .; Thomas B., Jr., of Johnstown, Pa.

RALPH R. METZGER, attorney-at-law, was born in Allentown, in the year 1870. He was edu- cated in a private school and in Muhlenberg Col- lege from which he was graduated in 1888. He read law in the offices of his father and in Jan., 1892, was admitted to practice before the Lehigh county courts and in 1894 was admitted to prac- tice before the State Supreme Court. Mr. Metz- ger is prominent socially, being a member of the various Masonic bodies of Allentown and Rajah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Reading; the Livingston Club and the Lehigh County His- torical Society.

He was married to Miss Elizabeth Long- enecker, a daughter of the late Hon. Henry C. Longenecker, whose full sketch appears elsewhere in this volume.

MALCOLM METZGER is the proprietor of a drug store at No. 10 South Main street, Bethlehem, Pa. He was born in Allentown, June 2, 1876, was educated in a private school of his native city, in Muhlenberg Preparatory School and in Muhlenberg College.

In 1895 he came to Bethlehem as manager of the American Medicine Company Store, and in 1910 he bought out the stock, good will and fix- tures of it and conducts the store along modern lines in a successful manner.

He was elected president of the Industrial Commission of Bethlehem in 1912, and the fol- lowing year was re-elected to the same office ; member of the Bethlehem Club the I. O. O. F., and the Grace Lutheran Church, of which he is a trustee since 1910.

He was married on Feb. 8, 1899, to Mame A. Keck, a daughter of Benjamin D. and Mary A. (Schick) Keck. They have an only son, Mal- colm Thomas Metzger.

THOMAS B. METZGER, JR., of Johnstown, Pa., was born Feb. 11, 1880, in Allentown. He was educated in private schools; attended Mercers- burg Academy in 1894 and '95 and the Muhlen- berg Preparatory School for one year. He be- gan his business career in the office of William D. Miers, an insurance broker. Afterwards he accepted a position in the office of the Crane Iron Company, at Catasauqua, Pa. He then became the office manager for the Lupton Portland Ce- ment Company, in Bay City, Michigan, and from

there he entered the employ of the Cambria Steel Company, of Johnstown, Pa., as cost clerk. He was soon promoted to be the assistant to the super- intendent of construction at the Franklin plant, then he was made the chief clerk in the general office of the mechanical department and his next promotion was that of assistant superintendent of the Franklin Mechanical Department, which position he now serves with merit.

Socially, Mr. Metzger, is a member of Cam- bria Lodge, No. 278, F. & A. M .; Portage Chapter; Oriental Commandery, Knight Tem- plars of Johnstown, Pa., and the Ja Ja Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Altoona, Pa.

He was married Nov. 9, 1907, to Ada May Dowdell, of Bay City, Michigan. They have one son, Thomas B. Metzger, III, who was born Sept. 18, 1908.

Heinrich Metzger, a son of Conrad, was a farmer in Maxatawny township near Rothrocks- ville. The homestead is still about 100 acres. He was a life long farmer. He was married to Catharine Leibensperger. Their children were: Jacob, John, David, Jonas, Henry (Harry), Kate, was married to P. Fister, who owned "Top- ton Boy," a racer of note; and Susan, married to Henry Wickert.

Jacob Metzger died at Lehighton, Pa., where he was a hotelkeeper. His wife was a Hoch, and their children were Maria, Daniel, and Fianna (m. to Levi Fenstermacher).

John Metzger owned the homestead for a num- ber of years, then sold it to his brother, Henry, and moved to Allentown where he kept a hotel at the northeast corner of 10th and Hamilton streets. His wife, Lydia Trexler, bore him these children: William, Alfred, Maria, Lizzie, and one other daughter.

David Metzger, the third son of Heinrich, kept the hotel at New Smithville for some years, and from thence moved to Johnstown, Pa. There he kept a hotel until he was killed by the collapse of a bridge crowded with people waiting to see President Andrew Johnson pass by in 1866. His wife was a Levan and their children were: James L., Henry, Alfred, Charles, Emma, Martha, and another daughter whose name is not remem- bered.

