Husband Daniel Norman App 1 2 3
Born: 28 Apr 1853 - near Selinsgrove, Snyder Co, PA 4
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Father: Isaac App (1824-1872) 1 3 4
Mother: Mary Holtzman (1825-1887) 1 3 4
Marriage: 8 Feb 1882 5
Wife Mary Elizabeth Dunkel 3 5
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Father: John Conrad Dunkel (1832- ) 6
Mother: Catharine Dunkel (1833-1893) 7
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1 M Isaac Dunkel App 3 5
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Spouse: Gertrude Rine ( - )
Spouse: Dorothy Margerum ( - ) 3
2 F Mary Edna App 3 5
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3 M Robert Lincoln App 3 5
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Spouse: Evelyn Jarrett ( - ) 3
General Notes: Husband - Daniel Norman App
"... born on the App farm two miles north of Selinsgrove. By inheritance and purchase he came into possession of the farm of 250 acres. He specialized in thorobred stock until his untimely, accidental death. Mr. App was a member of the State Legislature several terms."
His work in school was unusually thorough, and he was far advanced for his years. A retentive memory and close application, coupled with a natural thirst for knowledge, made up in his case for many years of school work, as the death of his father just at the time he wished to enter upon a collegiate course necessitated complete alterations of his plans. The fall before he was sixteen he began teaching school, and taught in all five terms. His summers were devoted to as-sisting in the cultivation of the home farm, and at an early age he was familiar with the best methods of agricultural work. After the father's death the oldest two boys managed the farm until 1876, when the estate published a notice of a sale of personal property, and the farm came under the management of D. Norman App. On November 22, 1882, D. Norman App, Francis S. App and Henry J. App became the purchasers, and later D. Norman bought the interests of the other two brothers. This farm is a well-tilled tract of 228 acres, improved with modern buildings, and all the accessories that prove the owner a progressive farmer of the nineteenth century. It is one of the largest and finest tracts of land in the county, and is in the highest state of cultivation. It had been in the possession of the immediate ancestors of the owner, a representative of the fourth generation, for more than a century. The Patent from the Commonwealth was granted by Thomas Mifflin, Governor, to Simon Snyder, later Gov. Snyder, on Au-gust 27, 1790; on September 10, 1790, he sold the undivided third interest to Anthony Selin. On November 18, 1790, Simon Snyder and Anthony Selin and Catherine, his wife, conveyed this same tract of land, containing then 253 acres, to Matthias App. On August 5, 1818, Matthias App and his wife, Elizabeth, granted the same to his son, John App, and he by his deeds, dated June 24, 1857, and March 6, 1871, conveyed to Isaac App this tract. After his death it descended to his four children, and by purchasing their share D. Norman App has become the sole owner. This farm lay about two miles north of Selins Grove, within easy reach of the Selins Grove and Sunbury markets. Mr. App met with remarkable success in raising blooded stock, for which purpose he was equipped with one of the finest and largest bank barns in this section of the State, being 100 feet in length. He was always a great admirer of the Percheron draft horse. He raised registered Red Polled cattle and Poland China hogs. He was a firm believer in the principles and policy of the Republican party; though not in any sense an office-seeker, he served at least three terms as township auditor. Both he and his wife were members of the Trinity Lutheran Church at Selins Grove.