Son of Minor Dodson Markle and Margaret Stevenson of Columbia County Pa.(Berwick/ Briar Creek) Married Della Kocher July 25, 1912. Daughter Ruth Ann was born and died in Plymouth in 1914. She is buried in the Shawnee Cemetery.
Fred was a broadcast radio pioneer. He was operating Markle radio store at 292 Wyoming Ave Kingston when he built and licensed the second radio station to operate in the Wyoming Valley area of N.E. Pa. WABF started operation in 1926 and had studios in a building at the rear of what once was the American Auto building, the site of the present Hoyt Library annex, at 294 Wyoming Ave. Kingston. The transmitter and towers were nearby atop Pringle Hill. The station operated for a few years probably into the 1930's before shutting down sometime before 1939. Fred opened a new radio store in Trucksville Pa. and eventually moved to California where he operated Beacon radio store. On March 26 1943, he married Marjorie Pauline Loyles in Yuma Arizona., Possibly buried at Holly Cross Cemetery, San Mateo County. Cal.
Daughter Mildred married George Horlacher Oct 10,1936.
Fred was a broadcast radio pioneer. He was operating Markle radio store at 292 Wyoming Ave Kingston when he built and licensed the second radio station to operate in the Wyoming Valley area of N.E. Pa. WABF started operation in 1926 and had studios in a building at the rear of what once was the American Auto building, the site of the present Hoyt Library annex, at 294 Wyoming Ave. Kingston. The transmitter and towers were nearby atop Pringle Hill. The station operated for a few years probably into the 1930's before shutting down sometime before 1939. Fred opened a new radio store in Trucksville Pa. and eventually moved to California where he operated Beacon radio store. On March 26 1943, he married Marjorie Pauline Loyles in Yuma Arizona., Possibly buried at Holly Cross Cemetery, San Mateo County. Cal.
Daughter Mildred married George Horlacher Oct 10,1936.
Son of Minor Dodson Markle and Margaret Stevenson of Columbia County Pa.(Berwick/ Briar Creek) Married Della Kocher July 25, 1912. Daughter Ruth Ann was born and died in Plymouth in 1914. She is buried in the Shawnee Cemetery.
Fred was a broadcast radio pioneer. He was operating Markle radio store at 292 Wyoming Ave Kingston when he built and licensed the second radio station to operate in the Wyoming Valley area of N.E. Pa. WABF started operation in 1926 and had studios in a building at the rear of what once was the American Auto building, the site of the present Hoyt Library annex, at 294 Wyoming Ave. Kingston. The transmitter and towers were nearby atop Pringle Hill. The station operated for a few years probably into the 1930's before shutting down sometime before 1939. Fred opened a new radio store in Trucksville Pa. and eventually moved to California where he operated Beacon radio store. On March 26 1943, he married Marjorie Pauline Loyles in Yuma Arizona., Possibly buried at Holly Cross Cemetery, San Mateo County. Cal.
Daughter Mildred married George Horlacher Oct 10,1936.
Fred was a broadcast radio pioneer. He was operating Markle radio store at 292 Wyoming Ave Kingston when he built and licensed the second radio station to operate in the Wyoming Valley area of N.E. Pa. WABF started operation in 1926 and had studios in a building at the rear of what once was the American Auto building, the site of the present Hoyt Library annex, at 294 Wyoming Ave. Kingston. The transmitter and towers were nearby atop Pringle Hill. The station operated for a few years probably into the 1930's before shutting down sometime before 1939. Fred opened a new radio store in Trucksville Pa. and eventually moved to California where he operated Beacon radio store. On March 26 1943, he married Marjorie Pauline Loyles in Yuma Arizona., Possibly buried at Holly Cross Cemetery, San Mateo County. Cal.
Daughter Mildred married George Horlacher Oct 10,1936.
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