Christian Hasler

CHRISTIAN HASLER a progressive and prosperous farmer, is a native of Switzerland, born in the year 1821.

Together with his parents, Peter and Elizabeth (Kalb) Hasler, he crossed the Atlantic in 1845, and, being poor, started West, where land was cheap, with the determination of building for himself a home. August 1, 1845, he located in Taylor Township, Greene County, Ind., where he has since continued to reside.

His mother died in 1865, and his father in 1876. Christian began for himself, a poor boy, and the characteristic traits of German people consisting of industry and frugality, has been a marked feature in his life. By the hardest of labor, he has secured a well-stocked farm of 580 acres, besides being free from debt, and with money loaned out to less fortunate neighbors.

Mr. Hasler is a Democrat in politics, and while living in his native country served four years in the regular army. He has been twice married, by his first wife, Sarah Stone, being the father of three children--Margaret, Henry and Elizabeth. He married for his second wife Margaret Fentz, in 1851. 

Taylor TWP. Source: History of Greene and Sullivan Counties, state of Indiana: from the earliest time to the present, together with interesting biographical sketches, reminiscences, notes, etc. Chicago: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1884 824 pgs. page 385.

Christian Hasler, a progressive and prosperous farmer, is a native of Switzerland, born in the year 1821. Together with his parents, Peter and Elizabeth (Kalb) Hasler, who crossed the Atlantic in 1845, and, being poor, started West, where land was cheap, with the determination of building for himself a home.

August 1, 1845, he located in Taylor Township, Greene County Ind., where he has since continued to reside. His mother died in 1865, and his father in 1876. Christian began for himself, a poor boy, and the characteristic traits of German people consisting of industry and frugality, has been a marked feature in his life. By the hardest of labor, he has secured a well-stocked farm of 580 acres, besides being free from debt, and with money loaned out to less fortunate neighbors.

Mr. Hasler is a Democrat in politics, and while living in his native country served four years in the regular army.

He has been twice married, by his first wife, Sarah Stone, being the father of three children; Margaret, Henry and Elizabeth. He married for his second wife, Margaret Feutz, in 1851.

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