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HENRY W. NAGLE, a farmer and quarryman of Pottsgrove township, was born in the township where he now lives, September 19, 1845. He is the son of Frederick and Caroline (Weaver) Nagle.

Frederick Nagle (father) was born March 11, 1821, in Douglass township, Berks county, and was baptized by Rev. Spencer. His wife was born October 26, 1826, being the daughter of Jacob Weaver. They resided in Glasgow for many years, being prominent residents of that place. He was a miller by trade. In politics he was a Democrat, and they were members of the Reformed church. Their children were as follows: Jacob, born February 19, 1844, died from a wound received in the Civil war, which resulted in lockjaw, dying in the hospital July 8, 1862, and is buried in Pottstown cemetery, was in Company A, Fifty-third Regiment, under Colonel Brooks; Levi, born April 16, 1848, lives in Florida, where he owns a large orange grove, married (first wife) Miss Scandall, and had four children, married (second wife) and has three children; Augustus, born April 8, 1850, died in infancy; William, born November 16, 1851, married Miss Levan, and had four children, only one of which is living, he died in 1883, buried at Mount Zion cemetery, his widow and child living in Philadelphia; Hannah, born October 6, 1854, married John Keck, a butcher in Pottstown, and they have five children; George, born April 16, 1857, married (first wife) Miss Reifsnyder, having three children, and (second wife) Miss Swavely, having three children; Sarah, born October 26, 1858, married James Bechtel, an engineer for Ellis & Lessig, Pottstown, they having two children; Caroline (deceased), died in 1881, married Mr. Freedman, a lumberman in Luzerne county, they having no children; Harrison, born July 8, 1875, married and lives in Pottstown, they having one child; Henry W.

Frederick Nagle (father) married (second wife) Emma Hartranft, who is living in Pottstown. They had four children, Harrison, Frederic, Joseph, Mary. Frederick Nagle died March 27, 1887, at the age of sixty-seven. Mrs. Nagle resides at 450 Beech street, Pottstown.

John and Sallie (Evans) Nagle, the grandparents of Henry W. Nagle, lived in Pottsgrove township, Montgomery county, where he was a miller during his lifetime. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and a prominent resident of the county. He died at the age of eighty-nine, his wife dying several years before him, and they are buried in Pottstown cemetery. Their children: John, Levi, Samuel, Frederick, William, and several others who died young. Jacob and Hannah (Yocum) Weaver, maternal grandparents of Henry W. Nagle, lived in Berks county, where he was engaged in the furnace business. He died at the age of eighty years, and his wife survived him for many years, both being buried in Pottstown cemetery. They had many children, all deceased.

Henry W. Nagle received his education in the schools in the vicinity of his home, leaving school to work on his father’s farm, at the age of fourteen. October 16, 1862, he volunteered his services to the Union, and enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Seventy-fifth Regiment, under Colonel Samuel A. Dyer, and afterwards joined the Sixty-eighth Regiment, Company H, under Colonel Tuppen. He endured the hardships of war for three years, and participated in many battles and skirmishes. He was discharged in July, 1865. Returning to his home, Mr. Nagle worked for his father on the farm and in the stone quarry, and in time carried on the business for himself.

Henry W. Nagle married Barbara, daughter of Louis and Catherine (Keeler) Byer. Her father was a mechanic and a manufacturer in Pottstown for many years, and he and his wife are buried in Pottstown cemetery. They had eleven children: Amansina, Lucretia, Celeste, Jerome, Barbara, Mary, Jefferson, Louis, Henry and Catharine.

Henry W. and Barbara Nagle had four children: Louis Frederick, married Mary Shaner; Cora, married Anson D. Longaker, and they live in Pottstown, where he is a templet maker, they have three children; Catherine, a milliner in Pottstown; Anna, a teacher in the public schools of Pottstown.

Henry W. Nagle built the house in which he lives in 1884, and few better or more improved farms will be found than his. In politics he is a Republican, and has long been a school director for his township. He and his wife are members of the Baptist church of Pottstown. Mr. Nagle is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Post No. 595, Pottstown.