Bickel, Henry M.

Posted By: Jane Barr Torres
Date: 16 March 2002

Source: A HISTORY OF DARKE COUNTY, OHIO; Chicago : W.H. Beers & Co., 1880. p.752

HENRY M. BICKEL, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 8 ; P. 0. Hil Grove; was born Jan. 2, 1831, in Montgomery County, Ohio, and came with his parents to Darke County in April following ; his father, Andrew Bickel, was born in Centre County, Penn., Sept. 2, 1805, and married Nancy Moyer, who was born, in Virginia Aug. 27, 1810 ; both hale and hearty, are now living on the farm they bought in 1830, at that time in an unbroken wilderness, in Washington Township, though they experienced all the hardships and privations so well known to all the early settlers of this portion of Ohio, but now, instead of the wilderness, amid the most fertle and productive agricultural land of the State, Henry M., the subject of this sketch, has owned the farm (234 acres) where he lives twenty-three years ; this also has he redeemed from wilderness and swamps to bountiful productiveness, being among, if not the very first man to "blind tile," which is the making of the fine farms in Darke County ; now he is surrounded by abundance and comfort ; at 21 years, he was not worth a dollar, and possesses to-day the first silver dollar that he earned, by cutting eight cords of hardwood. June 12,1856, he married Mary Crumrine ; she was born in Darke County July 8, 1839 ; they have had six children, viz., John C., Lucy C. (deceased), Mary A., Dora (deceased), Harrison C. and Henry I.

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