B6—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, November 22,1980 t? j
— Lentury harm award
Eighth generation operating Banner view Farm
MARIETTA - Ban
ner View Farm of Irwin and
Grace Engle, R 1 Marietta,
has been in the family for
eight generations and was
purchased m 1802 by the first
Engle family to set foot in
the United States from
Switzerland.
The Engles, spelled
“Engel” in those days,
settled by the Susquehanna
River on land adjoining the
present farm in 1754. In 1802,
Irwin’s ancestors purchased
his present farm for the sum
of “4,000 pounds of current
Pennsylvania money in gold
or silver coins.” This
averages 19te pounds per
acre for the original 203
acres but Engle says he’s not
sure of the value which that
represented.
The original land was
eventually divided between
three families, with Irwin’s
father retaining 85 acres. In
1944, his father purchased
back 24 ot the original acres;
in 1968 he purchased 44
acres; and last year Irwin
purchased an additional 79
acres to bring the total
acreage to 233, with 230 of it
tillable.
According to Engle, the
farm has been in a variety of
crops over the years, in
cluding tobacco, wheat,
barley and com, and he and
his wife presently raise com
and alfalfa as the mam
crops.
They are milking 145 head
of Holstems and have about
212 heifers. Irwin’s brother
Melvm also helps with the
bam and field work. The
Engles have one daughter,
Daphne, 7, who helps feed
calves.
The dairy business began
with the marriage of Engle’s
parents about 50 years ago
when they began “having a
few cows and eventually had
a stable for 16, which were
milked by hand,” Engle
Manorfield Farm
(Continued from Page B 5)
A dairy kept by an aunt in
the family records that she
watched the Columbia
Bridge burning “from a hill
above the farm” during the
Civil War. The second Jacob
in the line of descendants,
who owned the farm from
1830, operated a still and
transported whiskey to
Philadelphia in barrels.
Charles and Mary have
three grown children. David
C., pastor of Ross Street
United Methodist church;
Judith 8011, Hummelstown; This picturesque century
and Karen Troop, farm continues as a working
Quarryville. farm after seven
SheUenberger does all of generations of being tilled by
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Photo from 1900 shows farm buildings of Engle farm, which are believed to
have been built around time land was purchased in 1802.
said By the time he was 10,
Irwin remembers having
increased the herd size to
about 30, and because his
father had a heart condition,
his mother, the children and
hired help accomplished the
work.
Engle studied vocational
agriculture at Elizabethtown
High School, and was a
member of its FFA chapter.
He began buying dairy cows
at that time and added one
York 4-H beef club meets
YORK The monthly
meeting of the York County
4-H Baby Beef Club was held
on November 10 at the 4-H
Center.
At the recent York-Adams
baby beef roundup and sale,
members received an
average of 87 cents a pound
for the steers sold. Also,
there were 14 steers selected
president ot the board of
directors of Manor Mutual
Insurance Company and has
his own agency. He is active
in the Mountville Lions, and
the Masonic Lodge. Both
Charles and Mary are
members of the Mountville
United Methodist Church
and Mary belongs to Farm
Women Society 4 and is a
member of the Mountwaybia
Club She retired after 25
years as a librarian in the
Penn Manor School District.
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row of ten cows of his own to
his father’s herd. Following
graduation, Engle worked
with his father for three
years until his death and
then worked for his mother
for another IVz years before
purchasing the farm from
her.
He said, “We gradually
increased the size of the
herd.” The cows are con
tamed in a free-stall bam
and are milked in the older
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Engle said he had always
been told he was the fifth or
six generation to farm the
land, but closer study
revealed his family to be the
eighth generation. His
searching was made
somewhat easier because of
an Engle family history, a
bound volume covering the
years of the family from
their Swiss beginnings to
their home at Wild Cat along
Treasurer - Annette Walters,
Asst. Treasurer - Chris
Kinsley, Reporter - Julie
Myers, Asst. Reporter - Tim
Kinsley, Historian - Deb
Hoffman, Asst. Historian -
Cathy Shive.
Committee meetings for
the upcoming banquet were
held following the business
meeting.
the Susquehanna up until the
year 1927. He speculates that
they settled by the river
because of its importance as
a transportation source.
Engle says he imagines
their cluef reason for leaving
Europe was for religious
freedom and remarked that
the ongmal Engles founded
the River Brethren Church
on their farm. Part of that
sect became Brethren m
Christ
While no dates can be
found on either the large
farm home which, was
constructed in two sections
or the bam, it is assumed
that they were built shortly
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after the land was pur-j
chased. '
The Engles are active
members of the Maytown
Brethren in Christ Church,
and belong to the Lancaster
County Holstein Association
and Lancaster County
Farmers Association. Engle
is a member of the
Elizabethtown Voung
Farmers Association
With accurate records and
a family history, the Engles
are proud of the history of
their family, but are quietly
carrying on the long
tradition of farming spread
over the eight generations
which lived in this country