Biography of Jacob EnglePerry Engle, M. D. was born July 16, 1840 in Findley, Ohio. The Dr. was eldest of eight sons, comprising the family of Jacob Engle, a native of Somerset County, Pa., who was born in 1812. Jacob Engle was a mechanical genius and a man of considerable ability. Early in life he went to Maryland, where he married Louisa Probst, who was of French and English extraction. In 1838 he removed to Ohio and located in Findley, where he became a prosperous and well-to-do mechanic. A man of broad views and liberal education, he gave his children the best possible educational advantages up to the time of his death, which occurred in Ohio in 1858. His widow survived him for many years, passing away in Metz in 1884. Children of Jacob and Louisa were Perry, Theodore and Alexander. ~ Portrait and Biographic Record of Jasper, Marshall and Grundy Counties, Iowa, 1894, page 222. |