OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS - Seneca Co., Ohio

GEORGE DEISLER.    The German fatherland has contributed a most valuable element to the complex social fabric of the American republic, which has gained much through this source, the element being one which has ever conserved the march of progress and stood for sterling manhood and womanhood. The honored subject of this sketch, who is one of the successful farmers of Seneca county, is a native of Germany, but has practically passed his entire life in America and is to be mentioned as a scion of one of the highly respected pioneer families of Seneca county. Mr. Deisler was born in Prussia, Germany, on the 5th of February, 1825, being the son of Conrad and Anna C. (Brundt) Deisler, of whose seven children only two survive,—George, of this sketch; and Conrad, who owns the old homestead and who is likewise a successful farmer of Venice township. The parents emigrated from the fatherland to the United States in the year 1833, and after residing for a brief interval in Wooster, Ohio, came that same year to Seneca county, where the father purchased sixty-six acres of land, upon a portion of which the present village of Carrothers is located. Here he continued to devote his attention to' farming for many years,—until the spring of 1872, when he and his wife took up their home with their daughter, Mrs. Flechner, in Crawford county, where they passed the residue of their lives, each attaining the venerable age of eighty-two years. The father of our subject was a stanch Democrat in his political proclivities and was a zealous member of the German Reformed church, in which he held various official positions.
     George Deisler was reared to maturity on the homestead farm, early beginning to aid in the work of reclamation and cultivation and having limited educational advantages as were implied in an irregular attendance in the primitive schools of the locality and period. Upon attaining his legal majority he apprenticed himself to learn the trade of carpenter, and after thus serving for a term of three years, secured thirteen dollars per month the last year; he thereafter devoted his attention to the work of his trade for a further interval of above eight years, making nearly all the coffins used for the neighborhood. In 1854 he was married, and soon afterward he settled on the old homestead, to whose cultivation he devoted himself until the spring of 1858, when he purchased one hundred and fifteen acres of his present farm, in Venice township, to which he then removed. He has made the best of improvements on the place, to whose area he has added by the purchase of an adjoining tract of thirty and one-half acres, so that the fine farm now comprises one hundred and forty-five and one-half acres. The place is under a high state of cultivation and gives evidence of the careful management and progressive methods which have been brought to bear, the owner having ever commanded unqualified
confidence and esteem in the community where he has lived from youth to advanced age, ever giving Ins aid and influence in support of all worthy enterprises and measures for the general good and standing as one of the world’s noble army of workers. In politics Mr. Deisler has ever been a stanch supporter of the Democratic party, and his devotion to duties of citizenship in the exercise of the right of franchise has been singularly marked, as is evident when we revert to the fact that in all the long years which have passed since he attained his legal majority he has on only two occasions failed to deposit his vote in support of the men
or measures approved by his judgment. He has, however, never sought political office for himself. He is a devoted member of the Reformed church at Carrothers, in which for many years he served faithfully and efficiently in official position.
     In November, 1854, Mr. Deisler was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Shade, who was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, the daughter of SAMUEL and Catherine (Carrick) SHADE, who took up their residence m Seneca county in 1835. The father of Mrs. Shade, Frederick Carrick, was a valiant soldier in the Continental army during the war of the Revolution. During a long and ideal married life of nearly half a century Mrs. Deisler continued as the devoted and cherished companion and helpmeet of her husband, her summons to the “land of the leal” coming on the 29th of September, 1898, when she passed away in her sixty-ninth year. She was a woman of noble character and her memory rests as a benediction upon those who came within the immediate sphere of her influence. Mr. and Mrs. Deisler became the parents of eleven children, and all are living, namely: Benjamin F., a farmer of Defiance county; Lucinda, the wife of Gottlieb Hash, a farmer of Paulding county; Joseph, a farmer of the same county; George William, engaged in the insurance business in the city of Sandusky; Sarah A., the wife of Daniel F. Smith, Bloom township; James Samuel, a resident of Tiffin; Simon, a ditch contractor of Paulding county; Reuben, a resident of Toledo and a passenger fireman for the Pennsylvania Railroad; John H., of Williams county; Catherine A., the wife of John M. Sponseller, who has charge of the farm of our subject, and who has three children,—Herbert J., Dora Fay and George Milton; and Harvey, a farmer of Paulding county.
Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Seneca County, Ohio - Publ. by Lewis Publishing Company - 1902 - Page 384

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