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EMANUEL STOTLER, farmer, post office Negley, was born on the farm where he now resides, June 6, 1819. His grandfather, Jacob Stotler, probably from Germany, died in Franklin county, Pa. His widow came to Penn township in 1790 with four sons and two daughters: Emanuel, Henry, John, Jacob, Elizabeth (Reamer) and Martha (Coon). Of these Emanuel was thirteen years old when they came here. He married Elizabeth Bowman, of Lancaster county, and lived and died on this farm, passing away in 1868. His wife died four years prior, in her eighty-seventh year. Her parents, Henry and Barbara (Hockman) Bowman, were early settlers here, and came of German blood. Emanuel and Elizabeth Stotler had thirteen children: Jacob, Mary (Snively), Elizabeth (Stoner), Barbara (Bright), Henry B., David, Ann (Alter), Martha (deceased), Margaret (Coon), Emanuel, Nancy (Logan), Eve (Alter) and Catherine (Coon). Of these Emanuel always remained on the home farm; served as school director, assessor and collector, and politically was a republican, as was his father, who was first a whig. Mr. Stotler’s family is associated with Plum Creek Presbyterian Church, but his ancestors were connected with the German Reformed. In 1851 Emanuel Stotler married Nancy Alter, a native of Plum township, and daughter of Jacob and Jane (Bratton) Alter, of German and Scotch-Irish descent. Mr. and Mrs. Stotler’s children are David R., Elizabeth Jane, Theodosia Emma (Mrs. T. B. DeArmit), Lucinda Alter, Sarah Minerva, Ada B. and Harvey K. Mary Elvira (the fifth) and Lily Eve (the youngest) are deceased.