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Note: e Legislature twice. He lived in Trenton until after Elizabeth died. He was also land agent to Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. He had four daughters, that there is no information on as of 1998. From the Democrat Advertiser: Nov. 28, 1890, Hon. Baltis Pickel died at hishome in Flemington, New Jersey on Monday afternoon, the 24th of November 1890, after an illness of about two weeks, of sub-acute meningitis, aged 66 years, 7 months and 17 days. He was born in Alexandria Township, near Mount Pleasant, Hunterdon County, N.J., and was the oldest sone of the late Hon. Jonathan Pickel, of that place, so long and favorably known and kindly remembered by the older people of this county and State. Our acquaintance with the subject of this notice dates back almost to boyhood. He was engaged for some time during the term of Joseph Besson, then County Clerk, as his assistant in that office. Subsequently he became a merchant and afterwards a farmer and miller at Everittstown, N.J., where he married Elizabeth Holcombe, the daughter and only child of Dr. Henry Holcombe, of that place. By her he had four daughters all of whom survive him. In the fall of 1866, through the partiality of friends, he was nominated and elected a member of the State Legislature, and he represented his district so acceptable that he was returned the following year by an increased majority. During his service in the Legislature, seeing the great advantages afforded the city of Trenton for educations his children, he decided to leave his beautiful home in Hunterdon County and make Trenton his permanent residence. He and his family resided thee till somtime after the death of this estimable wife. Shortly before or after his removal to Trenton he was appointed land agent for the Lehigh Valley railroad company, a position of much labor and responsiblity, which situation he retained to the the time of his death. On the 20 of December, 1883, he married his second wife, Mrs. Annie Holcombe, of Keyport, Monmouth County, N.J., when, in order to be nearer to his business, which was confined mostly to the Lehigh Valley Railroad and its branches, he located to Metuchen, in Middlesex County, N.J., where he remained for one year. In the Spring of 1885, he came to Flemington and built a very neat and pretty dwellingnear the Lehigh alley depot, where he has resided respected and beloved by all who knew him, and by none more, in their business and social relations, than the company, both officers and men, with whom he had almost daily intercourse. In his death the railrad company has sustained a great loss. His probity of character, his unfaltering fidelity to the company's interests, his usefulness iin the place he occupied, aided and increased by his familiarity with its duties and with his knowledge of men and ripened by long expeerience, have rendered his services to the company almost invaluable. He leaves in addition to his four daughters, a widow and her aged mother, a step daughter, four sisters and two brothers, all of whom were ardently attached to him by the ties of love and affection, to mourn their loss of a kind husband, father, brother and friend. The funeral services took place yesterday (Thursday) from his late residence, and from the Mount Pleasant Presbyterian church, where the internment took place, a general invitation being extended to his numerous friends.
Note: Died at home in Flemington NJ, on a Monday afternoon, after an illness of about two weeks, of sub acute meningitis. He worked as a miller at Everittstown NJ where he married Elizabeth Holcombe. He was nominated and elected a member of the Stat
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