Agideous Noel

"DR. AGIDEOUS NOEL, physician and surgeon, Bonneauville, was born in Mountpleasant Township, Adams Co., Penn., son of Samuel E. Noel, whose ancestors were of French descent and settled in Adams County in the beginning of the eighteenth century, near the Pigeon Hills. The paternal great-grandfather, a farmer by occupation, in an early day resided near East Berlin, this county, and died here at an advanced age; his son, Peter Noel, also a farmer, was a mill- wright by trade and died near Bonneauville, this county, aged over ninety years; he was a Whig politically. He (Peter) was twice married; the first time to Miss Dull, who died leaving ten married children: Jacob, Samuel, Peter, Henry, Bernard, Louis, Gerome, George, Elizabeth and Margaret. By Peter Noel’s second marriage, with Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Noel, he had one son and several daughters. Of Peter Noel’s children, Samuel, a hatter by trade, married in this township, Barbara Kase, a native of Northampton County, Penn., and of German descent. Samuel Noel died October 9, 1860, and his widow August 20, 1871, aged seventy-six years. They had two children: Francis A., who resides on the old homestead, and Agideous. Our subject received a primary education near home and his literary education at the New Oxford Institute. At the age of fourteen he became imbued with the desire of studying medicine, and read with Dr. M. D. G. Phieffer, of New Oxford, Penn., who was also the principal of the New Oxford Institute. He afterward attended the University of Maryland, at Baltimore, where he graduated in 1862. After graduating the Doctor located in Bonneauville, Penn., of which place he is now the oldest physician, and here he enjoys the esteem and respect of his neighbors and has a lucrative practice. Dr. Noel was married here to Mrs. Lucinda M. Swope, a daughter of Benjamin Landis (Mrs. Noel had three sons by her first marriage). During the late war Dr. Noel offered his services to this country, and September 5, 1864, was commissioned, by Gov. Curtin, first assistant surgeon of the Two Hundred and Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Third Division, Ninth Corps, Army of the Potomac. He served at the Third Division field hospital till the close of the war, and received an honorable discharge June 2, 1865. "