Daniel Dobbin Nickle (1818-1909)

History

Excerpted from Ira C. Nickle Jr., "Nickle-Auld-Brown-Burchett-Brown-Petzold"

12. Daniel Dobbin Nickle was born in Centre County, Pennsylvania on 15 April, 1818. He may have been named for Dr. Daniel Dobbin of Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania.

Daniel married Mary Ann Myers in Venango County daughter of George Singery and Eleanor (Burns) Myers who owned Myers Mill four miles south of Van.
George Singery Myers was a son of George Myers and Elizabeth Singery. George Myers’ father, Henry Myers, built several of the first mills in Richland Township.
The 1860 census of Richland Township, Venango County enumerated Daniel D. Nickle, 42, farmer, Mary A. Nickle, 32, George S. Nickle, 13, Ellen B. Nickle, 17, Hannah Jane Nickle, 9, William M. Nickle, 7, Oliver Nickle, 5, Sylvester Nickle, 3, Hannah Nickle, 81, widow, Ireland, Mary Nickle, 40. Daniel Nickle inherited his father’s land. His real estate was valued at $1,000 and his personal estate of $200. His mother Hannah was enumerated in his household.

Daniel died on 24 December 1909. He was buried in the Nickleville Presbyterian Church Cemetery. His children were:

A. George Singery Nickle was born in 1847. He was named for his grandfather George Singery Myers. He married Sarah Houser.

B. Eleanor Burns Nickle was born in 1849. She was named for her grandmother Eleanor (Burns) Myers. She married Peter Lovell Pryor

C. Hannah Jane Nickle was born in 1851. She married John H. Donaldson.

D. William McCurdy Nickle was born in 1853. He married (1) Lulu Grant a daughter of Alexander Grant, a justice of the peace and school director in Richland Township, and Jane Jolly. William married (2) Ida McCullough on 12 April 1856.

E. Reverend Oliver Hazzard Nickle was born in 1855. He was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Martha Elliott Lynn daughter of Charles Linn, a stone mason and school director, and Catherine Rumberger. In 1907-08 he was pastor of Barnes/Glade Run Circuit in Western Pennsylvania. He officiated at the marriage of his granddaughter Kathryn S. Sweet after he was retired and 86 years of age. She married William J. Mee at the family dairy farm at Randolph, New York

F. Sylvester Nickle was born in 1857.

G. Henry Francis Nickle.

H. Reverend Solomon Myers Nickle was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Susan Catherine Fye a daughter of George Washington Fye and Sarah Jane Mullins. Their daughter Ruth Nickle married Grant Calvin Martin.