Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Biehl, Jacob March 17, 1857 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

JACOB BIEHL,
a native of the old and a citizen of the new world, is the senior member of
the firm of Biehl & Roehel, of Tyrone.  He was born in Reihnprensen, Prussia,
March 17, 1857, and is a son of Michael and Barbara (Singer) Biehl.  Michael
Biehl was a native and a life-long resident of Reihnprensen, where he died in
1880, at fifty-eight years of age.  He was an industrious farmer, and wedded
Barbara Singer, who died in the same year as her husband, whose junior she
was in age by five years.  They reared a family of children, of whom two sons
and three daughters are living.  Of these surviving children four came to
America in 1881: John, a glass blower of Jeannette, Westmoreland county;
Mary, widow of a Mr. Schueltz, and who now resides at Spiketown, Allegheny
county; Anna, wife of Peter Bucheist, who is now employed in a rolling mill
in Pittsburg; and Jacob.
   Jacob Biehl was reared in his native province, and received his education in
the excellent public schools which Prussia has had in successful operation for
the last half century. At twenty-four years of age he left his native country
and came to Pennsylvania, where he was a resident of Elizabethtown, Lancaster
county, for one year.  At the end of that time he went to Pittsburg, where he
was employed in a leading brewery until October, 1890, when he came to Tyrone
and formed a partnership with Louis Roehel.  They leased the plant of the
Bavarian Brewing Company, which they have operated successfully ever since. 
The brewery has a capacity of two thousand barrels a year.  It is located
well for business, and the malt house and brewery buildings are substantial
and well equipped throughout with first-class modern machinery.  Under Mr.
Biehl's energetic management the business has developed to its present large
dimensions, and by his knowledge as a practical brewer, an article of beer
has been produced for which an extensive demand exists, both at home and
abroad.
   On May 7, 1884, Mr. Biehl was united in marriage with Mary Lippel, and to
this union has been born a family of four children: Mamie, Jacob, jr.,
Charles, and Franklin.
   Jacob Biehl is a democrat in politics, and has firm faith in the principles
of the party of Jefferson, Jackson and Cleveland.  He is a member of St.
Matthew's Catholic church of Tyrone, and possesses his full share of energy
and patient industry, which are two of the distinguishing characteristics of
the great German race.

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