George A. Deagle
GEORGE A. DEAGLE, Bucyrus, is a son of John and Barbara (Hoffman) Deagle. who were residents of Lancaster Co.. Penn. His birth occurred Jan. 27, 1828. His father was a shoemaker by trade about the year 1811. He moved his family to a place near Ashland. Ohio what was then Richland CO., but is now Ashland. The subject of this sketch received but a meager education, attending school until his 13th year only, when, coming to this State with his father, he began working by the month as a farm hand, at which he continued for about nine years. The family then moved to this county, settling permanently in Liberty Township. He then engaged in work for six years as farmer for Mr. George Lauck, beginning at $120 a year, his employer raising his wages to $180 a year, on account of his industrious habits. On March 26, 1857, he was married to Rebecca J. McMichael of Liberty Township. she was a daughter of David and Margaret (Anderson) McMichael, one of the earliest pioneer families of this county. She was born in Liberty Township on Sept. 30, 1834 and of this marriage four children are living: Mary Margaret, John G., Eddie (who died at 2 years of age), Ella J. and George W. The mother of this interesting family of children died April 23, 1877, of congestion of the Lungs. After marriage, Mr. Deagle rented for eight years, of Mr. Lauck, the same farm on which he had already spent six years, meeting with success as a farmer until the year 1865, when he purchased his present home on Poplar street in Bucyrus, where he was engaged in teaming and farming until the year 1870, when he was elected to serve a term as Street Commissioner of the city of Bucyrus. He is a member of Howard Lodge. K. of H., a Democrat politically, and a member of St. Paul's English Lutheran Church.
From History of Crawford County and Ohio, Baskin & Battey, Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1881