Whiteside County Biographies 1908
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Whiteside Biographies 1908 > David H. Lingel


14 May 2005

Source: History of Whiteside County, IL  Vol. II
The Pioneer Publishing Co.  1908
(Reprinted by: Higginson Book Co., Salem, MA)

Transcribed by: Denise McLoughlin
Tampico Area Historical Society
www.tampicohistoricalsociety.citymax.com

Pages 971-72

DAVID H. LINGEL

David H. Lingel, whose activity and entergies are concentrated upon the conduct and development of a successful grocery business at the corner of Thirteenth avenue and Fourth street in Sterling, is a native of Franklin county, Pennsylvania, having been born near Chambersburg on the 14th of April, 1851, his parents being John and Frances (Finnefrock) Lingel, who were likewise natives of the same county. The family was an old one of Pennsylvania, for the paternal grandfather lived in Franklin county and died there when a young man. His wife, Mrs. Barbara (Moffat) Lingel, long survived him and passed away in Sterling at the ripe old age of eighty-three years. The maternal grandfather, John Finnefrock, also died in the Keystone state when a comparatively young man.

John Lingel, father of our subject, early learned and followed the shoemaker's trade, while later he became a farmer and subsequently engaged in house painting and paper hanging. He came to Sterling in the fall of 1864 and there resided until 1905, when he went to Chicago, where he now makes his home. His wife, however, died in 1866 in the faith of the Lutheran church, of which she was a member, while Mr. Lingel belonged to the United Brethren church in former years but is now a Methodist. For his second wife he married Maria Kissell. Six children were born of the first marriage: David H.; Catharine, the wife of A. N. Mallory, of Chicago; Anna, the wife of William Starr, of Lamoilled, Illinois; Emma, living in Sterling; John F., of this city; and Sadie, the wife of E. H. Marriott, of Lamoille, Illinois. By the second marriage the father had two children: Mabel, now the wife of William Smart, of Sterling; and Bert.

David H. Lingel was only thirteen years of age when he became a resident of Sterling and his education, begun in the common schools of Pennsylvania, was supplemented by the two years' study in the schools of Sterling. He then began clerking in a grocery store and spent four years until April, 1907, with the exception of two years devoted to painting. for fourteen years he was in the employ of Isaac Wolf, with whom he continued until the death of Mr. Wolf, when he embarked in business on his own account in April, 1907, establishing a grocery store at the corner of Thirteenth avenue and Fourth street. Already he has secured a liberal patronage and he has a neat, attractive and well equipped store, in which he is meeting with well  merited success.

On the 15th of June, 1875, Mr. Lingel was married to Miss Jennie E. Little, a daughter of William and Agnes (Porter) Little. They have two children: William J., who is with his father in the store; and Agnes Lillian, the wife of Martin M. Wasley, a resident of Chicago.

Mr. and Mrs. Lingel are members of the First Methodist Episcopal church and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. The only office that he has ever held was that of tax collector in 1884, his aspirations having been in other directions than in the line of officeholding. For forty-three years he has lived in Sterling and is well known in its business cirlcles as a man ever reliable in trade interests and at the same time possessing a spirit of marked enterprise and diligence.

 


 

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