 1857 - 1936 (78 years)
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| Name |
Amandon Lamm Bickel |
| Born |
15 Oct 1857 |
North Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
06 Jun 1936 |
Lower Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania |
| Buried |
09 Jun 1936 |
Saint John's (Hain's) Church Cemetery, Wernersville, Berks County, Pennsylvania |
| Person ID |
I007336 |
Strausstown Roots | ~HasslerFreeman |
| Last Modified |
25 Jan 2016 |
| Family |
Ellen Magdalena Matz, b. 12 Jun 1860, Berks County, Pennsylvania , d. 07 Jun 1935, Wernersville, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 74 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. Harvey Cleveland Bickel, b. 6 Feb 1885, Leinbachs, Bern Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania , d. 03 Dec 1972, Baltimore, Maryland (Age 87 years) |
| | 2. Paul Jared Bickel, b. 01 Apr 1886, Ohio |
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| Family ID |
F01954 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Sources |
- [S151] Montgomery Bios, Morton L. Montgomery, (. H. Beers & Company of Chicago, 1909), p. 874.
Amandon Lamm Bickel, one of the prominent teachers of Lower Heidelberg, was born in North Heidelberg township, Berks county, Oct. 15, 1857.
Amandon Lamm Bickel, son of Jared and Leah, attended the public schools of North Heidelberg in the winter and worked on his father's farm in the summer. During the spring and summer of 1878 he attended Oley Academy, then the leading school of its kind in county. It was under the principalship of Dr. D. E. Schoedler at that time. The school term of 1878-79 he spent studying at the Bernville grammar school, presided over by Prof. G. A. Sellers; and in the spring and summer terms he went to the Bernville Select School, presided over by Michael A. Gruber, A. M. He then passed the teacher's examination under Prof. S. A. Baer, and began his career by teaching, a profession he has since followed with great success. He continued his studies in the spring and summer terms of 1883 at Oley Academy, and later he studied under private tutors. He has acquired a permanent certificate, and has taught in all thirty terms in Lower Heidelberg, giving excellent satisfaction not only to the trustees but to the patrons of the schools. In his long service he has witnessed the lengthening of the school term from five to seven months, the freeing of text-books, the introduction of school libraries and modern equipment and the doubling of the teachers' salaries. He is an active member of the Berks County Teachers' Reading Union, and has received a diploma for following out the course of reading recommended, since its organization by County Superintendent Zechman.
Mr. Bickel was formerly a member of the North Heidelberg Church, where he was confirmed by Rev. Thomas Leinbach. When he changed his residence to Lower Heidelberg he became a member of Hain's Reformed church. He has served in the consistory as deacon and elder, and for a number of years he has been superintendent of the Marsh Sunday-school.
In 1884 Mr. Bickel was married to Ellen Magdalena Matz, born June 17, 1860, daughter of John and Susanna (Fisher) Matz, both of whom are buried at Epler's Church. Two children have blessed this union: Harvey Cleveland, born Feb. 6, 1885, private secretary to United States Commissioner of Navigation Chamberlain, at Washington, D. C.; and Paul Jared, born April 1, 1886, a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, and now an instructor in mathematics at Mercersburg Academy.
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