QUIGGLE-Henry - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

HENRY QUIGGLE, farmer and stock raiser, Attica, was born in Adams county Pennsylvania, November 18 1841. His ancestry was German, and his parents were George and Mary (Shely) Quiggle. He was reared a farmer, and received a common school education. In 1865 he came to Fountain county, and spent two years working as a hand on a farm.

In the autumn of 1866 he returned to Pennsylvania and was married February 28 1867, to Susan Whitmer, daughter of Henry and Katherine (Eiholz) Whitmer, born January 7 1845. In the spring of 1867 he returned with his wife to Fountain county and has since lived here. They occasionally pay visits to their native home.

They have six children; Cora b. November 4 1867, Laura b. November 13 1869, John b. March 4 1872, Ira b. February 20 1874, Frank b. August 27 1876, and Elmer b. September 20 (died October 25 1878). Mrs. Quiggle belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Quiggle is a member of the Richland Lodge No. 205 A.F. and A.M. at Newtown. He was reared a democrat but had too much intelligence to allow his manhood and usefulness to be impaired by party bondage and so has torn away, when he thought reason dictated, from the attachments formed by early training before his judgment had matured, and voted the republican ticket and principles as often as the other.