Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Armel, John October 8, 1816 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 312
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

JOHN ARMEL.  Some years before the Revolutionary War, a 
Mr Armel came from Hamburg, Germany, and settled in 
Pennsylvania, Franklin county, somewhere east of the 
mountains.  He was a miller and was supposed to have 
operated a mill at the place of his first location.  Later 
he removed to what is now Westmoreland county. 

    A colony of four families came over the mountains 
together: two Armel families, a family named Smith, and one 
of the name of Stockbarger.  They were all Lutheran and 
settled near the present location of Pleasant Unity, and 
took tomahawk claims on large tracts of land.

    John Armel and Daniel Armel were soldiers in the 
Revolution, and were also in the Indian wars that followed. 
 

Jacob Armel was born May 11, 1784, and was married to Susan 
Bonbright, daughter of Daniel Bonbright who was a native of 
Franklin county.  Jacob Armel's family consisted of ten 
children. John Armel, the subject, the second son, was born 
in Westmoreland county, October 8, 1816.  He worked at 
carpentry during his younger days.  He had a poor education. 
 In 1848 he built a mill at New Haven for Joseph Strickler 
and Daniel Kain, and in 1850 bought the mill in Perry 
township known at the Washington Run steam mill, and 
operated it till 1857 when he bought one half interest in 
the mill on Little Redstone creek where he now resides.  He 
built this mill in 1872 and purchased the other half of it 
in 1889.  

    He was married in 1852 to Margaret Essington of Fayette 
county, They have two children: John Armel and Mary C Armel. 
 Mary C Armel married Humphrey F Blythe, and John Armel is 
living at home.  

    Mr Armel is a member of the I O of O F.  He has held 
several township offices at different times. 

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