Born in Findlay, Ohio, July 16, 1840; the Doctor was the eldest of eight sons comprising the family of Jacob Engle, a native of Somerset County, PA, who was born in 1812. Dr. Engle completed his literary education in Ohio, and in his youth decided to take for his life work the legal profession, but on account of an annoying impediment in his speech, he was compelled to abandon his first chosen profession. Then it was that he decided to take up the study of medicine and surgery, and soon afterward he entered the medical department of the Michigan State University at Ann Arbor. Two years later, in 1868, he was graduated from that institution, after which he took a postgraduate course at the Long Island Medical College, from which he was graduated. For the two years following his graduation, the young physician engaged in tile practice of his profession in Brooklyn, NY. In 1872 he married Miss Katie Madison, of Ann Arbor, MI, and during the same year he came to Newton, where he at once became prominent as a surgeon and also acquired influence as a politician. He was formerly a Republican, his first vote having been cast for President Lincoln, and was a strong anti-slavery advocate. In 1876 he cast in his lot with the Greenback party, and at the same time established the Newton Herald to advocate the principles of that party. On account of the pressure of other duties preventing him from giving the required attention to the paper, the Doctor in 1888 associated with himself William Burney, who has since had the principal charge of the publication of the paper. He has recently become identified with the Union Labor and People's Party, and in 1889 received the nomination on the Union Labor ticket for the State Senate, and received a sufficient number of votes to elect him, although the district was strongly Republican. He is now a member of the Senate from his district. Probably the proudest act of his legislative career was the bill introduced in the Twenty-third General Assembly to establish an Educational Blind School for Adults to be located at Knoxville, Iowa. The bill passed, and with it an appropriation for the construction of the buildings and the institution is now in successful operation, being the third school of the kind in the United States. Socially, he is prominent in the Masonic order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and tile Knights of Labor.
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