Jonas, the fourth son of his father, was born in 1813 in Maxatawny township. He was a tailor near Spring Creek Creamery and later near New Smithville where he became a farmer and brick manufacturer. He and his family were Reformed members of the Maxatawny Church. He married Anna Steininger, a daugh- ter of George Steininger. She died, aged 75 years. He died at Allentown in 1901 in his 89th year. Their children were Alfred and

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Henry, deceased; George, William, deceased ; Rev. Blockadus, of Boundary, Indiana, and Jacob, deceased.

Henry Metzger was born on the homestead in Maxatawny. He began farming at New Smith- ville where he owned his own farm which he sold to his brother, Jonas, then bought the old homestead near Rothrocksville. There he farmed until his death. Like unto his forbears he was a member of the Maxatawny Zions' Church. His wife was Elizabeth Acker. She died at a ripe age a blessed and most glorious death. She spoke of heaven and described persons that were there and beckoning her to come home. She was con- scious to the last. Their children were: Mary (m. Sell D. Kutz), Daniel J., Catharine (m. James Bower), Eli, Ida (m. W. Welder), John and Preston.

George Metzger, a traveling salesman of Al- lentown, was born near Monterey, July 17, 1846. He taught school in 1862 and afterwards clerked in a store at Mechanicsville and later for seven years in Allentown. Since the year 1870 he is a traveling salesman, selling groceries throughout Lehigh, Berks, Northampton and Schuylkill counties. He is a member of the Reformed Church and these lodges: The Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the P. O. S. of A. In 1896 he built himself a fine residence at No. 30 North 12th street, Allentown. He married in 1887 Elmira J. Balliet. She died Jan. 1, 1911, aged 62 years less 28 days. Their children are Annie E., Edgar G. (m. Bessie Sieger), and Caroline F.

Daniel J. Metzger, son of Henry, is a farmer near the Mill Creek creamery in Maxatawny township. He was born at New Smithville, Jan. 15, 1846. He was engaged in farming his fa- ther's homestead until 1879, after which he moved upon his present farm which came into his pos- session by the death of David Kunkel in 1887. He was married twice, first on Dec. 25, 1879, to Sarah E. Komp, a daughter of Benjamin and Betsy (Wisser) Komp, who was the proprietor of Komp's mill in Mill Creek Valley for many years. Their children are: Harry B. D., Charles T. J., and Sallie E., the wife of Edgar Hering.

Mr. Metzger and his family are members of the Lutheran Church and he has served the Luth- eran congregation in the office of deacon, elder and trustee.

Harry B. D. Metzger, the assistant postmaster at Egypt, Pennsylvania, was born in Maxatawny township, Berks county, Feb. 25, 1882. He was educated at the "Mill Creek" school house, the K. S. N. S. and the American Commercial School at Allentown. He was bookkeeper for John Yost until 1901, when he entered the employ of E. E.

Long and Company as bookkeper. He served this position until in 1908, when he became the private secretary of Hon. O. E. Leh at Egypt. In politics he is a Republican and in 1907 was appointed the assistant postmaster. He also served Whitehall township as auditor for two terms and is a member of the John Hay Republi- can Club. Socially he is a member of the I. O. R. of M., No. 97, of Egypt, and the K. G. E., No. 110, of the same place, also Modern Wood- man of America, No. 8576, of Cementon. On Mar. 26, 1907, he married Amy Guth, daughter of Allison and Sarah (Snyder) Guth. They have three children, viz : Herman D., Albert C., and Althea G.

MEYER FAMILY.

This family settled early in Whitehall town- ship, where, in 1781, the tax list contains the names of Peter, Jost, John and John Meyer. The baptismal records of the Egypt Church con- tain forty birth entries between 1775 and 1810. Besides the above named, children were born to Jacob and Elizabeth, Martin and Margreth, An- dreas and Martha, before 1790. Peter and Cath- arine Meyer appear to have been among the old- est ones and they had the following children born to them:

Elizabeth, born March 2, 1776.

