[160-26] JOSEPHUS YEAKEL, b Apr. 19, 1839; d Mar. 31, 1901; s John and Amy (Michener) Yeakel [160-9]; m Sept. 17, 1860, SOPHIA M. HARMAR, b ——_——-; d Jan. 13, 1917; dau John W. Harmar.
Josephus Yeakel enlisted as a private in Company A, 150th Pa. Volunteers (Bucktails), in 1862, and served during the years of 1863, 1864, and 1865, until peace was declared. After returning home he worked at the printing business, which he had learned with Major Freas of Germantown, and in 1867 commenced publishing the “Manayunk Sentinel.”
He represented the Twenty-first and Twenty-eighth wards in the Legislature of Pa. during 1875, 1876, 1877, and 1878, and on January 1, 1879, was appointed an assessor of real estate and personal property in Phila. for the term of five years. Mr. Yeakel also printed the first edition of the Genealogy of the Schwenkfelders.
Children (8):
Parents’ family: [160-9] John Yeakel and Amy Michener
Children’s own families: