[Ancestor] Nageli

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1 M Jacob Negley ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany
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         Spouse: Elizabeth [Unk] (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 1734 1

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Nageli

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The Negley family is a very old one in western Pennsylvania. They came originally from Switzerland, where the first of the name of whom there is positive record was born in the Canton of Berne. This John Negley was a man of deep religious feeling, and of much personal courage and power. He was one of those who went with the famous Zwingli on his preaching excursions into Germany from Switzerland, in the cause of the Reformation. Later in life, in the year 1685, the very year of the birth of the two greatest exponents of the Reformation in music, Bach and Handel, John Negley accompanied by his two brothers, Casper and Benjamin, left forever the scene of his religious labors, and emigrated to America. One of the brothers settled in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and from him sprang the branch of the Negley family, residing in Allegheny county. [GPHWP, 460]

The Negley family is descended from John Nageli, of Canton Berne, Switzerland, co-temporary and fellow worker with Zwingli, with whom he went from Switzerland into Germany in the sixteenth century, preaching the Reformation. The original Swiss spelling of the name, "Nageli," still maintains with the Swiss branch of the family, was first modified to Naegly, and a century since to its present form, Negley. The Swiss name has a floral signification, it meaning "a little pink," and the crest used by one branch of the Swiss family in modern times presents the carnation as its distinguishing feature. The name is beloved by the Swiss, as also by the Germans, through their devotion to Hans George Nageli, the illustrious composer, lecturer and author of valuable works on music, member of congress, and at the same time president of the Swiss Association of Music. He was born in the Canton of Zurich, May 26, 1768, and died at Zurich in December, 1836. He is affectionately known as "Pater Nageli," "Father of the Folk Songs of Switzerland," and founder of choral societies. Another illustrations member of the Swiss family was Carl Wilhelm Nageli, naturalist, born in 1817 near Zurich, professor of botany at Zurich and later at Munich. He opened new fields in all branches in botany and was the author of a large number of master works on this science. A German branch of the family has long been identified with Heidelberg, Professor Nageli having occupied with distinction the chair of medicine in Heidelberg University. [GPHWP, 1347]

The first Negley of which we have record settled at or near Frankfort, Germany, having fled from Switzerland after the death of the reformer Zwingle, whose firm supporter he was. As layman and deacon, he labored to disseminate the new doctrine in Germany.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 270.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1348.