Magdalena, born Oct. 26, 1779. Jacob, born June 23, 1781. Peter, born Dec. 30, 1782.

Catharine, born Nov. 9, 1784.

Sarah, born Sept. 30, 1786.

Susanna, born Dec. 30, 1787.

Joseph, born May 4, 1789.

Joh. Georg, born Oct. 5, 1790.

Dorothea, born July 31, 1793.

Peter Meyer, Jr., became a farmer near Me- chanicsville, in what is now South Whitehall township. He was a Reformed member of the Egypt church and there he and his wife, Cath- arine, are buried. They had these fourteen chil- dren :

Wilhelm, born Feb. 13, 1807.

Salome, born Oct. 15, 1808. David, born March 19, 1810. Reuben, born Jan. 19, 1812.

Carl, born Aug. 30, 1813.

Eliza, born Oct. 6, 1815. Rebecca, born Nov. 4, 1817. Simon, born Dec. 22, 1819. Lucinda, born Dec. 10, 1821. Christina, born Feb. 12, 1824.

Adeline, born Aug. 14, 1826.

Abraham, born March 3, 1828.

Abigail, born Aug. 2, 1829.

Elemina, born Jan. 11, 1833.

David Meyer was a merchant and farmer at Ruchsville. He built a brick house in that vil-

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lage and he was an enterprising man. At his death he was buried at the Egypt church. His wife was Sarah Miller and they had two daugh- ters, and one son, Franklin.

Franklin Meyer was born in the township, and was educated in the public schools and at the Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown. He was a farmer. He was married to Amanda Biery, a daughter of John Biery. They had an only son, William H.

WILLIAM H. MEYER was born on Sept. 16, 1864, in South Whitehall, where he is a pros- perous agriculturist. He occupies a 98-acre farm situated along the Jordan creek and in the spring of 1913 he purchased another tract of 37 acres situated in Whitehall township. He is an indus- trious and enterprising farmer, and he served his district as a school director for four years, hav- ing served the board both as president and treas- urer. In politics he is a Democrat.

On Oct. 16, 1886, he was married to Amanda Hummel, a daughter of Owen Hummel, of Whitehall township. Four children are born to them, namely: Minerva, Coletta, Deborah, and Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. Meyers are members of the Reformed Church and he was one of the organizers of the Union Sunday school at Me- chanicsville, which he efficiently served as super- intendent, and also as president. He also served the Sunday school board as its president and treasurer.

Simon Meyer, the eighth child of Peter Meyer, was the founder of Meyersville, in South White- hall. He started life as a tailor and later kept the hotel at Meyersville, where he lived over fifty years. He died Oct. 10, 1902, aged 82 years, 10 months and 18 days. His wife, Colet- ta Steckel, died seven years before him and she was followed into death two years later by their only son, Benjamin, who succeeded his father as proprietor of the hotel. Simon Meyer was coun- ty treasurer from 1867 to 1869. His children were: Sarah, married Israel Troxel; and Ben- jamin, who was married to Jane Knauss. They have : Simon, of Hudson, N. Y .; Sarah, married Charles Strasburger ; and Jennie, married Clay- ton Snyder.

OTTO MEYER.

The father of Otto Meyer was Wilhelm Mey- er, a tailor of Germany and a member of the Lutheran church. He died in 1840 exactly twenty weeks after the birth of his youngest son, Otto, who was born twenty years after the birth of his next oldest brother.

Wilhelm Meyer was married to Sophia Stein- beiser, who died in 1874, aged 74 years. Their three children were: Edward, a butcher; Lewis,

a tailor, and Otto who is the only one now living and the only one of the family to emigrate to the United States.

Otto Meyer, a retired butcher of Allentown, was born at Frankenhausen, Schwartzburg, Rudolstadt, Germany, Jan. 10, 1840. He at- tended school according to the German curricu- lum until he was fourteen years old. He then learned the butcher trade which he followed in his native country until his emigration to the United States, landing at Philadelphia on April 14, 1867. There he continued working at his trade until he came to Allentown in August, 1868. At Allentown he carried on an extensive and successful butcher business for a period of forty-six years and after an activity of a half cen- tury in the business he retired in 1904, being succeeded by his son Gerhard. He has been a. most industrious and enterprising man and in 188I materially assisted in having the large Ada- laide Silk Mill located at Allentown.

