Dr. Howard P. Mickley, a son of Frank P. and Sarah (Butz) Mickley, and a native of Ballietsville, was born Oct. 15, 1866. He attended the public schools, Keystone State Normal School, Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, from which institution he was graduated in 1889, pursued a special course in obstetrics and was physician for one year in the Philadelphia Lying in Hospital. In 1891 he located at Ballietsville, and five years later located at Neffs, where he occupies the Dr. L. B. Balliet mansion, and has a large field. He is a member of I. O. O. F., Jordan Lodge, No. 192, and of the Reformed church at Unionville. He was first married, in 1889, to Maggie Koch, who died in April. 1900, and is buried at Unionville. They had a daughter, Grace, who died at the age of one year, and two days. He was married a second time, on Oct. 10, 1901, to Anna Kern, daughter of Willoughby and Eliza (Schneck) Kern. By this marriage he has one daughter, Dorothea K.