[p. 798] residing on his excellent farm of forty-three acres, which is situated seven miles southeast of New Castle, was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, December 18, 1860, and is a son of Conrad and Delilah (Nagel) Syling.
Conrad Syling was born in Germany, and was sixteen years of age when he came to America. He located in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, where he lived until after his marriage, and when his son David was four years old, moved to Slippery Rock Township, Lawrence County, where he bought a farm of eighty-six acres. He died in Mercer County, but his burial was in Slippery Rock Township, where he was well known.
David Syling attended the district schools and assisted on the home farm until his marriage, when he was twenty-one years of age, after which he went to Mercer County and worked his mother's farm there. From that farm Mr. Syling went into the steel mills east of Beaver Falls, in Beaver County, where he continued for seven years. Mr. Syling then came to his excellent farm in Slippery Rock Township, where he carries on general farming, and makes a specialty of growing berries.
In 1881 Mr. Syling was married to Nancy Freed, who is a daughter of Stanley Freed, of Beaver Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Syling have six children: John, Lilly, Edward, Mabel, Inez and Grover. John was a successful teacher for seven years and is now taking a scientific course at Ada College. He married Florence Myers, and they reside in Ohio. Lilly married James Elliott and they have one child, Luella May.
In his political views Mr. Syling is independent, doing his own thinking and voting as his judgment dictates. He has always been a useful citizen, and for nine years served as township supervisor. With his family, he belongs to the Harmony Baptist Church.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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