He married, Jan. 30, 1870, Maria Klingler, born Feb. 6, 1848, whose parents' full history appears in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer are members of the Lutheran church. This de- nomination prevailed strongly in the Fatherland, in the province where Mr. Meyer was born. Their four children are: Gerhard H .; Maria Josephine, the wife of Rev. A. W. Lambert, at South Bethlehem; Emma, is married to Carl P. Berger, an architect in Philadelphia; and Cath- arine, the wife of Charles Mertz, a baker in Al- lentown.

Gerhard H. Meyer, the oldest son of Otto, was born at Allentown, March 5, 1871. He learned the butcher business in his father's es- tablishment and was employed by him until in 1895 when he engaged in the business for him- self. After the retirement of his father in 1904 he succeeded him. He was located at 1139 Ham- ilton street from August, 1910 until in 1912.

He is a member of the Allentown Lodge No. 130, B. P. O. E. He married Clementine A. Schnurman in 1895. She is a daughter of Jo- seph Schnurman, whose full history appears in this volume. They have one son : Adolph Meyer, born Sept. 13, 1901.

J. GOTTLOB MEYLE.

J. Gottlob Meyle, a son of Jacob and Catha- rine Von Monsperger, was born in Thamm, Wurtemberg, September 10, 1841. He emi- grated to America in 1867, locating at Catasau- qua, Pa. Here he followed the baking business until 1877, when he located at Coplay and es- tablished the first bakery at this place where now the Egypt Bakery Company is located. He built the Columbian Hotel at Second and Cop-

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lay streets which he afterwards sold to Charles Alberts. In 1900 he sold his business and plant to the Egypt Baking Company, remaining with the same company one year as manager. The same year, 1900, he made a trip to his native country, visiting his mother, his brother Gottfried and his sisters Fredericka, Catharine and Caroline. He also attended the Passion Play, the Paris Exposi- tion and visited the leading European cities in- cluding a trip up the Rhine. In 1901 he estab- lished a new bakery now operated by W. P. Miller, located at 8 North Second street. He successfully conducted this bakery until 1906 when he sold out to W. P. Miller and in the same year erected the beautiful Meyle residence on Second street, one of the most substantial and beautiful homes in Coplay. After disposing of his baking business he lived retired until he died on June 7th, 1909. His family still resides in the Meyle homestead. Mr. Meyle was a loyal supporter of St. John's Lutheran church, having been a member of the finance committee when the church was constructed. He was one of the leading citizens who assisted in securing the trol- ley line through the borough of Coplay. He was one of the organizers of the Coplay National Bank in 1909, and served as one of the directors until his death. In politics he was a staunch Democrat and served his borough for a number of years as councilman and justice of the peace. He was a member of Porter Lodge No. 284, F. and A. M .; Catasauqua Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Allen Commandery No. 20, K. T .; Rajah Temple A. A. O. N. M. S. of Reading ; Lodge No. 847, I. O. O. F .; Gellert Lodge, No. 202 D. O. H. of Allentown, and of the Lehigh Saengerbund of Allentown.

On July 30, 1871, Mr. Meyle was married to Sarah A. Miller, a daughter of Samuel and Mary A. (Peter) Miller, of Heidelberg township. They had children as follows: (1) John W., deceased (m. Bertha Erdell), issue: William G., and Roland M., both graduates of the Cop- lay High School and of the Business College of Allentown; (2) Mary K., single; (3) Carl C., who assisted his father in the baking business and is now looking after the financial and real estate business of the family; (4) George Fred- erick died in infancy; (5) Rachel E. married to Herbert W. Gernerd, chief clerk in the freight office of the L. V. R. R. Co. at Easton. Mr. Gernerd, son of Charles and Sarah A. (Sell) Gernerd, was born at Slatington. When young his parents moved to Coplay. For seven years he worked for the L. V. R. R. Co. at Coplay and for three years he was station agent at Cementon and since May 15th, 1912, he holds the present position. To Mr. and Mrs. Gernerd twins were

born on July 4, 1910, namely, Charles G. and George M.

