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RINGEL, GEO. E. farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 10, P.O. Kane. The above named gentleman is a native of Germany, where he was born in the year 1840, fourth child of John and Mary Ann Ringel. John Ringel was a farmer and miller by occupation, who is described as a man of energetic disposition and business capacity. He died many years ago, in his native land, Mrs. R. is still living. Young Ringel, at the youthful age of thirteen, severed the ties that bound him to the old country, and became a passenger on board a sailing vessel bound for America. Landing in New York, he remained in the metropolitan city working at such odd jobs as he could. Removing to Pennsylvania he there secured employment in a bakery; thence to Philadelphia and thence to Baltimore and Norfolk, Virginia, where he worked as a journeyman. He then proceeded to Portsmouth. A resident of Charleston, South Carolina, when the war broke out, he was compelled to enter the Confederate service, where he served three years. Taking French leave from the boys in gray, he eventually made his way to New York State where he became a farmer, and where he married, December 3d, 1865, Miss Agnes Bush, a daughter of Michael Bush. In 1868 he made his way to Greene County, where he has since been identified with the farming interest, and where his liberality and kindness of heart, gain for him the friendship of all.