Biography

11/12/1809 - 12/13/1894

MENGEL (MENGLE), Jeremiah, a Representative from Berks County; born, November 12, 1809 in Windsor Township, Berks County, Pa.; private, Company G, 42^nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia (1863, Civil War); blacksmith; farmer; justice of the peace, Ontelaunee Township; school director, Ontelaunee Township; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1854; postmaster, United States Postal Service, East Berkley, Berks County (1875); died, December 13, 1894 in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania; interred, Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.