MICKLEY FAMILY.

The Mickleys of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, are descendants of Jean Jacques Michelet, a Huguenot, son of Rev. Louis Michelet, a Hugue- not refugee, who belonged to the family of Mich- elet in Metz, where he was married to Susan Mangeot, of Metz. They fled to DeuxPonts, or Zweibrücken, Alsace Lorraine, where their eld- est son, Jean Jacques Michelet, was born in the year 1697.

Louis Michelet became the pastor of the French Huguenot church in Zweibrücken, or Deux Ponts. The site is marked on the present building which is the town post office. Rev. Louis Michelet returned with his family to Metz, where four other children were born. He died in Zweibrücken in 1750.

His son, Jean Jacques Michelet, left Rotter- dam, May 6, on ship Hope, arriving in Phila- delphia, August 28, 1733. His name on ship's list is Germanized with many others and is found spelled in different ways, in the various editions of the ship's lists of 30,000 foreigners- Palatines, Germans and Swiss, and Huguenots, who made their homes in Pennsylvania, free to worship God under the leadership of. William Penn, whose interest in the Dutch was through his mother who was from Holland.

The settlement in Oley, Berks county, was of French Huguenots, and John Jacob Mickley purchased land through some one in Oley before he arrived in Philadelphia, as stated in the Penn- sylvania Archives. He visited his relative, Jacob or Abram Levan in Oley before settling in Whitehall, where he was amongst the early settlers. His first tract of land and house was built at Spring Mills, between Laury's and Egypt.

He married Elizabeth Barbara Burkhalter, daughter of Ulrich Burkhalter, of Whitehall township. They had seven children: 1. John Jacob Mickley, b. 1737, d. 1808; m. Susanne Miller, daughter of Christian Miller, of Lynn township, Lehigh county, Pa., twin of Magda- lena. 2. John Martin Mickley, b. 1745, d. 1828; m. Catharine Steckel, daughter of Peter Steckel. 3. John Peter Mickley, b. 1752, d. 1828; m. Eva Keck, of Bucks county, (Bed- minster township). 4. John Henry Mickley, b. 1754, d. 1763; killed by the Indians Oct. 8, 1763, on Laurel Hill, near Spring Mills. 5. Barbara Mickley, b. 1756, d. 1763 ; killed by the Indians Oct. 8, 1763. 6. Magdalena Mickley, twin of John Martin, b. 1745, d. 1827; m. (first) Peter Deshler, son of Adam Deshler,

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near Egypt, settled in Schoensville, Northamp- ton county, Pa. She married (second) Michael Bieber ; no children. 7. Susanne Mickley, m. Andrew Miller ; no children.

The descendants of the Michelet or Mickley family living in the United States, are through the children of John Jacob Mickley. 2. John Martin Mickley, of Lehigh county, who went to Adams county in 1785. 3. John Peter Mick- ley, who escaped from the Indians Oct. 8, 1763, and settled in Bedminster township, Bucks county. 4. Magdalena Mickley, who married Peter Deshler, and settled in Northampton county, near Schoenersville.

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History of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania and a genealogical and biographical record of its families, Vol. III, Part 23

Author: Roberts, Charles Rhoads; Stoudt, John Baer, 1878- joint comp; Krick, Thomas H., 1868- joint comp; Dietrich, William Joseph, 1875- joint comp; Lehigh County Historical Society Publication date: 1914 Publisher: Allentown, Pa. : Lehigh Valley Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 854

Author: Roberts, Charles Rhoads; Stoudt, John Baer, 1878- joint comp; Krick, Thomas H., 1868- joint comp; Dietrich, William Joseph, 1875- joint comp; Lehigh County Historical Society
Publication date: 1914
Publisher: Allentown, Pa. : Lehigh Valley Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 854